All publications of the survey or any part thereof shall be copyrighted by the Department of Internal Affairs in the name of the Commonwealth.

SEC. 9. The bureau may arrange for the cooperation of the United States Geological Survey or of such other national organization as may be authorized to engage in such work, but only in such manner as not to interfere with the plan approved in the manner herein before provided, it being the intent that a prompt and complete survey of this State shall be had without interference or control from any other governmental or private agency or organization.

SEC. 10. The State Geologist shall biennially prepare a detailed report of the operations of the two preceding years and the facts obtained by the survey; he shall submit the same to the Secretary of Internal Affairs, who is authorized to print and publish the said information in a suitable and convenient form. Copies of the reports, with all maps and supplements, shall be donated to public libraries, universities, colleges, and museums.

SEC. 11. The necessary printing and binding shall be done by the Department of Public Printing and Binding on the requisition of the Secretary of Internal Affairs SEC. 12. The necessary offices, equipment and supplies shall be furnished by the Board of Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings.

SEC. 13. The Topographic and Geological Survey Commission of Pennsylvania, which was established by an act, entitled "An act authorizing the Topographic and Geological Survey Commission of Pennsylvania to establish and maintain a topographic and geological survey of the State; fixing salaries; providing for the printing and binding of the results of said survey and furnishing of supples and stationery; and making an appropriation therefor," approved May 13, 1909 (P. L. 828), and all offices and places held thereunder are hereby abolished. The said commission shall, upon demand made by the Secretary of Internal Affairs, transfer or cause to be transferred to him, for the use of the said bureau, all papers, maps, surveys, reports, analyses, samples, materials, instruments, supplies, evidences, and manuscripts relating to investigations or explorations, completed and uncompleted, and all property, of any and every nature or character whatsoever, being the property of the State, in the possession or custody of the said commission, the State Geologist, or their employees or agents, as soon as the same can be conveniently done.

SEC. 14. This act shall be in effect on the first day of June, 1919.

SEC. 15. All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

LATERAL RAILROADS.

ORIGINAL ACT EXTENDED AMENDMENT.

LAWS 1919, p. 205.

MAY 17, 1919. AN ACT to amend section one of an act, approved the fifth day of May, 1832, entitled "An act regulating lateral railroads," by extending the provisions thereof to any person or persons, corporation of the first or second class, partnership, municipal or quasi-municipal corporation, school or poor district of the State of Pennsylvania, incorporated under general or special act of Assembly, being the owner or owners of lands, mills, quarries, coal mines, limekilns, or other real estate, in the vicinity of any railroad, canal, or slack-water navigation, made or to be made by any company or by the State of Pennsylvania, and not more than four miles distant therefrom.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That section one of an act, approved the fifth day of May, 1832, (P. L. 501), entitled "An act regulating lateral railroads," which reads as follows: (Here follows sec. 1 of the Act of May 5, 1832. See p. 160), be, and the same hereby, is amended to read as follows:

SECTION. 1. That if any person or persons, corporation of the first or second class, partnership, municipal or quasi-municipal corporation, school or poor district of the State of Pennsylvania, incorporated under general or special act of Assembly, being the owner or owners of lands, mills, quarries, coal-mines, lime-kilns, or other real estate, in the vicinity of any railroad, canal, or slack-water navigation, made or to be made by any company, or by the State of Pennsylvania, and not more than four miles distant therefrom, shall desire to make a railroad thereto over any intervening lands, he, it, or they, their engineers, agents, and artists, may enter upon any lands, and survey and mark such route as he, it, or they shall think proper to adopt, doing no damage to the property explored, and thereupon may present a petition to the court of common pleas of the county in which said intervening land is situated, setting forth his, its, or their desire to be allowed to construct and finish a railroad in and upon the said route, and the beginning, courses, and distances thereof, and place of intersection of the main railroad, canal, or slack-water navigation, which shall be filed and entered of record in the said court, whereupon the said court shall appoint six disinterested and judicious men, resident in said county, who shall view the said marked and proposed route for a railroad, and examine the same; and if they, or any four of them, shall deem the same necessary and useful for public or private purposes, they shall report in writing to the subsequent term of said court what damages will be sustained by the owner or owners of the said intervening land by the opening, constructing, completing, and using the said railroad, and the report of the land viewers and appraisers shall be filed of record in the said court, and if not appealed from, be liable to be confirmed or rejected by the said court, as to right and justice shall appertain; and if either of the parties shall be dissatisfied with said report, he, it, or they may appeal therefrom to the said court of common pleas within twenty days after such report has been filed in the prothonotary's office, and not after; and after such appeal, either party may put the cause at issue in the form approved of by the court, and the said issue shall be placed first on the trial list of the next regular term of the said court, and be there tried and determined by the court and jury; and the verdict so rendered, and judgment thereon, shall be final and conclusive, without further appeal or writ of error, and it shall be the duty of the said viewers and jury to take into consideration the advantages which may be derived by the owner or owners of land passed by the said railroad, when making up their report or forming their verdict thereon.

