the Southwest, especially that of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Within four months, these two former territories will have a Constitutional Convention in session. This body must draft a constitution for the new state of Oklahoma, and no subject will come before it of more importance than that which will involve the organic law relative to corporations. This body in framing a constitution will need all available light; and this work of Mr. Overlands, presents, in clear and unmistakable order, what constitutional provisions have been enacted by all the previous existing 45 states together with the statutes passed pursuant to each state constitution; making this book a most desirable guide in the intelligent duties of each and every member of the constitutional assembly. The corporation laws of each state are treated in fifteen divisions: First, Constitution and Statutes. Second, Taxes and Fees. Third, Incorporation. Fourth, Organization. Fifth, Corporate Existence. Sixth, Corporate Powers, Seventh, Capital Stock. Eighth, Stockholders. Nineth, Directors. Tenth, Officers. Eleventh, Principal Office. Twelveth, Corporate Books. Thirteenth, Reports. Fourteenth, Foreign Corporations. Fifteenth, Combinations and Monopolies, Under this classification the law and the rules and regulations are given and discussed. To the practicing lawyer this book is also indispensable as he is often consulted by people from every state who desire to know the rules that govern legal rights in the state from which they immigrated to this new field of operation. Besides the laws of the states, it gives also the law federal and local relative to corporations in the nine territories or jurisdictions under the United States. For quick and reliable reference the work has no superior, and it should find a welcome from every lawyer and all persons interested in corporate management.

FEDERAL STATUTES, ANNOTATED. VOL. 10. Compiled by Wm M. McKinney and Peter Kemper. Published by Edward Thompson Company,

Northport, L. I.,

New York.

This volume completes the series of this magnificent library of federal law, designated as The Federal Statutes Annotated. The first part of the book is an appendix containing a vast amount of statutory enactraent passed since this comprehensive compilation was begun to the present year. The second part is an accurate table of the statutes, and part third the general index to the whole work. To the well informed lawyer it is scarcely necessary to state that in this part first is to be found the law relating to the far reaching questions that have sprung with the force of circumstances attendant upon our national existence both as to domestic and foreign affairs, such as the possessions and their government, the Panama Canal and many new relations abroad; and within, the acts relative to trusts and combines as well as to amendment of the Interstate laws and regulations, Bankruptcy laws, Public Land laws and a vast number of other important subjects.

The general index division in this volume covers 585 pages. Looking back from this volume to the first and reflecting upon the intrinsic merits of the whole as an up-to-date exposition of our Federal Law, one is both appalled and delighted at the magnitude of the undertaking. This publication should make a distinct period in American history. While the accumulation of our national laws had continued only a little over one hundred years, by reason of the rapid pace of events, our Federal Laws were little less tangled, lapped over and commingled with obsolete and confusing matters than were those of England before the systematization

of Blackstone, or the Analysis by Sir Mathew Hale. We had 33 volumes of Statutes at Large, several volumes of revision and a number of supplements but poorly annotated as well as scattered and unsystematic-in fact as uninviting a field to pursue a line of rapid investigation as the English when Lord Reeve directed the course to the legal student: "Read Wood's Institutes, then Jacob's Law Dictionary to throw light on Wood, then Coke, followed by Hawkins to throw light on Coke." While we are commending this work to the profession of the Southwest, we desire to mention the fact that on the eve of the Constitutional Convention for the new state of Oklahoma, every aspirant to participation in this great gathering should have access to this store-house of constitutional law.

The Federal Statutes, Annotated is rapidly becoming one of the most prominent set of books in every library and the most luminous books opened in the courts where the English language is spoken. It is now the pride of every real lawyer to own them. Every volume years, and the

is a beacon light upon the current of whole work will ever remain a light house upon the ocean of time.

EDITORIALS.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has adjourned until the 3d day of September, 1906.

Hon. B. S. Rodey, Ex-Delegate to Congress from New Mexico, has been appointed by the President UnitStates District Judge of the Territory of Porto Rico.

Mr. Frank Burford, son of Chief Justice John H. Burford, has returned from the University of Virginia where he has been pursuing a Post-Graduate course of study, after finishing his regular course in the Kansas University.

Hon. Chas. P. Lincoln, of El Reno, one of the best known lawyers of western Oklahoma has been seriously ill for several weeks. At the present writing he is reported to be improving and his many friends anxiously hope for his complete recovery. Mr. Lincoln is the ExMayor of El Reno, and has always taken an active part in the political affairs of Oklahoma. He is a gentleman of culture and character and is universally esteemed by all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance.

Hon. John H. Burford, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma and ex-officio head of the Oklahoma Election Board pursuant to "The Enabling Act" is doing all in his power to expedite the districting of the Territory, any occasional insinuation to the contrary notwithstanding. The Judge is endowed with too much integrity to be derelict of duty, and while a Republican office holder has nothing to lose or fear from the new order of affairs in the new State. One of the main causes of delay has been the reluctance of officials who have for years exaggerated the population of some cities to place in his hands a true statement of the actual population of their city. However, it has been already fairly estimated that each Constitutional Delegate will represent about 12,000 people.

Mr. A. G. Sutton, a native of old Indiana, but a graduate of Drake University Iowa, and of the Iowa Law School, has located in Alva Oklahoma, for the practice of the law. He has opened a neat office in that city and is rapidly securing a good and lucrative practice. He is a well raised gentleman, of good family and character. We wish and predict for him a prosperous and brilliant career in his chosen field, as well as in the possibilities that may spring up in a new state.

As we are closing our department of legal news we regret to state that Hon. W. S. Denton, of Enid, Okla

homa, was stricken with apoplexy yesterday evening so seriously that his death is expected any moment. He is one of the late ex-presidents of the Oklahoma Bar Association and one of the most respected lawyers in the legal profesison of the Southwest.

THE RRYAN RESOLUTION.

As all lawyers are more or less interested in the national political affairs, we note that at the first meeting of the united Democracy of the new state of Oklahoma at Shawnee on the 10th inst., Hon. Roy Hoffman, int his learned and happy style, introduced the following resolution:

"Whereas, We note with pleasure the approaching return of William Jennings Bryan from his extended foreign tour, and

"Whereas, It appears the sterling qualities of his manhood, his high character, pure Jeffersonian Democracy and peerless Americam citizenship have commanded the involuntary tribute of admiration the world around thus converting his journey into a triumphal march among the people of the earth, and

"Whereas, We believe that he is the logical and unanimous choice of the Democratic party for the presidency of the United States. Therefore be it

"Resolved, That we, the Democratic committees of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory in joint session express our satisfaction at his enthusiastic reception among the nations of the earth and pledge to him for president of the United States the first vote in the electoral college of the new state of Oklahoma."

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