Centre, Isaac Miller Huntingdon, Josiah C. Hall Franklin, Ross S. Gordon Mifflin, Geo. W. Dunmire Blair, Robert F. Bankert Fulton Juniata, W. A. Kinzer Snyder, Henry Bowersox SIXTH DISTRICT Erie, Josiah F. Rogan Mercer, A. W. Beil Clarion. Frank McCall Warren, E. M. Lowe Elk, W. M. Thomas Crawford, M. G. Beatty Venango, Pressley H. Culbertson Forest, J. C. Scowden McKean, O. S. Gahagan Jefferson, Harvey L. Grube SEVENTH DISTRICT Potter Cameron, John W. Lewis Lycoming, Joseph H. Nicely Montour, James Ryan Sullivan, Charles W. Warren Tioga, James Crawford Clinton, James L. Kemmerer Columbia, Charles E. Welliver Union, William Ruhl EIGHTH DISTRICT Bradford, Charles L. Crandall Wayne, Earl Rockwell Monroe, Thomas Shiffer Wyoming, H. W. Place Susquehanna, F. H. Ball Pike, E. J. Darragh Carbon, Thos. B. Craig Lackawanna, John Von Bergen NINTH DISTRICT Berks, J. Calvin Herbine Schuylkill, B. J. Smith Lehigh, Oscar L. Henninger Northampton, Elmer P. Peifer Luzerne, R. A. Beisel PAYMENT OF COSTS AND FINES BY INSTALMENTS. Act No. 111, approved by the Governor, May 17, 1917, grants permission to any Court or sentencing authority to dismiss any person held for non-payment of fines and costs on condition of agreeing to pay said charges by instalments. In previous publications of this Society, it has been shown that the practice in the 67 counties of the Commonwealth is far from uniform. The law of 1836, except for first offenders, is still in force, which prescribes that when a fine is $15.00 or less the defendant may be detained 30 days in prison; if the fine is more than $15.00, the term of imprisonment is 90 days. Comparatively few counties observed this regulation. Many counties detained the prisoner as many days as there were dollars in the fine. Some counties have already profited by availing themselves of the privilege of Act No. 111. In one county the sum of $2600.00 had been collected in fines on the instalment plan in less than three months. Formerly the county collected nothing, and in addition maintained the prisoner who was detained in idleness. If the prisoner thus detained could do any service to the county in the line of road-making or other useful employment, his detention would be considered sensible. To present him with board and lodging for a hundred days with no employment, because he owes the county a hundred dollars, is an absurdity. The privilege of paying the fine and costs in instalments ought to inure to the benefit of all parties concerned. EMPLOYMENT OF PRISONERS ON COUNTY OR ALMSHOUSE FARMS.