P. L. 77. in law sheep, of the best quality, thirty copies to be labelled "Property of the 1 May 1876 § 30. House of Representatives," twenty copies labelled "Property of the Senate," ten copies to be labelled "State Library," fifty copies to be delivered to the state librarian for exchange with the several states and territories, and such other exchanges as may seem prudent for the said state librarian to make, and one copy to each of the heads of the several departments of the state government, to be labelled on the side and back so as to match the sets now in each office; two hundred and sixty-one copies shall be bound in half-binding with titles on back, lettered in gold, one copy for each member of the senate and house of representatives, and one copy for each of the principal clerks thereof. Ibid. § 31. 72. There shall be full bound in law sheep, of the best quality, one hundred and three copies each of the journals and executive and legislative documents, Binding of journals ten copies of each to be labelled Property of the Senate," fifteen copies to be and documents. labelled "Property of the House of Representatives," five copies to be labelled "State Library," fifty copies to be delivered to the state librarian for exchange with the several states and territories, and such other exchanges as may seem prudent for the said state librarian to make, and one copy of each to the heads of the several departments of the state government, to be labelled on the side and back so as to match the sets now in each office. There shall be bound in halfbinding to match the laws, two hundred and sixty-one copies each of the journals, executive and legislative documents and legislative record, to be distributed as follows: One set for each member of the senate and house of representatives, and one set for each of the principal clerks of the two houses; and the contractor or contractors shall be paid for the same at the rates fixed in the schedule for such binding. Ibid. § 32. 73. The contractor or contractors shall deliver the whole number of said laws, journals, documents and other papers to the superintendent of public printing and Delivery of laws, binding, within forty days after the rising of each legislature, unless further time journals, docushall be given in writing; and the said contractor or contractors shall cause to be ments, &c. printed and delivered to each house, such copies of the bills, journals, reports, messages and other papers and documents as may be directed by the legislature, at the time and in the manner he may be requested in writing to do so by the superintendent of public printing and binding. Ibid. § 33. Binding of addi Ibid. § 34. 74. Any additional copies of documents, laws, journals or reports that may be ordered to be bound, in any manner, style or quality, shall be so bound by said contractor or contractors, and shall be paid for at the rates fixed in the schedule tional copies. annexed to this act for such binding, and when extras are ordered to be covered with printed covers of colored paper, or bound in cloth of any description, the contractor or contractors shall be paid for the same at the rates fixed for such work in said schedule: Provided, That no binding shall be executed by the said contractor or contractors, to be paid for by the state, for any member of either house, or any officer thereof, unless the same shall be ordered by joint resolution. 75. All composition shall be computed by the measurement of the number of ems, excepting the legislative bills, blanks and all miscellaneous work. The said contractor or contractors shall print the blanks, circulars and miscellaneous printing Computation of for all the officers of the commonwealth at the rates fixed in the schedule annexed work, &c. to this act: Provided, That the contractor or contractors shall in no case be required to furnish any paper for blanks and circulars, envelopes, cards, parchment, et cetera, excepting such as is especially included in this act. And all composition shall be solid, unless directed otherwise by the superintendent of public printing and binding, in writing. The press-work shall be done in the best manner, satisfactory to said superintendent, and two hundred and fifty impressions, of sixteen pages each, shall be counted as a token; and the composition, press-work, folding, stitching and delivering the bills of the two houses shall be paid for at the rates fixed in said schedule. composition, press Ibid. § 35. How payments to 76. The auditor-general shall draw his warrant on the state treasurer in favor Ibid. § 36. 77. Nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to interfere with the present contract for executing the public printing and binding, nor with the Present contracts present contract for supplying the state with paper; and all laws or parts of laws not to be affected. inconsistent with this act, or with any of the provisions thereof, be and the same are hereby repealed. 