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his system was unpopular, for it prevented the settlement in the country of good lawyers, or impoverished those who had cast their lot in with us, and the great commercial and mining interests had to go half the year without counsel. In criminal cases it was still worse, for a man arrested in October, for supposed crime, remained in jail, a county charge, until the following June. If the prisoner was innocent, the hardship of the case was aggravated. Therefore at the session of the Legislature of 1864-5, the people of the
upper peninsula, instructed their senator and representatives to bring in a bill for a new district, with a resident judge.
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