“Contemporanea expositio est optima et fortissima in Tege."—
A contemporaneous exposition is the best and strongest in law.
Wharton's Legal Maxims.

NEVV YORIX :
P R IN T E D B Y S. W. G R E E N ,
No. 16 JACOB STREET.

1871.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by
J O H. N. B. D I L L O N ,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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