formatories and other penal institutions within the State of Pennsylvania to be employed in manufacturing goods therein, and prohibiting the use of machinery in manufacturing said goods.

To amend the act, entitled "An act providing for the recording of plans of all subdivisions of any lot or piece of land into building lots heretofore laid out, or hereafter to be laid out, for the purpose of selling more according to such plans, and prescribing penalties for failure to record such plans," approved the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, so as to enlarge the scope thereof.

Repealing so much of section one of an act, entitled "An act relative to the expense of maintaining children committed to the House of Refuge of Western Pennsylvania from the county of Lawrence," approved the seventeenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, as provides that in case the parents of any child committed shall not be of sufficient ability to pay the said expenses, then the poor district in which said child had its last legal settlement, and in cases of no legal settlement the poor district in which such child resides immediately before it was committed, shall be liable to said county for said expenses.

To amend section thirteen of an act, entitled "A further supplement to the act regulating elections in this Commonwealth," approved the thirteenth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, to provide for the computation of the returns of the election of any officer of a district composed of two or more counties, or parts of two or more counties, other than a Representative or Senator of the State Legislature, or a Representative in Congress, or a judge of the courts, by return judges to be appointed by the courts of the counties comprising such districts.

To provide for the organization, discipline and regulation of the National Guard of Pennsylvania.

Authorizing the orphans' courts of the Commonwealth to decide specific performance of written contracts, and also parol contracts when so far executed that it would be inequitable to rescind, for the sale of real estate, where the vendor has died without conveying, and in cases where the vendee has died without having paid the purchase money and authorizing the recording of the decrees in such cases in the counties where the real state lies.

May 2, 1899:

To provide for the licensing of transient retail merchants in cities, boroughs and townships, and providing a penalty for failure to obtain the same.

To validate changes heretofore made in the names of certain corporations not conducted for profit, and to provide a method of mak. ing such changes hereafter.

Repealing an act, entitled "An act amending clause ten (10) of section one (1) of an act, entitled 'An act authorizing the ascertain: ment, levy, assessment and collection of the costs, damages and expenses of municipal improvements, including the grading, paving,

macadamizing or otherwise improving of any street, lane or alley or parts thereof, completed or now in process of completion, and also the costs, damages and expenses of the construction of any sewer completed or now in process of completion, and authorizing the completion of any such improvement,' approved the sixteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninetyone, enlarging the time which the proceedings shall include," approved the thirty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

Repealing an act, entitled "An act authorizing the ascertainment of the damages to property taken, injured or destroyed in opening, widening, straightening or extending of streets and alleys in cases where municipalities have heretofore entered upon private property, or file bonds under laws subsequently decided to be unconstitutionai or which are invalid, and providing for the ascertainment, levy and collection of benefits therefor, and constituting such benefits a lien upon the properties upon which they are respectively assessed," approved June seventh, one thousand eight hundred and ninty

seven.

Requiring all deeds and other conveyances of real estate, in the several counties of this Commonwealth having a population of over five hundred thousand, to be registered in the office of the county commissioners before being recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds, and prescribing penalties.

Legalizing and making it lawful to build fences constructed in whole or in part of wire along the public highways, and as division. fences.

To provide for the improvement of the main traveled public roads. Amending section two, section five, section six, section seven, section eight, section eleven, section thirteen, section fifteen, section thirty-seven, section thirty-eight, section thirty-nine and section forty of an act, entitled "An act creating a bureau of health in the department of public safety in cities of the second class, defining the powers and duties thereof and of the officers thereunder, prescribing rules and regulations and laws respecting the public health, and authorizing and imposing fines, penalties and punishments for violations thereof," approved the twenty-sixth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

To amend section three of an act, entitled "An act to consolidate, revise and amend the laws of this Commonwealth relating to penal proceedings and pleadings," approved the thirty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty, so as to dispense with the endorsing or backing of warrants by aldermen and justices of the peace out of the jurisdiction of the alderman or justice granting the warrant, and to require aldermen and justices to keep an official seal, and stamp all warrants granted with said seal.

Requiring written notice to be served upon survivors of the proposed opening and construction of new roads for public use, and of views, reviews and re-reviews in connection with such proposed new roads,

To prevent the pollution of the water supply of cities of the first class, being a supplement to an act, entitled "An act to establish a State Board of Health for the better protection of life and health, and to prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in this Commonwealth," approved June three, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

To regulate the publication, binding and distribution of the public documents of this Commonwealth.

To provide revenue by imposing a mercantile license tax on venders of or dealers in goods, wares and merchandise, and providing for the collection of said tax.

A supplement to an act, entitled "An act providing for the incorporation and government of cities of the third class," approved May twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and providing for the assessment and collection of special taxes upon properties abutting, for street sprinkling and street cleaning.

