General duties of the board. Make sanitary investigations. Disseminate information. Institute sanitary inspections. Codify and suggest amendments to the sanitary laws. Enforce sanitary regulations. In certain boroughs and districts may order nuisances to be abated and enforce quarantine regulations. Penalty for violation of orders of the Board. To have general su- To prepare forms and blanks for registration, &c. Central bureau of vital statistics. organize and constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. SECTION 5. The State Board of Health and Vital Statistics shall have the general supervision of the interests of the health and lives of the citizens of the Commonwealth, and shall especially study its vital statistics. It shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries respecting the causes of disease and especially of epidemic diseases, including those of domestic animals, the sources, mortality and the effects of localities, employments, conditions, habits, food, beverages and medicine on the health of the people. It shal also disseminate information upon these and similar subjects among the people. It shall, when required by the Governor or the Legislature, and at such other times as it deems it important, institute sanitary inspections of public institution or places throughout the State. It shall codify and suggest amendments to the sanitary laws of the Commonwealth, and shall have power to enforce such regulations as will tend to limit the progress of epidemic diseases. SECTION 6. In cities, boroughs, districts and places having no local board of health or in case the sanitary laws or regulations in places where boards of health or health officers exist, should be inoperative, the State Board of Health shall have power and authority to order nuisances or the cause of any special disease or mortality to be abated and removed, and to enforce quarantine regulations as said board shall direct. Any person who shall fail to obey or shall violate such order shall, on conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than one hundred dollars at the discretion of the court. SECTION 7. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Health and Vital Statisties to have the general supervision of the State system of registration of births, marriages and deaths, of prevalent diseases and of practitioners of medicine and surgery, to prepare the necessary methods, forms and blanks for obtaining and preserving such records, and to insure the faithful registration of the same in the several counties and in the Central Bureau of Vital Statistics at the capitol of the State. The said board shall recommend such forms and amendments of laws as shall be deemed to be necessary for the thorough organization and efficiency of the registration of vital statistics throughout the State. The secretary of the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics shall be the superintendent of registration of vital statistics as supervised by said board. The clerical duties and safe stationery to be fur- keeping of the bureau of vital statistics thus created shall be provided for by the Secretary of Internal Affairs, who shall also provide and furnish such apartments and stationery as said board shall require in the discharge of such duties. Position and duties of secretary in re gard to the registra tion of vital statistics. Apartments and nished by the Sec retary of internal affairs. Duty of all health officers and boards of health. SECTION 8. It shall be the duty of all health officers and boards of health in the State to cummunicate to said State Public institutions to furnish all needed Board of Health copies of all their reports and publications, and also such sanitary information as may be requested by said board. And said board is authorized to require reports and information (at such times and of such facts and reports and inforgenerally of such nature and extent as its by-laws or rules may provide), from all public dispensaries, hospitals, asylums, infirmaries, prisons and schools and from the managers, principles and officers thereof, and from all other pub mation. lic institutions, their officers and managers, and from the Public resorts. proprietors, managers, lessees and occupants of all places of public resort in the State, but such reports shall only be required concerning matters or particulars in respect of which it may in its opinion need information for the discharge of its duties. proper special assistants. SECTION 9. Said board may, from time to time, engage Board may engage suitable persons to render sanitary service or to make or supervise practical and scientific investigations and examinations requiring expert skill and to prepare plans and reports relative thereto. But no more than two thousand dol- Expenditure for aslars shall be expended in any one year for such special sanitary service. sistants limited in writing to the governor. report. SECTION 10. It shall be the duty of said board on or before Make annual report the first Monday of December in each year, to make a report in writing to the Governor of this State upon the sanitary condition and prospects of the State and such report shall Contents of annual set forth the action of the said board and of its officers and agents and the names thereof for the past year and may contain other useful information pertinent to the objects for which it was created, and shall suggest any further legislative action or precaution, deemed proper for the better protection of life and health, and the annual report of said board shall also contain a detailed statement of the State Treasurer of all money paid out by or on account of said board, and a detailed statement of the manner of its expenditure during the year last past, but its total expenditure shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars in any one year. Detailed statement of moneys received and expended to ac company report Total annual ex. ceed $5000,00. penditure not to ex SECTION 11. The sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) Appropriation. is hereby appropriated from the treasury for the purposes of this act, and the expenditures properly incurred by the authority of said board and verified by affidavit, subject, however, to the limitations herein before imposed, and shall be paid by the treasurer upon the warrant of the Auditor How paid. General. fect. SECTION 12. This act shall take affect immediately, and when act take efall acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith shall be and are hereby repealed. APPROVED-The 3d day of June, A. D. 1885. Repeal. ROBT. E. PATTISON. Fraudulent appro priation of prop of any co-partnerships, corporation or association, by a co-partner declared a misdemeanor. No. 38. AN ACT To punish co partners for fraudulently appropriating the property or or using the name of the co-partnership, corporation or association. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That if any member of a erty, or use of name co-partnership, corporation or association without the consent of his associate or associates in such co-partnership, corporation or association willfully and fraudulently converts to his own use or takes, makes way with, or secretes with intent to convert to his own use, or to the use of another, or withholds, or appropriates or otherwise fraudulently applies or makes use of any money, goods, rights in action, or other valuable securities, or effects belonging to such co-partnership, corporation or association and which may have come into his possession or under his care, or who shall wilfully or fraudulently use or pledge the name of the partnership, corporation or association for any other purpose than the bona fide use of said firm, co-partnership, corporation or association he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to an imprisonment not exceeding two years, or to a fine not exceding one thousand dollars, or both or either at the discretion of the court. Punishment. APPROVED-The 3d day of June, A. D. 1885. ROBT. E. PATTISON. State officers to pay ces. Certified reports to be made to the auditor general quarterly. No. 39. AN ACT Providing for the payment into the State Treasury of all fees collected by the officers, agents and employes of the State Government, for a uniform method of keeping the accounts of the same, and for paying by warrant of the Auditor General to the said officers, agents and employes, the several amounts of said fees which they are respectively entitled to receive. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That it hereafter shall be the duty of every officer, agent and employé of the State government, who now is or hereafter shall be by law entitled to receive for his own use any fees, emoluments and perquisites whatsoever, not included in his salary, fixed by law and now paid by warrant of the Auditor General, to pay the amount of said fees, emoluments and perquisites into the Treasury of the State in the manner and for the purposes by this act hereinafter directed. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of every State officer, agent and employé receiving fees, emoluments or perquisites as aforesaid, or fees for the use of the State to make a certified report in writing to the Auditor General on the first Monday of July next, and quarterly thereafter, of all fees, Contents of report. emoluments and perquisites collected, and all fees, emoluments and perquisites charged during the preceding quarter, distinguishing between the collections and charges made for his own use, and the collections and charges made for the use of the State, and clearly designating the amount of every such fee, emolument or perquisite, and the source from which the same was derived. SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the Auditor General after receiving the report of any State officer, agent or employé required to be made by the preceding section of this act, to pass to the salary account of said officer, agent or employé the gross amount of fees, emoluments or perquisites. by him reported as charged or collected during the preceding quarter for his own use, and also to pass to the public fee account of said officer, agent or employé the gross amount of fees by him reported as charged or collected during the preceding quarter, for the use of the State; and it shall be the further duty of the Auditor General within five days after receiving any report of fees as aforesaid to certily to the State Treasurer, in writing, the gross amount of fees, emoluments or perquisites which said report represents to have been collected by and for the use of the officer, agent or employé who shall make the report, and also the gross amount of fees which said report represents to have been collected for the use of the State. SECTION 4. It shall be the further duty of every officer, agent and employé of the State as aforesaid, within ten days after making to the Auditor General the report required by the second section of this act, to pay over to the State Treasurer the amount of fees, emoluments and perquisites collected by him during the preceding quarter, whether for his own use or for the use of the State. SECTION 5. It shall be the duty of the State Treasurer upon presentation to him of the quarterly collections of fees, emoluments and perquisites of any officer, agent or employé of the State, and upon the filing in his office of the certificate of the Auditor General required by the third section of this act, to receive the said collections and to give a receipt to the proper officer, agent or employé in each case for the amount thereof, distinguishing between the sum paid in for the use of the officer, agent or employé, and the sum paid in for the use of theState, which said receipt shall be presented to and countersigned by the Auditor General in the usual manner. Auditor general to pass to salary account of each officer the amount of fees due him. And to pass to the the amount of fees due the State. public fee account And certify both the accounts to the State treasurer within five days. All fees collected during quarter to be paid over to the within ten days after filing of report general. state treasurer with the auditor State treasurer to lected and give redistinguishing between personal and receive all fees col ceipts for same, state fees. Auditor general on presentation of re ceipt, to draw war- rant upon State amount of fees due SECTION 6. It shall be the further duty of the Auditor General upon presentation to him of any receipt of the State Treasueer in due form for fees, emoluments or perquisites, after the same shall have been duly countersigned and entered, to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer in favor of the proper officer, agent or employé for so much of the amount receipted for as said employé is entitled by law And charge same in to receive for his own use, and to charge the said officer or salary account. employé with the amount of said warrant in the salary account of said agent, officer or employé. APPROVED-The 3d day of June, A. D. 1885. ROBT. E. PATTISON. Commissioners appointed. To locate and establish a home for dis abled and indigent soldiers &c. Powers and duties of the commission. To serve without compensation. Actual necessary expenses to be paid by the State. Marine hospital at Erie, Pa. placed at the disposal of the commission to be used as a soldiers and sailors home. Improvements authorized. No. 40. AN ACT To provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Home for Disa bled and Indingent Soldiers and Sailors of Pennsylvania. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the Governor of this Commonwealth, the State Treasurer, the Auditor General and a Committee of three members of the General Assembly, consisting of one Senator and two members of the House of Representatives, who shall be appointed by the presiding officer of the Senate and House respectively, together with a committee of five honorably discharged soldiers, who shall be selected by the department commander of Pennsylvania Grand Army of the Republic, be and the same are hereby constituted and appointed a commission to locate andestablish a home for the disabled and indigent soldiers, sailors or marines who, as citizens of this Commonwealth, enlisted and participated in the war for the preservation of the Union of the United States. SECTION 2. That the commission so appointed is hereby empowered and directed to establish said soldiers' and sailors' home anywhere within the limits of this Commonwealth, on such terms and conditions as shall be decided upon by said commission as most advantageous to the Commonwealth, with regard to economy in its location and future maintenance, and at the same time to be heedful of the proper support and comfort of those who are to be maintained there. SECTION 3. That the members of said commission shall perform the duties imposed upon them by the provisions of this act without any compensation for their services, but their actual necessary expenses incident to the location and establishment of said home shall be borne by the Commonwealth. SECTION 4. That said commission is hereby authorized and empowered, should it be deemed expedient to do so by said commission, to convert the property now belonging to the Commonwealth situate at or near the city of Erie, Erie county, Pennsylvania, and known as the Marine Hospital, into such soldiers' and sailors' home; and said commission is hereby authorized to make or cause to be made such necessary changes in the buildings and repairs thereon, and construct other necessary buildings, and supply such furniture as may be deemed proper to render the same in a comfortable and suitable condition to be used and occupied as |