The Pardoning Power: Where Should it be Lodged and How Should it be Exercised? A Paper Read at Saratoga Springs before the National Prison Association, September 8th, 1884

New Haven: Hoggson & Robinson, Printers, 1884. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. A good copy, detached chipped wrappers, mail fold, contents clean.. 16 pp. 8vo. "With the Compliments of Francis Wayland" slip tipped-in on title. In this speech,Wayland proposes an act to establish a Board of Pardons, and in the appendix, provides the rules for Connecticut's recently adopted version. Francis Wayland III, was son of the progressive Brown University president of the same name. Wayland served terms as both the probate judge and the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut before becoming a professor, and later dean, at Yale Law School.