Qualifications of votes

Henry Etter

erect a dam

tors of state and county taxes now have by law to collect the said state and county taxes, and may collect the same from the tenants of the property taxed in like manner as the said collectors of state and county taxes may now lawfully do, and with the same effect as between said landlords and tenants.

SECTION 3. That the sixth section of the supplement to the act to which this is a supplement, passed the twenty-third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, be and the same is hereby altered so as to require, in order to entitle any person to vote for borough officers, the payment of a borough tax, within one year preceding the day of election, in case such tax shall have been assessed upon other than real property within said year, and in case such tax shall have been assessed within said year, then the payment of a state or county tax, within said year.

SECTION 4. That Henry Etter, of York county, his heirs authorized to and assigns, are hereby authorized to construct or erect a wing dam in the river Susquehanna, from the property owned by said Etter, on Hill Island, at the Swatara Ripples, in the county of Dauphin, and to use the water for manufacturing purpo ses: Provided, That in constructing said dam, no impediment or obstruction to the navigation of the river Susquehanna, shall be created or occasioned, and no injury done to the rights of individuals.

I'roviso

Jackson greys SECTION 5. That from after the passage of this act, the changed from infantry volunteer company in the county of York, called the infantry to ri-Jackson Greys," shall be and it is hereby changed into a rifle fle company company by the same name. And it shall be the duty of the

Arms &c

Part of former act repealed

adjutant general (upon the return of the arms and accoutrements heretofore received by the said company under the laws of this commonwealth, according to the conditions contained in the bond) to furnish, upon the order of the proper brigade inspector, out of any of the arsenals of this commonwealth, where a sufficient number of unappropriated arms and accoutrements may be had at, the usual stand of rifles for the use of said company, under the restrictions, provisions and security as are now by law required. And the fortieth section of the act of sixteenth April, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyeight, in relation to said company be and is hereby repealed. SECTION 6. That Henry Alter, of Allegheny county, and J. M. Laird and William Grier, of Westmoreland county, are State r'd from hereby authorized to view and lay out a state road, not exAllegheny co ceeding an elevation of five degrees, commencing at Logan's to Westmore- ferry, in said county of Allegheny, thence to the German meetland county ing house, on the farm of John Beemer; thence by Murraysville to intersect the new graded road from Greensburg, Westmoreland county, to Chalfants on Turtle creek, at or near the farm of Mr. Remery, five miles west of Greensburg. The said commissioners shall be allowed one dollar and fifty cents

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Pay

per day for their own services, and one dollar per day for each chain carrier, and a sum which shall be reasonable for the services of an engineer: the accounts to be settled and adjus- Adjusted ted by the county commissioners of Allegheny and Westmoreland counties, and payment made by the treasurer of each county, as shall be equally proportioned to the distance of said road when located, lying in each of the said counties.

SECTION 7. That the state road laid out from Darlington, State r'd from Beaver county, to the city of Pittsburg, by a majority of the Beaver co to commissioners named in the act passed twenty-fourth June, Pittsburg declared a public one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, authorizing the highway laying out of said state road, shall be considered to all intents and purposes a public highway, in the same manner as if said road had been laid out and marked by the whole of the commissioners named in said act, and done and returned to the proper officer within the time mentioned in said act, and the commissioners of each of the counties through which said road Pay of compasses, are authorized and required to pay, if not already paid, missioners the expenses of said view in the proportions mentioned in said act.

time extended

SECTION 8. That the time for completing the location and State road f'm survey of a state road from Ebensburg to Punxatawny author- Ebensburg to ized by sections eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, six- Punxatawny, teen and seventeen, of an act entitled "an act to incorporate a female seminary, in Landisburg, Perry county, and for other for completi'n purposes," passed the twelfth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty, be and the same is hereby extended for one

year from the passage of this act, and Stephen Lloyd, John Com'issioners B. Douglass, of Cambria county, Richard Bard, of Clearfield county, William Thompson, of Indiana county, and James Winslow, of Jefferson county, or any three of them, be commissioners in place of the persons named in the eleventh section of said act, and shall be paid compensation for their Pay services, the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day.

mer laws re

SECTION 9. That from and after the passage of this act, the Montgomery ninth section of the act entitled "an act to incorporate a female co part of forseminary, in Landisburg, Perry county, and for other pur-pealed poses," which ninth section has relation to the appointment of collectors of county rates and levies, in the county of Montgomery, be and the saine is hereby repealed.

SECTION 10. That the two provisos contained in the elev- Burgess enth section of the act entitled "an act authorizing the chief Sunbury part of former law burgess of the borough of Sunbury to sell and convey a portion of the bank of the river opposite said borough, and rela- repealed tive to the boroughs of Carlisle, New Alexandria, Reading, and Hollidaysburg, and for other purposes," passed on the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, be and the same are hereby repealed, and annulled.

