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Montgomery Hunt Throop, Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Montgomery Hunt Throop, born March 22nd 1856, was the son of Enos Thompson Throop who was the tenth Governor of New York from 1829 to 1832. While documents pertaining to ET Throop may be found elsewhere in this prison archive, MH Throop was a lawyer who also shaped the New York criminal justice system. In The Future: A Political Essay, MH Throop discusses how the Civil War Amendments enacted between 1865 and 1870 placed new limits on the executive branch of government and lent new autonomy to the legislature, protecting "the individual from arbitrary punishments or seizures" (256). The text was "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by James G Gregory, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Significantly, he dedicates this book "To the Honorable Enos T. Throop, and in the happier days of the republic, Governor of the State of New York." The full text can be accessed here: https://archive.org/details/futurepoliticale00thro In The New Revision of the Statutes of the State of New York (The Code of remedial justice, L. 1876), MH Throop enacted changes to sentencing limits and relief of bail in state prisons, the positions disqualifying one from jury duty, and the status of witness testimony from those accused of a crime. The full text can be accessed here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35112204841227;view=1up;seq=7 Other documents by MH Throop pertaining to criminal procedure are accessible here: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Throop, Montgomery H. 1827-1892%22&type=author&inst=
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Enos Thompson Throop. Papers, #1157. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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