judges, prescribing the method of their election to some extent, and that they shall be chosen for service in the criminal, chancery or common pleas branch.

Chapter 122. An act to provide for the creation, control and disposition of a fund for pensioning firemen in cities of the first class.

Chapter 126. An act to regulate the assignment or other transfer of wages where a whole or a part consideration therefor is less than $200.

Chapter 127. An act relating to the selection of jurors and re-enacting certain sections of the Kentucky statutes in that regard.

Chapter 128. An act to require railroad companies to stop all passenger trains at any stations where a state penitentiary is located.

Chapter 129. An act providing annuities for aged, infirm, disabled or retired teachers in cities of the first class.

Chapter 132. An act relating to the drainage of lands, etc. This is an act of some 35 pages in length, containing very full provisions on the entire subject of ditching, draining and reclaiming wet, or overflowed lands and protecting them by levees under public control.

Chapter 133. An act to establish a State Board of Forestry. This is a conservation act intended to protect the forests of the state, and to promote their proper care and development.

Chapter 135. An act to prevent the sweating of prisoners, which has been already referred to.

Chapter 137. An act creating Boards of Education for cities of the second class, and providing for the election thereof, and defining their powers and duties.

Chapter 140. An act amending the tenement house act and revising the law considerably on this subject.

Chapter 141. An act amending the act for the government of cities of the fourth class, considerably revising the law on this subject.

Chapter 142. An act to provide for the organization of the militia, which establishes quite an elaborate military code for this state.

Chapter 143. An act to provide for the interchange and transmission of messages between telephone companies.

LOUISIANA.

Among the legislative acts of the legislature of this state at its late session are the following:

No. 20. An act requiring seats on street cars for the operator and conductor.

No. 24. Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution exempting certain classes of voters from the consequences of failure to possess the educational or property qualifications prescribed.

No. 27. An act requiring public service corporations to have two pay days each month.

No. 32. An act requiring lawyers licensed in other states to take a Bar examination as a condition of admission in Louisiana. No. 34. A flag law to prevent improper use of the national flag.

No. 40. An act levying a tax on itinerant agents selling stocks and bonds and regulating such sales.

No. 44. An act limiting the liability of a bank to its depositors for payment of forged checks to one year after the return of checks so paid to the depositor.

No. 47. Joint resolution ratifying the income tax amendment to the federal constitution.

No. 54. An act providing, among other things, that marriages contracted between persons one or both of whom were domiciled in Louisiana and forbidden to marry shall not be there deemed valid because contracted elsewhere and where not prohibited, if the parties after such marriage return to live permanently in Louisiana.

No. 65. An act providing that it shall be lawful to mortgage lumber, logs and live stock and regulating the method of doing so. No. 72. An act prohibiting false representations for the purpose of obtaining money or credit for the benefit of the maker of such representations, or any other person, firm, or corporation in which he is interested or for whom he is acting.

No. 93. An act revising the law as to holidays and making Saturday afternoons half holidays in all cities of over ten thousand.

No. 94. The uniform bill of lading act.

No. 95. An act permitting insurance companies to make investments in addition to those before permitted.

No. 105. An act rendering a wife competent as a witness for or against her husband in prosecutions for failure to support wife or child.

No. 110. An act providing for a commission to prepare and recommend amendments to the constitution as to assessments and taxation.

No. 114. An act against fraud in buying goods on credit and providing that a sale in bulk out of the ordinary course of business of a stock of goods shall be prima facie void against creditors except on certain conditions.

No. 117. An act authorizing municipalities to refuse permits to built negro houses in white communities and vice versa.

No. 127. An act to create a conservation commission and to define its duties and powers.

No. 132. A joint resolution for a constitutional amendment in respect of incurring debt by municipalities.

No. 133. Joint resolution for an amendment to the constitution providing for the recall of all elective officers, excluding judges.

No. 138. An act to regulate the practice of nursing.

No. 141. A comprehensive act providing for the state printing.

No. 142. An act providing for an employer's liability commission.

No. 144. An act requiring counsel and agents employed to appear before certain state boards or commissions to file sworn statements disclosing their employers, their expenditures, etc.

No. 147. Joint resolution for a constitutional amendment relating to the jurisdiction, etc., of district courts.

No. 150. An act to create a commission to revise and prepare amendments to the laws of the state relative to corporations.

No. 155. Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution relative to pensions for Confederate veterans.

No. 157. An act providing for simplified pleading and practice. This is a short act which might well serve as a model code of civil pleading.

No. 159. An act providing a new charter for the City of New Orleans under the commission form of government, with the initiative, referendum and recall, which act is to he submitted to the voters of that city August 28 of this year.

No. 161. An act creating a state tuberculosis commission, specifying its powers, etc.

No. 162. This is a resolution for an amendment to the constitution to permit women to hold any office connected with the educational system of the state, or of any ward, parish or municipality, and any office in the state connected with institutions of charity and correction.

No. 175. An act to authorize the State Railroad Commission to award reparation to shippers.

No. 176. An act already referred to providing that a will executed without the state in the mode prescribed by the law either of the place where executed or of the testator's domicile shall be deemed to be legally executed and of the same force and effect as if executed according to the laws of Louisiana, provided it is in writing and subscribed by the testator.

No. 184. An act prohibiting the exhibition of children under sixteen in theatrical and other exhibitions.

No. 187. An act providing that in actions against public service corporations for personal injury assumption of risk by an employe or negligence of a fellow servant shall not be a defense, but may be considered by the court in determining the measure of damages.

No. 190. An act defining what is necessary to justify an affidavit for the issuance of a writ of sequestration under the code. No. 191. An elaborate act governing the militia and establishing a military code.

No. 192. An act making it a felony for any person over seventeen to have carnal knowledge of any unmarried female between the ages of twelve and eighteen years.

No. 193. An act to require all railway and street railway companies using the streets of a municipality to keep in good condition and suitable for vehicular traffic that portion of the street covered by such track, and when such street is paved to keep such paving in repair and renew the same when necessary.

No. 194. An act requiring foreign corporations to file with the clerk of court of the parish in which they have an established place of business, the name of a designated agent upon whom process may be served.

No. 195. An act creating a lien on telephone and telegraph poles and cross ties manufactured, and on all logs and timber out of which same are to be manufactured, in Louisiana, in favor of the land or stumpage owner, laborers, furnisher of supplies and parties advancing money for the manufacture of same.

No. 197. An act permitting executors and others in a fiduciary capacity to purchase at the sale of the effects of the deceased, or the beneficiary, under certain circumstances.

No. 198. An act regulating primary elections, making it compulsory that all nominations for candidates for United States Senator, members of the House of Representatives, State, District and Parochial officers and members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the state, and for city and ward offices in all cities, towns and villages shall be made by direct primary.

No. 200. An act making it the duty of clerks of court in docketing divers proceedings to state whether the parties litigant are colored or white.

No. 203. Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution of the state in reference to the Board of Liquidation of the State Debt.

No. 204. An elaborate conservation act relating to conservation of the soil, mineral and forestry resources of the state, and also to game birds, fish and other game.

No. 207. An act to provide a form of government for certain cities of the state, the city of New Orleans excepted, which provides for the commission form of government, provided the people of the cities included shall so vote.

No. 209. An act to levy an annual license tax upon all persons, firms, corporations or associations engaged in the business of