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 The Supreme Court of Maine. "His decisions will stand the severest ju dicial tests; and it is believed that time will but deepen the paths bravely marked

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and the happiness of mankind. He had a genius for knowing and doing with all his might. Heaven endowed him with this

ETHER SHEPLEY. out by him in the advance of jurispru dence. . . . "No judge was ever more conscientious in maintaining that the faithful observance and administration of laws are essential to the character and stability of government,

spirit, and bestowed upon him the faculty to give it effect." His last public service was in 1856, to revise the laws of Maine, under a resolve of the legislature passed April 1 of that year, and which required him to make his report