OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF THE

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA,

PASSED AT THE

SESSION OF 1879,

IN THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD YEAR OF INDEPENDENCE,

TOGETHER WITH

A proclamation by the Governor, declaring that he has filed certain Bills in the office of the Sec-
retary of the Commonwealth with his objections thereto, and a List of Charters of
Corporations organized under general Corporation act of April

29, 1874, and the Supplements thereto.

BY AUTHORITY.

HARRISBURG:

LANE S. HART, STATE PRINTER.

1879.

106

LAWS

OF THE

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA.

No. 1.

AN ACT

Providing for the election of members of the select council of cities of
the fifth class, where said cities have not been divided into wards.

lect council, pro

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That any city of the fifth Election of se-
class which shall not have been divided into wards may let coun
elect, at the first municipal election held therein, besides
other proper officers, four members of and for the select coun-
cil, who shall have the qualifications as provided in section
nineteen of the act, entitled "An act dividing cities of this
state into three classes, regulating the passage of ordinances,
providing for contracts for supplies and work for said cities,
authorizing the increase of indebtedness and the creation of
a sinking fund to redeem the same, defining and punishing
certain offenses in all of said cities, and providing for the
incorporation and government of cities of the third class,"
approved May twenty-third, Anno Domini one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four, and who shall serve for one
year or until their successors are chosen and qualified, as
provided in said act above referred to and the several sup-
plements thereto : Provided, That notice thereof and of the
election of all other elective officers of such city be given given.
by the mayor of such city if there be one, and if not by the
burgess of the borough from which said city shall have been
formed, for at least five days prior to such election, which
said notice shall be published in all the newspapers of said
city, and shall be posted in at least six conspicuous places
therein.

APPROVED-The 12th day of February, A. D. 1879.
HENRY M. HOYT.

Notice to be

Act repealed.

No. 2.

AN ACT

To repeal an act, entitled "An act authorizing the election of additional supervisors in Middle Paxton township, in the county of Dauphin."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the act, entitled "An act authorizing the election of additional supervisors in Middle Paxton township, in the county of Dauphin," approved the fifteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, be and the same is hereby repealed. APPROVED-The 13th day of February, A. D., 1879. HENRY M. HOYT.

Fees fixed.

No. 3.
AN ACT

To ascertain and appoint the fees to be received by the recorder of deeds in and for the counties in this commonwealth containing more than five hundred thousand (500,000) inhabitants.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the passage of this act, the fees of the recorder of deeds for counties in this commonwealth containing more than five hundred thousand (500,000) inhabitants, shall be as follows, to wit:

For recording of all instruments of writing, for each and every five hundred (500) words or fractional part thereof, fifty cents.

For exemplification of records, for each and every five hundred (500) words or fractional part thereof, seventy-five cents.

For certificate and seal, fifty cents.

For recording or exemplifying of commissions for notary public, with bond and oath, five dollars; city and county officers, five dollars; magistrates, five dollars; special railroad police officers, two dollars and fifty cents.

For noting an instrument on margin of record-
Noting assignments of mortgages, ten cents.
Noting extension of mortgages, ten cents.

Noting release of mortgages, ten cents.

Noting revocation of power of attorney, ten cents.

Noting any other instrument required by law, ten cents. Noting satisfaction of mortgages on certificate of search, ten cents.

Satisfaction

Entering satisfaction on mortgages of every description, with certificate, fifty cents.

Searches

Mortgage, for first ten (10) years previous to date of certificate, each name, fifty cents.

Each additional ten (10) years or fractional part thereof, each name, twenty-five cents.

Each reference examined, five cents.

Conveyance and assignment of mortgage—

For each and every ten (10) years or fractional part thereof, each name, fifty cents.

Each reference examined, five cents.

Certificate and seal, fifty cents.

SECTION 2. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith, Repeal. be and the same are hereby repealed: Provided, That nothing contained herein shall be construed to alter the existing laws for the collection of taxes due the commonwealth for the recording of deeds, mortgages or other instruments in writing.

APPROVED-The 6th day of March, A. D., 1879.

No. 4.

HENRY M. HOYT.

AN ACT.

Creating a lien upon real estate for all taxes and assessments for local improvements, levied and made upon the same by cities of the fourth

class.

ments to be liens.

No claim of ex

allowed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That all the taxes assessed Taxes and assessand levied, and all assessments made for local improvements, by any of the cities of the fourth class of this commonwealth, upon real estate, in pursuance to the laws and ordinances of said cities, shall be a lien on such real estate from the time of levying such tax and making such assessment for local improvements, for the space of five years; and the To have priority. lien hereby created shall have priority to and shall be fully paid and satisfied before any recognizance, mortgage, judgment, debt, obligation or responsibility which the said real estate may become charged with or liable to, from and after the passage of this act; nor shall the defendant or defendants or other persons in any writ of fieri facias, venditioni exponas emption to be or levari facias, be entitled to claim any exemption under a levy and sale of any real estate charged with such tax or assessment for local improvements against the allowance or payment of the same: Provided, That no assessment for Liens to be filed. local improvements shall be a lien as aforesaid, unless a municipal lien be filed therefor in pursuance to the laws and ordinances of the cities aforesaid, and not until such lien has been filed: And provided further, That no taxes assessed shall remain a lien on any real estate longer than the last day of the year during which the same was assessed, unless the said taxes assessed be duly returned by the receiver or collector of taxes and entered in the books of the commissioners of the county, and a transcript of the said taxes, stating what taxes and the land bound thereby, be duly entered in the prothonotary's office, and indexed as a lien on said land in the judgment index of the county wherein such lands are situated; and no judicial sale on the Not to be divesttaxes so assessed and returned, or by virtue of any writ of sale. ed by judicial