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The act which, in the first part of the opinion, was acknowledged to belong, “in the strictest sense,” to the “judicial power,” has now ceased to be “any thing more than a summary ministerial proceeding.
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Mann asserts that a judicial power acknowledged in the past has now been reduced to a mere ministerial proceeding.
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