REVISED STATUTES, AS THEY EXISTED ON THE IST DAY OF JULY, 1862,

AND ALL THE

GENERAL PUBLIC STATUTES THEN IN FORCE, WITH REFERENCES TO JUDICIAL DECISIONS, AND THE

MATERIAL NOTES OF THE REVISERS IN THEIR REPORT TO THE LEGISLATURE.

EDITED BY

JOHN W. EDMONDS.

IN FIVE VOLUMES.

VOLUME V.

CONTAINING CODE OF PROCEDURE, AND ACTS RELATING TO SAME; PART IV, ADMINISTRATION OF

CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND APPENDIX, WHICH CONTAINS ARTICLES OF CONFEDERA-

TION, FORMER CONSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE, COUNTIES, TOWNS

AND CITIES, AND REVISERS' NOTES.

PUBLISHED BY

WEARE C. LITTLE, LAW BOOKSELLER,

525 BROADWAY, ALBANY.

1863.

NY
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852

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three,

BY JOHN W. EDMONDS,

in the Clerk's office of the district court of the Northern district of New York. The copyright extending

only to introduction, index, notes, order and arrangement.

1919 1920

WEED, PARSONS & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS,

PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPERS,

ALBANY, N. Y.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE.

V

xxiii

VOL. I. Revised Statutes.

Introduction,

Table of References,

Analysis of Revised Statutes,

Index to U.S. Constitution,.

Constitution of the United States,-

Index to State Constitution,..

Constitution of the State,..

Acts relative to the Statutes,.

General Repealing Act,....

Revised Statutes,

PART I. Internal Administration,...

PART II. Rights of Person and Property, four chapters,..

VOL. II. Revised Statutes.

Analysis of Revised Statutes,

Residue of Revised Statutes, viz.:

Remaining chapters of Part II,....

PART III. Civil Justice,

PART IV. Criminal Justice,

Index to Revised Statutes,.

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675
823

VOL. III. General Statutes.

Introduction,..

Analysis of General Statutes,...

PART I. Internal Administration, XIX chapters, .

V

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VOL. IV. General Statutes.

Analysis of General Statutes,

Residue of Part I,....

PART II. Rights of Person and Property,

PART III. Civil Justice,

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427

529

Vol. Page.

III, 3

PART FIRST. Internal Administration,

PART SECOND. Rights of Property and of Persons,

PART THIRD. Administration of Civil Justice,

IV, 427

IV, 529

PART FOURTH. Administration of Criminal Justice,

V, 145

PART FIRST.

INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION.

III,

CHAP. I. State Territorial Jurisdiction,..

Laws of 1834. Chap. 8. Boundary with New Jersey,

1853. Chap. 586. Cession from Massachusetts,

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5

CHAP. II. Civil Divisions,..

Laws of 1847. Chap. 241. Judicial Districts,..

1857. Chap. 337. Apportionment of Assembly,.

Chap. 339. Senate Districts, ....

1862. Chap. 454. Congressional Districts,