ARGUED AND ADJUDGED

AN

The Supreme Court

OF

THE UNITED STATES,

DECEMBER TERM, 1872, AND OCTOBER TERM, 1873.

WASHINGTON, D. C.:

W. H. & O. H. MORRISON,

Law Publishers and Booksellers.

1874.

SHERMAN & CO.,

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874.

BY W. H. & O. H. MORRISON,

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

PHILADELPHIA,

*Chief Justice Chase died May 7th, 1873. Some of the cases in this volume were decided during his life, but more after his death, and while the Chief Justiceship was vacant.

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