Every law Pennsylvania has passed

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Constitution of 1874

1. Making an appropriation to the trustees of the State Hospital for the Insane, at Danville, Pennsylvania.

   Act 105 of 1907 · P.L. 127 · 1907 · Scanned page

2. To repeal the proviso contained in the fifth section of an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Wilkes-Barre Savin^fs Bank," approved the twenty-eighth' day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eig'ht hundred and seventy, which proviso restricts the number of directors to nine

   Act 106 of 1907 · P.L. 128 · May 1, 1907 · Scanned page

3. To arnend section ten of an act, entitled "An act providing^ when, how, and 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 of preservln^r such Hens wp'i pnforclnpT pnyment of such claims; the effect of Judicial sales of the properties liened, and

   Act 107 of 1907 · P.L. 129 · 1907 · Scanned page

4. To amend the seventh section of the act. entitled "An act re> la/ting* to corporations and estates held for corporate, religious, and charitable uses," approved the twenty-sixth day of April, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-five, as amended by the supplement to said act, approved the second day of June, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, by striking out the requirement that

   Act of 1907 · P.L. 131 · May 1, 1907 · Scanned page

5. To provide for the division of charitable corporations having more than one place where their operations are carried on. and of their property; and providing" for the performance of public daties of such corporations.

   Act of 1907 · P.L. 139 · May 1, 1907 · Scanned page

6. Authorizingr and empowering the Committee on Lunacy to transfer imnates from one State hospital for the insane to another State hospital for the insane.

   Act 110 of 1907 · P.L. 139 · 1907 · Scanned page

7. To require corporations owningr* leasing, or operating steam or electric railways, and engaged in the business of carrying freight ^r passengers, within this State, to report to the Secretary of Internal Affairs the number of statute miles of lines so operated; and providing a penalty for failure so to report, and for making an incorrect report.

   Act 113 of 1907 · P.L. 146 · 1907 · Scanned page

8. Supplement to an act, entitled "An act for the establishment of free publie libraries in the several school districts of this Commonwealth, except in cities of the first and second class/' approved the twenty-eighth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five; authorizing school districts of townships and boroughs, adjoining cities of the third class, to Join

   Act 115 of 1907 · P.L. 150 · May 1, 1907 · Scanned page

9. Supplement to an act, entitled "An act to provide for the selection of a site and the erection of a State Hospital for Injured persons, to be located at or near Hazleton, in the county of L*uverne. to be called the State Hospital for Injured Persons of t|ie Middle Coal Field, and for the manag-ement of tlie sajne. ajid makingr an appropriation therefor," approved the fourteenth day of June,

   Act 116 of 1907 · P.L. 151 · May 1, 1907 · Scanned page

10. Amending: section one of an act, entitled "A supplement to an act *to provide for the care and treatment of the Indigent insane of the several counties of the Commonwealth, In State hospitals for the insane/ approved the thirteenth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eightythree," said supplement approved the twenty-first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred

    Act 117 of 1907 · P.L. 152 · May 1, 1907 · Scanned page

11. Chronic Inaane. Section 16. act of Jane 22. 1891. cited for amendnient. Cost of maintenance. How IMlid. Amending section fifteen of an act» entitled "An act to provide for the selection of a site and the erection of a State asylum for the chronic insane, to be called the State Asylum for the Chronic Insane of Pennsylvania, and making an appropriation therefor," approved the twenty-second day

    Act 118 of 1907 · P.L. 153 · 1907 · Scanned page

12. To carry out the provisions of acts of Assembly relating to the care and treatment of the indigent insane, approved June thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eightythree, and June twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and June twenty-sixth, one thoutojid eight hundred and ninety-five, and May twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and May tenth,

    Act 119 of 1907 · P.L. 154 · May 2, 1907 · Scanned page

13. To permit children, who reside one and one-ht&lf miles, or more, by public road, from the nearest sciiool in the district where they reside, to attend any more convenient school in any other district, without the consent of the directors or controllers of the district where they reside or where they may attend: and makingr the district where they reside liable to the district where they

