Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-08-01
NEW LAWS.
The following acts of the late Assembly
were approved by the Governor:
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No 204.
Sec. l. Be it enacted, etc. That all
persons who shall own and use only draft
wagons on the public highways OF this
Common wealth, with tires not less than
tour inches in width. for hauling loads OF
not less than two thousand pounds weight
shall, for each year after the passage oil
this Act receive rebate OF one
fourth of their assessed highway tax. Pro-
yided, however, such rebate shall not e1-
ceed in any one year five days labor on
the highways for road or highway tax or
its equivalent in cash TO any one person.
Sec, 2. Any person complying with the
provisions of Section / of this Act, who
shall make and subscribe to an affidavit
that.he, she or they have, for the preceding
year, owned and used only such wagons,
with tires not less than four inches IN
width for hauling loads not less than two
thousand pounds in weight on the public
highways of this Commonwealth, shall be
credited by the supervisors of highways OF
their respective districts in which such
tax are levied and assessed with one-fourth
of the road tax assessed and levied on the
property of such persons. Such credit
shall not exceed in any one year i've days
labor on the highways for road or highway
tax to any one person, or its equivalent IN
cash, and any supervisor OF highways Is
hereby authorized TO administer such osth.
No. 215.
Sec. l. Be it enacted, etc. That no
person shall at any time place in any OF
the waters OF Pennsylvania, any torpedo,
giant powder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite,
lime, electricity or any other poisonous or
explosive substance for the purpose of TAX
ing or catching fish.
Sec. 2. Any person or persons offend
ing against any OF the provisions OF this
ct shall be guilty of a misdeameanor,
and on conviction thereof shall be fined
fifty dollars for each offense, and undergo
an imprisonment of not less than thirty
days, or more than one year.
The attention of the school directors OF
the county is called to the following Act
of Assembly recently passed by the legis-
lature:
Sec. /. Be it enacted etc. That the
board of school directors and control OF
each school district of this Commonwealth,
be and they are hereby required at least
once during each full school term and pri-
or to the first of January Of each year, and
within thirty days after the close of each
annual school term, to have taken out,
removed and hauled away all excrement
and waste matter from every out house or
water closet connected with or standing
upon the premises of every public school
in the Commonwealth, or have the same
properly disinfected. and they are requir-
ed to have every outhouse or water closet
properly scrubbed, washed out and clean
ed, the inside walls white washed, and the
vaults or receptacles covered with layer
OF fresh dirt or dry Stacked lime withI1
a. nc he nf animal
school term.
Sec. 2. That the president OF each
board of school directors or controllers is
required each year to certify, in the regu-
lar form provided for that purpose, that
the requirements of this Act have been
fully carried out before the district can
draw its annual appropriation from the
State.
STATE PENSION LAW.
The new State pension bill grants pen
sions to enlisted men of Pennsylvania who
we're in the service of the United States
in the war of the Rebellion between April
IA, 1861 and May l. 1865, who are not
pensioners nor applicants for pensions
under the United States statutes. The
bill directs the auditor general, on proper
application and under rules. regulations
and restlic lotions such as he may deem
proper, to place on the State pension rolls
any officer, soldier, sailor and marine quail
fled under this act. 1t provides further
that such pensions shall be granted 10
those whose services between the time
specified was at least ninety days. The
rate shall be monthly allowance of one
cent per day for each days actual service.
In adjudicating pension claims the auditor
general shall require proof that the claim
ant is free from lntemperate habits Pay
ments shall be made semi-annually, and
shall cease when the pensioner moves out
Of the State or shall be pensioned by the
United States.
NEW TRRsPAss LAW.
"Any person or persons who shall will
fully enter or break down, through OF
over any field, orchard, garden or yard
fence, hotbed or greenhouse. or who shall
wrongfully club, stone, cut, break OF
otherwise mutilate or damage any field
crop, nut, fruit or ornamental trees, shrub,
brush, plant or vine, trellis arbor. hotbed,
hot or green house. or who shall trample
or in any wise injure any grain, grass, vine,
vegetables or other growing crop, or who
wilfully take or carry away grain, corn,
rye, wheat or other field crop, fruit or
vegetable, plant, nuts or berries, or any
fruit or ornamental trees, vines or shrubs,
whether the same may be attached to the
soil or not, shall be subject to penalty
not exceeding fifty dollars for each and
evers often SO