Excerpt from Sixty-Sixth Annual Report of the Trustees of the New York State Library: For the Year 1883 From January 1. 1878, to December 31, 1882, there were added five thousand four hundred and seventy-one volumes, making a total of thirty-four thousand one hundred and seventy-nine volumes, of which ten thousand volumes are estimated to comprise the collection of statute law and State papers, leaving twenty-four thousand as the number of volumes of law books embraced in this catalogue. 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.