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thousand nine hundred and seventeen, for the payment of the bills incurred and remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending May thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, as approved the sixteenth day of July, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, (appropriation act page forty-one), providing for the deficiencies in certain appropriations made to the Executive, Judicial and Legislative Departments by the act to which this is a supplement and for minor appropriations to certain of the Executive, Judicial and Legislative Departments not provided for by said act. Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. Glass presented to the Clerk House bill No. 3, entitled “An act authorizing the Governor to appoint a commission to erect a memorial to the late Theodore Roosevelt, defining the powers and duties of said commission; providing for their expenses and the compensation of a stenographer; authorizing agreements with the Board of Commissioners of Grounds and Buildings; and making an appropriation.

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. James A. Walker presented to the Clerk House bill No. 4, entitled "A Joint Resolution authorizing the appointment of a commission to arrange for an international exhibtion. to be held in Philadelphia in celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of American Independence.

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. John A. Walker presented to the Clerk House bill No. 5, entled "An act providing for the nomination and election of Judges of Courts of Record; and repealing certain acts.”

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Judicial General.

Mr. William Davis presented to the Clerk House bill No. 6, entitled "An act to further amend an act, entitled 'A supplement to the act, entitled an act for acknowledging and recording of deeds,' passed March eighteenth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, as amended; designating the officers before whom such instruments may be proved and acknowledged, and changing the time within which they shall be recorded.

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Judiciary General.

Mr. Dunn' presented to the Clerk House bill No. 7, entitled “An act to repeal section thirty-two of an act approved the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred forty-four Pamphlet Laws four hundred eighty-six), entitled 'An act to reduce debt and to incorporate the Pennsylvania Canal and Railroad Company,' in so far as it imposes a tax on horses, mares, geldings and meat cattle,

over the age of four years for county purposes, in counties having a population of more than one million, four hundred thousand inhabitants."

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Mr. Dunn presented to the Clerk House bill No. 8, entitled “An act regulating the payment of moneys derived from registrations and license fees, by the State Highway Department, into the State Treasury, and the repayment thereof to the several counties from which the same was derived, for the construction, improvement and repair of county roads; providing for the payment into the general fund of the State Treasury of such moneys derived from persons not resident in the State; and repealing certain acts."

Which was referred by the Sueaker to the Committee on Public Roads.

Mr. Dunn presented to the Clerk House bill No. 9, entitled “An act making an appropriation to the City of Philadelphia for construc tion, reconstruction and improvement of certain roads.”

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. Graham presented to the Clerk House bill No. 10, entitled "An act making an appropriation to the Trustees of the Phoenixville Hospital."

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. Hickernell presented to the Clerk House bill No. 11, entitled “An act to further amend section one of an act approved the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, (Pamphlet Laws seventy-three), entitled 'An act to authorize the Recorder of Deeds in the several counties of this Commonwealth to record the discharges of all honorably discharged officers and soldiers,' as amended, providing for the payment by the county of fees to the Recorder of Deeds for the recording of the discharges of soldiers, sailors and marines."

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Judiciary Special.

Mr. Wood presented to the Clerk House bill No. 12, entitled "An act reappropriating certain moneys to the trustees of the State Hospital for the Insane at Warren, Pennsylvania.”

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. Wood presented to the Clerk House bill No. 13, entitled “An act making an appropriation to the Trustees of the State Hospital for the Insane at Warren, Pennsylvania.”

Which was refrred by the Speaker to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. Wood presented to the Clerk House bill No. 14, entitled "An act making an appropriation to the Trustees of the State Hospital for the Insane, at Warren, Pennsylvania."

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. Benchoff presented to the Clerk House bill No. 15, entitled "An act regulating the disposition of the carcasses of dead animals and the offal of slaughtered animals, which are not used commercially, and prescribing a penalty for violation thereof."

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Public Health and Sanitation.

