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ABSTRACT OF THE REPORT

OF

PLINY MERRICK, ESQ.

Attorney for the Commonwealth for the Middle District, comprising the Counties of

NORFOLK AND WORCESTER,

Of his Official Business to 31 October, 1832, inclusive, as made by him to the

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

The Attorney of the Commonwealth for the Middle District, has attended at the several terms of the Common Pleas for the Counties of Worcester and Norfolk, holden during the time he has been in office to the 31 October, 1832, and at the term of the Supreme Judicial Court in Worcester, in October of that year.

The business of the Commonwealth under the care of said Attorney, appears in the following Table.

TABLE

OF

Business conducted by the District Attorney of the Commonwealth.

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Whole number of cases for examination, as above, 63

Of the persons convicted, there were sentenced to

confinement to hard labor in the State Prison,