PENNSYLVANIA. 



class in loans of said cities, or of the United 

 or of the State of Pennsyl vania. 



To authorize in cities of the first class, wherever way- 

 farers' lodges shall be established, the commitment of 

 persons to the house of correction as vagrants who 

 shall obtain shelter and food from such lodges and 

 who shall refuse to perform work in return therefor 

 when physically able to work. 



For the better security of bituminous-coal miners. 



To prohibit political -parties, committees, or mem- 

 bers thereof, from demanding from public officials con- 

 tributions for political purposes. 



To prevent the selling of theatre tickets on the pub- 

 lic streets and highways. 



To prevent the consolidation of competing pipe lines. 



Providing for the care and treatment of the indigent 



sane in the State hospitals. 



To provide for the manner of decreasing the capital 



)ck of banking corporations. 



A supplement to the corporations act of 1874,to au- 



orize'the formation of corporations for driving and 

 floating saw-logs, lumber, and timber. Such corpora- 

 tions are given power to straighten and deepen and 

 erect dams, cribs, and other improvements in streams 

 not exceeding twenty miles in length, and charge tolls 

 not exceeding 10 cents for 1,000 feeL board measure. 



Fixing the salaries of county officers in counties 

 containing over 100,000 and less than 150,000 inhab- 

 itants, and requiring the payment of the fees of such 

 officers into the respective county treasuries. The 

 salaries are as follow : District attorney, $3,000 ; 

 sheriff, $4,000 ; prothonotary, $3,000 ; clerks of courts, 

 $2,000 ; register, $2,500 ; recorder, $3,000 ; treasurer, 

 $3,000 ; county surveyor, $150 ; commissioners, each, 

 $1,000; auditors, $250; solicitor, $500; directors of 

 poor, $860 ; jury commissioner, $'250 ; coroner, $1,000. 



To require a brand upon all goods made for sale 

 by convict labor. 



To make accepted orders and certificates for petro- 

 leum negotiable. 



To provide for gauging the petroleum in the cus- 

 tody of and examination into the conditions of firms 

 and corporations engaged in the business of storing 

 and transportation by means of pipe lines. 



To provide for the disposal of the property of un- 

 incorporated associations organized for benevolent, 

 charitable, or beneficial purposes upon the dissolution, 

 expulsion, surrender of warrant or charter or vacation 

 of the same. 



Eequiring anthracite-coal operators to keep ambu- 

 lances for the conveyance of injured miners. 



For the appointment of a commission of six practical 

 miners and six practical operators to revise the mining 

 and ventilation laws relating to the anthracite-coal 

 region. 



Requiring the owner, lessee, agent, or foreman of 

 every anthracite-coal mine to furnish props and tim- 

 bers for the safe running of the coal. 



Requiring the owners of hotels, seminaries, colleges, 

 academies, Iiospitals, asylums, storehouses, factories, 

 manufactories, workshops, tenement-houses, and the 

 directors of public schools, to have fastened to the 

 inside of each of six window-heads on the third and 

 every additional story a chain ten feet in length to 

 which a rope at least an inch in diameter shall be 

 affixed of sufficient length to reach the ground. A 

 proviso requires such a rope and chain to be furnished 

 m each room of a hotel above the second story. 



The Wallace arbitration act. This bill provides 

 that the Judge of Common Pleas Court or the Presi- 

 dent Judge in Chambers shall, upon the petition of 

 fifty workmen employed by five different firms, or 

 five employers who employ at least ten workmen 

 each, or a firm employing at least seventy-five men, 

 appoint a tribunal of an equal number of employers 

 and workmen, the exact number to be stated in the 

 petition and not to be less than two of each, for the 

 adjustment of disputes in the iron, steel, glass, textile 

 fabrics, and coal trades. If after three meetings the 

 tribunal is unable to make a decision, an umpire shall 

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be selected " by the mutual choice of the whole of the 

 representatives of both employers and workmen con- 

 stituting the tribunal," who shall decide the points 

 submitted to him in writing within ten days. The 

 award when made and signed by the umpire may be 

 made a matter of record by presenting it with the 

 submission in writing to the proper judge, who in- 

 dorses his approval and directs it to be entered on 

 record. " When so entered it shall be final and con- 

 clusive, and the proper court may, on motion of any 

 one interested, enter judgment thereon, and when the 

 award is for a specific sum of money may issue final 

 and other process to enforce the same." 



The anti-discrimination bill, declaring " undue and 

 unreasonable discrimination" to be unlawful, and 

 providing that "no railroad company or other com- 

 mon carrier engaged in the transportation of property 

 shall charge, demand, or receive from any person. 

 company, or corporation for the transportation of 

 property, or for any other service, a greater sum than 

 it shall charge or receive from any other person, com- 

 pany, or corporation for a like service from the same 

 place upon like conditions and under similar circum- 

 stances, and all concessions in rates and drawbacks 

 shall be allowed to all persons, companies, or corpora- 

 tions alike for such transportations and service upon 

 like conditions under similar circumstances and dur- 

 ing the same period of time. Nor shall any such 

 railroad company or common carrier make any unduo 

 or unreasonable discrimination between individuals 

 or between individuals and transportation companies 

 in the furnishing of facilities for transportation." 



The abolition of the useless and expensive office 

 of sealer of weights and measures and of recorder for 

 cities of the first class, the passage of the Wallace 

 voluntary labor tribunal act, the several acts broaden- 

 ing and liberalizing the provisions of the free railroad 

 law, the act known as the free-pipe law, the act pro- 

 hibiting the consolidation of telegraph companies, 

 and the act to enforce the provisions of the seven- 

 teenth article of the Constitution relative to railroads 

 and canals, were made in obedience to the demand of 

 the people. 



For the expenses of the extra session, the 

 sum of $543,053.93 was appropriated. 



Finances. The annual statement of the Treas- 

 urer includes the receipts from Dec. 1, 1882, 

 to Nov. 30, 1883, both days inclusive, and a 

 summary of it is given below : 



Lands... .......................... $5,15999 



Tax on corporation stock and limited partner- 



ships.... ........................ :. ...... 2,089.032 08 



Tax on gross receipts ......................... 887,556 08 



Tax on coal companies ....................... ",14S 



Tax on bank-stock ........................... 865.468 56 



Tax on net earnings or income ................ 59.126 



Tax on gross premiums ...................... 5'52 



Tax on loans ................................ o^o?2 ?5 



Tax on personal property ..................... 874.819 



Tax on writs, wills, deeds, etc ................. 108.009 89 



Tax on collateral inheritances ................. 604,764 



Tax on sale of fertilizers ..................... 4,990 



Foreign insurance companies .................. 255,660 



Tavern licenses .............................. 489,985 58 



Ketailers 1 licenses 





Eating-bouse licenses ................... ...... 33.1 (2 51 



Brewers 1 licenses ..... ........................ . H<!. ". 



Billiard licenses .............................. 83 .886 05 



Brokers' licenses ............................ ii'TS SS 



Auctioneers' licenses ........................ IMS 



Liquor licenses ............................... 80.W2 i 



Peddlers' licenses ............................ 



Patent-medicine licenses ...................... 3,501 84 



Theatre, circus, etc, licenses .................. 4,469 00 



Bonus on charters .................... : ....... 10i .W4 24 



Office license-fees 



Accrued interest 



Penalties 



Notaries' public commissions 



Allegheny Valley Railroad Company 



United States Government 



5,327 00 

 5,888 45 

 129 52 

 10,950 00 

 282.500 00 

 58 



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Commutation of tonnage-tax 460,000 00 



