be so delivered if within forty-eight hours after death, it is desired for interment by relatives, or by friends, who will bear the expenses of its interment; nor shall a corpse be so delivered or received of any person known to have relatives, whose places of residence are also known, without the assent of such relatives; and such relatives shall have deemed to have assented thereto, unless they shall claim such corpse for the interment within twenty-four hours after being notified of the death of such person. If the remains of any person so delivered or received shall be subsequently claimed for interment by any relative or by any friend who will bear the expense of such interment, they shall be given up to such relative or friend for interment. Any person claiming any corpse or remains for interment, as provided in this section, may be required by the persons, college, school, university or officer or agent thereof, in whose possession, charge or custody the same may be, to present an affidavit stating that he is such relative or friend, and the facts and circumstances upon which the claim that he is such relative or friend is based, and, if a friend, that he will bear the expense of such interment, the expense of which affidavit shall be paid by the person requiring it. If such person shall refuse to make such affidavit, such corpse or remains shall not be delivered to him, but he shall forfeit his claim and right to the same. Any such college, school or university in either of said counties desiring to avail itself of the provisions of this section shall notify said governors, keepers, wardens, managers, undertakers and other persons herein before specified in the county where said college, school or university is situated, or in any of said adjoining counties, in which no such college, school or university is situated of such desire, and thereafter it shall be obligatory upon such gov ernors, keepers, wardens, managers, undertakers and other persons hereinbefore specified, to immediately notify the proper officer or officers of said college, school or university, whenever there is any corpse in their possession, charge, custody or control, which may be delivered to a medical college, school or university under this section, and to deliver the same to such college, school or university. It shall be the duty of such governors, keepers,

wardens, managers and persons having lawful control and management of the institutions herein before mentioned, after being duly notified by any college, school or university of its desire to avail itself of the provisions of this section, to keep, if requested so to do by such college, school or university, and if provided by such medical college, school or university with a suitable book for that purpose, a true and correct record of any and all corpses thereafter coming into their possession, charge, custody, or control, and of the disposition made of the same, giving the name of such corpses, if known; the dates of death and burial, if known; the names and places of residence, if known, of the relative of such corpses; the names of the persons by whom such corpses are claimed for interment and the names of the colleges, schools, universities, or persons, to whom the same are delivered, and the dates of such deliveries; which said books shall be open to the inspection of the officers and agents of such college, school or university furnishing the same and to the officers and agents of any other medical college, school or university entitled to receive corpses from the same county. If two or more colleges, schools or universities located in any one of said counties are entitled to receive corpses from the same or from said adjoining counties, they shall receive the same in proportion to the number of matricu lated students in each college. The professors and teachers in every college, school or university receiving any corpse under this section, shall dispose of the remains thereof, after they have served the purposes of medical, anatomical, or surgical science and study, in accordance with the regulations of the local board of health where the college, school or university is situated. Any person neglecting to comply with or violating any provision of this section, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every such noncompliance or violation thereof, and it shall be the duty of the health officer, or person performing his duties, in the places where said medical colleges, schools or universities are situated, whenever he shall have knowledge or information of any non-compliance with, or violation of, any provision, or provisions, of this section, to sue for

and recover, in his name of office, the aforesaid penalty, and to pay over the amount so recovered, less the cost and expenses of the action, to the health board of said locality, for its use and benefit. (Added by chapter 302 of the Laws of 1896, and amended by chapter 667 of the Laws of 1900.)

ANTI-BUTTERINE LAW.

AN ACT to prevent the use of butterine, oleomargarine or adul terated or imitation dairy products in certain institutions within this state.

Chapter 364, Laws of 1893.

