Translation of The Penal Code In Force in the Philippines
1900014744Washington: Government Printing Office 1900. Hardcover. Good. Boards in three-quarter calf with brown cloth sides; two leather spine labels with gilt lettering. Boards and spine scuffed and heavily rubbed. ''Bassett / Office Attorney General'' hand-written on front cover. From the Library of the Philippine Commission as identified on leather spine label paper label on front pastedown and a few rubber-stampings. Internally generally clean except for two pages which are soiled with what looks like orange paint here there is a bit of blemished text but all words can still be parsed. 155 pages. English translation of Spain's penal code as amended by the codification commission of the Colonial Provinces designated to be published in and put into effect in the Philippine Islands in 1884. This copy belonged to Arthur Bassett 1878-1962 Assistant Attorney General for the Philippines. After earning his law degree at Washington University St. Louis he was appointed by the Philippine Commission to be the Assistant Attorney General for the Philippine Islands an office he held between 1903-1906 working with the first Attorney General Lebbeus R. Wilfley. The two had been associated back home in Missouri and in 1906 they each relocated to Shanghai when they were appointed to the United States Court in China Bassett as first district attorney and Wilfley as a judge. Bassett followed this with a short stint working as counsel for the British-Amerina Tobacco Co. in Shanghai. Upon the U.S.'s entry into the First World War he joined the Army and served as judge advocate general in North China 1917-1919 with the rank of major. Between the World Wars he was chairman of the Red Cross Committee in China. Bassett the ''old China hand'' returned to the United States in 1941 and settled in San Francisco. Government Printing Office hardcover
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