: PUBLIC DOCUMENT .... .... No. 12, €ommmtfo«altIj of HfesssatjHtsttts. REPORT ATTOENE GEKEKAL Y- Tear ending January 15. 1896. BOSTON WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS, 18 Post Office Square. 1896. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE Cases attended tobythis Department, vii Indictments for Murder vii TheLaw Department, xi Sentence in Criminal Cases, xii Pleadings in Criminal Cases, xiii Eevision ofthe Public Statutes, xiv The BallotLaw Commission, xiv Statutesrelatingto Ballots, Caucuses andElections, xv The Charles EiverFlats, xvi Claim by Theodore E. Davis, xvi Official Bonds, xviii WoonsocketElectric Machine andPower Company, xix . . . Veterans Preference Act, xx Assistants, xxi . Opinions, ... 1 Opinions upon Applications forLeaveto fileInformations, 96 Informations atthe Eelation ofthe Treasurer, 104 Informations attheEelation ofthe Commissionerof Corporations, 106 . . Informations atthe EelationofPrivate Persons, 107 Applicationsnotgranted, 107 Grade Crossings, 109 . Corporate Applications for Dissolution, Ill Corporations requiredwithout Suit to file Certificates of Condition, . Ill Corporationsrequired without Suitto fileTax Eeturns, . . . 112 CollateralTax Cases, 115 Public Charitable Trusts, 120 Land-damage Cases arisingthroughthe Alteration ofGrade Crossings, 122 Miscellaneous Cases, 124 Collections, 129 Extradition andInterstateEendition, . . . . . . . 133 Eules of Practicein InterstateEendition, 138 (fommotttoealtfj of iiassatjwsrtts. Commonwealth Building, Boston, Jan. 15, 1896. To theHonorable the President ofthe Senate. I have the honor to transmit herewith my report for the year ending this day. Very respectfully, HOSEA M. KNOWLTON, Attorney-General.