or the chief of such bureau may require. All The Secretary of Internal Affairs shall have a complete summarized and systematized report of the statistics and Reports. information collected and compiled by the bureau published annually, and shall otherwise provide means for making such information available for the use and benefit of the public as he may find necessary. records, files, work in course of completion, and such Transfer of equipment and supplies, as may be necessary in the records, etc., from work of said bureau, now in the possession of the bor and Industry. production division of the Bureau of Statistics and Information in the Department of Labor and Industry, are hereby transferred to the bureau hereby established, and are to be delivered to the Secretary of Internal Affairs when this act goes into effect. This act shall be in effect on the first day of June, one thou. When effective. sand nine hundred and nineteen. Department of La and testimony. Section 4. The Secretary of Internal Affairs, the chief of said bureau, or other person duly authorized by either of them, shall have power to issue subpoenas, administer oaths, hold hearings, and take testimony, in Subpoenas, oaths, all matters relating to the duties herein required of said bureau. Any corporation, firm, or individual, doing business within the Commonwealth, who shall neglect or refuse, for thirty days, to answer questions requested by circular, official blank, or personal application, or who shall refuse to obey the subpoena and give testimony according to the provisions of the act, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars, to Penalty. be collected by the Secretary of Internal Affairs in a proper action, for the use of the Commonwealth. Repeal. Act of May 11, The following acts and parts of acts are hereby repealed as respectively indicated; namely, so much of section four, act of eleventh of May, one thousand eight 1874 (P. L. 136). hundred and seventy-four (Pamphlet Laws, one hundred and thirty-six), entitled "An act regulating the election of Secretary of Internal Affairs, defining his duties and fixing his salary," as provides for a bureau of industrial statistics. Act of April 4, An act, entitled "An act authorizing the appointment of collectors of statistics, prescribing their duties, and 1889 (P. L. 26). providing for their compensation," approved April fourth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine (Pamphlet Laws, twenty-six), entitled "An act authorizing the appointment of collectors of statistics, prescribing their duties and providing for their compensation," absolutely. So much of section four as provides for a bureau of statistics and information, and section eleven abso lutely, of an act, entitled "An act creating a Depart- Act of June 2. ment of Labor and Industry; defining its powers and 1913 (P. L. 390). duties; establishing an Industrial Board; providing for 6 Laws. Act of April 22, 191 (P. L. 167). the appointment of a Commissioner of Labor, inspectors, statisticians, clerks, and others, to enforce the provisions of this act, and providing salaries for the same; prescribing a standard of reasonable and adequate protection to be observed in the rooms, buildings and places where labor is employed; empowering the said Industrial Board to make, alter, amend, and repeal rules and regulations relating thereto; transferring the powers and duties of the Department of Factory Inspection to the Department of Labor and Industry, and abolishing the Department of Factory Inspection; and providing a penalty for the violation of the provisions of this act, or the rules and the regulations of the said board," approved June second, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen (Pamphlet Laws, three hundred and ninety-six). So much of section one of an act, entitled "An act authorizing the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to appoint additional officers and employes in the Department of Labor and Industry; fixing their duties and salaries, and increasing the salaries of the chief medical inspector, chief of the bureau of statistics and information, and the chief clerk," approved April twenty-two, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen (Pamphlet Laws, one hundred and sixty-seven), as relates to the appointment and compensation of additional employes in the Bureau of Statistics and Information, and fixes their compensation and the salary of the chief of said bureau. APPROVED-The 18th day of April, A. D. 1919. WM. C. SPROUL. No. 64. AN ACT Creating the office of indictment and cost clerk, as an assistant to the district attorney, in the several counties of this Commonwealth having a population of not less than one hundred and fifty thousand and not more than two hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, providing for the appointment of a person in each of said counties to fill said office, prescribing the qualifications, duties, and term of office of said appointees, fixing their salaries and authorizing the payment of the same by the county. Counties having a less than 150,000 and not more than population of not 250,000. cost clerk. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the passage of this act, the district attorney of any county having a population of not less than one hundred and fifty thousand and not more than two hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, in addition to appointing the assistants authorized by existing legislation, shall have authority to appoint an assistant, learned in the law, who shall be designated as indict- Indictment and ment and cost clerk, to assist the district attorney in the discharge of his duties; such appointee to hold office during the term of office of the district attorney appointing him, but the district attorney may remove such appointee for any cause he deems sufficient, and appoint another person duly qualified to fill the va cancy. Said indictment and cost clerk shall receive a salary of one hundred dollars per month, to be paid in the same manner that other county officers are paid. APPROVED-The 18th day of April, A. D. 1919. Salary. Corporations. Merger and consolidation. Light, heat, and power companies. Motor power or street railway companies. Conditions of merger. Joint agreement of directors. Approval by meetings of stockholders. No. 65. AN ACT Authorizing companies incorporated to supply light, heat, and power, or either of them, by electricity, to merge and consolidate with motor power or street railway companies. