Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-10-30

session Of 1871 when the acI
passed. was the amendment oi
1864, which was copied almost YER
batim in the constitution of 1874
Il is as follows mo bill shall be
passed containing more than one
subject which shall be clearly ex-
pressed in its title. We turn now
to the act to discover its subject we
find it is the purpose Of the incor-
porators to establish a game and
fish preserve on land in three diff
ferent townships in Pike county,
| Pennsylvania, their holdings not to
exceed 30, 900 acres with a capital
not to exceed $500, 900. How is the
object of the corporation to be ac-
complished? By preserving, import
ing, breeding and propagating all
kinds of game, animals, birds and
fishes adapted to the climate and
affording facilities to the members
and persons licensed by the copora-
tion 10 hunt and fish on the land of
the corporation, and also privileg-
ing such person to sell surplus game
and fish its stockholders further
have the right under the act to pro.
vide themselves and others with an
agreed BILE resort, a respectable hotel,
cottage houses, stables, exercising
grounds for horses and any thing
necessary or proper for their accom-
mediation. Then to subserve the
purpose of the incorporators, follow
the most drastic penal clauses All
persons are forbidden to enter upon
the 10000 acres or TO hunt or fish
thereon unless authorized by the
corporation any one found guilty
of violating the prohibition shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor
and fined before the magistrate
hearing the complaint not less than
$40 nor more than $50, in the dis
cretion of the magistrate, for the first
offence, and for the second offence,
not less than $50, nor more than
500. The magistrate imposing the
fine has authority to imprison the
offender in the county Jail in default
of payment. The game keepers
are to be deputized by the sheriffs of
the counties of Monroe and Pike.
The taxes imposed upon the corpor-
alton are not to exceed the taxes on
other wild and unseated lands of
the state. There are nineteen sep
arate and elaborate sections of the
act, every one relating to the preser-
vation of game and fish ana the
punishment of the violators of its
penal provisions it is not necessary
to further enumerate them.
Through out the entire body of
the act its intent is plainly express
ed in no instance is there the least
obscurity. It was the intention to
provide an agreeable place of tenn
porary residence for its stockholders
and effectually prohibit any out
slider from trespassing upon the
80, 900 acres.
Is the subject of the act clearly
expressed in the title as enjoined by
the constitution? It is not necessary,
as we have more than once held,
that the title should be an index to
the contents of the act but we
we In Re-Road in Phoenixville,
100 Pa 40. awhile it has been re-
peatedly said that the title of bill
need not be a complex index of its
contents, it has Eever been doubted,
that the subject Of the proposed
legislation must be so expressed in
the title of the bill as to give notice
of its purpose to members of the
legislature and others specially in
terested. " The Chief, J Sterrett,
who delivered the opinion cites
large number OF cases bearing
directly on the question decided
since the adoption of the amend.
ment of 1854 Can il be said, in any
reasonable interpretation Of our
numerous decisions, that this title Of
a private bill gave notice of its
purpose to members of the legisla-
ture or to the citizens and taxpayers
Of Pike county who were directly
interested2 For while all will con.
cede from the very nature of their
duties, that members Of the legisla-
ture were specially interested ia the
subject Of the bill, very little con
sideration will further convince US,
that residents of Pike county were
also specially interested. The act
set aside from all other interests
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