method of collecting such revenue and repealing all laws, general, special or local or any parts thereof that are or may be inconsistent therewith."

House bill No. 1094. "An act designating Frances Willard day in the public schools."

House bill No. 1225. "An act to amend part of section eleven of an act approved the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four (Pamphlet Laws twenty-one), entitled 'A further supplement to an act entitled ‘An act to incorporate the city of Philadelphia.'"

House bill No. 1226. "An act to fix the salaries of clerks in the Bureau of Searches under the Receiver of Taxes in cities of the first class."

House bill No. 1212. "An act making an appropriation to the State Livestock Sanitary Board for the purposes of reimbursing certain owners of animals destroyed during the late epidemic of the foot and mouth disease."

House bill No. 774. "An act supplementary to an act approved the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, entitled 'An act to provide for the appointment of county and city inspectors of weights and measures providing for their compensation and expenses prescribing their duties prohibiting venders from giving false or insufficient weights and fixing the penalties for the violation of the provisions hereof,' providing for the examination of the glassware used for testing milk and cream for butterfat with the Babcock test, prohibiting the use of inaccurate testing glassware, defining the term standard Babcock glassware and fixing penalties for the violations of the provisions of this act."

House bill No. 804. "An act amending ‘An act for the establishment of a uniform standard of time throughout the Commonwealth,' approved the thirteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, so as to make the same uniform to the standard fixed by act of Congress."

House bill No. 974. "An act to amend section three of the act approved the sixth day of April, one thousand nine hundred eleven (Pamphlet Laws fifty-one), entitled 'An act providing for the protection of the public health and the prevention of fraud and deception by prohibiting the sale, the offering for sale or exposing for sale or the having in possession with intent to sell of adulterated or deleterious sausage, defining sausage and prescribing the penalty for the violation thereof."

House bill No. 511. "An act to amend part of section one of an act approved the twentieth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen (Pamphlet Laws one thousand one hundred fifty-eight), entitled 'An act to fix, regulate and establish the fees to be charged and received by constables in this Commonwealth.”

House bill No. 965. "An act providing a method for the abatement of the penalty as fixed by law for killing by mistake a deer or an elk in this Commonwealth."

House bill No. 986. "An act providing for the establishment of Auxiliary State Game Preserves."

House bill No. 419. "An act creating a reward or bounty for the destruction of certain noxious animals killed within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, providing a method for the payment of the same and providing the method of furnishing evidence of said destruction and penalties for the violation of the several provisions hereof."

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

Senate bill No. 1983 (House bill No. 1184). "An act to amend sections five hundred and forty-two, one thousand five hundred and one, one thousand five hundred and three and two thousand three hundred and ten of an act approved the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven (Pamphlet Laws three hundred nine), entitled '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 there

with."

Which was committed to the Committee on Education.

Senate bill No. 1084 (House bill No. 1487). "An act making an appropriation to the Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings Department for the payment of deficiencies."

Which was committed to the Committee on Appropriations.

Senate bill No. 1085 (House bill No. 1325). "An act to amend section four of an act approved the seventeenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen (Pamphlet Laws two hundred eight), entitled 'An act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons and drugs and providing penalties for the violation thereof, defining the words 'drug' and 'poison' and providing for the appointment of a board which shall have in charge the enforcement of said law, and the power to make rules and regulations for the enforcement of said law and providing for the purchase of samples of drugs for determining their quality, strength and purity."

Which was committed to the Committee on Public Health and Sanitation.

Senate bill No. 1086 (House bill No. 1024). "An act to amend section one (1) and section seven (7) of an act approved the fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, entitled 'An act to provide revenue by imposing a State tax upon sales or agreements to sell or memoranda of sales of stock and upon deliveries of transfers of shares or certificates of stock in domestic and foreign corporations, co-partnership, associations and joint stock associations, providing the manner of collecting such tax and prescribing penalties and repealing all acts or parts of acts inconsistent therewith."

Which was committed to the Committee on Finance.

Senate bill No. 1087 (House bill No. 1294). "An act relating to the acknowledgment and recording of deeds.”

Which was committed to the Committee on Judiciary General.

Senate bill No. 1088 (House bill No. 1321). "An act permitting Building and Loan Associations to make temporary loans and to secure payment by pledge of bonds of the United States issued for war purposes.'

Which was committed to the Committee on Banks and Building and Loan Associations.

Senate bill No. 1089 (House bill No. 1403). "An act prohibiting a charge by municipalities and boards of health for interring bodies brought into a district from another district in Pennsylvania where a burial permit has been properly issued by the registrar where death occurs."

Which was committed to the Committee on Public Health and Sanitation.

Senate bill No. 1090 (House bill No. 1501). "An act ratifying and confirming the appointment of guardians and the sales of real estate of feeble minded persons where the orphans' court of the proper county since the twenty-eighth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and seven, have appointed guardians of the estates of feeble minded persons and decreed or approved the sales of the real estate of such persons with like effect as if said proceedings, decrees of sale or approvals had been taken in the court of common pleas of the proper county."

