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sumption is that the business was carried on with the latter's knowledge and by his authority, and, therefore, both the principal and the clerk are guilty."

Commonwealth v. Stadler, 1882, 39 vol. Legal Intel., 1882, p. 384.—“ Defendants were convicted under the Act of 1794, of performing worldly employment on the Lord's day by practicing and carrying on their usual business as barbers, at their usual places of business, and having neglected to satisfy the forfeiture or to produce goods and chattels whereon to levy it, commitments were made out against them to the county prison. Held, that the commitments were properly the county prison under the express words of the act, and not to the house of correction."

Stout's Case, 2 Legal Recorder, R., 311.-"Shaving his customers, by a barber, on Sunday, is prohibited by the act of Assembly." Act of 22 April, 1794, Commonwealth v. Jacobus, 1 Legal Gaz., R., 491.

TITLE E.

OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC POLICY, ECONOMY AND

I. Bribery, etc.

HEALTH.

II. Foreign corporations doing business in Pennsylvania must have offices and agents located in this State. III. Corrupt solicitation defined.

IV. Lotteries.

V. Gambling.

VI. Common gamblers. VII. Inducing others to visit gambling places or houses.

VIII. Loaning public money by officers.

IX. Depositing public money for gain by officers.

X. Cashiers of banks engaging in other busi

ness.

XI. Cashiers of banking com

panies under the Act of 13 May, 1876, P. L., 161, not to engage in other business.

XII. Embezzlement by any member of the National Guard.

XIII. Embezzlement by public officers.

XIV. Offences by corporation officers.

XV. City officials not to use public property, nor to be interested in contracts. Penalty.

XVI. The taking of compensation beyond the salary

of city officials fixed by councils, a misdemeanor. Penalty.

XVII. Warrants in excess of

appropriations not to be drawn by audi tor-general, nor paid 'by the State treasurer. XVIII. Councilmen punished for solicitation, demand, or reception of bribes. XIX. Penalty for bribing coun cilman.

XX. Increase of indebtedness of municipalities beyond seven per cent.on valuation prohibited. XXI. Municipal authorities may incur debt and issue securities therefor, equal to two per centum on valuation of property assessed. XXII. Receiving percentages or gratuities by county officers, how punished,

etc.

XXIII. Interference with inspectors, taking illegal fees, etc., how punished.

XXIV. Engineers or other rail

road employés engaged in a strike who abandon a locomotive, how punished.

XXV. Engineers and other railroad employés refusing to aid in moving cars in furtherance of strike.

XXVI. Persons interfering with engineer or railroad employé in furtherance of a strike.

XXVII. Persons obstructing railroad tracks and injuring property or preventing use thereof, in furtherance of a strike.

XXVIII. Explosive materials not to be carried on the person or in the custody of passengers or others in public conveyances.

XXIX. Explosives delivered to common carriers shall be marked "dangerous," and notice in writing given.

XXX. Sale of deadly weapons and explosives to mi

nors prohibited.

XXXI. Selling unwholesome pro

visions or adulterated

liquors or medicines.

XXXII. Selling poisons.

XXXIII. Poisons not to be exposed in public places or on lands or highways.

XXXIV. Use of poisonous and injurious drugs in the manufacture of liquor prohibited, also the sale of such liquor.

XXXV. Manufacturers and sellers of malt and alcoholic liquors shall brand their names on barrels and the words "containing no deleterious drugs or added poison."

XXXVI. Importing criminals.

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XXXVIII. Public nuisances. XXXIX. Exhibiting gaming-tables, etc., and selling lottery tickets.

XL. Bartering in academic degrees.

XLI. Penalty for exhibiting theatres, circus, and menageries without license.

XLII. License to sell liquor not to be granted to owners of places of amusement.

XLIII. Theatres, concert-rooms,

gardens, etc., in cities of the first class, regulated.

XLIV. Attendance of female

waiters at theatres,

gardens, etc., named in section one, prohibited.

XLV. Foreigners cannot be insurers in this State unless they comply with the Act of 11 April, 1868. Penalty for insurance by agents of such companies, and also against the insured. XLVI. Issue of insurance policies by unauthorized parties inhibited.

