pose of the work, it being deemed especially desirable to make each State as nearly complete in itself as possible. In every instance the constitutional provisions and latest judicial constructions will be found, and under some of the States discussions of certain leading questions. Thus the exact rule of the State appears, while the index has the effect of consolidating the whole and disclosing every treatment of any point. The plan effects, it is thought, the object aimed at, making the book both a practical manual and an exhaustive treatise. The author takes this occasion to, acknowledge the services of H. TOMPKINS, Esq., Attorney and Counsellor-atLaw, whose able and intelligent assistance has materially lessened the labors of compilation and research. Mr. TOMPKINS' complete familiarity with the subject, and especially with the latest adjudications affecting it, have tended to greatly enhance the value of the work by ensuring the presentation of numerous principles which, although resting upon both reason and authority, are not generally understood. The author feels it to be due to so industrious and capable an assistant to thus publicly acknowledge the value of his efforts. W. N. COLER NEW YORK CITY, November, 1872. ........... City of Aurora v. West, 22 Ind....... TABLE OF CASES REPORTED. N. B. When the volume is not indicated, the reference is to the first. Board of Supervisors of Butler County, California, Robinson, v., 2d... 425 Buchanan County Court, The St. Joseph and Denver R. R. Co. v., 2d. 127 Burlington, Rogers v. Cass v. Dillon, 2d....... City Council of Macon, Winn v... City of Aurora v. West, 9 Ind City of Bridgeport v. Housatonic R. R. Co.............. 356 ... 220 253 314 343 166 City of Cincinnati, Walker, v., 2d... Clarke v. City of Rochester, 2d.... 195 Commissioners of Hancock County, The State ex rel. Treadwell v., 2d. 240 Commissioners of Leon County, Cotten v...... 228 Commissioners of Newberne, Taylor v., 2d....... Common Council and City of Stockton, Stockton and Visalia R. R. 178 124 Commonwealth ex rel. Armstrong v. Perkins et al. Commissioners of Alleghany County, 2d. 341 Commonwealth ex rel. Reinboth v. The Councils of Pittsburg, 2d...... 335 Coon et al., People v. Davidson County, Louisville and Nashville R. R. Co. v., 2d.............. 352 Gibbons v. Mobile and Great Northern R. R. Co................ 72 |