UNIV. OF MICH. '**' LIBRARY

DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR

THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS.

1854-1864.

VOL. II.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,

110 WASHINGTON STREET.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

PELEG SPRAGUE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:

PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON.

P R E F A СЕ.

THE first volume of Sprague's Decisions was published in 1861. In the early part of 1865, Judge Sprague retired from the Bench. This volume includes the most important of the decisions rendered by him subsequently to the publication of the first volume of his decisions, and some of a prior date. All of them now appear with the sanction of Judge Sprague. The prize cases were prepared for publication by the Hon. Richard H. Dana, Jr. The foot-notes were made by me as editor, and the work has been published under my supervision.

BOSTON, April, 1868.

JOHN LATHROP.