XLVII. Insurance brokers pun

ished for doing business without a certificate.

XLVIII. False representations to life insurance companies, how punished.

XLIX. Sale of oysters and clams in Philadelphia during months of July and August forbidden, and to be by count when sold unopened.

L. Penalty for selling oysters or clams in Penn

sylvania without a li

cense.

LI. Unlawful for an officer or other person to remove from the State any prisoner, without a requisition and hearing.

LII. Obtaining

board by fraud, and absconding with baggage from inns or taverns, etc., etc.; and for overcharging guests therein, how punished.

LIII. Sales by samples without license in Philadel

phia, how punished.

LIV. Alderman, justice of the peace, constable or treasurer violating the requirements of the acts touching the venders of merchandise, how punished.

LV. Manufacturers of malt liquors may have a registered trade-mark. Penalty for use or defacement thereof.

LVI. Manufacturers and ven

ders of mineral waters and other beverages may have proprietary bottles. Penalty for using them by non

owners.

LVII. Neglect of duty by assessors, how punished.

LVIII. Collector of delinquent taxes in Philadelphia,

how punished for neglect of duty.

LIX. Health certificate must be obtained before

communicating with the shore by crew or

passengers of vessels, or cargo or baggage discharged.

LX. Deception of the healthofficer by master or others, how punished.

LXI. Refusing to comply with quarantine regulations. Penalty.

LXII. Captains or masters of

vessels from domestic

ports, having foreign

goods on board, re

quired to obtain certificate and present it at the health-office within twenty-four

hours after arrival in Philadelphia. Penalty for failure herein.

LXIII. Domestic vessels, having on board any foreign merchandise, bedding, clothing or persons, shall anchor opposite the Lazaretto.

LXIV. Penalty for harboring or

employing any escaped

person from the Lazaretto.

LXV. Penalty for going within the limits of the Lazaretto, or leaving a ship or vessel in quarantine, or going on board such vessel or ship. LXVI. Refusal to obey the instructions of the Lazaretto physician or quarantine-master,

punished.

how

LXVII. Penalty for resisting, ob

structing and interfering with officers or employés of the board of health, and for assaults committed on such officers, etc.

LXVIII. Offences by stevedores

in Philadelphia. Penalty.

LXIX. Acting as pilot in Delaware river or bay

without a license, how punished.

LXX. Penalty for acting as pi

lot, captain or other

officer of any water

craft having on board goods contraband of

war.

LXXI. Penalty for acting as sheriff or coroner before a commission granted him and it left for record.

LXXII. Sheriff of Philadelphia shall have charge of the jury wheel, and names put therein or taken out, except as provided by law, to be a misdemeanor upon the part of the sheriff. LXXIII. The recorder of deeds, register of wills, prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, prothonotary of the Court of Quarter Sessions, clerk of the Orphans' Court, sheriff and county treasurer of Philadelphia, to file in the treasurer's office a quarterly statement of gross receipts and expenditures. Penalty. LXXIV. The recorder of deeds of Philadelphia shall not admit to record any deed for unregistered property.

LXXV. County treasurers, county commissioners, collec

tors of taxes, or other

persons, shall not re

ceive payment or give

receipt for taxes not

duly assessed, or which have been exonerated, nor for any person to add any name to the list of taxables furnished by the assessor. Penalty.

LXXVI. Prothonotaries and clerks of courts neglecting to

record all records as required by law, guilty of a misdemeanor.

LXXVII. Prothonotaries, clerks of

Courts of Quarter Sessions, clerks of the Orphans' Courts, recorders of deeds, and registers of wills, shall prepare indexes to all books of record belonging to their offices as provided by law. Penalty for failure.

LXXVIII. Use of salt on passenger railway tracks or streets prohibited in Philadelphia.

LXXIX. Penalty for excluding

negroes from the cars of railroads, or other

persons on account of race or color, and throwing car or cars off the track. LXXX. Fines, penalties and forfeitures received by justices, to be made of record and accounted for. Penalty for failure. LXXXI. Giving false certificate of insanity by physician, how punished.

LXXXII. Offences relating to gauging of oils in Allegheny County.

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