District of New-York, as.

BE it remembered, That on the twenty-seventh day of October, in the thirty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, ISAAC RILEY, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

"Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Judi"cature of the State of Vermont. With Cases of Practice and Rules of the "Court. Commencing with the nineteenth century. Vol. I. To be conti"nued. By Royall Tyler, Chief Judge of the Supreme Court. Hoc opus, "hoc studium parvi properimus et ampli; Si patrie volumus, si nobis vivere "cari. Q. Hor. Flac. Epist."

IN CONFORMITY to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, "charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during "the times therein mentioned;" and also to the act, entitled, "An act "supplementary to the act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learn"ing, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and ex"tending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching "historical and other prints."

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CHARLES CLINTON,

Clerk of the District of New-York.

To his Excellency the Governor; his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor; the Honourable Council; and the Honourable House of Representatives of the State of Vermont.

GENTLEMEN,

THE arduous business of framing laws for a numerous and free people, is yours.

To construe and apply the laws when enacted, to the concerns of your constituents, is the duty of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature,

That you may know whether your intention as legislators has been pursued, and whether the laws you promulgate are beneficial in their effects, is of the highest importance.

To this intent, this volume of Cases, argued and decided in the Supreme Court of Judicature, is respectfully submitted to your consideration,

BY THE REPORTER.