The Bar of Chicago had already been offered unsolicited aid in many sympathising quarters outside the city. When your Committee was appointed, many valuable donations had been received by the Institute. The Hon. John M. Wilson, of this city, one of the original corporators of the Institute, had issued in its behalf a prompt and earnest appeal, and all its members were at work amidst the ruins and ashes of the fallen city, to raise again the walls of one of its most useful public institutions. It has again been raised. The Law Institution of Chicago is again established, with full one-third of the material which it contained before its destruction, it now offers to the profession about two thousand volumes of most valuable contributions, constituting the nucleus of one of the best law libraries of the United States.

In the report of November 20, 1871, the Institute acknowledges its obligations of that date toward all to whom it had become indebted on account of donations then made. We had become bound to the city of Chicago, through the enlightened appreciation of its Common Council and Board of Public Works, for rooms to be occupied in the new City Hall, in which the Institute is now located.

To demonstrate that the Institute had proven itself worthy of the trust it had undertaken with respect to the profession, your Committee enclosed with each letter addressed by them, printed slips of the report of the Finance Committee, prepared for that purpose. They divided their labor in the several States by ascertaining their personal relations to each. They then assigned .to each his field, where he could be most influential. The distribution of labor was made as follows:

Mr. M. W. Fuller undertook the correspondence with the Governors of the States of Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Georgia, Tennessee, New Jersey, Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Oregon.

Mr. H. N. Hibbard undertook the correspondence with Vermont, Alabama, New Hamsphire, Louisiana and Minnesota.

Mr. Hoyne undertook the correspondence with the States of New York, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Arkansas, California, Delaware and West Virginia. The States of Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin had already responded to calls made upon them by members on behalf of the Institute, by sending nearly full sets of Reports and Statutes.

The first response to your Committee, cordial and cheering, came from the Governor of New York, John T. Hoffman. The tone of the letter, as well as the promptness of the action, showed in him the spirit of a great magistrate, fitly bestowing the gifts of empire. The letter is worthy of transcription. He says: "I received yesterday morning your letter of the 1st (December, '71) inst., relative to supplying in part the great loss sustained by the Law Institute and the legal profession of Chicago, by the fire of October 8 and 9, 1871. I have made arrangements this morning with Banks & Bros., law booksellers, to forward to the Institute, without delay, a complete set of the Session Laws and Revised Statutes of the State, together with the State Reports from the beginning, the Digests, and the last edition of Kent's Commentaries. They will be forward in a few days by express, charges paid. I have preferred not to wait for authority from the Legislature, deeming a prompt response to your request important. I have no doubt my action will be approved, and I beg the Law Institute will accept the books as a gift from the State of New York." Within a few days after the receipt of this letter, the munificent gift, containing about five hundred volumes, sent by Governor Hoffman, arrived, "charges paid." This collection, besides all the Reports of the States, contained the Session Laws of New York from 1800 to 1871, the Revised Statutes,

Digests, Kent's Commentaries, with many public documents and legislative journals and reports.

Next came the great little patriotic neighbor of New York-Connecticutwho through her noble and generous-hearted Governor, Marshall Jewell, and the State Librarian, Charles J. Hoadley, sent us forty-nine volumes of her Reports, Statutes, Session Laws and public documents, including her Colonial History, in two volumes.

The great State of Ohio, through Governor Hayes, and under a joint resolution of the two Houses of the General Assembly, passed January, 26, 1872, sent us Reports of her Supreme Court, Digests, Statutes, and legislative and official reports, in all about fifty-four volumes.

The State of Arkansas, depleted and yet suffering from the effects of the recent civil war, sent us, through Governor Hadley, Supreme Court Reports, Statutes, and legislative documents and reports, in number about thirty volumes.

The State of Georgia, another Southern State, through her Governor, Benjamin Conley, responded December 20, 1871, sending us about forty volumes of her Reports, Statutes, and public documents.

