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 The law of weights and measures was revised and numerous additions made to the schedule. Among these is pop-corn, which is fixed at seventy pounds to the bushel; the weight of the non-explosive varieties remain at fifty-six.

IOWA.

My honored brother from the General Council for Iowa writes: ", 6, 15, 1885. "I am happy to say that fortunately our Assembly has not met since the winter of 1883—4, and hence there is nothing to report."

KENTUCKY.

The legislature of this old Commonwealth, tired out by a long and exhaustive session of many months in 1884, and perhaps not entirely persuaded of the wisdom, or general utility of much of their, then legislation, has held no session since.

KANSAS.

By a recent enactment of the legislature of Kansas, seduction of a female under twenty-one years of age, and of good reputation, under the promise of marriage, is made a felony, punishable, upon conviction, by confinement at hard labor in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding five years: Provided, that the testimony of the woman alone shall not be sufficient evidence of a promise to marry.

An not creating a board of pardons, defining their duties, and fixing their compensation, provides that the Governor of Kansas shall, by and with the advice of the Senate, appoint three persons to constitute said board, one of whom shall be a lawyer. The board is required to meet four times a year, at the state Capitol, to consider the advisability of pardoning or commuting the sentence of any convict confined in the