Show I V Valuable alu le State Law Library I r 11 X N tho the State Law Library which has from Crom a handful of books to volumes are to bo be found some somo rare olti tonnes tomes that thal have havo outgrown their usefulness with age eJ but butare butare are arc still valuable to tho scholar and an oddity odd II to tho the curious curl us While revising the catalogue Harry Barr Griffith librarian and a d clerk clork of the supreme court has hIlS relegated these works to the vault in order to for or the recent ca e and text books Since 1 the library was Wn formally established by bythe 11 bythe the t legislature on March 6 0 1352 it has grown until now It Is considered ogo ole 00 of oC the tho t o obest best working collections coll In the west Attorneys come como front Crom all parts of oC tho state to prepare preparo their cas cases casel cs and consult authorities Tho The law students of the University of oC Utah also mace It Ita Ita ita a stud study room In pursuit of oC the degrees In the tho law These old English authors were secured b by the tho state shortly after the death of or Judge C CBennett W til Bennett His HIli library 11 I was the best in the west westIn westIn est estIn In those days davs and he gathered most mo of oC his books booksin In London After his death deuth Judge Andrew Howatt purchased the collection Publishing houses housell In tho the cast east and the west offered bids the books bools but Judge Howatt decided to keep thorn within the tho borders of oC Utah and sold about volumes to the state for Cor a nominal sum these Is a n of oC the tho Doomsday Book Dook of oC Cheshire and andL L compiled complied In manuscript The book contains a survey of England authorized aut t Wil WI William WIlIam liam lam tho the Conqueror In 1086 1056 It was called the tho Doomsday book bool because It Il contained tho the data on which the tho legal decisions were made In real re U property and there was no appeal from rom Jt it 4 Glnn Glan Election cases published In 1775 reports published In 1670 Year Books nook of oC Ed Id Edward Edward Idward ward I original edition n Equity cases published in 1701 1791 1 of oC Cases In Westminister Hall published In 1748 1743 1 48 Sir Thomas Thoma Raymonds reports published in 1689 Benlow Denlow R In 1589 are uro also among tho the rare volumes to bo found Cound In tho the library Some Somo of ot tho the books hooks obtained d from the tho Bennett library 11 11 are aro In and an old stylo lo script One authority says lIa H that books book are arc valuable on the tho origin of ot laws and that for f r a II good many years tho the attorneys at bar used to toJ J make their notes notes in this dU ct Now ow many limn of these the e works work lS are aro being translated and published for lor or the tile student In ht law The state 11 ii hrar Ig id purchasing a translation of many of oC these books bools and the they can bo bu found on the shelve sheh of ot the working Corking library r Before the tho territory a an for or tho maintenance of a library II 11 It was swan a n circulating library I When then an attorney obtained a case caso c so ho would should gather up the tho law books and prepare his 1111 argument in hit his office Then l another lawyer law r carried the bor borrowed borrowed rowed lowed books k to his hIli office to t consult them The Tho legislature of 1352 authorized mt at appropriation of o 11 e r which included Jn tho the salary salar of oCa a librarian and nd funds to exchange books bool 1110 tho territorial court from one ono building to another It was first In tho now occupied by tho the Kenyon Kenon hotel hole and liter later In the Dooly bloc blocK when tho the court moved there Each Ench year vear 11 the librarian purchased as Jan books as possible and ne several hundred volumes volume re donated donate toj to the thC library When hen Utah was wa admitted 1 as al a n state the Judges of oC tho supreme tho the library in charge and It was practically A 1 earb secured which has now been Increased ed to 2000 2 00 a II car and the library has hag grown to tobe bo one of tho best in the tho western states f r fAt rt At t the of Or statehood tho library hah hod About 2000 bo bb Js ks catalogued but a good many of C them had evidently o acquired a d legs and walked wall ed edo of o II Under Unter tho direction of oC t te supreme court an was vall was Issued to counties to make m ko a n iw foi or 01 library books bool and get a n search warrant if IC necessary As AI a are re result result sult volume o vol mo was I found C und in veto all ov o rv r the state and r brought back to Salt SaIL Lake where the t e library I nuts was n es l to In i connection with tee t q c e court After Ater that experience rIles nes of oC the library were changed and nobody now cUn remove a book without u a written oilIer Now Nu tho books can oan can n bo be taken t tp tho court o rt rooms for Cor re reference ro reference ference or For Tor a II good many uin years the tho abstracts and nn briefs br of every case In Inthe tho supreme court have havo been lIeen found fo nd and placed in tho library It Is 13 found 1 to bo boone ono one of oC the best est references in tho library on Utah cases arid HW wa as done lone by b Mr Griffith i 1 |