A. No, sir; for the protection of corporate property. I don't know whether it specially applies to corporate property or not.
Q. Is that a general act?
A. Indeed, sir, I never looked at the act. I don't know. I really don't know where the authority comes from, except I know these appointments are made.
By Senator Reyburn:
Q. Confined to the coal regions?
A. They call them coal and iron police. I don't know under what act of Assembly.
Q. How are they paid?
A. I suppose they are paid by the companies, I don't know though.
Q. How many of these were there in the city of Reading?
A. I don't know of my own knowledge. I heard there were seventeen or eighteen. There is one correction I want to make. I don't know whether I have stated that I know of my own personal knowledge that Mayor McCarthy came to the room, or whether I said I understood he was sent for. I don't remember him as coming to the room.