78. SCHEDULE RATES. Printing. For all composition, in whatever type, ex- Schedule of prices. cept bills, blanks and miscellaneous printing, the rates per one thousand ems shall be as follows: 1 May 1876 § 36. P. L. 77. Plain composition. Column matter, in three columns depending upon each other and read- Four columns same Rule and figure work tabulated, exceeding four columns Dolls. Cts. 60 90 1.00 1 20 Tabular work may be executed in brevier or smaller type without additional charge. No composition shall be leaded, unless the same is actually required, which said leading shall be directed by the superintendent of public printing and binding, nor shall any composition, upon any pretence whatever, be fixed at other rates than those herein prescribed, nor shall any composition be allowed the second time upon any report, document or publication, unless the work shall have been actually per formed, of which an affidavit of the public printer or printers shall be furnished to the superintendent of public printing and binding, who shall file the same with the account. For the translation of English matter, required to be printed in the German or any other language, per one thousand ems, sixty cents; and no charge shall be allowed for figures, or matter not actually translated. For titles to messages, books, documents, reports or other publications per one hundred copies, including composition, press-work and tipping on, fifty cents. There shall be no allowance for correcting forms in any case, except where alteration shall have been made in the original copy; in which case, there shall be allowed for every hour of time occupied in making such correction, fifty cents. Press-work. For each token of two hundred and fifty impressions or - Legislative Bills. For each line, including composition, press-work, act For each page of calendar, including composition, press-work and de- Folding, et cetera. For folding, gathering, stitching, collating, deliv Folding and inserting maps, plates, diagrams, illustrations, with or - For paper covers, including composition, press-work and putting on, for all books, documents and publications, per one hundred copies Cover paper to be furnished by the commonwealth to the contractor or contractors. For half binding, leather backs and corners, titles lettered with gold Dolls. Cts. 50 06 00 20 1 00 1 00 All books, documents or publications in muslin covers, plain colors, per Same in fine colors Ruling and Blank Work. 25 30 - For ruling and binding blank work, the paper to be furnished by the public printer or printers, including the price of the paper and all material, as follows: Full binding, Russia ends and bands 00 50 75 2 00 25 50 00 00 25 4 00 With printed headings on all blank books or printed forms, twenty per centum additional on the aforesaid prices. No charge to be made for indexing, excepting when leather tabs with gold letters are used, for which there shall be allowed for each alphabet For extra canvas covers, per book of any size Each quire to count twenty sheets, the paper to be first class; letter size, not to weigh less than twelve pounds to the ream; demy, twenty-eight pounds; medium, thirty-six pounds; royal, forty-four pounds; super-royal, fifty-four pounds, and imperial, seventy-two pounds; when interleaved with blotting-paper, paper to be included in the count of the quires. said Miscellaneous. For ruling, per hundred sheets, of all unprinted Tints, whether engraved or drawn on stone, per square inch No additional charge to be allowed for designing, when required. Lithographic Printing. For best hand press-work in one color, in- Note and letter heads and envelopes at the same rates. For photo-lithographing of maps, diagrams, sections, illustrations of For transferring and printing, per one hundred copies of any size, the same rates as specified for lithographic printing. All engravings, electros, stereotypes, steel, copper and zinc plates shall be the property of the state: Provided, That the commonwealth shall not be required to pay for any stero or electro plates, unless the same are ordered in writing by the superintendent of public printing. Engraving on wood, per square inch, of any design whatever Electrotyping or stereotyping, per square inch For printing on envelopes, official or departmental tint, per hundred Steel or Copper Plate.- Engraving any design, except vignettes, per square inch 1 May 1876 § 36. P. L. 77. 1 June 1883 § 1. P. L. 52. Corporations entitled to receive public documents. Ibid. § 2. Certificate. State may reclaim. Increased number not to be printed. 4 May 1876 § 2. P. L. 99. No additional charge to be allowed for designing, when required. Maps, diagrams or illustrations, of whatever design, shall not be Blanks, cards, compliments, et cetera, including composition, press- Half folio or less, per hundred Full folio or less, per hundred Medium or less, per hundred For all sizes larger than medium, per hundred If printed on one side only; if printed on both sides, fifty per centum rates. The commonwealth to furnish all paper, envelopes, parchment, cards and so forth, excepting the paper in blank-books and other materials required for any binding, which said material is included in the schedule price for binding. All materials to be of the best quality, and the printing and binding and all other work to be first class, and kept up to the standard of the times. 79. Every library, literary and scientific association and historical society incorporated under the laws of this commonwealth, and owning a library of two thousand or more volumes, shall be entitled to receive one well-bound volume of each of the executive and legislative documents hereafter published, and such other publications as are authorized by law to be printed by the state printer. 