    Act 121 of 1907 · P.L. 157 · May 2, 1907 · Scanned page

14. Dauphin county. Act of February t. UM6. cited for repeal. To repeal an act, entitled "An act defining the pay of certaic officers In Dauphin county," approved February second, om thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

    Act 122 of 1907 · P.L. 157 · May 2, 1907 · Scanned page

15. To repeal an act, entitled "A supplement to an act, entitled 'An act to reduce the expenses of collecting State and countytaxes in Venango county/ " and which extended the original act to Jefferson county, approved the eighteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fiftyseven (Pamphlet Liaws, fifty-three).

    Act 123 of 1907 · P.L. 158 · 1907 · Scanned page

16. Providing for the recording of certlflcatee concerning matters of banlcruptcy. In the offices of the recorders of deeds of the different counties of this Commonwealth.

    Act 124 of 1907 · P.L. 158 · May 2, 1907 · Scanned page

17. Authorizing the State Treasurer to refund William G. Wilson the amount paid by him for his commission as a notary pub> lie. state Treasurer. Refunding $86.00 to William G.

    Act 125 of 1907 · P.L. 159 · May 3, 1907 · Scanned page

18. Authorlzlngr the Chief of the Department of Mines to employ two additional clerks, and one stenographer and typewriter.

    Act 126 of 1907 · P.L. 160 · May 7, 1907 · Scanned page

19. and definingr the powers and duties of the Dental Council and the State Board of Dental Examiners; providing: for appointment of examiners; deflningr qualifications of applicants for examination; condition of granting licenses; regulating and limiting the practice of dentistry; prohibiting practice by, or employment of, unlicensed persons, and providing punishment therefor;

    Act 127 of 1907 · P.L. 160 · 1907 · Scanned page

20. Relating to the costs where matters are given In charge to a grand Jury for investigation, and providing for the payment of the same in certain cases by the proper county.

    Act 128 of 1907 · P.L. 165 · May 7, 1907 · Scanned page

21. Authorizing municipal corporations, owning their own water systems, to relocate roads destroyed by overflow of reservoirs, or otherwise, and to acquire land to preserve watersupply from contamination.

    Act 129 of 1907 · P.L. 166 · May 7, 1907 · Scanned page

22. To amend section one of an act, entitled "An act empowering boroughs of this Commonwealth, without petition of property owners, to grade, pave, curb, macadamize, and other-wise improve public streets, or parts thereof, when said streets, or parts thereof, do not exceed five hundred feet in length, and connect two streets theretofore paved and improved, and providing for the payment and

    Act 130 of 1907 · P.L. 167 · 1907 · Scanned page

23. Authorizingr and requiring the county auditors In the several counties of this Commonwealth to publish their annual report of.the accounts of the several officers whose accounts it is the duty of said county auditors to examine and settle; providing the manner of publication of said auditors' report, and providing for the payment of publication of said auditors' report by said county thereof.

    Act 131 of 1907 · P.L. 168 · May 7, 1907 · Scanned page

24. To amend section one of "An act providing: for necessary medical attention to needy persons who may be in danger of suffering from hydrophobia," approved the thlrty-flret day of March, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and five, so as to include all persons who may apply for aid, and providing that the cost of such medical attention shall be paid by the several poor-districts within this Commonwealth.

    Act 132 of 1907 · P.L. 169 · May 7, 1907 · Scanned page

25. The Pennsylvania State College. Appropriation. Making: an appropriation for the completion and equipment of the unfinished agrricultural building, and for the payment of defl'^lencies in maintenance, necessary improvements, and repairs In the various departments of The Pennsylvania State College.

