Excerpt from Decision of the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jersey, in a Cause Between Thomas L. Shotwell, Complainant and Joseph Hendrickson and Stacy Decow, Defendants: Also, the Opinion of the Supreme Court of the State of New York in a Cause in Which James Field Was Plaintiff and Charles Field Defendant That portion of the Chesterfield preparative meeting which continues to hold that meeting at the usual times and places (that is to say, the preparative meet ing whereby Decow was appointed treasurer of the school fund, as is elsewhere shown and expressed) ac knowledge themselves, or claim to be, a part of the monthly meeting which still continues a member of the Green street yearly meeting. The testimony of the last witness, James Brown, demands peculiar attention from the station be_held, as clerk of the preparative meet ing of which Decow is a'member, and from the confi dencereposed in that officer by the usages of the society, and the intimate knowledge he must acquire' and possess of the acts, connexions, and sentiments of the meeting. 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.