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PENNSYLVANIA. 



deceased soldiers or sailors of the State to the Soldiers' 

 Orphans' Schools. 



To prevent the adulteration of dairy products. 



To permit defendants to testify in criminal cases. 



To provide for the incorporation and regulation of 

 natural-gas companies. 



To provide for the better government of cities of 

 the first class. 



For the suppression of lottery-gifts by storekeepers 

 and others to secure patronage. 



To establish a State Board of Health. 



To punish copartners for fraudulently appropriating 

 the property or using the name of the copartnership, 

 corporation j or association. 



To establish a home for disabled and indigent sol- 

 diers and sailors. 



Making it a misdemeanor for any member of a co- 

 partnership, firm, or association to keep fraudulent 

 accounts, or destroy or mutilate the firm books. 



To prevent the establishment of joints, booths, or 

 other places for the smoking or other use of opium. 



Authorizing trust companies to transact safe-deposit 

 business. 



To prohibit the manufacture and sale of toy deadly 



Eelating to warranties in the applications for life- 

 insurance policies. 



To prevent the mutilation, etc.. of books, etc., in 

 public libraries, museums, or galleries. 



For the destruction of wolves, wild cats, foxes, 

 minks, hawks, weasels, and owls. 



To protect oil, gas, and water wells, tanks, pipes, 

 and machinery connected therewith. 



Eclating to marriage licenses, providing for officers 

 therein indicated to issue licenses. 



Kelating to the granting of letters of administra- 

 tion upon the estates of persons presumed to be dead. 



To prohibit the creation of irredeemable ground- 

 rents. 



To prevent the employment of female labor in and 

 about coal-mines and the manufactories thereof. 



Eelating to bituminous-coal mines, and the lives, 

 health, and welfare of employe's therein ; the same as 

 to anthracite mines. 



To prevent the adulteration of and the traffic in 

 impure milk in cities of the second and third classes. 



The Governor vetoed numerous measures, 

 among them acts reapportioning the State for 

 legislative and congressional purposes. J. 

 Donald Cameron, Republican, was re-elected 

 United States Senator. The new marriage law 

 requires a license as a prerequisite. Formerly 

 no license was necessary. The law relating to 

 city government increases the power of the 

 mayor. 



Finances. The balance in the State treasury, 

 Nov. 28, 1884, was $2,117,585.11 ; receipts 

 during the following year, $8,179,714.28 ; total, 

 $10,297,299.39; expenditures, $8,513,257.53; 

 balance Nov. 30, 1885, $1,784,041.86. The 

 following were the chief items of receipt and 

 expenditure : 



RECEIPTS. 



Tax on corporation stock and limited partner- 



_ 8hi P ....................................... $2,037,618 29 



Tax on gross receipts (corporations). . . . 913,308 14 



Tax on bank-stock ............ 863,273 80 



Taxonloans ................................. 555,323 61 



Tax on personal property ............ 620 971 88 



Tax on writs, wills, deeds, etc ..... 130,528 27 



Tax on collateral inheritances. 

 Foreign insurance companies. 

 Tavern licenses 



EXPENDITURES. 



Senate 



House of Representatives 



Judiciary 



Public printing and binding 



Loans redeemed 



Interest on loans 



Premiums on loans redeemed 



Purchasing United States bonds 



Charitable institutions 



Reimbursement for care and treatment of indi- 

 gent insane 



Soldiers' Orphan School 



Penitentiaries 



Huntingdon Reformatory 



National Guard 



Common schools... 



400,360 80 

 549,706 08 

 147,293 18 



1,111,600 00 

 820,987 50 

 165,075 25 



1,846,812 50 



230,026 20 

 310,258 08 

 209,819 00 

 100,000 00 

 237,511 76 

 1,193,517 19 



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Eating-house licenses ........................ 133,1 19 71 



Retailers' licenses ................ 453 428 66 



Allegheny Valley Railroad Company ....'.. .' .' .' .' 222,500 00 



United States Government ................... 119,378 80 



Commutation of tonnage- tax .................. 460,000 00 



Education. The last report of the Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction covers the year 

 ending June 1, 1885. The number of enrolled 

 pupils has increased 16,119, making a total of 

 982,158. The increase of average number of 

 pupils in actual attendance is 21,450. The dif- 

 ference between the number enrolled and the 

 number in attendance is 325,030. The total 

 number of teachers is 22,864, an increase of 

 400. There has been a decrease of 88 in the 

 number of male teachers and an increase of 

 488 in the number of female teachers. The 

 average monthly salary for males is $39.01, and 

 for females $30.08. There were 432 new build- 

 ings reported. 



Assessment of Property. The number of taxa- 

 bles in 1884 was 1,267,767 ; value of taxable 

 real estate, $1,663,562,940; value of household 

 furniture, including gold and silver plate (ex- 

 ceeding $300), $2,292,855 ; money at interest, 

 including bonds, stocks, etc., $26,374,185; 

 horses and mules over four years old, 455,499; 

 value of same, $24,242,168 ; neat cattle over 

 four years old, 597,831 ; value of same, $11,- 

 687,582 ; money at interest taxable at the rate 

 of four mills on the dollar. $115,833,134; 

 value of property taxable for State purposes 

 at the rate of four mills on the dollar, $14,- 

 483,141 ; value of pleasure-carriages and bug- 

 gies, $4,548,998 ; valuation of salaries, emolu- 

 ments of office, posts of profit, trades, occupa- 

 tions, and professions, $77,859,261 ; value of 

 all property taxable for county purposes (Phil- 

 adelphia wanting), $1,214,407,990; aggregate 

 amount of State tax assessed, $611,526.56 ; of 

 county tax, $15,544,529.27; of county debt, 

 $72,964,710.24 (Philadelphia, $65,889,899.74). 

 The taxable value of real estate in Philadelphia 

 was $573,728,105 ; in Allegheny County, $195,- 

 603,480. The census (1880) valuation of farm 

 alone is much higher in almost every county 

 than the assessed value of all real estate taxa- 

 ble in the county as returned by the county 

 commissioners. Similar inequalities exist in 

 other items of property. It is doubtful if the 

 real estate on the average is assessed at more 

 than half its value. 



Railroads, etc. The number of corporations 

 embraced in the report of the Secretary or 

 Internal Affairs for 1884 is 305, classified as fol- 

 lows : Steam railroads, 228 ; passenger rail- 

 ways, 50; canals, 8; telegraphs, 11; tele- 

 phones, 4 ; and combined telegraph and tele- 



