exceed the sum of sixty thousand dollars per mile," be and the same is hereby amended so as to read and as follows: Provided, That the original amount of stock and increased capital shall, in no case, exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars per mile, nor shall the amount of bonds to be issued under the provisions of the act, to which this is a supplement, at any time exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars per mile, so that the sum total of stock and bonds shall never exceed three hundred thousand dollars per mile.

AN ACT TO ENFORCE THE PROVISIONS OF THE SEVENTEENTH ARTICLE OF THE CONSTITUTION RELATIVE TO RAILROADS AND CANALS.

Approved 4th June, 1883. (P. L., 1883, page 72.)

SECTION 1. That any undue or unreasonable discrimination by any railroad company or other common carrier, or any officer, superintendent, manager, or agent thereof, in charges for or in facilities for the transportation of freight within this State or coming from or going to any other State is hereby declared to be unlawful.

SEC. 2. No railroad company or other common carrier engaged in the transportation of property shall charge, demand, or receive from any person, company, or corporation, for the transportation of property, or for any other service, a greater sum than it shall charge or receive from any other person, company, or corporation for a like service, from the same. place, upon like conditions, and under similar circumstances; and all concessions in rates and draw-backs shall be allowed to all persons, companies, or corporations alike, for such transportations and service, upon like conditions, under similar circumstances, and during the same period of time. Nor shall any such railroad company or common carrier make any undue or unreasonable discrimination between individuals, or between individuals and transportation companies, or the furnishing of facilities for transportation. Any violation of this provision shall make the offending company or common carrier liable to the party injured for damages treble the amount of injury suffered.

SEC. 3. If any director, president, officer, agent, or employee of any canal or railroad company, shall be interested directly or indirectly in furnishing material or supplies to such company, or in the business of transportation as a common carrier of freight or passengers over the works owned, leased, controlled, or worked by such company, such director, president, officer, agent, or employee shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, in the court of quarter sessions of any county in which any overt act of such offense is committed, such person so offending shall be fined in any sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, and shall be imprisoned not more than two years in the proper county jail or in the penitentiary of the proper district.

AN ACT TO MAKE ACCEPTED ORDERS AND CERTIFICATES FOR PETROLEUM NEGOTIABLE.

Approved 20th June, 1883. (P. L., 1883, page 127.)

SECTION 1. That accepted orders and certificates for petroleum, issued by any corporation or partnership association engaged in the business of transporting and storing petroleum in this State, shall be negotiable, and may be transferred by indorsement either in blank or to the order of another, and any person to whom the said accepted orders and certificates shall be so transferred shall be deemed and taken to be the owner of petroleum therein specified.

AN ACT TO REGULATE THE COMPUTATION OF TIME UNDER STATUTES, RUles, orderS, AND DECREES of COURT, AND UNDER CHARTERS AND BY-LAWS OF CORPORATIONS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.

Approved 20th June, 1883. (P. L., 1883, page 136.)

SECTION 1. That where by any existing law or rule of court, or by any law or rule of court that may hereafter be enacted and made, the performance or doing of any act, duty, matter,

payment, or thing shall be ordered and directed, and where any court shall, by special or other order, direct the performance or doing of any act, matter, payment, sentence, or decree, and the period of time or duration for the performance or doing thereof shall be prescribed and fixed, such time in all cases shall be so computed as to exclude the first and include the last days of any such prescribed or fixed period or duration of time: Provided, That whenever the last day of any such period shall fall on Sunday, or on any day made a legal holiday by the laws of this Commonwealth or of the United States, such day shall be omitted from the computation: And provided, That this act shall not apply to the payment of negotiable paper.

SEC. 2. The provisions of this act shall also apply to the ordinances, resolutions, by-laws, and other regulations of all municipal or other public or private corporations now existing or hereafter created.

AN ACT RELATING TO CERTAIN CONTRACTS FOR THE LEASE OR CONDITIONAL SALE OF RAILROAD EQUIPMENT AND ROLLING STOCK, AND PROVIDING FOR THE RECORD THEREOF.

