improved: Provided, The ordinance authorizing and Proviso. No such ordinance shall be finally adopted and enacted Adoption of ordiin less than thirty days from the date of its introduc- nance. tion, and, in the meantime, copies of said ordinance shall be published in a newspaper in said borough, or Publication, etc. circulating therein, once a week for two weeks, and by at least five handbills, posted along the proposed improvement ten days before the final passage in council of such ordinance. APPROVED-The 7th day of May, A. D. 1907. EDWIN S. STUART. No. 131. AN ACT Authorizing and requiring the county auditors in the several counties of this Commonwealth to publish their annual report of the accounts of the several officers whose accounts it is the duty of said county auditors to examine and settle; providing the manner of publication of said auditors' report, and providing for the payment of publication of said auditors' report by said county thereof. report. Publication of. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the county auditors of the respective counties of this County auditors' Commonwealth to publish their annual report, such as by law is required or shall hereafter be required of them to be made and filed in the court of common pleas of their respective county, relating to the accounts of the several officers which by law said county auditors are or may be required hereafter to adjust and settle. Said auditors' report, or statement, shall be prepared and placed in the printer's hands, for publication, within ten days after being filed in the court of common pleas; and shall be published for three Manner of pubilsuccessive weeks in at least two weekly newspapers of the respective county, one of which papers shall be politically of a minority party. That the expense of Expense. the publication of said auditors' report shall be paid. by the county commissioners, out of the funds of the respective county of which the said report concerns. Section 2. That all laws and parts of laws inconsist ent with this act are hereby repealed. APPROVED The 7th day of May, A. D. 1907. EDWIN S. STUART. cation. Repeal. Poor-districts. Hydrophobia. Section 1, act of March 31, 1905, cited for amendment. Medical attention. No. 132. AN ACT To amend section one of "An act providing for necessary medical attention to needy persons who may be in danger of suffering from hydrophobia," approved the thirty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and five, so as to include all persons who may apply for aid, and providing that the cost of such medical attention shall be paid by the several poor-districts within this Commonwealth. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That section one of "An act providing for necessary medical attention to persons who may be in danger of suffering from hy drophobia," approved the thirty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and five. which reads as follows: "Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That in each and every county of this Commonwealth it shall be the duty of the proper officers of the several poor-districts. in such counties, to provide all needy persons, in their said several districts, who may be bitten by dogs suffering from hydrophobia, or rabies, with the proper medical attention to prevent the development of the disease in the person or persons so bitten, which medical attention may include the treatment known as the Pasteur treatment," be altered and amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That in each and every county of this Commonwealth it shall be the duty of the proper officers of the several poor-districts, in such counties, at the expense of such poor-districts, re spectively, to provide all persons who may apply for aid in their said several districts, who may be bitten by dogs or ather animals suffering from hydrophobia, or rabies, with the proper medical attention to prevent the development of the disease in the person or persons so bitten, which medical attention may include the treatment known as the Pasteur treatment. APPROVED-The 7th day of May, A. D. 1907. EDWIN S. STUART. The Pennsylvania Appropriation. No. 133. AN ACT Making an appropriation for the completion and equipment of the unfinished agricultural building, and for the payment of deficiencies in maintenance, necessary improvements, and repairs in the various departments of The Pennsylvania State College. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c.. That the following sums be and are hereby appropriated, to be paid June first, nineteen hundred and seven, or as soon as needed thereafter, by the State Treasurer, to the trustees of The Pennsylvania State College, on the warrant of the Auditor General, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: For the completion and equipment of the agricultural building, now partially constructed, the sum of Building. eighty-five thousand dollars. For a tunnel, constructed for the purpose of convey- Tunnel. ing the steam-pipes, the electric light wires, et cetera, from the heat, light and power plant to the group of agricultural buildings, supplied and to be supplied by the same, the sum of twenty-four thousand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and sixty cents. For the payment of deficiencies for heat, light, Deficiencies. power and water, up to and including the year ending May thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the sum of twenty-one thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-nine cents. For deficiencies in the maintenance of the library, for the two consecutive years ending May thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the sum of two thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-four cents. For deficiencies in