CLVIII. TO REGULATE THE SALE OF ARTICLES OF MERCHANDISE WITHIN ONE MILE OF ANY CAMP MEETING HELD FOR RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.

Act 8 May, 1878, Sec. 1, P. L., 46.—It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to erect, place or have any booth, stall, tent, shed, carriage, boat or vessel, or any other place or vehicle whatever, for the purpose or use of selling, giving or otherwise disposing of all or any kinds of articles of traffic or merchandise (except as hereinafter excepted), within one mile of any camp meeting held for religious worship in this Commonwealth.

Act 8 May, 1878, Sec. 2, P. L., 46.-Any person or persons violating the provisions of the first section of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or an imprisonment of not more than six months, or both, or either, at the discretion of the court.

Act 8 May, 1878, Sec. 3, P. L., 46.-Nothing in this act shall be taken or construed so as to affect any licensed tavern or hotel keeper, merchant, mechanic, farmer or shopkeeper, in his, her or their lawful or ordinary business, at his, her or their usual place of business or residence, nor of any person or persons who shall have procured a permit in writing from the trustees or managers having the charge or management of such camp meeting, specifying the name of the party to whom issued and the kind of articles to be offered for sale, and the rules and regulations of such trustees or managers: Provided, That any farmer living within one mile of any such camp meeting shall have the privilege of disposing on his premises of his own farm products or vegetables without such permit.

Act 8 May, 1878, Sec. 4, P. L., 46.-All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

CLIX. PENALTY FOR SELLING FERTILIZERS NOT ANALYZED.

Act 28 June, 1879, Sec. 3, P. L., 181.-Any person selling, offering or exposing for sale any commercial fertilizer, without the analysis required by section one of this act, or with any analysis stating that it contains a larger percentage of any one or more of the above-named constituents [nitrogen, or its equivalent in am

monia, potash soluble in water, soluble and reverted phosphoric acid, and insoluble phosphoric acid] than is contained therein, or for the sale of which all the provisions of section two have not been complied with, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall forfeit a sum not less than twenty-five and not exceeding one hundred dollars for the first offence, and not less than two hundred dollars for each subsequent offence, onehalf of which shall be for the use of the informer and the remainder for the county in which the conviction is secured: Provided, Said informer be the purchaser and the goods be for his

own use.

ED. NOTE. Fertilizers containing neither of the above constituents, not within this act.

Act 28 June, 1879, Sec. 6, P. L., 181.-The term "commercial fertilizers," as used in this act, shall be taken to mean any and every substance imported, manufactured, prepared or sold for fertilizing or manuring purposes, except barnyard manure, marl, lime and wood ashes, and not exempt by the provisions of section one of this act.

CLX. PENALTY FOR ISSUING AND COUNTERSIGNING WARRANTS WITHOUT APPROPRIATION BEING MADE THEREFOR IN CITIES OF THE FIRST CLASS.

Act 11 June, 1879, Sec. 3, P. L., 131.-No city of the first class, no head of any department thereof, and no commission, board or trust, or any other agent, officer or employé of either or any thereof, exercising any powers of government therein, either in the making of contracts, the approval thereof, or in the authorization of the expenditure of the money of said cities of the first class in any manner whatever, shall hereafter make any contract, without a previous appropriation has first been made by the said councils, draw, issue or approve any warrant for any expenditure by such department, commission, board or trust, or any other agent, officer or employé, unless an appropriation has been previously made in accordance with the provisions of this act; and no warrant shall be drawn against any item in said appropriations in excess of said item; and any contract made or warrant issued in violation of the requirements of this act, shall be absolutely void as against said cities; and any head of depart

ment, board, commission or trust, agent, officer or employé issuing such warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, and imprisoned for a term not exceeding three years, and be hereafter forever disqualified from holding any office or position of trust under the State, or any county or municipality thereof; and the countersigning of any warrant or warrants by the city controller, contrary to the provisions of this act, shall likewise constitute in such officer a misdemeanor, and shall subject him to like penalties as herein before provided: Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to relieve or exempt any officer or other person violating its provisions from liability to any other punishment or penalties now provided by law.

