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pointing them; but, in townships, shall not exceed two dollars per day; and such compensation may be paid out of the school fund. Boards of directors or controllers of any school district, or of two or more districts jointly may establish special schools for chil tablish special dren who are habitual truants, or who are insubor schools. dinate or disorderly during their attendance upon instruction in the public schools, and may provide for the proper care, maintenance and instruction of such children in such schools, for such period of time as the

board may prescribe. But before the pupil shall be Notice to parent. placed in such special school, the parent, guardian or person in parental relation shall have opportunity to

duct.

ceeded against.

Conviction and

be heard. All truancy and incorrigibility shall be Disorderly condeemed disorderly conduct. And in case no special school, as herein prescribed, has been established, the superintendent of schools or secretary, or attendance officer if there be one, shall proceed against such tru- Child may be proant or incorrigible pupil as a disorderly person, before a justice of the peace, magistrate or alderman, and upon conviction the pupil may be sentenced to any sentence. special or reformatory school supported wholly or in part by the State, or at the option of the school board or board of controllers, be committed to the care of a society, duly incorporated, having for one of its objects the protection of children from cruelty or the placing of children, not otherwise provided for, in families; and in case of a commitment of a child or children to the care of such society, the board of directors or controllers of the district may provide for the expense of the maintenance and education of such child or children out of that part of the school fund within its control which shall have been appropriated to said board by the local authorities of such district. Section 4. It shall be the duty of the assessors of Assessors to make voters of every district, when not notified and directed to the contrary by the school board, at the spring registration of voters or as soon as possible thereafter, to make, in a substantial book, provided by the Superintendent of Public Instruction at the expense of the State, for that purpose, a careful and correct list of all children between the ages of six and sixteen within his district, giving the full name, date of birth, age, sex, nationality, residence, sub-school district, name and address of parent or person in parental relation, and the Contents of list. name and location of the school where the child is enrolled, or the cause of non-enrollment, and the name and address of the employer of any child under sixteen years of age that is engaged in any regular employment or service; which enumeration, after approval by the secretary of the said school district, shall be re- enumeration list. turned by the said assessor to the county commissioners of the county in which the enumeration is made,

list of children,

etc.

Disposition of

Compensation of

assessors.

Proviso.

Proviso.

Report of teach

er.

Notice.

Proceeding

against offender. Proviso.

Costs.

Refusal or neglect of officers.

Misdemeanor.

Portion of appropriation may be withheld.

whose duty it shall be to forward the same, or a certified copy thereof, to the secretary of the proper school district, prior to July fifteenth of each year, who shall immediately furnish the principal or teacher of each school with a correct list of all children in his or her district who are subject to the provisions of this act; and the said county commissioners shall furnish a summary of such statistics to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, upon blanks provided by the State. And the said assessor shall be paid, out of the county funds, a per diem compensation for their services, a sum equal to the compensation paid under existing laws for assessors of election; said services not to exceed ten days: Provided, That prior to February first of any year, any board of directors or controllers of any school district may authorize such enumeration to be made by the attendance officers or other persons, at the expense of the school district, under the same conditions as herein provided for assessors: Provided further, That the attendance officers, if there be any, or the superintendent of schools, or the secretary of the school board, shall have the power to add to this reg ister the names of children within the prescribed ages whose names do not appear thereon.

Section 5. It shall be the duty of each teacher in the school district to report immediately to the attendance officer or the superintendent of schools, or the secretary of the board of directors or controllers, the names of all children, on the list previously furnished by said superintendent or secretary, who have been absent three days or their equivalent without lawful excuse; when, if it shall appear that any parent, guardian or other person having control of any child or children shall have failed to comply with the provisions of this act, after notification in writing as provided in section two, the superintendent or secretary, or attendance officer if there be one, in the name of the school district, shall proceed against the offending party or parties, in accordance with the provisions of this act: Provided further, That if sufficient cause be shown for the neglect of the requirements of this act, or if the costs of prosecution cannot be collected from the defendant, said cost may be paid out of the district funds upon a proper voucher approved by the board of directors or controllers.

Section 6. The superintendent of schools or secretary, or attendance officer if there be one, of any board of directors or controllers who wilfully refuses or neglects to comply with the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, before an alderman, magistrate or justice of the peace, shall forfeit a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.

Section 7. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction may withhold one-fourth State appropriation

from any school district which neglects or refuses to enforce the provisions of this act in a manner and degree satisfactory to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Section 8. The act of May sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the attendance of children in the schools of this Commonwealth, and making an enumeration of children for that purpose; also, providing compensation for the assessors making the enumeration, and providing penalties for violations of this act;" and the act of the twelfth of July, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An act to amend sections one, two, three, four and five of an act, entitled 'An act to provide for the attendance of children in the schools of this Commonwealth, and making an enumeration of children for that purpose; also providing compensation for the assessors making the enumeration, and providing penalties for the violation of this act,' approved the sixteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, increasing the age within which children shall be subject to its provisions to sixteen years, and making certain exemptions, subjecting principals and teachers to certain penalties, conferring upon the directors or controllers power to designate schools for those who fail to attend schools, to establish special schools for truants and other offenders, and providing for the restraint of truants and other offenders, for registration by the attendance officers and report of absentees from school," and any other act or parts of acts, inconsistent herewith, be and are hereby repealed.

Approved-The 11th day of July, A. D. 1901.
WILLIAM A. STONE.