the maintenance of the military department, for the two consecutive years ending May thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the sum of one thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars and twenty-four cents. For deficiencies in the appropriation for the maintenance of and repairs to buildings, and for the care of the campus, for the consecutive years ending May thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the sum of nine thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars and ninety-three cents. For deficiencies in the funds needed for the payment of salaries, for the two years ending May thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the sum of twenty-four thousand four hundred and fifty-three dollars and eighty-two cents. For a deficiency in the appropriation of funds to pay for necessary additions to machinery and equipment for the departments of mechanical, civil, electrical, and mining engineering, for the two consecutive years ending May thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the sum of five thousand six hundred dollars. For a deficiency in the appropriation of funds to pay for necessary improvements to the power-house, including repiping, replacing and rearrangment of stokers, the sum of two thousand two hundred and forty dollars. For a deficiency in funds to pay insurance, due prior to June first, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the sum of one thousand and six dollars and eightyeight cents. For a deficiency arising from necessary expendi tures for the equipment of the school of mines and metallurgy, the sum of two thousand four hundred and fifty-nine dollars and ninety-two cents. APPROVED The 7th day of May, A. D. 1907. EDWIN S. STUART. Turnpikes, roads, or highways. Condemnation proceedings. Adverse report. Petition. Jury of view. No. 134. AN ACT Supplementary to an act, entitled "An act authorizing the condemnation of turnpikes, roads, or highways, heretofore or hereafter constructed, wholly or in part, in any county of of this Commonwealth, for public use, free from tolls, and toll-gates, and the assessment upon the proper county of the damages to which the owner or owners thereof may be entitled, by a jury of viewers duly appointed by the court of quarter sessions of the proper county, and providing for the maintenance of any such condemned turnpike, road, or highway by the proper city, township, or district," approved the second day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven; authorizing the court of quarter sessions of the proper county, upon petition, to appoint a second or subsequent jury of viewers, after the lapse of five years from the final confirmation of an adverse report of a former jury of viewers. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That whenever a jury of viewers, heretofore or hereafter appointed by the court of quarter sessions of the proper county, under the provisions of an act of Assembly of this Commonwealth, entitled "An act authorizing the condemnation of turnpikes, roads, or highways, heretofore or hereafter constructed, wholly or in part, in any county of this Commonwealth, for public use, free from tolls and toll-gates, and the assessment upon the proper county of the damages to which the owner or owners thereof may be entitled, by a jury of viewers duly appointed by the court of quarter sessions of the proper county, and providing for the maintenance of any such condemned turnpike, road, or highway by the proper city, township, or district," approved the second day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, has reported against the condemnation of such turnpike, road, or highway, and such report has been finally confirmed by the said court, it shall be the duty of the said court, at any time after the lapse of five years from the date of the final confirmation of any such last preceeding adverse report, upon petition of twenty-five or more resident taxpayers of said county, to appoint a second or subsequent jury of viewers, including a master and stenographer, as provided in said act, whereupon the same proceedings shall be had for the condemnation of said EDWIN S. STUART. No. 135. AN ACT To enable local registrars of vital statistics, and their deputies, to administer the oath or affirmation of undertakers. statistics. Oath or affirmation of under Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That local registrars Registrars of vital of vital statistics, and their deputies, be and are hereby authorized to administer, when the same may be required, the oath or affirmation of undertakers, relating to the method of preparation of bodies intended for shipment by common carrier, or those dead of certain communicable diseases, the same to be administered without the payment of any fee. APPROVED-The 7th day of May, A. D. 1907. EDWIN S. STUART. takers. No. 136. AN ACT To repeal section four of an act, entitled "An act relative to county auditors, and for other purposes," approved April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and forty. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That section four of Dauphin county. an act, approved April ninth, one thousand eight hun dred and forty, entitled "An act relative to county County auditors. auditors, and other purposes," which section four reads as follows: "Section 4. That from and after the passage of this act, the county auditors of the county of Dauphin, in addition to the pay allowed them by law, shall be allowed six cents and one-quarter of a cent for each mile, circular, necessarily traveled in the execution of the duties of their office," be and the same is hereby repealed. APPROVED-The 7th day of May, A. D. 1907. EDWIN S. STUART. Section 4, act of April 9, 1840, cited for repeal. |