South Carolina, on the 24th of January, 1872, sent us Reports, Statutes and State papers, amounting to about thirty-six volumes. We have a promise of the entire set of her valuable Debates, Judicial publications, tracts and historical documents, as soon as her improved condition will admit of any progress in that direction.

From Tennessee we have received, through Governor Brown, about twentyfour volumes of Reports, Session Laws and legislative journals.

From the State of New Hampshire we received a large invoice of books, the gift of members of the Bar of that State. There are in all about seventy-two volumes, including New Hampshire Revised Statutes, the Session Laws from her earliest history, and a copy of Worcester's quarto dictionary, presented by Judge Samuel T. Worcester, brother of the author. This collection was sent by Hon. Henry A. Bellows, of Concord, a distinguished member of our own profession, and a Judge in his own State.

The State of Rhode Island has sent us, through Governor Padelford, her Colonial Records in ten volumes, Supreme Court Reports, Statutes and Session Laws, in all twenty-three volumes.

From Governor Gilbert C. Walker, of Virginia, the Committee have a strong letter, in which we are informed that a resolution was agreed upon immediately on the receipt of our letter, in a Committee of the General Assembly, to purchase and to send to the Institute full and entire sets of Reports and Statutes, including all the historical documents in which that State is so rich and interesting. The origin of our own State, her early institutions and laws, as well as that of the four other Northwestern States, make all the archives of Virginia a necessary part of the history of Illinois-the common property of both States, and as such, Governor Walker, a former son of Illinois, regards the obligations of the mother of States to her own offspring.

We have also been in correspondence with the distinguished Minister of the United States to the French Republic. He began his career as a practitioner at Galena, as a member of the Bar in this State. He expresses himself most warmly in our behalf, and tenders to the Institute his own law library, which will be delivered over as soon as he can visit the United States during the next summer. In the meantime through his active agency, and that of Mons. Henry Harrisse, of Paris, formerly a resident of Chicago, there has been sent to the Institute, as a contribution from the French Minister of Public In

struction, a valuable collection of French publications. These packages were received a few days ago with a catalogue, through the State Department of the United States at Washington. The works are none the less acceptable because of a general literary instead of a special legal character. They are a few of the rarest kind of biographical, geological, historical and scientific works. Our thanks are due the French Government.

We have received from Col. E. S: Joslyn, of Elgin, Illinois, an offering of money amounting to $85,25, being the proceeds of a lecture delivered by him, under the auspices of the Elgin Bar, in behalf of the Institute; and from Edward S. Alderson, Esq., of London, a distinguished member of the English Bar, a personal contribution of two guineas.

It will be difficult to enumerate, and still more to appropriately express our sentiments of gratitude and emotion to all the sources of generosity and beneficence-States, magistrates and individuals-to whom the Institute is indebted all over the world.

Your Committee desire that, so far as it is possible, this should be at once undertaken. Your Committee recommend that, while all the correspondence is fresh and attainable, some person or persons should be appointed to arrange and collect it for preservation. The correspondence in reply to the Committee is some of it of the most interesting character. It should all be transcribed in a well-bound book to be kept for this purpose among the archives of the Institute. It is a more formal, but not the less a grateful duty for the Board to pass an appropriate resolution of thanks, compliments, or acknowledgments for all donations, and to see that the same be properly brought to the attention of the donors. This will be the discharge not only of a duty, but will surely afford the members of the Chicago Bar the most profound satisfaction.

Your Committee having no other business before them, except it may be to acknowledge any further letters received, respectfully ask to be discharged.

Resolution of the thanks of the Institute were proffered to the Governors of States, the State Legislatures and Officers, the members of the Legal Profession, and persons and organizations, who so generously and promptly contributed to restore the Law Library of the Institute.

