. Bench and bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. changes having been the transfer of jurisdiction in mat-ters of divorce to the Superior Court in 1887, the transfer of jurisdictionin capital trials to the same court in 1891, and the gift of concurrentjurisdiction to that court in 1891 in matters relating to telegraph andtelephone wires, relating to the abuse of towns of corporate powers, re-lating to the construction, alteration, maintenance and use of buildings,and relating to the control of street railways. The following persons have occupied seats on the bench of the Su-preme Judicial
. Bench and bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. changes having been the transfer of jurisdiction in mat-ters of divorce to the Superior Court in 1887, the transfer of jurisdictionin capital trials to the same court in 1891, and the gift of concurrentjurisdiction to that court in 1891 in matters relating to telegraph andtelephone wires, relating to the abuse of towns of corporate powers, re-lating to the construction, alteration, maintenance and use of buildings,and relating to the control of street railways. The following persons have occupied seats on the bench of the Su-preme Judicial Court by appointment since the adoption of the Stateconstitution : Chief Justices.—Nathaniel Peaselee Sargent, appointed 1790; died 1791. FrancisDana, appointed 1791; resigned 1806. Theophilus Parsons, appointed 1806; died1813. Samuel Sewall, appointed 1814; died 1814. Isaac Parker, appointed 1814;died 1830. Lemuel Shaw, appointed 1830; resigned 1860. George Tyler Bigelow,appointed 1860; resigned 1868. Reuben Atwater Chapman, appointed 1868; died. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 73 1873. Horace Gray, appointed 1873; resigned 1882. Marcus Morton, appointed 1882;resigned 1890. Walbridge Abner Field, appointed 1890. Justices.—Increase Sumner, appointed 1782; resigned 1789. Francis Dana, appointed1785; made chief 1791. Robert Treat Paine, appointed 1790; resigned 1804. NathanCushing, appointed 1790; resigned 1800. Thomas Dawes, appointed 1792; resigned1802. Theophilus Bradbury, appointed 1797; removed 1803. Samuel Sewall, ap-pointed 1800; made chief 1814. Simeon Strong, appointed 1801; died 1805. GeorgeThacher, appointed 1801; resigned 1824. Theodore Sedgwick, appointed 1802; died1813. Isaac Parker, appointed 1806; made chief 1814. Charles Jackson, appointed1813; resigned 1823. Daniel Dewey, appointed 1814; died 1814. Samuel Putnam,appointed 1814; resigned 1842. Samuel Sumner Wilde, appointed 1815; resigned1850. Levi Lincoln, appointed 1824; resigned 1825. Marcus Morton, appointed 1825;r
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