The Alaska daily empire., 1913-03-08

Torrens system of registration of land titles.
 6-An act relative to the status of real and personal property for the pur' pose of taxation.
 7.-Uniform child labor act
 S.-An act in reference to insw- ance companies.
 9.-A cold storage act.
 1O-A boiler inspection act.
 IA pure food act.
 12-The computation of time act
 Recommendations to Legislature
 The Alaska Commissioners make the following recommendations to the Alaska Legislature;
 Your Commissioners most respect fully recommend that the acts ap. proved and recommended by the Ma donal Conference of Commissioners, as hereinaboye mentioned, copies of which are appended hereto, be sub mitted to the Legislature of the ter ritory for it's consideration. It is to be hoped that it will ultimately pass these acts, as, in the opinion of your Commissioners, the unifcation of State Laws is greatly to be desired and these acts have been carefully prepared and are being found ade' ouate upon the various subjects in the States where they have been en' acted into law.
 But it would seem to be a very ser ious question whether the enactment of any radical amendments or exten' sive changes in the Alaska Code is desirable without giving the subject of code revision and amendment a more thorough, extensive and pains taking examination and consideration than obviously can be given to it in the hurry and confusion of the sixty days session of the present Legisla ture This subject is too important and too vital to the welfare and the maintenance of harmonious conditions in the Territory to be hastily consid cred and passed, and much as your Commissioners believe that the uni form acts hereto referred to should be adopted. they respectfully recommend that no action be taken in reference to code revision or amendment until the subject can be carefully considered land acted upon as a whole.
 We would also recommend the passage of an act providing for the ap' pointment for Alaska of three Com missioners on Uniform State Laws; the term of the first three Commis' sioners to expire each two years, so that they would hold office respective Iv for two, four and six years, and, thereafter. the term to be for six wears: the Commissioners to serve without compensation, but provision to be made for the payment of actual and necessary expenses, including travelling expenses incurred in attend ance on the meetings of the National Conference of Commissioners and up on any meeting of the Territorial Board of Commissioners, or at a meet ing of any committee of the National Conference upon which any of the Alaska Commissioners might be member.
 oIn addition to the general subject of Uniform State Laws, but as being in a way connected herewith, your Commissioners beg to call to your at tention the subject of statutory draft ing and the preparation, criticism and revision of proposed bills and statutes. In several States and in some coun- tries notably in the State of Wiscon- sin and in Great Britain, there have been created what is variously known as commissioners, boards or bureaus of statutory or legislative drafting, the principal function of which is to aid the various legislators when called upon by them to do so, to draft bills for introduction, examine and criticise and prepare amendments to bills al- ready introduced, the purpose being to secure precision and accuracy of expression and to promote uniformity in the written law, thus eliminating carelessly and loosely drawn acts, and generally rendering technical aid in the advancement of legislation. A further purpose of such bureaus or boards is in the way of legislative ref erence work and is accomplished by means of collecting, analysing, digest ing and indexing existing laws by which there is insured research and practice attending the development and application of the method, form and accuracy of expression in the drafting of the written law.
 "These board or their bureaas and their clerks are or soon become ex- perts in this line of work and gather together vast fund of data and in- formation as to existing law in the
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