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That it shall be lawful for any company incorporated for the supply of light, heat, and power, or any of them, to the public, by electricity, now or hereafter organized under any act of Assembly of this Commonwealth, to merge and consolidate its corporate rights, franchises, powers, and privileges, with and into those of any motor power company or street railway company, now or hereafter organized under any act of Assembly authorizing the formation of such corporations, so that by virtue of this act such corporations may consolidate and so that all the property rights, franchises, and privileges that by law vested in either of such corporations so merged shall be transferred to and vested in the corporation into which such merger shall be made. Section 2. Said merger or consolidation shall be made under the conditions, provisions, and restrictions, and with the powers, herein set forth; namely, I. The directors of each corporation may enter into a joint agreement, under the corporate seal of each corporation, for the merger and consolidation of said corporations, prescribing the terms and conditions thereof, the mode of carrying the same into effect, the name of the new corporation, the number and names of the directors and other officers thereof, and who shall be the first directors and officers and their places of residence, the number of shares of the capital stock, the amount or par value of each share, and the manner of converting the capital stock of each of said corporations into the stock of the new corporation, and how and when directors and officers shall be chosen, with such other details as they shall deem necessary to perfect the said consolidation and merger, but said agreement shall not be effective unless the same shall be approved by the stockholders of said corporation in the manner hereinafter provided. II. Said agreement shall be submitted to the stockholders of each of said corporations, at separate special meetings, of the time, place and object of which respective meetings due notice shall be given by publication, once a week for two successive weeks before said respective meetings, in at least one newspaper in the county or each of the counties in which the principal offices of said respective corporations shall be situ. ate; and at said meetings the said agreement of the Filing with Secre wealth. directors shall be considered, and a vote of the stockholders in person or by proxy shall be taken by ballot for the adoption or rejection of the same,-each share of stock entitling the holder thereof to one vote, and if a majority in amount of the entire capital stock of each of said corporations shall vote in favor of said agreement, merger and consolidation, then that fact shall be certified by the secretary of each corporation, under the seal thereof, and said certificates, together Certificates. with the said agreement or a copy thereof, shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, whereupon the said agreement shall be deemed tary of Commonand taken to be the act of consolidation of said corporation. Section 3. Upon the filing of said certificates and when merger is agreement or copy of agreement in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, the said merger shall be deemed to have taken place and the said corporations Powers, etc., of to be one corporation under the name adopted in and consolidated corby said agreement, possessing all the rights, privileges, and franchises theretofore vested in each of them; and all the estate and property, real and personal, and all the rights of action, of each of said corporations, shall be deemed and taken to be transferred to and vested in the said new corporation without any further act or deed: effective. poration. holders. Provided, That all rights of creditors and all liens Creditors and lien upon the property of each of said corporations shall continue unimpaired, and all debts, duties, and liabil ities, of each of said constituent corporations, shall thenceforth attach to the said new corporation and may be enforced against it to the same extent and by the same process as if said debts, duties and liabilities had been contracted by it. But such merger and consolidation shall not be complete, and no such consolidated corporation shall do any business of any kind, until it shall have first obtained, from the Governor of the Commonwealth, new letters patent, and shall have paid, to the State Treasurer, a bonus of one-third of one per centum on all its corporate stock in excess of on stock. the amount of the capital stock of the several corporations so consolidating upon which the bonus required by law had been theretofore paid: Letters patent. Payment of bonus And provided further, That new letters patent of Proviso. such consolidated corporation shall not be issued by the Governor of the Commonwealth until each and every corporation entering and forming the consolidated corporation shall have filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth a certificate from the Auditor General of the Commonwealth, setting forth that all Certificate from reports required by the Auditor General of the Commonwealth have been duly filed and that all taxes due the Commonwealth have been paid. Auditor General. Тахев. |