162 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



2. Deposits in savings' institutions remaining unclaimed for thirty 



years, to escheat to Commonwealth. 



Act April 17, 1872, (P. L., page 62). 



3. There is paid into the State Treasury annually certain sums of 

 money for analyzing commercial fertilizers, but as the moneys thus 

 paid in are used to defray the cost of the analysis made, they cannot 



properly be considered a revenue of the Commonwealth. 



The act providing for the analysis of fertilizers is the one of June 28, 

 1879, (P. L., page 180). 



4. Persons, tirms and corporations manufacturing and selling oleo- 

 margarine, butterine or any similar substauce, are required to be 

 licensed by the Department of Agriculture, and the moneys received 

 for such licenses are to be paid into the State Treasury, but as they 

 are used as a special fund by the Department of Agriculture in 

 detecting and suppressing frauds in the sale of butter, they cannot, 

 like the moneys received for aual^'ziug fertilizers, be considered a 



general revenue of the Commonwealth. 



The act regulating the sale of oleomargarine and butterine, and pro- 

 viding for licenses is the one of May 5, 1899, (P. L., page 241). 



5. To aid in the building of the low grade railroad, extending from 

 the mouth of the Mahoning creek, in Armstrong county, to the 

 mouth of Bennett's Branch creek, in Cameron county, |3,500,000 of 

 bonds w^ere taken from the sinking fund of the Commonwealth, and 

 in lieu thereof, bonds of like amount, of the Allegheny Valley Rail- 

 road Companj', were substituted. 



These bonds- are guaranteed by the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad 

 Company, the Northern Central Railway Company and the Pennsyl- 

 vania Railroad Company, and they are dedeemable at the rate of 

 $100,000 per year, and the interest on the balance, at five per cent, 

 per annum, is payable until all are redeemed. These bonds and the 

 revenue derived therefrom constitute an asset of the sinking fund, 

 applicable to the payment of the interest and reduction of (he prin- 

 cipal of the Stale debt. 



Act of March 30, 1869, (P. L., page 730). 



6. Under the operation of what are known as the Humes Acts 

 of June 6, 1883, (P. L., page 75), and June 23, 1885, (P. L.. page 140), 

 the Commonwealth has |2,775.00 of United States four per cent, 

 registered bonds that were purchased with surplus moneys in the 

 general fund of the State Treasury. These bonds and the interest 

 received thei-eon also constitute an asset of the sinking fund, ap- 

 plicable to the payment of the intorcsf and rerlnction of the principal 

 of the State debt. 