MINING CORPORATIONS.

NATURAL GAS COMPANIES-RENEWAL OF CHARTERS.

LAWS 1919, p. 253.

MAY 23, 1919.

A SUPPLEMENT to the act, approved the 29th day of May, 1885 (P. L. 29), entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of natural gas companies," authorizing corporations created nder said act to renew their charters which are about to expire or have already expired, and providing a procedure therefor, and for the payment of fees and bonus.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That corporations created under the act of General Assembly, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of natural gas companies," approved May 29th, 1885, the charters whereof are about to expire by lapse of time from their own limitation, may be rechartered or the charters thereof renewed, under the provisions of said act, by preparing, having approved and recorded the certificate named in the second section of said act. In addition to the requirements provided in said act for a new corporation, the certificate for a recharter shall state the fact that it is a renewal of the former charter, naming the corporation and the date of its first charter. It shall also be accompanied with a certificate, under the seal of the corporation, showing the consent of at least a majority in interest of such corporation to such recharter. It shall also state the financial conditions of said corporation at the date of such certificate, showing capital stock paid in, funded debt, floating debt, estimated value of property, and cash assets, if any. It shall expressly accept the provisions of the Constitution of this State and of said act, and expressly surrender all privileges conferred upon such corporations by its original charter that are not enjoined under said act or the general laws of this Commonwealth. From the date of recording of such certificate as required by said act, the said rechartered corporation shall be and exist as a new corporation under the provisions of said act and of its said renewed charter, and all of the rights, privileges, powers, immunities, lands, property, and assets, of whatever kind or character the same may be, possessed and owned by the said original corporation, shall vest in, and be owned and enjoyed by, the said rechartered corporation as fully and with like effect as if its original charter has not expired, save as herein and by said certificate expressly stated otherwise, and all suits, claims, and demands, by said corporation, in existence at the date of such recharter, shall and may be sued, prosecuted, and collected, under the laws governing the said corporation prior to its recharter, and all claims and demands, of every nature and character, in existence at said recharter, may be collected from the said rechartered corporation as fully and with like effect as if no change had taken place. And, in like manner and with like effect, corporations, heretofore created under said act, the charters whereof were limited in their duration and have expired within two years last past from the passage of this act, may renew their charters from the date of the expiration of said charter; and the certificate for renewal shall also state that a bona fide organization is in existence and business carried on in good faith at the time of the application for renewal: Provided, That corporations availing themselves of the provisions of this act shall first pay into the treasury of this Commonwealth the fee and bonus upon their capital stock fixed by law for the granting or renewal or corporate charters.

SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be, and the same are hereby repealed.

LAWS 1919, p. 727.

MINING LEASES.

MINERALS IN FOREST RESERVATION.

