Rawle's reports, (new edition), five volumes; Watt's reports, ten volumes; Wharton's reports, six volumes; Watts and Sargent's reports, nine volumes; Grant's cases, three volumes; Barr's reports, ten volumes; Jones' reports, two volumes; Harris' reports, twelve volumes; Casey's reports, twelve volumes; Wright's reports, fourteen volumes; Smith's reports, thirty-two volumes; Norris' reports, fifteen volumes; Outerbridge's reports, one volume; who shall agree to reprint said reports on terms the most advantageous to the public, and at the most reasonable price; which contract shall provide that every volume printed, under said contract, shall be stereotyped and the plates thereof preserved and delivered to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, as the property of the State within three years from the completion of the contract, and shall further provide that all volumes published under each contract shall be kept by the said contractor at some convenient place within this Commonwealth, to be designated by the 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 three years thereafter.

"Section 3. Before letting any contract as provided by this act, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall give notice of the time and place of awarding said contract, by advertisement in at least two newspapers of general circulation in the cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, once a week for six consecutive weeks, immediately preceding the awarding of such contract, and shall receive sealed proposals or bids which shall remain sealed until after the bidding shall have terminated, said bids shall then be opened and the contract shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder.

"Section 4. The person or persons to whom any contract shall be awarded, shall give bond to the Commonwealth with at least three sureties, to be approved by the Governor, in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of said contract.

"Section 5. That said reports shall be printed on first class book paper and bound in full law sheep, in style not inferior to that of Harris' reports, and in similar form and manner of execution.

"Section 6. That said agent shall hold such appointment for the period of one year and six months, and shall superintend and

see that said reports are correctly reprinted, and shall receive for his services the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly out of the State Treasury, and shall receive no other compensation, but said salary shall be repaid to the State by the contractor out of the first moneys realized from the sale of the books.

"Section 7. The Governor may at any time remove said agent for incompetency or a failure to discharge his duties, and shall have power to fill any vacancy that may occur by death or otherwise.

"Section 8. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed: And provided, This act shall not interfere with the rights of any person having a copyright of any of the reports at the time of the passage of this act."

"AN ACT

"To further regulate the admission of attorneys and counsellors at law to practice in the several courts of this Commonwealth." Approved May 7, 1885, Laws of Pennsylvania 1885, page 16. "Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful for any attorney and counsellor at law, who shall have been duly admitted to practice in any court of common pleas, and in the Supreme Court of this Commonwealth, to be admitted to practice in any other court of this Commonwealth upon motion simply, and filing, together with his certificate of admission to the Supreme Court, a certificate of the presiding judge of the county from whence he came, setting forth that he is of reputable professional standing and of unobjectionable character.

"Section 2. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed, and any rule, usage or practice to the contrary hereof is hereby declared unlawful and void."

"AN ACT

"To repeal an act, entitled 'An act relating to appeals and writs of certiorari and of error,' approved the eighth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one."

Approved May 21, 1885, Laws of Pennsylvania 1885, page 22, "Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the Act of Assembly approved the eighth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand

eight hundred and eighty-one, entitled 'An act relating to appeals and writs of certiorari and of error,' which provides, "That no appeals shall hereafter be entered from the judgment, order or decree of any subordinate court in this Commonwealth; nor shall any writ of certiorari or of error to such court be delivered, until the party or parties entering such an 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,' be and the same is hereby repealed."

"AN ACT

"To provide for the incorporation and regulation of natural gas companies."

