of P. L. 60. Publication of appraisers' list. 1. The county commissioners of the respective counties are hereby authorized and 20 April 1887 § 1. required to publish the mercantile appraisers' list of names and classification of each person, subject to license, in three papers of general circulation, in each county of the commonwealth, one of which shall represent the minority party the two principal parties of the county, and one of which may be a German, or Welsh paper: Provided, however, That such list shall not be published in more than two papers in any county, should the county commissioners desire to limit such publication to that number: And provided, further, That the auditor-general and city treasurer shall direct that said list and classification shall be published in four newspapers, in cities of the first class. Ibid. § 2. Rates of advertis 2. The auditor-general is hereby authorized and empowered to pay the respecttive newspapers, for the publication of said mercantile appraisers' list the usual rates of advertising charged by the same to private customers, and not exceeding ing. thirty cents per line for four insertions: Provided, That in no case shall the Limitation. amount, paid for advertising in any city, or county, exceed ten per centum of the amount received by the treasury of the state from said city, or county, during the preceding year, from the class of taxes so advertised; and all bills shall be Bills to be certified certified to the county treasurers of the respective counties by the appraiser; and by appraiser. the county treasurers are hereby authorized to pay the same, upon said bills being County treasurer receipted by the respective publishers in proper form, and upon approval, by the to pay. auditor-general, they shall be entitled to receive credit for the amount so paid, in the settlement of their accounts for licenses with the commonwealth. Ibid. § 3. Appointment of 3. The appointment of mercantile appraisers shall be made, annually, by the county commissioners, except in cities of the first class, where the auditor-general and the treasurer of the city are authorized and required to appoint five suitably appraiser. qualified citizens, all of whom shall not be of the same political party, and the term of office of said appraiser shall be for three years. 4. The accounts for advertising mercantile lists and all other state accounts shall be audited by the auditor-general. 5. There shall be no pay for advertising, nor fee to any appraiser for fictitious names, or the names of persons not residing at the place designated. 6. All acts, or parts of acts, now in force in reference to the publication of mercantile, liquor and other licenses, except as herein before provided, shall continue to be and remain in full force and virtue. 7. The several cities and boroughs of this state shall have power to tax or license foreign dealers in merchandise, or their agents, having no permanent place of business in any such city or borough, but temporarily engaged in selling and disposing of merchandise, either by wholesale or by retail, to an amount not exceeding the local taxes or licenses imposed on resident merchants engaged in a like business: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to sales by sample. 8. Cities and boroughs shall have power to enforce the provisions of this act by providing proper penalties by ordinance duly enacted. II. Sales by sample. 9. In all sales by sample, unless the parties shall agree otherwise, there shall be an implied warranty on the part of the seller that the goods, chattels and property sold and to be delivered are the same in quality as the sample shown. Ibid. Audit of accounts. Fictitious names. Laws to remain in force. 24 May 18871. P. L. 185. Foreign dealers may be taxed. rates, nor apply to sales by sample. Ibid. 2. Cities and boroughs may enforce act. 13 April 1887. P. L. 21. Implied warranty. Wages. 1. Wage-workers to be paid in money. Semi-monthly in full. 2. Liability for neglect or refusal. 23 May 1887. P. L. 180. Wage-workers to be paid in money. Semi-monthly in full. Ibid. Liability for neglect or refusal. 23 May 1887 1. P. L. 181. to discharge. 1. From and after a period of two months subsequent to the date of the passage of this act, every individual, firm, association, or corporation, employing wage-workers, skilled or ordinary, laborers engaged at manual or clerical work, in the business of mining or manufacturing, or any other employee, shall make payment in lawful money of the United States to the said employees, laborers and wage-workers, or to their authorized representatives; the first payment to be made between the first and fifteenth, and the second payment between the fif teenth and thirtieth of each month, the full net amount of wages or earnings due said employees, laborers and wage-workers upon the first and fifteenth instant of each and every month wherein such payments are made. 2. In case any individual, firm, corporation, association or the employer shall neglect or refuse to make payment, upon the dates herein set forth, to wageworkers, laborers or other employees, employed by or with the authority of such individual, firm, corporation, association or other employer, then such amount of wages or earnings shall be and become a legal claim against such individual, firm, corporation, association or other employer, and shall be recoverable by law, with interest from the date such amount is due. 3. Any individual, partnership or corporation, who or which requires from persons in his or its employ, under penalty of forfeiture of part of wages earned Notice of intention by them, a notice of intention to leave such employ, shall be liable to pay to the party injured a sum equal to the amount of said forfeiture, if he or it discharges, without similar notice, a person in such employ, except for incapacity or misconduct, unless in case of a general suspension of labor in his or its mine, shop or factory, or a suspension of work ordered by the employees of such individual, partnership or corporation. Exceptions. Ibid. 2. Suit for recovery. 