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SUPREME COURT.

NILES SEARLS, Chief Justice.*

DEPARTMENT ONE.

E. W. MCKINSTRY, Presiding Justice.
JACKSON TEMPLE, Justice.†
A. VAN R. PATERSON, Justice.‡

DEPARTMENT TWO.

J. D. THORNTON, Presiding Justice.
J. R. SHARPSTEIN, Justice.
T. B. MCFARLAND, Justice.‡

COMMISSIONERS.

I. S. BELCHER, C. C.

H. S. FOOTE, C.

R. Y. HAYNE, C.§

Appointed April 19, 1887, to succeed Hon. R. F. Morrison, de

ceased.

Succeeded Hon. E. M. Ross, resigned.

Succeeded Hon. S. B. McKee and Hon. M. H. Myrick, whose terms

of office expired January 3, 1887.

§ Appointed April 26, 1887, to succeed Hon. Niles Searls, appointed Chief Justice,