80. Each of the said incorporated associations and societies, in order to avail itself of the benefits of this act, shall certify under its seal, or, if it has no seal, under the hands of its proper officers, that it comes within the requirements of section one, of this act, which certificate shall be filed with the superintendent of public printing, who shall enter in a book to be kept for that purpose the name and address of the association or society so certifying, and shall, as soon as practicable, forward to said associations and societies the executive and legislative documents and other publications aforesaid: Provided, It shall be the privilege of the state to recall any or all of the said volumes in the event of the loss of their own files by fire or other casualty: Provided further, That the provisions of this act shall not be construed as authorizing the state printer to issue more volumes of said documents than are now, or may hereafter be provided for, by law. 81. It shall be the duty of the person or persons, to whom the contract for the forwarding and distribution of the journals, department reports and other printed Documents to be matter, for the use of the senators, representatives and all others, under the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, to forward the same by express to the office nearest to the residence of the person entitled to receive it, with the express and other charges paid. delivered by express. PUBLIC RECORDS. See CRIMES. PUNISHMENT. See CRIMES; CRIMINAL PROCEDURE; JAILS; PENITENTIARIES. QUARANTINE. See PORT REGULATIONS. QUARTER SESSIONS AND OYER AND TERMINER. See COUNTY OFFICERS; CRIMINAL PROCEDURE; PROTHONOTaries. 11. Duties of justices and constables. 12. Sessions may be continued, to complete trials commenced during the term. 13. Special sessions may be held. 14. Adjourned courts, how appointed. 15. Criminal cases may be tried at adjourned courts. 16. Powers of judges of quarter sessions of Lan caster county at adjourned courts. 17. Terms in Schuylkill county. 18. Of the venires in said county. II. OF THE COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER. 30. When courts of oyer and terminer to be holden. 32. Associate judges may adjourn such courts. is held by the judges of the supreme court. 34. Jurisdiction of the oyer and terminer. 35. To have exclusive jurisdiction in certain cases. III. OF THE CRIMINAL COURTS OF PHILA- 36. Terms in Philadelphia. 37. Venires. 38. Bailment of prisoners. 39. Duties of commiting magistrates. 40. One judge may hold the court for the trial of all offences. Judges may hold separate sessions. 41. One judge may hold the oyer and terminer, in capital cases. 42. One of the judges to be assigned to hold the court. When another judge to be selected to sit with 19. When special courts of quarter sessions may be him, or to supply his place. Judge assigned to hold held. 20. Holding of courts in Allegheny. 21. Powers of the judges. Trials for homicide. 22. May dispose of unfinished business, after the expiration of the term. 23. Jurisdiction of the quarter sessions. 24. To certify to the oyer and terminer indictments triable therein. 25. May issue process to any part of the state. 26. Power to award process to levy fines, &c. 27. To establish rules of practice. 28. And compel the attendance of witnesses. 29. Sentences to workhouses. the court to preside. Rules for new trials and in cases. 49. To issue writs of habeas corpus. And to have jurisdiction, in case of forfeited recognizances. I. Of the court of quarter sessions. P. L. 350. 1. There shall be holden and kept in every county of this commonwealth a 14 April 1884 § 42. court of record, the name and style of which shall be "The Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace," of the [respective] county. Ibid. § 48. be holden. 2. The judges of the court of common pleas of each county, any two of whom shall be a quorum, shall compose the court of quarter sessions of the peace thereof. By what judges to 3. In any county forming a separate judicial district, the president judge of the court of common pleas of such county, in the absence of his associates, shall have power to hold courts of quarter sessions, and oyer and terminer and orphans' courts, and to hear and determine all cause, matters and things cognizable therein, alone. according to the constitution, laws and usages of this commonwealth. Presidents may sit Ibid. § 2. 4. In any county forming a separate judicial district, the president judge or additional law judge of the court of common pleas of such county, or either of And additional them, in the absence of the other, shall have power to hold courts of quarter ses- law judges. sions, and oyer and terminer and orphans' courts, and to hear and determine all causes, matters and things cognizable therein. 9 May 1889. P. L. 172. 5. The president judge of the court of common pleas, in such county not forming a separate judicial district, in the absence of the associate judges, shall have power to hold the courts of quarter sessions of the peace and oyer and terminer When president and general jail delivery of such county, and hear and determine all causes and judge may hold. matters and things cognizable therein, according to the constitution, laws and usages of this commonwealth. 6. Every court of quarter sessions shall have a seal for the use of the said court, 14 April 1834 § 44. having engraven thereon such words and devices as are inscribed on the seal now P. L. 350. in use, in the respective court; and such seal may be renewed, under the direction To have a seal. of such court, as often as occasion shall require. Ibid. § 45. 7. A clerk shall be commissioned for each of the said courts: he shall have the custody of the records and of the seal of the respective court, and keep the same at the place of holding such court, and in the apartments provided by authority of A clerk to be comlaw for that purpose: he shall faithfully perform, under the direction of the court, court. all the duties appertaining to his office. 8. The courts of quarter sessions of the several counties of the commonwealth shall be holden four times in every year; they shall commence, unless it be other missioned for each Ibid. § 46. |