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SESSION LAWS 1919.1

CONTENTS.

(Subjects arranged alphabetically.)

DEPARTMENT OF MINES, p. 999.

1 The session laws of 1919 were received after this bulletin was in page proof and the enactments of the
session of 1919 relating to minerals and mining are here included in a body.

998

DEPARTMENT OF MINES.

SALARY OF CHIEF.

LAWS 1919, p. 1073.

JULY 21, 1919.

AN ACT fixing the salary of the Chief of the Department of Mines and the Deputy Chief of the Department of Mines of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That on and after the passage of this act, the salary of the Chief of the Department of Mines shall be six thousand dollars per annum, and the salary of the Deputy Chief of the Department of Mines shall be four thousand dollars, which salaries shall be paid as provided by existing laws.

SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

999

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

BUREAU OF TOPOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

LAWS 1919, p. 420.

JUNE 7, 1919. AN ACT creating a Bureau of Topographic and Geological Survey in the Department of Internal Affairs; providing for a topographic and geological survey of the State; and abolishing the Topographic and Geological Survey Commission of Pennsylvania and all offices or places held under said commission.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That a Bureau of Topographic and Geological Survey is hereby created and established in the Department of Internal Affairs, the head of which shall be known as the State Geologist.

SEC. 2. The State Geologist shall be appointed by the Governor, and his compensation shall be fixed by the Governor and the Secretary of Internal Affairs.

SEC. 3. The State Geologist, with the approval of the Secretary of Internal Affairs, may appoint, employ and fix the compensation of, such clerks, stenographers, engineers, draftsmen, and other assistants and help, as the work of the bureau may require, having due regard to the availability of the employes in the rest of the department for cooperation in such work.

SEC. 4. The bureau shall undertake, conduct, and maintain the organization of a thorough and extended survey of the State for the purpose of elucidating the geology and topography of the State.

The survey shall disclose such chemical analysis and location of ores, coals, oils, clays, soils, fertilizing and of other useful minerals, and of waters, as shall be necessary to afford the agricultural, mining, metallurgical, and other interests of the State a clear insight into the character of its resources. The survey shall also disclose the location and character of such rock formation as may be useful in the construction of highways or for any other purpose.

The bureau shall collect such specimens as may be necessary to form a complete cabinet collection of specimens of the geological and mineral resources of the State. The State Museum shall be the repository of such specimens.

The results of the survey shall be, with the results of previous surveys, put into form convenient for reference.

SEC. 5. The work of the survey shall be done on such plan as shall be approved by the Governor and Secretary of Internal Affairs. The State Geologist shall immediately, and thereafter as often as may be required, make out estimates for all necessary implements and materials for the work and for all necessary expenditures, which estimates shall be submitted to, and approved by, the Secretary of Internal Affairs.

SEC. 6. The bureau shall collect copies of the surveys of this and other States, and countries, and shall digest the information therein contained, to the end that the survey hereby contemplated may be made as thorough, practical, and convenient as possible.

SEC. 7. Any person employed for the purposes of the survey may enter into and upon all lands and localities in this State which it may be necessary to examine. In such entry no damage to property shall be done.

SEC. 8. The bureau shall avail itself as fully as possible of the information, maps, and surveys, possessed by citizens and corporations of this State, relative to the geology and topography of the State.

All the facts, of whatever nature, obtained by the survey shall be considered public property, and any concealment or speculative use of the same is prohibited.

All publications of the survey or any part thereof shall be copyrighted by the Department of Internal Affairs in the name of the Commonwealth.

SEC. 9. The bureau may arrange for the cooperation of the United States Geological Survey or of such other national organization as may be authorized to engage in such work, but only in such manner as not to interfere with the plan approved in the manner herein before provided, it being the intent that a prompt and complete survey of this State shall be had without interference or control from any other governmental or private agency or organization.

SEC. 10. The State Geologist shall biennially prepare a detailed report of the operations of the two preceding years and the facts obtained by the survey; he shall submit the same to the Secretary of Internal Affairs, who is authorized to print and publish the said information in a suitable and convenient form. Copies of the reports, with all maps and supplements, shall be donated to public libraries, universities, colleges, and museums.

