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 or other corporation, telegraph company, etc., operating in said state; of process upon any business agent of such corporation or company in the county in which the action may arise, shall be sufficient service for any court having jurisdiction to entertain the same.

GEORGIA.

The legislature of Georgia met in December, 1884, and held its regular constitutional session of forty days, and then by the requisite vote adjourned to July, 1885. I have not been favored with a copy of its last session's acts, but I am informed by my brother on the General Council from Georgia, that they contained no noteworthy changes in the statute law on points of general interest, and nothing worthy of reference to the American Bar Association. It might, however, be just to cite the commendable spirit and strong desire which Georgia has evinced in her late legislation to repress and extirpate many of the popular and growing vices of the day by taxation. The license tax for selling vinous [sic] and spirituous liquors is largely increased. The tax upon all dealers in pistols, toy-pistols, revolvers, dirks, and bowie knives, is increased one hundred dollars for each and every place of business in each and every county where the same are sold. Each individual, firm, their agents, or employes [sic] engaged in the business of selling or buying farm products for future delivery, familiarly known as "futures," are required to pay a tax of five hundred dollars each per annum to the tax collector of every county where such business is carried on.

ILLINOIS.

The legislature of Illinois met in regular session and passed several enactments of importance. The provision in the criminal code defining the crime of burglary, and fixing its punishment in the penitentiary from one to twenty years, was amended in one or two important points. The amendment provides that if the entry is made in the dwelling-house