3 June 1887. P L. 337. Lien for wages. 4. Suit may be brought by any person or persons interested under the provisions of the first section of this act before any of the magistrates or justices of the peace of this commonwealth having jurisdiction for the recovery of the sum or sums of money as are required to be paid by the employer or employers under the first section of this act. 5. No such claim shall be a lien upon any real estate unless the same be filed in the prothonotary's office of the county in which such real estate is situated, within three months after the same becomes due and owing, in the same manner as mechanics' liens are now filed; and that it shall be lawful to issue a scire facias on any lien, which has been or hereafter may be filed as aforesaid and to proceed thereon to judgment, execution and sale, in the same manner as a scire facias is now issued on a mechanics' lien and proceeded on to judgment and execution and sale. (a) (a) This is an amendment to the last proviso to the act 9 April 1872, 1, P. L. 47, as amended by the act 13 June 1883, P. L. 116. See ante, vol. II., page 1698, pl. 1, and note (g). 25 May 1887. P. L. 268. Authorized to increase capital stock. Limitation. Water Companies, 1. Authorized to increase capital stock. Limitation. 1. Corporations created under and by virtue of the said act, (a) for the purpose of supplying water to the public in cities of the first and second class, shall have the right to increase the amount of their capital, from time to time, to such amount as shall be found requisite and exigible for the purposes thereof: Provided, That the amount of capital stock so authorized shall not exceed twenty millions of dollars. (a) Act 29 April 1874, P. L. 108. Weather. 1. Observers to be appointed in each county. Duties. Instruments. 2. Central office in Philadelphia. 3. Service under charge of the Franklin Institute. Weather review. No compensation. P. L. 106. pointed in each 1. The secretary of internal affairs of this commonwealth be and is hereby 18 May 1887 § 1. authorized and directed to name and appoint, on the recommendation of the Franklin Institute of the state of Pennsylvania for the promotion of the mechanic Observers to be aparts, one or more competent observers in each county of the state for the purpose county. of taking, recording and transmitting observations of the atmospheric pressure, Duties of such temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind, and other meteorological phenomena, observers. occurring in their respective localities; and the secretary of internal affairs is hereby authorized and directed to purchase and furnish to each of said observers Instruments. such standard meteorological instruments, as are used by the United States signal service, and such signal flags and other necessary equipments, and such necessary clerical expenses, as shall be designated and approved by the said Franklin Insti tute. Ibid. § 2. Central office at 2. The central office of the state weather service shall be located in the city of Philadelphia, at which the weather forecasts and warnings of the United States signal service shall be received, and from which the same shall be disseminated Philadelphia. throughout the state, and to which the state weather service observers shall send their observations. Ibid. 3.' Service under 3. The management of the work of the Pennsylvania state weather service shall be under the supervision and direction of the Franklin Institute of the state of Pennsylvania for the promotion of the mechanic arts, and the said Franklin In- charge of Franklin stitute is hereby authorized to make such use of the information thus collected Institute. by the publication of a weather review, and by other proper means as will best weather review. promote the usefulness of the service to the citizens of the state. And the ser- No compensation. vices of the said Franklin Institute and of the said observers of the state weather service shall be made without compensation. Wild Animals. 1. Destruction of wolves and wild-cats. Premiums. 2. Duty of persons drstroying. Pelt may be produced. Duty of officer receiving. 3. Certificate to county commissioners. Order for pay. ment. Affidavit to be filed. Compensation of officer. 4. Fraudulent collection of premiums. Penalty. 5. Repeal of act 23d June 1885. P. L. 116. 1. For the benefit of agriculture and the protection of game within this com- 13 May 1887 1. monwealth, there is hereby established the following provisions for the destruction of certain noxious animals, to be paid by the respective counties in which Destruction of the same are slain, namely: For every wolf, ten dollars; and for every wild-cat, cats. two dollars. wolves and wild Premiums. Ibid. § 2. 