Section 1. Expenditures for products, etc., forbidden.-No money appropriated by law for maintenance and support in whole or in part of a state institution; nor money received by a charitable, benevolent, penal or reformatory institution from the state, or from a county, city or town thereof, or appropriated by such county, city or town for the maintenance or support in whole or in part of such institution; nor money belonging to or used for the maintenance or support of such institution, shall be expended for the purchase of, or in payment for, butterine, oleomargarine, lard cheese, or articles or products in imitation or semblance of natural butter or cheese produced from pure unadulterated milk or cream from the same, which articles or products have been rendered or manufactured in whole or in part from animal fats, or animal or vegetable oils not produced from unadulterated milk or cream from the same.

§ 2. Purchase, sale and use of products, etc., prohibited.-No officer, manager, superintendent or agent of an institution mentioned in the first section of this act, shall purchase for the use of such institution articles or products for the purchase of which the money appropriated by law, or by a county, city or town, is forbidden to be used by this act, and no person shall sell to, or for the use of such institution, such articles or products. Nor shall such articles or products be used as articles of food or for cooking purposes in such institutions within this state.

THE DOMESTIC RELATIONS LAW.

Chapter 272, Laws of 1896.

ARTICLE VI.

THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN.

Section 60. Definitions; effect of article.

61. Whose consent necessary.

62. Requisites of voluntary adoption.

63. Order.

64. Effect of adoption.

65. Adoption from charitable institutions.

66. Abrogation of voluntary adoption.

67. Application in behalf of the child for abrogation of an adoption from a charitable institution.

68. Application by a foster parent for the abrogation of such an adoption.

Section 60. Definitions; effect of article.-Adoption is the legal act whereby an adult takes a minor into the relation of child and thereby acquires the rights and incurs the responsi bilities of parent in respect to such minor. Hereafter, in this article, the person adopting is designated the "foster parent.” A voluntary adoption is any other than that of an indigent child, or one who is a public charge from an orphan asylum or charitable institution. An adult unmarried person, or an adult husband or wife, or an adult husband and his adult wife together, may adopt a minor in pursuance of this article, and a child shall not hereafter be adopted except in pursuance thereof. Proof of the lawful adoption of a minor heretofore made may be received in evidence, and any such adoption shall not be abrogated by the enactment of this chapter and shall have the effect of an adoption hereunder. Nothing in this article in regard to an adopted child inheriting from the foster parent, applies to any will, devise or trust made or created before June twentyfifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, or alters, changes or - interferes with such will, devise or trust, and as to any such will, devise or trust, a child adopted before that date is not an

heir so as to alter estates or trusts, or devises in wills so made or created.

§ 61. Whose consent necessary.-Consent to adoption is necessary as follows:

1. Of the minor, if over twelve years of age;

2. Of the foster parents, husband or wife, unless lawfully separated, or unless they jointly adopt such minor;

3. Of the parents or surviving parent of a legitimate child, and of the mother of an illegitimate child; but the consent of a parent who has abandoned the child, or is deprived of civil rights, or divorced because of his or her adultery or cruelty, or adjudged to be insane, or to be an habitual drunkard, or judicially deprived of the custody of the child on account of cruelty or neglect, is unnecessary.

4. Of a person of full age having lawful custody of the child, if any such person can be found, where the child has no father or mother living, or no father or mother whose consent is necessary under the last subdivision. If such child has no father or mother living, and no person can be found who has the lawful custody of the child, the judge or surrogate shall recite such facts in the order allowing the adoption.

§ 62. Requisites of voluntary adoption.-In adoption the fol lowing requirements must be followed:

1. The foster parents or parent, the minor and all the persous whose consent is necessary under the last section, must appear before the county judge or the surrogate of the county where the foster parent or parents reside, and be examined by such judge or surrogate, except as provided by the next subdivision.

2. They must present to such judge or surrogate an instrument containing substantially the consents required by this chapter, an agreement on the part of the foster parent or parents to adopt and treat the minor as his, her, or their own lawful child, and a statement of the age of the child as nearly as the same can be ascertained, which statement shall be taken prima. facie as true. The instrument must be signed by the foster parent or parents and by each person whose consent is neces