    Act 133 of 1907 · P.L. 169 · May 7, 1907 · Scanned page

26. Supplementary to an act, entitled "An act authorizing the condemnation of turnpikes, roads, or highways, heretofore or hereafter constructed, wholly or in part, in any county of of this Commonwealth, for public use, free from tolls, end toll-gates, and the assessment upon the proper county of the damages to which the owner or owners thereof may be entitled, by a jury of viewers duly appointed

    Act 134 of 1907 · P.L. 171 · May 7, 1907 · Scanned page

27. To enable local registrars of vital statistics, and their deputies, to administer the oath or affirmation of undertakers.

    Act 135 of 1907 · P.L. 172 · May 7, 1907 · Scanned page

28. Authorizlner and requiring: the Superintendent of Public Instruction to use the return of the number of children between six and sixteen years of age in the several school districts in each county, now required to be made by the county commissioners to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, by an act approved the eleventh day of July, Anno Domini nineteen hundred and one (Pamphlet Laws,

    Act 144 of 1907 · P.L. 182 · May 8, 1907 · Scanned page

29. the corporate authorities of boroughs to expend not exceeding one-half of the annual appropriation for roads and streets, in curbing: and paving: or macadamizing: any street, lane, or alley therein.

    Act 145 of 1907 · P.L. 182 · May 8, 1907 · Scanned page

30. To further remove the disabUity of a wife in testifying in cases where the husband is a party.

    Act 146 of 1907 · P.L. 183 · May 8, 1907 · Scanned page

31. Concerning building regulation and inspection In boroughs.

    Act 147 of 1907 · P.L. 183 · May 8, 1907 · Scanned page

32. To amend an act, entitled "An act to amend the forty-sixth section of an act, approved the thirteenth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, entitled 'An act relating: to roads, highways, and bridges,' authorising the construction of bridges on the line of adjoining counties, or located within one-fourth of a mile from the county lines," approved the twenty-third

    Act 148 of 1907 · P.L. 184 · May 8, 1907 · Scanned page

33. To providi; for the better protection and preservation of song and Insectiverous birds, and other wild birds, and providing penalties for violation of its several provisions.

    Act 149 of 1907 · P.L. 185 · 1907 · Scanned page

34. Supplement to an act of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain Corporations," approved the twenty-ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand elgrht hundred and seventy-four, as the same has been supplemented by acts of Assembly of said Commonwealth, approved on the following dates; namely, sixteenth day

    Act of 1907 · P.L. 191 · May 8, 1907 · Scanned page

35. Preamble. The Pennsylvania State College. Provldingr that the assent of the State of Pennsylvania be given to an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for an annual increased appropriation for agricultural experiment stations, and regulating the expenditure thereof," approved March sixteenth. Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and six, and designating The Pennsylvania State College

    Act 153 of 1907 · P.L. 193 · May 8, 1907 · Scanned page

36. To repeal an act enpowering the courts of common pleas of this Commonwealth to authorize school directors to borrow money, approved April twenty-first. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and validating bonds Issued in non-compliance with said act

    Act 154 of 1907 · P.L. 194 · May 10, 1907 · Scanned page

37. Exempting certain real estate from the power of eminent domain as exercised by corporations Incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania,

    Act 156 of 1907 · P.L. 195 · May 14, 1907 · Scanned page

38. To amend section twelve of an act, entitled "An act providingr a uniform method of electinsr certain party officers, and delesrates to the State and National Conventions, and of making nominations for certain public offices; providing for the payment of the expenses of the same; making certain violations thereof misdemeanors, and prescribing penalties for the violation of its

    Act 160 of 1907 · P.L. 198 · May 22, 1907 · Scanned page

39. To repeal the flrst section of an act, entitled "An act relative to fees of justices of the peace and constables in the county of Venango," approved the eleventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and

    Act 161 of 1907 · P.L. 200 · May 23, 1907 · Scanned page

40. Authorizing: employers to pay to the wife, children, brother or sister, father or mother, boarding-house keeper, undertaker, nurse, or physician wages due a deceased employe.

