EXTRA SESSIONS OF THE LEGISLATURE AND SPECIAL
SESSION OF THE SENATE, 1791-1926

1791-Thomas Mifflin convoked the General As-!
sembly in special session on August 23, 1791,
and in his address gave as the purposes: Το
plan internal improvements and provide for
a loan to the Commonwealth; also, to make
appropriations for repelling invaders com-
mitting depredations on the western fron-
tiers of the State, and to take action
claims of Pennsylvania against the United
States. The Assembly met in Philadelphia
and adjourned September 30, 1791.

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1794-The General Assembly was convened in
extraordinary session, September 1, 1794, by
Governor Thomas Mifflin in a call issued
August 7, for the purpose of deriving means
to maintain peace and dignity in the Common-
wealth and providing more effectually for
organizing, arming and equipping the militia
in order to ensure a prompt and faithful com-
pliance with government orders
and such

requisitions as the President might make. This was the proclamation convoking the Assembly to take action in connection with the Whiskey Insurrection. The session was held at the State House, in the City of Philadelphia, and was adjourned September 23, 1794. 1797-Governor Mifflin, in a message to the Assembly, read on August 29, 1797, gave the purposes of the session: To enable surer compliance with requisition of United States for 10,000 militia from Pennsylvania and to effect regulations reforming the military system, for regulating bankruptcy, to obtain better prison management, and to make appropriations for the Land Office and also for the Health Office to further its fight against A malignant fever. The session was adjourned August 29, 1797, having consumed but two legislative days.

1800-Governor Thomas McKean issued a proclamation, October 18, 1800, calling the Assembly into special session, to lay before the Legislature certain Federal obligations, viz: Providing for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President. The session was held at the borough of Lancaster, November 5, 1800, and ran into the regular session which began in December.

1829 The General Assembly was convoked in extra session for the consideration of matters pertaining to the Pennsylvania Canal and Railroad, by Governor John Andrew Shulze, October 15, 1829, at the State Capitol. adjourned December 1, 1829.

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1840 From message convening the General
Assembly in extra session, it is found that
the purpose was for consideration of
tain financial matters of the Commonwealth.
The Legislature was called to meet on April
17, 1840, the day after the regular session
had adjourned. Governor David Rittenhouse
Porter issued the call on April 16, 1840.
session adjourned June 12, 1840.
1857-Governor James Pollock issued a procla-
mation on September 28, 1857, convening
the General Assembly in special session to
adopt measures of financial relief under cir-

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cumstances threatening the credit of the Commonwealth. The session held at the State Capitol was adjourned on October 13, 1857. 1861-Governor Andrew G. Curtin called а special session of the General Assembly to meet at the Capitol on April 30, 1861, adopt such measures as seem best with the appearance of the rebellion." The Assembly adjourned May 16, 1861.

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1864-Governor Curtin also issued a proclama-
tion on August 1, 1864, for a special session
of the General Assembly, in the Capitol,
August 9, 1864, to make greater military
power of the Commonwealth immediately
available for State and National defense.
The session was called fourteen days before
the date fixed for reconvening on August 23,
in adjourned session by reason of war con-
ditions. It was adjourned on August 25, 1864.
1883-As set forth in the executive's message,
Governor Robert Emory Pattison convened the
General Assembly in extra session June 7,
1883, to apportion the State into Senatorial
and Representative districts in accordance to
the provisions of the Constitution. The Legis-
lature adjourned on December 6, 1883.
1891-Governor Pattison also called an extra
session of the Senate to begin on October 13,
1891, to investigate charges involving the
Auditor General and State Treasurer and re-
flecting upon the manner in which their
official duties had been performed and also
to ascertain whether "reasonable cause" ex-
isted for their removal. A supplementary
proclamation included in this extra session
the charges concerning the conduct of several
magistrates and constables in Philadelphia.
The latter was issued October 12, 1891. The
Senate adjourned on November 11, 1891.

1906 The General Assembly was called in ex-
traordinary session, January 15, 1906, at 2
o'clock, by Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker,
to consider legislation upon the following
subjects: To adopt such measures as may be
necessary for the handling of the public
moneys: to reapportion the State into Sena-
torial and Representative districts; to pro-
vide for the personal registration of voters
and for the government of cities of the first
class: to designate the amount to be ex-
pended each year in the erection of county
bridges; to abolish fees in the offices of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth and the In-
surance Commissioner. The Legislature ad-
journed on February 15, 1906.
1926-Governor Gifford Pinchot, in a proclama-
tion issued December 14, 1925, convening the
General Assembly to meet in extraordinary
session on January 13, 1926, gave as the
purposes the following: To revise the elec-
tion and registration laws; to regulate,
through an appropriate State agency, the An-
thracite coal industry for domestic use in
Pennsylvania; to revise laws concerning banks,
trust companies and building and loan asso-
ciations; to provide additional means for en-
forcing the Eighteenth Amendment to the
United States Constitution; to adjust differ-
ences between New Jersey and Pennsylvania
delaying the completion of the Philadelphia-
Camden Bridge: to provide for and define the
powers and duties of a Giant Power Board;
to enter into a compact with the States of
New York and New Jersey for the regulariza-
tion of the flow of the Delaware river. The
extra session was closed on February 18.
1926.

NEWSPAPER LEGISLATIVE CORRESPONDENTS

INDIVIDUAL INDEX

OF

PRINCIPAL STATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYES AND CHIEF
U. S. OFFICIALS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

(Alphabetical List of Senators and Members of the House of Representatives,
with their addresses, pages 922 and 933.)

A.

Abbott, Charles H., maintenance superin-
tendent, District 3-1-1, Dept. Highways,
Abbott, Edwin M., member and chair-
man, Commission to Submit a Revised
Penal Code of Pennsylvania,
Adam, John, Representative, (biography),
Adams, A. E., member, Lake Erie and
Ohio River Canal Board,

Adams, Lynn G.:

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Superintendent, State Police,
Biography,

Addams, Charles P.:

Law Clerk, Dept. Justice,

Recorder, Board of Pardons,

Adler, Louis, office manager, Prison Labor
Division, Dept. Welfare,

Ainey, William D. B.:

Chairman, Public Service Commission,
Biography,

Member, Sanitary Water Board,
Member, Water and Power Resources
Board,

Ainsworth, Cyril, director, Bureau of
Inspection, Dept. Labor and Industry,
Ainsworth, J. C., member, State Park
and Harbor Commission of Erie,
Albright, C. C., assistant location engi-
neer, Dept. Highways,

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Alexander, William C., Representative
(biography),

Alexander, W. E., superintendent, Print-
ing, Eastern Penitentiary,

Allen, (Mrs.) Ida L., secretary, Regis-
tration Commission for the City of Pitts-
burgh,

Allman, Alfred F., Representative, (bio-
graphy),

Ambler, J. P., assistant engineer, Per-
sonnel, Dept. Highways,

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Anderson, William Y. C., deputy at-
torney general, Dept. Justice,

Baldi, C. C. A., Jr.:

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Anderson, W. M., member and secretary-
treasurer, Sesqui-Centennial Celebration
Commission,

Representative, (biography).
Member, Washington Crossing Park
Commission,

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