PREFACE. v

to have a most undeniable claim to go before the public in
a permanent form as an associate with the decisions of that
Chancellor whose constitutional securities had been so severely
questioned.

The discharge of my official duties has heretofore left me
so little time to turn my attention to any thing else, that the
preparation of this first volume of Reports has been much
longer delayed than I had calculated upon. It is now how-
ever submitted to the candour of a generous and enlightened
profession.

THEODORICK BLAND.

ANNAPOLIS, December, 1835.