But the most serious objection to the legislation is that it creates at once upon the taking effect of the law the offices of district attorney and marshal for each of the three districts, and the effect, it seems to me, must be to abolish the offices as they now exist.
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Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval \An Act to Prescribe the Number of District...\
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