    Act 162 of 1907 · P.L. 200 · May 23, 1907 · Scanned page

41. To repeal so much of section one of an act declaring Spring Creek, in Warren county, from Its mouth to a point where the road leading from Franklin, through Warren county, in a direction to Chautauqua Lake, crosses the same public highways, and for improving the navigration in said stream, passed the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; and so much of an

    Act 172 of 1907 · P.L. 223 · May 23, 1907 · Scanned page

42. for the payment of the premiums on bonds of county, city, boroufiTh, school-district, and township employes.

    Act 173 of 1907 · P.L. 224 · May 23, 1907 · Scanned page

43. To repeal an act, entitled "An act relative to roads in Washington and Beaver counties," approved the twenty-eighth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

    Act 175 of 1907 · P.L. 225 · May 23, 1907 · Scanned page

44. Supplementary to an act. entitled "An act relatingr to school districts In townships, and borougrhs created therefrom." approved the fifth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and three, by providing manner of certifyliUT and returning votes cast in such districts.

    Act 178 of 1907 · P.L. 227 · May 25, 1907 · Scanned page

45. Authorizing boroughs to erect and maintain garbage-furnaces, and pass rules and regulations for the collection, care, and removal of garbage, and provide penalties for the violation of the same.

    Act 181 of 1907 · P.L. 229 · May 25, 1907 · Scanned page

46. and empowering road supervisors, in townships of the second class, to enter into contract with water companies for the placing of Hre-hydrants in any village in said township, to purchase hose, et cetera, and to provide for the collection of funds for that purpose by levying a tax upon all owners of property in the district benefited.

    Act 182 of 1907 · P.L. 230 · May 25, 1907 · Scanned page

47. To further amend an act, entitled "An act amending tbe eighty-ninth section of the act, entitled *An act relating to counties and townships and to county and township officers/ " approved the fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and amendment thereto, approved the twenty-fourth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven,

    Act 184 of 1907 · P.L. 231 · May 25, 1907 · Scanned page

48. To extend the provisions of the thirteenth section of an act, relatingr to roads and bridges in the county of York, approved the seventeenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eisrht hundred sixty, to the other counties of this Oommonwealtb.

    Act 185 of 1907 · P.L. 232 · May 25, 1907 · Scanned page

49. To protect the public health by providing for the preventioi of the preparation and sale of meat and food products which are unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome » and otherwise unfit for human food; defining: what shall be regrarded as meat and meat food products; authorizing the appointment and compensation of local meat inspectors; authorizing the State Livestock Sanitary Board to enforce

    Act 187 of 1907 · P.L. 233 · May 25, 1907 · Scanned page

50. Relating to the location, construction, and maintenance of viaducts and bridges in boroughs and adjacent territory; empowering the several boroughs of this Commonwealth to construct or have constructed bridges or viaducts over rivers, creeks, streams, railroads, and private land, or over and across railroads and any of them, or over and across railroads, for public highways, and to

    Act 188 of 1907 · P.L. 239 · May 25, 1907 · Scanned page

51. To provide revenue by imposing a license-tax on the keepers of all shooting-galleries, shuffleboard-rooms, billiard or poolrooms, for purpose of profit, or any other place in which any game is played on a table ^with the ase of balls and cues; and bowling-alleys, ninepin-alleys, tenpin -alleys, or other alleys or places In which any game Is played with the use of balls or pins, or other

    Act 190 of 1907 · P.L. 243 · May 2, 1907 · Scanned page

52. Authorizing the employment of male prisoners of the jails, and workhouses of this Commonwealth upon the public highways of the several counties, and regulating the same; and providing for the establishment of Prison Boards, the purchase of material and tools, and employment of deputies, at the expense of the proper county, and a penalty for the escape of prisoners while employed outside of said Jails, workhouses.

