Excerpt from Report From the Secretary of State, 1877: With Accompanying Papers, Relating to the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims Some Of these cases I have reported, as they appear to be of interest, and have given what, in my Opinion, was the ruling of the court upon the questions of law arising in them. The statements of the principles decided in these cases are my own, and for them I alone am responsible. They are reached after a careful comparison of the amounts claimed, the amounts awarded, and the decisions Of the court in other and Similar cases. I have little doubt that they are substantially correct; still they are in no Sense an Official expression Of the opinion of the court. In a court organized as this has been, and required to determine so large a number of cases in a comparatively short time, duties have necessarily been imposed upon me which in courts generally do not fall upon the clerk. If I have been successful in the performance of these duties, and in my efforts to facilitate the speedy disposal of the cases before the court, a large proportion Of the credit is due to my assistants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.