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 that have been, or shall be granted for the preservation, care, and maintenance of any cemetery lot, or monument thereon, shall forever remain to the uses to which they shall have been, or may thereafter be granted, according to the true intent of the grant, and to no other use whatever.

An act to prevent discrimination in freight rates provides that freight charges by railroad companies for shorter distances shall not exceed the same rate for longer distances under similar circumstances. A penalty of two hundred dollars is imposed for a violation of this act, recoverable by the party aggrieved in an action for his own use, or to the use of the state by the attorney of the Commonwealth, in addition to the damages otherwise sustained by the violation of said act.

DELAWARE.

The legislature of Delaware met on the 6th of January, 1885, in general session and passed two hundred and thirty-three general and local acts, and fifty-one joint resolutions.

Most of this legislation consisted of amendments to former local enactments. One to prevent the spread of contagious or other infectious diseases, pleuro-pneumonia, etc., among the cattle of Delaware, authorizes the Governor to issue his proclamation of the existence of said disease in the state; warning all persons to seclude all animals in their possession afflicted with the disease, and place the farm, on which such disease exists under quarantine; to prevent the removal of all infected animals within the state, and to prevent the entry of any such therein. Regulations shall be adopted for the inspection and examination, and destructionsdestruction [sic] of animals affected with such disease, provided no animal shall be destroyed unless first examined by a medical or veterinary practitioner in the employ of the Governor, or the United States Commissioner of Agriculture.

In case of the destruction of diseased animals, the Governor shall appoint three judicious and impartial persons of the state