BILLS RETURNED TO THE LEGISLATURE BY THE GOVERNOR, WITH HIS OBJECTIONS THERETO, DURING ITS REGULAR SESSION ENDING MAY 20, 1915.

No. 1.

AN ACT

To amend section four of an act approved the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "A further supplement to an act, entitled 'An act to establish a board of wardens for the Port of Philadelphia, and for the regulation of pilots and pilotage, and for other purposes,' approved March twentyninth, one thousand eight hundred and three, and for regulating the rates of pilotage and number of pilots."

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That section four of an act approved the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eightynine, entitled "A further supplement to an act, entitled 'An act to establish a board of wardens for the Port of Philadelphia, and for the regulation of pilots and pilotage, and for other purposes,' appoved March twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and three, and for regulating the rates of pilotage and number of pilots," which reads as follows:

"Section 4. Vessels employed in and licensed for the coasting trade shall be exempt from the duty of employing a pilot, and the vessels, as well as their masters, owners, agents, or consignees, shall be exempt from the duty of paying pilotage, half-pilotage, or any penalty whatsoever, in case of their neglect or refusal so to do, except ships or vessels under register, bound to or from the States or territories of the United States on the Pacific Ocean; but a coastwise vessel, voluntarily taking a pilot, shall pay the same fees for pilotage as prescribed in the case of a vessel bound to or from a foreign port," be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 4. Vessels employed in and licensed for the coasting trade, excepting vessels bound to or from the States, territories, or possessions of the United States on the Pacific Ocean, shall be exempt from the duty of employing a pilot; and the vessels, as well as their masters, owners, agents, or consignees, shall be exempt from the duty of paying pilotage, half-pilotage, or any penalty whatsoever in case of their neglect or refusal so to do; but a coastwise vessel, voluntarily taking a pilot, shall pay the same fee for pilotage as prescribed in the case of a vessel bound to or from a foreign port.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,

Executive Chamber, Harrisburg, March 19, 1915.

To the Honorable, the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Gentlemen: I return herewith, without my approval, House bill No. 255, entitled: "An act to amend section four of an act approved the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, entitled 'A further supplement to an act, entitled 'An act to establish a board of wardens for the Port of Philadelphia, and for the regulation of pilots and pilotage, and for other purposes,' approved March twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and three, and for regulating rates of pilotage and number of pilots."

The statutes of the United States forbid the States from enacting any law authorizing the levying of pilot charges on licensed or enrolled coastwise seagoing vessels. This bill is in violation of these statutes.

For this reason the bill is not approved.

MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH.

No 2.

AN ACT

To amend the first section of an act approved the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled "An act relative to mortgages,' by requiring purchase money mortgages to be recorded within ten days in order to have priority of lien.

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the first section of an act approved the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled "An act relative to mortgages," which reads as follows:

"Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the first day of October next, all mortgages, or defeasible deeds in the nature of mortgages, made or to be made or executed for any lands, tenements, or hereditaments within this Commonwealth, shall have priority according to the date of recording the same, without regard to the time of making or executing such deeds; and it shall be the duty of the recorder to indorse the time upon the mortgages or defeasible deeds when left for record, and to number the same according to the time they are left for record, and if two or more are left upon the same day, they shall have priority according to the time they are left at the office for record. And that no mortgage, or defeasible deed in the nature of a mortgage, shall be a lien until such mortgage or defeasible deed shall have been recorded, or left for record, as aforesaid: Provided, That no mortgage given for the purchase money