PREFACE. The present volume is issued by the Attorney-General in pursuance of the authority contained in Resolves of 1906, chapter 18, which provides that the Attorney-General shall "collect and publish in a volume properly indexed and digested such of the official opinions heretofore published as an appendix to the annual reports of the attorney-general during the years eighteen hundred and ninety-nine to nineteen hundred and five, inclusive, as he may deem to be of public interest or useful for reference." It has seemed best that the method of arrangement of this volume should follow that of Volume I of the Opinions of the AttorneysGeneral, issued in 1899, so that there should be a substantial uniformity in the several volumes of the series. The work of preparation has been in charge of Frederic B. Greenhalge, Assistant AttorneyGeneral. DANA MALONE, BOSTON, December, 1907. |