In its main purpose this bill would have met my ap proval. It provides that immediately after the pas sage and approval of any act of the General Assembly, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall supply certified copies of the same to the prothonotaries of the several counties. I am of the opinion that this or some similar means should be employed to promptly inform the citizens of the State of the laws which have become inoperative; but in the fourth section of the bill there has been inserted a wholly unnecessary provision, entailing expenses upon the Commonwealth which might have been avoided. The clerical force and contingent fund at the disposal of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, as lately increased, are ample to supply copies of these bills to the several counties. The provision that the Superintendent of Public Printing should be allowed twelve cents for each authorized copy sent out, is a device to entail upon the Commonwealth a biennial expense of from two to three thousand dollars, most of it a prequisite to the Superintendent of Public Printing, which there was no occasion whatever to insert in this bill, and on account of which it meets my disapproval. ROBT. E. PATTISON. INDEX. A DJUTANT general, office, Expenses of, 1891, 986. Presly N. Guthrie, 16. Daniel H. Hastings, 546. William McClelland, 972. Agricultural organizations, Veto of act for relief of several, 579. experiment station, Veto of, 179, 415. society, Veto of relief of the State, 426. State, not official, 244. Agriculture, 1888, 704. State Board of, 275, 286, 522, 548, 740, 750, 948, 990. Allegheny city, Proclamation declaring, to be a city of the first class, 868. Amerman, Lemuel, member of Congress, 863. Animals, Veto of special legislation on the vagrancy of, 126. Appeal, Veto of extension of right of, to petitions for charters for corpora- Apportionment of State, 21. 1883, 116. 1885, 266. 1887, 511. 1891, 969. of congressional districts, Veto of, 325. of representatives by Congress, 984. Appropriations, Veto of certain, for 1883-'84, 194. for 1885, Veto of portions of the, 348. Arbitration legislation, Veto of, 363. Arbor day proclamation, First, 1885, 291. 1886, 474. 1887, 552. 1888, 649. 1889, 754. 1890, 852. 1891, 994. Archives, Pennsylvania, 509, 730. Armory rentals, Veto of increase of National Guard, 109. Artillery, Thomas J. Hudson chief of, 1883, 273. Assembly, Extra session of, 1883, 116. Assemblymen, Salary recommended, 250. Atkinson, Louis E., member of Congress, 218, 479, 657, 864. Attorney General Lewis C. Cassidy, 16. William U. Hensel, 972. William S. Kirkpatrick, 545. salary recommended, 249. Attorney General's work 1888, 727. 1891, 893. Audit, Commissioners of, 105. Auditor General, Proclamation of election of Jerome B. Niles, 210. |