fifth of the amount of license, shall be paid to the treasurer of the respective counties for the use of the counties, and the balance shall be paid to the treasurer of the respective cities, boroughs and townships for their respective use: Provided, however, That the money thus paid into any township treasury, shall be applied to keeping the roads in good repair," is hereby amended to read as follows: License fees. Section 8. That all persons licensed to sell at retail any vinous, spirituous, malt or brewed liquors, or any admixture thereof, in any house, room or place, hotel, inn or tavern, shall be classified and required to pay annually for such privilege, as follows: Persons licensed to sell by retail, resident in cities of the first and second Amount. classes shall pay the sum of one thousand dollars, and those resident in cities of the third class shall pay the sum of five hundred dollars; those resident in all other cities shall pay three hundred dollars, and those resident in boroughs shall pay the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars; those resident in townships shall pay the sum of seventy-five dollars to the treasurer of the respective counties for the use of the counties in the following proportion. In Distribution. cities the sum of one hundred dollars, in boroughs and townships one-fifth of the amount of license, shall be paid to the treasurer of the respective counties for the use of the counties, and the balance shall be paid to the treasurer of the respective cities, boroughs and townships for their respective use: Provided, however, That the money thus paid into any township treasury shall be applied to keeping the roads in good repair: Provided further, That each person licensed to sell vi- Proviso. nous, spirituous, malt or brewed liquors, or any admixture thereof, under the provisions of this act, may pay the annual license fees herein provided for and any additional tax or license fee now established by law, in twelve monthly instalments. The instalment for the Payment in instalfirst month shall be paid as now required by law before a license is issued to the applicant, and each subsequent Time of payment. instalment at any time before the beginning of each succeeding month. Failure to make any of said monthly payments in advance shall terminate said license and all rights therein, and the licensee shall forthwith return the same to the court or authority by which it was issued. ments. Termination and return of license. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith be, Repeal. and the same are hereby, repealed. APPROVED-The 26th day of February, A. D. 1919. WM. C. SPROUL. State Highway Department. No. 8. AN ACT To amend section one, and section two as amended, of an act, approved the thirty-first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and eleven (Pamphlet Laws, four hundred and sixty-eight), entitled "An act providing for the establishment of a State Highway Department, by the appointment of a State Highway Commissioner, two Deputy State Highway Commissioners, chief engineer, chief draughtsman, superintendents of highways, and a staff of assistanis and employes; defining their duties and the jurisdiction of the State Highway Department, and fixing salaries of commissioner and deputies and other appointees; providing for taking over from the counties or townships of the Commonwealth certain existing public roads connecting county-seats, principal cities, and towns and extending to the State line; describing. and defining same by route numbers as the State Highways of the Commonwealth; providing for the improvement, maintenance and repair of said State Highways solely at the expense of the Commonwealth, and relieving the several townships or counties from any further obligation and expense to improve or maintain the same, and relieving said townships or counties of authority over same; requiring boroughs and incorporated towns to maintain certain State Highways wholly and in part; requiring the State Highway Commissioner to make maps to be complete records thereof; conferring authority on the State Highway Commissioner; providing for the payment of damages in taking of property, or otherwise, in the improvement thereof; providing for purchase or acquiring of turnpikes or toll-roads forming all or part of any State Highway, and procedure therein; providing for work of improvement of State Highways to be done by contract, except where the State Highway Commissioner decides the work be done by the State; providing aid by the State to counties and townships desiring the same in the improvement of township or county roads; defining highways and State-aid highways; providing method of application for State aid in the improvement, maintenance and repair of township or county roads and prescribing the contents of township, county, borough, or incorporated town petitions; providing for percentage of cost of improvement or repairs to be paid by State, county, township, borough, or incorporated town, and requiring contracts by counties, townships, boroughs, and incorporated towns with Commonwealth governing same: providing for the minimum width of State Highways and State-aid highways, and kind of materials to be used in the improvement; providing for payment of cost of improvement and repairs; providing penalty for injuring or destroying State Highways; making appropriations to carry out the provisions of the act; and providing for the repeal of certain acts relating to Highway Department and improvement of roads, and of all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith; and providing that existing contracts are not affected by provisions of this act." Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That section one of an act, entitled "An act providing for the establish1911 (P. L. 468). ment of a State Highway Department, by the appointment of a State Highway Commissioner, two Deputy State Highway Commissioners, chief engineer, chief draughtsman, superintendents of highways, and a staff of assistants and employes; defining their duties and the jurisdiction of the State Highway Department, and fixing salaries of commissioner and deputies and other appointees; providing for taking over from the counties or townships of the Commonwealth certain existing public roads connecting county-seats, principal cities, and towns and extending to the State line; describing and defining same by route numbers as the State Highways of the Commonwealth; providing for the improvement, maintenance and repair of said State Highways solely at the expense of the Commonwealth, and relieving the several townships or counties from any further obligation and expense to improve or maintain the same, and relieving said townships or counties of authority over same; requiring boroughs and incorporated towns to maintain certain State Highways wholly and in part; requiring the State Highway Commissioner to make maps to be complete records thereof; conferring authority on the State Highway Commissioner; providing for the payment of damages in taking of property, or otherwise, in the improvement thereof; providing for purchase