Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23
Pennsylvania Legislature.
The machinery of the Legislature has
agsin been put in motion, a may be
learned BY the following:
SENATE

Giving the several courts of quar-
ter sessions OF the peace jurisdiction to
inquire of, hear, determine and punish
ali persons charged with the FIRST offense
of receiving or buying stolen goods OF
cbattels knowing the same to have been
stolen.
For the relief of Mary Harris, wild
ow of the soldier of 1872.
To amend and consolidate the sew
er.l acts relating to game and game 6sh.
Supplement to an act to authorize
cbattel mortgages on lumber, iron and
coal oil in bulk and in iron ssnks, tank
CARS, iron ore mined aud prepared for
use, manufactured slate, and canal
boats, authorizing chsrtel mortgages on
printing presses, type, type stands,
printers and book binders machinery,
and engines and boilers used in con-
nection with the same.
To extend the jurisdiction of JUS
tices of the peace to $500.
Authorizing and empo Hering the
courts of common pleas to change, alter
and direct the mode Of preparing aud
keeping indices 10 the several ofi,es Of
record, and for preparing, making and
substituting new indices for old indices.
Authorizing the assignment and sat
isfaction of record aud validating for
mer satisfaction of records by msrried
women, of mortgages belonging to them;
also giving married women power to
purchase aud sell ell kinds of real and
personal estate, with power to mort
gage, pledge, loan or otherwise dispose
of the same.
Providing for the better enforcement
Of moneyed DEGREES in equity.
To repeal the act to provide for the
appointment of special detective Off
Ger in any of the several counties also,
to provide for the bringing of actions
against a married woman where the
husband of such married woman shall
have deserted or separated himself from
and living out of the county in which
she resides.
The following bills we're considered
en- second reading:
To make the misstatement of the
business or affairs of corporation by
Its directors, managers or officers penal
offense. Passed with amendment.
CGnfrmatory of the conveyances Of
real. estate Passed with amendments.
To repeal an act to authorize the
Governor to appoint a sealer Of weights
and measures IN the several counties Of
this Commonwealth.
To enable married women whose hus-
bands are iuuarics to dispose of their
separate estates. Passed with amend
meDts.
Mr.. Herr, from the joint committee
TO investigate the convict labor system,
made report. Laid on the table.
THURSDAY, JANUARY II, 1878.
The following bills we're reported
favoraby:
Providing for the incorporation Of
pipe line companies.
Enabling mechanics to amend their
liens.
Enlarging the jurisdiction of the
court of common pie Is relative to grant
ing charters of incorporation TO mutual,
savings fund, land, loan and building
associations and confirming charters
heretofore granted.
Permitting defendants to testify in
criminal cases.
Permitting surviving partners to tes'
tify to matters having occurred between
the surviving partners, plaintiffs and
defendants.
Providing for the bringing of actions
against a married woman when the hus
band shall have deserted or separated
himself from ber and is absent from
and being out of the county in which
she resides.
Exempting druggists and their clerks
from service as Jurors.
Creating a middle penitentiary dis
trict and providing for the erection of a
penitentiary.
Authorizing the State Treasurer to
pay the necessary expenses incident to
the calling ont Of the National Guard
to suppress the riot in July and August.
The bill has been amended tn provide
for an expenditure of 100000 in.
stead of $6l5.O00.
The bill providing for the holding Of
all the sessions of the Supreme Court at
Harrisburg was reported negatively.
The following bills were introduced /:
Providing for appointment Of Assist
ant Superintendent of Public lns.ruc
ton.
Repeating tho stay law.
For the protection of fish in the
waters of Lake Erie aud adjacent
streams.
Permitting fishing with nets.
To provide for an appeal to the Su.
preme Court in contested elections of
courts Of record when ein constitutional
questions are involved.
Declarstory Of the laws relating to
collateral inheritance taxes rs respects
the personality of a lien or nou resident
d-cedent; also, to protect religious
liberty, exemptiug persons who observe
the seventh day OF the week as the Sab
bath from the penalties Of the law Of
1874.
Granting pensions to Carrie vir-
ginia Arb, widow of Lieut. j. Dorsey
Arb, fatally wounded at Pittsburg
during the riots.
Prescribing the proceedings and
penalties in case of failure to keep
roads in repair.
To limit the liability OF joint ten
ants and tenants in common opera
ting and mining upon lands held by
them.
A resolution was offered and adopt
ed, authorizing the appointment of a
committee of three to prepare a state
p,epf of all hanks or ,not;t,t;o, ~