[Reusens SCOTUS Case (1885)] ‘ , The undertaking given by the plaintiff in error in this case was not an undertaking with two sure- ties as provided in section 688 of the New York Code, but was one executed by the Fidelity and diate cntehins AAR PbO NPA LEAN TAROT pA APRS, 3 Cusnalty Company of New York, pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State of New York, passed June 13th, 1881, being Chapter 486 of the Laws of 1881, entitled ‘‘ An Act to facilitate the giving ‘of bonds required by law.”’ | | Section one of this act provides as follows: ‘‘ Whenever any person who now or hereafter ‘may be required or permitted by law to make, execute, and give a bond or undertaking with se ‘curity conditioned for the faithful performance of any duty or for the duty or not doing of any- thing in said bond or undertaking specified, any ‘head of department, surrogate, judge, sheriff, district attorney, or any other officer who is now or shall hereafter be required to approve the suf- ficiency of any such bond or undertaking, may, ‘‘in the diseretion of such officer, accept such bond or undertaking, and approve the same, whenever ‘the conditions of such bond or undertaking are guaranteed by a company duly organized or an- ‘thorized to do business under the laws of this ‘State, and authorized to guaranty the fidelity of persons holding positions of public and private trust, and all such corporationsare hereby vested with full power and authority to guarantee such bonds and undertakings.