1800 NEW EDITION-REVISED AND ENLARGED WELLS' EVERY MAN HIS OWN LAWYER AND BUSINESS FORM BOOK. A COMPLETE GUIDE IN ALL MATTERS OF LAW AND BUSINESS FOR EVERY STATE IN THE UNION. WITH LEGAL FORMS FOR DRAWING THE NECESSARY PAPERS, AND FULL IN. ALSO, THE GENERAL BANKRUPT LAW; PATENT LAWS, WITH FULL INSTRUCTIONS TO PROCURE BACK PAY, PENSIONS, BOUNS TIES, AND ALL WAR CLAIMS. THE DIFFERENT STATE LAWS CONCERNING PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM EXECUTION, LICENSES TO SELL GOODS, ETC. ALSO, THE EXCISE LAWS, STAMP DUTIES, POST OFFICE AND CUSTOM HOUSE REQU- LATIONS, THE WHOLE ACTIURCEDMEN, CONSTITUTION OF THE CONSTRUCTION AND THE UNITED STATES, WITH INDMENTS, STATE SEALS, WITH DESCRIPTIONS. BY JOHN G. '" "Wells' Army and Navy Author of "Wells' Illustrated National LS, 66 Handy-Book," " Chicago as it Was and as it Is," &c., &c. NEW YORK: MASONIC PUBLISHING CO., 626 BROADWAY; B. R. STURGES, BOSTON, MASS.; J. H. Cook & Co., ST. LOUIS, Mo.; SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by JOHN G. WELLS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by the MASONIC PUBLISHING AND MANUFACTURING CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Souther C 34(73)(02) INTRODUCTORY. THIS work, prepared some years ago, was received with great favor by the public, attaining a larger sale, it is believed, than any work of the kind ever published. Lapse of time has brought mateial changes in the statutes of many of the States; the war has not only altered the social condition of some of them, but has intro. duced the Internal Revenue system, National Banks, modifications of the Tariff, amendments to the Constitution of the United States, emancipation of the slaves, and the General Bankrupt Law. The subject of Pensions, Bounties and War Claims, has also assumed a new and greatly increased importance. These numerous changes have led the publishers to make a new and thoroughly revised edition, reproducing the whole work; and they have, without regard to expense, procured the services of the men most competent to bring every department of it up to the present requirements of the laws, statutes and provisions. So critical and thorough has been this revision, that it is the convic tion of the publishers that the most implicit reliance can be placed upon the work, as authority on all the subjects of which it treats. The utility of such a work no one will now question. The sale of hundreds of thousands of copies of the former editions, and the constant demand for it, have settled that point. The professional man the farmer, the mechanic, the manufacturer, the soldier, the sailor, each requires a convenient, comprehensive and reliable work which will enable him to draw up any instrument in writing that may be required, in a legal form; which will furnish such legal information as is usually called for in the various avocations of life; a book that everybody can understand, and that will enable every man or woman to be his or her own lawyer. To make such a work, and make it well, was no small task; but by patient, continued, and intelligent labor, it has been achieved. BANKRUPTS AND CREDITORS will find in this work, in addition to information indispensable to every business man, the General Bankrupt Law, with Forms, explanations, and full instructions for taking the benefit of the Act, without legal assistance. |