ants, and fixing the salaries of such State supervisor and assistants, defining the powers and duties of boards of trustees, including the power of appointing assistants and investigators and the distribution of funds at their disposal, providing for the apportionment of the State appropriation among the several counties, and requiring counties coming under the provisions of the act to appropriate certain moneys, and providing penalties.”

He also, from the Committee on Appropriations, re-reported as committed, Senate bill No. 306 (House bill No. 129), entitled "An act to amend the second section of an act, entitled 'An act relating to unclaimed deposits in savings banks and transfer of stock,' approved the seventeenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two (Pamphlet Laws sixty-two), so as to provide thtat the Auditor-General, State Treasurer and Attorney-General may upon satisfactory proof of ownership order the refund to persons entitled thereto of the amounts of deposits paid into the State Treasury under the provisions of said act, with interest thereon, in place of requiring a suit for such refund to be instituted in the court of common pleas of Dauphin county."

The Private Secretary to the Governor being introduced, presented the following communications in writing from His Excellency, the Governor of the Commonwealth, which were read as follows, viz: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Executive Chamber, Harrisburg, May 5, 1919.

To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania:

Gentlemen: In conformity with section 7 of the act, entitled "An act authorizing the issue and sale of bonds to the amount of fifty millions of dollars ($50,000,000) by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, defining the powers and duties of the Governor, the AuditorGeneral and the State Treasurer in relation thereto, making an appropriation of the proceeds of such bonds for the purpose of improving and rebuilding the highways of the Commonwealth, providing for the payment of interest thereon, and the redemption of bonds by the Sinking Fund Commission, and making an appropriation to carry out the provisions of this act," and in order that you may provide by appropriation the moneys necessary for the sinking fund of the Commonwealth for the payment of the interest on said bonds and the principal thereof at maturity, I have the honor to inform you that it is my purpose to issue on or about July 1, 1919, bonds to the amount of twelve millions of dollars ($12,000,000), and on or about July 1, 1920, bonds to the amount of eighteen millions of dollars ($18,000,000), as authorized by the aforesaid act of Assembly, said bonds to bear interest at the rate of four and one-half per cent. (41%) per annum, and be payable in not less than thirty years from the date of issue.

WM. C. SPROUL.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,

Executive Chamber, Harrisburg, May 2, 1919.

To the Honorable, the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Gentlemen: I have the honor to inform you that I have this day approved and signed Senate bill No. 269, entitled "An act to carry out the provisions of section eight, article nine of the Constitution of the State of Pennsylvania, as amended, and for that purpose prescribing the method of determining the amount which may be deducted in ascertaining the borrowing capacity of the city of Philadelphia by excluding from the calculation and deducting from its indebtedness so much of the debt of said city as shall have been incurred and the proceeds thereof invested in any public improvements of any character which shall be yielding to the said city an annual current net revenue."

WM. C. SPROUL.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Executive Chamber,
Harrisburg, May 2, 1919.

To the Honorable, the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Gentlemen: I have the honor to inform you that I have this day approved and signed Senate bill No. 548, entitled "A joint resolution providing for the appointment of a committee to investigate the public school system and the administration and distribution of appropriations therefor and making an appropriation."

WM. C. SPROUL.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Executive Chamber,
Harrisburg, May 5, 1919.

To the Honorable, the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Gentlemen: In conformity with law, I have the honor hereby to nominate for the advice and consent of the Senate, the following named persons to be notaries public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the term of four years, to compute from the date of confirmation:

To the Honorable, the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania:

Gentlemen: In conformity with law, I have the honor hereby to nominate for the advice and consent of the Senate, the following named persons to be notaries public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the term of four years, to compute from the date of confirmation:

To the Honorable, the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Gentlemen: In conformity with law, I have the honor hereby to nominate for the advice and consent of the Senate, the following named persons to be notaries public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the term of four years, to compute from the dates set opposite their names:

Bradford County.

Thomas A. Morrissey, borough of Sayre, May 24, 1919.

Chester County.

Charles H. Howell, Jr., borough of Phoenixville, May 16, 1919.

Philadelphia County.

Martin I. Isen, Philadelphia, May 10, 1919.

WM. C. SPROUL.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,

Executive Chamber, Harrisburg, May 5, 1919.

To the Honorable, the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Gentlemen: In conformity with law, I have the honor hereby to nominate for the advice and consent of the Senate, Thomas B. Donaldson, of Philadelphia, to be Insurance Commissioner of Pennsylvania, for the term of four years, to be computed from the first Monday of May, 1919.

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WM. C. SPROUL.

By unanimous consent,

A motion was made by Mr. Crow and Mr. Buckman,

That rule 38, which requires nominations made by the Governor to be referred to proper committees be dispensed with, and the Senate do now resolve itself into executive session, for the purpose of acting on the foregoing nominations.

Which was agreed to.

Whereupon,

A motion was made by Mr. Crow and Mr. Buckman,

That the Senate do advise and consent to said nominations.

On the question,

Will the Senate agree to the motion?

The yeas and nays were taken agreeably to the provisions of the Constitution, and wer as follows, viz:

YEAS.

Messrs. Frank E. Baldwin, Richard J. Baldwin, Barnes, Barr, Beales, Boyd, Buckman, Campbell, Craig, Crow, Daix, Davis, DeWitt, Donahue, Einstein, Eyre, Graff, Gray, Hackett, Haldeman, Heaton, Herron, Homsher, Jones, Leiby, Leslie, Marlow, Martin, McConnell, McNichol, Mearkle, Summerfield J. Miller, Murdoch, Nason, Patton, Phipps, Salus, Sassaman, Schantz, Smith, Snyder, Sones, Tompkins, Turner, Vare, Weaver, Whitten and Woodward-48.

NAYS.

None.

Two-thirds of all the Senators having voted "aye" the question was determined in the affirmative.

The Clerk of the House of Representatives being introduced, presented for concurrence bill numbered and entitled as follows:

House bill No. 259 "An act to amend section six of an act approved the twentieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen (Pamphlet Laws six hundred and eighteen), entitled 'An act relating to the appointment of persons to the police department in cities of the third class, providing for and regulating examinations, the manner of appointments and the manner and power of removal of employes of said department and providing a method for fixing compensation,' so as to permit temporary suspensions by the superintendent of Public Affairs."

Said bill having been recalled from the Governor for amendment, the vote had on final passage and third reading reconsidered in the House and the bill amended, in which amendments the concurrence of the Senate is requested.