Edward Douglass White

“ The relation of the United States to moneys alleged to have been collected by a clerk of a District Court of the United States as fees or emoluments of his office and the scope of his duty to account semiannually for the same to the Attorney General so as to fix, if any there was, the surplus due to the United States after paying the expenses of the clerk's office and the clerk's salary as fixed by law, is the general subject here arising for consideration. ”

“ Any other view must ignore not only the practical construction which the statutes governing the office have received, but their clear intent.'
Indeed the decisive principles which were thus announced in the Mason Case were but a reiteration and application of the general doctrine on the subject announced in United States v. Hill, 123 U.S. 681, 8 Sup. Ct. 308, 31 L. Ed. ”