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PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT $4.00 PER ANNUM. SINGLE NUMBERS 50 CENTS. Communications in regard to the contents of the Magazine should be addressed to the Editor, THOS. TILESTON BALDWIN, 53 State Street, Boston, Mass.

The Editor will be glad to receive contributions of articles of moderate length upon subjects of interest to the profession; also anything in the way of legal antiquities or curiosi ties, facetiœ, anecdotes, etc. NOTES.

THE GREEN BAG starts the New Year with new plans, new features, and new covers, all of which additions or changes will commend themselves, we trust, to our sub scribers. We need not call attention to these new features in detail—the magazine speaks for itself. It may be said, however, that THE GREEN BAG has in hand, or has been prom ised, articles on a variety of topics, by some of the ablest legal writers, who will present their respective subjects in the same author itative and interesting way as that in which the Panama question is treated in this num ber. AN Irishman was called upon to give evi dence in a shooting affray. "Did you see the shot fired?" asked the magistrate. "No, sor, but I heard it," replied the wit ness. "That is not satisfactory. Step down." As the Irishman turned to go, he laughed and was rebuked by the magistrate, who told him it was contempt of court. "Did yez see me laugh?" "No, but I heard you." "That is not satisfactory." And then the Court laughed. THE GREEN BAG has been asked to de fine "quorum," and offers the following his torical note as a possible answer: When the honorary members of the First

Corps of Cadets, in Boston, were vainly en deavoring to frame a constitution, about the year 1885, Captain (afterward Major) Wil liam F. Lawrence, filled with enthusiasm and the annual dinner, on April nineteenth, made the following motion, viz.: "That a majority of those present and voting should constitute a quorum in all mat ters of business relating to this association." THE following trustee writ, drawn by a learned justice of the peace in Massachu setts, deserves careful study: Trustee on William Burrege Wages, Whome works for you. To Dr. Harrington: Please to stop from your man $4.75, which he owes to Mrs. John Lannon. Cor. of Prince and Pond st. Ja maica Plain he has Promised' to Pay it sev eral times but will Not Do it he has be served with a writ from me and Promised to Paylast Monday Night but failed to do so. So that I had to trustee is Pay. Yours respectfully, D J. HEGERTY, Justice of the Peace, 28 Hall st., Jamaica Plain. To Dr. Harrington, orchard st. THIS is the final prayer of the answer to a bill in equity to foreclose a mortgage, re cently filed in a New Hampshire court: "In the name of humanity, in the name of every sainted father and mother, of truth, purity and everything Christlike and holy, in the name of the everlasting love of God. of His Son, our Savior and Redeemer, the de fendant implores the protetion of this Court to help her release the mind of her blame less daughter from this wicked hypnotic in fluence which holds her."