THE HON. WILLIAM T. MC COUN, BY CHARLES EDWARDS, Counsellor at Law. VOL. I. New-York: PUBLISHED BY GOULD, BANKS, & Co. CORNER OF NASSAU & SPRUCE STREETS, OPPOSITE THE CITY HALL; AND BY WM. & A. GOULD & Co. LAW BOOKSELLERS, STATE STREET, ALBANY. :::::: I. W. Jacobus, Printer. ODLEIAN 31 JUL 942 LIBRARY Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, by Gould, Banks, & Co., in the office of the Clerk of the Southern District of New-York. An act to establish the office of Vice-Chancellor of the First Circuit. Passed January 28, 1831. The people of the State of New York, represented in the Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. There shall be an officer of the Court of Chancery, who shall reside in the city of New York, and be denominated the Vice-Chancellor of the First Circuit. § 2. He shall be of the degree of counsellor of the court of chancery; shall be appointed in the same manner, and hold his office by the same tenure as the circuit judges, and shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars, to be paid quarterly out of the general fund of the State. §3. After the first day of May next, he shall have and exercise the jurisdiction and power and perform the duties which by the Revised Statutes or otherwise, are conferred upon or required to be performed by the Circuit Judge of the first Circuit, as a Vice-Chancellor of the Court of Chancery ; and as to such jurisdiction, power and duties, shall be substituted in the place of the said Circuit Judge, and all the provisions of law which are applicable to the said Circuit Judge as a Vice-Chancellor, shall be consid ered as applying to the Vice-Chancellor of the Frst Gircuit, to be appointed under this act. William T. McCoun, Esquire, of the city of New York, received the first appointment under this statute; and commenced his sittings on the ninth day of May, 1831. |