pensation, and to define their duties and powers," the Act hereby amended being Chapter 435 of the printed Acts of 1907, passed April 9, 1907, and approved by the Governor April 12, 1907.

CHAPTER 38.

A BILL to be entitled An Act to make it a crime for any member of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee to willfully obstruct the transaction of the business of said General Assembly by absenting himself from its sessions.

CHAPTER 39.

A BILL to be entitled An Act to appropriate the sum of $25,000 for the purchase of land for the George Peabody College for Teachers, to be used as a demonstration farm for the Seaman A. Knapp School of Country Life.

CHAPTER 40.

AN ACT entitled An Act to define the qualifications and duties of public school teachers; to provide a uniform method for the examination and certification of teachers; to provide for the issuance of teachers' certificates of different grades and for the revocation of certificates; and to fix penalties for the violation of the provisions of the Act.

CHAPTER 41.

AN ACT to provide for the prospecting and development and use and management of the property owned by the State, and known as the Herbert Domain, for coal mining and farming purposes; authorizing the establishment of a branch prison on said property, the erection and maintenance of all necessary stockades and other buildings, the use and employment of convict labor that may be necessary, and to provide money for such purposes; approving a contract or agreement with the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company for the construction of its lines of railroad to and upon said property, and granting to said railway company all necessary rights of way through said State's said property; and creating a Board of Commissioners to be known as the "Herbert Domain Com

missioners," to provide its duties and powers, naming the persons to compose the first membership of said Commissioners, their terms of office, and how their successors shall be selected, and fixing their salaries; and providing how convicts are to be furnished to said "Herbert Domain Commissioners' to be used in said work.

CHAPTER 42.

AN ACT to authorize the Governor to convey, in behalf of the State of Tennessee, to the Hermitage Church Association the tract of one and one-half acres, more or less, lying immediately west of the Hermitage Church property.

CHAPTER 43.

AN ACT to create a Workman's Compensation Commission to make a thorough investigation of the subject of workmen's compensation and submit a report to the n ext General Assembly of the State of Tennessee; to describe and define the duties of said Commission; to provide for the expenses of the Commission, including a salary for its Secretary; and to repeal all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act.

CHAPTER 44.

AN ACT to provide for the organization, admission, and regulation of fraternal beneficiary associations, or societies, transacting the business of life insurance, and to repeal all laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act.

CHAPTER 45.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act requiring certain employers to provide seats for female employees, and fixing and prescribing penalties for the violation of said Act," being Chapter 171 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1905, passed March 31, 1905, and approved April 4, 1905, so as to require persons, firms, or corporations employing females in any factory, mercantile establishment, mill, or workshop in this State to provide a suitable seat for each female employee, and to permit the use of such seats by them when not necessarily

engaged in the active duties of their employment, and fixing and prescribing a penalty for the violation of this Act.

CHAPTER 46.

AN ACT to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to provide a more effective method for the collection of delinquent taxes,' being Chapter 37 of the Public Acts of the General Assembly of Tennessee, 1911; and to dismiss all suits brought under said Act and now pending.

CHAPTER 47.

AN ACT to erect upon the Capitol Hill at Nashville a monument to commemorate the heroic devotion and self-sacrifice of the women of Tennessee during the war between the States.

CHAPTER 48.

AN ACT to authorize an empower all municipal corporations in the State of Tennessee, owning, or which may hereafter own, free public schools or free high schools, under the laws of the State to take and condemn lands, property, property rights, privileges, and easements of individuals and of private corporations for the purpose of acquiring a site or sites or for the extension or enlargement of any public school-house or public high school house or building; and to prescribe the mode, manner, and terms of taking, condemning, and providing for the compensation, of damages therefor, to the owner or owners.

CHAPTER 49.

AN ACT for the relief of practitioners of medicines in certain cases, and to govern and provide for the registration certificates of license to practice medicine in Tennessee.

CHAPTER 50.

AN ACT to be entitled An Act to amend Chapter 64, Acts of 1891, entitled "An Act for the benefit of indigent and disabled soldiers of the late war between the States, and to fix the fees of attorneys or agents for procuring such pensions, and fixing a penalty for the violation of the same," and Chapter

202, Acts of 1905, entitled "An Act to provide relief for the dependent and indigent widows of soldiers who served in the Civil War between the States by granting them a pension, and providing for an appropriation for the payment of the same."

CHAPTER 51.

A BILL to be entitled An Act to authorize the Funding Board of the State of Tennessee to borrow money, and execute the State's interest-bearing obligations therefor or to issue and sell temporary stocks, bonds, notes and interest-bearing obligations of the State for the purpose of raising money to meet the maturing obligations of the State.

CHAPTER 52.

AN ACT to provide for and regulate the paroling of prisoners now under confinement in the penitentiary.

CHAPTER 53.

AN ACT to amend Chapter 32 of the Acts of 1897, so as to fix the minimum amount of the capital stock of corporations hereafter incorporated in this State at one thousand dollars.

CHAPTER 54.

A BILL to be entitled An Act to regulate and provide for the deposit of the State's money or the public funds in public depositories, to provide for the collection of interest thereon, and to require the State Treasurer to deposit said funds in said depositories.

CHAPTER 55.

AN ACT entitled "An Act to prescribe the method of bringing suit and to limit the time of bringing suit against municipal corporations on account of injuries to persons or property resulting from the negligence of the officers or employes of said municipal corporations.'

CHAPTER 56.

AN ACT to appropriate money out of the State Treasury for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the Fifty-eighth General Assembly and miscellaneous and other expenses.

CHAPTER 57.

A BILL to be entitled An Act to amend Section 3 of Chapter 540, House Bill 693, Acts of 1907, passed April 15, 1907, and approved April 15, 1907, increasing the salaries of Chief Mine Inspectors and the District Mine Inspectors.

Mr. Biggs:-Members of the Tennessee Bar Association, it affords me now very great pleasure to present to you as the speaker of the morning a Southern gentleman, the son of a distinguished and gallant Confederate soldier, who has made for some years his home in one of the metropolitan cities of the North, but the severity of the climate of that city in winter has not been able to change or in any wise to darken the genial sunshine of this most affable gentleman, nor has it in any way affected the milk of human kindness which dwells so largely in his heart. He has been for a long time one of my closest friends, and it affords me, gentlemen of the Bar Association, ladies and guests, the very greatest pleasure to be able to present to you the Hon. Blewett Lee of Chicago, who will speak to you on the Sovereignty of the Air.

SOVEREIGNTY OF THE AIR.

BY BLEWETT LEE, OF CHICAGO, ILL.

When Grotius was a young lawyer he served for a time as counsel for the Dutch East India Company. Out of his early labors as a corporation lawyer there grew later two wonderful books-one the De Jure Belli et Pacis, the greatest gift that any lawyer ever gave to the world, and the other, published in 1608, the Mare Liberum. In 1868 came to light the brief which he had written in a celebrated case in which the Company had captured a rich Portuguese galleon in the Straits of Malacca. It was found that one chapter of the Mare Liberum had been taken bodily from this brief. At the time the book was written, Portugal claimed dominion of the eastern and England of the northern seas. John Selden of the Inner Temple, most famous