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affixed by labels appended with each seal. This follows: — "Signed, sealed and delivered unto Captain Thomas Holme, Surveyor in General of the Prov ince of Pennsylvania, to and for the use of William Penn, Esq., proprietary and governor of the aforesaid province and territories thereunto belonging, in the presence of us : "Peter Abricks, Lasse Сое, Phillip Th. LehutiKirin, James Atkinson, Christopher Gore." Following this are the marks of John Walker, Edward Love, John Monday and the Indian Chiefs Tamma Quaran, Owoghan, Owogherds, Patuska and Cashute. The following affidavits accompany the deed : — "John Durborow, of the City of Philadelphia, yeoman, son-in-law of James Atkinson, late of the same city, merchant, deceased, the former being one of the people called Quakers, upon his solemn affirmation, according to law, doth depose and declare that, having viewed the writ ing of the said James Atkinson, for that James Atkinson therein indorsed as a witness to the sign'ng, sealing and delivery thereof by the several Indeans within named is the handwriting of the said James Atkinson, for that the same appeareth exactly to agree with other of his hand writing. Signed JOHN DURBOROW. (Seal.) "Affirmed at Philadelphia, the twenty-first day

of April, A. D. 1735. Witness my hand and seal. EDWARD ROBERTS. (Seal.) "Hermanns Abricks, of the city of Philadel phia, gentleman, grandson of Peter Abricks, late of the county of New Castle, on the Delaware, gentleman, deceased, maketh oath on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God that he, having viewed this writing, indented, doth verily believe the above Peter Abricks thereon indorsed as a witness to the signing and sealing and delivering thereof by the several Indeans within named is the handwriting of him, the said Peter Abricks, for that the same appeareth exactly to agree with other of his handwriting in this deponent's cus tody. "Witness my hand and seal. SAMUEL HASSELL. (Seal.) "Recorded the 2 ist day of April, 1735." It will be seen that this deed is drawn up in fairly good English, and this is explained in the story of how Mr. Travis came into possession of the document. He was as well known in Philadelphia as in Brooklyn, and on one of his visits several years ago he met John G. Hollick, one of the associates of Recorder of Deeds Thomas Green. Mr. Hollick exhibited the original, and on Mr. Travis's suggestion a copy of the deed was made for him, and most of the unintelligible matter has been eliminated.

PRESIDENTIAL LAWYERS. THE instalment during this month of the twenty-fourth incumbent of the Fed eral executive chair revives a boast of the American bar that it is the nursery of pres idents, for, out of the twenty-three who have held that office, sixteen were bred to the legal profession, and now comes the seven teenth in William McKinley. Six of the exceptions were warriors who had obtained popular credentials — Washington, Monroe, Jackson, Harrison the first, Taylor and

Grant. Each of these, however, upon elec tion to a first term, succeeded against an opponent who was a lawyer. Other excep tions were Andrew Johnson and John Tyler, who each entered the White House through the ex officia gate of the vice-presidency. The accession of those five military presidents serves to emphasize the classic maxim "inter arma silent leges" While lawyers may boast the aforemen tioned pre-eminence, it is probable that no