Proceedings of the Supreme Court, and of the Bar of North Carolina in respect to the memory of the late Justice Boyden, of the Supreme Court [and] presenting, on behalf of the family, to the Supreme Court, a portrait of the late Judge Nathaniel Boyden

APPENDIX. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SUPREME COURT, AND OF THE BAR OF NORTH CAROLINA IN RESPECT TO THE MEM¬ ORY OF THE LATE JUSTICE BOYDEN, OF THE SUPREME COURT, IN THE SUPREME COURT ROOM, JANUARY 28th, 1874. In accordance with a previous notice, at 1 o’clock, p.m., January 28th, 1874, the members of the legal profession in attendance on the Supreme Court, and resident and sojourning in the city of Raleigh, assembled in the Supreme Court room for the purpose of giving expression to their feelings in regard to the death of the Honorable Nathaniel Hoyden, late an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, who has died since the last term of said Court. There were present, Chief Justice Pearson and Associate Justices Read, Rodman, Settle and Bynum, of the Supreme Court; Attorney General Hargrove, Judges Cloud and Moore, of the Superior Court; and Attorneys W. II. Bailey, Col. S. B. Spruill, J. T. Carson, Josiah Collins, T. G. Wilson, H. W. Guion, Gen. R. Barringer, Л. M. Lewis, J. M. McCorkle, Jas. Masten, Gen. A. M. Scales, M. A. Moore, R. F. Armfield, Win. M. Shipp, W. P. Williamson, D. G. Fowlc, Hon. W. H. Battle, Hon. W. N. II. Smith, D. Sehcnck, D. M. Carter and S. A. Ashe. On motion of J. H. Wilson, Esq., the Hon. R. M. Pearson, was called to the chair, and R. F. Armfield appointed Secretary. On motion of J. H. Wilson, Esq., a committee of five, consisting of J. II. Wilson, lion. W. II. Battle and Judges Moore, Bynum and Cloud, were appointed by the chair to present resolutions expressive of the feelings of the meeting. The committee retired, and after consultation returned, and through their chairman, J. II. Wilson, Esq., presented to the meeting the following: — The death of Hon. Nathaniel Boyden, one of the Justices of this Court, which took place in the month of November last, demands from us an expression of our views as to his character and a tribute of respect to his memory. lie was a distinguished citizen of this State, and in his death this Court has sustained the loss of a learned, able and efficient member thereof. Possessed of a strong natural mind, well balanced, improved by culture and of untiring industry, energy and persevercnce, characterized by a high standard of moral rectitude of deportment and fidelity to the interest committed to his charge, with a strong moral courage which prompted him never to shrink from the performance of any duty, his career in life was crowned with success. 596