A PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR.

In the name and by authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

A PROCLAMATION.

I, ROBERT E. PATTISON, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, have caused this proclamation to issue, and in compliance with the provisions of article four, section fifteen of the Constitution thereof, do hereby give notice, that I have filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, with my objections thereto, the following bills passed by both Houses of the General Assembly, viz:

Senate bill No. 103, entitled "An act to provide for the organization, support and maintenance of associations formed for the protection and saving of human life and of property in case of fire, in cities of the first class.

House bill No. 271, entitled "An act for the relief of Wilhelmina V. Crans, widow of Samuel M. Crans."

House bill No. 274, entitled "An act granting a gratuity to Elmira P. Mullen, mother of S. J. F. Mullen, deceased, late a private in company E, First regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania.'

House bill No. 467, entitled "An act providing for payment for horses condemned and killed under the provisions of the act of June two, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

House bill No. 669, entitled An act appropriating the sum of fifty dollars for the relief of W. A. Southwell, late treasurer of Susquehanna county, to reimburse him for moneys overpaid to the State Treasurer.” House bill No. 71, entitled "An act to provide for the arrest and punishment of persons guilty of disorderly conduct in the townships. of this Commonwealth.

Senate bill No. 83, entitled "An act to amend an act, entitled 'An act authorizing the State Treasurer to refund collateral inheritance tax heretofore paid in error,' approved the twelfth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight."

House bill No. 680, entitled " An act to encourage the raising of horses, mules, cattle, sheep and swine, and to regulate fences, within the county of Elk.'

Senate bill No. 144, entitled "An act to confer upon the board of public education in cities of the first class, power to sell public school property whenever said board of public education shall deem it expedient to do so, and to provide for the application of the proceeds derived from the sale thereof to school purposes.

House bill No. 105, entitled "An act defining and declaring the meaning of the words 'surviving members' and 'assessment plan,' wherever they appear in the laws of Pennsylvania relating to insuring

lives on the plan of assessments and upon surviving members, or to life insurance on the assessment plan."

House bill No. 295, entitled "An act to make provision for the prevention of mental disorders."

House bill No. 195, entitled "An act authorizing and empowering cities in this Commonwealth to, by ordinance, regulate and suppress the production and emission of smoke from bituminous coal, and to provide penalties for violation thereof."

Senate bill No. 390, entitled "An act to fix the number and eligibility of select and common councilmen in cities of the first class.

House bill No. 144, entitled "An act to create a board of revision of taxes for the purpose of promoting a more certain and equal assess ment of taxes in all counties containing over five hundred thousand inhabitants, together with all counties that may hereafter attain to five hundred thousand inhabitants."

House bill No. 426, entitled "An act repealing an act, entitled 'An act authorizing certain commissioners therein named to review and relay out parts of the Edgemont great road in Delaware county, relative to the estate of William Wollerton in Chester county, and relative to tax on dogs in said county,' approved March twenty-fourth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, so far as the same relates to the township of West Vincent."'

Senate bill No. 180, entitled "An act to amend section four of an act, entitled 'An act relating to registers and registers courts,' approved the fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, providing for the appointment of an additional deputy register, and fixing the salaries of deputy registers in the counties in which separate orphans' courts are established.

Senate bill No. 208, entitled "An act authorizing and regulating the taking, use and occupancy of public.burial places in cities of the third class, under certain circumstances, for purposes of common school education."

Senate bill No. 173, entitled "An act for the formation, incorporation and regulation of Firemen's Relief Associations."

House bill No. 469, entitled "An act to amend an act approved the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, entitled 'An act supplementary to an act, entitled "An act to consolidate and amend the several acts relative to a general system of education by common schools," passed the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six,' and for other purposes, so as to exclude certain farms from the provisions of said act.'

