dent or serious injury done to any person in his or her employ, where such accident or serious injury occurred in or about the premises where employed, within twenty-four hours after the accident or injury occurs, stating as fully as possible the cause of such accident or injury; and in all fatal and serious accidents the Chief Factory Inspector or his deputy may subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, and do whatever may be necessary in order to make a thorough and complete investigation of the same: Provided Investigation of however, That the provisions of this section shall not be construed as interfering with the duties of coroners, under existing laws. accidents. Section 21. It shall be the duty of the owner, superintendent, assistant or person in charge of any establishment to furnish, from time to time, to the Chief Factory Inspector or his deputy any information required by the provisions of this act, and the Chief Factory Inspector and his deputies shall have authority to inspect any such establishment, at any time, Inspection. for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this act. Section 22. That wherever the law makes it the duty of the owner, lessee, or other person in charge of any building, or room or rooms in any building, to erect and maintain fire-escapes, or appliances for the ex- Fire-escapes. tinguishment of fire, or for proper and sufficient exits in case of fire or panic, the Chief Factory Inspector or his deputy shall inspect all said buildings, or the room or rooms in said buildings, and notify the owners, lessees, or other persons in charge of same, to comply with said law. And all fire-escapes, exits and fire extinguishing appliances shall be provided and located by order of the Chief Factory Inspector or his deputy, and shall be subject to the approval of the Chief Factory Inspector or his deputy: Provided, That the pro- Proviso. visions of this section shall not apply to cities of the first and second classes. Misdemeanor. Section 23. Any person who violates any of the pro- violations of provisions of the foregoing sections of this act, or who visions of act. suffers any female, minor or a child to be employed in or about his or her establishment, in violation of any of the provisions of the foregoing sections of this act, or who, being authorized to administer oaths, shall violate any of the provisions of sections five and six of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than five hundred dollars, or an imprisonment in the county jail for a term not less than ten days nor more than sixty days, for each and every such violation. In all cases the prosecution shall be instituted, in the name Prosecutions. of the Commonwealth, by the deputy factory inspector of the district where the offense is alleged to have been Fine and penalty. Bail. Disposition of fines. Certificates, permits, blanks, orders and notices. Inspection districts. Rules and regulations. Annual report. Chief Factory Inspector. Salary and term. Chief clerk, etc. committed, and the hearing shall be conducted by the alderman, justice of the peace or other committing magistrate before whom the information is lodged. After full hearing of the parties in interest, the alder man, justice of the peace or other committing magistrate shall, if the evidence warrants it, impose the penalty herein provided, which shall be final to the party against whom the penalty is imposed, unless the party upon whom the penalty is imposed shall furnish good and sufficient bail for his or her appearance at the next term of the court of quarter sessions of the county wherein the offense is alleged to have been committed. Section 24. All fines imposed and collected for any violation of this act shall be forwarded to the Chief of the Department of Factory Inspection, who shall pay the same into the office of the State Treasurer, for the use of the Commonwealth. Section 25. The Chief Factory Inspector shall prepare the form of the employment certificate for children, and the permits, blanks, orders and notices required by this act; the same to be printed in accordance with the laws regulating printing and publishing, under the supervision of the Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding. He shall also divide the State into inspection districts, and assign one of the deputy factory inspectors to each district, and may transfer any of the said inspectors from one district to another, and make such rules and regulations governing their employment as the best interests of the service shall require. And he, the deputy factory inspector, and those employed in the office of the Chief Factory Inspector, shall have the same power to administer oaths or affirmations as is now given to notaries public, in all cases where any person desires to verify documents necessary and incident to the issuing of employment certificates for children. Section 26. After the first day of January in each year, the Chief Factory Inspector shall compile or cause to be compiled a succinct statistical and narrative report, to be addressed to the Governor of the Commonwealth, of the work of his department for the year ending December thirty-first. Section 27. To more effectually secure the observ ance of the provisions of this act and the fire-escape laws, the Governor shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a Chief Factory Inspector, for a term of four years, at a salary of five thousand dollars per annum; and who shall appoint a chief clerk, at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum; a statistician, at a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum; an assistant clerk, at a salary of fourteen hundred dollars per annum; a messenger, spectors. who shall be a typewriter, at a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum, and thirty-nine deputy fac- Deputy Intory inspectors, five of whom shall be women, at a salary of twelve hundred dollars each, per annum, and their necessary traveling expenses; the Chief Factory Inspector and his appointees, aforesaid, to constitute Department of the Department of Factory Inspection. Factory Inspec tion. Section 28. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent Repeal. with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. APPROVED-The 2d day of May, A. D. 1905. SAML, W. PENNYPACKER. No. 227. AN ACT Creating the Department of State Police; providing for the appointment of a Superintendent thereof, together with the officers and men who shall constitute the force; defining their powers and duties, and making an appropriation for the expenses connected therewith. State Police. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That there is hereby Department of created and established the Department of State Police; the head of which shall be the Superintendent Superintendent. of State Police, to be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to serve for a term of four years from the date of his appointment, and who shall receive a salary of three thousand dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly upon warrant of the Auditor General drawn on the State Treasurer. Superintendent's Section 2. The Superintendent of State Police shall be provided by the Board of Public Grounds and Build- offices. ings with suitable offices at the Capitol, in Harrisburg, and shall give a bond to the Commonwealth, in the Bond. sum of twenty thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of his duties. He is authorized to appoint a stenographer. deputy, at a salary of two thousand dollars per an- Deputy, clerk and num; one clerk, who shall be a competent bookkeeper, at a salary of fourteen hundred dollars per annum, and a competent stenographer, at a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum. Section 3. He is also authorized to appoint the State State Police Police Force, which shall consist of four companies, Force. or platoons, each consisting of a captain, at a salary How constituted. of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, a lieutenant, at a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum; five and twenty dollars per annum. No applicant shall be Eligibility. Uniforms, arms, equipments, etc. Local headquarters. Powers of the police. Duties. Appropriation. Repeal. regulations of the police force of the cities of the first class, in addition to which each applicant must be a citizen of the United States, of sound constitution, able to ride, of good moral character, and between the ages of twenty-one and forty years. Section 4. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of State Police to provide for the members of the Police Force suitable uniforms, arms, equipments, and, where it is deemed necessary, horses; and to make such rules and regulations, subject to the approval of the Governor, as are deemed necessary for the control and regulation of the police force. It shall also be the duty of the Superintendent to establish local headquarters in various places. For that purpose he is hereby authorized to do so, by lease or otherwise, so as best to distribute the force throughout the various sections of the Commonwealth, where they will be most efficient in carrying out the purposes of this act to preserve the peace and to prevent crime. Section 5. The various members of the Police Force are hereby authorized and empowered to make arrests, without warrant, for all violations of the law which they may witness, and to serve and execute warrants issued by the proper local authorities. They are also authorized and empowered to act as forest, fire, game and fish wardens; and, in general, to have the powers and prerogatives conferred by law upon members of the police force of cities of the first class, or upon constables of the Commonwealth; and are intended, as far as possible, to take the place of the police now appointed at the request of the various corporations. The State Police Force shall, wherever possible, cooperate with the local authorities in detecting crime, and apprehending criminals, and preserving the law and order throughout the State. Section 6. That the sum of four hundred and twentyfive thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby specifically appropriated to pay the salaries and expenses necessary to carry this bill into effect; the same to be paid on warrant drawn by the Auditor General upon the State Treasurer, out of moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Section 7. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be and they are hereby repealed. APPROVED--The 2d day of May, A. D. 1905. SAML. W. PENNYPACKER. No. 228. AN ACT Relating to insolvency, termination of trusts, or assignments for the benefit of creditors, when made in another State, and designating to whom the interest in real property remaining in the trustee or assignee in this State shall revert. and assignments. shall cease. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That when an assign- Insolvency, trusts, ment has been made for the benefit of creditors, in another State, and an estate or interest in real property or lands in this State has been heretofore vested or shall hereafter vest in the assignee or other trustee under said assignment, the trust shall cease at the When the trust expiration of twenty-five years from the time when the trust was created, except where a shorter limitation is contained in the instrument creating the trust; and the estate or interest in the real property or lands in this State, remaining in the trustee or assignee, shall thereon revert to the assignor, or to his heirs or assigns, as if the trust had not been created. APPROVED-The 3d day of May, A. D. 1905. SAML. W. PENNYPACKER. Reversion. No. 229. AN ACT Amending sections one, two, three, seven, and fifteen of article two of an act, entitled "An act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and about the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania, and for the protection and preservation of property connected therewith," approved June eight, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and one (Pamphlet Laws, one thousand nine hundred and one, pages five hundred and thirty-five, et cetera); so as to increase the number of inspectors and inspection districts, provide for the examination of candidates for Dauphin county, and to provide for certain redistricting of inspectors. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That sections one, Anthracite mines. two, three, and seven of article two of an act, entitled "An act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and about the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania, and for the protection and preservation of property connected therewith," approved June eight, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and one (pamphlet laws, one thousand nine hundred and one, pages five hundred and thirty-five, et cetera), and which reads as follows: "Section 1. The counties of Luzerne, Lackawanna, Carbon, Schuylkill, Northumberland and Columbia shall be divided into six inspection districts, as follows: Sections 1, 2, 3, 7 and 15, article II, act of June 8, amendment. 1901, cited for |