Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-02-27
Publication Of the Laws.

We would call the attention of readers to
the bill introduced into the House of Representa-
tives by Mr. Mowry of Somerset providing for the
publication of the laws in the newspapers of each
county, without any additional expense to either
State country. Mr. M. is practical nan who
studies and feels the interests of the people, and
his plan strikes us as both feasible and calculated
to meet the wants of the community, without ad-
ding to its burthens. 1t has not yet been brought
up in the House, but when it is, we shall see who
will so far oppose it as to array themselves in op-
position.
AN ACT providing for the more speedy and gen.
eral publication of the Laws of this Common
wealth.
Sec l. Be 1t enacted &c. That in lieu of the
docket fee of three dollars allowed to attor-
nies in all cases the docket OF the prothonotary
of the court of common pleas, there shall be char
ged and paid at the time of entry, for the use of
the county, two dollars on all suits entered on said
docket, Except in testatiOn cases) to be paid
semi-annually by the prothonotary to the county
treasurer after deducting per cent for his servi-
ces, to constitute fund for the purposes hereinaf
ter mentioned.
Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the secreta-
ry of the commonwealth, Immediately after the
thonotaries of the court of common pleas of the
several counties an estimate, based on the entries
OF the three preceding years, of the number of
suits that will probably be entered on their respec-
tive dockets during the current year, and it shall
be the duty said prothonotares at the commence
ment of each year to transmit to said secretary
full and correct statement of the number of suits
so entered upon their respective dockets during
the past year; and on the receipt of such estimate
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each county having sufficient fund as provided in
the first section of this act, one and not more than
two printers of the laws, who shall be paid as is
provided for hereinafter
Sec. 3. The said secretary shall transmit for
publication to all such printers, Immediately after
their passage copies of all laws of general or
public nature, and to such counties as interes-
ted and have the requisite funds all laws of local
nature requiring publication, emitting each enact
ing clause and the signatures of the speakers OF
the two houses and of the governor; and the said
printers shall receive out of the fund provided for
in the first section of this &C, t,--cents for every
thousand BREWER ems OF close printed matter
PROVIDED, said publications be faithfully made and
without errors or omissions.
SEC. 4. That the commissioners of the several
counties wherein such laws are published, be and
they are hereby authorized to pay such printer or
printers of the laws, out of the aforesaid fund.- the
amount to which he or they shall be entitled, and
to appropriate the overpus, if any, to general
county purposes.
SEC. 3. That the treasurers of the several coun-
ties shall keep separate account of the sums paid
over to them by the prothonotary, and have them
audited as fees on suits
Sec o. That so much of the general fee bill as
is altered or amended by this act be and the same
is hereby repealed.
D7By the freshehet at Honesdae, the Presby