the ordinary course of his trade, or a sale of an entire stock of merchandise in bulk unless the purchaser shall, at least five days befo: the consummation of the sale, in good faith, make inquiry of the seller as to the names and places of residence or business of all the creditors of the seller, and unless the purchaser, at least five days before the consummation of the sale, shall notify or use reasonable diligence to cause to be notified personally each of the seller's creditors. If the purchaser fail to give such notice, he shall hold the merchandise so purchased for the use and benefit of all the creditors of the seller and shall be responsible to them for the fair value of such part thereof as he, the purchaser, may have transferred or conveyed to others. Similar acts were passed in Georgia, and also by Congress applicable to the District of Columbia.

Similar acts have been recently held to be unconstitutional by Judge Wing, of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, by the Supreme Court of Ohio, and by the Supreme Court of Utah. In Massachusetts and Tennessee similar acts have been held to be constitutional.

The stealing of chickens, turkeys, ducks or other fowls of the value of two dollars or more is made punishable by confinement in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years.

The intent of this act is to deprive some of the population of the state of valuable perquisites which they have enjoyed for many years.

Bribing, or the attempt to bribe, any member of either house of the General Assembly, or any judicial, executive or ministerial officer of the commonwealth of Kentucky, or any county or city executive, ministerial, judicial or legislative officer, after such member or officer shall have been elected and before or after such member or officer shall have been qualified or assumed office, or taken his seat, with intent to influence his vote or decision on any question, matter, cause or proceeding which may be at any time pending in either house of the General Assembly or before such judicial, execu

tive or legislative officer or which may be pending before any committee of either house of the General Assembly, is made a felony, punishable with confinement in the state penitentiary for a period of not less than one nor more than five years. The taking or agreeing to take a bribe by any member of the General Assembly or other executive, judicial, ministerial or legislative officer of the commonwealth of Kentucky or of any county or city to do or omit to do any act in his official capacity works a forfeiture of office, disqualifies from the right of suffrage for ten years and is made punishable by confinement in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years.

Vagrants are defined and vagrancy is made punishable by fine and imprisonment in a workhouse.

It is made unlawful for any county clerk or deputy county clerk to admit to record any deed of conveyance of any interest in real estate equal to or greater than a life estate, unless said deed shall plainly specify and refer to the next immediate source from which the grantor or grantors therein derived title to the said real estate or the interest conveyed therein.

If the source of title be a deed or other recorded writing, then the deed offered for record shall refer to such former deed or writing and give the office, book and page where recorded and the date thereof, if dated.

If the property or interest therein be obtained by inheritance or in any other way than by recorded instrument of writing, then the deed offered for record shall state clearly and accurately how and from whom the title thereto was obtained. by the grantor or grantors.

If the title to such property or interest be obtained from two or more sources, then the deed offered for record is required to specify plainly and refer to each of said sources, and to show what part of said property or interest therein was obtained from each of said sources.

A failure to incorporate in a deed a reference to the source of title does not invalidate a deed lodged for record contrary to the provisions of the act, but any grantor who shall lodge. for record, and any county court clerk or deputy county court clerk who shall receive from him to be lodged for record any deed contrary to the provisions of the act is made subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense.

Telephone companies, or partnerships or individuals engaged in the construction and maintenance of telephones, are permitted to institute condemnation proceedings to obtain a right of way for their telephone lines.

White and colored persons are prohibited from attending the same school or college, and it is made unlawful for any person, corporation or association of persons to maintain or operate any college, school or institution where persons of the white and negro races are both received as pupils.

A white person attending a negro school, or a negro attending a school for white persons, is made subject to a fine of fifty dollars for each day he attends such institution or school.

Any person or corporation who shall operate or maintain a mixed college, school or institution is made subject to a fine of $1000, and any person or corporation convicted of violating the provisions of the act is subject to a fine of $100 for each day he or they may operate such school, college or institution after such conviction.

The same penalties are imposed upon an instructor teaching any school, college or institution where members of the two races are received as pupils for instruction.

Children between seven and fourteen years of age in first, second, third and fourth class towns and cities are required to attend school, unless physically or mentally unfit, or unless they have acquired the common school branches required by law.

Truant officers are provided for to enforce the provisions of the act. Upon complaint made by a truant officer before a

justice of the peace of the county in which the child lives, the parent, guardian or other person in charge of the child may be fined if he does not cause his child to attend school in a sum not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars for the first offense, nor less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for the second and every subsequent offense, and costs of suit. This is a long step in the direction of compulsory education.

County surveyors are required to keep a record of plats and explanatory notes of all surveys made by them or their deputies.

No survey or resurvey of real estate made by any person, excepting the county surveyor or his deputy, shall be considered as legal testimony in any court of this state, unless such surveys are made by mutual consent, reduced to writing and signed by the parties and recorded in the county surveyor's office, or made by order of the court.

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No person is permitted to operate a motor vehicle on public highway at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper at the different places, having regard to the traffic and use of the highway and its condition, or so as to endanger the life or limb of any person, or in any event at a greater rate than fifteen miles an hour.

Upon approaching a crossing or intersecting public highways, or a bridge, or a sharp curve, or a steep descent, and also traversing such crossing, bridge, curve or descent, the person operating a motor vehicle shall have it under control, and operate it at a rate of speed no greater than six miles an hour, and in no event greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic then on such highway and the safety of the public.

Motor vehicles are required to give warnings of their approach, by proper device, and to reduce their speed to prevent the frightening of horses or other animals. Upon a signal from a person riding or driving a restive horse or horses, motor vehicles are required to come to a stop, and to remain station

ary as long as may be reasonable, to allow such horses or animals to pass, and to prevent accidents and insure the safety of persons, vehicles and animals.

An amendment to the Kentucky constitution has been submitted, changing the present constitution by abolishing the secret ballot and providing that all elections by the people shall be viva voce and made matter of public record by the officers of election according to the direction of the voter.

MISSISSIPPI.

Among the important acts passed in Mississippi were the following:

An act requiring life insurance companies to deliver with the policy a copy of the application, and provides that in default of so doing the insurance company shall not be permitted in any court to deny the truth of the statements in the application; and the act further provides that a misstatement touching the age of the insured in the application shall not invalidate the policy, but that the beneficiary may recover such an amount of insurance as the premiums paid would have purchased for the insured at his actual age, reckoning according to the rate tables of the company.

An act creating a school text book commission and providing for use in public schools of a uniform system or series of text books.

An act amending Lord Campbell's act so that illegitimate children can sue for the wrongful death of their mother and the mother of a bastard may sue for the wrongful death of her illegitimate child.

The first Monday in September, Labor Day, is made a public holiday.

An act was passed making a warehouse receipt in the hands of a bona fide holder for value conclusive evidence that the goods were received as stated in the receipt.

Also a "Jim Crow" law applicable to street railways.