And. further. that because the heads of departments and accounting officers had contemporaneously and continuously interpreted them in favor of the payment. the obligor on the principals or payees bond had a right to rely on such interpretation. This is the syllabus of the case of United States v. Hill (120 U. S. 109. 170). which has been referred to: It was the custom in the United States courts in Massachusetts. from 1839 to December. 1884. known and approved by the judges.. for the clerk to charge $3 as fees in naturalization proceedings. The clerk of the district court never included those fees In his returns. That fact was known to the judges to whom his accounts were semiannually exhibited. and by whom they were passed without objection in that particular.
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