With such generous aid and sympathy bestowed from year to year and with the enthusiatic support of the Bench and Bar of Chicago, the Institute has continued to grow and prosper until it has become, as its friends predicted, one of the most useful and necessary institution of our new and energetic city. The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Chicago Law Institute was held at their rooms in the Court-house January 9, 1886. The President James K. Edsall called the meeting to order and submitted his report. We extract from said report;—

"At a meeting of the committee, held September 26, 1885, an additional rule was adopted in relation to the use of the Law Library, whereby any shareholder, who, for the reasons specified in the rnle, does not desire himself to make use of the library, by virtue of his share of stock, can designate in writing some member of the bar who may, with the consent of the librarian and treasurer, and upon payment of all assessments levied on such share of stock, have the use of the library, by virtue of such share in place of the owner thereof."

The report of the librarian showed that 1,074 volumes had been added during

1885 and that the use of the library had largely increased over any previous year.

The Treasurer's report showed insurance on library fifty thousand dollars, balance in treasury January 9, 1886, $1,286.30.

The Secretary's report showed the number of member 567. After the approval of these several reports the following officers were elected for 1886. J. N. STILES, President.

THE UNION COLLEGE OF LAW has opened the fall session with more than the usual number of students in attendance.

Those who have had the good fortune to have listened to the instructions in this most excellent Law College can appreciate the labor performed by the gentlemen who carry on so successfully a large and flourishing institution by their own individual exertions.

While many colleges fail, though largely endowed, this one has made itself a great power without assistance so far, from any quarter.

If the judges and lawyers of the city of Chicago, who are interested in the advancement of legal learning should ask the City Fathers for suitable accommodations for the College of Law, we have no doubt they would accede to their request.

They have liberally provided for the Public Library and the Law Institute, and it is now in order to fit up a room in the Court-house for the Law School. This being done the friends of the college and notably the ALUMNI would no doubt interest themselves in raising an endowment fund which should place the UNION COLLEGE OF LAW on a firm and lasting foundation.

A most important decision has just been rendered by Justice Potter which is of interest to all musical persons, and is a telling blow at trades unions. The Musical Union objected to the performance of any of their members in company with an imported oboe player engaged by Theodore Thomas, and enforced their objection by fines and threatened expulsion. It was in vain that Mr. Thomas urged the fact that there was no oboe player in the union capable of playing the music required of him. The union insisted upon enforcing their rules. The oboe player in question was perfectly willing to join the union, but was prevented from doing so by a by-law of the organization which made it necessary for him to be six months in the country before he could obtain admission to the order. In this emergency Mr. Thomas applied for and obtained an injunction restraining the union from interfering with its members or punishing them for playing in company with performers who were not union men. Justice Potter has given his decision in favor of Mr. Thomas, holding that the by-laws of the defendant forbidding members to play with non-union men are in restraint of trade and against public policy and void. He also issues a perpetual injunction forbidding these laws from being put into operation against the plaintiff.

NOTES OF FOREIGN TRAVEL. THE ARENA AT VERONA.

In five minutes I was in presence of the most remarkable and interesting sight that I have seen in my travels, without exception.

It is the "Arena" or amphitheater, constructed under the reign of Diocletian, Emperor of Rome; for this you must know was an important Roman City. It is an immense structure of stone or marble. It is called marble, but appears like a sort of granite. The main walls are of this material, but many of the partition walls inside, which are very thick and massive are of s aller stones laid in cement. More than three-quarters of the whole stone and and marble work is in a good state of preservation. It is in circular form, and is about 1,500 feet in circumference. It is somewhat difficult to describe, being entirely different from any building I ever saw. But perhaps you will get a better view of it if we commence inside with the amphitheater. And if we commence there you must take the above photograph which shows the inside, and have it before you as you read.

The two figures which you see at the bottom are myself and my guide, so I will explain to you what he is explaining to me, and what I see for myself. The open space at the bottom is the arena in which the gladiatorial contests, and the combats with wild beasts took place. It is surrounded by a perpendicular wall five or six feet high which originally was surmounted also by a balustrade for proctection against the enraged beasts. The semi-circular rows which you see are the seats, which are of marble. They were about eighteen inches high, one above the other, and the seats average in depth, that is from back to back, at least two feet and a half; some of them being three feet but