May 3, 1899:

To provide for the payment of bonus on charters, and upon the authorized increase of the capital stock of certain corporations, and authorizing corporations to increase their capital stock for corporate purposes.

May 4, 1899:

To regulate the sale of butter produced by taking original packing stock and other butter and melting the same, so that the butter oil can be drawn off, mixed with skimmed milk and by emulsion or other process butter, and butter produced by any similar process, and commonly known as "Boiled" or "Process" butter; providing for the enforcement thereof, and punishment for the violation of the same.

To provide for a deficiency arising under provisions of an act, approved July twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and ninetyseven, entitled “An act to carry out the provisions of acts of Assembly relating to the care and treatment of the indigent insane," approved the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, and the twenty-second day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and the twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and making an appropriation therefor, and providing for an additional appropriation for the care and detention of the chronic insane under the provisions of the act, approved the twenty-second day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, during the two fiscal years beginning June first, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

May 5, 1899:

Entitled an act to create a bureau of Building Inspection, and to regulate the costruction, maintenance and inspection of buildings and party walls in cities of the first class.

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Relative to the liens of the Commonwealth against unpatented lands providing for their adjustment, and for the granting of patents.

Entitled an act to repeal an act approved the ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "An act to extend the provisions of the act, entitled 'An act relative to the collection of school tax in the township of Solebury, Bucks county,' approved the twelfth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, to the township of Wrightstown, Lower Makefield, Falls Buckingham, and to the borough of Morrisville, Bucks county," so far as its provisions relate to or affect the borough of Morrisville, and the township of Falls, Bucks county, together with its supplement, approved the twenty-sixth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, so far as its provisions relate to or affect the borough of Morrisville and the township of Falls aforesaid.

To repeal an act, approved the twelfth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "An act relative to the collection of school tax in the township of Solebury, Bucks county."

Authorizing counties of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to purchase, maintain, use and condemn bridges, erected and in use over rivers and streams separating or dividing any part or district of such counties, and providing the manner in which compensation shall be made.

To regulate the affairs of the body corporate known as the Directors of the Poor of the City of Carbondale, changing the name and extending the jurisdiction thereof, fixing the number of the directors, their term of office, the times and manner of their election, the filling of vacancies, the keeping of their accounts and providing for the appointment of auditors to audit the same, being a supplement to an act, entitled "An act to authorize the erection of a poor house by the city of Carbondale, in the county of Luzerne," approved the ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

To amend an act, entitled "An act to empower county controllers of cities of the first class to deputize a clerk to countersign warrants drawn in payment of salaries," approved the fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, so as to authorize the controller of counties, co-extensive in boundary with cities of the first class, to appoint his chief clerk as deputy controller, with authority to perform all of his duties during the necessary or temporary absence of the said controller, and fixing the salary of such deputy controller.

To repeal an act, entitled "An act relating to the roads, streets, bridges and sidewalks in the boroughs of Lawrenceville, county, of Tioga.''

To repeal an act, entitled "An act to increase and fix the pay of election officers in the county of Lycoming," approved the thirteenth

day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventythree.

To repeal an act, entitled "An act requiring the supervisors in the different townships of Cumberland county to keep the wing walls and embankments of said county bridges in repair," approved the thirteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

To repeal an act approved the eighth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty, entitled "An act relative to roads in the township of Newlin, in the county of Chester."

To repeal that portion of the third section of an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the borough of Parnassus, in the county of Westmoreland,” approved April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, which extends to the borough of Parnassus the provisions of the acts of Assembly regulating the borough of Birmingham, in the county of Allegheny.

For the regulating and maintaining of fences in the township of Hamilton, in McKean county, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

To regulate the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine and butterine and other similar products, to prevent fraud and deception by the manufacture and the sale thereof as an imitation of butter, the licensing of manufacturers of and dealers in the same, and providing punishment for violations of the act and the means for its enforcement.

To repeal the proviso contained in section five of an act, entitled "An act authorizing the borough of Gaysport in the county of Blair, to erect water works," approved the twenty-sixth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

To repeal an act relative to road laws in Richhill township, Greene county, Pennsylvania.

To repeal the provisos of an act, entitled "An act relative to the escheated estate of John Chase, a negro man," approved the thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, restricting the use and prohibiting the encumbering of the real estate vested by said act in the trustees of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of the town of Canonsburg.

To repeal the first proviso of the eleventh section of an act, entitled "An act to ascertain and appoint the fees to be received by the several officers of this Commonwealth," approved the second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, so far as relates to the county of Lancaster.

To repeal an act, entitled "An act to extend the provisions of the act of April eleventh, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, relative to the fees of the county treasurers of Luzerne and Clearfield counties to the county of Bedford," approved the eighteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.