Digest of the Laws and judicial decisions of Pennsylvania, touching the authority and duties of justices of the peace: including all the required forms of process, docket entries, and fee bills; with familiar illustrations of the practice in the office, and directions as to service of process; correct endorsements for the constable, & c. ; the whole law in relation to landlord and tenant; insolvent debtors; elections; and fees: the general enactments of the inspection laws; militia laws; and many other laws: with an infinite variety of law forms, arranged, so as to be easy of access to those who may wish to consult them: will also be found in this volume

to the secretary of the Navy

comprehending its earliest investigations, and modern practice and art. Designed as a history for the common reader, and guide to the student of the art. ; in three parts. containing an account of the various attempts in the Art of Flying by Artificial Means, from the Earliest Period down to the Discovery of the Aeronautic Machine by the Montgolfiers, in 1782, and to a later Period. With a brief history of the author's fifteen years' experience in aerial voyages ; also, full instructions in the art of making balloons, parachutes, etc. etc., as adapted to the practice of aerial navigation, and directions to prepare experimental balloons

communicated by the auditor general to the legislature, January 22, 1864

experiments and adventures in the atmosphere

treating of the principles of the science