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Michigan Judges George G Bates
Now I am going to say something about the members of the bar and the bench. I don't mean to cast any reflections on our intelligent judicial and legal talent, but " times ain't now as they used to was been." When I arrived in Detroit I made application through Mr. Cole for admission to the bar. The committee of examination consisted of Daniel Goodwin, Gen. Charles Lamed and Col. B. F. H. Witherell. They took me up into Witherell's office and kept me there eight or nine hours, and put me through a most rigid examination, asking all sorts of questions, which I considered regular torn-foolery.
Next morning I went to the court-room, and there Gen. Charles Larned, on behalf of the committee, said : " May it please the court, I take great pleasure in saying, after a careful examination of seven or eight hours, that George C. Bates is thoroughly competent to be admitted to this bar, and therefore I move his admission." There upon Judge Sibley said, " Let it be so entered upon the record."
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