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No. 336.

AN ACT

To regulate and establish the fees to be charged by sheriffs in this Commonwealth, and to provide for the taxation and collection of the same.

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the passage of this act, the fees to be received by sheriffs in this Commonwealth shall be as follows: For receiving, making endorsements thereon, docketing and making return thereof, to each writ, rule, process, decree, order, bill in equity, subpoena, citation, statement or notice issued out of any court, one dollar.

Receiving, docketrule, process, etc.

ing, etc., of

Service of scire facias, replevin, etc.

Execution of landlords' warrants and writs.

Levy.

Advertising.

Summoning and swearing jury, etc.

For serving personally or by copy, each writ of scire facias, replevin, foreign attachment, attachment, attachment execution, injunction, mandamus, quo warranto, partition, inquisition or other writ, each bill in equity, summons, rule, process, decree, order, citation. subpoena, subpoena in divorce, statement of claim, series of interrogatories, proclamation, or notice of any kind issued out of any court, one dollar for the first service, and fifty cents for every other defendant or other party served, and forty cents for each copy served or posted, in addition to mileage; or for serving the same by publication in one or more newspapers. when required by law or order of court, two dollars and seventy-five cents in each case, in addition to printer's

bill.

For executing landlord's warrants, writs of levari facias, fieri facias, venditioni exponas, venire facias. habeas corpus, retorno habendo, and replevin, one dollar, and mileage on each writ, in addition to the following: For each levy on personal property, one dollar and mileage; for levying on each piece or parcel of land, one dollar and mileage; for advertising personal property to public sale, two dollars and seventy-five cents and mileage; for advertising real estate to public sale, by publication in newspaper, two dollars and seventyfive cents for each tract, in addition to printer's bill; for advertising real estate to public sale by hand-bills, two dollars and seventy-five cents for each tract or set of bills, and mileage; for summoning and swearing jury, and making return to inquisitions held on said writs, four dollars in addition to jury fees and fee for serving notices, and mileage where the inquisition is held on the premises; for crying any sale of personal property, one dollar, and when the same continues longer than three hours, three dollars per day; for crying the sale of each tract of land and each adjourned sale, one dollar; for clerk hire at said sales, when necessary, two dollars per day; for watchman taking charge of property levied on, when necessary, two dollars per day, also reasonable expenses of insurance, arranging goods for sale, heat, light, storage, rent. transportation, feeding live stock, and similar expenses incurred in caring and keeping goods and chattels levied upon, when the same is necessary and advantageous, or when requested by the plaintiff or defendant Delivery of lands. to incur such expense; for delivering lands to plaintiff in inquisition or similar proceedings, two dollars and seventy-five cents, and no commission in such case to be taken.

Crying of sales.

Clerk hire at sales.

Watchman.

Insurance, heat, light, feeding live stock, etc.

Executing writs of habere facias, etc.

For executing writs of habere facias, liberari facias, dower, possession, or any possessory process requiring the delivery of possession of real estate or the ejecting or dispossessing of any person or persons or their ef

fects, five dollars and mileage, and reasonable costs for help, when absolutely necessary, in addition to costs of sale when made.

For executing writs of partition, inquisition, appraisement of real estate, or similar writs issued out of any court, the following costs: for receiving, docketing and making return thereto, one dollar; for each service, fifty cents and mileage; for each copy served, forty cents; for summoning jury, four dollars; for advertising notice, two dollars and seventy-five cents, in addition to printer's bill; for holding inquisitions, four dollars per day and mileage, in addition to jury fees and expenses; for executing writ, three dollars, in addition to artist's or surveyor's fee.

For executing any process, warrant, capias, attachment, decree, sentence or order of court, where the defendant's body is to be taken in custody, as follows: For receiving, docketing and making return, one dollar; for each arrest, one dollar and mileage; for transportation of each prisoner, six cents per mile, in addition to necessary help and expenses.

Executing writs quisition, appraisement, etc.

of partition, in

Executing process ant's body is to be taken in custody.

where the defend

For paying out money received on

For paying out money made or received on any writ, process, decree, order or sentence of court, two cents writ, process, etc. on every dollar awarded and applied, or paid, on any judgment, mortgage, encumbrance or other claim, provided that the amount of same does not exceed five hundred dollars; in which case, one-half cent on every dollar in excess of this amount awarded and applied, or paid, as aforesaid; said commission to be allowed whether the money is paid with or without sale, and also in all cases where, after levy, the debt has been paid direct to plaintiff or a compromise made, without the money going through the sheriff's hands.

For levying or paying out fines, three cents per dollar, to be paid by party receiving fine. For advertising general or special elections, two dol. lars and seventy-five cents, in addition to printer's bill, to be paid by the county.

For advertising general or special elections, by hand bills, two dollars and seventy-five cents for each polling place, and mileage, to be paid by county. For each commitment in any criminal matter,

cents.

Levying and pay

ing out fines.

Advertising elec

tions.

fifty

Commitment.

For discharging prisoners in any criminal or civil Discharging priscase, fifty cents.

oners.

bond.

For executing bail-piece or taking bond in any mat- Bail-piece or ter, whether civil or criminal, one dollar.

For executing death warrant, twenty-five dollars, in Death warrant. addition to all necessary expenses, the same to be paid by the county.

etc.

For drawing juries for each general and special term Drawing juries or session of court, three dollars, in addition to one dollar for executing each venire, and thirty cents for sum

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