prisoner and his counsel. No other persons can be present without the express permission of the judge except the officers taking the depositions.

Town councils and boards of supervisors are authorized to prohibit either absolutely or conditionally any railway company from transporting any excursion or picnic party to any point in the county or to any town which has not adequate police protection.

It is made a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine in jail, for a husband without just cause to desert or fail to provide for wife or minor children in necessitous circumstances.

All persons, firms and corporations employing large bodies of laborers are required to have them inspected at such times as the board of health of the county or corporation in which they are employed may require and to have them vaccinated when the examining officer requires it. The examination and vaccination to be at the expense of the employer.

Placing any sample of medicine on any premises without the permission of the occupant is made a misdemeanor.

Knowingly to use the name or picture of a person for advertising purposes or for the purpose of trade without his consent. is made a misdemeanor, and such person is given the right to enjoin such use of his name or picture and to recover damages therefor.

All corporations operating sleeping, dining, palace, compartment and chair cars and their agents, conductors or employees are given the right to refuse to permit any person to enter or ride in such car whenever in their discretion it is advisable to do so.

A method is provided, by notice and motion before a justice or a court, for enforcing liens and reservations of title upon personal property, securing the price thereof.

A tax of $200 is imposed upon gipsies and like strolling companies.

Another act provides for the establishment, proper construction and permanent improvement and repair of the public roads

and landings, bridges, causeways and wharves in the several counties of the state.

TERRITORY OF ALASKA.

The territory of Alaska has a governor and federal judges appointed by the President, but no legislature. During the year Congress passed acts amending and modifying the laws relating to municipal corporations in the territory, providing for the creation of municipal corporations by communities of 300 or more permanent inhabitants, fixing the qualifications of voters at municipal elections and providing for the appointment of road overseers and the establishment of road districts.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

The government of the District of Columbia is vested by Congress in three commissioners, two of whom are appointed by the President from citizens of the District and confirmed by the Senate and the other from the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army. Congress makes all laws for the District, the commissioners having authority only to make police, building, plumbing and other regulations of a municipal nature. During the year Congress has passed laws applicable to the District of Columbia:

A law was enacted similar to the laws passed in Georgia and Kentucky making void the sale of stocks of goods or merchandise in bulk unless previous notice is given to all of the creditors of the seller.

No combustible or non-fireproof building to be used as a residence, apartment house, hotel, hospital or dormitory in the District can now be erected having more than five stories or raised to a height exceeding sixty feet.

The selling or removing from the District of personal property held on a written and conditional bill of sale is made punishable by a fine of not more than $100 or imprisonment for not more than ninety days.

Owners or managers of massage establishments in the District of Columbia shall pay a license of $25 per annum. It is made unlawful for any female to give or administer massage treatment or any bath to any person of the male sex or any person of the male sex to give massage treatment or any bath to any person of the female sex, subject to a fine upon conviction of not less than $40 nor more than $100 or imprisonment for not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days.

Quaker marriages are legalized in the District.

Another act provides for the summary arrest without warrant by any member of the metropolitan police or any other officer of the District authorized to make arrests of any insane person or persons of unsound mind found in any street, avenue, alley or other public highway or found in any public building or other public place within the District and makes it the duty of the officer making the arrest to file with the major or superintendent of the police force an affidavit to the effect that the party arrested is of unsound mind, incapable of taking care of himself, and if permitted to remain at large or to go unrestrained the rights of persons or of property will be jeopardized or the preservation of the public peace imperiled and the commission of crime rendered probable, and it further provides for the sending of notice to the husband, wife, or some near relative or friend whose address may be known or which upon reasonable inquiry may be ascertained. The purpose of this act is evidently to protect the Chief Executive and other public officers against cranks.

OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORIES.

Oklahoma is a regularly organized territory after the American plan under an organic act of Congress similar in nearly every respect to the organic acts of the other territories from which states have been created. Her territorial legislature has not been in session during the year. Over this territory Congress has supreme legislative jurisdiction, if it deems proper to exercise it, and during the year has enacted laws

authorizing the sale of certain railroads of Oklahoma companies to railroad companies of other states owning connecting lines; made the usual appropriations for the expenses and salaries of the territorial officials; prohibited the territorial legislative assembly from considering any proposition or passing any bill to remove the seat of government from its present location at Guthrie and from making any appropriation or entering into any contract for a capitol building or any other building; and opened to public entry certain lands ceded to the government by the Indians-the Cheyennes and Arapahoes.

The Indian Territory has no organized territorial government and is practically governed by the United States courts and marshals and the Interior Department of the United States and as between the Indians themselves by Indian tribal officials. During the year there has been much congressional legislation affecting this territory.

Congress passed an act appropriating $100,000 for enlarging the tribal Indian schools and providing for the attendance therein of the children of others than Indians. This is the first aid Congress has given to the education of the non-Indian children in the Indian Territory.

Congress also appropriated $25,000 for the care and support of insane persons (Indian citizens and non-Indian citizens) in the territory, and this is the first provision made affording the federal officers of the territory means to care for the insane.

Four additional United States judges were authorized, one for each of the present districts, making two judges in each district, but the judges last appointed are not made members of the territorial Court of Appeals.

Defendants in criminal cases have been permitted to give bail pending appeal. Heretofore they have been compelled to lie in jail, a condition simply disgraceful to our jurisprudence.

Acts were passed by Congress regulating the practice of medicine and surgery and establishing a board of pharmacy and the qualification of pharmacists in the territory.

Provisions have also been made for the closing of the work of establishing town sites and allotting lands in the territory.

The Secretary of the Interior has been authorized to sell at public sale in not exceeding 160-acre tracts the overplus of Creek lands after allotment.

Perhaps the most important act in its effect upon titles to lands and the development of the territory is that providing for the removal of all restrictions upon the sale of lands (not homesteads) of allottees of age and not of Indian blood and further providing for the removal of the restrictions except as to homesteads on all Indian allottees of age by the Indian agent of the United States upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. Since the passage of this act a great many of the allottees in the territory have taken advantage of it and have sold portions of their allotments.

An act was also passed authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to grant rights of way for pipe lines through the Indian Territory, the necessity for this measure arising from the discovery there of large fields of oil and gas.

Oklahoma and the Indian Territory are the only portions of the Louisiana purchase which have not been admitted to statehood. In the treaty of Paris of April 30, 1803, concluded by Napoleon and Jefferson, whereby the colony or province of Louisiana was ceded by the French republic to the United States, it was expressly covenanted by our republic: "The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the union of the states and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the federal Constitution, to all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the religion which they profess." The time for the fulfillment of that promise is at hand. During the year the lower house of Congress passed a bill, which is now pending in the Senate, providing for the admission of Oklahoma and Indian Territory into the union as one state bearing the name of Oklahoma.