Excerpt from Report of the Attorney General: For the Year Ending January 17, 1900 Cnmmnntoaltl of Ulassarljitsrfts Office of the Attorney-General, Boston, Jan.17, 1900.To the General Court. In compliance with Public Statutes, chapter 17, section 9, I submit my report for the year ending this day. The cases requiring the attention of the office during the year to the number of 1, 378 are tabulated below: Bastardy complaints, 6 Collateral inheritance tax cases, 184 Corporate collections made without suit, 117 Corporation returns enforced without suit, 187 Dissolutions of corporations, voluntary petitions for, . 56 Extradition and interstate rendition, 47 Grade crossings, petitions for abolition of, 141 Informations at the relation of the Commissioner of Corporations, 25 Informations at the relation of private persons, . 7 Informations, applications for, considered and not granted, . 5 Informations at the relation of the Treasurer and Receiver-General, 112 Indictments for murder, 18 Land-damage cases arising through the alteration of grade crossings, 22 Land-damage cases arising from the taking of land by the Harbor and Land Commissioners, 4 Land-damage cases arising from the taking of land by Massachusetts Highway Commission, 9 Land-damage cases arising from the taking of land by the Metropolitan Park Commission, 103 Land-damage cases arising from the taking of land by the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission, 21 Land-damage cases arising from the taking of land by the Metropolitan Water Board 84 Miscellaneous cases arising from the work of the above-named commissions, 9 Miscellaneous cases, . 190 Public charitable trusts, 17 Settlement cases for support of insane paupers, . 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.