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 respects be deemed, if it shall remain in the state for sixty days after the passage of this act, to be a domestic corporation and subject to all laws of the state.

The Supreme Court of the United States have expressly declared a similar state enactment to be unconstitutional. State legislatures have clearly no power to deprive non-resident citizens or corporations of their constitutional right to repair to the Supreme Court of the United States for an adjudication of their rights, as a sine qua non for carrying on a branch of their business in the different states. This act would indicate that the last legislature in that state does not look upon the Federal courts or their jurisdiction with any especial favor.

Another act provides for the establishment and maintenance of a state public school, to be administered by a board of public control to be appointed by the Governor. Its object is the provision of a temporary home for children who are dependent, abandoned, in a state of want, or suffering, or improperly exposed, or who are in an almshouse, over three and under fourteen years of age, of sound mind, and until homes can be procured for them in good families.

Another act requires the education of all healthy children between the ages of eight and fifteen for a period of at least twelve weeks in each year.

Another act which establishes a Board of Inspectors of Steam Vessels and Steam Boilers, provides also for the licensing of steam engineers.

MISSISSIPPI.

I am informed by the Secretary of State of Mississippi, that the legislature of that state has held no session during the past year.

MISSOURI.

A recent amendment of the statute relating to assignments in Missouri, provides that every voluntary assignment of lands, tenements, goods, chattels, and credits, made by a debtor in trust for his creditors, shall be for the benefit of all