Judge Lobingier said:
The Court has listened with profound interest to the reading of these resolutions and to the remarks in - connexion therewith. The late Mr. Jernigan's career was, on the whole, so unusual and hi relation to this Court so unique that its records would be quite incomplete without a memorial of him.
When Mr. Jernigan entered the American Consular service more than a generation ago, he brought with him an equipment always valuable there, but none the less rare, in his knowledge of legal principles. This became especially important to him when, in 1893, he was made Consul-General at Shanghai where he was called upon to discharge extensive judicial functions. But his experience there convinced him of the necessity of the absolute separation of such functions from ordinary consular duties and the establishment of a distinct and independent. tribunal. This attitude he maintained con-' sistently, having been an earnest!
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