JANUARY TERM, 1877, TO THE SEPTEMBER TERM,
1879, INCLUSIVE.

BY

ARTHUR MACARTHUR,

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.

W. H. & O. H. MORRISON,

LAW BOOK PUBLISHERS,

WASHINGTON, D. C.

1SS1.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by

W. H. & O. H. MORRISON,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

Rec. May 6, 1880

PREAR OF THOMAS MCGILL & Co.,

LAW PRINTERS,

WARHINGTON, D. C.

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*The term of F. Douglass expired March 17, 1881, and the vacancy is not yet supplied.

MEMORANDA.

On the 13th day of January, 1879. Mr. Justice Olin resigned his seat on the Bench of this Court, upon which occasion the following communication was addressed to him by the members of the Bar:

Hon. ABRAM B. OLIN.

WASHINGTON CITY, January 25, 1879.

DEAR SIR: As members of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, we cannot permit you to retire from that court without expressing our deep regret that the condition of your health makes it in your opinion your duty to do so, and our sense of the loss which the Bar and the court will sustain thereby.

During the long term that you have been a member of the court, your learning and ability, your almost intuitive perception of right, your enthusiastic love for justice, your broad and comprehensive understanding of legal and equitable principles, and your veneration for authority and precedent have done much to give stability to the judgments of the court, and have illustrated your eminent fitness for the position which you have occupied. During the whole of your service upon the Bench our personal relations have been of the kindest character, and our respect for you as a judge has always been associated with the most sincere regard for you as a man.

It is our earnest and affectionate wish that your life, with health improved by cessation from the labors of office, may be prolonged, and that your mental powers, in all their vigor, may remain unclouded to the last. We remain, with the highest respect, dear sir, Sincerely your friends,'

JAMES H. BRADLEY.

NATHANIEL WILSON.
WILLIAM F. MATTINGLY.

L. G. HINE.

FRANCIS MILLER.

A. G. RIDDLE.

R. K. ELLIOT.

JAMES G. PAYNE,

I. HOLDSWORTH GORDON.

R. Ross PERRY.

HENRY R. ELLIOTT.
THOMAS WILSON.
A. WEBSTER.
W. D. DAVIDGE.
WALTER S. Cox.
W. B. WEBB.
ENOCH TOTTEN.
JOHN F. ENNIS.
JOHN E. NORRIS.
LINDEN KENT.
WOODBURY BLAIR.
JAMES M. JOHNSTON.
JOHN F. HANNA.
A. C. BRADLEY.
JAMES H. SAVILLE.

T. A. LAMBERT.

R. D. MUSSEY.

F. SCHMIDT.

R. T. MERRICK.
JOHN J. JOHNSON.
JAMES S. EDWARDS.

JOB BARNARD.

MILTON C. BARNARD.

SIDNEY T. THOMAS.

WILLIAM JOHN MILLER.

HENRY WISE GARNETT.

W. EDMONSTON,

SAMUEL R. BOND.
BELVA A. LOCKWOOD.

RANDALL HAGNER.
S.S. HENKLE.
F. W. JONES.

HUGH T. TAGGART.
EUGENE CARUSI.
ANDREW B. DUVALL.
JOHN W. Ross.
MILLS DEAN.
GEORGE F. APPLEBY.
REGINALD FENDALL.
NEAL T. MURRAY.