Copy! COMMENTARIES ON THE LAW OF MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. BY JOHN F. DILLON, LL.D., MEMBER L'INSTITUT DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL; LATE PROFESSOR OF REAL ESTATE FORMERLY CIRCUIT JUDGE OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, AND CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA. FOURTH EDITION, THOROUGHLY REVISED AND ENLARGED. VOL. I. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1890. TO THE HONORABLE SAMUEL F. MILLER, LL.D., ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. YOUR ACKNOWLEDGED MASTERY OF THE SUBJECT TO WHICH THIS WORK RELATES MAKES IT FITTING, YOUR ESTABLISHED AND PERMANENT RANK IN OUR JURIDICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY AS A GREAT AND ILLUS TRIOUS JUDGE MAKES IT AN HONOR, AND OUR LONG AND UNBROKEN FRIENDSHIP MAKES IT A ALBEIT THE EVENING SHADOWS OF OUR LIVES FALL UPON THE PAGE, TO REINSCRIBE TO YOU WITH UNALTERED REGARD AND VENERATION THIS REVISED EDITION OF A WORK WHICH, MORE THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO, WAS ORIGINALLY DEDICATED TO YOU. |