The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-15
SOME NEW ACTS-LAWS WORTH
KNOWING.


1t is aimed at eggs of the cold stor-
age variety. The penalty for sell
ing or offering to sell eggs unfit for
use is a fine OF between $500 and
$1,000, or imprisonment between
three and nine months.
In acts Nos. o and II, bad soft
drinks and impure lard are respec-
lively attacked. Any person who
sells non-alcoholic drink that is
deleterous to health is liable to
fine of not less than $25, nor more
than 800; a dealer who handles
impure lard may be fined either
500 or 500. If an imitation lard
is sold the can must contain the
words limitation lard or lard
substitute
Druggists are not permitted to
sell carbolic acid to a stranger or
Il minor if Act No. 90 is lived up
to. The word poison" must be
marked on the bottle and the apo
thecary is directed to keep register
containing the names of all persons
to whom he sells the acid.
Act % gives a board OF town
ship commissioners the right to
levy a tax for the establishment of
fire department. Before this tax
is levied however the board must
receive the consent of the electors
at popular election.
Act 23 has to do with the care
of burial grounds and authorizes a
court to refuse charter to any
association which does not expend
at least one-tenth of the amount
arising from the sale of lots for the
care of graves and the grounds gem
orally.
\ justice of the peace is prohibi-
ted, in Act "a, from binding a per-
son over to court on a surety of the
peace charge unless it is clearly
shown that the prosecutor is actu-
ally in danger of being hurt in body
or estate.
Law 81 amends the tax exoner-
alton act so as to exempt hospitals,
universities, colleges, seminaries,
academies, associations and other
institutions of learning only when
the entire revenue derived by the
same is applied to the support of
the institution and for no other
purpose.
By Act 80 the census of a second
class township may be taken any
time, not less than two years before
the governments decennial census,
upon petition of the owners of 25
per cent. of the assessed valuation.
If the census shows a population
large enough for a first class town
ship the change is made through
the courts.
Act "a makes it a misdemeanor
on the part of a manager of tele-
grapah company or of the corpora
tion itself to send a minor child to
a house of assignation. The penalty
is fine Of $1,000 or one years i'm
prisonment.
Sale of impure milk is legalized
against in act 81, while 3S is di-
rected at adulterated ice cream.
Deletcrious favoring matter in
Ice cream makes the dealer liable to
fine of $50.
Act 46 gives justice of the peace
the authority to enter actions of as
sumpsit for the recovery and collec-
tion of municipal claims by lien.
In Act AZ it is provided that the
last of a decedent, to be effective
against boda fide conveyances or
mortgages of the real or personal
estate of the decedent, must be
offered for probate within three
years before the date of the death
of the testator, or before the re-
cording of conveyance as on mort
gage.
The next act in the laws gives
boroughs the right to acquire by
condemnation proceedings such real
estate as may be necessary to erect
garbage or incinerating plants.
No. so amends the intestate laws
so as to allow a widow the first
$1,000 out of the estate before it is
distributed according to the sche-
dule laid down in the act of 1888.
In No. 81 the probation officer of
juvenile court is allowed a salary