Brightly's Purdon's Digest: A Digest of the Statute Law of the State of Pennsylvania from the Year 1700 to 1894, Volume 2

Front Cover
Kay and brother, 1894 - Bill drafting
 

Contents

Municipal Corporations First Class Cont
1405
4 Duties and powers
1425
Bureau of health
1431
4 Abatement of nuisances
1432
5 House drainage and cesspools
1433
6 Contracts
1436
8 Penalties
1437
Bureau of building inspection
1438
2 Building permits
1440
3 Inspection of buildings
1442
4 Building regulations
1443
5 Theatrical buildings
1452
6 Party walls
1458
Bureau of steamengines and boilers
1460
Department of public works
1461
Bureau of surveys
1462
3 Records
1463
Department of receiver of taxes
1465
Taxes
1466
2 Board of revision
1467
for taxation
1468
4 Classification of real estate
1469
5 Apportionment of taxes
1470
Payment of taxes
1471
10 Lien of taxes
1473
Suits and claims for taxes
1474
12 Searches
1475
14 Poll tax
1476
Department of city treasurer
1477
Department of city solicitor
1478
Department of law
1480
Department of education
1481
2 Powers and duties of the board of education
1482
3 Schools c
1483
4 School directors
1484
5 Teachers
1486
2 Contracts
1487
6 Outdoor relief
1488
8 Transient poor
1490
10 Removals
1493
Streets and highways
1494
2 Opening streets
1496
3 Widening and altering streets
1499
4 Vacation of streets
1500
8 Sewers and culverts
1502
9 Cleaning streets and removal of garbage
1503
11 Delaware avenue
1504
Vaults
1506
Meadow banks
1507
2 Locality index
1508
3 Extent of lien
1509
5 Sheriffs sales
1511
City property
1512
Parks and squares
1514
Officers and employés
1515
4 Vacancies
1516
6 Incompatible offices
1517
2 Bids and proposals
1519
4 Of the contractor
1520
2 City loans
1522
Creation and division into wards
1542
Annexation of territory
1543
Corporate powers
1544
Councils ordinances officers con tracts appropriations
1549
Legislative department
1551
Executive department
1553
City treasurer
1555
City solicitor
1556
Board of health
1557
Department of charities
1558
Common schools
1559
Water and lighting department
1560
Sewerage
1562
Eminent domain
1563
Taxes and municipal claims
1565
Registry of real estate
1571
Indebtedness
1572
Definition and repeal
1573
Murder OperaHouse Companies
1624
Nautical School 1598 Overseers See Almshouses Poor Township Officers
1637
Partnership
1646
See Evidence Pedlars
1654
Oil Mining Companies 1620 II Of convicts to the penitentiaries 1660 III Of the government of the penitentiaries
1661
Penitentiaries Continued
1665
Perishable Goods
1671
Philadelphia
1677
Pilots
1684
PipeLine Companies
1692
Police Pensions
1698
Of settlements
1705
Poor Relatives
1711
Port Wardens
1724
Preemption
1730
Railroads Continued
1734
VI Of the construction of railroads
1793
Publication of Charters XII Of lateral railroads
1816
Public Brands XIV Elevated and depressed railroads
1822
Public Contracts 1751 Actions
1830
Public Lands See Brokers
1837
General provisions 1757 Reference
1845
Race and Color III In Philadelphia
1853
Remainders and Reversions
1862
See Criminal Procedure Secretary of the Commonwealth
1905
Steam machinery 1885 ShipBuilding Companies
1917
Salt See Bonds
1928
State Hospital 1936 See Crimes Markets
1940
See Common Schools Stallions 1929
1961
IV County taxes
1979
3 Board of revision
1985
Collection of taxes 1989 VIII Collection in boroughs and townships
1992
Stupefying Mixtures Officers
1999
Supervisors Testamentary Trustees
2005
Title to Lands Turnpikes and PlankRoads
2040
Township Officers 2010 See Eminent Domain
2052
Township auditors 2014 Vagrants
2066
Transient Retailers Vinegar
2072
3 When assignees and official trustees See Sale of Chattels
2079
Weights and Measures Continued Wharves and Docks Continued
2099
Wharves and Docks 2091 See Criminal Procedure House of Correction
2107

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