The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-02-06
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE
Important Measures Considered by Our
LaWmakara.

Lawmakers.
MoSpAY. These senate bills passed finally;
Providing TINT voluntary and compulsory
non-suits shall be bar to any other suit for
the saine cnuse OF action except In the action
Of eiectment upon legal title; appropriate
Ing s2,50O to +, @. Negley, OF Allegheny
county Tor services ns recruiting agent during
the war; providing that n suit wrongly begun
In equity may be continued at law; 10
establish separate orphans court In Schuyl-
kill county.
In the house seyiert and Farr compulsory
education bills were recommended.
These bills wero introduced; Fow, philn-
delphia, abolishing collateral inheritance tax
on bequests by will TO hospitals that ure de-
ptiyed OF state aid from state treasury; au-
thorizing county commissioners to sell 10
actual settler aud convey unsea,ed lands be-
longing to counties; nppropriating sl,30J
for payment OF funeral expenses OF late adjt.-
Gen McClelland, including medical and
and surgical attendance and hospital ex-
penses; making general act to prevent adul-
teration and traillc In impure milk In cities
OF first and second classes; amending act
creating state pharmaceutical board, so IA 10
Increase the fees for examination and regis
tration OF pharmacists from 81 to s9 and the
renewal OF certificates from 81 to SO; appro-
priating $4,000 to erect monument IN
memory OF 200 revolutionary soldiers at
Ephrata.
lUfNDA1.-A Dlii 10 cStnDll9n n depart
ment OF charities and correction was intro
duced In the house this morning by Repre-.
sentative Marshall
A bill introduced by Mr.. Snlvely npproprI.
ntc5 900 TO Improve the public high.
ways under the charge OF the secretary OF a
township road committee and county road
engineer. The money IL to bc disburscd by
the state treasurer upon order Of the secrc.
tnry Of internal affairs, when this order Is
accompanied by tho sworn statement OF
township committees countersigned by the
county road engineer. The appropriation Is
TO be expended outside ef cities and boroughs
pro rata, according TO the population OF each
county or such road as the secretary of inter.
nal affairs with the county engineer and
township committees shall agree upon. All
such roads shall be kept In repair by the
State. The local committee will consist OF
five men who shall serve five years without
compensation except expenses. The pay o.
the engineer shall not be less than s41O
year and actual expenses.
WEDNESDAY In the Senate to-day these
bills were introduced making counties
liable Tor the maintenance OF patients In In.
sane hospitals when committed 70 these in.
stitutions by any court or Judge; to enlarge
the capacity OF tho wife 10 sell her real pro.
perty without the ioinder OF her husband
to extend the limitations OF actions to the
right TO mine coal, stone. limestone.
timber oil ronba upd ri,,h,
n wov In oSI on ,nnds ,,ha,o 'Si' shn
same has NOT been exeyciaad TO- o.
cears pe,niyipy nnni,o.n,s ,o, norOa,oa,
teachers' csrtIfica,es 10 have n voiid nrnras
sional certificate Mt least two venrs knthor
jzing soldiers md sailors 10 sne cnnn,ios
borouubs and townships for bonntv ,nonar
In the House these tills were in,rodnccd
To create the office Of state Sunarintendon,
Of Construction who shall Ina nnnoin,ad w.
tho Roard Of Public Rnijdipss and Gronnds'
10 look af,et the chronic Insane and n,ha,
state Institutions. 10 provide n state I've
stock sanitary Board. autbo,izln@ s,,ao,
railways ro carry freiub,. nllovino conno,'
lea jncoyeorntcd pn5a, ln,vs NJ n,bor s,a,as
ior the manafeeture Of niucose or anv 1,, ",he,
article Of commerce Sbich nav ha M ,nyanu,ao vIn9i
tured from the waste nyodncts M tanna,ies
and slnnyb,er houses " erec, ana na,,,,ain
bnildinvs and mnnnfnstnrjn, estahlisnman,s
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p.as1, auvns ,nv, Ua' W. a, quo o,neais
,hs,e,9. n,ovjdiny Tor the incornoration of
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