thereon, and providing for the collection of the same,' approved April 23, 1889, so as to authorize boroughs to require the paving, curbing and macadamizing of streets or thoroughfares or parts thereof either with or without the petition of the property owners and to collect the whole or such part of the costs and expense of the same as shall be provided by the ordinance requiring such paving to be done,"

Reported bill No. 492 without amendment.

Mr. Roberts, from the Committee on Public Roads and Highways, to which was recommitted a bill, entitled "An act providing for the construction of public highways with the several townships of this Commonwealth creating the office of Commissioner of Highways and of county engineers, defining their powers and duties of the act by the State and counties making an appropriation for the purpose, providing for the appointment and compensation of viewers and for the method of construction and the condition under which the same may be constructed and maintained,"

Re-reported bill No. 289 without amendment.

He also, from the same committee, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act to amend an act, entitled 'An act providing for the permanent improvement of certain public roads or highways in the several counties of this Commonwealth, making such improved roads and highways county roads, authorizing the re-location, opening, straightening, widening, extension and alteration of the same, and the vacation of so much of any road as may thereby become unnecessary, authorizing the taking of property for such improvement, and providing for the compensation therefor, and the damages resulting from such taking, providing for the costs and expenses incurred in making such improvements and in thereafter repairing and maintaining said road, and authorizing the levy of a tax to provide a fund for said purposes,' approved June 26, 1895, providing that public roads and highways may be constructed, improved and maintained by the several counties of the Commonwealth as county roads, whether existing by other authority or laid out in whole or in part by virtue of this act, and providing that public roads and highways may be originally located, laid out and established for the purpose of such construction, improvement and maintenance by the several counties in the manner and by the procedure said out in the amended act, and subject to the other provisions thereof, providing for the laying out of a system of main thoroughfares to which the establishing, construction, improvement and maintenance of public roads by the counties be restricted after January 1, 1904, and providing for such establishing, construction, improvement and maintenance of roads not parts of said system upon parties interested paying not less than one-fourth of the ori ginal course of construction,"

Reported bill No. 493 without amendment.

Mr. Thomas, from the Committee on Judiciary Special, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act to provide for the election

of assistant assessors for the valuation of real estate for taxation in townships of the first class, and fixing the compensation of assessors in such townships,"

Reported bill No. 494 without amendment.

Mr. Williams, from the Committee on Judiciary General, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act respecting trading stamps, coupons, tickets and other similar to provide for and regulate manner of redemption of said trading stamps, coupons, tickets and other similar devices,and to provide penalties for the violation thereof,"

Reported bill No. 495 without amendment.

Mr. Fisher, from the same committee, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act authorizing the enumeration of the population of the borough of Duquesne, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania,"

Reported bill No. 496 without amendment.

He also, from the same committee, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act to regulate the trial of equity causes so that it shall not be necessary that the averments of a responsive answer be overcome by two witnesses or by the testimony of one witness sustained by corroborating circumstances so that in all such cases the defendant or denfendants shall support the averments of his, her or their answer by proper proof, and so that the causes shall be heard and determined according to the rule of evidence which apply to causes heard and determined by law,"

Reported bill No. 497 without amendment.

He also, from the Committee on Corporations, to which was committed House bill No. 265, entitled "An act to enable foreign corporations to take, purchase and hold real estate in this Commonwealth for the purpose of erecting and maintaining sanitariums and health resorts and bottling, preparing, selling and shipping mineral and other waters,"

Reported bill No. 498 without amendment.

Mr. Edmiston, from the Committee on Public Roads and Highways, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled 'An act providing for the permanent improvement of certain public roads or highways in the several counties of this Commonwealth, making such improved roads and highways county roads, authorizing the re-location, opening, straightening, widening, extension and alteration of the same, and the vacation of so much of any road as may thereby become necessary, authorizing the taking of property for such improvement, and providing for the compensation therefor and the damages resulting from such taking, providing for the payment of the costs and expenses incurred in making such improvements and in thereafter, repairing and maintaining said roads and authorizing of the levy of

a tax to provide a fund for said purpose,' approved June 26, 1895, empowering the county commissioners of the several counties to adopt rules regulating the use of county roads, and providing for the promulgation and enforcement thereof,"

Reported bill No. 499 without amendment.

Mr. Goehring, from the Committee on Judiciary General, to which was re-committed a bill, entitled "An act relating to automobiles or motor-vehicles, providing for the registration thereof, regulating the speed limit upon the public highways within this Commonwealth, providing for the licensing of the operation thereof after examination by the State Board of Highway Commissioners, and fixing the amount of the license regulating the service of process, and of proceedings in actions of damages arising therefrom and prescribing the penalties for the violation of the provisions of the same,"

Re-reported bill No. 244 with amendment.

Mr. Woods (Allegheny), from the Committee on Municipal Affairs, to which was committed House bill No. 284, entitled "An act supplementary to an act authorizing council of the city of the third class by ordinance to sell or lease at the best price obtainable the coal under any public park or common used by said city, and to apply the proceeds thereof, to improving, policeing said park or common, approved the 4th day of June, 1901, providing for the issue of park improvement bonds and the expenditure of the surplus not required for improvement in the purchase of other parks or commons,"

Reported bill No. 500 without amendment.

