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The report of Hon. Horace Bagley, Chairman of the Committee on Revision of Probate Code is that the Committee has decided upon the following course of action:

"To have introduced a bill amending the present Probate Code in the following respects:


 * To provide a uniform form of citation and methods of service thereof and abolishing the order hearing petition;
 * To provide for filing all claims with the County Judge and fixing a day of hearing thereon, on which day said claims shall be adjudicated;
 * To simplify and make uniform the procedure on petition to sell and to mortgage real estate.

"In addition to the above bill, it was decided to introduce a bill to define the liability of executors and administrators for money on deposit in banks in case of failure thereof."

"The Legislative Committee of the North Dakota Bar Association will meet at Bismarck, North Dakota on Monday, February, 2nd, 1925, at 9:00 A. M. at Supreme Court Library, Memorial Building. All members of the Committee are requested to be present as important matters will be considered. The meeting is called for a two-fold purpose: first, to make plans for introducing bills, carrying out the recommendations of the State Bar Association at the Jamestown meeting; and secondly, to co-operate with any other Committees of the Association which are interested in legislation. It will be recalled that the Legislative Committee was charged with certain duties pertaining to recommendations of the State Association, while considerable legislation was left with the committees which had proposed it. The meeting is fixed at a time when it is hoped most of the routine legislation will be out of the way. There is no legislation in which the Committee is interested that is of a partisan nature, and the Committee will not assist in the passage of or defeat of partisan legislation. Changes must be made in the present laws and new laws must be adopted in order to keep pace with the advancing lines of civilization.

"The Chairman sent to each member of the Committee the recommendations made at the State meeting in Jamestown sometime ago, but only a few of the members have replied. It is to be hoped that all members of the Legislative Committee will take the trouble to reply to the communication within the next few days."

J. F. T. O'Connor.

Chairman.