Excerpt from Sixty-Eighth Annual Report of the American Colonization Society: With the Minutes of the Annual Meeting and of the Board of Directors, January 18, 20 and 21, 1885 It is with sadness that the record must be made of the departure from this life of three Vice Presidents of the Society. Hon. Joseph B. Crockett, elected in 1854, long held a leading position at the bar at St. Louis, and removing, in 1852, to San Fran cisco, he soon became one the justices of the Supreme Court of Cali formia. Acting from the highest appreciation of the judicial func tions he distinguished himself as a judge, and was patient, earnest, painstaking and conscientious in his public duties. 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.