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Excerpt from The District Court of the City and County of Philadelphia: An Address Delivered at the Final Adjournment of the Court, January 4, 1875
So it happened, that when a century had elapsed from the lawyer-repressing statutes I have quoted, and the green countrie town of Penn had become a prosperous city aspir ing to be the capital of the great Republic, there had grown up in it a bar, not only numerous, but renowned for profes sioual learning and ability, and the business of litigation was such as not only to give active and profitable employment to the bar, but to burden the courts and impose vexatious delays upon the suitors.
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