House bill No. 740, entitled "An act to amend an act to establish a State Weather Service of this Commonwealth, for the purpose of increasing the efficiency of the United States Signal Service by disseminating more speedily and thoroughly the weather forecasts, storm and frost warnings, for the benefit of the citizens of this State, and for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in each county thereof, meteorological stations for the collection of climatic data, and making an appropriation therefor, transferring to the Department of Internal Affairs the duties pertaining to the State Weather Service heretofore discharged by the Franklin Institute, and providing a further appropriation for the maintenance of said Weather Service."

House bill No. 23, entitled "An act to provide for the publication and distribution of additional copies of the report on Birds of Pennsylvania."

House bill No. 185, entitled "An act to amend the amendment approved the ninth day of May, Auno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, to an act, entitled 'An Act supplementary to the acts regulating hawkers and peddlers,' approved the sixteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty."

Senate bill No. 125, entitled "An act authorizing the sale of the real estate of decedents by persons named in the will of any testator other than an executor.

House bill No. 703, entitled "A supplement to an act, entitled 'An act to incorporate the trustees of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America,' approved the nineteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, declaring the true intent and meaning of section first of said act.

House bill No. 558, entitled "An act to authorize the State Treasurer to refund to Peter Maurer, one of the executors of the estate of John Maurer, late of Snyder county, deceased, the amount of the collateral inheritance tax paid to the Commonwealth over and above the real value of said estate liable for such tax."

House bill No. 306, entitled "An act to protect the holders of policies of insurance issued by casualty insurance companies organized under the laws of this or any other State or government.'

Senate bill No. 42, entitled "An act to amend an act, entitled 'An act to amend an act, entitled "An act to enable the officers of dissolved corporations to convey real estate held by such corporations," authoriz ing the court to direct the sale of such real estate on the petition of any one or more of the shareholders," approved the twenty fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty five, authorizing the court to direct the sale of such real estate on the petition of any one or more of the shareholders or the legal representatives, whenever requested so to do."

House bill No. 192, entitled "An act to amend section fifty-seven of the act approved the thirteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thou sand eight hundred and eighty-seven, 'To provide for the organization, discipline and regulation of the National Guard of Pennsylvania,' providing for the granting of commissions as brevet first lieutenants in certain cases.

Senate bill No. 319, entitled "An act to authorize the State Board of Charities to formulate a system of uniform accounts to be kept by the institution owned in whole or in part by the State, or receiving aid therefrom, providing for examiners to enforce the same and regulate appropriations thereto and making an appropriation therefor."

House bill No. 52, entitled "An act for the relief of Louis Ancker, hospital steward and sergeant, Third Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania.'

House bill No. 270, entitled "An act for the relief of David Wilson, late first sergeant of Company C, of Third Regiment of Pennsylvania militia."

House bill No. 151, entitled "An act regulating the printing and publication of notices and advertisements authorized by the county commissioners of the several counties of this Commonwealth, providing how newspapers shall be designated in which such publications shall be made.'

Senate bill No. 14, entitled "An act to amend the sixty third section of an act, entitled 'An act relating to executions,' approved June six

teenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, providing that sheriffs' sales shall be advertised in one newspaper printed in the German language.

House bill No. 620, entitled "An act to reimburse Joseph B. Rohrman for amount improperly paid as collateral inheritance tax in the etstate of Mary V. Heulings.

House bill No. 845, entitled "An act making an appropriation for the erection and construction of a dyke or wail along the eastern bank of Shoup's run, for the protection of the lives and property of the cit izens of Coalmont borough, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania."

House bill No. 928, entitled "An act making appropriation for the payment of Felix C. Negley of Allegheny county, for his services as Recruiting Agent of the State of Pennsylvania during the war of the Southern Rebellion.'

Senate bill No. 284, entitled "An act to enlarge the powers of cities of the first class, authorizing the municipal authorities thereof to regulate, by ordinance, the sale of anthracite coal, and prevent and punish frauds in the sale and delivery thereof, and to appoint inspectors of the same, and to charge a license fee upon all vehicles used in delivering coal.

