Page:Federal Reporter, 1st Series, Volume 6.djvu/702

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^90 FEDEEAIi BEPOSTEH. �fourth of August, and the sale by adjournment being on the eleventh of September, for which time no advertisement was made. But if a sale, once duly advertised, can be adjourned •at ail, and held on the adjourned day without a new 14 days' notice, the proceeding was regular. And I think the power to adjourn a sale once regularly advertised, in like cases, is well established by constant practice and as matter of author- ity. Richards v. Holnis, 18 How. 147. �Finally, it is objected that the order and the sale are void because the advertisement was ordered to be inserted and was inserted in the Times, and not in certain other newspapers alleged to be designated in the rules of this court then in force. The act provided that it "shall be the duty of the dis- trict court in each district, from time to time, to prescribe suitable rules and regulations and forms of proceedings in ail matters of bankruptoy, which rules, regulations, and forms shall be subject to be altered, added to, revised, or annulled by the circuit court of the same district, and other rules, reg- ulations, and forms substituted therefor." Under this au- thority this court adopted certain rules, which were submitted to the circuit court, and the circuit court took no action ihereon. Among them were the following : �"62. Six days' previous notice by published advertisement shall be given of the sale of personal eflfects, and 14 days' of real estate, to be published where notice to show cause on the petition for the decree of bankruptcy was published, and the assignee may also, at his discretion, cause notice to be other- wise published, so as best to benefit the sale." �"70. AU notices of proceedings in bankruptcy required to be published in newspapers shall be inserted in at least three ■of the following newspapers published daily in the city of New York, (of which the Courier and Enquirer, having the largest circulation, shall be one :) The Morning Courier and New York Enquirer, the Journal of Commerce, the New York Daily Express, the New York Standard, the New York Com- mercial Advertiser, the Evening Post, and the New York Amer- ican; the party petitioning having the right, if he chooses to do •so, to designate to the cledi the other two papers, an evening ��� �