SEC. 11. The necessary printing and binding shall be done by the Department of Public Printing and Binding on the requisition of the Secretary of Internal Affairs SEC. 12. The necessary offices, equipment and supplies shall be furnished by the Board of Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings.

SEC. 13. The Topographic and Geological Survey Commission of Pennsylvania, which was established by an act, entitled "An act authorizing the Topographic and Geological Survey Commission of Pennsylvania to establish and maintain a topographic and geological survey of the State; fixing salaries; providing for the printing and binding of the results of said survey and furnishing of supples and stationery; and making an appropriation therefor," approved May 13, 1909 (P. L. 828), and all offices and places held thereunder are hereby abolished. The said commission shall, upon demand made by the Secretary of Internal Affairs, transfer or cause to be transferred to him, for the use of the said bureau, all papers, maps, surveys, reports, analyses, samples, materials, instruments, supplies, evidences, and manuscripts relating to investigations or explorations, completed and uncompleted, and all property, of any and every nature or character whatsoever, being the property of the State, in the possession or custody of the said commission, the State Geologist, or their employees or agents, as soon as the same can be conveniently done.

SEC. 14. This act shall be in effect on the first day of June, 1919.

SEC. 15. All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

LATERAL RAILROADS.

ORIGINAL ACT EXTENDED-AMENDMENT.

LAWS 1919, p. 205. MAY 17, 1919. AN ACT to amend section one of an act, approved the fifth day of May, 1832, entitled "An act regulating lateral railroads," by extending the provisions thereof to any person or persons, corporation of the first or second class, partnership, municipal or quasi-municipal corporation, school or poor district of the State of Pennsylvania, incorporated under general or special act of Assembly, being the owner or owners of lands, mills, quarries, coal mines, li nekilns, or other real estate, in the vicinity of any railroad, canal, or slack-water navigation, made or to be made by any company or by the State of Pennsylvania, and not more than four miles distant therefrom.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That section one of an act, approved the fifth day of May, 1832, (P. L. 501), entitled "An act regulating lateral railroads," which reads as follows: (Here follows sec. 1 of the Act of May 5, 1832. See p. 160), be, and the same hereby, is amended to read as follows:

SECTION. 1. That if any person or persons, corporation of the first or second class, partnership, municipal or quasi-municipal corporation, school or poor district of the State of Pennsylvania, incorporated under general or special act of Assembly, being the owner or owners of lands, mills, quarries, coal-mines, lime-kilns, or other real estate, in the vicinity of any railroad, canal, or slack-water navigation, made or to be made by any company, or by the State of Pennsylvania, and not more than four miles distant therefrom, shall desire to make a railroad thereto over any intervening lands, he, it, or they, their engineers, agents, and artists, may enter upon any lands, and survey and mark such route as he, it, or they shall think proper to adopt, doing no damage to the property explored, and thereupon may present a petition to the court of common pleas of the county in which said intervening land is situated, setting forth his, its, or their desire to be allowed to construct and finish a railroad in and upon the said route, and the beginning, courses, and distances thereof, and place of intersection of the main railroad, canal, or slack-water navigation, which shall be filed and entered of record in the said court, whereupon the said court shall appoint six disinterested and judicious men, resident in said county, who shall view the said marked and proposed route for a railroad, and examine the same; and if they, or any four of them, shall deem the same necessary and useful for public or private purposes, they shall report in writing to the subsequent term of said court what damages will be sustained by the owner or owners of the said intervening land by the opening, constructing, completing, and using the said railroad, and the report of the land viewers and appraisers shall be filed of record in the said court, and if not appealed from, be liable to be confirmed or rejected by the said court, as to right and justice shall appertain; and if either of the parties shall be dissatisfied with said report, he, it, or they may appeal therefrom to the said court of common pleas within twenty days after such report has been filed in the prothonotary's office, and not after; and after such appeal, either party may put the cause at issue in the form approved of by the court, and the said issue shall be placed first on the trial list of the next regular term of the said court, and be there tried and determined by the court and jury; and the verdict so rendered, and judgment thereon, shall be final and conclusive, without further appeal or writ of error, and it shall be the duty of the said viewers and jury to take into consideration the advantages which may be derived by the owner or owners of land passed by the said railroad, when making up their report or forming their verdict thereon.

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