This Committee is authorized by Joint Resolution of 1925, P. L. 692. The Committee created by Concurrent Resolution of the General Assembly of the session of 1923, No. 87, to make a complete study and investigation of all existing systems of compulsory liability insurance for motor vehicles and motor vehicle owners or drivers, was continued for a further period of two years.

The Committee shall report their findings, together with suggested legislation, including drafts thereof, to the session of the General Assembly to be held in 1927.

PENNSYLVANIA COMMISSION FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF GEORGE WASHINGTON.

This Commission was created by Concurrent Resolution of 1925, P. L. 821. The Commission shall represent the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in formulating and carrying out a program, for the celebration in the year 1932, of the bi-centennial of the birth of George Washington, and to that end shall confer and act with any commission ог commissions created or to be created for the purposes of such celebration by act of Congress and by any of the States, and with the civic national committee established by the Sulgrave Institution, and other civic bodies insofar as their activities relate to such celebration.

The Commission shall make a report biennially to the Legislature of the progress made in the formation of such program, and, in a biennial report submitted not later than at the legislative session in the year 1931, shall include such recommendations as it may deem advisable or essential in the preparation and carrying out of a fitting and adequate plan for such celebration. Except for the making of a final report, the existence of the Commission shall on December 31, 1932.

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PAROLE COMMISSION.

This Commission was constituted by Act of May 14, 1925, P. L. 720. It consists of five members, one of whom shall be appointed by the Governor, two by the President pro tempore of the Senate, and two by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Its duties are to examine the parole laws of this Commonwealth and of other states and countries; also to investigate systems and methods of parole and commutation of sentences. It shall prepare and submit bills to carry into effect its recommendations on or before February 1. 1927.

P. L. 131.

The Commission is composed of representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New York and was created for the purpose of acquiring various bridges over the Delaware River between the two States. The Pennsylvania members of the Commission are the Auditor General, the State Treasurer and the Secretary of Highways.

It is the duty of the Commission to ascertain and to give notice in writing to the owner or or estimate the value of each of such bridges owners thereof of the valuation placed thereon and to offer to purchase the bridge at such valuation. If the owner or owners decline to accept this offer it is the duty of the Joint Commission to determine in which State condemnation proceedings shall be instituted. Each State is required to pay one-half of the purdemned and after acquisition one-half of the chase price of any bridge purchased or conexpense of maintenance, repairing or rebuilding.

Toll charges on bridges acquired by the Commission must be discontinued as soon as possession is obtained in the joint names of the two States, except that any railroad, or railway having the use of such bridge shall continue to pay in equal proportion to each of the States the same rental charges as theretofore.

The 1925 legislation provides that the Pennsylvania members may act in conjunction with governmental agency designated by the State of New York.

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COMMISSION TO PROVIDE FOR JOINT ACQUISITION AND MAINTENANCE BY THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA AND THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY OF CERTAIN TOLL BRIDGES OVER THE DELAWARE RIVER.

This Commission was authorized by Act of May 8, 1919, P. L. 148, as amended by the Act of April 20, 1921, P. L. 196.

The purpose of the Commission is the acquisition of various toll bridges over the Delaware River between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey. The Pennsylvania members of the Commission are the Governor, the Auditor General, the State Treasurer and two persons appointed by the Governor.

The

contributions to be made by each of the inmanner of acquiring bridges and the terested states are the same as in the case of the Commission to acquire toll bridges over the Delaware River between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New York. The with provisions apply regard to toll charges on bridges acquired through the Commission.

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In 1925 the Legislature appropriated $100,000 for the use of this Commission in acquiring and maintaining bridges. This appropriation does not lapse as do other similar grants.

of books, documents, and papers; and otherwise have all powers of a legislative committee.

The members shall serve without compensation but are allowed necessary expenses while actually attending to the business of the Com

mission.

INTERSTATE COMMISSIONS. COMMISSION TO PROVIDE FOR JOINT ACQUISITION AND MAINTENANCE BY THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA AND THE STATE OF NEW YORK OF CERTAIN TOLL BRIDGES OVER THE DELAWARE RIVER.

This Commission was authorized by Act of July 25, 1917. P. L. 1180, as amended by the Act of July 18, 1919, P. L. 1042 and the Act

A BRIDGE OVER THE DELAWARE RIVER CONNECTING PHILADELPHIA AND CAM

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July 9, 1919, P. L. 814, as amended by Act This Commission was authorized by Act of of April 26, 1921, P. L. 287 and a supplement thereto approved July 13, 1923, P. L. 1093. Acts of 1925 and 1926 further amended the law governing the Commission.

The Commission is composed of representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey and was created for the purpose of constructing a bridge over the Delaware River connecting the cities of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey. The Pennsylvania members of the Commission are the Governor, the Auditor General and the State Treasurer of the Commonwealth, and the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia and

The supplement approved July 13, 1923, authorized the Commission to provide for the equipment of the bridge with facilities for railway, railroad, motorbus vehicles, or other means of transportation and for telegraph, telephone, electric or other public service facilities, and also authorized it to make arrangements with transportation companies for the operation across the bridge of any of these public service facilities and also provided for the fixing and collection of charges, rates, rentals or tolls for such operations.

