Excerpt from Catalogue of the Library of the Louisiana Bar Association to June, 1911 This catalogue is divided into two parts: The first part corresponds to the ordinary author index to be found in practically all catalogues of law books, but it includes more, and is intended to be the one place where primarily will be found a reference to every book in the library, including not only text-books, publications of the United States Government and the like, but also reports of judicial decisions, etc. The reports of decisions, statutes, digests and session-laws of each State will be found under the name of the corresponding State and are entered also in the regular alphabetical arrangement under the name of the Author, Reporter or Editor. Treatises, Reports, etc., of foreign countries are listed under the names of the Countries whence they emanate, and are also entered in the regular alphabetical arrangement under the name of the Author, Editor or Reporter. The indexing of Authors, Editors or Reporters, of the different States of the United States and foreign Countries is not elaborately arranged as to number of volumes and period covered, but in the majority of instances, only the name is given, with a reference to the particular State or Country to which it belongs. The second part is an index of d104-Books, arranged alphabetically, according to subject, giving in full, number of volumes, date, etc. The d104-Books, as already stated, are also entered, in full, in the regular alphabetical arrangement under the name of the Author, Editor or Reporter. The catalogue shows how the Reports of each State are taken care of by the (West) National Reporter System. In other words, it is intended to bring the State Reports up to the (West) National Reporter System. In some instances, the Library has Reports of certain States after the National Reporter System started. With very few exceptions, the Library contains all the State Reports published prior to the beginning of the National Reporter System. This, of course, is all shown in the Catalogue. I desire to state that in the compilation of this Catalogue, the Catalogue of the Department of Justice, Washington, 1904, was used as a guide, but I am fully aware that this one falls short of being its equal, not only in point of size but as to its compilation. 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.

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