MAINE STATE LEGISLATURE The following document is provided by the LAW AND LEGISLATIVE DIGITAL LIBRARY at the Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library http://legislature.maine.gov/lawlib Reproduced from scanned originals with text recognition applied (searchable text may contain some errors and/or omissions) -- -------, -r-' Public Documents of Maine: BBING THB ANNUAL REPORTS OJ!' THE V .ARIO US PUBLIC OFFICERS AND INSTITUTIONS FOR THE YEAR 1874. VOLUME. I . .AUGUST.A: SPRAGUE, OWEN & NASH, PRINTERS TO THB STATB. 18 7 4. TIIIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THB LIBRARIAN 01' TUB MAINE STATE LIBRARY. 1873. Transmitted to the Legislature, January. 187 4. AUGUSTA: SPRAGUE, OWEN & NASH, PRINTERS TO THE STATE. 187 4. To the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives: In conformity with the requirements of the laws of the State, I have the honor to transmit to the Legislature my Second Annual Report, being the thirteenth in the series of reports of the Maine State Library. I remain, very respectfully, 'Your ob't servant, J. S. HOBBS, Li,brarian. STA.TE LIBRARY, Augusta, January, 1874. TRUSTEES OF THB STATE LIBRARY. THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF THE Sl'ATE, Ex OFFICIO, HON, NELSON DINGLEY, JR., GOVERNOR, HoNs. JEREMIAH M. MASON,) FRED N. DOW. I WM. GRIND LE, STEPHEN D. LINDSEY,~ CouNCILLOR8, REUBEN w. FILES, I E. A. THOMPSON, L. G. DOWNES, J COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY ]TOR 1874. MESSRS; WM. GOOLD, JAMES FOSS, l of the Senate, E. F. WEBB, MESSRS, EDWIN REED, HENRY CARVILL, )I JOHN PIERUE, EDWARD SCAMMON, ~ of the House. I. WARREN HAWKES, FRANCIS HURD, WM. MACARTNEY, J J. S. HOBBS, Librarian, T. G. YOUNG, .A.ssistant. THE LAWS AND REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO THE MAINE STATE LIBRARY. I. The State Library shall be under th& management and control of the Governor and Council as a Board of Trustees. II. The Library shall be kept open every day in the year, Sundays and the usual holidays excepted, during the usual business hours. UL Books may be taken from the Library by the Governor, Members of the Coun­ cil, and of the Legislature, Judges of the Judicial Courts, Secretary of State, Deputy Secretary of State, Adjutant General, Attorney General, Land Agent, Reporter of Decisions, Counsel engaged in argument of causes before the Law Courts in the Middle District, Superintendent of Public Buildings, Superintendent of Common Schools, Super­ intendent of the Insane Hospital, Chaplains, Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the Senate, Chaplains, Clerk and Assistant Clerk of tho House, Secretery and Members of the Board of Agriculture during the session of the Board, provided that this privilege to the members of the Legislature, and those officially connected therewith, shall be limited to the timo the Legislature shall be in session. IV. Any person taking books from the Library shall first give sufficient personal eecurity for their return within twenty days. V. No person authorized to take books from the Library shall be permitted to have at any one time more than three volumes, nor shall the same be retained more than three weeks, and all shall be returned on or before the first day of January annually. VI. The following books shall not be taken from the Library room, except for the use of either House, or of the Committees of the Legislature during its session, or for use in the Supreme Judicial Court in term time : all books presented by the United States or any of the States; all works, books and documents relating to the laws or leg­ islative proceedings of the United States, or other State!! or countrks; all digests, reports of decisions, and works relating to the science of the law, and Vattemare's exchanges. VII. Every person shall be answerable for all damage done by him to any book, and in case of the loss of any volume belonging to a set, the person answerable therefor shall procure a new volume or pay in money the value of the set. VIII. Any Member of the Legislature having in his possession any book, map, or other publication belonging to the Library, shall return the same four days before the adjournment of the Legislature. IX All such books, maps, and other publications as the Governor and Council shall determine are necessary always to be kept in the library as books of reference, shall at no time be taken therefrom. X. All persons wishing to take books, pamphlets, or maps, from the State Library are required to report to the Librarian, the title of such books, pamphlets, or maps, be­ fore taking the same from the Library rooms. REPORT. To the Legislature of Maine : In obedience to the provisions of the statutes, the Librarian of the Maine State Library respectfully presents his annual report for the year ending Dec. 31st, 1813. The means available for the increase of the library, and for ex­ penses during the year, were the balance from the previous year, of