Journal, Part 2

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

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Page 2012 - Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, entitled -"An act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and about the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania, and for the protection and preservation of property connected therewith...
Page 1925 - 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 1739 - 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 1865 - All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws; but the General Assembly may, by general laws, exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes, actual places of religious worship, places of burial not used or held for private or corporate profit, and institutions of purely public charity.
Page 1333 - ... does not include a person or body corporate who merely receives a royalty, rent, or fine from a mine, or is merely the proprietor of a mine subject to any lease, grant, or license for the working thereof, or is merely the owner of the soil, and not interested in the minerals of the mine...
Page 1756 - 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 1606 - ... several townships or counties from any further obligation and expense to improve or maintain the same, and relieving said townships or counties of authority over same; requiring boroughs and incorporated towns to maintain certain State highways wholly and in part ; requiring the State Highway Commissioner to make maps to be complete records thereof -, conferring authority on the State Highway Commissioner; providing for the payment of damages in taking of property, or otherwise, in the improvement...
Page 1443 - An act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 4An act authorizing companies incorporated under the laws of any other state of the United States for the manufacture of any form of iron, steel or glass, to erect and maintain buildings and manufacturing establishments, and to take, have and hold real estate necessary and proper for manufacturing purposes...
Page 1928 - An act to enforce the provisions of the seventeenth article of the Constitution relative to railroads and canals;' and an act, entitled "To provide the maximum car service charges, including car storage charges, that railroad companies and corporations, or associations, may charge and collect on each car loading, and not unloaded within the free time for unloading cars, and fixing the free time that shall be allowed for unloading cars...
Page 1337 - 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.

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