2. It shall be the duty of any person, having killed any of the animals mentioned in the first section of this act, who is desirous of availing himself of the premiums therein provided, to produce such slain animal before any magistrate, Duty of person de alderman or justice of the peace of the county, in which the same was killed, and stroying same. make affidavit of the time and place of killing the same: Provided, That the Pelt may be propelt, if entire from the tip of the nose of any such animal, may be produced in duced. lieu of such animal, when so preferred; and upon the reception of any such animal, or pelt, it shall be the duty of the said officer, in the presence of said Duty of officer reperson killing such animal and one elector of the county, to cut off the ears of ceiving. such animal, and in the presence of said person, burn the same. Ibid. § 3. Certificate to 3. Upon the destruction of such ears, the said officer shall give to the person, producing such animal or pelt, a certificate of compliance with the provisions of this act, directed to the commissioners of the county in which such animal was county commisslain, which certificate shall contain the following facts: The kind of animal and sioners. when, where and by whom killed, and the date by whom and in the presence of Order for payment what elector the ears of such animal was destroyed; and, upon the production of P. L. 116. Affidavit to be filed. 13 May 1897 3. such certificate, the said commissioners shall give an order upon the county treasurer for the payment of the premium or premiums provided by this act; and it shall be the further duty of the said officer, taking the affidavit provided for in the second section of this act, to file the same forthwith, or cause the same to be filed, in the office of the commissioners of the county; and upon filing the same, the said officer shall receive from the county stock the sum of twenty-five cents in full compensation for all his services under this act. Compensation of officer. Ibid. 4. Fraudulent collec 4. If any person shall wilfully and fraudulently collect any premium or premiums provided in this act, or shall aid, abet or assist in any official capacity, or tion of premiums. Otherwise, in the same, he, she or they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, they shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars and undergo an imprisonment in the county jail of the proper county not exceeding one year, both, or either, at the discretion of the Penalty. Ibid. § 5. Repeal of act 23 court. 5. The act of assembly, entitled "An act for the destruction of wolves, wildcats, foxes, minks, hawks, weasels and owls in this commonwealth," approved the twenty-third day of June, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and all other acts inconsistent herewith, be and the same are hereby. repealed. 8 July 1885. P. L. 256. Witnesses. 1. Fees before justices of the peace. 1. All witnesses in civil and criminal cases before justices of the peace and aldermen, in the several counties of this commonwealth, shall be entitled to comFees before justices pensation as follows, namely: For each day necessarily in attendance, fifty cents, and for each mile necessarily travelled in going to and returning from the office of the justice of the peace or alderman out of which the subpoena issued, three of the peace. cents. 19 May 1887. P. L. 132. tional land Workhouses. 1. Managers of, may purchase additional land. Purpose. Funds to be used. Title. 1. The managers of the several workhouses in the state be and they are hereby empowered to purchase such additional land, not to exceed two hundred Purchase of addi- and fifty acres, as they may deem advisable, in addition to that now owned by them, for the purpose of employing the prisoners under their charge in agricul tural or other labor, and to purchase such land out of funds wholly under conFunds to be used. trol of said workhouses, and take the title of such land in the name of the city or county, or counties, to which they belong. authorized. Purpose. Title. INDEX. ACTIONS PERSONAL. See Practice. When attachment may issue. Affidavit. Bond, 2127, 8 1. Where to issue, 2128, 2. Distinctions in actions ex contractu abolished, 2369, 1. ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. Amended acts, 2128. Repealed acts, 2129. ADMINISTRATION. See Decedents' Estates. Register of Wills. ADOPTION. See Infants. AGED PERSONS. See Corporations. Associations for prevention of cruelty to, 2171, 1-7. AGRICULTURE. Canada thistles to be destroyed. Fine, 2131, 1. Remedy for persons aggrieved, 2131, § 2. Duty of constable and supervisor, 2131, 2. To destroy thistles in public roads. Unseated lands. Penalty, 2131, § 3. ALIENS. Right to hold real estate, 2381, 8 1. ANNEXATION. Of boroughs and townships to cities, 2279, 8 1-3. Of sections not less than forty acres, 2280, 4. APOTHECARIES. See Liquors. To have certificate from and be registered with the state pharmaceutical examining board, 2132, 8 1. Oath, 2132, 4. 3. Vacancies, 2132, 8 5. To keep book of registration. To advertise, 2132, % 6. Apothecaries to register within ninety days and every three years, 2132, 6. Form of application, 2133, 7. Registration fee. Application. Annual report to governor, 2133, ? 8. To meet every three months, and examine applicants. To grant certificates of competency, 2133, § 9. Penalty, 2133, 12. 11. Not to apply to proprietors or qualified assistants in business at passage of act. registered, 2133, 13. But they must be 14. Qualified assistant defined. When other assistants entitled to registration, 2133, Penalty, 2134, 17. |