House bill No. 122, entitled "An act to increase the compensation of county assessors in cities of the second class."

House bill No. 234, entitled "An act relating to proceedings for the recovery of possession of leased furnished rooms or portions of houses or dwellings.

Senate bill No. 121, entitled "An act to amend an act, entitled 'An act in relation to the imprisonment, government and release of convicts in the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon,' approved April twenty-eight, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, amending section eight, ten and fourteen of said act in relation to the reception, employment, transfer, government and discharge of prisoners, and repealing so much of section twelve of said act as provides that no petition or application for the release of any prisoner shall be entertained by the managers.

House bill No. 143, entitled "An act to provide for the attendance of children in the schools of this Commonwealth, and a supervisory board of education."

Senate bill No. 169, entitled "An act to amend the tenth section of an act, entitled 'An act to establish an insurance department,' approved the fourth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hun dred and seventy three, requiring the insurance companies or associa tions not incorporated under the laws of this State, to pay to the firemen's relief associations org nized in the cities, boroughs and townships, an annual bonus on premiums on the insurance effected within the limits of such cities, boroughs and townships, and regulating the collection thereof."

Senate bill No. 357, entitled "An act to prevent deception in the manufacture and sale of articles of gilded ware and providing penalties for the violation thereof.”

Senate bill No. 280, entitled "An act making an appropriation to the Charity Hospital of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, located at Norristown.”

House bill No. 717, entitled "An act making an appropriation of ten thousand dollars to the Zoological Society of Philadelphia to erect additional buildings."

Senate bill No. 270, entitled "An act to provide for the distribution of unbound copies of the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, specfying when, how and to whom they shall be distributed, and providing for the expenses connected therewith, and providing penalties for enforcing the same.

House bill No. 229, entitled " An act conferring upon husbands, wives and parents the right of possession of the bodies of their deceased wives, husbands and children."

Senate bill No. 34, entitled "An act authorizing cities of this Commonwealth to change, alter, beautify and improve unpaved public wharves and landings.

Senate bill No. 152, entitled "An act to provide for the publication of a digest of the laws of Pennsylvania, by Boyd Crumrine, the State reporter.

House bill No. 196, entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled 'An act to provide for the incorporation and government of street railway companies in this Commonwealth,' approved May fourteenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, granting to street railway companies power to cross streams.

House bill No. 665, entitled "An act making an appropriation to the Commissioners of Fairmount Park, for the preservation and maintenance of Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park, in the city of Philadelphia.

House bill No. 311, entitled "An act to amend the forty-ninth section of an act, entitled 'An act to provide for the organization, discipline and regulation of the National Guard of Pennsylvania,' approved the thirteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

House bill No. 832, entitled "An act making an appropriation to Grove City College towards the expenses of the military department of said college."

Senate bill No. 89, entitled "An act authorizing the asesssment of an annual poor-tax upon unnaturalized persons within this Common wealth, providing for its collection and fixing a penalty upon employers refusing to make a return of such persons in their employ."

Senate bill No. 307, entitled "An act to amend the twelfth section of an act, entitled 'An act to restrain and regulate the sale of vinous and spirituous liquors, or any admixture thereof,' approved the thirteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eightyseven, and providing for compensation for constables for services rendered under the provisions of said act."

House bill No. 844, entitled "An act making an appropriation to the General Hospital of Beaver county."

Senate bill No 255, entitled "An act to provide for the expense of the care and treatment of the indigent chronic insane in county or city almshouses, and making an appropriation therefor."

House bill No. 615, entitled "An act making an appropriation to the Bethesda Home."

House bill No. 646, entitled "An act making an appropriation to St. Joseph's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Aged Persons."

House bill No. 654, entitled "An act making an appropriation to the Memorial Hospital and House of Mercy of St. Timothy's Church, Roxborough, city of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania."

House bill No. 657, entitled "An act making an appropriation to the Allegheny County Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children nd Aged Persons."