Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . edia, $30,500 for theWestern Penitentiary, and $25,000 each forthe Southeastern Insane Hospital, the Wilkes-barre Hospital, and the Jewish Hospital atPhiladelphia. The general legislation of the session wasunimportant. Among the acts passed was oneamending and consolidating the laws relatingto game and fish; one providing for the re-funding and redemption of the indebtednessof counties, cities, towns, townships, bor-oughs, school-districts, and other incorporateddistricts; one providing for the punishmentof the offe
Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . edia, $30,500 for theWestern Penitentiary, and $25,000 each forthe Southeastern Insane Hospital, the Wilkes-barre Hospital, and the Jewish Hospital atPhiladelphia. The general legislation of the session wasunimportant. Among the acts passed was oneamending and consolidating the laws relatingto game and fish; one providing for the re-funding and redemption of the indebtednessof counties, cities, towns, townships, bor-oughs, school-districts, and other incorporateddistricts; one providing for the punishmentof the offense of unlawfully obtaining the keysof bank vaults, safes, and other depositories ofmoney; one establishing a State Board of Ag-riculture ; and one authorizing the Governorto appoint a commission to devise a plan forthe government of cities. Among the measuresdefeated was one providing for an amendmentof the constitution of the State, transferringthe Capitol from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. While a bill was pending to regulate theamount of toll, and other charges to be col-. BRIDGE OVER THE SUSQUEHANNA AT HAVRE DE GRACE. lccted by boom companies, several memberswere accused of bribery, and an investigationwas ordered. The result was, the expulsion ofEmile J. Petrorr* and Martin F. Lynott fromthe House of Representatives for conduct un-becoming members. The committee appointed in 1875 to investi-gate the accounts of the Treasury made a re-port, the main points of which were that about$3,400,000 had been diverted from the sinking-fund without constitutional warrant, and thatan average monthly balance of $2,100,000 wasretained in the hands of the Treasury for aperiod of twelve years, beginning with 1862,and no money accounted for as interest on thesame. The commission to devise a plan for the gov-ernment of cities, authorized by the act alreadymentioned, was appointed after the close ofthe session of the Legislature, and carried onits investigations through the rest of the year,b
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