Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-02
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! Announcement of the approval by
airy raiser, was made at the Execu-
| tive Department late yesterday. The
bill becomes effective at once. Un-
| der its provisions the chief justice
of the Supreme Court will receive
$4,000 and the associate judges
$4,000. The president judge of
the Superior Court will receive $13,-
500 and the associate judges $13,
In Allegheny and Philadelphia coun-
! ties, Common Pleas and Orphans
Court judges will receive $4,000
! each. The salaries for Common
Pleas and Orphans Court judges in
districts outside of Philadelphia and
! Allegheny counties will receive the
| following:
In districts having a population
of more than 100000 and less than
100000, $4,000; districts having a
population of more than 900 and
less than 100000, $500; in districts
having population of less than
$1,000, $1,000. For trying State
cases each of the judges on the Dau-
phin county bench are to receive
an additional $4,000.
In the county court in Allegheny
and the municipal courts of Phila-
delphia. the judges will receive S.
600 and each president judge will
receive an additional $500.
Estimates that have been made
show that more than 100000 will
be necessary to meet the increases.
With the signing by Governor
Sproul of the Cox House bill regu-
lating the transfer of secondhand
motor vehicles, trafficking in stolen
motorcars becomes in Pennsylvania
perilous occupation. This is par
ticularly true inasmuch as on May l,
Governor Sproul signed a bill pro-
viding that upon conviction, motor
thieves shall pay fine not exceeding
$1,000 and undergo imprisonment
for a period of not less than ten
years.
State Highway Commissioners
Lewis S. Sadler, and Acting Superin-
tendent of State Police George Il.
Lumb to-day declared that the pro-
visions of both of these acts will be
rigidly enforced.
with the cooperation Of the
courts of Pennsylvania" said State
Highway Commissioner Sadler, I'VE
hope soon to put an end to the
business of stealing automobiles
business incidentally which seems to
have been highly productive, judging
from police records throughout the
State"
Captain Lumb issued the following
statement:
Every member of the State police
force has been instructed to give
particular attention to enforcement
of the Cox bill just signed by the
Governor and to the act which pro-
vides $4,000 fine and ten years inn
prisonment. We are determined to
put an end to motor thieving in
Pennsylvania. 1t is going to be as
unhealthy to steal an automobile
in this State as it used to be to
steal horses in the far West"
The act of May / is one of the
most drastic measures ever signed
by a Governor of Pennsylvania. 1t
provides, that if any person shall
feloniously take or steal any motor
vehicle, or shall be an accessory
thereto before or after the fact, or
shall receive or purchase any mo-
tor vehicle knowing the same to
have been stolen, the person so Of
Tending shall be guilty of felony,
and upon conviction thereof shall be
sentenced to pay a fine not exceed
ing five thousand dollars and to
undergo Imprisonment by separate
or solitary confinement at labor not
exceeding ten years"
Briefly, the Cox Bill contains the
following provisions: That the person
conveying or passing title to any
used motor vehicle must furnish to
the buyer or transferee a full de-
scription of the vehicle in duplicate
The description must include the
name of the manufacturer, horse
power of the vehicle, the number
under which it was last registered
by the State Highway Department of
Pennsylvania or of the state wherein
it was so registered together with a
full account of the numbers and
marks Identifying the vehicle. The
description must be accompanied by
a statement in duplicate giving the
name or names of residences of the
previous owner or owners, giving
complete information as to where
they may be found. 1t is also provid-
ed that this statement shall include
information concerning the date and
place at which ownership began by
the person transferring the vehicle
and whether he acquired title by pur-
chase or in some other manner. De-
tails must be given covering changes
and alterations in the finish design or
appearance of the secondhand We
hicle. These provisions are contained
in Section of the Act.
Section provides that persons
who buy or otherwise acquire title to
used motor vehicle must obtain
from the vendor or transferee there
of a written description and state
ment in duplicate provided for in
Section 2. The person thus buying
the machine must make a statement
in duplicate giving his name and
complete facts concerning his resi-
dence, together with the description
of the motor vehicle itself. The state
ment and description in duplicate
must be verified by either oath or
affirmation of the person buying the
vehicle, who within ten days after
acquiring the used car shall file one
copy of each of the verified state
ment and description with the State
Highway Commissioner at Harris
burg and one copy in the office OF the
police chief of the city or borough
wherein acquisition was made. or in
the office of the clerk of the Courts
of Quarter Sessions IL the transfer
did not take place in a city or bor-
ough.
In Section 4, 1t is provided that no
licenses shall be issued by the State