Its broad jurisdiction and its location at the nation's capital, brought before its judges many important causes, such as could not have arisen in other courts, either State or Federal. It was clothed with all the common law powers of the State courts, and all the statutory powers of the United States circuit and district courts.

On the death of Chief Justice Cartter, a meeting of the bench and bar was called, at which Mr. Justice Wylie presided, and at which resolutions were adopted, expressing the esteem in which he was held. These will be found in Volume 15 of The Washington Law Reporter, 245–247. In the same place will also be found a record of the announcement of his death by Mr. Worthington, then United States District Attorney, in the court in general term; and the remarks of Mr. Justice Hagner at that time, from which I quote a few sentences; and they seem appropriate in closing this sketch, as Justice Hagner became the last survivor of the ten associate justices who sat upon the bench with Chief Justice Cartter.

Justice Hagner said of him, among other things, that "he possessed a mind of great breadth and vigor, and of rare acuteness; with a faculty of perceiving with rapidity and clearness those points in a cause which he considered decisive of the real questions involved. His opinions, which were always pronounced extemporaneously, were couched in language peculiarly characteristic of the qualities of his mind and disposition, original in style, frequently sententious and epigrammatic, always striking, sometimes abounding in quaint humor; there was rarely absent from his deliverances some sentence or expression that would fix itself upon the attention and be carried away in the memory of those who listened. And whatever he said

was delivered in a voice and with a manner so animated and impressive that communicated an interest to discussion that might have otherwise been dull and unattractive. Nature had bestowed upon him a massive form and striking physiognomy, a highly expressive countenance, and an aspect intelligent, almost leonine, in its strength.

"It is with Chief Justice Cartter in his sphere as a member of this court that we may appropriately speak of him. There were other relations in which, as a public man, the country at large knew him well. As a lawyer long in full practice, as a legislator in the halls of Congress, as holding a high diplomatic position, and as the associate of prominent men in trying times, he filled a conspicuous place in the history of his time. He will long be remembered in this community, where he lived so long, and especially by the members of the bar, who knew him so well, and could best appreciate his mental endowments and his great natural gifts."

CHRISTIAN HINES, AUTHOR OF "EARLY RECOLLECTIONS OF WASHINGTON CITY," WITH NOTES ON THE HINES FAMILY.

BY JOHN CLAGETT PROCTOR, LL.M.

(Read before the Society, March 19, 1918.)

Christian Hines, author of "Early Recollections of Washington City," was born near Liberty, Frederick County, Maryland, in 1781, and resided in that county until 1790, as is evident by the census returns for that year. It must have been the latter part of this year, however, that he settled with his parents in Georgetown. Here, as he states, they resided at the junction of High and Market streets-now Wisconsin Avenue and Thirty-third Street-in a large two-story log house, until December, 1799, when his people moved to F Street, between Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Streets, Northwest, Washington City. From here they moved to the block bounded by D and E and Twenty-first and Twenty-second Streets. Prior to leaving Georgetown, his father had purchased of William Thompson, Esq., a building lot on the south side of F Street between Tenth and Eleventh Streets, Northwest, opposite where is now the mammoth department store of Woodward & Lothrop, and on the most prominent thoroughfare in the District of Columbia. Here his father erected a modest dwelling in 1800, and occupied it the same year; it being the first building erected in this block. It was here, his father, John Hines, died in 1816.