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Rh   district of Arkansas, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the execution now in my hands in the cause therein mentioned, and that I have levied said execution upon lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, in block or square No. 6; fractional block No. 5, consisting of lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6; fractional blocks 12 and 13; blocks No. 8 and 9, fractional blocks 3 and 4, and block No.16,—all in Rector town, Pulaski county, Arkansas.

"And I do further certify, that I have advertised that said parcels of land would be sold, to satisfy said execution, on the 29th day of March, 1845.

"Given under my hand this 13th day of March, 1845.

"HENRY M. RECTOR,

"U.S. Marshal, District of Arkansas."

Written notice was served on S. H. Hempstead, attorney for the United States for the district of Arkansas, on the 13th of March, 1845, that the above petition would be heard before the Hon. Benjamin Johnson, district judge, at chambers, on the 14th of March, 1845; at which time the matter of the petition was argued by George C. Watkins for the petitioners, and S. H. Hempstead, district attorney, for the United States, who admitted the facts stated in the petition to be true. The application was denied on the merits, but no written opinion was delivered at the time. Subsequently the following was written.

OPINION OF THE COURT.—This was an application to quash an execution issued on a judgment obtained by the United States against John Drennen and Elias Rector, administrators of Wharton Rector, deceased, in the district court of Arkansas, on the 22d of October, 1844, and also to quash and set aside all the proceedings under the execution. The judgment substantially pursues the English form, and is against the petitioners in their representative capacity, and its language is that the moneys therein adjudged be "levied of the goods, chattels, slaves, lands, and tenements which were of Wharton Rector at the time of his death, and remaining in their hands to be administered." The execution pursues the judgment, and both are correct as to form and substance. If the marshal levied,