Approved 5th June, 1883. (P. L., 1883, page 176.)

SECTION 1. That whenever any railroad equipment and rolling stock shall hereafter be sold, leased, or loaned, on the condition that the title to the same, notwithstanding the possession and use of the same by the vendee, lessee, or bailee, shall remain in the vendor, lessor, or bailor, until the terms of the contract as to the payment of the installments, amounts, or rentals payable, or the performance of other obligations thereunder, shall have been fully complied with, such contract shall be invalid as to any subsequent judgment creditor or any subsequent purchaser for a valuable consideration without notice, unless:

I. The same shall be evidenced by writing duly acknowledged before some person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds.

II. Such writing shall be recorded in the same book as mortgages are recorded, in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county in which is located the principal office or place of business of such vendee, lessee, or bailee, within the State. III. Each locomotive or car so sold, leased, or loaned, shall have the name of the vendor, lessor, or bailor, or the assignee of such vendor, lessor, or bailor, plainly marked upon both sides thereof, followed by the word owner, lessor, bailor, or assignee, as the case may be.

SEC. 2. This act shall not be held to apply to or invalidate any contract heretofore made of the character described in the first section.

A SUPPLEMENT TO AN ACT, ENTITLED "AN ACT REGULATING LATERAL RAILROADS," APPROVED THE FIFTH DAY OF MAY, ANNO DOMINI ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO, AUTHORIZING THE OWNERS OR LESSEES OF IRON ORE OR COAL MINES TO CONSTRUCT LATERAL RAILROADS FROM SAID MINES TO ANY RAILROAD, PUBLIC ROAD, OR NAVIGABLE STREAM, WITHIN THE COUNTY IN WHICH SUCH MINES ARE SITUATED.

Approved 5th July, 1883. (P. L., 1883, page 176.)

SECTION 1. That it shall be lawful for the owners or lessees of iron ore or coal mines to construct lateral railroads from said mines to any railroad, public road, or navigable stream, over or under, or partly over and partly under, the surface of intervening lands: Provided, Said lateral railroad shall not extend beyond the limits of the county in which said mines may be situated, nor pass through, disturb the operating, or endanger the safety of any other mine, and the proceedings to obtain said lateral roads shall be according to the provisions of the act of May fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo, and the supplements thereto.

INCLINE PLANE RAILWAYS.

AN ACT SUPPLEMENTARY TO AN ACT, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE INCORPORATION AND REGULATION OF CERTAIN CORPORATIONS," APPROVED THE TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF APRIL, ANNO DOMINI ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR, PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION OF INCLINE PLANE RAILWAYS.

Approved 1st May, 1876. (P. L., page 84.)

SECTION 1. That the companies incorporated* under the provisions of the act, to which this act is a supplement, for the erection and maintenance of incline plane railways operated by stationary engines, and the carriage of passengers and freight thereon, shall, from the date of the letters patent creating the same, be governed, managed, and controlled as follows, and shall be entitled to the statute to which this is a supplement :

CLAUSE I. The directors of such corporation shall have full power and authority to appoint, agree, and contract with such engineers, contractors, laborers, and other persons as they

*The act of April 29th, 1874, provides for the formation of certain classes of corporations by application to the Governor after due advertisement made. By a supplement approved April 17th, 1876, Incline Plane Railways are included. The form of the certificate to be filed, the manner of advertising, and the general corporate powers of corporations so chartered, are set out in the act of April 29th, 1874 (designated in the act of June 13th, 1883, as “ the corporation act of 1874"), and its supplements. Except in connection with the formation and regulation of incline plane railways and traction motor companies, the corporation act of 1874 has no connection with railroad corporations, and it has not been included in this compilation. Railroad companies are formed under the provisions of the act of April 4th, 1868, (ante page 155,) and its supplements. Parties desiring further information as to the incorporation and regulation of incline plane railways should consult Angelo T. Freedley's Digest of the act of April 29th, 1874, and supplements.

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