of business shall take out a license for each and every such separate place of business. Treasurers' commission. Section 10. The rate of commission allowed county treasurers for their services in collecting license-taxes as aforesaid, shall be the same as in the case of mercantile licenses. In addition to the license-tax, as aforesaid, each broker shall be required to pay to the county treasurer a fee of one dollar, and to the mer- Fees. cantile appraiser a fee of seventy-five cents. other Section 11. The license-tax herein provided for shall I license be in lieu of all license-taxes heretofore required by taxes. law to be paid, for the use of the Commonwealth, by said brokers, including a tax of one per centum upon the gross receipts of stock brokers, bill brokers, exchange brokers, and merchandise brokers, imposed by the first section of the act of the thirteenth day of June, Anno Domini nineteen hundred and one. Section 12. All acts or portions of acts inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed, except Repeal. as to pending cases and assessments made thereunder. APPROVED--The 7th day of May, A. D. 1907. EDWIN S. STUART. No. 140. A JOINT RESOLUTION For the appointment of a commission by the Governor of this Commonwealth, for the purpose of amending, revising, and collating the laws touching upon the public schools of this State, and for the further purpose of suggesting new legislation for the welfare of said schools, and an appropriation to meet the expenses of the said Commission. Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House School laws of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That the Governor of this Commonwealth be and is hereby authorized and required to appoint seven competent citizens, of whom the State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be one, as Commissioners to revise, collate, and commission. digest all the acts and statutes relating to or touching the laws of the public schools of the Common- Digest. wealth. missioners. Section 2. That the duties of the said Commission- Duties of Comers shall be to collate and reduce into one act all the acts and statutes, and parts of acts and statutes, relating to or touching public schools of this Commonwealth; and arrange the same systematically, under proper titles, divisions, and sections. To omit, in such revisions, all acts and parts of acts that have been repealed or supplied by subsequent acts, or which have expired; and to prepare and submit such bills Paving. Sewer. Dynamos. Hospital buildings. Baths. Piggery. Pumps. Warehouse, etc. Roads. Lands. Tunnels. Plans, etc. nect with the administration office in the main building. The sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to complete the paving already commenced, and to extend the same to the new buildings now in course of construction. The sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the construction of a sewer along the south side of the main Hospital building and to connect with the main sewer. The sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the installing of two additional dynamos, to accommodate the new Hospital buildings now in course of completion. The sum of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the erection of two Hospital buildings, one for men and one for women, to correspond with those now in course of construction, and to accommodate one hundred patients each. This sum to include the furnishing of said buildings. The sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the installment of hydrotherapeutic apparatus for Turkish baths. The sum of six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the erection of a piggery. The sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the erection of a new water pumping system. The sum of three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the erection of a warehouse, and platform for loading and unloading cars, at siding on hospital farm. The sum of seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of macadamizing roads, up to the main hospital. The sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purchase of an additional lands for hospital purposes. The sum of seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of constructing tunnels from the main building to each of the north and south annexes and infirmary building. The plans and specifications of the said hospital buildings to be under the supervision of the board of trustees of said Hospital, and approved by the State Board of Public Charities, and shall be of the best design for the construction of said buildings, without expensive architectural adornments, and as nearly fire-proof as possible, and no change to be made in said plans of construction or specifications without the consent of the State Board of Public Charities. Said appropriations to be paid in accordance with the provisions of the act of Assembly, approved March fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine. APPROVED-The 8th day of May, A. D. 1907. EDWIN S. STUART. No. 144. 