Laws Enacted in the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ...J. Dunlop, 1871 |
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Page 34 - In any indictment for murder or manslaughter, or for being an accessory to any murder or manslaughter, it shall not be necessary to set forth the manner in which, or the means by which, the death of the deceased was caused, but it shall be sufficient in any indictment for murder to charge that the defendant did feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, kill and murder the deceased, and it shall be sufficient in any indictment for manslaughter to charge that the defendant did feloniously...
Page 84 - That it is hereby declared to have been the true intent and meaning of the act of the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, entitled, " An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States...
Page 60 - If the legacy subject to collateral inheritance tax be given to any person for life, or for a term of years, or for any other limited period, upon a condition or contingency, if the same be money, the tax thereon shall be retained upon the whole amount; but if not money, application shall be made to the orphans...
Page 53 - ... district court of the United States for the district where such seizure is made, or in any other court of competent jurisdiction. And any person who shall have in his possession any such, articles for the purpose of selling the same, with the design of avoiding payment of the duties imposed thereon by this act, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars, to be recovered as hereinbefore provided. APPROPRIATION. SEC. 115. And be it further enacted, That the pay of the assessors, assistant...
Page 61 - ... guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars...
Page 36 - Any number of persons, not less than twenty-five, may form a company for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating a railroad for public use...
Page 85 - That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Page 19 - Instituted, to procure the right to construct lateral railroads * » * the appeal to court from the report of the viewers shall extend not only to the assessment of damages, but to the question of the necessity of the proposed lateral railroad. * * *
Page 40 - ... shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty days or exceeding ninety days or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
Page 34 - An Act to amend section three of an Act entitled 'An Act to consolidate, revise and amend the laws of this Commonwealth relating, to penal proceedings and pleadings...