compiled from the journals, files, and printed documents of the House, in pursuance of an order thereof, and under the direction of a committee appointed for the purpose by Luther S. Cushing ; and the cases from 1835 to 1852, inclusive, in pursuance of a resolve of the General Court, passed on the 18th of May, 1852 / by Luther S. Cushing, Charles W. Storey, and Lewis Josselyn