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The members of the Board receive no compensation except for traveling and other necessary expenses.

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The members of the Board receive no compensation except for

traveling and other necessary expenses.

General agent of the Board,

Secretary of Lunacy commission,

3,000

3,000

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

Members of Board receive compensation only for traveling and other necessary expenses.

Secretary,

STATE PHARMACEUTICAL EXAMINING BOARD.

$2,000

The members of the Board receive five dollars for each day actually employed and all necessary expenses.

The secretary receives.

100

FISHERY COMMISSION.

The Fish Commissioners receive no fixed salary, but are paid for their reasonable and necessary expenses.

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

The commissioners receive no compensation except for traveling and other necessary expenses.

MINE INSPECTORS.

Bituminous inspectors,

2,000

Anthracite inspectors, .

3,000

Two clerks to inspectors of the anthracite coal district,

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Common pleas judges in all other districts, each,

4,000

Orphans' court judges in Philadelphia, each, .
Orphans' court judges in Allegheny county, each,

7,000

6,000

Orphans' court judges in Luzerne and Berks counties,

each,

4,000

State reporter of Supreme Court,

3,000

LIST OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.

For law regulating printing and distribution, see act of April 16, 1887.

Biennial Publications.

Pamphlet Laws.

Governor's Message.

School Laws and Decisions.

Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives.

Annual Publications.

Adjutant General's Report.

Agriculture of Pennsylvania.

Attorney General's Report.

Auditor General's Report on Finance.

Auditor General's Report on Banks and Savings Institutions. Board of Public Charities, Report of.

Board of Health, Report of.

Fish Commissioners' Report.

Insurance Commissioner on Fire Insurance.

Insurance Commissioner on Life Insurance.

Mine Inspectors' Report (Anthracite).

Official Documents.

Secretary of Internal Affairs' Report, Parts I and II, Land and Assessments.

Secretary of Internal Affairs' Report, Part III, Industrial Statistics.

Secretary of Internal Affairs' Report, Part IV, Railroads.

Sinking Fund Commissioners' Report.

Smull's Legislative Hand-Book and State Manual.

State College, Report of the Trustees of.

State Librarian's Report.

State Treasurer's Report.

Superintendent of Public Instruction, Report of.

Superintendent of Public Printing, Report of.

Superintendent of Soldiers' Orphans' Schools, Report of.

Miscellaneous Publications.

Reports of the Geological Survey Commission.
Quarterly Reports of the Board of Agriculture.
Pennsylvania Archives.

Biographical Sketches of Principal State Officers.

GOVERNOR.

JAMES ADDAMS BEAVER, born October 21, 1837, at Millerstown, Perry county, Pa.; fitted for college privately, and at Pine Grove Academy, Centre county, Pa.; graduated August 6, 1856, at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pa., (now Washington and Jefferson College); studied law with Hon. H. N. McAllister, Bellefonte, Pa.; admitted to the bar January 24, 1859; entered the army during the war of the rebellion, April 18, 1861, as 1st lieutenant of H Co., 2d regiment, P. V., for three months; appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 45th regiment, P. V., by Governor Curtin, July 22, 1861, serving with that regiment until September 4, 1862; resigned to accept promotion as Colonel of the 148th regiment, P. V., and mustered as such September 8, 1862; August 1, 1864, brevetted Brigadier General U. S. V.; mustered out of military service, December 22, 1864, on account of wounds received in battle; connected with N. G. of Pa. as Division and Brigade Commander since October 12, 1870; chief burgess of the borough of Bellefonte, 1865.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