or acquiring of turnpikes or toll-roads forming all or part of any State Highway, and procedure therein; providing for work of improvement of State Highways to be done by contract, except where the State Highway Commissioner decides the work be done by the State; providing aid by the State to counties and townships desiring the same in the improvement of township or county roads; defining highways and State-aid highways; providing method of application for State aid in the improvement, maintenance and repair of township or county roads and prescribing the contents of township, county, borough, or incorporated town petitions; providing for percentage of cost of improvement or repairs to be paid by State, county, township, borough, or incorporated town, and requiring contracts by counties, townships, boroughs, and incorporated towns with Commonwealth governing same; providing for the minimum width of State Highways and State-aid highways, and kind of materials to be used in the improvement; providing for payment of cost of improvement and repairs; providing penalty for injuring or destroying State Highways; making appropriations to carry out the provisions of the act; and providing for the repeal of certain acts relating to Highway Department and improvement of roads, and of all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith; and providing that existing contracts are not affected by provisions of this act," approved the thirty-first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and eleven, which reads as follows: "Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the first day of June, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and eleven, there shall be established a State Highway Department, by the appointment by the Governor of the Commonwealth of a State Highway Commissioner, who shall serve for a term of four years, and shall give his entire time and attention to the duties of his office. He shall receive a salary Section 1, 31, 1911 (P. L. 468), cited for act of May amendment. State Highway Reorganization. Highway Term. Duties. Salary. Assistant Qualifications and duties. of eight thousand dollars per annum, and shall furnish a bond to the Commonwealth, in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be approved by the Governor, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties. The Governor shall also appoint two Deputy State Highway Commissioners, to be known as First Deputy State Highway Commissioner and Second Deputy State Highway Commissioner, respectively; one of whom shall be a competent civil engineer. They each shall receive a salary of six thousand dollars per annum. They shall each give bond to the Commonwealth, in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, to be approved by the Governor, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties. They shall be subject at all times to the authority of the State Highway Commissioner, and in the absence of the Commissioner shall, in the order of their precedence to each other, perform and discharge all the duties of the State Highway Commissioner as required by law and the provisions of this act. The Governor shall also appoint an auditor of the said department, who shall be an expert accountant and who shall be a certified public accountant, under the laws of this Commonwealth. He shall receive a salary of three thousand dollars per annum, and shall give bond to the Commonwealth, in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, subject to the approval of the Governor, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties. It shall be the duty of said auditor to examine and audit all the accounts of the department and to countersign all warrants," be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the first day of June, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and eleven, there shall be established a State Highway Department, by the appointment by the Governor of the Commonwealth of a State Highway Commissioner, who shall serve for a term of four years, and shall give his entire time and attention to the duties of his office. He shall receive a salary of ten thousand dollars per annum, and shall furnish a bond to the Commonwealth, in the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, to be approved by the Governor, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties. The Governor shall also appoint an Assistant State Highway Commissioner, who shall be an experienced executive and a competent civil engineer, and who shall at all times be subject to the authority of the State Highway Commissioner, and shall have execu tive authority over all other officials and employes of the State Highway Department, and, in the absence of the Commissioner, shall perform and discharge all the duties of the State Highway Commissioner as required by law and the provisions of this act. He Bond. shall receive a salary of eight thousand dollars per Salary. Section 2. That section two of said act, which, as amended by an act, approved the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen (Pamphlet Laws, five hundred and eighty-three), entitled "An act to amend section two of an act, approved the thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, entitled 'An act providing for the establishment of a State Highway Department, by the appointment of a State Highway Commissioner, two Deputy State Highway Commissioners, chief engineer, chief draughtsman, superintendents of highways, and a staff of assistants and employes; defining their duties and the jurisdiction of the State Highway Department, and fixing salaries of Commissioner and deputies and other appointees; providing for taking over from the counties or townships of the Commonwealth certain existing public roads connecting county-seats, principal cities, and towns, and extending to the State line; describing and defining same by route numbers as the State Highways of the Commonwealth; providing for the improvement, maintenance, and repair of said State Highways solely at the expense of the Commonwealth, and relieving the several townships or counties from any further obligation and expense to improve or maintain the same, and relieving said townships or counties of authority over same; requir ing boroughs and incorporated towns to maintain certain State Highways wholly and in part; requiring the State Highway Commissioner to make maps to be complete records thereof; conferring authority on the State Highway Commissioner; providing for the payment of damages in taking of property, or otherwise, in the improvement thereof; providing for purchase or acquiring of turnpikes or toll-roads forming all or part of any State Highway, and procedure therein; providing for work of improvement of State Highways to be done by contract, except where the State Highway Commissioner decides the work be done by the State; providing aid by the State to counties and townships desiring the same in the improvement of township or county roads; defining highways and State-aid highways; providing method of application for State aid in the improvement, main Commissioner. as amended 468, 1011 583. |