misbranded, and provides for the inspection thereof by the state board of health, defines what shall be considered adulterated articles, and what shall not be considered adulterated, and declares the violation of certain provisions of the act to be misdemeanors, and imposes fines and imprisonment therefor.

Senate bill No. 119 makes it unlawful for any person to export quail, dead or alive, out of the state for five years.

Senate bill No. 121 makes it a felony for any person to use, procure, cause, or assist in using or procuring, the explosion of any dynamite, or any other explosive material, in any stream, lake, or pond inhabited by fish, and fixes the punishment at not less than one nor more than three years.

Senate bill No. 352 declares it to be a misdemeanor for any person to willfully wear the button, badge, pin, or other emblem of the Free and Accepted Masons, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, United Confederate Veterans, Grand Army of the Republic, or any other secret society working under a charter recognized by a grand or supreme lodge, or to wear or use the same to obtain aid or assistance thereby, unless he shall be entitled to use or wear the same, and fixes the punishment at not exceeding $25, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both.

House bill No. 506 makes it a felony to take or receive a note or other security in the sale of a patent right, or any interest therein, without showing in the face of the obligation that it is given for a patent right, and fixes the punishment at not less than one nor more than five years in the penitentiary.

Senate bill No. 65 declares it to be unlawful for any person to willfully and unnecessarily interfere with or disturb, or in any way disquiet, the pupils of any school or college for females, or the principal or teachers in charge of them while on any public road or street, or in any public building or structure, or on the school premises, and prohibits any communication with pupils, either orally or in writing, or by signs or otherwise, and prohibits any one from going upon school premises except on business, without first having obtained permission of the principal

in charge, and also prohibits any person from loitering, wandering, standing, or sitting upon the public roads, streets, alleys, sidewalks, or other places, or frequently or unnecessarily passing along the same in such manner and with the intent to annoy, vex, or disturb the owner of the premises, the teachers, principals, or pupils as they pass along the public highways, streets, or alleys of any city, and prescribes a punishment of not less than $10 nor more than $50 fine, and imprisonment in the county jail, in the discretion of the court, for not less than ten nor more than thirty days.

Senate bill No. 13 makes it a misdemeanor to cut, break down, or otherwise interrupt or interfere with the current, lines, poles, or appliances of any electric light and power company, or any company engaged in furnishing light, heat, or power by electricity.

Senate bill No. 104 amends section 6189 of M. & V. Code. so as to allow persons arrested in this state charged with crimes committed in other states not to be removed from the county where arrested for forty-eight hours after arrest, and during that time to be allowed to consult counsel, and a violation of this act is made a misdemeanor, punishable by fine of not less than $50. nor more than $500.

House bill No. 103 makes it a felony to knowingly cut or remove timber from the lands of another for the purpose of marketing the same, and prescribes a punishment of not less than one nor more than three years in the penitentiary.

House bill No. 320 makes it a misdemeanor for the maker, grower, producer, or any other person to dispose of any crop or property that is under a landlord's lien or a furnisher's lien as provided in sections 4280 and 4281 and 4285 of M. & V. Code, with the purpose of depriving the owners of such indebtedness of the same or its proceeds, but provides that if said person shall pay over to the owners of said debts the proceeds of the sale, or enough to pay the indebtedness and cost of the prosecution, before arraignment for trial, then he shall not be held liable under this act.

House bill No. 98 defines lobbying to be any personal solicitation of any member of the general assembly of the state, during a session thereof, by private interview, letter, message, or other means or appliance not addressed solely to the judgment, to favor or oppose or to vote for or against any bill, resolution, report, or claim for the purpose of procuring the passage or defeat thereof, provided that said definition shall not include the presentation of petitions or memorials, or any address made before a committee of either house or joint committee of both houses of the general assembly, and makes the same a felony, punishable by confinement in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than five years.

ELECTION LAWS.

