Act Regulating the Publication of Application for Local or Special Legislation.-February 12, 1874.

That no local or special bill, either to repeal or enact a law, shall be passed by the Legislature, unless notice of the intention to apply therefor shall be published in the locality where the matter or thing to be effected may be situated, which notice shall state specifically the title and objects of the bill, and shall be published by not less than four insertions in at least two daily or weekly newspapers, one of which may be in a language other than English, once a week for four consecutive weeks, printed in the county, or in each of the several counties, where such matter or thing to be affected may be situated; the first insertion to be at least thirty days prior to and within three months immediately preceding the introduction of such bill into the General Assembly, and be signed by at least one of the parties applying therefor: Provided, That the publication in one newspaper shall be deemed sufficient where but one is published in the county or counties aforesaid.

The evidence of the publication aforesaid shall be by attaching to a bill a copy or copies, as the case may be, of said notice, verified by the affidavit of the owner, publisher, editor, or foreman of each of the several newspapers in which said notice is by this act required to be published, of due compliance with the preceding section.

That when such local or special bill shall affect any

matter or things situated in any city or borough, said publication shall be in two of the newspapers published in said city or borough, if so many there be; and if there be but one a publication in that one shall be deemed sufficient; if there be no newspaper published in said city or borough, then by publication in the newspaper or newspapers of the county in which said city or borough is located, as provided in the first section of this act.

INCOMPATIBLE OFFICES.

Every person who shall hold any office, or appointment of profit or trust under the government of the United States, whether a commissioned officer or otherwise, a subordinate officer or agent, who is or shall be employed under the legislative, executive, or judiciary department of the United States, and also every member of Congress, is hereby declared to be incapable of holding or exercising, at the same time, the office or appointment of justices of the peace, notary public, mayor, recorder, burgess, or aldermen of any city, corporate town, or borough, resident physician of the lazeretto, constable, judge, inspector, or clerk of election under this Commonwealth.

The holding of any of the aforesaid offices or appointments under this State, is declared to be incompatible with any office or appointment under the United States, and every such commission, office, or appointinent so holden under the government of this State null and void.

If any person, after the expiration of the fifteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, exercise any office or appointments, the exercise of which is incompatible, every person so offending shall for every such offense, being thereof legally convicted in any court of record, forfeit and pay any sum not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court, one moiety of the said forfeiture to be paid to

the overseers, guardians, or directors of the poor of the township, district, county, or place where such offense shall have been committed, to be applied to the support of the poor, and the other moiety thereof to the prosecutor who shall sue for the same.

No person shall be capable of holding, at the same time, the office of justice of the peace and prothonotary and clerk of the courts.

Nor of associate judge and justice of the peace.

Nor of county commissioner, school director, or board of health.

Nor of school director, constable, path-master, or commissioner of roads, and that of township or borough auditor.

No alderman or attorney-at-law to be county prison inspector.

No district attorney can hold any other office under the laws and Constitution of the State.

Members of the Legislature cannot be councilmen in an incorporated city.

No member of council is eligible to any office, employment, or agency chosen by council during the term for which he was elected to council.

No person can, at one time, be a member of more than one of the following bodies, viz:

City council, guardians of the poor, board of health, and inspector of the county prison.

Members of council cannot hold any other city or county office in the choice of the people.

No Senator or Representative can be appointed to any civil office during the term for which he was elected.

No person holding any other office, shall at the same time be a member of either House.

TAX LAW.

Relating to the Revenues of the Commonwealth and Taxes on Corporations.

All laws, or parts of laws, now in force in this Commonwealth, under and by virtue of which taxes for State purposes are levied and assessed upon horses, mares, geldings, mules, and cattle, shall be and they are hereby repealed, so far as they give authority to impose State taxes on the same: Provided, That this section shall not take effect until the next meeting of the Board of Revenue Commissioners of this Commonwealth.

That so much of the sixth section of the act, entitled "An Act to revise, amend, and consolidate the several laws taxing corporations, brokers, and bankers," approved May first, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, as imposes a tax upon the net earnings or income of incorporated companies liable to the tax on capital stock under the fourth section of said act, be and the same is hereby repealed, said repeal to take effect from and after the first day of November, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to release any taxes which accrued prior to the first day of November aforesaid, nor in any way to effect suits heretofore or hereafter brought in the name of the Commonwealth, for the collection of such taxes, and the penalties and interest attached thereto, nor to release private bankers, brokers, or