The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-03-27

township to recover the amount of money
by which he became entitled 10y reason of
his being accredited to such county, bor-
ough or township in his re-eniist ment TO
fill the quota of men afterwards called
for from such county or township; TO
provide for uniform contract or policy
of fire insurance to be used by all COM
panies, associations or individuals trans
acting fire insurance business and pro-
viding penalties for the violation of the
provisions of this act; regulating the tax
ing up of logs and lumber in the rivers
and streams that are and may be declared
public highways, fixing the salvage
thereon and repeating all former acts
bearing on the same subject. Ii gives -
cents for each log ard 81 per thousand
feet of sawed lumber; appropriating $50
TO pay 4. Merrin, who was deputized by
sergeant-at-arms of the House in 1893 for
attendance upon Representative Tewls-
bury, who was seriously i'll i'm Harris
burg; providing that all road taxes shall
he paid i'm cash. and repeating all incon-
sistent acts; amending the act relating to
exemption from execution and distress to
the amount of $3.50 so as to make an eN-
ception in case of debt for food to pro-
hibit school boards from hiring teachers
who may he related TO members of said
boards within certain degrees of consan-
guinity; amending the election law of
ls93, providing that in addition TO the
peace officers the duly authorized watch
ers may also remain within the voting
room, outside the guard rail, while the
votes are being counted; providing for
the payment of viewers to assess railroad
damages, and allowing mileage; to pro-
vide for the selection of a site and cree
ton of State asylum for the chronic,
epileptic and criminal insane OF Western
| Pennsylvania, provided that the total
cost shall not exceed S5090o0; making
appropriations for deficiencies in salaries
of the Auditor General, Secretary of In
ternal Affairs, and Superintendent of
Public instruction; making the 18th of
February (I.incoln's birthday legal
| holiday; providing for the burial of indi-
gent soldiers by the appointment of suit
able persons by the county commission
ers to provide for the inspection of all
! private or public hospitals, reformatory
i homes, converts, asylums, sectarian sem
1 inaries, schools or institutions, by the
commissioners of the county in which
such institutions are located, by the grand
/ jury thereof or by any person or persons
appointed by judge of a court of record,
upon petition signed by twenty persons;
i,a
ton of new counties and prescribing the
manner in which the same may be done
appropriating Si42,0O0 10 the trustees of
the State Hospital for Chronic Insane N
| Wernersviile; appropristing $1,000 10 the
/ German Home Society, Philadelphia; to
/ authorize cities, b0roughs and townships
/ to appropriate moneys for Memorial Day
services; 10 authorize the purchase of
historical works relative to the services
of Pennsylvania volunteers during the
late civil war; appropriating SEQ for
the erection of q monument TO mark the
/ resting place of soldiers of the RevOlu-
/ ton, the War OF ISl2, the Mexican War
and the War of the Rebellion in Upper
/ Ociaroro cemetery, Salisbury township,
tntstSr county.
In the House the following bills passed
| finally: Exempting building and loan
associations from making semi-annual
| reports to the State Banking Department;
| TO abolish days of grace on promissory
notes, drafts, &c, and to determine legal
/ holidays; 10 establish the State Live
Stock Sanitary Board and to provide for
! the more speedy ard efiectaal manner of
collecting the road and poor taxes in the
several boroughs and townships to ere
ate the Office of State Custodian, with
salary of s1,Oo0.
The House adjourned on Friday fore
noon, to NEE. on Monday evening, the
18th inst, at o'clock.
Ii must not be taken for granted that
because but few bills have been passed
finally 10y the House, that the members
are not down to work. They do work,
but some of them viii talk The Judicial
apportionment bill. among others, is
eliciting much discussion, and there are
others coming up that will call down
showers of oratory.
If robin snow is a sign of it, spring is
certainly here.