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 USELESS BUT ENTERTAINING Lawyer —— "The cross-examination did not seem to worry you. Have you had any previous experience?" Client — “Six children." — The Truth Seeker.

The Prisoner a! the Bar— Now, I asks yer,

gents of the jury, if I'd got away with all that swag, like they say 1 did, d'yer s'pose I'd have hired this here little 815 lawyer t' defend me? —Baltimore News.

Edward Douglass White, the new Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, has a

double in the person of Archie M. Stevenson, a. well-known Denver lawyer and politician.

Justice White spied Stevenson sitting in an obscure corner of the courtroom one day when the court was in session. “I want to meet him." said Justice White, and after the court adjourned Justice Brewer made the introduction. "I'm very glad to meet you," said Justice White, after the formalities were ﬁnished. "l'll appreciate it very much if you will notify me hereafter when you arrive in town, and also let me know when you depart." Justice White did not at once explain the peculiar request. After Stevenson had departed, "I want to keep off the streets while that man is in town," said the Justice. "I'm tired of people slapping me on the back and saying, ‘Hello. Steve, where'n the devil did you come from?’"

The Legal World ‘the.,ﬁuming of lhe Nc‘m_ York Slate

Capitol The disastrous ﬁre in the New York

State capitol at Albany, March 29,

Constitution of 1846. The Constitution of New York, 1821,

and accompanying papers. Proposed Constitution of 1867-9.

destroyed many priceless books and Constitution of 1894.

papers in the State Library, but some of the most valuable legal documents were saved, including the following:— Manuscript copy of the laws for the

Journal of the proceedings of the con vention of the State of New York to ratify the proposed Constitution of the

United States, held at Poughkeepsie, government of the Province of New June l7-July 26, 1788.

York, compiled under the direction of Richard Nicolls, the ﬁrst English Gov

Ratiﬁcation of the proposed Con

ernor, ratiﬁed at the Hempstead meeting

stitution of the United States, July 26,

of March 1, 1665, and sent by Nicolls

1788.

to the Duke of York for conﬁrmation in November, 1665.

The Dongan laws of 1683-84 entitled “the Duke of York's charter of liberties and privileges to the inhabitants of New York, anno 1683, with acts of the

Assembly of that year and the year 1684." The Constitution of New York, 1777,

with accompanying papers.

Two copies Bradford's laws, printed

by William Bradford in 1654, the ﬁrst book printed in New York. The Court of Appeals happily es caped damage, but the Court of Claims was not so fortunate. Theodore H. Swift, Presiding Justice of the Court of Claims, said on the day after the ﬁre: — “Every vestige of document and fur nishings in the courtroom and consulta