The 1926 Act amends sections ten and eleven. It provides for a tolls contract with the New Jersey Commission. It specifies that tolls shall be continued to be collected until the State of New Jersey, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia, shall each have been fully reimbursed for expenditures made for the bridge and its approaches. Thereafter the bridge will be free to private vehicles. The expenses of maintenance and repair shall be paid out of the proceeds of the tolls collected until the bridge becomes free. All moneys collected above expenses are to be divided, one-half to the State of New Jersey, one-quarter to the Commonwealth, and onequarter to the city of Philadelphia, until the first of them has been reimbursed as stated above. Thereafter the proceeds of tolls will be equally divided between the other two until one of them has been paid and then the third receives all tolls until paid.

After the bridge has been paid for out of tolls, such disposition shall be made of it, as shall be provided by laws to be passed hereafter by the two States.

DELAWARE RIVER TREATY COMMISSION.

This Commission was created by Act of May 24, 1923, P. L. 448 and continued by Concurrent Resolution approved May 12, 1925, P. L. 822.

It consists of three officials of the Commonwealth designated by the Governor: to negotiate with the duly authorized commissioners of the states of New York and New Jersey, for ratification by the legislatures of the three states and approval by Congress, a compact in accordance with the Constitution of the United States for the regulation of the flow of the Delaware River, the conservation of the water resources of the Delaware Basin, tionment thereof among the said states for domestic and municipal supply and the utilization thereof for power and other beneficial uses.

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Before any negotiations were begun, detailed hydraulic studies were undertaken by the engineers of the Department of Forests and Waters. These established the fact that a practicable scheme of regulation of the Delaware River would save enormous quantities of water now wasted in floods, often destructive, provide a largely increased supply for domestic and municipal use in Pennsylvania, as well as a large supply for the metropolitan areas of New York and New Jersey about New York Bay, and make possible water power development on a scale much larger than can now be attempted.

The Pennsylvania Commissioners also gave notice of their appointment and powers to all Pennsylvania municipalities and to all water companies serving Pennsylvania communities within the Delaware Basin, with the request that the needs of each community be forecast

Before the appointment of Commissioners for New Jersey, preliminary meetings were held at New York City and Harrisburg between the New York and Pennsylvania Commissioners. Soon after the appointment of Commissioners for New Jersey, the Joint Commission met in New York City (June 3, 1924) and organized. Engineering advisers of the Commissioners for the three states, meeting at Trenton, agreed upon data and formulated suggestions for submission to the Joint Commission. These were considered by the Joint Commission during an inspection of the watershed of the Delaware Basin (June 28-July 1, 1924) from the source of the West Branch of the river in the Catskill Mountains to Easton, Pennsylvania. The engineering and legal advisers of the three states with Colonel William Kelley, Chief Engineer of the Federal Power Commission, accompanied the Commissioners on this inspection trip.

The task of drafting a compact for consideration of the Commissioners was entrusted to the engineers and attorneys of the three states, including one of the Pennsylvania Commissioners. The engineers and attorneys held forty-two formal meetings in the summer and fall of 1924, most of which lasted two or three days. The Joint Commission held seventeen meetings. On January 24, 1925, a compact was agreed upon and signed by all the Commissioners of each of the three states. It was promptly submitted to the legislatures of the three states (1925 sessions) and ratified by the legislature of New York with certain reservations or amendments. Objections to the compact having been made in New Jersey, it, with other water supply problems, was in 1925 referred to a special New Jersey Commission which, after extensive study, recommended in 1926 the appointment of new Commissioners for further negotiation. A bill for this purpose was introduced at the adjourned session of the New Jersey Legislature which met June 22, 1926.

The Pennsylvania Commissioners, in submitting the compact in 1925, recommended further reservations or amendments. The Pennsylvania Commission was continued with authority to negotiate further. After a public hearing at Harrisburg in December, 1925, the compact, with reservations or amendments, was again submitted to the Pennsylvania General Assembly at the special session of 1926, but the report of the special New Jersey Commission not yet having been made, no action was taken at the special session.

The reservations or amendments adopted by New York and those proposed by the Pennsyl vania Commissioners, which included those adopted by New York, were for three purposes, namely: (1) To meet certain objections raised in New Jersey by changes of wording without change of meaning; (2) to meet another objection raised by New Jersey so as to give each state freedom in the method of appointing its representatives on the permanent Delaware River Commission; (3) to further safeguard for Pennsylvania communities of which Philadelphia is the largest, the increased water supplies made possible by the scheme of regulation embodied in the compact.

Further negotiations now (July 9, 1926) await the action of the New Jersey Legislature, on the bill authorizing them.

THE LEGISLATURE.

