Journal of the ... of the ... House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Volume 1

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Page 327 - Each state should make provision for a system of inspection in which women should take part, in order to ensure the enforcement of the laws and regulations for the protection of the employed.
Page 355 - All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws; but the General Assembly may, by general laws, exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes, actual places of religious worship, places of burial not used or held for private or corporate profit, and institutions of purely public charity.
Page 40 - Any corporation may purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge, or otherwise dispose of the shares of the capital stock of, or any bonds, securities, or evidences of indebtedness created by any other corporation or corporations of this or any other state, and while owner of said stock may exercise all the rights, powers, and privileges of ownership, including the right to vote thereon.
Page 394 - An act defining the powers of the several courts of quarter sessions of the peace, within this commonwealth, with reference to the care, treatment and control of dependent, neglected, incorrigible and delinquent children, under the age of sixteen years, and providing for the means in which such power may be exercised.
Page 991 - An act to amend section two of 'An act, entitled a supplement to an act, entitled 'An act to provide for the better government of cities of the first class in this Commonwealth...
Page 244 - Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, entitled -"An act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and about the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania, and for the protection and preservation of property connected therewith...
Page 570 - ... in any suit for alimony or divorce, or the severance, dissolution, or annulment of any marriage, either in this state or elsewhere, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Page 45 - An act to designate the several judicial districts of the Commonwealth as required by the Constitution, and to provide for the election, appointment and commissioning of judges, learned in the law, for the said districts in cases where such judges are not provided for by existing law...
Page 556 - That the governor of this state be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolutions to each of the senators and representatives in congress from this state.
Page 56 - AN ACT To provide for the ordinary expenses of the Executive, Judicial and Legislative departments...

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