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

civil proceeding, the truth of such
cause or challenge shall be inquired Of
and determined by the court.
To further provide for the incorpora-
tion and regulation of mutual assess
ment corporations for the insurance of
lives, supplementary to the act of May
LIST, 1876.
Escheating to the Commonwealth
the property of telegraph companies
consolidating with, or holding a con-
trolling interest in the stock or bonds
of, any competing line, or the acqusi-
ton, by purchase or otherwise, of any
such line.
Fixing the license.f fees to be paid by
manufacturers or venders of nostrums
or patent medicines.
Providing that illegitimate children,
born of the same mother, and leaving
neither mother nor issue capable of III.
heriting, may inherit personal property
as next of kin, and real estate as heirs
in fee simple.
Authorizing the Courts Of Common
Pleas to issue writs of estrepement to
stay waste upon land sold for taxes
during the time provided for redemp.
tion.
Providing punishment of not more
than two years Imprisonment, or fine
of not more than $1,000, or both, upon
the owners or controllers of newspapers,
magazines, or periodicals that publish
lottery advertisements.
Making it a misdemeapor to furnish
to any voter at the polls ticket repre-
sented to contain name or names not
on it.
Providing for the care and treat
ment, in the State hospitals, of the in
gredient insane of the counties.
To prevent the consolidation of COM
peting oil-pipe lines, or the acquisi.
ton or control of one such line by
another.
To prevent the obstruction of navi-
gable streams by trees, logs, stumps,
brush, &c.
Authorizing County Commissioners
to discharge all persons confined in jail
without proceedings under the insolvent
laws.
Prohibiting the receiving and deten-
ton of children in amshouses, and
providing for their care an1 educa-
tion.
Abolishing the contract system in
prisons and reformatory institutions.
Requiring assessors to make returns
of timber lands.
To ensure payment to miners for all
clean coal mined by them.
Providing that wages of servant
girls, washerwomen, clerks, and others
shall be preferred and paid first out of
the proceeds of the sale of the property
of insolvent debtors.
Fixing the date of the commence
ment of terms of borough officers and
auditors settlements.
Empowering the Common Pleas
Judges to name the place of holding an
election when it is impossible to con-
duct it in the place mentioned in the
Sheriff's proclamation.
For the registration of dentists
supplementary to the act of April 18th,
1876.
Enabling tax collectors to collect
taxes for the payment of which they
have bee ome personally liable.
Authorizing the granting of certifi-
Gates of the recording of deeds, mort
cages, and other instruments in certain
cases when the former Recorder has
not given such certificates
Providing for the publication of the
Pennsylvania archives.
Authorizing the Courts of Common
Pleas to decree the satisfaction ofmort-
cages, upon payment to the Courts of
the amount of principal, interest, and
| all other moneys found to be due upon
such mortgages, in cases where the le-
gal holder or holders thereof shall re-
side without the jurisdiction of this
Commonwealth, or shall have removed
therefrom without leaving a known
duly-authorized attorney to enter salts
faction on full payment of such mort
gage money being made.
Legalizing the Offering as evidence
in civil suits the production of verified
copies of entries in bank books.
Legalizing the unrecorded charters
of boroughs
Amending section first of the act of
June 10Th, 1881, amending and consoli-
dating the several acts relating to game
and game fish.
For the protection OF persons sus-
tanning loss of property by fire when
the property is covered by insurance.
Extending to June lst, 1887, the
time for closing the soldiers orphan
schools.