Read v. Clearfield County

Citations

• 12 Pa. Super. 419
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 257

Syllabus

<p>Statutes — Constitutional law — Miñes and mining — Act o/T893, P. L. 52.</p> <p>The title of the Act of May 15, 1893, P. L. 52, relating to bituminous coal mines and providing for the lives, health, safety and welfare of persons employed therein, does not bffend against the 3d section of article 3 of the constitution which forbids a bill to be passed containing more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in the title.</p> <p>There is nothing in the statute that does not relate solely to its main subject, to wit: providing for the health, safety and welfare of persons employed in bituminous mines; and there is nothing in the title to mislead one who reads it into the belief that it did not intend to provide for the care of those injured by accident.</p> <p>Statutes — Sufficiency of title — Constitutional law.</p> <p>A title to an act is sufficient if it shows that a duty is imposed to render a service for which it would reasonably and in the nature of things be expected that compensation would be made; the act is not necessarily void because the title does not declare how and by whom it is to be made.</p> <p>Mines ancl mining — Constitutional law — Bituminous coal act.</p> <p>The power of the legislature to define and classify coal mines as it has done, and to legislate for each class separately must be regarded as settled on the authority of Durkin v. Kingston Coal Co., 171 Pa. 193. The bituminous coal Act of May 15, 1893, P. L. 52, does not offend the constitution in being either local or special legislation, nor in containing more than one subject.</p>