The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-09
PENNSYLVANIA LEGIsLATURE.



MI. Davis introduced bill, which was passed.
supplementary to the Apportionment bill, fixing
the place Tor the meeting of the return judges
in double representative districts, there having
been an omission in the original bill.
Mr.. Graham, one to incorporate the Eclipse
LubricatiDg Oil Company.
Mr.: Turner, one to prevent the destruction of
fish in the Susquehanna, in Luzerne county,
with seines or nets.
Mr.. Osterhout one incorporating the Towanda
Water Company.
Mr.. Nagle, one requiring all steam and sailing
vessels of over one hundred tons, employed in
carrying passengers within this State, under
penalty of five hundred dellars to carry two
life boats attached to cranes.
Also one Incorporating the Founding Hos
pital of Philadelphia with Mrs. Ida Parker, j.
f. Staunton, Mrs. Fanny Cunningham and
others as incorporators.
Bius Pdssed-House supplement to the act
relating to the collection of taxes in Montgo-
merry county, approved March 18th, 1868.
Senate bill Incorporating the Philadelphia
Musical Instrument Improvement Manufactur-
ing Company.
Senate bill relative to cattle moving at large
in Upper Halford, Montgomery county.
Senate bill providing for making and repairing
the public roads in West Nottingham, Chester
county.
House bill incorporating the Perkiomen Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Company.
Senate bill Incorporating the Quaker City
Carriage and Sleigh Company.
House bill vacating Hart lane, from Twenty
second to Twenty seventh streets, Philadelphia.
House. supplement to the charter of the Ame-
rican Baptist Publication Society.
Senate bill authorizing Charles B. DUNCAN,
trustee under will of Jacob Harbert, to sell GER
| tain real estate.
The House bill defining the south line of
| Spruce street. between Eighth and Ninth, Phila-
| dephia
Senate bill relative to notaries public in
| Schuylkill county.
House bill allowing Sophia Mathews to convey
certain real estate to her father.
! Senate bill providing for the more effectual
assessment and collection of licenses in Phila-
| delphia, passed to third reading.
| House.
Mr.. Smith, of ofPhiladelphia, on leave, introduced
| bill to remove that portion of the Germantown
| Township Poor house whi ch projects from the
| line OF Rittenhouse street. Germantown. Passed
| finally.
Mr.. Duffield, from the Committee on Munich
| pal Corporations. reported with a negative re-
| commentator supplement for the regulation
| and inspection of buildings in Philadelphia.
The Senate bill authorizing the liquidation OF
damages sustained by citizens of the border
counties during the late Rebellion was the
The House Committee of Ways and Means
had amended the bill by striking out all after
the enacting clause, and Inserting the follow
ing:-
Section 1. That the claims of the citizens
| of York, Cumberland Adams, Franklin, Z ulton,
Bedford and Perry, for extraordinary losses
sustained during the rebellion, as adjudicated
| under the general acts of Assembly approved
April 16 1862, April %, 1862, February Is, 1866,
and April 8, 1868, be submitted to careful
revision by two commissioners in the county OF
York, two in the county of Franklin, two in the
county of Adams two in the counties of Cumber-
land and Perry, and two in the counties of Fulton
and Bedford, to be appointed by the president
judges of the Courts of Common Pleas of said
several counties; and the Governor shall appoint
competent counsel to represent the Government
in the revision of said claims before the several
commissions, and said commissions shall re-
examine and readjudicate all of said claims, aud
may reject or diminish any now on file as
equity may require, but not increase the amount
of any excepting the claim of the German Re-
formed Church, represented by s. r. Fisher q
Co, which shall be equitably adjusted; and
claims which may have been assigned or trans
ferred by the original claimant, the
assignee or present owner of the same shall be
required to make satisfactory proof of the
amount actually paid for the claim, aud the
amount so paid shall be awarded, and no more
And if any owner of an assigned claim shall fai
to make such proof satisfactorily, the claim shal
be rejected, and as said commissioners readudi
cate said claim they shall endorse their approva
thereon for the amount allowed and return the
| claims to the Auditor General.
Section 2. 1t shall be the duty of the Governor
of the State to demand the payment of the sai(
claims by the General Government, and also thu
payment of the $500, 900 paid by the State Oh
said claims, and to select such agents for tht
purpose as may be deemed necessary, and upoI
payment of any moneys by the General Govern
appropriated by the State Treasurer pro rat
on said claims, provided that the State shall il
nowise become liable for, or on account of, salt
claim, being what may be appropriated to tn
same by the General Government
Mr.. Reinoehl moved to amend the first section
by substituting three commissioners non-resi
dents of the counties to be affected, to b.
appointed by the Governor. Disagreed to.
Mr.. Boieau moved to amend the seeoCd sec
ton by inserting the words ''and paid" after th
word appropriated" in the proyiso Agreed to
Messrs. Reinoehl and Werner spoke agaius
the BILL and Messrs. SLrang, Ellis, Chalfant
Skinner, and Quigley in its favor, after whic
the bill passed fnally-yeas 63, nays 81.
Senate amendments to the bill enlarging tn
powers of the Commissioners of Fairmouu
Park, extending their powers over Huntin
Park, were concurred in.
This amendmenT requires the commissioner
| to square the latter park by exchanging certai
portions for an extension on the east side, th
exchange to be made before the first of nez
| January.
Mr.. johnson opposed the amendment. II
did not deem 1t proper to force the commi;
sioneTs to do this. He proposed to leave it du
cretionary with them.
Mr. Dumbell also opposed the amendment.
Messrs Smith, Grililths and Miller fayore
the Senate amendment.
Mr.. Johnson's proposition was agreed to, an
the bill passed.
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