CLXI. PENALTY FOR OBSTRUCTING PASSAGE IN ATTEMPT TO EVADE PAYMENT OF TOLLS.

Act 4 June, 1879, Sec. 1, P. L., 85.-Any person or persons driving, riding in or driving any wagon, carriage or other vehicle, or riding or leading a horse or horses, or driving or leading any cattle or sheep, who shall wilfully obstruct or impede the free and safe passage of any other person or vehicle, in attempting to evade the payment of toll at any toll-gate of any road of any association or commission authorized by law to erect gates and charge and collect tolls, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding thirty days, or either, or both, at the discretion of the court.

CLXII. PENALTY FOR INJURING BUOYS, BEACONS OR DAY

MARKS.

Act 13 May, 1879, Sec. 1, P. L., 60.—Any person or persons who shall moor any vessel or vessels of any kind or name whatsoever, or any raft or any part of a raft, to any buoy, beacon or day-mark, placed in the waters of Pennsylvania by the authority of the United States Lighthouse Board, or shall in any manner hang on with any vessel, or raft or part of a raft, to any such

buoy, beacon or day-mark, or shall wilfully remove, damage or destroy any such buoy, beacon or day-mark, or shall cut down, remove, damage or destroy any beacon or beacons, erected on land in this State by the authority of the United States Lighthouse Board, or having through unavoidable accident run down, dragged from its position or in any way injured any buoy, beacon or daymark as aforesaid, and shall fail to give notice as soon as practicable of having done so to the lighthouse inspector of the district in which said buoy, beacon or day-mark may be located, or to the board of wardens for the port of Philadelphia, shall for every such offence be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not to exceed three months, or both, at the discretion of the court; one-third of the fine in each case shall be paid to the informer, and two-thirds thereof to the lighthouse board, to be used in repairing the said buoys or beacons.

CLXIII. VESSELS PROHIBITED FROM ANCHORING ON RANGE LINE OF RANGE LIGHTS ESTABLISHED BY THE UNITED STATES LIGHTHOUSE BOARD IN THIS STATE.

Act 13 May, 1879, Sec. 2, P. L., 61.-It shall be unlawful for any vessel to anchor on the range line of any range lights established by the United States Lighthouse Board in this State; and the master of any vessel so anchoring shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed fifty dollars, one-half the fine in each case to be paid to the informer and one-half to the State.

CLXIV. UNLAWFUL TO PRACTICE DENTISTRY WITHOUT HAVING A DIPLOMA OR CERTIFICATE FROM BOARD OF EXAMINERS.

Act 17 April, 1876, Sec. 6, P. L., 40.-Any person who shall, in violation of this act, practice dentistry in the State of Pennsylvania, shall be liable to indictment in the Court of Quarter Sessions of the proper county, and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than fifty or more than two hundred dollars: Provided, That any person so convicted shall not be entitled to any fee for services

rendered, and if a fee shall have been paid, the patient, or his or her heirs, may recover the same as debts of like amount are now recoverable by law.

CLXV. UNLAWFUL TO PREVENT THE TAKING OF APPRENTICES BY MANUFACTURING OR OTHER BUSINESS PROPRIETORS.

Act 28 April, 1876, Sec. 1, P. L., 52.-Any person who shall, either in an individual capacity, or as a member of any association, attempt, by any unlawful means whatever, to prevent any mechanic, employer or person having charge of any manufacturing business, from taking as an apprentice any minor whose parents or guardians are desirous of apprenticing said minor, or where such minor is without parents or guardians and desires to apprentice himself or herself, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and, on conviction thereof in the proper Court of Quarter Sessions, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment not exceeding three months, or both, or either, at the discretion of the court.

CLXVI. PENALTY FOR VIOLATING THE LAWS AND REGULATIONS LOOKING TO THE HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY. Act 23 May, 1874, Sec. 46, P. L. 259.-. Whoever shall violate any provision of this act, or any order of the said board of health, made under the authority of the same, or of any law or ordinance therein referred to, or shall obstruct or interfere with any person in the execution of any order of said board, or wilfully and illegally omit to obey any such order, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be subject to fine and imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court; such fine shall not exceed one hundred dollars, and such imprisonment shall not exceed ninety days; and all prosecutions and proceedings against any person for a misdemeanor under this act may be had or tried before any judge or tribunal having jurisdiction of any misdemeanors within such city; and any person, corporation or body which may have done or omitted any act or thing which is in this act, or any law or ordinance therein referred to, declared to be or to subject the party guilty thereof to punishment for a