    Act 191 of 1907 · P.L. 246 · May 25, 1907 · Scanned page

53. Creating an art jury for cities of the first class, and prescribing its powers and duties.

    Act 192 of 1907 · P.L. 248 · May 25, 1907 · Scanned page

54. Mendingr sections three, seven, twelve, and thirteen of an act, entitled "An act to provide for the personal registration of electors in cities of the third class of this Commonwealth, to make such registration a condition of the right to vote In such cities, and to provide penalties for violation of its provisions," approved the fifth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and

    Act 194 of 1907 · P.L. 250 · May 25, 1907 · Scanned page

55. to an act, entitled "An act to establish a Department of Agrriculture, and to define its duties and to provide for its proper administration," approved the thirteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninetyfive; to provide for the appointment of a Deputy State Veterinarian, a clerk, and a stenographer, and to fix their salaries.

    Act 195 of 1907 · P.L. 256 · May 25, 1907 · Scanned page

56. To amend section one of an act "Ceding jurisdiction over fprI estate, in the county of Philadelphia, to be acquired by th»» United States," approved April fifteenth. Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and three; Increasing the limitation as to area of land, the Jurisdiction of which is ceded, from twenty thousand square feet to forty thousand square feet. Sertion 1. He it enarted, &c. That

    Act 197 of 1907 · P.L. 257 · May 25, 1907 · Scanned page

57. Providing that the Secretary of the Oommon wealth, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Adjutant General, Insurance Commissioner, Commissioner of Banking, Secretary of Agriculture, Commissioner of Forestry, Factory Inspector. Chief of the Department of Mines, Commissioner of Health, State Highway Commissioner, Superintendent of State Police, Commissioner of Fisheries,

    Act 198 of 1907 · P.L. 258 · 1907 · Scanned page

58. To establish a separate orphariR' court In and for the county of Payette.

    Act 199 of 1907 · P.L. 259 · May 25, 1907 · Scanned page

59. To enable city, county, poor, township, ward, school, and boroug-h tax collectors to collect taxes, for the payment of which they have become liable, or for which they shall during the year one thousand nine hundred and seven become personally liable, without having collected the same, by expiration of the authority of their resi)ective warrants or by the expiration of their term of office,

    Act 202 of 1907 · P.L. 262 · May 2, 1907 · Scanned page

60. Supplemental to an act, entitled "An act to efltabllsh a Department of Aerriculture, and to define Its duties and to provide for its proper administration," approved the thirteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand elgrht hundred and ninetyfive; to provide for the appointment of a Deputy State Veterinarian, a clerk, and a stenogrrapher, and to fix their salarlea.

    Act 195 of 1907 · P.L. 266 · 1907 · Scanned page

61. Authorizing and empowering the courts of common pleas of the respective counties of this Commonwealth to declare a vac&ncy in the office of aldermen and Justices of the peace, when said officers shall not reside and maintain an office in their respective wards, districts, boroughs, or townships, and providing for the appointment of their successors.

    Act 196 of 1907 · P.L. 266 · 1907 · Scanned page

62. To amend section one of an act "Ceding jurisdiction over r<»?i1 estate, in the county of Philadelphia, to be acquired by th'^ United States," approved April fifteenth. Anno r)omini one thousand nine hundred and three; increasing the Umltation as to area of land, the jurisdiction of which is ceded, from twenty thousand square feet to forty thousand square feet. Section 1. He it enacted, &c.

    Act 197 of 1907 · P.L. 267 · 1907 · Scanned page

63. To establish a separate orphans' court in and for the county of Fayette.

    Act 199 of 1907 · P.L. 269 · May 25, 1907 · Scanned page

64. Relating to lK)rough officers, employes, and contracts; and providing for the punishment of any violation of its provisions.

