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members, but the consensus of individual judgment. Every juror takes an oath that is individual, and that puts upon him as an individual the responsibility of correctly determining the matters submitted. He is a member of the body of twelve men, but he acts individually and is alone answerable to his conscience.

Do not forget what we have long called attention toto inclose postage stamps when asking for information, copies of documents, etc. You may think you are only one-but remember that in this state alone we have near1 ytwo thousand other fellows on our lists, who also ask for things that take stamps to mail.

The Michigan Law Review, one the leading Journals in the English language for accurate analysis of any subject it undertakes to discuss, contains an extended article on the "Liability for Accidents in Aerial Navigation." From the arguments and conclusion of this article it is learned that some fixed law of responsibility is needed in order to protect the public from damages incident to aerial navigation. And it is further learned that only a short ime since a Congress was held in Italy to discuss this question and formulate some rule of law to govern liability. After serious discussion of rigid rules. the following was adopted: That "in view of the actual state of the art of aviation. indemnity is due in case subjective responsibility (direct or indirect) is created by the common law, and also for damages received from the exercise of any special right given by law (such as the right to land). It is deemed necessary that a minimum of guaranty for the due conduct of an air-ship voyage be required; but it should not exceed that limit. so as not to impede the development of aerial science."

MOORE on FACTS, continues to receive not only the fullest appreciation from the Profession, but from the legal periodicals. An able attorney a few days ago said, "I never knew my power as a trial lawyer until I began to study this work."

Send us your check for a set of this great work. It sells for $12. You need it. It will add fifty per cent to your case winning capacity.

HUMOR

Circumstantial Evidence-A lawyer coming home to dinner found his wife with trunk packed ready to go "home to mamma." "What does this mean?" he ask. ed. "M-e-a-n." she sobbed. "Do you recognize this?" as she extended to him a receipt he had dropped, that read: "Received of two dollars for ribbons

for the typewriter."

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The train was flying rapidly through prohibition Kansas. It had passed Dodge City, when a man came rushing into the pullman car and shouted, "Has any gentleman in this car got any whiskey? A lady in the chair-car has fainted."

Seventeen men bent over, opened their grips and raised the substance in sight. the man grabbed the nearest flask out of the hand of the nearest passenger, raised it to his lips and drank rapidly. As he quit, he said, "It's just terrible. It breaks me all over to see a woman faint."

Thereupon the other sixteen fellows leaned back, took a drink, and said, "what a shock this is to a man's nervous system!"

Women Passengers-" When a woman passenger says she was injured in the attempt by a railway to pass one car by another upon a single tract, the railways have to pay for it." Pittsburg, etc., R. Co. v. Story, Ill. App. 239, per Gary, J.

"A fleshy woman has a right to ride on a train and to have a valise and parcels, and she is. entitled to more time for alighting than might be required for a footracer or a greyhound." Pierce v. Gray, 63 Ill. App. 158, per Schofield, J.

The simi-annual Bar Examinations will take place in in the city of Guthrie, December 6th, 1910.

PROFESSIONAL NEWS.

Among the many distinguished lawyers recently locating in Oklahoma City is the firm of Taylor & Lynch. The senior member of the firm, Judge Taylor, was a noted lawyer in Indiana and for a number of years the Circuit Judge of Vigo county in that state. Judge Taylor comes from a distinguished family of learning and character, and has himself added much to the family record. We welcome such men to our state and predict for the Judge a useful and brilliant career in the state of his adoption.

Hon. James B. Cullison of Enid was elected district judge of his judicial district. Judge Cullison was the republican nominee and received a majority of eleven hun dred votes over his opponent.

Hon. S. D. Heckaman, a graduate of the Indiana State University, has formed a law partnership with Hon. Ross Lockridge in the city of Shawnee and is developing a good law practice. Both members of the firm we believe are hoosiers, and gentlemen of the best of character as well as legal ability and literary training.

Hon. Geo. L. Burke, for eight years Circuit Judge of the 4th Judicial District of Tennessee, has located in Sapulpa and formed a law partnership with Honorable Frank Mars, an able well known lawyer of the Oklahoma Bar.

Judge Burke is a graduate of the East Tennessee Wesleyan University, and also of the Law Department of Ann Arbor University. He has seen much of practice both as trial lawyer and judge, and comes to the new state recommended by able jurists and distinguished citizens who have intimately known him, as a lawyer, judge and gentlemen of character.

THE

OKLAHOMA

LAW JOURNAL

VOL. 9.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY

D. H. FERNANDES, GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA.

December, 1910.

No. 6.

LOCATION ACT.

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 8.

By Senate Capitol Location Committee.

A Resolution Proposing on the Part of Certain Residents and Citizens of Oklahoma City a Free Site for the Location of the State Capitol of the State of Oklahoma; a Free Site for the Erection thereon of the Executive Mansion; and the Donation of the Sum of One Million Dollars for the Erection of said Capitol Building; and Proposing on the Part of the State of Oklahoma an Acceptance of said Free Sites for said State Capitol Building and Executive Mansion, and an Acceptance of said Donation in said Sum of One Million Dollars, and Authorizing the Governor of Oklahoma to Enter into such Contract or Contracts with said Citizens and Residents or any Corporation Organized by and for them Looking Toward the Carrying into Effect of the Terms and Provisions of said Proposition.

Whereas, it is the desire of the State of Oklahoma and the People thereof, to permanently locate the seat of government and the Capitol of said State; and,

Whereas, it is the desire of said State and the people thereof, to secure wtihout cost to the people of said State, a free Capitol site and a free Capitol building; and,

Whereas, there has been submitted to the Senate Capitol Location Committee, and through said committee, to the legislature and the State of Oklahoma, a proposition proposing a free site for the location thereon of the State Capitol Building; a free site for the executive mansion, and the donation of the sum of One Million Dollars for the erection of said State Capitol building, which said proposition is in words and figures as follows, to-wit:

A PROPOSITION-To The Senate Capitol Location Committee and the Legislature of the State of Oklahoma:

We, the undersigned residents and citzens of Oklahoma City, and our asaociates, hereby submit to the Senate Capitol Location Committee, and through said committee to the Legislature and the State of Oklahoma the following proposition for the immediate permanent location of the seat of government, and the State Capitol, at Oklahoma City, in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.

In consideration of the immediate permanent location of the legal capital of the State of Oklahoma at Oklahoma City, on a site to be hereinafter described, by the Legislature now in session at Oklahoma City, and the commencement of the work of erecting said State Capitol building on said tract, to be hereinafter described, on, or before the first day of July, 1911, and that said Capitol building shall be prosecuted with due diligence until completed and shall be completed, as provided herein by July 1, 1914, saving and excepting, only unavoidable delays occasioned by strikes, legal complications ca sualties, acts of God, and the failure of said persons hereinafter mentioned, and their associates, and the trustees hereinafter named, to perform and fulfill the conditions, agreements and obligations herein proposed and agreed to be done, and the immediate establishment of the seat of government and Capitol of the State at Oklahoma City, in said county and State, we propose to do and cause to be done the following matters and things: We, the undersigned citizens and residents and our as

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