CASES ARGUED AND ADJUDGED IN The Supreme Court OF THE UNITED STATES, OCTOBER TERM, 1873. REPORTED BY JOHN WILLIAM WALLACE. VOL. XIX. WASHINGTON, D. C.: W. H. & O. H. MORRISON, Law Publishers and Booksellers. 1874. LANG RR PALA 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. NOV VIAS CAXTON PRESS OF SHERMAN & CO., PHILADELPHIA. * Chief Justice Chase died on the 7th of May, 1873. The commission of Chief Justice Waite bears date of the 21st of January, 1874. He took his seat upon the Bench on the 4th of March following. All the cases in this volume up to the case beginning on page 490 were argued before that day, and while the office of Chief Justice was vacant. Chief Justice Waite, it will be therefore understood, did not take part in the judgment given in any of these cases. |