Senators and Members of the House of Representatives each receive $2,500 for regular biennial sessions, and mileage to and from their homes at the rate of thirty cents per mile circular; for a special or extraordinary session they receive $500, and mileage, as aforesaid. In addition to the above they are given $150 in postage for each regular session, and $50 for each special or extraordinary session. The President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in addition to their salaries as members of the Legislature, each receives $1,000 for each regular biennial session, and $500 for each special or extraordinary session.

The clerk and the stenographer to the President of the Senate receive, respectively, $1,500 and $1,200 per annum.

The Secretary of the Senate receives $7,500 · per annum: the chief clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, each receives $6,000 per annum; the librarian of the Senate and the resident clerk of the House of Representatives each receives $4,500 per annum; the assistant librarian of the Senate and the assistant resident clerk of the House of Representatives each receives $3,600 per annum.

The assistant clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives each receives $2,000 for each regular biennial session, $10 per diem for each special or extraordinary session, and $175 per month during the interim between legislative sessions.

The journal and reading clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives each receives $2,000 for each regular biennial session, and $10 per diem for each special or extraordinary session.

The executive clerk of the Senate, the assistant journal clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, the desk clerks and assistant reading clerks of the House of Representatives each receives $1,800 for each regular biennial session, and $10 per diem for each special or extraordinary session.

The assistant to the secretary of the Senate receives $10 per diem for each regular biennial special or extraordinary session, and $200 per month during the interim between legislative sessions. The stenographers to the librarian of the Senate and the stenographer to the resident clerk of the House of Representatives each receives $8 per diem for each regular biennial, special or extraordinary session, and $150 per month during the interim between legislative sessions. The superintendents of the store rooms of the Senate and House of Representatives each receives $2,400 per annum.

For each regular biennial, special or extraordinary session, the message clerks, the clerks having in charge the preparation of the Senate and House Histories of Legislation, and the sergeants-at-arms of the Senate and House of Rep. resentatives each receives $8 per diem; for each regular biennial, special or extraordinary session, the clerks in the transcribing rooms, clerks to committees, chaplains, clerks to President Iro tempore and Speakers, postmasters, chief assistant sergeants-at-arms, stenographers to the President pro tempore and Speaker, stenographers to the chief clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, superintendents of folding rooms, and the assistant sergeants-at-arms each receives $7 per diem; for each regular biennial, special or extraordinary session, the assistant postmasters, messengers, assistant messengers, pasters and folders, the custodians of commit

tee rooms, and the custodian of the wash room of the House of Representatives, each receive $6 per diem; the messenger in the Senate Library and the messenger in the library of the House. of Representatives each receives $1,200 per annum; the custodian of the Senate Chamber and the custodian of the Hall of the House of Representatives, the watchmen of both Houses, the custodian of the wash room of the Senate, the custodian of the basement of the Senate, and the custodian of the basement of the House of Representatives each receives $150 per month; for each regular biennial, special or extraordinary session, the assistant custodians of the Senate Chamber and the assistant custodians of the Hall of the House of Representatives each receives $3 per diem, and $75 per month during interim between legislative sessions; for each regular biennial, special or extraordinary session, the page to the President and the page to the President pro tempore, the page to the Speaker, and the chief pages each receives $3 rer diem; and the pages each receives $2 per diem.

In addition to the officers and employes above specified, the chief clerk of the Senate is authorized to appoint, for the session, not more than four stenographers for the use of the members and officers of the Senate, and the chief clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized to appoint, for the session, not more than six stenographers for the use of the members and officers of the House of Representatives who shall each receive $5 per diem.

In the Senate and House of Representatives for each regular biennial, special or extraordinary session, and until the proceedings of the Legislative Journal shall be fully transcribed and completed, the filing clerks each receives $7 per diem; the compiling clerks each receives $9 per diem; the chief official reporters each receives $18 per diem; the official reporters each receives $15 per diem; the expert typewriters each receives $7 per diem; the proofreaders and the copy holders each receives $7 per diem, and until the proceedings of the Journal are proofread, and also for the time employed on the appendix and index. The clerk to index the Legislative Journal receives $1,500 per session.

All officers and employes of the General As sembly, including the employes on the Legislative Journal, shall return, as such, to the next regular biennial session of the Legislature following that for which they were elected or appointed, and those who shall not be re-elected or reappointed, or elected or appointed to some other office in the Legislature, shall be allowed their regular per diem compensation, except the assistant clerks, journal clerks, assistant journal clerks, reading clerks, assistant reading clerks, executive clerk, desk clerks, and message clerks, who shall each receive $10 per diem for ten days, or until their successors are duly elected or appointed and have qualified.

Each of the above officers and employes receives mileage for each regular biennial special or extraordinary session of the Legislature, and as returning officers, at the rate of ten cents per mile to and from their homes, to be computed by the ordinary mail route between their homes and the State Capitol.

THE SALARIES OF HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND MEMBERS OF

BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.

In order to get equality in pay for similar work among departmental employes, the Legislature of 1923 authorized the Executive Board