Mr. Benchoff presented to the Clerk House bill No. 16, entitled "An act to amend an act approved the thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven (Pamphlet Laws four hundred sixty-eight), entitled 'An act providing for the establishment of a State Highway Department, by the appointment of a State Highway Commissioner, two Deputy State Highway Commissioners, Chief Engineer, Chief Draughtsman, Superintendents of Highways, and a staff of assistants and employes; defining their duties and the jurisdiction of the State Highway Department, and fixing salaries of Commissioners and deputies and other appointees; provinding for taking over from the counties or townships of the Commonwealth certain existing public roads connecting county seats, principal cities, and towns and extending to the State line; describing and defining same by route numbers as the State Highways of the Commonwealth. providing for the improvement, maintenance, and repair of said State Highways solely at the expense of the Commonwealth, and relieving the several townships or counties from any further obligation and expense to improve or maintain the same, and relieving said townships or counties of authority over same; requiring boroughs and incorporated towns to maintain certain State Highways wholly and in part; requiring the State Highway Commissioner to make maps to be complete records thereof; conferring authority on the State Highway Commissioner; providing for the payment of damages in taking a property or otherwise, in the improvement thereof; providing for purchase or acquiring of turnpike or toll-roads forming all or part of any State Highway, and procedure therein; providing for work of improvement of State Highways to be done by contract, except where the State Highway Commissioner besides the work be done by the State; providing aid by the State to counties and townships desiring the same in the improvement of township or county roads; defining highways and State-aid highways; providing method of application for State-aid in the improvement, maintenance and repair of township or county roads, and prescribing the contents of township, county, borough, or incorporated town petitions; providing for percentage of cost of improvement or repairs to be paid by State, county, township, borough, or incorporated town, and requiring contracts by counties, townships, boroughs and incorporated towns with Commonwealth governing same: providing for the minimum width of State Highways and State-aid highways, and kind of materials to he used in the improvement; providing for payment of cost of improve

ment and repair; providing penalty for injuring or destroying State Highways; making appropriations to carry out the provisions of the act; and providing for the repeal of certain acts relating to Highway Department and improvement of roads and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith; and providing that existing contracts are not affected by provisions of this act;' providing for the taking over, construction, improvement, repair and maintenance of State Highways in boroughs."

Referred to the Committee on Public Roads.

Mr. Kennedy presented to the Clerk House bill No. 17, entitled “An act fixing the per diem compensation of borough assessors and assistant assessors and the method of acertaining the number of days employed."

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Judiciary Special.

Mr. Foster presented to the Clerk House bill No. 18, entitled "An act making an emergency appropriation to cover deficiency to the Trustees of the State Institution for Feeble Minded of Western Pennsylvania at Polk, Pennsylvania.”

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Judiciary Local.

Mr. Wilbert presented to the Clerk House bill No. 19, entitled "An act making appropriation to the St. Vincent Hospital Association of the City of Erie, Pennsylvania."

Whch was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. Rinn presented to the Clerk House bill No. 20, entitled "An act making appropriation to the Children's Home of South Bethle hem, Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania."

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Appropriation.

Mr. Frank I. Smith presented to the Clerk House bill No. 21, entitled "An act to amend an act approved the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, (Pamphlet Laws eleven hundred and eighty), entitled An act providing for the joint acquisition and maintenance by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New York of certain toll bridges over the Delaware river, and making an appropriation thereof."

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Appropriation.

Mr. McCurdy presented to the Clerk House bill No. 22, entitled "An act to amend section two of an act approved the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and one (Pamphlet Laws three hundred and twenty-seven), entitled An act to prohibit the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine, butterine and other similar products when colored in imitation of yellow butter to provide for license fees to be 24-H. R. Jour.

paid by manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers and by proprietors of hotels, restaurants, dining rooms and boarding houses for the manufacture of or sale of oleomargarine, butterine or other similar products not colored in imitation of yellow butter, and to regulate the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine, butterine or other similar products not colored in imitation of yellow butter and prevent and punish fraud and deception in such manufacture and sale as an imitation butter and to prescribe penalties and punishment for violations of this act and the means and the method of procedure for its enforcement and regulate certain matters of evidence in such procedure as amended."

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Judiciary Special.

Mr. McCurdy presented to the Clerk House bill No. 23, entitled "An act to further amend an act approved the eleventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven (Pamphlet Laws two hundred and seventy-five), entitled An act to provide for the appointment of County and City Inspectors of Weights and Measure providing for their compensation and expenses, prescribing their duties, prohibiting vendors from giving false or insufficient weights and fixing the penalties for the violation of the provision hereof. Including instruments and devices for weighing by manufacturers and mills, mines and quarries, and which are used for the purpose of determning the wages of employes as amended.”

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Judiciary Local.

Mr. Finney presented to the Clerk House bill No. 24, entitled "An act relating to roads."

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Public Roads.

Mr. Cox presented to the Clerk House bill No. 25, entitled “An act making appropriations to the Commission of Soldiers' Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania for the payment of a deficiency in the appropriations for the maintenance for the two fiscal years ending May thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.”

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. Cox presented to the Clerk House bill No. 26, entitled "An act to extend the benefit of the Soldiers' Orphan Industrial School to orphan and destitute children of honorably discharged Soldiers, Sailors and Marines of the War with Germany and Austria or of any movement or campaign in connection therewith or resulting therefrom."

Which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Military. Mr. Cook presented to the Clerk House bill No. 27, entitled "An pet to amend an act approved the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven (Pamphlet Laws three hundred and nine), entitled An act to establish a public school system in the

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