The Alaska daily empire., 1913-03-08
Alaska'S Uniform Law
 Commissioners Report
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"The first meeting Of thls Cohler- ence was held in Saratoga, New York, in August, 1892. The Conference has since met annually. The number of States and Territories represented at the annual meetings have increased until at the time of the last Confer ence at Milwaukee in August last, for weight States, Alaska, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Philippine Islands and Porto Rico had Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, Most of these States. Territories and possessions were represented at the last Confer ence.
 In no State or Territory do the Commissioners receive compensation. In many States, they personally meet the expense, including the expenses incident to an attendance upon meet : ings of the Conference, but laws pro- Iyiding for the appointment of a Board, usually of three Commissioners, in many instances providing for the pay ment of expenses and even for contri- button to the expenses of the National Conference, have been passed in the thirty-oue States, Territories and pos sessions.
 "The Commissioners have been men of learning and ability, with large eX. perience and have brought to the work considerable measure of successful and intelligent effort. The appoint, ment of these Commissioners has been entirely non.political and the respect, i've States have been represented by the same Commissioners through var. ious changes of administration with the result that the Conference has be, come a body of specialists on State laws and on statutory drafting.
 Tn the last twenty.two years the Conference has considered a wide field of laws and has drafted and recon. mended a number of acts, each of which has been adopted by various States, practically in it's original form as recommended by the Conference.
 Some Things Accomplished
 The first and most important of the uniform acts so drafted and adopted is what is known as the Uniform Nego, tiable Instruments Law, approvde and recommended by the Conference in 1896. This act has been adopted in forty States, Territories, possessions and districts.
 The next act recommended by the Conference was the act known as the Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act, ap- proved 1906. This act was passed in twenty-four States, districts and pos sessions.
 The next act is known as a Uni form Sales Act This was approved and recommended in 1906 by the Con. ference, and has been adopted in nine States
 Tn 1909 the Conference approved and recommended the act known as the Uniform Stock Transfer Act. This has been adopted by five States.
 The Uniform Bill of Lading Act was approved and recommended by the Conference in 1909, and has been passed in nine States.
 Tn 1910 the Conference approved and recommended the passage of the Act of Family Desertion and Non Sup, ort which act has been passed in four States.
 Tn 1910, the Conference approved and recommended an act relative to wills executed without this State and to promote uniformity among the States in that respect. Eight States have passed this act.
 The Conference in 1911 approved and recommended the act relating to and regulating marriage and mar riage licenses and to promote uniform ity between the States in reference thereto.
 Tn 1912 the act relating to and de- claring void marriages in another State or country in evasion or viola tion of the laws of domicile' was ap- proved and recommended by the Con- ference.
 "In the same year, 1912, the Confer ence approved what is known as the Uniform Workmen's Compensation Act The Conference prepared and approved two forms of this act; one known as the Compulsory Act and the other as the Elective Act The Compulsory Act was approved tenta- lively and the Conference Committee on the subject was continued. Work mems Compensation Acts have been passed in sixteen States since 1904. The acts passed in these States, how ever, were not identical with the acts recommended by the Conference, though they are in a general way sim liar"
 Matters Now Under Consideration