eight hundred and seventy-one dollars, and the appropriation of five hundred dollars, making a total amount of thirteen hundred and seventy-one dollars. The expenditure for the purchase of books for the library, and incidental expenses for the same period, have been eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars, leaving a balance now on hand of five hun­ dred and fourteen dollars. The additions to the library for the year, from all sources, have been ten hundred and forty-nine volumes and pamphlets. Of these there were acquired by purchase, two hundred and ninety-six vol­ umes; by donations, two hundred and twenty-eight volumes and pamphlets ; and by exchange, five hundred and twenty-five vol­ umes and pamphlets. The amount expended in the purchase of books has been ex­ pended in procuring standard works in law, science and general literature. The catalogue herewith communicated, contains a full exhibit of the additions made during the year. The books are all in good condition, and well arranged upon the shelves. During the year quite a large number of books have passed through the hands of the binders. Some were books and magazines bought and donated in paper covers, and newly bound ; the balance were old books repaired and rebound. This work has been well and neatly done, so that this class of books makes a good appearance upon the shelves. It will be observed that our volume of exchanges is constantly on the increase. We now exchange our laws, reports, and docu- 8 STATE LIBRARY. men ts with nearly every State in the Union, and with Canada. I have taken much pains to keep up this exchange, and to enlarge it. I hope the present year to be able to secure exchanges with all the States. · Canada is very liberal with us in exchanges, send­ ing to the library many very valuable books. The books which are received by exchange are of incalculable value. We have received, as will be noticed, many very valuable books by donation. To all those who have donated books to the library, my grateful acknowledgments are tendered for their generous gifts. I have no special recommendations to make, feeling confident that you fully appreciate the necessity of a well supplied library, and that the same generous support which has been extended to it heretofore, will be continued, thus enabling the library to increase in usefulness from year to year, and continue to be an honor and a benefit to the State. J. S. HOBBS, State Librarian. LIBRARIAN'S REPORT. 9 EXHIBIT A. BY PURCIIASE. L.AW. AuTHORS. Vots. Adams, John, Jr., Adams' Equity,.... 1 Abbott, B. V., United States Digest, new series, vols. 1, 2, 3, 3 Brown, W. H., On the Law of Trade· Marks............ 1 Bump, Orlando F., Fraudulent Conveyances.......... 1 Bigelow, M. M., On Estoppel . 1 Bishop, Joel P., On Statutory Crimes, ............... , . 1 " " On Criminal Procedure,.... 2 " " The Laws of Married Women, . 1 Bliss, Geo. Jr., On Life Insurance... 1 Blachford, Samuel, Circuit Court Reports, vols. 8, 9, 10,.... 3 Bingham, Anson, On Descents. 1 Brightly, Frederick C., Federal Digest, vols. 1, 2,.... 2 Cooley, Thomas M., Constitutional Limitation,.............. 1 Clifford, N atban, Clifford's Reports, vol. 1, 2,.... 2 Dillon, John F ., Municipal Corporations, vols. 1, 2,. 2 Frost, Henry W., United States Digest, vol. 29,............ 1 Fisher, R. A., Digest of Criminal Law,...... 1 Freeman, A. C., On Judgments,.... 1 Guzzum & Shinn, National Bankruptcy Reports, 7 vols,. • '1 High, James L., On Injunctions,.......................... 1 Hamlin, Charles, Catalogues of Bankrupts of the District of Maine, ...· ........ _........ 1 Kerr, Wm. W., Fraud and Mistake,...................... 1 Luce, E.T., Maine Probate Practice,...................... 1 Morse, John T., On Arbitration and Award,................ 1 Moak, Nathaniel C., l\'loak's Van Santvoord's Pleadings,.... 1 Parsons, Theophilus, On Mercantile Law, .. 1 Phillips, S. M., Famous Cases of Circumstantial Evidence,. 1 Richardson, Wm. A., Supplement to the General Statutes of Massachusetts,.... • . 1 Redfield, Isaac F., American Railway Cases,............... 1 Scribner, Charles H., On Dower, vols. 1, 2, ...• ,........... 2 2 10 STATE LIBRARY. Authors. Vols. Schooler, James, On Personal Property,......... I Wallace, J. W., Wallace's Reports, vols. 14, 15, 16,........ 3 Wigram, Sir James, On ·wills,............................ I Williams, Joshua, On Personal Property,................... I '' '' On Real Property, . I Ware, Ashur, Ware's Reports, vol. 2,........ I ----, American Law Review, vol. 7,.... 1 MISCELLANEOUS. A. SUBJECTS. AUTHORS, VoLS, At His Gates, ....................... Mrs. Oliphant,...... I An Open Question, ................. James De Mille,..... I A Twofold Life, ...................... W. Van Hillem,..... I A Memorial of Alice and Phebe Cary, .. Mary Clemer Ames,.. I Anecdotes of Public Men, ............ John W. Forney,.... I Augusta, Hallowell and Gardiner Directory,.... 1 Apollos, or the Way of God, .........