This is one of those cases about which nothing is to be said, but to pronounce the law. Without then determining what may be the liability of the prothonotary’s sureties — a point not before us — it is sufficient for the occasion to say, that the officer was not the agent either of the party or the law, and that the receipt by him involved the debtor in a mispayment, which consequently cannot be set up as a discharge of the debt.

Judgment affirmed.