παι Ducu ин art пис ཟ་8 ՍՆՆԱ passiu или is State, and that such laws would have been enacted countries. The subject of the act is not the prevenbut it is to provide that in every institution in the ed with the care of idiots and imbecile children, a surgeon and a physician shall be authorized to pertion upon the inmates "for the prevention of procreatle is imperfect because it does not clearly set forth What is the nature of the operation is not described, an operation as they shall decide to be "safest and -" It is plain that the safest and most effective venting procreation would be to cut the heads off the such authority is given by the bill to this staff of rts. It is not probable that they would resort to this prevention of procreation, but it is probable that they or to destroy some part of the human organism. e all other men whose experiences have been limited and whose minds have been developed in a particular etimes need to be restrained. Men of high scientific re prone, in their love for technique, to lose sight of es outside of their domain of thought. A surgeon be so eager to advance in skill as to be forgetful of his patient. Anatomists may be willing to gather inhe infliction of pain and suffering upon helpless creata higher standard of conduct would teach them that -r for humanity to bear its own ills than to escape ledge only secured through cruelty to other creatures. tever good might possibly result from it if its proviecome a law, violates the principles of ethics. These and imbecile children have been entrusted to the intheir parents or guardians, for the purpose of trainction. It is proposed to experiment upon them, not uction, but in order to help society in the future. It without their consent, which they can not give, and onsent of their parents or guardians, who are responwelfare. It would be in contravention of the laws een enacted for the establishment of these institulaws have in contemplation the training and the ine children. This bill assumes that they cannot be so trained. Moreover, the course it is proposed to pure a tendency to prevent such training and instruction. vs, whether he be a scientist or an ordinary observer, virility is to lesson the capacity, the energy and the -venthe n, a per rea orth bed, and tive the of this hey sm. ted lar ific ing animals, and would be the beginning of For these reasons the bill is not approved. No. 13. AN ACT To repeal an act, entitled "An act relating to the ro ship, Chester county," approved the ninth day of thousand eight hundred and seventy-two. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That an act, ing to the roads of Birmingham township, Che the ninth day of April, Anno Domini one th and seventy-two, which reads as follows: "Section 1. That the number of supervisors be three, of whom one shall be elected ann three years. "Section 2. The supervisors shall divide th ship into convenient sections, not exceeding they shall give ten days' written or print thereof, by notice put up in at least ten of the said township, and shall sell the repair ther bidder for the period of three years; supervis tions; purchasers shall give security if requi "Section 4. In case complaint shall be ma the roads, the supervisors shall not be lial thereof until fifteen days' written notice shall All special laws relating to the repair of the roads ip are hereby repealed." #ame is hereby repealed. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Executive Department, Harrisburg, March 30, 1905. ble, the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: I return herewith, without my approval, House bill "An act to repeal an act entitled 'An act relating to irmingham township, Chester county,' approved the pril, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and poses to repeal the act of April ninth, one thousand and seventy-two, and, in reciting this act, entirely three. What would be the effect of this omission become a law is uncertain. If the effect would be atire act, with the exception of this section, it would on as a mere fragment upon the statute book, and o contention among the supervisors of roads for the asons the bill is not approved. SAML. W. PENNYPACKER. No. 14. AN ACT nd indefeasible, as to any right of escheat in this Commone to real estate composing its manufacturing establishment, gn corporation engaged in this Commonwealth in the business g any product of iron or steel, in its corporate name, which the same to secure its bonds. it enacted, &c., That whenever any company, incorthe laws of any other State, engaged in the manufacoduct of iron or steel within this State, shall have s corporate name to real estate whereon it maintains ing establishment, and shall have mortgaged such issued bonds secured thereby, the title of such comeal estate is hereby declared valid and indefeasible, of escheat in this Commonwealth: Provided, how ploy: And provided further, That every such f doing business as aforesaid in this Commonwea to taxation to an amount not exceeding that in tions for similar purposes under the laws of thi such foreign corporation, taking the benefit of t the same returns to the Auditor General that a to be made by corporations of this State, und stances: And provided further, That such foreign have complied in all respects with the provisi titled "An act to prohibit foreign corporations f in Pennsylvania without having known places o thorized agents," approved the twenty-second d Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy Commonwealth of P Executiv Harrisburg To the Honorable, the House of Representative wealth of Pennsylvania: Gentlemen: I return herewith, without my ap No. 109, entitled "An act declaring valid and ind right of escheat in this Commowealth, the title posing its manufacturing establishment, taken by tion engaged in this Commonwealth in the busin ing any product of iron or steel, in its corporat mortgaged the same to secure its bonds." This bill provides "That whenever any com under the laws of any other State, engaged in t any product of iron or steel within this State, sh in its corporate name to real estate whereon it n facturing establishment, and shall have mortgag and issued bonds secured thereby, the title of su real estate is hereby declared valid and indefeasi of escheat in this Commonwealth." It is of a 1 several bills which were disapproved at the la Legislature. (See Vetoes, pages 22, 116-117.) T 1874, passed in compliance with the requiremen tion, placed certain restrictions upon the organ tions which were intended for the benefit of th the community. Among these restrictions w vented the granting of a charter unless a certain capital has been previously paid into the treasu ་བ་ ་་་ ཡPu ས upun not confined to cases where foreign corporations have rchased real estate and have issued bonds secured by t they extend to the future as well, and, therefore, any ration which may hereafter come into this State and the purpose of the manufacture of the product of and which shall thereupon issue bonds secured by a given, in this indirect manner, the right to purchase real estate. It does not seem wise on the part of the h to surrender, without consideration, all the rights such cases which may have occurred in the past, and cur in the future, and without regard to what may be circumstances. easons the bill is not approved. SAML. W. PENNYPACKER. No. 15. AN ACT ide for the adoption of cast off and abandoned infants. Be it enacted, &c., That in any case where an infant re has been, or hereafter may be, cast off and abanarent or parents, and surreptitiously left at the door mises of any person, whereby its parentage may not nown, it shall be lawful for any person who may take or such abandoned child, and is desirous of adopting s or her heir, or as one of his or her heirs, to present tion to the court of common pleas of the county where y reside, setting forth, under oath, the facts and cirthe abandonment of such child, the care taken of it, 's desire to adopt the same, and that he or she will e duties of a parent to such child; and such court, if the welfare of such child will be promoted by such decree that such child shall assume the name of the nt, and have all the rights of a child and heir of such it, and be subject to the duties of such child, of which the court shall be sufficient evidence, and he, she or spectively, inherit from and through each other as if The lawful children of the same parent. |