Mr. McKee, from the Committee on Education, to which was committed House bill No. 118, entitled "An act authorizing the Superintendent of Public Instruction to employ or aid in the employment of lecturers and instructors to attend the summer assemblies or associations incorporated for the promotion of education and popular culture, and of the Pennsylvania Educational Association, and providing for the payment of such lecturers or instructors,"

Reported bill No. 501 without amendment.

He also, from the Committee on Judiciary General, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act to repeal an act, entitled 'An act defining the rights and liabilities of parties and regulating the effect of contracts for work and labor to be done and labor or materials to be furnished to any building, bridge, wharf, dock, pier, bulk-head, vault, subway, tram-way, coal road, conduit, tunnel, mine, coal-breaker, flume, pump, screen, tank, derrick pipe-line, aqueduct reservoir, viaduct, telegraph, telephone, railway or railroad line, canal, mill race, works for supplying water, heat, light, power, cold air or any other substance furnished to the public, wells for the production of gas, oil or other volatile mineral substance or other structure or improvement of whatsoever kind or character the same may be providing remedies for the recovery of debts due by reason

of such contracts and repealing consolidating and extending existing laws in relation thereto,' approved the 4th day of June, 1901,"

Reported bill No. 502 without amendment.

He also, from the same committee, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act creating and defining the offense of unlawful expectoration by persons in or upon any railroad car, passenger or street railway car, moved by electricity, steam, horse or other motive power, incline plane car, omnibus, stage coach or other public vehicle for the conveyance by land within this Commonwealth, and fixing the penalty for the commission of such offense,"

Reported bill No. 503 without amendment.

He also, from the same committee, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act to prevent the sale or the offering for sale of goods, wares and merchandise having or carrying of the same any certificate, coupon, stamp, label, wrapper, tag, memorandum or token entitling the purchaser thereof to demand or receive any money or thing of value on account of or in exchange for such certificates, coupon, stamp, label, wrapper, tag, memorandum or token, and providing a penalty for any violation,"

Reported bill No. 504 without amendment.

Mr. Cumings, from the Committee on Appropriations, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act making an appropriation to the American Art Society of Philadelphia for the purpose of encouraging American art,”

Reported bill No. 505 without amendment.

He also, from the same committee, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act making an appropriation to the Beaver County General Hospital,"

Reported bill No. 506 without amendment.

He also, from the Committee on Judiciary Special, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act to repeal an act approved the 14th day of April, 1846, entitled 'An act laying a tax on dogs in the borough of West Chester and certain townships in the county of Chester and for other purposes,"

Reported bill No. 510 without amendment.

He also, from the same committee, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act to repeal section 20 of an act, approved the 10th day of April, 1849, entitled 'A supplement to an act, entitled an act relative to the organization of courts of justice,' passed the 14th day of April, 1834, declaring Trout Run in Brown township, in the county of Lycoming, a public highway from its mouth up said stream,"

Reported bill No. 511 without amendment.

Mr. Matson, from the Committee on Appropriations, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act to amend section two of an act, entitled 'An act to provide for the erection of a monument to the Seventy-third and One Hundred and Ninth Regiment, Pennsyl vania Veteran Volunteers on the battlefield of Missionary Ridge and Wantachie on ground to be purchased and included in the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, and making an appropriation for the purchase of the ground the erection of the monument, the dediction of the same and the expenses of the commission appointed to erect the monument,"

Reported bill No. 512 without amendment.

Mr. Sisson, from the Committee on Judiciary General, to which was committed (House bill No. 45), entitled "A supplement to an act extending the jurisdiction of the court of this Commonwealth in cases of divorce, passed the 26th day of April, 1850,"

Reported bill No. 513 with amendment.

Mr. Freeland, from the same committee, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act to repeal an act, entitled 'An act relating to the service of certain process in actions at law and the effect thereof, and providing who shall be made parties to certain writs,' approved the 9th day of April, 1901,"

Reported bill No. 514 without amendment.

He also, from the same committee, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act to amend the twenty-first section of an act, entitled 'An act to provide for the more effectual protection of the public health in the several municipalities in this Commonwealth,' approved the 13th day of June, A. D. 1895, limiting the time in which actions may be brought from the recovery of fines and penalties under said act,"

Reported bill No. 515 without amendment.

Mr. Harrison, from the Committee on Law and Order, to which was committed a bill, entitled "A special act to enlarge and extend the jurisdiction of the justices of the peace in and for the borough of Newport,"

Reported bill No. 516 without amendment.

Mr. Quail, from the Committee on Public Roads and Highways, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act to amend section eight of an act, entitled 'An act relating to roads, highways and bridges,' approved June 13, 1836, making the township in which a road may be located liable for the damages resulting therefrom instead of the county,"

Reported bill No. 517 without amendment.

Mr. McPherson, from the Committee on Judiciary General, to which was committed a bill, entitled "An act to prevent officers