any foreign corporation, or non-resident, without the consent of the New Jersey legislature, and as a condition precedent to such consent, exemption from taxation and all privileges and advantages as to special modes of taxation must be surrendered; and it must be further agreed that any law affecting the parties to the lease or consolidation shall be subject to alteration and appeal.
The partner of a presiding or law judge, in any county of New Jersey, is prohibited from practicing law in any of the courts in which the said judge shall sit or preside.
NEW YORK.
An act in New York provides, that the knowingly or negligently furnishing by an employer to an employe of a scaffolding, hoist, stays, ladders, or other mechanical contrivances, that will not give proper protection to life and limb, is made a misdemeanor.
Another provides that when a receiver is appointed for a corporation, other than insurance and moneyed corporations, the wages of the employes and laborers thereof, shall be preferred to every other debt or claim against the corporation, and shall be paid from the first money of the corporation that may come to the receiver's hands.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Physicians and surgeons shall not be required to disclose any information acquired in a professional capacity, unless the presiding judge of a superior court, be of opinion and adjudge that the disclosure is necessary to a proper administration of justice.
A will of a non-resident citizen or subject of another state, or county, which is proved and probated in such state or county according to the law thereof, shall upon the production of an exemplified copy of the proceedings, be filed and recorded with the some effect as if originally probated in North Carolina.