    Act 200 of 1907 · P.L. 271 · May 28, 1907 · Scanned page

65. To enable city, county, poor, township, ward, school, and borougrh tax collectors to collect taxes, for tlie payment of which they have become liable, or for which they shall during the year one thousand nine hundred and seven become personally liable, without having collected the same, by expiration of the authority of their respective warrants or by the expiration of their term of office,

    Act 202 of 1907 · P.L. 272 · May 28, 1907 · Scanned page

66. To provided for the alteration of the boundaries of contignious borouerhs and townships within this Commonwealth, by detaching: part or parts of the land embraced within the lines of any borough and annexing such territory to any adjacent or contiguous township or townships; and for adjustment of the Indebtedness of the boroughs and townships affected by such change of boundaries or limits.

    Act 203 of 1907 · P.L. 273 · May 28, 1907 · Scanned page

67. To amend an act, entitled "An act to amend an act, entitled 'An act to amend an act, entitled 'An 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 buildingrs and manufacturing establishments, and to take, have, and hold real estate necessary and proper for

    Act 204 of 1907 · P.L. 275 · May 28, 1907 · Scanned page

68. Cities of the third class. Section 1. article 1, act of May 2S, 1889, as amended by act of April 10, 1906, cited for amendment. To further amend section one, article one, of an act, entitled "An act providing for the incorporation and government of cities of the third class," approved the twentythird day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eightynine, and which was amended by

    Act 205 of 1907 · P.L. 277 · May 28, 1907 · Scanned page

69. To allow receivers, assig^nees, guardians, committees, trustees, executors, and administrators to include in the lawful expenses of executing their trusts such reasonable sum paid a company, authorized under the laws of this State so to do, for guaranteeing the payment of the principal and Interest of mortgages or other securities in which they are required to invest the funds of their

    Act 207 of 1907 · P.L. 280 · May 28, 1907 · Scanned page

70. Repealing: an act, entitled "An act relatinsr to the boundaries of uities of the third class," approved the sixteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eig^ht hundred and ninetyone.

    Act 208 of 1907 · P.L. 280 · May 28, 1907 · Scanned page

71. Validating the incurring of debt or increase of indebtedness of townships of the second class, by its supervisors, for the purpose of macadamizing roads and highways, constructing and repairing roads, culverts, and bridges, or lifting orders or payment of any contracts made therefor, to an amount, in the aggregate, not exceeding two per centum upon the assessed value of the taxable

    Act 209 of 1907 · P.L. 281 · 1907 · Scanned page

72. the office of (township tax collector, in townships of the first class, and providing that in such townships all taxes shall be collected by the township treasurer, including State and county taxes.

    Act 210 of 1907 · P.L. 282 · May 28, 1907 · Scanned page

73. Water companies. Shall supply water, or forfeit rights. Failure to supply. Resolution of council or supervisors. Service of resolution. Statement of water company. Defining: the rights and duties of water companies, and compelling them to furnish water to municipalities In which their source o£ supply is located, or forfeit their rights to a sufficient quantity of water from such sources as

    Act 212 of 1907 · P.L. 287 · 1907 · Scanned page

74. To amend section thirty-Jtwo of an act, entitled "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 method^ for preservinsr such liens and enforcing payment of such claims; the effect of Judicial sales of the properties liened, and

    Act 213 of 1907 · P.L. 289 · May 28, 1907 · Scanned page

75. Regulating the practice and ball on appeals in equity cases, and providing for supersedeas where a specific performance of a contract for the purchase of land is decreed, and the defendant answers that the title to the land in question is not good and marketable.

    Act 214 of 1907 · P.L. 292 · May 28, 1907 · Scanned page

76. Authorizing the payment into the court of comntion pleas of moneys charged upon lands, in and by deeds, or other writings in the nature of conveyances or agreements concerning lands, when said moneys are due and payable, and the persons, or any of them, entitled thereto, or any part thereof, cannot be ascertained or found with certainty; and providing for the extinguishment or discharge of

    Act 215 of 1907 · P.L. 293 · May 28, 1907 · Scanned page

77. Providing that whenever any head of a family, or a person, shall be quarantined by any authority, because of any infectious or contagious disease, and by reason of such quarantine such person becomes unable to pay the expense of maintenance and treatment of his family or himself during the period of quarantine, he shall be considered a "poor person" or a "needy and indigent poor" person,

    Act 216 of 1907 · P.L. 294 · May 28, 1907 · Scanned page

78. To authorize municipalities or to«\vnships to make assessments for municipal improvements outside of their corporate limits, under certain conditions.

