LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA, Admissions, expenditures of money, methods and means of transportation and the contracts providing there for,

constitute approved local or joint consolidated school shall receive reimbursement as hereinafter provided. The commonwealth, in order to aid in the establishment and maintenance of approved local or joint consolidated schools, shall, as provided in this act, pay annually, from the treasury to school districts and unions of school districts maintaining such schools, an amount equal to one-half the sum which has been expended during the previous school year by such a school district or districts for transporting pupils of said consolidated schools to and from said consolidated schools: Provided, That said sum shall not include amounts paid for the purchase and repair of the vehicle or vehicles used for transporting theses pupils: And provided further, That no one school district shall receive more than three thousand dollars ($3000) in any one school year from the funds provided in this act. On or before the third Wednesday of January of any year in which the regular session of the legislature is held, the State Board of Education shall present to the Legislature an estimate of the amount of money necessary to meet the expenditures to be incurred in the administration of this act for the two school years beginning with the first of the ensuing July, and of the amount necessary to meet the claims of school districts and unions of schools districts maintaining approved consolidated schools under the provisions of this act for the two schools year beginning with the first of the ensuing July. On the basis of such a statement, the Legislature shall make an appropriation of such amounts as may be necessary to meet the expense of carrying this act into effect and of reimbursing such school districts and unions of school districts for such school years as herein provided. On or before the tenth day of July of each year, the school board of each district maintaining a consolidated school shall present to the state superintendent od Public Instruction a sworn statement of the amount expended, during the school

year previous to such first day of July, for transporting pupils to end from local or joint school as herein provided. On the basis of such a statement, the state superintendent of Public Instruction shall, by requisition upon the State Treasury, pay such school district or districts and joint school districts such reimbursement for the previous school year as is provided for in this act. Section 5 To carry out the purpose of this act during the two school years ending July one, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, so much of the general school appropriation as is necessary shall be available: Provided, That the sum or sums expended for the purposes of this act during the said two years dhall not exceed three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) Provision for the necessary expenses incurred in carrying out the purposes of this act . Section 6. All acts and parts of act inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved The 18th day of June, A. D. 1919. WM. C. SPROUL

No. 245. AN ACT

To amend section one hundred and twenty of an act, approved the fourteenth day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen (Pamphlet Laws, eight hundred and forty), entitled An act concerning township; and revising, amending, and consolidating the law relating thereto, by providing for the election of a township of the first class, and fixing the compensation of such assistant assessor, payable by the country. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That section one hundred and twenty of an act, approved the fourteenth day of july, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen

(Pamphlet Laws, eight hundred and forty), entitled An act concerning township; and revising, amending, and consolidating the law relating thereto, which reads as follows:Section 120. At the municipal election in the year preceding the expiration of the term of the assessor now in office, or at the municipal election following the designation of a township of the first class, and at the municipal election every four years thereafter, the qualified electors of each township of the first class shall elect a township assessor. The township assessor elected under this section shall hold office for a term of four years from the first Monday od January next following his election, is hereby amended to read as follows:Section 120. At the municipal election following the designation of a township of the first class, and at the municipal election every four years thereafter, the qualified electors of such township of the first class shall elect a township assessor and an assistant township assessor. The township assessor and assistant township assessor elected as herein provided shall hold office for a term of four years from the first Monday of January next following their election. In each township of the first class where the term of the township assessor now in office expires on the first Monday of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, the qualified electors of such township shall, at the municipal election in the year one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, elect one township assessor, who shall hold office for terms of four years each from the first Monday of January succeeding their election; and quadrennially thereafter, a township assessor and an assistant township assessor shall be elected for terms of four years each from the first Monday of January succeeding their election. In each township of the first class where the term of the township assessor now in office expires on the first Monday of January, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, the qualified electors of such township shall, at the municipal election in the year one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, elect one assistant township assessor, who shall hold office for a term of four years from the first Monday of January succeeding his election; and biennially thereafter, at each municipal election, the qualified electors shall elect one township assessor or one

assistant township assessor, as the case may be, for a term of four years from the first Monday of January succeeding his election It is the intention of this act that in each township of the first class there shall be one township of the first class there shall be one township assessor and one assistant township assessor, in addition to the two assistant assessors now provided for, to assist in the valuation of real estate at the triennial assessment. The compensation of the assistant township assessor shall be the same as now provided for by law for the township assessor, and shall be paid by the country. APPROVED- The 18th day of June, A. D. 1919. WM. C. SPROUL

NO. 246. AN ACT