House bill No. 189 provides that for each county having a population of less than 50,000, the governor shall appoint a board of three persons, not more than two of whom shall be of the same political party, to be known as the commissioners of election, who shall serve without compensation and hold their offices for two years. The commissioners are required to take an oath to faithfully and honestly discharge their duties. A failure to qualify within twenty days vacates the appointment. The commissioners are clothed with power to appoint all the judges and clerks of election, but are required to make such appointments from the two political parties most numerously represented in each ward and district. The duties of commissioners of registration in such counties and cities therein are likewise conferred upon said commissioners of elections. It is also made the duty of the officer holding the election to deliver the polls or returns of the election, sealed, as received, to said commissioners of election not later than 12 o'clock M., on the first Monday after the election, and on which day it is the duty of said commissioners to compile the said polls or returns at the courthouse, and certify the result and give certificates of election.

House bill No.146 amends all former acts, and confers same

powers on commissioners of registration, in counties having a population of 50,000 or over and towns of over 2,000 population, the authority to appoint the officers, judges, and clerks of all elections, and prescribes their duties in holding elections.

House bill No. 18 prohibits the use of money or other valuable consideration, betting by candidates, and violence and intimidation in all elections, and provides punishment for violation thereof.

House bill No. 189 prohibits the use of funds belonging to corporations for electioneering, political, or campaign purposes, and provides for punishing all representatives of corporations who so use or consent to the use of corporate funds for this purpose.

EVIDENCE IN EJECTMENT SUITS.

Senate bill No. 51 provides that in all actions now pending, or which may hereafter be brought, involving the title, ownership, or possession of real estate held or claimed under sheriff's deed executed prior to June 8, 1861, it shall be presumed that the court rendering the judgment had jurisdiction of the parties and of the subject-matter of the litigation, and that the judg ment, execution, etc., were regular, etc., and that the lands were advertised for sale and notice given as required by law, and that all the recitals in said sheriff's deed shall be held to be prima facie correct, whether the deed be directly or collaterally attacked.

ESTES FEE BILL.

House bill No. 1, popularly known as the Estes Fee Bill, places clerks and masters, clerks of county, circuit, special, and criminal courts, county trustees, registers, sheriffs, and clerks of the supreme court upon salaries, to be paid out of fees earned and collected by them, the salaries being fixed on the basis of population, as follows, viz.: In counties having a population of 90,000 and over, the clerk and master, county trustee and county court clerk, and sheriff shall each receive a salary of $4,000 per annum; the clerks of the circuit, criminal, and special court

each a salary of $3,500 per annum, and the register $3,000. In counties having a population of 50,000 and under 90,000, the clerk and master and county court clerk each $4,000; the sheriff and county trustee, and clerks of circuit, criminal, and special courts $2,500, and the register $2,000, etc.

The cost of stationery and books necessary to transact the business of the offices is to be paid for by the counties.

Clerks of the supreme court shall each receive a salary of $2,500 per annum.

All fees earned by said officers are declared to be the property of the respective counties. Sworn statements of all fees earned and collected are required to be made monthly, and amounts paid monthly into county treasury, and the salaries paid shall not exceed the amounts so collected and paid into the county treasury, but any deficiency occurring in salary allowed officers any one year, may be paid out of any excess of fees collected and paid in during any preceding or succeeding month. The supreme court clerks are required to report quarterly, and are allowed the same privileges, as to any deficiency of salary, as county officers.

The appointment, number, and pay of deputies is provided for on the basis of salaries, the number of said deputies to be fixed by the county court at its quarterly terms.

It is declared to be a felony for any of said officers to willfully fail to make a report, or to make a false or incorrect report, or conspire with another to do so, and upon conviction he shall be fined not less than $500 nor more than $1,000, and imprisonment in the state penitentiary not less than one or more than five years, in addition to the liability of himself and bondsmen for any shortage.

Section 13 provides that the enumeration of the population. under the bill shall be governed by the next preceding federal census, and section 16 provides that the act shall not take effect until the first Monday in September, 1898.

INSOLVENT COSTS IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS.

House bill No. 13, known as the Jarvis bill, provides that