    Act 219 of 1907 · P.L. 296 · May 28, 1907 · Scanned page

79. Inebriates. Section 1, act of April U, IMS. cited for amendment To amend an act, entitled ''An act to authorize and provide for the commitment of persons habitually addicted to the use of alcoholic drink or intoxicating drugs to a proper hospital or asylum, for restraint, care, ajid treatment," approved April sixteen, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and three; providing for the

    Act 220 of 1907 · P.L. 297 · 1907 · Scanned page

80. Supplement to an act, entitled "An act for the annexation of any city, borough, township, or part of a township, to a contigruous city, and providincr for the indebtedness of the same," approved the •twenty-eigrhth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and three; to enable territory now annexed, or which may hereafter be annexed under the provisions of said act, to be arrangred

    Act 223 of 1907 · P.L. 304 · May 28, 1907 · Scanned page

81. To regulate the purchasing, receiving, holding, and conveying of real estate by Insurance companies Incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth.

    Act 224 of 1907 · P.L. 305 · May 29, 1907 · Scanned page

82. Providing: that certified copies of all records, documents, and papers in the possession of the Department of Health, or of any bureau, division, or officer thereof, shall be received in evidence In the courts of this Commonwealth.

    Act 229 of 1907 · P.L. 314 · May 29, 1907 · Scanned page

83. To amend section one of an act, entitled "An act to amend an act, entitled 'An act to amend an act, entitled 'An act to provide for the classification of the townships of the Commonwealth, with respect to their population, into two classes, and to prescribe the form of government for townships of each class,' approved the twenty-eighth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred

    Act 230 of 1907 · P.L. 314 · May 29, 1907 · Scanned page

84. No. 2:n. \N ACT Aldermen and JuBtlcea of the peace. Costa. Section 1, act of June 24. 1885, cited for amendment. To amend section one of an act, entitled "An act relative to costs in suits before aldermen and justices of the peace, and the collection of the same," -approved the twentyfourtli day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eigrhty-flve; providing that when an

    Act of 1907 · P.L. 315 · May 29, 1907 · Scanned page

85. Supplement to an act, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation and government of street railway companies in this Commonwealth," approved the fourteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine; authorizing companies chartered under the said act to issue bonds, payable at such times after the date thereof as may seem best to the directors.

    Act 233 of 1907 · P.L. 317 · May 29, 1907 · Scanned page

86. Regrulatingr the sale of Paris green; defining: Paris grreen; prohibitingr its adulteration; providing for the collection of samples and analysis thereof by the Department of Agriculture, and the publication of information concerning the same; providing also for the expenses of the enforcement of the law, and fixing penalties for its violation.

    Act 235 of 1907 · P.L. 318 · May 29, 1907 · Scanned page

87. the taking of suckers, catfish, carp, and eels in tlie waters of this Commonwealth, through the use of fishl>asket8, and prescribing penalties for violation of its provisions.

    Act 236 of 1907 · P.L. 320 · May 29, 1907 · Scanned page

88. To amend section one of an act, entitled "An act to provide for the attei^dance, and for reports of attendance, of the children In the schools of this Commonwealth: for the enumeration of the children for that purpose, and provldingr compensation for the persons making: such enumeration; for the appointment of attendance officers, defining: their powers and duties, and providiner for

    Act 237 of 1907 · P.L. 323 · 1907 · Scanned page

89. Supplement to an act, entitled "An act to regulate the establishment, class- Iflcation, and maintenance of high' schools, the distribution of appropriations In aid of high schools, and the employment of teachers in high schools receiving State aid," approved June twenty-eighth. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-flve; authorizing the directors of adjacent townships or

    Act 239 of 1907 · P.L. 328 · May 29, 1907 · Scanned page

90. To provide for the printing and distribution of an increased number of the periodical bulletins of the Division of Zoology, issued from the Department of Agriculture.

