The members of the board shall be county officers. Repeal. term is to be filled. The members of the board of revisions of taxes shall be and they are hereby established as county officers. Section 2. That until the members of said board, who shall be elected on the Tuesday next following the first Monday of November, one thousand nine hundred and one, have been duly qualified, the existing members of said board shall continue in office, but no longer, and at that time said offices shall become vacant. Section 3. That all acts of Assembly of this Commonwealth and parts of acts thereof inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved the 24th day of April, A. D. 1901. WILLIAM A. STONE. Non-resident hun ters required to License fee. Certificate. No. 67. AN ACT Requiring non-resident gunners to secure a license before hunting in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and providing penalties for violations of its provisions. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after take out a license. the passage of this act every non-resident of this Commonwealth, unless he be an owner of real estate in said Commonwealth, shall be required to take out a license from the county treasurer of the county where he proposes to shoot in this State, before he begins hunting. Each and every person not a resident of this Commonwealth, not being an owner of real estate therein, shall pay a license fee of ten dollars to the treasurer of such county, who shall thereupon issue to him a certificate, bearing the name and place of residence of the applicant, with his description as nearly as may be, which said certificate shall authorize the owner thereof to hunt and kill in any part of this Commonwealth, during the open season of the year therein specified and under the restrictions and for the purposes allowed by law, the game birds and the game quadrupeds found in this Commonwealth. Said certifi cate shall not be transferrable, and shall be exposed for examination upon demand made by any game protector, warden or constable of this Commonwealth. One-half of the license fees so received shall be retained by the county treasurer receiving the same, for the use of the county wherein the same shall have been paid, and the other one-half of said fees shall be forwarded by the county treasurer to the State Treasurer, Not transferable. Disposition of fees. warden, etc. in the same manner and for the same purposes as is now provided by law in the case of fines collected for violation of the game laws of this Commonwealth. Any person who shall offend against any of the provi- Fine and penalty. sions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of twentyfive dollars for each offense, or, in default of the payment thereof, to imprisonment in the county jail for a period of one day for each dollar of penalty imposed. Section 2. Any game protector, warden or constable Powers of game shall have the right, after demand and refusal or failure to exhibit such certificate, to arrest, without warrant, any non-resident person or persons found hunting within this Commonwealth, and to take him or them forthwith before any magistrate, justice of the peace or alderman, and to proceed against him or them as is prescribed by law for violation of the several sections of the general game law of this Commonwealth, and to seize all guns or shooting paraphernalia Seizure of guns, of said suspected parties, and to hold the same subjected to the payment of the fine or fines attached by law to the violation charged, with the costs of prosecution; and in the case of default of payment thereof for a period of ten days from the date of seizure, to sell etc. the same at public auction, and apply the fund thus Sale of guns, etc. realized, first, to the payment of the costs attached to said case, and the remainder thereof, if there be any, to the payment of the unsatisfied penalty imposed by law. Any amount remaining in the hands of the officer, after these demands have been met and satisfied, to be returned to the original owner of the property so seized and sold. No game protector, constable or warden shall be liable for damages on account of any such arrest, seizure or sale in accordance with the provisions of this act. Approved the 24th day of April, A. D. 1901. WILLIAM A. STONE. No. 68. AN ACT To regulate the weight of all black blasting powder used, made, or sold in kegs, for use in the coal mines within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and providing for the proper stamping of the kegs containing said powder, and making it unlawful for the use of any such kegs for containing said black blasting powder save only by the person, firm or corporation whose name is stamped on said kegs, and providing penalties for the violation of any of the provisions of this act. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That on and after the first day of August, Anno Domini one thousand nine 7 Laws. Weight of kegs of black blasting hundred and one, each and every keg of black blasting powder used, manufactured or sold in and around the coal mines of this Commonwealth, shall contain powder regulated. twenty-five pounds of said black blasting powder, standard weight; every one-half keg shall contain twelve and a half pounds of said black blasting powder, standard weight, and every quarter keg shall contain six and one-quarter pounds of said black blasting Kegs to be stamp- powder, standard weight; each of said kegs to be plainly stamped with the name of the person, firm or corporation manufacturing said powder, and also the number of pounds of powder contained in said keg. ed with weight of powder and name of manufacturer. Violation of act. Penalty. Wrongful use of kegs. Fine. Repeal. Section 2. Any manufacturer or dealer in said black blasting powder, making or selling, or causing to be made or sold, any keg, half-keg or quarter-keg of said black blasting powder containing less weight of said powder than specified in this act, or which keg shall not be stamped as required in section one of this act, shall be subject to a penalty of five dollars for each and every keg, half-keg or quarter-keg, manufactured or sold, which does not contain the respective weights of black blasting powder set forth in the foregoing section. Section 3. It shall not be lawful for any other person, firm or corporation, save only such person, firm or corporation whose name shall be stamped on said kegs, to use any such stamped keg for the purpose of containing said black blasting powder. Section 4. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of section three of this act shall be subject to a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000). Section 5. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved the 24th day of April, A. D. 1901. WILLIAM A. STONE. Corporate powers of trustees of hospitals and asy lums. No. 69. AN ACT Endowing the trustees of hospitals and asylums, under the control of the Commonwealth, with corporate powers. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the trustees of hospitals and asylums, under the care and control of this Commonwealth, shall, for the purposes for which such trustees have been or shall be appointed, be endowed under their legal title with corporate powers and be subject to corporate obligations, with the right to sue and subject to be sued as corporations, under the general laws of the Commonwealth. Approved the 24th day of April, A. D. 1901. WILLIAM A. STONE. No. 70. AN ACT Amending the act prescribing the fees to be paid by applicants for examination by the State Pharmaceutical Examining Board, and regulating the exhibition of their certificate. applicants. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That hereafter cach Fees to be paid by applicant for examination and registration by the State Pharmaceutical Examining Board, to carry on the retail drug or apothecary business, must pay the sum of three dollars as an examination fee, and twelve dollars for registration and certificate; and each applicant for examination for certificate as qualified assistant therein, must pay the sum of three dollars for examination and five dollars for registration and certificate, to be applied as the examining fee is now required by law to be applied; and hereafter no druggist Application of shall be required to pay any fee for any renewal of his certificates, and shall not be required to exhibit in his place of business any certificate except the original. Section 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with Repeal the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved the 24th day of April, A. D. 1901. fees. WILLIAM A. STONE. No. 71. AN ACT To encourage the use of wide tires upon wagons upon the public highways of this Commonwealth, and providing penalties fo: its violation. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That every person who shall subscribe to an affidavit that he has owned and used or used exclusively during the preceding year, in hauling loads of two thousand pounds weight and over on the public roads of this Commonwealth, draught wagons. with tires not less than four inches in width, shall, for Credit on taxes. Proviso. Loads of 10,000 pounds and upwards. Fine. Repeal. each year after the passage of this act, be credited by the supervisor of highways of the respective district in which such tax is levied and assessed with onefourth of the road tax assessed and levied on the property of such person. And when any tenant shall by contract be or become liable for road taxes assessed against the premises leased to him, he may secure the benefits of this act upon making the affidavit hereinbefore specified, as to the exclusive use by him of such wagons as are herein before designated: Provided, however, such credit shall not exceed in any one year, to any one person, five days labor on the highways, or its equivalent in cash. And every supervisor of roads. is hereby authorized and empowered to administer the oath herein before mentioned. Section 2. Every person who shall use on the public roads of this Commonwealth, in hauling loads of ten thousand pounds weight and upward, any wagon or wagons having tires less than four inches in width, shall be liable to a fine of five dollars for each and every offense, which fine shall be recovered in a criminal proceeding, instituted upon the complaint of any person at the suit of the Commonwealth, before any justice of the peace, and the fine so imposed shall be payable to the supervisors of roads for the use of the road fund of the respective township. Section 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved-The 24th day of April, A. D. 1901. WILLIAM A. STONE. No. 72. AN ACT Amending section four of an act, entitled "An act authorizing the employment of male prisoners of the jails and the workhouses of this Commonwealth, and regulating the same, and providing a penalty for the escape of prisoners while employed outside of jails or work-houses," approved the twenty-eighth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine; providing that in certain cases the prison board shall be permitted to direct the work of prisoners to be done on the streets of the borough where the prisoner has been imprisoned. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That section four of an act, entitled "An act authorizing the employment of male prisoners of the jails and the work houses of this Commonwealth, and regulating the same, and providing a penalty for an escape of prisoners while employed outside of the said jails and work houses." |