Pennsylvania Act 1895-126 — COUNTY ADVERTISING REGULATED

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COUNTY ADVERTISING REGULATED
                 Act of Jun. 18, 1895, P.L. 209, No. 126              Cl. 16
                                  AN ACT

     Regulating the printing and publication of notices and
        advertisements authorized by the county commissioners of the
        counties of this Commonwealth containing a population of five
        hundred thousand and not exceeding one million, as shown by
        the last United States census, providing how newspapers shall
        be designated in which such publications shall be made, and
        repealing an act, entitled "An act authorizing the county
        commissioners of Allegheny county to select four morning
        newspapers for official county advertising," approved the
        second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred
        and seventy-three, and also repealing the tenth section of an
        act, entitled "A supplement to an act approved the first day
        of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one,
        entitled 'An act relating to Allegheny county,'" approved the
        eighth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred
        and sixty-two.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That all notices and
     advertisements which are now authorized or hereafter shall be
     authorized by law to be published by the county commissioners on
     behalf of or at the expense of the counties of this Commonwealth
     containing a population of five hundred thousand and not
     exceeding one million, as shown by the last United States
     census, respectively, shall be published at regular current
     rates in not less than two, if so many there be, nor more than
     five daily newspapers of general circulation, published within
     the county in which the publication is or shall be required to
     be made, one of which newspapers may be published in the German
     language, provided such German paper is published in said
     county; and it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of
     each of the counties of the Commonwealth containing a population
     of five hundred thousand and not exceeding one million, as shown
     by the last United States census, during the first week in
     January in each year to designate, in all cases, the newspapers
     in which notices and advertisements to be published by or on
     behalf of their respective counties shall be published during
     the ensuing year.
        Section 2.  This act shall take effect on and after the first
     day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and
     ninety-six.
        Section 3.  That an act, entitled "An act authorizing county
     commissioners of Allegheny county to select four morning
     newspapers for official county advertising," approved the second
     day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and
     seventy-three, and the tenth section of an act, entitled "A
     supplement to an act approved the first day of May, Anno Domini
     one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, entitled 'An act
     relating to Allegheny county,'" approved the eighth day of
     April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two,
     which reads as follows:
        "That the commissioners of said county, after the passage of
     this act, and in the month of January annually thereafter, shall
     designate three newspapers published therein, one of which shall
     be published in the German language, in which all advertising
     for county purposes shall be done at customary rates, and any
     law heretofore passed requiring any such advertising to be done
     in any paper published north of the Allegheny river in said
     county is hereby repealed; the commissioners shall record such
     selections in their minutes, and also notify the controller, in
     writing, thereof," approved the eighth day of April, Anno Domini
     one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, be and the same are
     hereby repealed.