EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, To the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : GENTLEMEN: I herewith return, without my signature, House bill No. 334, entitled "An act to amend the road and bridge laws with respect to Fulton county. This is a local bill, relating to roads and bridges in Fulton county. It, therefore, clearly conflicts with the provisions of section 7 of Article III, of the Constitution, which provides that the "General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law regulating to the affairs of counties, authoriz ing the laying out, opening, altering or maintaining roads, highways, streets or alleys," or "relating to ferries or bridges." These prohibitions are absolute, and bills like the present one, falling within the prohibitions, are not helped by advertisement. ROBT. E. PATTISON. No. 8. To explain an act entitled "An act fixing salaries of county officers in counties containing over one hundred thousand and less than one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, and requiring the payment of the fees of such officers into the respective county treasuries." approved June twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the act approved June twenty second, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, entitled "An act fixing salaries of county officers in counties containing over one hundred thousand and less than one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, and requiring the payment of the fees of such officers into the respective county treasuries," shall not be so construed as to prevent the board of prison inspectors of any county from supplying the prison keeper of said county with a residence, fuel, light and boarding for himself and family proper, in the prison of any county within the provisions of said act. JAMES L. GRAHAM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AMOS H. MYLIN, President pro tem. of the Senate. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, To the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : GENTLEMEN: I return herewith without my approval House bill No. 44, entitled "An act to explain an act entitled 'An act fixing salaries of county officers in counties containing over one hundred thousand and less than one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, and requiring the payment of the fees of such officers into the respective county treasuries,' approved June 22, 1883." This bill enacts that the salary act of 1883 shall not be so construed as to prevent the board of prison inspectors of any county from supplying the prison keeper of said county with a residence, fuel, light and boarding for himself and family proper in the prison of any county within the provision of said act; while pretending to explain the act of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, the bill in fact, repeals or nullifies a most important part of the act. It is, therefore, not an explanatory statute, as its title recites, but a distinct enactment. The salary law of 1883 gave the officers in the counties enumerated a specific salary in place of fees. It was passed to carry out the spirit of the Constitution, which intended to wipe out the abuse of the fee system and compensate officials entirely by fixed salaries. In pursuance of this spirit, the act of 1883 expressly provides that the salary it fixed should be in lieu of all or any moneys, fees, perquisites or mileage, expenses, and other allowance which are now, or may hereafter be received by or allowed to any cfficer named." The bill before me, under pretense of explaining this act, virtually repeals the above provision by directing that the prison keeper, whose salary that act fixes, shall, in addition to his salary, receive a residence, fuel, light and boarding for himself and family. The title of the bill, therefore, is deceptive, and does not contain a clear statement of the contents of the enactment. For this reason alone it is illegal and obnoxious to the Constitution. Beyond this, however, it is vicious in that it is a partial revival of the system of official perquisities, which the act of 1883 was passed to abrogate, and which the Constitution intended should be entirely done away with. ROBT. E. PATTISON. No. 9. To authorize an additional law judge of the several courts of the Eighth judicial district. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the qualified electors of the Eighth judicial district shall, at the next general election, in the manner prescribed by law for the election of the president judge, elect one person learned in the law to serve as an additional judge of the several courts in said district. The said additional judge shall possess the same qualifications which are required by the Constitution and laws for president judge, and shall be commissioned by the Governor, and shall hold his office by the same tenure as other judges of courts of record are required to be learned in the law. The said additional judge shall have the same power, authority, and jurisdiction and be subject to the same duties, provisions, and penalties as the president judge, and shall receive the same compensation for his services, to be paid out of the State treasury in quarterly payments, in the same manner as the salaries of president judges are now by law paid. SECTION 2. That the said additional judge shall have the same powers, authority and jurisdiction to hold the said courts in the said district that the president judge now has by law, and that it shall be the duty of the said additional judge, in case of absence, illness or death of the president judge of said district, to hold and preside at all the courts in the said district. The said additional judge shall have power to appoint and hold such adjourned terms, in addition to the regular terms of court, as the business may require, and to award venires for jurors at all the said regular and adjourned terms, if necessary. Questions of law which may arise before the president judge or said additional judge may, in the discretion of the judge, be reserved for the determination of all the judges, either in term time or at such adjourned sessions as they may appoint and hold for the purpose, and, if the said judges cannot agree, the opinion of the judge trying the cause shall be the judgment of the court. SECTION 3. That the said additional judge shall have the same power and authority and jurisdiction to hold special courts in other districts, the same that president judges now have by existing laws. SECTION 4. That the Governor shall appoint some suitable person to act as such additional judge, from the date of the approval of this act until an election be held and a judge elected and commissioned as above: Provided, The judge so appointed be invested with all the powers, authority and jurisdictions, subject to the same restrictions and penalties, and to receive the same salary, and in the same manner, as provided by the foregoing sections for the additional law judge of the Eighth judicial district. SECTION 5. That the president judge and said additional law judge may, together or separately, hold the several courts of said district at the same time, and may have separate jury trials in progress at the same time, and for that purpose may cause separate juries to be sworn from the panel of jurors summoned to attend the said court at any general, special or adjourned term thereof. JAMES L. GRAHAM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AMOS H. MYLIN, President pro tem. of the Senate. