States

In the Appendix of 131 U. S. is given a list of the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States. It is here given, and is brought down to date. The names of the Chief Justices in the following list are in capitals. The first date is the date of commission; the last is the date of death in office (or of resignation or retiring if so noted). See biographical notes on the Federal Judges in 30 Fed. Cas. 1301; Hampton L. Carson’s interesting and able work on the Supreme Court.

By the act entitled, “An act to establish the flag of the United States,” passed April 4, 1818, 3 Story’s L. U. S., 1667, it is enacted— ) § 1. That from and after the fourth day of July next, the flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white: that the union be twenty stars, white in a blue field. § 2. That, on the admission o every new state into the Union, one star be added to the union of the then next succeeding such admission.