    Act 242 of 1907 · P.L. 337 · May 31, 1907 · Scanned page

91. Providing for the payment of the costs and expenses of indigent and dependent children, in conveying them to, and while in, the homes In which they may be placed.

    Act 247 of 1907 · P.L. 340 · May 31, 1907 · Scanned page

92. Fixing the salaries of common school-teachers, In districts of this Commonwealth receiving State appropriation, at no less than forty dollars per month where teacher holds a provisional certificate, and at not less than fifty dollars per month in all cases where the teacher holds a professional, permanent, or normal school certificate, and has had tTv^o years experience and obtained a

    Act 249 of 1907 · P.L. 345 · 1907 · Scanned page

93. To provide for the planting and care of shadetrees, on higrhways of townships of the flrst class, boroughs, and cities of the ComnionweaRh of Pennsylvania, and providing for the cost thereof.

    Act 251 of 1907 · P.L. 358 · May 31, 1907 · Scanned page

94. To enforce the provisions of section five, article seventeen of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, relating: to the powers of incorporated common carriers and the privileges of mining and manufacturing companic-s; making the violation thereof a misdemeanor, and providing a punishment for the same.

    Act 252 of 1907 · P.L. 361 · May 31, 1907 · Scanned page

95. To enforce the provisions of section four, article seventeen, of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, pertaining to the consolidation of parallel or competing lines of railroads, canals, or other companies, and restricting the officers of such companies; empowering Juries to decide whether companies are parallel or competing lines; and making the violation thereof a misdemeanor, and providing a punishment for the same.

    Act 254 of 1907 · P.L. 362 · May 31, 1907 · Scanned page

96. for the advancement of cases on the trial list of the several courts of common pleas, where a new trial is granted, a Judgment of nonstiit taken ofC, and rwhere, on appeal, a judgrment is reversed and a venire facias de novo awarded.

    Act 257 of 1907 · P.L. 366 · May 31, 1907 · Scanned page

97. Supplement to an act, entitled "An act to provide for the organization, dia- •clpline. and regulation of the National Guard of Pennsylvania/' approved twenty-eighth d-ay of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine; providing for increasing the efficiency of the National Guard by the retirement of officers upon age or service, and defining the duties and rights of such retired officers. \ a

    Act 258 of 1907 · P.L. 366 · 1907 · Scanned page

98. Forbidding those officers, employes, or agents of any railroad company operating within this Commonwealth, who have charge, directly or indirectly, of the distribution of cars to shippers thereon, to own or have any interest, directly or indirectly, in any operated coal property, or in the stock of any mining or manufacturing company, along the line of such railroad; making the violation hereof

    Act 259 of 1907 · P.L. 368 · June 1, 1907 · Scanned page

99. Deflning bucket-shops; prohibiting the maintenance and operation of the same within the Commonwealth, and imposingr penalties therefor; invalldatingr all contracts made therein; and imposing penalties upon corporations, associations, i;>artnerships, and individuals furnishing: market quotations thereto, or knowingly permitting bucket-shops to be maintained and operated in or on any

    Act 260 of 1907 · P.L. 368 · June 1, 1907 · Scanned page

100. Supplement to an act. entitled "An act for the greater certainty of title and more secure enjoyment of real estate," approved the twentysecond day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fiftysix; so as to authorize a widcw to accept real estate in partition, or compete in bidding therefor, and regulating and establishing a mode of payment therefor by the widow.

     Act 263 of 1907 · P.L. 373 · June 1, 1907 · Scanned page