REP Entered according to act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, BY WEARE C. LITTLE, in the office of the clerk of the Northern District of New York. C. VAN BENTHUYSEN & SONS, Printers, Stereotypers and Binders, 407 Broadway, Albany. TO THE HON. REUBEN HYDE WALWORTH, CHANCELLOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, THE EMINENT JURIST, WHOSE VIRTUES ADORN THE WALKS OF PRIVATE LIFE, AND WHOSE LEGAL RESEARCH HAS SO LARGELY CONTRIBUTED TO THE HIGH REPUTATION OF THE EQUITY JUDGES AND VICE CHANCELLORS IN THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SINCE THE ADOPTION OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION. (a) WILLIAM B. ROCHESTER, appointed April 21, 1823. (b)JOHN BIRDSALL, appointed April 17, 1826. (c) ADDISON GARDINER, appointed September 25, 1829. (d)NATHAN DAYTON, appointed February 23, 1838. (e) FREDERICK WHITTLESEY, appointed April 16, 1839. (a) First appointment under the new Constitution, Equity Judge, ex officio. (b) In the place of William B. Rochester, resigned, Equity Judge, ex officio. (c) In the place of John Birdsall, resigned, Equity Judge, ex officio, until January 1, 1830, afterwards Vice Chancellor, ex officio. (d) In the place of Addison Gardiner, resigned, Vice Chancellor, ex officio, until May 1, 1839. (e) Appointed under act of March 27, 1839, transferring the equity jurisdiction to the Vice Chancellor so appointed. Term of office commenced May 1, 1839. |