The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-08-18
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EDS. RECORD UNION: Please answer
The following questions in your valuable
columns:
l. What law books would a student be
examined IN in passing an examination
for entrance to the bar of the Superior
Court?
2. is the examination oral or written?
3. When and where are examinations
held? LEX, Oakland.
l. There is not any established sched-
ule. Certain elementary works must be
read, certain treatiSeS and certain books
purely technical. Thus, Blackstone and
hentS Commentaries are standard
essentials. But when it comes to evil
| dence, pleading, contracts, and so on,
there are several authors who are held
/ about equally desirable to be read 1t
cannot be replied, therefore, that IAN APP
pllcant will be examined in" any law
books. He will be examined touching
| his knowledge of fundamental principles,
and bat slightly concerning statutory
procedure. n Hrst-c1ass lawyer may
| come to the bar from another State, be
practically ignorant of our State laws and
yet find cordial welcome on eXamina-
ton.
2. The examinations may be either oral
or in writing.
3. No regular time in Superior Courts,
| but certain days of terms are fixed for
the business i'll the Supreme Court.
EDS. RECoRD-U UNION: Please oblige a
SnDSpTIhnr rhe Foil
| questions; l. What Senatorial District is
Colusa County in? 2. What counties are
in the district? 3. What is the voting
population of the State?
SUBSCRIBER, Sacramento.
/. The Eighth.
2. Colusa, Glenn and Mendocino.
.. Two hundred and titty-two thousand
five hundred and seventy-seven votes
were cast in $780,
EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN: Can you tell me
the proportion of males to females in the
United States, and whether the females
anywhere IN the United States outnum-
Der the males? What are the figures for
California? JAI,INVO.
l. BY Census Bulletin 201, for August,
1890, males, -, 067, $780, females, so. 30.
Therefore there is in the whole United
States Tor every 100000 males, $3.50 fe-
males.
- Inc Ieinal9S exceed the males per
cent plus in the District of Columbia.
Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
3. Males, 700,059; females. 508. Oh; or to
every 100000 males, 72,575 females.
EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN Where can /
procure more information concerning
/ Tesla's electrical theory, described in a
RECORD NIoN editorial a few weeks
ago! 1t is so attractive to me and so
wonderful that I'd like to know where
you got your information.
a. NJ. L., Sacramento.
The RECoRD-UNION gained its informa-
ton from correspondent of scientific
/ journal who heard the lecture. You can
/ get the full lecture bound in cloth for 81
by addressing Electrical World" New
YORK. which paper viii transfer your or
der to the publishers, w. j. Johnston
Company, but whose address we do not
know.