INSPECTORS ANTHRACITE COAL MINES. First District-Patrick Blewitt, Scranton, Lackawanna county. Second District-Hugh McDonald, Parsons, Luzerne county. Third District-G. M. Williams, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne county. Fourth District-James E. Roderick, Hazleton, Luzerne county. Fifth District-William Stein, Girardville, Schuylkill county. Sixth District-William McMurtrie, Yatesville, Schuylkill county. Seventh District-Samuel Gay, Pottsville, Schuylkill county. INSPECTORS BITUMINOUS COAL MINES. First District-Henry Louttitt, Monongahela City, Washington county. Second District-William Jenkins, Irwin Station, Westmoreland county. Third District-Thomas K. Adams, Wheeler, Mercer county. Fourth District-Roger Hampson, Towanda, Bradford county. Fifth District—J. J. Davis, Connellsville, Fayette county. Sixth District-Josiah Evans, Johnstown, Cambria county. Seventh District-James Blick, Grove City, Mercer county. Eighth District-John M. Watt, Phillipsburg, Centre county. SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA. Chief Justice-Hon. Isaac G. Gordon, Brookville, Jefferson county. Term expires first Monday of January, 1889. Justices - Hon. Edward M. Paxson, Philadelphia. Term expires first Monday of January, 1896. Hon. John Trunkey, Franklin, Venango county. Terin Hon. James P. Sterrett, Pittsburgh, Allegheny county. Hon. Henry Green, Easton, Northampton county. Hon. Henry W. Williams, Wellsboro', Tioga county. Prothonotary-Charles S. Greene, Philadelphia, Eastern District. J. Bowman Sweitzer, Pittsburgh, Western District. Reporter-Boyd Crumrine, Washington, Washington county. The Districts and Time of Holding Courts Therein. EASTERN DISTRICT. Sitting at Philadelphia, commencing first Monday of January; return days and beginning of argument weeks for the years 1888 and 1889, as follows: Lackawanna, Wayne, Pike and Wyoming,. ... February 25. February 20,. February 27,.... March 5,.... Northampton, Carbon and Monroe,. 12... March 19,.... Philadelphia,. March 4. .March 11. Bradford, Lycoming, Clinton, Cameron,..March 18. March 25. Sitting at Pittsburgh, commencing first Monday of October; return days and beginning of argument weeks for the years 1888 and 1889, as follows: 1888. October October October October 1889. 1... {Beaver, Clarion, Forest, Greene, Jefferson, }..October 7. Venango and Westmoreland,... 8,....Armstrong, Cambria, Lawrence and Mercer,....October 14. 15,....Indiana, Washington and Butler. 22,..... MIDDLE DISTRICT. .October 21. .October 28. Sitting at Harrisburg, commencing twenty-first Monday after first Monday in January, for the following counties: 1888. 1889. May 28, ... Adams, Dauphin, Franklin and Fulton,........June 3. Duties and Powers of State Officers and Boards. THE EXECUTIVE. The Executive Department of the Commonwealth consists of a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Attorney General, Auditor General, State Treasurer, Secretary of Internal Affairs and a Superintendent of Public Instruction. The Governor, In him is vested the supreme executive power of the Commonwealth; he is the commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the Commonwealth, and of the militia, except when they shall be called into the actual service of the United States, and takes care that the laws of the Commonwealth are faithfully executed. He holds his office for four years from the third Tuesday of January next succeeding his election, and shall not be eligible to the office for the next succeeding term. No person shall be eligible to the office of Governor except a citizen of the United States who shall have attained the age of thirty years, and has been for seven years next preceding his election an inhabitant of the Commonwealth, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United States or of this State. He may on extraordinary occasions convene the General Assembly, and in case of disagreement between the two houses, with respect to the time of adjournment, adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper, not exceeding four months; he may also convene the Senate in extraordinary session for the transaction of executive business, and he shall from time to time give to the General Assembly information of the state of the Commonwealth, and recommend such measures as he may judge expedient; and he may require information in writing from the officers of the Executive Department of the State government upon any subject relating to their respective offices. All bills and current resolutions, except for adjournment, must be submitted to him for his approval. If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor within ten days after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the General Assembly by their adjournment prevent its return; in which case it shall be a law unless he shall file the same, with his objections, in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and give notice thereof by public proclamation within thirty days after such adjournment. He nominates and, by and with the consent of two-thirds of all the members of the Senate, appoints a Secretary of Commonwealth and an Attorney General at pleasure, a Superintendent of Public Instruction for four years, and such other State officers as he may be authorized to appoint. He fills all vacancies in offices to which he may appoint during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which expire at the end of their next session. He has power to fill any vacancy that may happen during the recess of the Senate in the office of the Auditor General, State Treasurer, Secretary of Internal Affairs or Superintendent of Public Instruction, in a judicial office, or in any other elective office which he is or may be authorized to fill. He commissions all State officers elected by the people or appointed by himself (except the Lieutenant Governor and members of the General Assembly), all judges, magistrates and justices of the peace, all county officers that require commissions, notaries public, commissioner of deeds, officers in the National Guard, and such others as he may be directed by law to commission. He also appoints the members of the boards of the various State institutions, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and may remove public officers for cause, as provided by law, or upon proper investigation and proofs of misconduct. On receipt of the returns of the election of members of Congress from the several districts of the State, he declares by proclamation (published in one or more newspapers), the names of the persons so returned, and transmits the same to the House of Representatives. On receipt of the returns of the election of electors for President and Vice President, he enumerates the number of votes given for each one, and declares by proclamation (published in one or more newspapers) the names of the persons duly elected, and delivers to each one a notification of his election on or before the last Wednesday of the month in which they are elected. He also causes three lists of the names of the electors to be made, certified and delivered to the electors on or before the day on which they meet to cast the vote of the State for President and Vice President. As soon as the result of any election for judges of the Spreme Court has been determined according to law, he issues a proclamation declaring the number and names of the persons elected. He approves all charters of corporations for profit created under the general corporation act of 1874 and its supplements, and the |