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 An act for the preservation of the health of females employed in manufacturing, mechanical, and mercantile establishments, provides, that every person, corporation, or company, employing females in their establishments in Ohio, shall provide suitable seats for the use of the females so employed, and shall permit the use of such seats by them when they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed.

PENNSYLVANIA.

The last session of the Pennsylvania legislature was extended to so late a period as to deny me the privilege of obtaining a copy of their last session's acts. I am indebted to my honored friend upon the General Council from Pennsylvania for several recent enactments of that state, which he has kindly sent me.

One, regulating the admission of attorneys and counsellors [sic] at law to practice in the several courts in that Commonwealth, provides, that any attorney who shall have been duly admitted to practice law in any Court of Common Pleas and in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, shall be permitted to practice in any other court in Pennsylvania upon motion simply, and filing, together with his certificate of admission to the Supreme Court, a certificate of the presiding judge of the county from whence he came, setting forth that he is of reputable professional standing and of unobjectionable character.

Another provides that all deeds and conveyances of lands within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania heretofore made and executed, and duly recorded in the county where the lands therein conveyed lie under the authority of any last will and testament, by the executor or executors thereof, or trustee or trustees named in the said will, the said will having been duly proved and letters testamentary granted as prescribed by the laws of the state of which the testator was a citizen at the time of his death, shall, upon the recording of a copy of said last will, duly certified under the acts of Congress in the