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PROCEEDINGS

UPON THE DEATH OF

HON. CHAUNCEY L. HIGBEE, PRESIDING Judge,

HAD AT A MEETING OF THE BAR AND IN THE APPELLATE Court,
AT SPRINGField, at tHE

NOVEMBER TERM, A. D. 1884.

At a meeting of the bar held in the Appellate Court rooms, in Springfield, December 16, 1884, for the purpose of expressing their respect and esteem for the memory and testifying their regret at the sudden death of the Hon. CHAUNCEY L. HIGBEE, late Presiding Judge of the Appellate Court for the Third District, Hon. JOHN A. McCLERNAND, presided. Hon. MILTON HAY, chairman of the committee on resolutions, reported the following, which were unanimously adopted:

WHEREAS, An Allwise Providence has by death removed from a career of high honor and great usefulness the Hon. CHAUNCEY L. HIGBEE, the Presiding Justice of the Appellate Court for the Third District of this State; and

WHEREAS, The members of the bar of the district aforesaid are moved by this sad event to give expression to their profound regret for this loss, and to testify their high appreciation of the character of JUDGE HIGBEE, both as a man and a judicial officer, therefore,

Resolved, That the bar of this district deplore the death of JUDGE HIGBEE as a loss to the important tribunal of which he was the chief, as well as to the bar and all others interested in the able and upright administration of the laws.

Resolved, That in the death of JUDGE HIGBEE the State has lost not only one of its most eminent citizens, whose public and private character was above and beyond reproach, and every way worthy of emulation, but also one of its most faithful, able and

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