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purpose, but themselves kept a vigilant lookout for books of a dangerous or improper tendency, as may be seen by the record of their vote in May, 1669 (4 Mass. Col. Rec. 635) : — "The Court being informed that there is now in the press, reprinting, a book, title Imitations {sic) of Christ, or to that purpose, written by Thomas k Kempis. a Popish minister, wherein is contained some things that are less safe to be infused among the people of this place, do commend it to the li censers of the press [for] the more full revisal there of, and that in the mean time there be no further progress in that work."

trespassing on enclosed land unaccompanied by the registered owner of such dog, or other person, who shall, on being asked, give his true name and address, may be then and there destroyed by such occupier or by his order." And this definition from the Darlington Improvement Act (1872) is about as bad : " The term * new building ' means any building pulled or burnt down to or within ten feet from the surface of the adjoining ground." An early Nebraska statute, regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors, contained the following im portant provision : " For the violation of the third section of an act to license and regulate the sale of malt, spirituous, and vinous liquors, $25; and on proof of the violation of said section, or any part thereof, the justice shall render judgment for the whole amount of fine and costs, and be com mitted to the common jail until the sum is paid."

Land-steaung has been reduced to a fine art in the Western States. One of the habitual methods of this class of criminals is to get a deed from somebody, conveying something, duly acknowl edged, and then to make a fraudulent alteration of the deed, and then have the deed recorded, and then conveniently lose the original. On proof of the loss of the original, the instrument as recorded is admissible in evidence; and thus a great many decent SDeatfutf. people have lost their titles to their lands. The Judge William Johnson Bacon died at his only preventive which we have heard suggested ' for this species of fraud is to require the recorders home in Utica, N. Y., on July 3. He was born of deeds to scan carefully the written portions of in Williamstown, Mass., Feb. 18, 1803. and was every deed which is offered for record; and where graduated from Yale in 1822. His college bestowed there is a suspicion of an alteration, to impound upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1854, and for the original. Indeed, it does not appear why, over thirty years he had been one of the trustees under a proper recording system, the originals of of that institution. deeds admitted to record should not be impounded S. L. M. Barlow, a noted railroad lawyer, died in all cases. The vaults in which original deeds suddenly at Glen Cove. L. I., July 10, at the age are kept should, of course, be in a different build ing from those in which the record books are kept, of sixty. Mr. Barlow was born at Granville, Mass., so as to diminish the risk of both being involved in 1829, and had been prominent in New York in the calamity of a single conflagration. A further political and legal circles for nearly forty years, consideration of our system of conveyancing and being especially noted as a railroad lawyer. The recording instruments of transfer of title may serve firm of Bowdoin, Larocque & Barlow was formed to convince us that some system like that in vogue in 1852. After the death of the two seniors, in in France, by which a conveyance is executed in 1868 and 1870, Joseph Larocque was taken into the presence and through the agency of an officer the firm, and in 1873 Judge Shipman joined it. of the government, and by which the government Judge Choate was added in 1881, forming the becomes the repository of the instrument itself, is present firm. Mr. Barlow was particularly active necessary to secure property rights and uproot during the litigation over the Erie Road, in behalf of the Corporation, and it was said that his conduct frauds of the character of which we are speaking. of the case cost Jay Gould upward of $9,000,000. His own fees in the case aggregated $250,000. The "Pall Mall Gazette" gives the following He was a member of the Union and Manhattan amendment as having actually been proposed in clubs. His library of early American history is Parliament by an eminent Queen's counsel : " Dogs one of the most extensive in existence. In con trespassing on enclosed land —- Every dog found nection with Henry Harrison, he edited " Notes