WILLIAM T. DAVIES, of Bradford county, was born in Glammorganshire, Wales, December 20, 1831, and is a self-made man; he was reared on a farm in Warren township, where his father settled in 1833; was educated in the common schools, and at Owego Academy, where he graduated as valedictorian in 1853; was principal of the Towanda public schools, 1856 to 1860; enlisted as a private în 1862, and was captain of Co. B., 141st P. V.; suffered attacks of typhoid fever and was discharged, 1863, on surgeon's certificate of disability; resumed the practice of the law; was elected district attorney in 1864, and became eminent in the profession, distinguishing himself as an advocate in important trials; was a member of the Cincinnati Convention in 1876, and was elected in that year Senator from the district composed of Bradford and Wyoming counties; was re-elected in 1880; was a member of the Judiciary General Committee during the time of his service, and chairman of it during several sessions, and when his term expired was strongly supported for the nomination for State Treasurer in 1881, and nominated in 1882 for Lieutenant Governor, suffering defeat in that year with the State ticket. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.,

CHARLES W. STONE was born in Groton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, June 29, 1843; fitted for college at Lawrence academy; graduated at Williams College, 1863; soon after he became principal of the Union school at Warren, Pennsylvania: resigned in 1865 to accept the office of superintendent of schools of Warren county; in the fall of 1865 was chosen principal of the Erie Academy; read law at Warren in 1866; was admitted to practice in 1867, and in 1868 formed a partnership with Judge Brown; served several terms as a member of the Warren school board and of the borough council; was a

member of the House of Representatives 1870 and 1871; elected to the Senate in 1876 from the Forty-eighth district; served the sessions of 1877 and 1878, and was chairman of the General Judiciary Committee session of 1878; was elected Lieutenant Governor in November, 1878, for the term ending January 16, 1883; appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth by Governor Beaver, January 18, 1887.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

WILLIAM S. KIRKPATRICK was born at Easton, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, April 21, 1844; educated at Lafayette College: studied law and was admitted to the bar in October, 1865; has served as school director and borough solicitor in his native town; in 1874 Governor Hartranft appointed him to fill an unexpired term of one year, as president judge of the Third judicial district; the same year he was nominated by the Republican party for the full term commencing January, 1875, and was defeated by only 200, the regular Democratic majority being about 3,500; was temporary chairman of the Republican State Convention of 1882, and a delegate to the National Convention, at Chicago, in 1884; nominated by Governor Beaver and unanimously confirmed by the Senate as Attorney General, January 18, 1887.

AUDITOR GENERAL (UNTIL MAY 21, 1888.)

A. WILSON NORRIS was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, in 1842, educated at Georgetown College, D. C. ; entered the army in November, 1861, and discharged in July, 1865; graduated at Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1867; practiced law in Philadelphia until 1872, when appointed Private Secretary to Governor Hartranft; elected, in 1873, Department Commander Grand Army of the Republic of Pennsylvania; appointed, in 1876, Reporter of Supreme Court; appointed, 1877, Judge Advocate General of Pennsylvania; elected, in 1881, Senator from Sixth senatorial district; appointed, in 1884, by President Arthur, Pension Agent at Philadelphia, and elected, in 1886, Auditor General of the State. Died in office May 21, 1888.

AUDITOR GENERAL.

THOMAS MCCAMANT, born in Antis township, Huntingdon county, (now Blair county), July 29, 1840; educated at the Tuscarora Academy, in Juniata county, and graduated at Lafayette College, at Easton, Pennsylvania, of the class of 1861; a lieutenant in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers during the late war; admitted to the practice of the law in Blair county in 1864; made Chief Clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth in 1867, and held that position, with the exception of seven months, when he served as Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth until 1881: appointed Chief Clerk in the Auditor General's Department on May 3, 1881, which position he held under Auditor Generals Lemon, Niles and Norris: appointed Auditor General on May 26, 1888, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of A. Wilson Norris.

STATE TREASURER (UNTIL MAY 7, 1888.)

WILLIAM LIVSEY was born at Shooter's Hill, County of Kent, England, November 13, 1832; served in the Crimean war from March, 1855, until end of June, 1856; sailed from Southampton, on board of Steamship Saxonia, in

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