Violation of provis ions of act declared to be a misde meanor. Penalty. Preliminary hear ing. Prima facia eví dence. Defence. SECTION 2. Any president, director, or other officer of such company, who shall permit or suffer any conductor, driver, or any other person in the employ of such company, to work more than twelve hours of any one day in the service of such company, except as provided in section one, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall suffer imprisonment for not less than thirty days, nor more than six months. SECTION 3. On the preliminary trial, or hearing of any such president, director, or other officer, charged with the misdemeanor aforesaid, evidence of the actual service by such conductor, driver or any other employé, during more than twelve hours in any one day, shall be sufficient prima facie proof of such permission, or sufferance, by such president, director, or other officer: Provided however, That a party charged with such offense may show, in his defense, that such excessive service was without his knowledge, permission or sufferance. APPROVED: The 24th day of March, A. D. 1887. President Judge of one district author assistance of any law judge of another district. No. 11. To authorize the president judges of the several judicial districts, of this Commonwealth, to procure the assistance of president, or additional law judges of another district, in the transaction of business in the several courts of such district. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That whenever in the ized to procure the opinion of the president judge of any of the courts, civil or criminal, of any judicial district of this Commonwealth, the proper despatch of business in said courts shall require it, the said judge is authorized and empowered to procure the assistance of any president judge, or additional law judge, of any other district in the Commonwealth, to try or assist in the trial of civil or criminal cases and transaction of other business before the several courts of the said district at any regular term, adjourned court, or in vacation. When so called, both judges, or either of them separately and at the same term and time, shall transact all business in all the courts. SECTION 2. It shall be lawful for the president judge of the district calling in the assistance of any judge, and the judge called upon to assist him, severally, to try the cases on the same trial list at the same time, with one and the same panel of jurors, and transact any other business, that may properly come before said court, so that it shall be lawful for the said judges, or either of them separately and at the same term and time, to hold separate trials, or courts for trial, hearing and disposition of cases, or causes in the common pleas, orphans' court, oyer and terminer and general jail delivery, quarter sessions of the peace, and in equity; and the courts of such districts may, at any regular, special And direct special venires to issue. And regulate trial lists, issue subpœnas, &c. Validity of business so transacted. Duties of prothonothan one trial is going on at the same tary when more or adjourned term, direct separate venires to issue for a succeeding term, in the manner provided for by law for ordinary venires in the common pleas, and to regulate trial lists for said courts, issue subpoenas, and make all orders, which may be judged necessary and convenient. Motions, arguments and decrees may be made in each branch of said courts, with the same effect as if made in the court held by the president judge of such district. And, when more than one trial is going on at the same time, the prothonotary, or clerk, or his deputy, shall keep the court minutes of the respective courts and record all proceeding in each case, in the same minute book of such court, precisely as if but one court is being held. The said president or additional law Compensation of judge, so called in, shall be entitled to receive the sum of ten dollars for each day so employed outside of his district, and ten cents for each mile necessarily traveled Mileage. in the performance of such duty, to be paid in the same manner as judges are now by law paid: Provided, That time. judge so called in. the amount to be received by any judge, under the pro- Amount limited. visions of this act, shall not exceed the sum of five hun dred dollars in any year. APPROVED: The 24th day of March, A. D. 1887. JAMES A. BEAVER. No. 12. AN ACT To fix the fees of sheriffs in counties containing over three hundred thousand inhabitants and of those performing duties under them, and the manner of collecting and paying the same. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That hereafter, the fees Fees of sheriffs in of sheriffs, in counties containing over three hundred thousand inhabitants, shall be as follows: Upon delivering to the sheriff of each execution against personal property, one dollar. For the appraisement and return of property claimed under the act of April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and supplements thereto, the sum of five dollars, from which sum the sheriff shall pay each appraiser one dollar. Attachment, or replevin bond, taking and filing same, including the service of the writ, two dollars and fifty cents. For service of attachment, (except for contempt,) twodollars. Each garnishee, besides the first, fifty cents. For service of attachment for contempt, one dollar. For each sheriff's deed, (to be paid by purchaser.) two dollars. Preparing advertisement of goods for sale, in each case, two dollars and fifty cents. Preparing advertisement of lands or tenements for sale, for each writ, two dollars and fifty cents. counties containing over 300,000 inhabitants. Fees to be collected sheriff to the county Serving capias with commitment, or bail-bond, and Each defendant besides the first, twenty-five cents. Executing writ of haberi facias, or liberari facias possessionem, three dollars. Every capital cause, two dollars and fifty cents. Every other criminal cause, one dollar and fifty cents. Summoning jury, taking inquisition and return, four dollars. Summoning jury of inquiry, taking inquisition and return, four dollars. Executing writs and orders of partition, valuation and return, (each property,) four dollars. Watchman, for each day actually on duty, two dollars: Provided, That the court may disallow this fee when it is shown by either the plaintiff or defendant that a watchman is unnecessary. The fees received for these services are to be paid by the sheriff to the watchman employed. Levying on goods, lands or tenements, and selling same, or the collection of money on any process, for every dollar collected, not exceeding one thousand dollars, two