. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . I 0 R T /i L» M kjE R L A-N-D / -7/?/. ORrCIMAI. DRSCRTPTION \ / ; fl 3 ^ /vi u ^3«ua/ i^ re3H ^/•^ . y V X H9^0 LAWYER AND PUBIvIC OFFICER 47 was concerned. This, too, was the only way to learn landlaw. There was not much wealth, except in land, and notmany lawsuits, except those relating to the title to land,writes the late Justice Charles Huston, speaking of a largepart of Central Pennsylvania, in which he learned land law,and that, too, a score of years later than this.^ In the Dis-trict
. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . I 0 R T /i L» M kjE R L A-N-D / -7/?/. ORrCIMAI. DRSCRTPTION \ / ; fl 3 ^ /vi u ^3«ua/ i^ re3H ^/•^ . y V X H9^0 LAWYER AND PUBIvIC OFFICER 47 was concerned. This, too, was the only way to learn landlaw. There was not much wealth, except in land, and notmany lawsuits, except those relating to the title to land,writes the late Justice Charles Huston, speaking of a largepart of Central Pennsylvania, in which he learned land law,and that, too, a score of years later than this.^ In the Dis-trict were titles within the purchase of 1754; and the LandOffice titles were either Warrants or Locations, of 1766 andthe following years; titles within the purchase of 1768, andthese were either Warrants or Applications of 3rd April,1769, and the following months, until September; * * *No law book had been published of decisions in this State,except the first volume of Dallass Reports. When I learnedof the titles above mentioned, I did not know in what re-spects the one differed from the other. I was determinedto become a lawyer, and
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