Approved May 29, 1885, Laws of Pennsylvania 1885, pages 29-33. "Section 10. The transportation and supply of natural gas for public consumption is hereby declared to be a public use, and it shall be the duty of corporations, organized or provided for under this act, to furnish to consumers along their lines and within their respective districts natural gas for heat or light or other purposes as the corporation may determine. Any and all corporations that is or are now or shall hereafter be engaged in such business, shall have the right of eminent domain for the laying of pipe lines for the transportation and distribution of natural gas, the right, however, shall not be exercised as to any burying ground or dwelling, passenger railroad station-house, or any shop or manufactory in which steam or fire is necessarily used for manufacturing or repairing purposes, but shall include the right to appropriate land upon or under which to lay said lines and locate pipes upon and over, under and across, any lands, rivers, streams, bridges, roads, streets, lanes, alleys or other public highways, or other pipe lines, or to cross railroads or canals: Provided, In case the pipe lines cross any railroad operated by steam or canal the same shall be located under or above such railroad or canal, and in such manner as the rail

road or canal company may reasonably direct: And provided further, That any company laying a pipe line under the provisions hereof shall be liable for all damages occasioned by reason of the negligence of such gas company: And provided further, That no company authorized by this act shall have the right to occupy longitudinally the right of way, road bed, or bridge of any railroad company: And provided, If any pipe line laid under the provisions of this act, or laid upon or over lands cleared and used for agricultural purposes, the same shall be buried at least twenty-four inches below the surface, and if any line of pipe shall be paid over or through any waste or woodland, which shall be changed to farming land, then it shall be the duty of the corporation to immediately bury the said pipe to the depth of at least twenty-four inches as aforesaid.

"Prior to any appropriation, the corporation shall attempt to agree with the owner as to the damage properly payable for an easement in his or her property, if such owner can be found and is sui juris, failing to agree, the corporation shall tender to the property owner a bond with sufficient sureties to secure him or her in the payment of damages; if the owner refuse to accept said bond or cannot be found or is not sui juris, the same shall then be presented to the court of common pleas of the proper county after reasonable notice to the property owner by advertisement or otherwise to be approved by it. Upon approval of the bond and its being filed the right of the corporation to enter upon the enjoyment of its easement shall be complete. Upon petition of either the property owner or the corporation, thereafter, the court of common pleas shall appoint five disinterested freeholders of the county to serve as viewers to assess the damages proper to be paid to the property owner, for the easement appropriated by the company, and shall fix a time for their meeting of which notice shall be given to both parties.

"Either party may appeal from the report of the viewers within twenty days after the filing thereof to the court of common pleas and have a jury trial as in ordinary cases, and writ of error to the Supreme Court.

"Section 12. In all cases where any dispute shall arise between such corporations and the authorities of any borough, city, township or county, through, over or upon whose high

ways, or between it and any land owner or corporation, through, over or upon whose property or easement, pipes are to be laid, as to the manner of laying the pipes and the character thereof, with respect to safety and public convenience, it shall be the duty of the court of common pleas of the proper county upon the petition of either party to the dispute, upon a hearing to be had to define by its decree what precautions, if any, shall be taken in the laying of pipes, and, by injunction, to restrain their being laid in any other way than as decreed. It shall be the duty of the court to have the hearing and make its decree with all convenient speed and promptness. Either party shall have a right to appeal therefrom as in cases of equity to the Supreme Court, but the appeal shall not be a supersedeas of the decree, and proceedings shall be had in like manner upon like petition when and as often as any dispute arises as to pipes already laid to define the duty of such corporations as to their re-laying, repair, amendment, or improvement.

"A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

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

Approved June 24, 1885, Laws of Pennsylvania 1885, page 151. "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 when the granting of said writ is required by the first section of this act, upon refusal to grant said writ, by writ of error in to the Supreme Court, as in other cases."

"AN ACT

"To amend the second and third section of an act, entitled 'An Act to provide for the publication of the decisions of the Supreme Court, and the appointment of a State reporter,' and to provide for the prompt publication of the same."

Approved May 19, 1887, Laws of Pennsylvania 1887, page 127.

"Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the second and third sections of an act, entitled 'An act to provide for the publication of the decisions of the Supreme Court and the appointment of a State reporter,' which reads as follows:

"Section 2. The Governor may at any time remove said reporter for incompetency or a failure to discharge his official