An act providing for publicity of campaign contributions and expenditures before and after election.

An act to provide for the care of blind infants.

An act providing for automobile and motorcycle license taxes. A general registration act and primary law for elections.

CALIFORNIA.

FIRST EXTRA SESSION.

Chapter 1. A new act was passed for the registration of voters. Chapter 8. An act providing for the confinement and care of persons addicted to the intemperate use of narcotics or stimulants, so as to have lost the power of self-control.

Chapter 14. An elaborate act providing for the organization of the Railroad Commission, and defining its powers, duties, etc., called the "Public Utilities Act."

Chapter 17. An act amending the law as to primary elections, etc. This contains one valuable feature in particular, in that it provides for the order in which names are to be printed on ballots, in such a way as to, so far as possible, permit each candidate to have his name at the head of the list on equal terms with all the others.

Chapter 18. A presidential primary act was also passed.

Chapter 19. An elaborate act providing for the organization. and management of municipal water districts.

Chapter 22. An act regulating reciprocal or inter-insurance contracts.

Various acts amending the banking laws of the state.

Chapter 30. An act providing for the recall of elective officers of counties and subdivisions thereof.

Chapter 31. An act providing for the initiative and referendum in counties.

Chapter 32. An act providing for the recall of officers of cities and towns.

Chapter 33. An act to provide for the initiative and referendum in cities and towns.

Chapter 39. An act imposing additional duties and conferring additional powers upon the Industrial Accident Board.

Chapter 40. An act to provide for submitting to the electors of every city and county or town the question whether such county, city or town, should retain the powers of control vested therein respecting public utilities, or surrender the same to the Railroad Commission.

Chapter 41. An act regulating and limiting the appropriation and use of water for generating electricity, or electrical or other power, and for other purposes.

Chapter 46. An act as to election ballots.

Chapter 47.

voters.

Another act as to the election and registration of

Chapter 48. An act providing for the appointment of a registrar of voters in counties by the Board of Supervisors thereof. Chapter 53. An act to provide for keeping by employers of a record of injuries suffered by their employes, reporting the same to the Industrial Accident Board, etc.

Chapter 54. A further act as to the registration of voters. Chapter 61. An act amending the law as to the approval of ballot machines by the State Commission.

SECOND EXTRA SESSION.

Chapter 1. An elaborate act to provide for the protection of horticulture, and to prevent the introduction into the state of insects, diseases, or animals injurious to fruit or fruit trees, vines, bushes or vegetables.

Constitutional amendments were submitted regulating the deposit of moneys belonging to the state, and providing for the publication of free text books.

CONNECTICUT.

Amendments were proposed to the constitution, one of which i provides that appeals to the courts may be granted from orders or decisions of executive or administrative authorities, and that new trials may be granted for errors committed by the court in fact as well as in law.

Another one concerning the power and duty of the governor as to signing bills.

Another prescribing the terms of office for state officers and members of the General Assembly.

Another prescribing the conditions on which an elector forfeits his right.

Another prescribing special legislation under some circumstances; and one or two others of minor importance.

The following, among other acts, were passed:

Chapter 295. An act amending the law as to the assessment and collection of personal or poll taxes.

Chapter 288. An act authorizing the Public Utilities Commission, on application of the selectmen of a town, or the mayor and council of the city, to make all necessary orders as to laying side-tracks at grade.

Chapter 283. An act concerning the taxation of railroad companies.

Chapter 282. An act providing for an eight-hour day for certain trades in the mechanical departments of all state institutions. Chapter 280. An act as to weights and measures, providing for county and city sealers and prescribing their duties and powers, with certain penal provisions.

Chapter 278. An act making various regulations as to the employment of minors and children in mercantile establishments other than manufacturing or mechanical.

Chapter 277. An act prohibiting the conducting of business under an assumed name, etc., except in compliance with the terms of the act.

Chapter 276. An act compelling telephone companies under certain conditions to extend their service to those desiring it. Chapter 275. An act providing for sealed proposals for the labor of those in penal or other institutions.

Chapter 267. of public roads.

Chapter 263.

An act amending the law for the improvement

An act amending the ballot law.

Chapter 255. An act providing for increased punishment upon a second or third conviction.

Chapter 260. An act providing that where machinery and fixtures in a manufacturing plant are mortgaged without the real

estate, and the mortgage contains an after acquired property clause, it shall be valid as to such after acquired and substituted property.

Chapter 249. An act providing that an appeal from sentence of imprisonment in a criminal case shall not stay such sentence, unless it is so ordered by the judge trying the case.

Chapter 246. An act revising the law as to the militia.

Chapter 244. An act regulating the interest to be charged for the loan of money, providing, however, that it shall not affect any prior loan, nor one made by a national bank, or any bank or trust company incorporated under the laws of the state, nor any mortgage exceeding $500.

Chapter 243. A corrupt practices act, providing among other things to secure publicity in such matters.

Chapter 241. A revised act concerning tenement houses.

Chapter 206. An act authorizing the adoption of the merit system.

Chapter 199. An act concerning the transfer of prisoners from the state prison to the reformatory.

Chapter 198. An act concerning the adoption of persons of full age.

Chapter 185. An act penalizing combinations to increase the price of the necessities of life.

Chapter 182. A uniform bills of lading act.

Chapter 175. An act providing that in any civil action in which a party is insane, or unable to testify by reason of disability, physical or mental, the entries and memoranda of such person. made while sane relevant to the matter in issue may be received. Chapter 163. An act against blacklisting.

Chapter 159. An act requiring every physician to report cases occurring in his practice of poisoning from lead, phosphorus, arsenic, etc., contracted as the result of the patient's employment. Chapter 153. An act providing for the detention of witnesses in criminal cases.

Chapter 130. An act amending the act concerning guardians and minors.

Chapter 128. An act creating the Public Utilities Commission

and providing for the regulation and supervision of public service

corporations.

Chapter 123.

Another act regulating the employment of children in certain occupations.

Chapter 96. An act prohibiting the common drinking cup. Chapter 95. An act requiring individual towels in hotels and public lavatories.

Chapter 119. An act prohibiting employment of children under fourteen years of age in any mechanical, mercantile, or manufacturing establishment.

These acts were passed at the legislative session in 1911, but so late in the year that they were not available for notice at our last meeting.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

No. 12. An act was passed to define and classify health, accident and death benefit companies and associations operating in the District of Columbia.

No. 47. An act to provide for the punishment of persons in possession of stolen property in the District, having stolen the same outside of the District.

No. 80. Also an act amending the act relating to the Metropolitan Police Force.

No. 138. An act providing for the protection of the interests of the United States in certain waters and lands adjacent thereto. Among the bills pertaining to the District and which failed of consideration, but remain for action at the next session, are two measures which seek to provide humane methods for the commitment of the insane to the large government hospital in the District. These bills follow laws now in force in various other states. House Bill 25,664, which provides for the voluntary commitment of patients of this unfortunate class, has been drawn in conformity with the laws of Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois, and shows an appreciation of the growing opinion that the hospital conception of insanity as a disease should be of first importance in the preparation of laws necessary to the proper care and treatment of persons belonging to this afflicted class.