[Reusens SCOTUS Case (1885)] follows : ‘The Fidelity & Casualty Company of New ‘York, is hereby designated as a company duly ‘authorized and empowered by an Act of the Legislature of the State of New York, entitled ‘An Act to facilitate the giving of bonds required ‘by law,’ passed June 13th, 1881, to guarantee all bonds and undertakings required or permitted by law, conditioned for the faithful performance of any duty, or for the doing or not doing of anything in said bond or undertaking specified ; ‘and any Justice of this Court is authorized in his discretion, to accept and approve of the sufficiency ‘of any bond or undertaking in any suit or action in this Court or in any proceeding, except in criminal cases, in which by law it is provided, that any bond or undertaking shall be accepted or approved by any Justice of this Court, when- ever such bond or undertaking is conditioned for the faithful performance of any duty, or the do- ing or not doing of anything in such bond or un- dertaking specified, and the performance of the conditions thereof, is guaranteed by the Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York, or the same is executed by said company as surety ; subject ‘however, to the requirement by said Justice of a ‘justification by such company, as such surety, through its president or secretary, in the same manner as is required by law of other sureties.