CERTIFICATE. Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Harrisburg, June 14, 1907. I certify that, in obedience to the directions of an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, I have collated with, and corrected by, the original rolls on file in this office the proof sheets of the printed copies of this edition of the Laws and Resolutions of the General Assembly, passed during the ses sion ending the sixteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and seven. ROBERT MCAFEE, Secretary of the Commonwealth. (843) A PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR. In the Name and by Authority of the EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. A PROCLAMATION. I, Edwin S. Stuart, 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: House bill No. 480, entitled "An act providing for the collection of certain debts, permitting attachments thereto, and defining proceedings pertaining thereto before justices of the peace, and providing that no exemption of property shall be allowed or permitted against such attachments." Senate bill No. 207, entitled "An act to regulate the practice of horseshoeing; creating a State Board of Examiners; and providing for the registration, examination, and licensing of horseshoers; and for the punishment for violation of the provisions thereof." House bill No. 301, entitled "An act to protect the lives and limbs of persons employed in the anthracite coal mines of this Commonwealth, by prohibiting the employment of any miner to have charge of, as a miner, more than one breast, chamber or other working face in any anthracite coal mine, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof." House bill No. 353, entitled "An act regulating the employment of minor children in or about any anthracite coal mine or colliery; prohibiting the employment of any minor child under fourteen years of age in or around any anthracite colliery or breaker, or under the age of sixteen years inside workings of any anthracite coal mine; prohibiting the employment of any minor child, of any age, around any anthracite coal mine, colliery, or breaker, without an employment certificate; fixing the duties of common school and other school superintendents and officials as to the issuance of said em ployment certificates; declaring what said employment certificates shall contain; providing for the issuance of said certificates by the Department of Mines; making false swearing to any such certificate to be perjury, and punishable as such; providing that the failure of any employer of minor children to produce the certifi cate required by this act, upon demand, shall be prima facie evidence of illegal employment of said minor children; fixing the duty of truant or school attendance officers, as to the carrying out the provisions of this act; giving to the school officers, as herein provided for, the same power to administer oaths or affirmations as is now given to notaries public, in all matters connected with the proper enforcement of the provisions of this act; providing a penalty for any violation of the provisions of this act; repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act." House bill No. 429, entitled "An act to provide for the safety of persons employed in and about the anthracite coal mines of this Commonwealth, and to limit the hours of labor of hoisting-engineers employed at or about the same." House bill No. 474, entitled "An act to legalize fishing for eels, suckers, carp, or other fish not designated by act of Assembly as game or food fish, in waters included within the survey of private property, by the owners or lessees thereof, or by their consent, at any time and by any method whatever." House bill No. 557, entitled "An act to amend section twelve of an act, entitled 'An act to provide for the more effectual protection of the public health in the several municipalities of this Commonwealth,' approved the eighteenth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five; providing that certificates. of successful vaccination, or of previously having had small-pox, shall not be required in any locality in this Commonwealth when small-pox is not known to exist in the said locality." House bill No. 300, entitled "An act to prohibit the employment at any work or labor, of any minor child under the age of sixteen years, in or around any anthracite coal mine or colliery, for more than eight hours a day; providing a method whereby the employers of labor may ascertain such age, and providing a penalty for noncompliance with the provisions of this act." Senate bill No. 7, entitled "An act authorizing the acquisition and maintenance by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in conjunetion with the State of New Jersey, of toll-bridges across the Delaware river, and providing for free travel across the same." Senate bill No. 77, entitled "An act to provide for the punishment of persons encouraging, causing or contributing to the delinquency of children.” Senate bill No. 364, entitled "An act making all bridges heretofore known as county bridges, now or hereafter erected over and across navigable rivers and other streams, State bridges; direct ing that such State bridges be repaired and maintained by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, under the supervision of the State Highway Department; and that the county commissioners of the several counties, where State bridges are located, shall be custodians of such bridges, under the supervision of the State Highway Department." House bill No. 442, entitled "An act to provide for the payment of expenses of the sheriff, incident to the execution of writs against personal property, in counties having a population of one million or more." House bill No. 618, entitled "An act providing for the proper certification of the costs of witnesses in all criminal cases, by the district attorneys of the respective counties or their assistants." House bill No. 775, entitled "An act providing for the payment of all fines and penalties imposed for cruelty to children, by any alderman, magistrate or court of record, to any regularly incorporated society for the prevention of cruelty to children, bringing suit or prosecuting the charge." House bill No. 834, entitled "An act requiring the Recorder of Deeds of each county to obtain the affidavit of mortgagees, assignees, and persons recording articles of agreement for the payment of money, stating their precise residences; forbidding the record of such papers until such affidavit is furnished; requiring a list thereof to be delivered to the officer charged with the assignment of State taxes, and punishing false swearing in making such affidavit." Senate bill No. 31, entitled "An act to provide for the pensioning of soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in the Army or Navy of the United States, from Pennsylvania, in the Civil War of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one; fixing the rate of said pensions, the manner of obtaining same, and making an appropriation for the payment thereof." House bill No. 184, entitled "An act amending sections one, two, twenty-six, seventy, and seventy-one of an act, entitled 'An act providing for the examination, licensure, and registration of persons, firms, or corporations engaged or engaging in the business or work of plumbing or house drainage, and prescribing certain rules, regulations, and requirements for the construction of plumbing, house drainage, and cesspools, in cities of the second class, and imposing fines, penalties, and forfeitures for violation thereof,' approved the seventh day of June, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and one, and by extending the provisions of said act to all cities of the third class and boroughs of this Commonwealth." House bill No. 354, entitled "An act amending section seven of an act, 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,' approved May third, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and five, by providing for additional inspectors therein." House bill No. 649, entitled "A supplement to an act, entitled 'An act creating a Bureau of Health in the Department of Public Safety in cities of the second class; defining the powers and duties thereof and the officers thereunder; prescribing rules, regulations and laws respecting the public health, and authorizing and imposing fines, |