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Said carrier shall obtain receipts by name, 

 or, if the person be unknown, by a descrip- 

 tion, for each body delivered by him, and 

 shall deposit said receipt with the secretary 

 of the said board. 



Sec. 5. No school, college, physician, or 

 surgeon shall be allowed or permitted to 

 receive any suoh body or bodies until a 

 bond shall have been given to the Common- 

 wealth by such physician or surgeon, or by 

 or in behalf of such school or college, to be 

 approved bj' the Prothonotary of the Court 

 of Common Pleas in and for the county in 

 which such physician or surgeon shall re- 

 side, or in which such school or college may 

 be situate, and to be filed in the office of 

 said Prothonotarj', which bond shall be in 

 the penal sum of one thousand dollars, con- 

 ditioned that all such bodies which the said 

 phj'sician or surgeon, or the said school or 

 college, shall receive thereafter shall be 

 used only for the promotion of medical sci- 

 ence within the State; and whosoever shall 

 sell or buy such body or bodies, or in any 

 way traffic in the same, or shall transmit, 

 or convey, or cause to procure to be trans- 

 mitted or conveyed said body or bodies to 

 any place outside of this State shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, 

 on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceed- 

 ing two hundred dollars, or be imprisoned 

 for a term not exceeding one year. 



Sec. 6. Neither the Commonwealth, nor 

 any county or municipality, nor any officer, 

 agent, or servant thereof, shall be at any 

 expense by reason of the delivery or distri- 

 bution of any siich body, but all the ex- 

 penses thereof, and of said board of distri- 

 bution, shall be paid by tliose receiving the 

 bodies, in such manner as may be specified 

 by said board of distribution, or otherwise 

 agreed upon. 



Sec. 7. That any person having du.ties 

 enjoined upon him by the provisions of this 

 Act, who shall neglect, refuse, or omit to 

 perform the same as hereby required, shall. 



on conviction thereof, be liable to fine of 

 not less than one hundred nor more than 

 five hundred dollars, for each offence. 



Sec. 8. That all Acts or parts of Acts in- 

 consistent with this Act be and the same 

 are hereby repealed. 



Philadelphia, January 1, 1889. 

 In accordance with the requirements of 

 the above law the Anatomical Board of the 

 State of Pennsylvania was organized July, 

 1883, for the purpose of carrying it into 

 execution. The attention of all State, 

 county and municipal officers charged with 

 duties under the law is directed to its re- 

 quirements. Boxes containing bodies should 

 be addressed to Geoi-ge Willie, Philadel- 

 phia, and should be delivered to the agent 

 of the express company at the station 

 nearest to the place from which the body is 

 sent. The charges paid bj^ the Board for 

 transportion to the railroad station vary 

 from $1.00 to $2.50 in accordance with the 

 distance. These charges will be paid by 

 the agent of the express company, and col- 

 lected from the Board by the agent in Phil- 

 adelphia. 



SEVENTH ANNUAL 3IEETING OF THE 

 AMERICAN FOLK-LOEE SOCIETY. 

 The American Folk-lore Society held its 

 seventh annual meeting in Philadelphia on 

 Friday and Saturday, December 27 and 28, 

 1895. Although the attendance was rather 

 slim, the number and the value of the papers 

 presented made the session an interesting 

 one. The President, Dr. Washington Mat- 

 thews, opened the meeting with an address 

 on the poetry and music of the Navahoes. 

 He brought out very clearlj^ the misconcep- 

 tion of superficial observers who have not 

 had the opportunity to enter into the spirit 

 of Indian life, and consequently described 

 the primitive tribes as void of poetic or 

 musical feeling. The examples given by 

 the speaker are ample proof that the Nava- 



