Licenses must be exhibited in conspicuous place. In local option districts, bond $2,500. Conditions: To sell not more than one quart, on prescription, not to be drank on premises. No adulteration of liquor. No minors allowed on premises, except as druggist. Shall keep an open orderly house. Breach of bond subjects to damages to parties injured and fine of $250 for each infraction. New bond can be demanded on ten days' notice. No license issued for shorter period than one year. Change of place of business can be made on application to county clerk. Temporary closing to do business in another place prohibited. County clerk makes monthly report to state revenue agent. General barroom bond, $5,000. Exclusive malt bond, $1,000. Shall keep an open, quiet and orderly house. Shall not sell to minors, to students, to habitual drunkards, or to any person after notification through sheriff or other peace officer by wife, mother, daughter or sister. Not to permit any person under 21 to enter and remain in house or place of business. Not permit any games prohibited by state, or let any part of house for gaming. Not adulterate liquors in any manner by mixing same with drugs. For each infraction $500 fine and in addition civil damages. New bond can be required on twenty days' notice; cannot do business until made. Subject to penalty for doing business without bond. Quiet house; no music, loud or boisterous talk, yelling, indecent or vulgar language or other noise calculated to disturb or annoy anyone in vicinity. Orderly house; in which no prostitute or lewd woman or women are allowed to enter or remain. No vulgar or obscene pictures exhibited. Habitual drunkard: One who makes it a habit or who habitually becomes intoxicated by the voluntary use of intoxicating liquors. The question to be decided by judge or jury. Native wines, in hands of producers or manufacturers, exempt. For keeping open saloon on election day, or for selling or giving away any intoxicating liquor on election day, or for finding any intoxicating liquor near polling place, or for carrying liquors to sell or give away at polling place, a fine from $100 to $500. TEXAS LOCAL OPTION LAW. As amended in '97. "The Commissioners' Court of each county in the State, whenever they deem it expedient, may order an election, to be held by the qualified votes of said county or of any commissioner's or justice's precinct, or school district, or any two or more of such political subdivisions of a county, to determine whether or not the sale of intoxicating liquors shall be prohibited in such county, or commissioner's or justice's precinct, or school district, or any two or more of any such political sub-divisions of such county, or in any town or city; provided, it shall be the duty of such commissioners court to order the election as aforesaid whenever petitioned so to do by as many as two hundred and fifty voters in any county or fifty voters in any other political sub-division of the county or school district, as shall be designated by said court, or in any city or town, as the case may be; provided, that if the precinct or precincts embraced within the limits of an incorporated town or city, then such election shall only be ordered when the petition for the same is signed by qualified voters, not less than one-tenth in number of the total vote cast for governor at the next preceding general election in such incorporated town or city; and in case an election is asked for a sub-division of said county composed of two or more com plete commissioner's or justice's precincts, or school districts, such petition shall describe such sub-division by metes and bounds, as well as by the proper number of such sub-division, shall be recorded in full in the minutes of the commissioners' court, and such description shall be embraced in the notice given for such election; provided, that where a school district, city or town, may be composed in part of two or more sub-divisions of the county named herein before, the right to order and hold an election in such school district, city or town, shall not be denied; and provided further, that no city or town shall be divided in holding a local option election for any of the other sub-divisions named herein; nor shall any school district, which has adopted local option be divided in a subsequent election; held for any other sub-division concerning a part of the territory of such school district. Sales of wine for sacramental purposes and alcoholic stimulants as medicine not prohibited. Local option election ordered by county commissioners and conducted according to general elections. If prohibition carries the county court shall declare result and issue order prohibiting sale of liquor. Sale or giving away of liquor in local option districts punishable. In case of prohibition carrying, saloonmen in business are returned the amount of their unexpired license fee. Prohibition prevailing at an election, no election can be held on the question for two years. If against prohibition an election can be immediately ordered thereafter. MASSACHUSETTS PROBATION LAWS. The probation laws of Massachusetts, approved May 28, 1891, provide as follows: The justice of each municipal, police or district court shall appoint one person to perform the duties of probation officer under the jurisdiction of the court, and such prabation officer shall hold his office during the pleasure of the court making the appointment. The probation officers shall not be active members of the regular police force, but have all the powers of police officers. The probation officers shall inquire into the nature of every criminal case brought before the court, and may recommend that any person convicted be placed upon probation. The court may place the person so convicted in the care of the probation officer for such time and upon such conditions as may seem proper. Each person released upon probation shall be furnished by the probation officer with a written statement of the terms and conditions of his release. Compensation of probation officer is determined by the justice under whose jurisdiction he acts, and paid by the county. Amendment approved May 12, 1894.) When a person has been placed on probation, the court may direct and authorize the probation officer to expend for the temporary support of such person, or for his transportation, such reasonable sum as the court shall consider expedient. (Amendment approved April 3, 1897.) Any probation officer may, without warrant or other process, at any time until final disposition of the case, take any person placed in his care by any court and bring him before the court, or the court may issue a warrant for the re-arrest of any such person; and the court may thereupon proceed to sentence or may make any other lawful disposition of the case. (Amendment approved April 10, 1897.) The chief justice of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston may appoint two women to act as assistants to the probation officer. It shall be their duty to investigate the cases of all women against whom a criminal charge is brought in said court. (Chapter 427, 1891.) The probation officers shall obtain and furnish information in regard to previous arrests, convictions and imprisonments for drunkenness, and such other facts as the court shall direct, concerning persons accused. of drunkenness. They shall keep a full record, well indexed, of each such case investigated, in such form as the court shall direct. (Chapter 414, 1893.) Whoever arrests a person for drunkenness shall make a complaint against him for that offense. Any person so arrested may make to the officer in charge of the place of custody in which he is confined a written statement, addressed to the court having jurisdiction of his case, giving his name and address, what persons, if any, are dependent upon him for support, his place of appointment, if any, and whether he has been arrested for drunkenness before within the twelve months next preceding, together with a request to be released from custody. The probation officer shall inquire into the truth or falsity of such statement and into the record of said person as to previous similar offenses and report to the court, and the court, thereupon, in its discretion, may direct that such person be released from custody without arrraignment. CHAPTER II. GENERAL LAWS. THE NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY ACT. The law provides for both voluntary and involuntary bankruptcy. As to the latter the bill defines an act of bankruptcy by a person to consist of his having conveyed, transferred, concealed or removed, or permitted to be concealed or removed, any part of his property with intent to hinder, delay or defraud his creditors, or any of them, or transferred while insolvent any portion of his property to one or more of his creditors with intent to prefer such cred |