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any other, that hath not already accustomed himselfe to the use thereof, shall take any tobacko, until! lice hath brought a certificate under the hands of some who are approved for Knowledge and skill in phisik, that it is usefull for him, and allso, that hee hath received a lycense from the courte for the same. And for the regulating of those, who either by theire former taking it, have, to theire owne apprehensions, made it necessary to them, or uppon due advice, are persuaded to the use thereof. "// is ordered, That no man within this colonye, after the publication hereof, shall take any tobacko, publiquely, in the streett, highwayes, or any barneyardes, or uppon training dayes. in any open places, under the penalty of six-pence for each offence against this order, in any the perticulars thereof, to bee paid without gainesaying, uppon conviction, by the testimony of one witness, that is without just exception, before any one magistrate. And the constables in the severall townes, are required to make presentment to each pellicular courte, of such as they doe understand, and can evict to bee transgressors of this order."

FACETIÆ. "Will your honor permit me to add a few words?" "Certainly, sir, you have a right to sum up." "Gentlemen of the jury, the question is so seri ous, so momentous, so overwhelming in impor tance, that I confess that I am unable to express my thoughts." "I should think not,'' murmured a brother law yer; " he was always noted for his slow train ol thought." A young man down in Carroll County, Mo., who has doubtless heard a case or two tried before a country squire and has attended an alliance meet ing, wants to practise law, and has asked the Carroll County Circuit Court to grant him a license. His ap plication, which it is asserted is serious, is given be low verbatim. The court examined him, perhaps thinking that it had run across a practical joker; and his answers were more ridiculous than his applica tion. He got no license. Among other things he

gave the definition of law as " something that must be obeyed.'' The application is as follows: — In the Circuit Court of Carroll County. Missouri, July term, 1891 . To the Hon. James M. Davis, Judge. Whereas I, the undersigned, now of sound dispos ing mind; and Whereas, I feel disposed to make an application for a license to practise as an attorney : therefore l am Resolved to ask that your honor grant me said license, and fail not at your peril. Wherefore de ponent saith not. So help me God and keep me steadfast in the faithful performance of same. Witness my official hand and seal this 20th June, 1891 (eighteen hundred and ninety-one) L. A. li, Late Clerk Special School FJtctitm There was a Civil Justice in one of the lower courts of New York City, who during the exist ence of the Stamp Act, of his own motion, dis missed a suit on a verbal lease because the plain tiff had not proved that the lease was stamped according to the Act!

The following was a part of a young law yer's peroration in one of the courts recently: "May it please your honor, this is a stupendous question. Its decision by you this day will live in judicial history long after you and I shall have passed from this scene of earthly glory and sublunary vanity. When the tower of Pisa shall be forgotten; when Waterloo and Bunker Hill shall grow, dim in the distant cycles of receding centuries; when the names of Napoleon, Marlborough, and Washington are no longer remembered, when the pyramids of the Pharaohs shall have crumbled into dust; when the hippopotamus shall cease to inhabit its native Nile, — even then your ruling on this demurrer will still survive in the antique volumes of legal lore, fresh, green, and imperishable. The case, your honor, originally concerns the cost of two newhats and an umbrella." "You know that you are not obliged to say any thing that will commit yourself," said the judge, mechanically. "Now, honor bright. Judge," replied the pris oner, "if I'll promise to be non-committal, will you?"