Arizona republican., 1920-12-09
RECOMMEND FIVE
 UNIFORM ACTS ID
 LEGISLATURE

Commissioners for the promotion oA uniformity of legislation in the United States will recommend and present to l the legislature for adoption the fol- 1 lowing uniform act:
 Uniform warehouse receipts act. | (Now adopted and in force in 4S | states.)
 Uniform bills of 1ading act. (Now adopted and in force in 23 states, and will be presented for adoption in a | large majority of the states holding l legislative sessions during 1921.) Uniform proof of statutes act. l CPassed by the conference at the 1920 session. and recommended to the sev eral states for adoption; will proba- bly, be presented to all states holding ] legislative sessions during the coming i year.)
 Uniform foreign dispositions act. 1 (Passed by the conference at the 1920 1 session and recommended to the sev- eral states for adoption; will probably be presented to all states holding leg islative sessions during the coming year)
 Uniform vital statistics act (Passed by the conference at the 1920 session. I and recommended to the several states for adoption; will be presented to all states holding legislative sessions dur ing the coming year. This is one
 measure the uniformity or which in
 the various states is greatly needed
 and which has received the consider
 ation for many years of the severa political and civic bodies as set fortf in the body of this report.)
 These recommendations are con
 tained in the report which has beer
 prepared by Con Cronin, state libra rian and chairman of the commission Mr. Cronin attended the national con l ference of commissioners on uniform state laws when it met in Cleveland ! in 1918; the following year he attend 2 ed the Boston conference and thi year MT. Cronin was the states repre- ] sentative at the conference held in St l, Louis.
 : Acts that received the stamp of fina 9 approval by the commission at tn
 1920 conference and recommended t 0 the states for adoption are as follow = according to MT. Cronin's report ], Uniform vital statistics act. This a supported by the children's bureau : U $. department of labor, the Amer
 ican Medical association, the Amer
 ican Public Health association, an
 other associations having in view tn - safeguarding of the rights of the yout V of the land.
 i Uniform proof of statutes act. Thi
 act is what it's title indicates. At tn
 
 copies of laws of court decisions fror Q the secretary of state. or other com 1 petent officers. are necessary to es = tablish the proof of statutes or law!
 Under the provisions of this aC
 printed books of statutes or sessio !. laws or other laws of any of the Unite = States or the territories thereof or ( h any foreign country, which have bee printed and published by the author f1F alS +okN %n,ar kra,-xr RCr \ eign country. or proved to be common
 ly recognized in their courts. shall b
 received in the courts as prima faci
 evidence of such law.
 Uniform occupational disease ac N This is intended as supplemental { the uniform worlSmenn's compensatio
 act. and is prepared in such shape tha
 1t may readily be adopted in the dit ferent states as an addition to exist
 ing statutes relating to workmen \ compensation. In Arizona, howeye
 the commissioners recommend that \ be considered as a separate act. IT \ act provides compensation to employt E whose disability or death arises ol h of the character of his employment. Uniform declaratory judgments ac \ This measure's scope is set forth E follows; The courts of this state haN E ing Jurisdiction in equity. shall hay E power in any suit in equity or in al E independent or interlocutory proceed E ng, to declare rights and other leg K relations on written request for Il
 declaration. whether Or pot further r E lief is or could be claimed: and sut
 declaration shall have the force of \ final Judgment or decree.
 There are now on the statute bool 4 of Arizona five of the uniform law
 the uniform sales act. uniform neg \ tiable instrument act. uniform cond E tional sales act. uniform fraudu1e \ conveyance act, and uniform flag act b the last three being passed by u fourth state legislature. They we k prepared by Mir. Cronin.