The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-01-18
Laws Of 1883.

certain real Pbtate III DcranJOu.
Abolishing the Office of sealer of
weights aud measures.
Placing the collections of the second
geological survey of Pennsylvania in
charge of the Philadelphia Academy of
Natural Sciences.
Granting to the soldiers and widows
of soldiers of the war of 1912 gra-
tuity of $40 and an annuity of 1920.
Providing that no lapse of time shall
raise presumption or justify a pre-
scription of any perpetual right to have
a telegraph, telephone, electric light, or
other wire or cable for electric purpos-
es attached to or extending over or
upon any building or land.
Authorizing agricultural and horti.
cultural societies to appoint special
policemen for their protection.
Providing that no person shall be
eligible to the office of District Attor-
ney unless he shall have been a prac-
ticing attorney in this Commonwealth
for two years previous to his election
Authorizing the creation of, and pro-
viding for the gulation of, voluntary
tribunals, to adjust disputes between
employees and employers, in the iron,
steel, glass, textile fabrics, and coal
trades.
Providing for the supervision and
control of hospitals or houses in which
insane persons arr treated or detain-
ed
Authorizing the State Commissio-
ners of Fisheries to sell and purchase
real estate, and to erect buildings there
on.
Prohibiting cities, boroughs, and mu-
inequalities from levying any license or
mercantile tax upon persons taking
orders for goods by sample for indivld-
uals who pay licenses or mercantile
tax at their chief place of business.
Making sixty pounds the standard
weight of a bushel of potatoes.
Repeating the act of March 18th,
1875, authorizing market clerks to
weigh butter, lard, sausage, etc.
Regulating the hunting aud killing
of web footed wild fowl.
Preventing the exemption of pro-
perty on Judgment obtained for fifty
dollars or less for wages for manual
labor.
Repeating the first section of the act
of February 2lst, 1867, to prevent the
mischiefs arising from the increase of
vagabonds and other idle and disorder
ly persons.
Providing that the Courts of Quarter
Sessions, by and with the concurrence
of the grand juries, shall have power
to change the limits of any incorporated
borough.
Empowering the State Superinten-
dent of Public Education to issue per-
manent certificates to teachers in cities
of the fourth class.
Providing, at public expense, free
evening schools for the education of
children who from any cause are unable
to attend the public schools.
Exempting mutual loan and building
associations from taxation for State
purposes.
Supplementing the act of April 3D.,
1851, empowering boroughs to lay
footwalks along turnpike roads, and to
assess the cost of paving, curbiug, and
gu:tering upon the owners OF adjoining
lands. ....
To revive and continue IN force the
act of May 22d, 1878, extending the
time during which corporations may
hold and convey the title to real estate
heretofore bought under execution or
conveyed to them in satisfactions
of debts, and now remaining in their
hands unsold.
For the protection of dairymen, and
prevention of deception in sales of but
ter and cheese.
Relating to the public health and
sanitary condition of cities OF the sec
ond class
Amending part of the act providing
for the conveyance of persons injured
in or about the miues to their homes.
Providing for the appointment of Q
commission by the Governor to revis,
the mining aud ventilation laws IN the
anthracite coal regions.
Extending the time for the compile
ton of railroads.
Requiring chains and> ropes to b,
ready for use, in case of fire, at tn,
windows of hotels and other buildings
Requiring the assessors to assess al
seated lands in the ccunty in which the
mansion house is situated
Providing for a better distribution
and the permanent preservation of pub
lie documents.
| Providing for the protection o.
miners in the bituminous coal regions
| Repeating part of section seventeen
of the act of April Sd, 1851, providing
the manner of electing members o
town councils in boroughs.
Supplementing the act of March Sd
1870, providing for the furnishing o
props and timbers to miners.
Amending the act OF March 29th
1869, for the punishment of cruelty tC
animals.
| To prevent the imperiling of the lif,
or limbs OF performers or exhibitors il
places of public amusement.
| Relating to the terminal points t.
which railroads my be constructed
Supplementing the act of April 29th
1874. so as to make free the construc
tion of oil-pipe lines.
Empowering the Orphans Courts
which have jurisdiction of the accounts
of executors and administrators, t.
order sale, for the payment of tn,
debts of the decedent, of any land
| lying partly in two or more counties
Amending the act regulating tht
elections of overseers of the poor.
Repeating the act of May 7th, 1871
providing for the appointment by tn,
governor of an inspector of steam boil
ers in the counties ofSchuylkill, North
cumberland, and Columbia.
Supplementing the act of April 4th
1869, so as to limit the original amoun
of stock and increased capital of rail
road to,$l50 900 mile, and of bonds t
the same amount.
Permitting the killing of Englisl
sparrow at any time
Regulating the term of Office of Con
| t,nllars In cities of tho third nlaSs