Which was committed to the Committee on Judiciary General.

Senate bill No. 1091 (House bill No. 1576). “A joint resolution offering rewards for the arrest and conviction of persons threatening the lives of citizens and the destruction of property.”

Which was committed to the Committee on Appropriations.

Senate bill No. 1092 (House bill No. 369). "An act to amend an act approved the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven (Pamphlet Laws three hundred nine), entitled '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.”

Which was committed to the Committee on Education.

Senate bill No. 1093 (House bill No. 1488). "An act amending article sixteen of an act entitled 'An act for the government of cities of the second class,' approved the seventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and one as amended by an act entitled 'An act amending article two, article six, article sixteen and paragraph

twenty-four of article nineteen of an act entitled 'An act for the government of cities of the second class,' approved the seventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and one by providing for an increase in the number of executive departments in said cities from nine to ten by the creation of the Department of Public Health by increasing the number of persons constituting the Department of Assessors and enlarging and increasing the jurisdiction and powers of said department by providing for an increase in the number of police magistrates in said cities from five to eight and supplementing said act by authorizing the creation of the Department of Public Health, providing for the appointment of a director thereof, fixing the maximum of his salary and defining the jurisdiction of said department,' approved the first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and nine, fixing the number of police magistrates in said cities and relating to their salaries."

Which was committed to the Committee on Municipal Affairs.

Senate bill No. 1094 (House bill No. 1444). "An act to amend section one of an act approved the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five (Pamphlet Laws eighty-seven), entitled 'An act to provide for notice in the recovery of possession of premises by a landlord in all cases where the tenant holds for a term less than one year either by license or lease for an indeterminate time."

Which was committed to the Committee on Judiciary General.

Senate bill No. 1095 (House bill No. 1133). "An act to amend section one of the act approved the seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred fifteen (Pamphlet Laws eight hundred seventy), entitled 'An act to amend, revise and consolidate the law providing for the burial of certain honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines at the expense of the counties in which they shall die or have a legal residence at the time of their death to provide a system for effecting the burial of such soldiers, sailors and marines to provide headstones and markers for the graves of such soldiers, sailors and marines and to authorize the county commissioners of the several counties to purchase plots of ground for the burial of such soldiers, sailors and marines' as amended."

Which was committed to the Committee on Judiciary General.

Senate bill No. 1096 (House bill No. 111). "An act fixing the time of meeting of the return judges in the several congressional, senatorial, representative and judicial districts composed of two or more counties or parts of two or more counties, prescribing the manner of making and certifying the consolidated returns imposing certain duties on prothonotaries and county commissioners and fixing the compensation of such return judges."

Which was committed to the Committee on Elections.

Senate bill No. 1097 (House bill No. 112). "A supplement to an act approved the eleventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and one (Pamphlet Laws six hundred and fifty-two), entitled 'An act to 99-Sen. Jour.

apportion the State into congressional districts,' designating the places in which the return judges of such congressionl districts shall meet on districts composed of two or more counties or parts of two or more counties."

Which was committed to the Committee on Elections.

Senate bill No. 1098 (House bill No. 113). "An act authorizing county commissioners to appoint return judges to cast up primary election returns in congressional, senatorial and judicial districts."

Which was committed to the Committee on Elections.

Senate bill No. 1099 (House bill No. 1365). "An act to provide instruction in citizenship and the principles of the government of the United States of America and of this Commonwealth to foreign born residents of the State of Pennsylvania in the several counties thereof who are not required to attend the public schools of this Commonwealth, providing for the appointment of instructors and interpreters and providing for their compensation, payable by the several counties and defining the powers and duties of such instructors and the county superintendents of schools."

Which was committed to the Committee on Education.

Senate bill No. 1100 (House bill No. 1336). "An act to regulate and determine what weight of anthracite coal shall make a ton for delivery by retail coal dealers and to impose penalties for short weight.”

Which was committed to the Committee on Mines and Mining. Senate bill No. 1101 (House bill No. 1388). "An act prohibiting the sale, distribution and use of foods, drugs and certain mixtures and preparations containing methyl or wood alcohol and fixing penalties."

Which was committed to the Committee on Public Health and Sanitation.

Senate bill No. 1102 (House bill No. 1390). "An act to regulate and establish the fees to be charged by justices of the peace, aldermen and magistrates in this Commonwealth."

Which was committed to the Committee on Judiciary General.

Senate bill No. 1103 (House bill No. 1535). "An act declaring it a felony to wilfully and maliciously burn or cause to be burned or to set fire to or attempt to set fire to any motor vehicle."

Which was committed to the Committee on Judiciary General.

Senate bill No. 1104 (House bill No. 1462). “An act authorizing, empowering and regulating the issuance of venires for attendance of jurors in the several courts of the Commonwealth."

Which was committed to the Committee on Judiciary General.

Senate bill No. 1105 (House bill No. 1522). "An act providing for the delivery by the prothonotary to the sheriff of writs directed to him