'AN ACT Authorizing and requiring the Superintendent of Public Instruction to use the return of the number of children between six and sixteen years of age in the several school districts in each county, now required to be made by the county commissioners to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, by an act approved the eleventh day of July, Anno Domini nineteen hundred and one (Pamphlet Laws, page six hundred and sixty-two), as a basis for the distribution of one-third of the State appropriation to schools. Schools. county commis bution of appro Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That for the school year beginning on the first Monday of June, one thous and nine hundred and seven, and biennially thereafter, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is hereby authorized and required to use the return of the num- Return made by ber of children between the ages of six and sixteen stoners to be years of age in the several school districts in each basis for districounty, now required to be made by the county commissioners to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, by an act approved the eleventh day of May, Anno Domini nineteen hundred and one (Pamphlet Laws, page six hundred and sixty-two), as a basis for the distribution of one-third of the State appropriation to schools. Section 2. All parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. APPROVED The 8th day of May, A. D. 1907. priation. Repeal. EDWIN S. STUART. No. 145. AN ACT Authorizing the corporate authorities of boroughs to expend not exceeding one-half of the annual appropriation for roads and streets, in curbing and paving or macadamizing any street, lane, or alley therein. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the corporate authorities of every borough of this Commonwealth Boroughs. shall have authority and may, in their discretion, expend not exceeding one-half of the annual appropria. paving and curbtion for roads and streets, in curbing and paving or Expenditure in ing, or macadamizing. Proviso. macadamizing any street, lane, or alley, or part thereof, in such borough: Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall prevent the said authorities from making any of the said improvements as provided by existing laws. APPROVED-The 8th day of May, A. D. 1907. EDWIN S. STUART. Wife. No. 146. AN ACT To further remove the disability of a wife in testifying in cases where the husband is a party. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That in all civil actions brought by the husband, the wife shall be a competent witness in rebuttal, when her character or conpetent witness in duct is attacked upon the trial thereof, but only in regard to the matter of her character or conduct. When a com action brought by husband. APPROVED-The 8th day of May, A. D. 1907. EDWIN S. STUART. Boroughs. tions. Plans, etc. No. 147. AN ACT Concerning building regulation and inspection in boroughs. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That to prevent the spread of fires and to secure structural and sanitary safety of the buildings within its limits, every borough shall have power, by ordinance, to establish general Building regula- regulations for the construction of new buildings and the repair of old ones; and to require that, before work begins, municipal approval of plans and specifications therefor be secured; and to provide for inspection of such construction and repair, including the appointment of one or more building inspectors; to prescribe limits wherein none but buildings of incombustible materials and fire-proof roofs shall be erected or substantially reconstructed or removed thereinto; and to provide penalties for violation of such ordinance and building regulations. Any building erected, reconstructed, or removed, contrary to the provisions of any such ordinance, is declared to be a public nuisance, and abatable as such. Fire-limit. Public nuisance. Ordinances validated. Section 2. All such building regulation and inspection ordinances, heretofore enacted by boroughs, are hereby validated, as being lawfully within their police powers. Section 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. APPROVED-The 8th day of May, A. D. 1907. EDWIN S. STUART. Repeal. No. 148. AN ACT To amend an act, entitied "An act to amend the forty-sixth section of an act, approved the thirteenth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, entitled 'An act relating to roads, highways, and bridges,' authorizing the construction of bridges on the line of adjoining counties, or located within one-fourth of a mile from the county lines," approved the twenty-third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and three; so as to provide that nothing in this act shall prevent any county in this Commonwealth from erecting a bridge at any point wholly within the limits of said county, without any view or other proceeding whatsoever in any adjoining county. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the act of April Bridges. twenty-third, one thousand nine hundred and three, entitled "An act to amend the forty-sixth section of an act, approved the thirteenth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, entitled 'An act relating to roads, highways and bridges,' authorizing the construction of bridges on the line of adjoining counties or located within one-fourth of a mile from the county lines," which reads as follows: "Section 46. Bridges over any river, creek, or rivulet, being on the line of adjoining counties, or located within one-fourth of a mile therefrom, and necessary for the accommodation of the inhabitants of both counties, shall be authorized in the manner provided in the case of other county bridges, except that the court of quarter sessions of each county shall appoint three of the viewers, and that a report as aforesaid be made to the said courts, respectively, and that the said court shall, together with the grand juries and commissioners of the respective counties, in all other respects have and exercise a concurrent jurisdiction therein," be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 46. Bridges over any river, creek, or rivulet, being on the line of adjoining counties, or located within one-fourth of a mile therefrom, and necessary for the accommodation of the inhabitants of both counties, shall be authorized in the manner provided in the case of other county bridges, except that the Section 46, act of amended by act of cited for amend ment. Bridges on line of adjoining counone-fourth mile ties, or within therefrom. |