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Page 221 - An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to promote the public health, convenience, and welfare by leveeing, ditching, and draining the wet, swamp and overflowed lands of the State, and providing for the establishment of levee or drainage districts for the purpose of enlarging or changing any natural water courses, and for digging ditches, or canals, for securing better drainage, or providing better outlets for drainage, for building levees...
Page 683 - And I do further solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have not directly or indirectly paid, offered or promised to pay, contributed, or offered or promised to contribute any money or other valuable thing as a consideration or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at the election at which I was elected to said office, and have not made any promise to influence the giving or withholding any such vote," and no other oath, declaration or test shall be required as a qualification for any office of...
Page 58 - The rules of parliamentary practice, comprised in Jefferson's Manual, shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules and orders of the House, and joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Page 222 - An Act to promote the public health, convenience and welfare by leveeing, ditching and draining the wet, swamp and overflowed lands within the State, and providing for the establishment of levee or drainage districts for the purpose of enlarging or changing any natural water courses, and for digging ditches or canals for securing better drainage, or providing better outlets for drainage, for building levees or embankments and installing tide gates or pumping plants for the reclamation of overflowed...
Page 367 - An Act to Promote the Public Health, Convenience and Welfare by Leveeing, Ditching and Draining the Wet, Swamp and Overflowed Lands Within the State, and Providing for the Establishment of Levee or Drainage Districts for the Purpose of Enlarging or Changing any Natural Water Courses, and for Digging Ditches or Canals for Securing Better Drainage, or Providing Better Outlets for Drainage, for Building Levees or Embankments and Installing Tide Gates or Pumping Plants for the Reclamation of Overflowed...
Page 400 - A bill to license and regulate the business of making loans in sums of three hundred dollars or less, secured or unsecured, at a greater rate of interest than seven per centum per annum, prescribing the rate of interest and charge therefor, and penalties for the violation thereof, and regulating the assignment of wages or salaries, earned or to be earned, when given as security for any such loan, and to repeal act number 228 of the Public Acts of 1915.
Page 325 - Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate...
Page 54 - While the Speaker is putting any question, or addressing the House, none shall walk out of, or across the House ; nor, in such case, or when a member is speaking, shall entertain private discourse ; nor, while a member is speaking, shall pass between him and the Chair.
Page 423 - Pennsylvania; providing for the recovery of the same; authorizing the Governor of the State to employ counsel, and enter into the necessary contracts and agreements for the carrying out of the object of this act; providing for notice to and procedure by claimants of such moneys, and fixing a prescription period after which such moneys shall escheat to and become the absolute property of the State of Pennsylvania.
Page 21 - House shall also appoint a committee to confer, such committees shall, at a convenient hour, to be agreed on by their chairman, meet in the conference chamber, and state to each other verbally, or in writing, as either shall choose, the reasons of their respective Houses for and against the amendment, and confer freely thereon.

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