Court of Claims of the United States in the French spoilation claims.
The statute of limitations has been amended by a provision, "that no action shall be brought by any person whose cause of action has been barred by the law of any state, territory, or country, while all the parties have resided therein," overruling the old rule, that the lex fori governs the remedy.
MASSACHUSETTS.
The powers of married women, deserted by or living apart from their husbands for justifiable cause, extend to the making of a will, or deed of all their property, and under such circumstances, they are possessed of the same power as if sole.
Corporations are created for the purpose of cremating the bodies of the dead, but the place where, and the mode and manner of carrying out the object is made subject to the approval of the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity, subject, however, to the provision that no body shall be cremated within forty-eight hours after death, except in cases of contagious or infectious diseases.
The Supreme Court, where most of the jury trials are held, is authorized to appoint official stenographers to take notes of the evidence and rulings of the court, who are to be paid seven dollars a day by the county where the court is held, and any transcript from their notes furnished to the parties is to be paid for by such party by an additional sum of seven cents for every hundred words. The stenographers are to be sworn officers of the court, and subject to their direction, and the examination of witnesses shall not be interrupted for the purpose of having their testimony taken by any other person than the sworn stenographer. Persons of either sex may act as such.
Persons addicted to dipsomania or habitual drunkenness may be committed to one of the state lunatic hospitals under the same provisions and requisitions as lunatics.
An important legislative change is made in the courts. The terms as such of the courts in Massachusetts are abolished,
