and Legal Miscellany. PUBLISHED BY THE D. B. CANFIELD COMPANY LIMITED, PHILADELPHIA, Vol. II. August 15, 1890. No. 8. CONTENTS. ROGER BROOKE TANEY, with portrait, . National Bankrupt Law, by W. D. Luckenbach, Influence of Christianity on the Common Law, from The Churchman, The New York Collateral Inheritance Tax Act, from N. Y. Law Journal, 485 MERCER BEASLEY, with fac simile of handwriting, 497 500 502 505 509 464, 481, 482, 494, 499, 508 472, 476, 479, 484, 499, xxv Digest of American Law Register, vii, xxvii, seq., xxxiv, liv, lv Law Studies, by T. Elliott Patterson, American Law Register, AND WE ARE BUSY. How do we accomplish this? By sacrificing our profit and thereby giving constant employment to our staff of most excellent workpeople. We do more! We sell short ends and remnants off at less than their value. We are also making up Winter overcoats to order, also Winter suits, and allow 10 per cent. discount on regular price for advance orders; that's big interest for four or five months. E. O. THOMPSON, Merchant Tailor and Importer. Special Imported Ready-made Clothing, 908 WA NUT STREET,-PHILADELPHIA-1338 CHEStnut Street, (OPPOSITE THE MINT.) AMERICAN NOTES AND QUERIES. A WEEKLY PERIODICAL. W. H. GARRISON, Editor. CONTENTS: Queries on all matters of general literary and historical interest-folk-lore, the origin of proverbs, familiar sayings, popular customs, quotations, etc., the authorship of books, pamphlets, poems, essays, or stories, the meaning of recondite allusions, etc.-are invited from all quarters, and will be answered by editor or contributors. Room will be allowed for the discussion of moot questions, and the periodical is thus a valuable medium for intercommunication between literary men and specialists. For sale by newsdealers. Address, SUBSCRIPTION, $3.00 PER ANNUM, VOL 1, $3.00. VOL II AND VOL. III, $2,00 EACH. The WESTMINSTER PUBLISHING CO., NO. 619 WALNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA. A TEASPOONFIL OF FRED BROWN'S GINGER With a little Boiling Water, will Relieve Cramp Colic and Troubles caused by Change of GOOD AT ALL SEASONS. Water. (The Mixture can be sweetened to the taste.) - TRY IT. Legal Miscellany. PUBLISHED BY THE D. B. CANFIELD COMPANY LIMITED, PHILADELPHIA. SUBSCRIPTION, ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. SINGLE COPY, TEN CENTS. Copyrighted 1890. Entered at the Post Office at Philadelphia as second-class matter. Vol. II. August 15, 1890. ROGER BROOKE TANEY, Born, March 17th, 1777; Died, October 12th, 1864, No. 8. The sixth Chief Justice of the United States, was a native of Calvert County, Maryland, and a graduate of Dickinson College, in the class of 1795. He read law in Annapolis with Hon. Jeremiah Chase and was admitted to the bar in 1799. A political as well as a legal career was intended for the future jurist, and in the autumn of 1799, he was elected to the State house of delegates, where he was the youngest member. In March 1801, he removed to Frederick, and there practiced his profession with ability and suc cess. January 7th, 1806, he married Anne Phebe Charlton Key, a sister of Francis Scott Key, a former fellow law-student, and afterward the author of "The Star Spangled Banner." During the war of 1812, Taney was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress, his politics being that of the Federal party, which upheld the policy of the government. In 1816, he was elected to the State Senate, and in 1824 he became a Jacksonian democrat. As a lawyer he was resolute in performing his duty, though he acquired odium for defending General Wilkinson in 1811, when under trial by court martial for complicity in Burr's attempt; and for defending Rev. Jacob Gruber when indicted for denouncing slavery in a camp-meeting. In 1823, Taney removed to Baltimore and in 1827 he was appointed Attorney-General of his State, an honor followed, in 1831, by a similar appointment under the United States. As a cabinet officer, he became the most trusted of old Zachary's advisers, and thoroughly indorsed that President's action toward the banks of the United States. Hesitancy in the Secretary of the Treasury, |