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, HARRISBURG, PA., May 27, 1885. To the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: GENTLEMEN: I return herewith, without my approval, House bill No. 41, entitled "An act to authorize an additional law judge of the several courts' of the Eighth judicial district. " I withhold my signature from this bill because I believe the additional law judge created by it is not required by the business of the district, is not demanded by the people, and is an unnecessary addition to the public expense. As was said in a former message upon a similar bill relating to another district, the number of judges in the Commonwealth is already so large and the cost of maintaining the judicial department so great that any addition thereto is to be deprecated, unless called for by some undoubted exigency of the public business. Such an exigency does not, I think, exist in the Eighth judicial district, and I therefore decline to give my approval to this bill, increasing the num ber of judges above what I believe to be the requirements of the district and against the desire of the people. 2 VETOES. ROBT. E. PATTISON. No. 10. AN ACT T, fix the number of Senators and Representatives in the General Assembly of the State, and to apportion the State into Senatorial and Representative districts as provided in the Constitution. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That until the next United States decennial census is taken and an apportionment made thereon, the Senate shall consist of fifty members, and the State is hereby apportioned into fifty Senatorial districts, each of which shall be known by the number herein attached thereto and shall each be entitled to elect one member, as follows, to wit: First district, the First, Second, Twenty-sixth and Thirtieth wards of the city of Philadelphia, Second district, the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eleventh and Twelfth wards of said city. Third district, the Ninth, Tenth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Twentyfourth wards of said city. Fourth district, the Seventh, Eighth and Twenty-seventh wards of said city. Fifth district, the Fifteenth, Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth wards of said city. Sixth district, the Nineteenth, Thirty-first and Twenty-fifth wards of said city. Seventh district, the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Twentieth wards of said city. Eighth district, the Twenty-first, Twenty-second and Twenty-third wards of said city. Ninth district, the county of Delaware. Tenth district, the county of Bucks. Eleventh district, the county of Berks. Twelfth district, the county of Montgomery. Thirteenth district, the city of Lancaster and the following boroughs and townships in the county of Lancaster, namely: The boroughs of Washington and Strasburg, and the townships of Manor, Lancaster, Conestoga, Pequa, Martic, Providence, Drumore, Fulton, Little Britain, West Lampeter, Strasburg, Colerain, Eden, Bart, Salisbury, Sadsbury, Paradise, Leacock and East Lampeter. Fourteenth district, all of the county of Lancaster not included in the Thirteenth district. Fifteenth district, the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon. Seventeenth district, the county of Chester. Eighteenth district, the county of Northampton. Nineteenth district, the county of Luzerne. Twentieth district, the county of Lackawanna. Twenty-first district, the counties of Montour and Northumberland. Twenty sixth district, the counties of Susquehanna and Wyoming. Twenty-seventh district, the counties of Snyder, Juniata, Mifflin and Union. Twenty-eighth district, the county of York. Twenty-ninth district, the counties of Centre and Huntingdon. Thirty-first district, the counties of McKean and Cameron. Thirty-fourth district, the counties of Cumberland and Adams. Thirty-sixth district, the counties of Somerset, Bedford and Fulton. Fortieth district, the counties of Fayette and Greene. Forty-first district, the counties of Butler and Armstrong. Forty-second district, the city of Allegheny, the boroughs of Bellevue, West Bellevue, Glennfield and Sewickley, and the townships of Reserve, Marshall, Franklin, Sewickley, Ohio, Kilbuck, Aleppo and Leet in the county of Allegheny. Forty-third district, the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-second and Twenty-third wards of the city of Pittsburgh. Forty-fourth district, the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-first wards of the city of Pittsburgh, the boroughs of Millvale, Etna, Sharpsburg, Tarentum, Verona, Braddocks, McKeesport and Elizabeth, and the townships of Richland, Hampton, Shaler, Ross, McCandless and Pine, West Deer, East Deer, Indiana, Harmer, O'Hara, Springdale, Fawn, Harrison, Penn, Plum, Patton, Sterrett, Wilkins, Versailles, North Versailles, South Versailles, Lincoln, Elizabeth and Forward in the county of Allegheny. Forty-fifth district, the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth wards of the city of Pittsburgh, and the boroughs of Chartiers, Mansfield, Beltzhoover, Knoxville, Homestead, West Liberty and West Elizabeth, and the townships of Chartiers, Union, South Fayette, Scott, Lower Saint Clair, Upper Saint Clair, Snowden, Baldwin, Mifflin, Jefferson, Collier, Crescent, Findley, Moon, Neville, North Fayette, South Fayette, Robinson and Stowe of the county of Allegheny. Forty-sixth district, the counties of Beaver and Washington. Fiftieth district, the county of Crawford. SECTION 2. In those Senatorial districts which are composed of more than one county, the persons appointed as return judges shall, on the Tuesday following the day of the annual election in November, at two o'clock, post meridian, meet and cast up the several county returns, and execute under their hands and seals one general and true return of the whole district in triplicate, one copy of which, properly sealed up and addressed, shall be sent by mail to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, one shall be de |