The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-06-11
Acts Of the Legislature.

Ihe following are among the most pro-
mlnent acts passed by the last Legislature ::
/. To provide for the submission of
civil cases by agreement of the parties to
referee learned in the law.
2. Making Lincoln University an addi-
tlonal Normal School, and appropriating
$4,000 to the fourteen Normal schools in
the State.
3. To create a commission to propose
amendments to the Constitution.
4. To punish the sale and traffic in min
eral waterbottles, forbidding this when in
private hands
D. authorizing councils of all boroughs
to regulate the collections of taxes therein.
o, Regulating the publication of applica-
tions for local or special legislation.
Z. To authorize and require the auditors
to punish an annual statement of the re-
ceipts and expenditures of the road commits
sloners, supervisors, overseers of the poor.
and school directors of the several town
| ships and boroughs of this commonwealth.
8. Taxing coal 3 cents per ton, to raise
needed revenues.
8. To provide for submitting questions of
fact to the courts in the trial of civil cases.
10. To define the necessary and proper
expenses incident to the nomination and
election Of Senators, Representatives, State,
Judicial and Company officers, and to au-
thorize the payment thereof:
II. To provide for changes of venue in
civil and criminal cases.
II. To exempt from taxation public pro-
perty used for public purposes and places
Of religious worship, places of burial not
used and held for foriyate corporate profit it
gives these institutions the benefit of any
constitutional doubt.
13. For the suppression of the trade and
circulation of obscene literature, illustra-
tions, advertisements, and articles of patent
medicines, and articles for producing
abortion
II. For the annexation of boroughs and
townships and adjacent cities.
Is. To carry into effect section eight of
article seventeen of the Constitution in re-
lation to granting free passes or passes at a
discount by railroad or transportion com
panies
Is. To make Decoration Day a legal
holiday
II. To provide for the appointment of
inspectors of the State penitentaries, as re-
quired by the twenty section of ar
ticle fifth Of the Constitution of this com
monwealth.
Is. To secure to married women and
minors the control Of money deposited by
them in savings banks.
10. Appropriating $4,000 to the Penn
sylvania Training School.
20. To provide for the education and
maintenance of the destitute orphans of
deceased soldiers sailors, and the destitute
children of permanently disabled soldiers
and sailors Of the State-allowing the child
ren of disabled soldiers to enter the soldiers
orphan schools
Requiring every railroad or canal corpora
ton organized or doing business in this
State to maintain an Office therein for the
transaction of its business.
% Supplement to the act approved for
the organization, discipline and regulation
Of the militia Of the Commonwealth Of
Pennsylvania, giving 500 additional for
armories, and reducing the number of Ma
jor Generals from twenty to ten.
%. Authorizing married women who
own capital stock in any corporation to sell
or transfer.
"a Appropriation of 81 100000 for the
erection Of the Centennial memorial build
ing.
%. Several acts for the propagation of
fish, and stacking streams.
26. New election law.
q. Authorizing Board of State Chari-
ties to appoint yisiters and to transfer GER
tain insane persons from county institutions
to State hospitals.
% To regulate the manner of increas-
illg the Indebtedness of municipalities, to
provide for the redemption Of the same,
and to impose penalties for Illegal increase
thereof 1t limits the sale Of bonds to their
par value.
%. To prevent corrupt attempts to IN
fuence legislation.
80. Legislative and Judicial Apportion-
ment bill, also general Appropriation bill.
81. To provide for the safe custody of
insane persons charged with, or convicted
of crime, giving them admission to State
hospitals.
80. Authorizing a geological survey of
the State.
33. Fixing salaries for county officers in
counties, having over 100000 population.
81. To authorize counties, cities, towns
or townships to enter into contract with
railroad companies whose roads enter their
limits, whereby said companies may re-
locate, change or elevate their railroads.
35 To allow county commissioners to
sell hridoes to railroads
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