Journal, Part 1

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Most vols. 1794/95-1853, have appendices consisting of reports of various State offices.
 

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Page 878 - An act defining the powers of the several courts of quarter sessions of the peace, within this commonwealth, •with reference to the care, treatment and control of dependent, neglected, incorrigible, and delinquent children, under the age of sixteen years, and providing for the means in which such power may be exercised.
Page 963 - An Act to establish a public school system in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, together with the provisions by which it shall be administered, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof; providing revenue to establish and maintain the same, and the method of collecting such revenue ; and repealing all laws, general, special or local, or any parts thereof, that are or may be inconsistent therewith...
Page 268 - An act providing when, how, upon what property, and to what extent, liens shall be allowed for taxes, and for municipal improvements, and for the removal of nuisances ; the procedure upon claims filed therefor ; the methods for preserving such liens and enforcing payment of such claims; the effect of judicial sales of the properties liened, and the manner of distributing the proceeds of such sales...
Page 481 - An act relating to dogs and the protection of live stock and poultry from damage by dogs; providing for the licensing of dogs; regulating the keeping of dogs, and authorizing their destruction in certain cases ; providing for the determination and payment of damages done by dogs to live stock and poultry ; imposing powers and duties on certain state, county, city and township officers and employes, and to repeal Act No.
Page 404 - ... no law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended or conferred, by reference to its title only; but so much thereof as is revived, amended, extended, or conferred shall be re-enacted and published at length...
Page 304 - ... approved the twentieth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, entitled "An act to regulate the manner of increasing the indebtedness of municipalities, to provide for the redemption of the same, and to impose penalties for the illegal increase thereof...
Page 489 - An act providing for the establishment of a State Highway Department, by the appointment of a State Highway Commissioner, two Deputy State Highway Commissioners, chief engineer, chief draughtsman, superintendents of highways, and a staff of assistants and employes; defining their duties and the jurisdiction of the State Highway Department, and fixing salaries of Commissioner and deputies and other appointees; providing for taking over from...
Page 905 - An act establishing a State employes' retirement system, and creating a retirement board for the administration thereof; establishing certain funds from contributions by the Commonwealth and contributing State employes, defining the uses and purposes thereof and the manner of payments therefrom, and providing for the guaranty by the Commonwealth of certain of said funds; imposing powers and duties upon the heads of departments in which State employee serve; excepting annuities, allowances, returns,...
Page 231 - State to counties and townships desiring the same in the improvement of township or county roads ; defining highways and State-aid highways ; providing method of application for State aid in the improvement, maintenance and repair of township or county roads and prescribing the contents of township, county, borough, or incorporated town petitions...
Page 613 - An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations," approved the twenty-ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four...

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