or refined, in the custody of any such corporation, company, association, person or persons, named in the said petition, on the day of such inspection, and to examine the books of said corporation, association, company, person or persons, relating to the issue and cancellation of receipts, certificates, accepted orders, vouchers or evidences of liability, and to its, his or their open accounts with persons, companies or corporations with whom he, it or they deal in the receipt and delivery of crude or refined petroleum.

To be Sworn.-Such examiners, when so appointed, shall each immediately be sworn before any authorized officer to perform his duties with fidelity and according to law, which oath shall be reduced to writing, signed and filed with the prothonotary; and they shall then make immediate inspection, examination and measurement, as required by said petition and order and by this

act.

Companies to Furnish Information.—And it shall be the duty of each and every such corporation, company, association, person or persons, and its, his and their officers, agents and employés, to give immediately, upon request of any such authorized examiner, all information demanded in said petition and required by this act to be reported, and also full access to the offices, tanks, pipes, books and accounts of such corporation, company, association, person or persons.

Examiners to make Report.-Upon the completion of such inspection, measurement and examination, it shall be the duty of the examiner or examiners, or in the event of the death, resignation, declination or inability to act, of any of them, then the others, or any of them, within ten days after their appointment, to make to the court appointing them a written, signed and sworn report of such examination, inspection and measurement, and file the same of record with the prothonotary thereof, which report shall show:

What to Show.-First. How much merchantable and also how much unmerchantable petroleum, crude or refined, they found in the tanks and lines of such corporation, company, association, person or persons, and where the same was located or held by description of tanks.

Second. For the custody or delivery of how much crude or

refined petroleum they found such corporation, association, company, person or persons, to be liable at the same date.

Third. How much of such liability was represented by outstanding receipts, accepted orders, certificates, vouchers or evidences of liability, and how much by credit balances.

Act 22 May, 1878, Sec. 11, P. L., 108.-Punishment of Misdemeanors in Examiners.-Any examiner, so as aforesaid appointed, who shall make any false examination, inspection, measurement or report, or shall make known, directly or indirectly, to any person, any information he may become possessed of in the course of his examination, inspection or measurement, except by means of his report made and filed in accordance with this act, or who shall receive, directly or indirectly, any fee, reward or benefit, or the promise of any fee, reward or benefit, other than that provided by this act, for the performance or non-performance of any duty or thing contemplated by this act, or connected with his said employment, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment not less than three months or more than two years.

Act 22 May, 1878, Sec. 12, P. L., 108.-And of Officers of Companies for Refusing Access to Books.-Any officer, agent, manager, superintendent or employé of any corporation, association or company, or any person or persons, engaged in the transportation by pipe lines of petroleum, crude or refined, or the storage thereof, who shall refuse or neglect, after demand made, to give to any authorized examiner full and free access to any and all offices, pipes, tanks, accounts, books and vouchers required by him in pursuance of his appointment and this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and to imprisonment not less than three months or more than one year.

Act 22 May, 1878, Sec. 13, P. L., 108.-Appropriation of Penalties. All fines recovered from any person convicted under this act, and all penalties, shall be paid one-fourth to the informer or person instituting the proceeding, and three-fourths to the proper officer for the use of the county wherein such suit is brought or prosecution instituted. The penalties provided for in this act may be recovered in any Court of Common Pleas of any county

where legal service of process may be had, by action of debt in the name of the informer for his use and the use of the county in which such suit is brought, but no such action shall be sustained for penalties unless brought within one year after the incurring thereof.

Act 22 May, 1878, Sec. 14, P. L., 109.-[Repeals all former acts relating to the subject.]

IV. UNLAWFUL TO HAVE OR USE FIRE AND LIGHTS ON BOARD OF VESSELS, WHILE LYING AT ANY WHARF NEAR TO WHICH PETROLEUM IS STORED.

Act 17 April, 1878, Sec. 1, P. L., 23.-It shall not be lawful for the owner, master, officers, or crews of any ship or vessel, of any kind, or for any other person whomsoever, to have or use, or suffer or permit to be had or used, on board of any such ship or other vessel, whilst lying at or within one hundred and fifty feet of any maritime wharf, in any city or port of this Commonwealth, at or near to which petroleum is kept or stored for exportation, any fire or light, or lighted cigar or pipe, of any kind whatsoever, without the written permission, duly signed by the owner, lessee or superintendent of the wharf at which the vessel is lying, shall have been for that purpose first had and obtained; and such permission shall particularly designate and describe the kind of fire or light, and the mode and the manner of using the same, and the use thereof shall be limited strictly to the particular fire or light mentioned and described in the said permission.

Act 17 April, 1878, Sec. 2, P. L., 23.-Penalty; Jurisdiction Extended to Magistrates.-If any person shall knowingly violate the provisions of the preceding section hereof he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon being thereof duly convicted, be sentenced to undergo an imprisonment not exceeding six months, and to pay a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or either, or both, at the discretion of the court, such fine to be appropriated one-half thereof to the informer, and one-half thereof to the use of the public schools of the county in which such conviction shall take place; and the jurisdiction of magistrates of the police courts and of justices of the peace is hereby extended to the hearing and determination of all cases arising under this law; and from their

decision no appeal shall be allowed, unless the defendant shall become bound to the Commonwealth with two sufficient sureties, in a sum sufficient to secure the said penalty and all costs, conditioned that the defendant shall prosecute his appeal with effect, and if the decision of the magistrate or justice of the peace is affirmed the defendant shall pay the amount of the penalty and all costs.

TITLE L.

OFFENCES RELATING TO ELECTIONS.