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and the plates thereof preserved and be delivered to the secretary of the commonwealth as the property of the state, within three years after the expiration of the contract, and shall further provide that all volumes published under such contract shall be kept by the contractor at some convenient place within this commonwealth, to be designated by the said secretary, for sale at the contract price to all citizens of the commonwealth desiring the same, during the term of his said contract and for five years thereafter.

"Section 8. Before letting any contract as provided by this act, the secretary of the commonwealth shall give notice of the time and place of awarding the contract, by advertisement in the newspaper having the greatest circulation in each of the cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, once a week for six consecutive weeks immediately preceding the letting of such contract, and shall receive sealed proposals or bids, and shall award the contract to the lowest bidder who can give the security required by the ninth section of this act.

"Section 9. The person to whom any contract shall be awarded under this act shall, at the time of executing said contract, give bond to the commonwealth, with at least three sureties, to be approved by the governor, in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of said contract.

"Section 10. The state reporter shall receive no other compensation than is provided by this act, and all fees which are now payable to the state reporter shall be paid into the treasury of the commonwealth.

"Section II. It shall not be lawful for the reporter or any other person to secure or obtain any copyright of said reports. "Section 12. This act shall go into effect at the expiration of the term of office of the present reporter.

"Section 13. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed."

"AN ACT

"To provide for an appeal to the supreme court in contested elections of judges of courts of records, wherein constitutional questions are involved."

Approved June 12, 1878, Laws of Pennsylvania 1878, page 204. "Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That when the election of a judge of the supreme court, or a judge of any subordinate court

of record, required to be learned in the law, shall be contested, if the trial and determination of such election contest shall involve the true construction of any provision of the constitution, or if the decision shall depend on any question arising upon the constitution, an appeal shall lie from the decision of the court or judges empowered to try such contested election to the supreme court. "Section 2. Such appeal may be taken by any person whose right to the office was tried and determined, or by any person aggrieved by the decision, within thirty days after the decision of the judges shall have been entered of record to the case in the court of common pleas. The appeal shall be filed in the prothonotary's office for the proper district, but may be heard by the said supreme court in any district; and it shall be the duty of said court to hear and decide the same without delay.

"Section 3. To this end it is hereby made the duty of the judges in the court of common pleas trying such election contest to, first, find separately and explicitly the facts deemed by them material to the decision, and also such other facts as any party to the contest may request them in writing to ascertain, and to, second, answer such points of law as may be submitted to them.

"Section 4. The said supreme court having decided the constitutional question involved in such election contest shall thereupon proceed to decide and declare which of the candidates voted for received the greatest number of legal votes and is entitled to the office, and shall cause their decision to be certified to the secretary of the commonwealth; whereupon the person who, by the decision of the said supreme court, shall appear to have received the largest number of legal votes shall be entitled to the office and be commissioned accordingly."

"AN ACT

"Regulating proceedings against attorneys-at-law in this commonwealth." Approved May 19, 1879, Laws of Pennsylvania 1879, page 66. "Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That in all cases of any proceedings in any court of this commonwealth against any attorney of said court for unprofessional conduct as an officer of such court, said attorney shall be entitled to a writ of error from the supreme court of this commonwealth, as in civil cases, to said court, from any judgment, order or decree of said court, against him as such officer, which writ of error shall remove the record

and all the proceedings therein to the supreme court of this commonwealth; and it shall be the duty of said supreme court to review the same de novo; and the complainant shall have the right to offer new testimony by deposition or otherwise as said supreme court may direct, and upon hearing said court may modify, reverse or affirm said judgment, order or decree of the court below, as the justice and equity of the case shall require, and such cases shall be placed if desired at the head of the list of the next sessions of said court in any district where it may sit, to be determined after all homicide cases have been disposed of; said writ of error shall be issued as of course within two years from the judgment, order or decree as aforesaid.

"Section 2. And in case said judgment, order or decree shall be modified or reversed, all costs, charges and expenses shall be paid by the proper county in which said proceedings arose, and in case the same shall be affirmed the same shall be paid by such complaintant."

"AN ACT

"Authorizing appeals to be taken in equity cases where special or preliminary injunction has been refused."

Approved June 12, 1879, Laws of Pennsylvania 1879, page 177.

"Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That in all cases in equity, in which a special or preliminary injunction has been refused by any court of common pleas, an appeal to the supreme court for the proper district shall be allowed, but the pendency of such appeal shall not suspend proceedings in the original suit; and all such appeals shall be heard by the supreme court in any district in which it may be in session, as is provided in cases in equity originating in the supreme court.

"Section 2. That in all appeals under this act, only such bills, answers and affidavits as shall be certified by the judge or judges of the lower court, as having been before said court at the hearing for injunction, shall be considered by the supreme court; and all cases shall be heard and determined, as though said court had original jurisdiction in the premises and the application for injunction had been made to said court.

"Section 3. That this act shall apply to all cases now depending in any court of common pleas, which have not been prosecuted to final judgment."

"A SUPPLEMENT

"To an act, entitled 'An act relating to writs of quo warranto and mandamus."

Approved May 25, 1881, Laws of Pennsylvania 1881, page 32.

"Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the eighteenth section of the act, entitled 'An act relating to writs of quo warranto and mandamus,' approved fourteenth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, which reads as follows, viz: "The several courts of common pleas, the president judge being present, shall, within their respective counties, have the like power with the supreme court, to issue writs of mandamus to all officers and magistrates, elected or appointed, in or for the respective county, or in or for any township, district or place within such county, and to all corporations, being or having their chief place of business within such county,' be and the same is hereby amended, so as to read as follows, viz:

"The several courts of common pleas, the president judges being present, shall, within their respective counties, have the power to issue writs of mandamus to all officers and magistrates, elected or appointed, in or for the respective county, or in or for any township, district or place within such county, and to all corporations, being or having their chief place of business within such county; and the court of common pleas of the county, in which the seat of government is or may be located, shall have the power, and it shall be required, to issue the writ of mandamus to the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of the commonwealth, attorney general, secretary of internal affairs, superintendent of public instruction, state treasurer and auditor general, which may be served by the sheriff or his deputy in any county of the commonwealth, and thereupon like proceedings shall be had therein, as in any other writs of mandamus issued out of courts of common pleas of this commonwealth."

"Section 2. The party aggrieved by the proceedings, had in any court of common pleas upon any writ of mandamus, may remove the same after final judgment, order, decree or, in cases where the granting of said writ is required by the first section of this act, upon refusal to grant said writ, by writ of error into the supreme court, as in other cases.”

"AN ACT

"Relating to appeals and writs of certiorari and of error."
Approved June 8, 1881, Laws of Pennsylvania 1881, page 80.

"Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That no appeal shall hereafter be entered from the judgment, order, or decree of any subordinate court in this commonwealth, nor shall an writ of certiorari or of error to such court be delivered, until the party or parties, entering such appeal or purchasing such writ, shall have first entered into a recognizance, with sufficient sureties, in double the amount of costs accrued, conditioned upon the affirmance by the supreme court of such judgment, order, or decree for the payment of all costs that have accrued in the cause or shall accrue upon the said appeal or writ of error or certiorari, and for the return to the court below of the record with the remittitur: Provided, That this section shall not be construed to change the existing laws as to the nature of the recognizance required to effect a supersedeas."

"AN ACT

"Relative to the supervision and control of hospitals or houses in which the insane are placed for treatment or detention."

Approved May 8, 1883, Laws of Pennsylvania 1883, pages 21-30.

"Section 39. Whenever any person shall be found by inquisition to be insane, the committee of the person or of the estate, and also the clerk of the court into which the inquisition has been returned, shall thereupon forthwith send to the committee on lunacy at their principal office, a statement in writing, signed by the committee of the lunatic, of the name, age, sex and residence of the lunatic, and the residence of the committee, and upon any change in the residence or place of detention of the lunatic, shall forthwith notify the committee of lunacy of such change. The committee on lunacy, or any one or more of the members of the committee, shall have power to visit and examine the said lunatic, and authorize such visiting and examination by their secretary, or any board of visitors, or one or more members thereof, and by a physician, and the said committee are authorized to apply to any court, having jurisdiction over the committee, or to a judge of a court of common pleas, of the county in which the lunatic is a resident or detained, to make such orders for the maintenance, custody or care of the said lunatic, and for the care and

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