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 The Legal World eign corporation to refrain from resorting to the federal Court in controversies brought by or against it or else to cease to do business within that state." The Attorney-General also said that the imposition of higher license fees on foreign than on domestic corporations had been declared void. He pointed out that in view of the cases of the state of Ar kansas against the Hammond Packing Co. and others, it might be safely asserted that the only limitations on the powers of the states to exclude foreign corporations entirely from doing business within their territory, or to prescribe such conditions as they might deem proper to the carrying on by them of such business, were "that the regulations so prescribed should not deprive the foreign corporations of property without due process of law or deny to them the equal protection of the laws; and second, that such regulation shall not amount to an interference with interstate commerce or with other business of a federal nature." Necrology— The Bench William T. McNealy, first Superior Court judge of San Diego county, Cal., died at San Diego June 9, at the age of sixty-one years. He had served thirteen years on the bench.

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and most respected residents of San Jose, Cal., died there June 9. He was formerly a member of the legislature. In 1844 he was admitted to the bar, but becoming interested in gold mining he went to Idaho, where he made a large fortune in a gold quartz mine. In 1872 he went to San Jos6, where he built a magnificent residence, and donated large sums to numerous charitable and humane projects. His greatest work was the building and equipment of a large non-sectarian hos pital and sanitarium, to which he has left a large endowment.

Necrology— The Bar William R. Lee, former District Attorney of Dutchess County, died suddenly in Pawling, N. Y., June 7. He was sixty-three years of age. Ford D. Smith, Town Attorney of Dover, N. J., died suddenly on June 18. He had served in the New Jersey Assembly in 1891. Charles H. Minshall, a prominent attorney of Viroqua, Wis., well known as an advocate of prohibition, died June 9, at the age of fortyone years. Death was due to accidental shooting.

A portrait of the late Judge Thomas A. Moran, who died in 1904, was unveiled in the court room and formally presented to the county board by several Chicago lawyers June 12, Levy Mayer making the presentation speech.

Major S. Clifford Belcher, one of the oldest and best known lawyers in Maine, died recently in Farmington, aged seventy years. His mil itary title was won in the Civil War.

Samuel Ashton, a retired lawyer, at one time a Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois, died in New York June 2. He was eightyfive years old. He was born in Loudoun County, Va., but later removed to Illinois.

Arthur Hurst, a well-known lawyer of Brooklyn, N. Y., died there June 12. He was a classmate of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt at Harvard, and was admitted to the bar in 1883.

Judge Nathaniel W. Voorhees died June 14 at Clinton, N. J., at the age of eighty years. He held several legal and political offices during his lifetime, and was the father of former Governor Foster M. Voorhees of New Jersey.

Gilbert M. McMaster, a prominent attor ney of Pittsburgh, Pa., died June 7. In 1876 he retired from the practice of law to take up the cause of temperance, and was closely associated with Francis Murphy in this work.

Judge Emmett Field of the First Division Circuit Court, in Louisville, Ky., was stricken June 21 and died in a few minutes. He was sixty-eight years old. He served in the Con federate Army with a company of boys that was organized at Fulton College, Missouri. Judge Stewart S. Denning, one of the most noted criminal lawyers of Idaho, died June 4. Judge Denning went to Idaho seventeen years ago from Canyon City, Ore. He is said to have appealed more criminal cases than any lawyer in this state. He was a native of Scotland and leaves a widow and three chil dren here, a brother in Australia, and one in Arizona. Judge Myles P. O'Connor, one of the oldest

President Augusto Mordira Penna of Brazil, who died June 14, took up the study of law in early life, graduating in 1870. While serving as governor of the state of Minas, Brazil, he founded the first law school in that state. Isaac Moss, a New York lawyer, com mitted suicide by jumping overboard from an ocean liner on May 30. He had been suffering from mental strain due to overwork and was on his way abroad for a rest. Benjamin L. M. Tower, a prominent mem ber of the Suffolk county bar, and a member of the law firm of Tower, Talbot & Hiller, died suddenly at his home in Boston June 14. He was born in Cohasset in 1848.