NETERER, District Judge (after stating the facts).
Referees are invested with certain powers, "subject always to a review by the judge." Section 66, title 11, USCA. The referee has no independent judicial authority. He is not a distinct court, and has no power not conferred by order of reference, by law or general orders. "The district courts of the United States in the several States * * * are made courts of bankruptcy." 11 USCA § 11. A court is said by Blackstone...
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