JULY 7, 1919. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to establish a Department of Forestry, to provide for its proper administration, to regulate the acquisition of land for the Commonwealth, and to provide for the control, protection, and maintenance of forestry reservations by the Department of Forestry," approved the 25th of February, 1901 (P. L. p. 11), by changing the name or title of the State Forestry Reservation Commission; providing for the acquisition of land to be used as State forests by condemnation proceedings; regulating the appointment and compensation of subordinate officials of said department; providing for the publication of the results of forestal investigations; changing the method of disposing of minerals on State forests; and fixing the compensation of the Commissioner of Forestry and the Deputy Commissioner of Forestry.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That section one of an act, entitled "An act," etc. (same as in title), approved the 25th day of February, 1901 (P. L. p. 11), which reads as follows: (Here follows sec. 1 of the Act of 1901. See p. 575), be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:

SEC 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That there be and is hereby established a Department of Forestry, to consist of a Commissioner of Forestry and four other citizens of the Commonwealth, who together shall constitute the State Forest Commission; each of whom shall be appointed and commissioned by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for terms of four years each; the present Commissioner of Forestry and members of the State Forestry Reservation Commission to serve for the terms for which they have heretofore been appointed and confirmed, and thereafter, as new appointments shall be made, for the full term of four years each. The Commissioner of Forestry and the State Forest Commission shall be clothed with all the powers heretofore conferred by law upon the State Forestry Reservation Commission or which shall hereafter be conferred, * and the said commission is hereby empowered to make and execute contracts or leases, in the name of the Commonwealth, for the mining or removal of any valuable minerals that may be found in said State forests, whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of the commission that it would be for the best interest of the State to make such disposition of said minerals: Provided, The proposed contracts or leases shall have been advertised once a week for three weeks, in at least two newspapers published nearest the locality indicated, in advance of said contract or lease. Said contracts or leases may then be awarded to the highest and best bidder, who shall give bond for the proper performance of the contract as the commission shall designate.

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MINORS AND FEMALES REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT.

ESTABLISHMENTS—BOILERS USED AT OIL WELLS.

LAWS 1919, p. 924.

JULY 12, 1919.

AN ACT To amend the nineteenth section of an act entitled "An act," etc. (Same as in section 1.)

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That the nineteenth section of an act entitled "An act to regulate the employment, in all kinds of industrial establishments, of women and children employed at wages or salary, by regulating the age at which minors can be employed, and the mode of certifying the same, and by fixing the hours of labor for women and minors; to provide for the safety of all employes in all industrial establishments, and of men, women and children in schoolhouses, academies, seminaries, colleges, hotels, hospitals, storehouses, office buildings, public halls and places of amusements, in which proper fire-escapes, exits and extinguishers are required; to provide for the health of all employes, and of men, women, and children in all such establishments, storehouses, and buildings by proper sanitary appliances; and to provide for the appointment of inspectors, office clerks, and others, who, with the Chief Factory Inspector, shall constitute the Department of Factory Inspection; to enforce the same, and providing penalties for violations of the provisions thereof; fixing the term and salaries of the Chief Factory Inspector and his appointees," approved the second day of May, 1905 (P. L. 352), which reads as follows: (Here follows sec. 19 of the act of 1905. See p. 799), is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 19. All boilers used for generating steam or heat in any establishment shall be kept in good order, and the owner, agent, or lessee of such establishment shall have said boilers inspected by a casualty company in which said boilers are insured or by any other competent person approved by the Chief Factory Inspector, once in twelve months, and shall file a certificate, showing the result thereof, in the office of such establishment, and shall send a duplicate thereof to the Department of Factory Inspection. Each boiler or nest of boilers used for generating steam or heat in any establishment shall be provided with a proper safety valve, and with steam and water gauges, to show, respectively, the pressure of steam and the height of water in the boilers. Every boiler house in which a boiler or nest of boilers is placed shall be provided with a steam gauge, properly connected with the boilers, and another steam guage shall be attached to the steam pipe in the engine house, and so placed that the engineer or fireman can readily ascertain the pressure carried. Nothing in this section shall apply to boilers which are regularly inspected by competent inspectors acting under local laws and ordinances: Provided further, That no boiler used exclusively in connection with the operation of an oil well shall be taken, deemed, or construed as an establishment.

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