per centum. Each dollar, over one thousand dollars, not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars, one per centum. All over twenty-five hundred dollars, one half per centum. Mileage, for each mile actually traveled, six cents. Return of nulla bona, tarde venit, or N E I, forty cents. Removing insane persons to lunatic hospitals, or commitment to penitentiary, work house, or house of refuge, two dollars and fifty cents. Selling real estate under decree of court, same commissions as on sales under other process. Serving subpoenas, each person, fifteen cents. SECTION 2. That all fees specifically allowed in this act and collected, paid to, or earned by the sheriff, the disbursement of which is not herein provided for, shall be paid by the sheriff to the treasurer as provided by existing laws, and all former acts fixing the fees of the sheriff, or officers under him, so far as the same are to be paid, or charged against parties or suitors, are hereby repealed. APPROVED: The 1st day of April, A. D. 1887. No. 13. AN ACT To amend an act, entitled "An act to authorize the printing and binding of the reports of the State Board of Agriculture, and other State agricultural reports." SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That section fourth of an act, entitled "An act to authorize the printing and binding of the reports of the State Board of Agriculture, and other State agricultural reports," which reads as follows: "That the State Board is hereby authorized to publish, in pamphlet form, quarterly reports of crop returns from correspondents, epidemic or endemic diseases among domestic animals, experiments, analyses, et cetera, the same not to exceed forty-eight pages each, nor more than one thousand numbers," be amended so as to read as follows: That the State Board is hereby authorized to publish, in pamphlet form, quarterly reports of not more than one hundred and fifty pages, and not more than six thousand copies, of which two thousand shall be for the use of the members of the Senate, three thousand copies for the use of the members of the House of Representatives, and one thousand copies for the use of the State Board. APPROVED: The 1st day of April, A. D. 1887. No. 14. Consent of State to land by the United the acquisition of States. land. Granting consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the United States for the purchase of certain lands, in the township of Middlesex, county of Cumberland, to be used for the instruction in agriculture of the pupils of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the consent of the State of Pennsylvania is hereby given to the acquisition, by the United States, under the laws of this State, of a certain lot, or piece of land from the Parker heirs, situate in the township of Middlesex, county of Cum- Description of said berland, bounded on the west by the United States Carlisle barracks, south by Alexander heirs and County Farm, east by County Farm and Huston farm, and north by Henderson's farm, containing one hundred and nine acres and fifty-seven perches, on which to instruct the pupils of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the avocation of agriculture; and the said United States shall have and hold, use, occupy and own the said land, and exercise control over the same and every part thereof, subject to the restrictions hereinafter mentioned; the said consent is given and the said jurisdiction ceded upon the express condition that the State of Pennsylvania shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the United States on and over the said ground or lands, so far as Conditions upon which consent is tion ceded. given and jurisdic When jurisdiction hereby ceded is to vest. Land to be exonerated from taxes. Penalty for injuries done to grounds. that all civil process in all cases, and such criminal, or other process, as may issue, under the laws or authority of the State of Pennsylvania, against any person or persons charged with any crime or misdemeanor committed within this State, including said ground or lands, may be executed therein, in the same manner as if such consent had not been given, or jurisdiction ceded, except so far as such process may affect the real or personal property of the United States. SECTION 2. The jurisdiction hereby ceded shall not vest, until the United States shall have acquired the title to said land, and shall continue so long as the said land shall remain the property of the United States and no longer; and the same shall be and continue, while so held, exonerated from all taxes, assessments and other charges, which may be levied under the authority of the State of Pennsylvania. SECTION 3. That any wilful injury to the grounds, buildings, or appurtenances aforesaid, shall be punishable, in any court of competent jurisdiction, as like misdemeanors are now punishable under the laws of Pennsylvania. APPROVED: The 6th day of April, A. D. 1887. Preamble No. 1. Officers, clerks, &c., (except asaistants to city solictor), to be appointed by the heads of departments. All appointments and promotions to be made in accord ance with rules, &c., providing for coinpetitive examina tion of applicants. No. 15. AN ACT Supplementary to "An act to provide for the better government of cities of the first class in this Commonwealth," approved June first, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, suspending the operation of section three of article twelve of said act, until the expiration of sixty days from the first Monday of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven; also suspending the operation of part of section one, article three of the same, for sixty days from said first Monday in April, and exempting, at all times hereafter, the subordinate officers, clerks and employés of the department of city treasurer and receiver of taxes from the operation of said section three of article twelve, and vesting the power of appointment and removal of said subordinate officers, clerks and employés exclusively, at all times hereafter, in the city treasurer and receiver of taxes respectively. WHEREAS, the third section of article twelve of said act enacts and provides as follows: SECTION 3. All officers, clerks and employés, except the assistants of the city solicitor, in the several departments and sub-divisions thereof, or of any board attached thereto, shall be appointed by the head of the said department, but, from and after the passage of this act, no such appointment or any promotion of any subordinate officials, excepting only of assistants or labor ers employed for special or temporary purposes, and professional experts, and such others as are specially excepted by this act, shall be lawful, except when made |