Pennsylvania Act 1874-126 — SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS, ANNUAL REPORTS TO

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SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS, ANNUAL REPORTS TO
                  Act of May 15, 1874, P.L. 193, No. 126              Cl. 16
                                  AN ACT

     Requiring county commissioners, railroad and other corporations
        to make annual reports to the secretary of internal affairs,
        in lieu of similar reports heretofore made to the auditor
        general.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the county commissioners
     of each county of the state, including the board of revision of
     the city of Philadelphia, shall, upon the first day of June, one
     thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, and upon the same day
     annually thereafter, make out in tabular form, by assessment
     districts, a full statement of all property taxable for county
     purposes, showing the real and personal in separate columns, the
     amount of tax assessed for county purposes, and also the debt of
     said county, the same to be enclosed by mail to the secretary of
     internal affairs, at Harrisburg; and in case of refusal or
     neglect to make such returns, the same may be enforced by
     mandamus.
        Section 2.  (Repealed, 1965, Act No. 519, P. L. 1305, Section
     1203a, Clause (131))
        Section 3.  That hereafter the secretary of internal affairs,
     in lieu of the auditor general, shall send out the blanks
     required by the act of May ninth, one thousand eight hundred and
     seventy-one, entitled "An Act for the collection of mineral
     statistics," and said secretary shall do and perform all the
     duties enjoined in said act in regard to the collecting,
     compiling and publishing a report of the same number of copies
     ordered to be published by the auditor general.
        Section 4.  Until the secretary of internal affairs shall be
     duly qualified, the returns required by the provisions of the
     first and third sections of this act, shall be made to, and the
     duties thereby imposed performed by the chief of the bureau of
     statistics.