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NRK.] BARBER, LIBRARIAN, &C., Ex PARTE. 155 BARBER, LIBRARIAN, &C., Ex PARTE. Mandamus refused, by this court, to compel the Secretary of State to turn over to the Supreme Court Librarian certain State Reports, appropriated to the Supreme Court Library by act of Assembly, on the grounds that the Circuit Court of Pulaski county was competent, and the proper tribunal, to grant relief in the premises. On Application for Mandamus. This was an application to this court, b y L. E. Barber, Esq., Supreme Court Librarian, for mandamus to the Secretary of State to compel him to deliver up certain State Reports, set apart for the Supreme Court Library, by act of Assembly. An alternate writ was issued, response of the Secretary filed, and demurred to. Mr. Justice Scull' delivered the opinion of the Court. . The writ of Mandamus, in this case, having been improvidently issued, must be dismissed for that cause.
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