Transfer of SECTION 11. That the provisions of the first section of the judgments act of sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty, from E.D. Su- entitled "an act relating to executions, and for other purposes, preme Court shall be extended to judgments rendered in the city and county of Philadelphia, in the supreme court for the easterr. district of Pennsylvania; and said judgments may be transfered to any district court or court of common pleas of the Commonwealth, under the provisions of said act.

Commissio'rs

between Huntingdon and

Centre co

SECTION 12. That Robert Campbell and William Read, of to establish Huntingdon county, and William Burchfield, of Centre county, division line be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to run and mark or remark the division lines of Huntingdon and Centre counties, agreeably to the provisions of the first section of the act of the seventh day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and one, who shall proceed to perform said duty on or before the first day of October, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and whose report, when made and filed agreeably to said act, shall be final and conclusive; the daily pay of said commissioners, together with the incidental expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their duty shall be paid equally by the said counties of Centre and Huntingdon, in the usual manner.

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Part of former

SECTION 13. That the fourth and fifth sections of the act of aw repealed assembly, passed the twenty seventh day of March, one thousofar as relates sand eight hundred and thirty-nine, entitled "an act authorizto certain tp's. ing the commissioners of the county of Philadelphia, upon in Chester co. certain conditions to widen, grade and culvert, a certain portion and other laws of Broad street, in said county, and for other purposes," be made to apply to said t'ps and the same are hereby repealed, so far as respects West Caln and West Whiteland townships, in Chester county, and the several laws of this Commonwealth, relative to roads and public highways, now in force, are hereby extended to the townships aforesaid.

in cases of

SECTION 14. That the provisions of the twenty third section of the act entitled "an act to authorize the Governor to Compensati'n contract with the corporation of the borough of Harrisburg to Attorneys for supplying the public buildings with water, and for other purposes, so far as regards the employment and compensation of attorneys and counsel, be and the same are hereby extended, so as to embrace the case of attorneys or counsel heretofore employed on the part of the Commonwealth, in the trial of any case of escheat.

Escheat

WM. A. CRABB,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JN, H. EWING.

APPROVED-This second day of April, A. D. one thousand

eight hundred and forty-one,

Speaker of the Senate,

DAVID R. PORTER.

[No. 73.]

AN ACT

For the relief of certain associations of individuals, and for other purposes,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same: That the act entitled, "an act supplemen- Former act tary to an act entitled an act relating to the association of indi- repealed viduals for the purpose of banking," passed the nineteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and ten, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. That no contract heretofore entered into by or Contracts with any such association of persons, as is mentioned in the made under said act of nineteenth March, eighteen hundred and ten, shall former law be construed or taken to be void for or by reason of any of declared valid

rovisions of the said act, but the same shall have as full

and effect as if the said act had been repealed prior to

a contract being entered into.

SECTION 3. That the boundary lines of the borough of Boundry lines Meadville, in the county of Crawford, be and the same are of Meadville, hereby altered and extended as follows-commencing on the Crawford co. east side of Water street at the meadow land of J. H. Huidekoper; extended thence along the north and eastern line of said meadow, in an easterly and southerly direction to the line between the property formerly owned by James Miller, now George Leitler, and the out lot formerly owned by Peter Dinkey, now Steven Barlow; thence eastwardly along said out lot to the eastern boundary of the Susquehanna and Waterford turnpike road; thence southwardly along said road to the farn of William Clark; thence eastwardly along the line of said farm to the western boundary of the Oil creek road; thence northwardly along said western boundary to the north line of the continuation of Chestnut street to East alley; thence north along said alley, and upon a continued straight line to the farm late the property of Samuel Lord; and thence along the line of said farm, according to the boundaries of said borough, established by the act entitled "a supplement to the acts incorporating the towns of Gettysburg, in the county of Adams, Meadville, in the county of Crawford, and Uniontown, in the county of Fayette, and to incorporate the town of Jersey Shore and Pennsborough, in the county of Lycoming, and for other purposes," passed the

fifteenth day of March, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty-six.

WM. A. CRABB,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JN. H. EWING,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED This third day of April, A. D. eighteen hun

dred and forty-one.

DAVID R. PORTER.

[No. 74.]

AN ACT

To repeal the resolution authorizing the widening of Callowhill street, in the county of Philadelphia, and for other purposes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so much of the resolution to authorize the Part of former directors of the poor, and of the house of employment, of the law relat'g to county of Northampton, to sell and convey real estate, and adGallowhill st. minister oaths, and to authorize the school directors of the repealed

borough of Easton, in said county, to fix the minimum age at which children in said borough shall be admitted into the common schools, and for other purposes, as relates to the widening of Callowhill street, in the county of Philadelphia, and the provisos therein contained, passed the twenty-first day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of the assessors, within the city and incorporated districts of the county of Philadelphia, in preparing the alphabetical lists and copies thereof of the white freemen residing within their respective wards as required by the fourth section of the act of thirteenth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty, entitled a supplement to an act entitled an act relating to the elections of this commonwealth, to insert thereon the occupation and place of residence of each of said white freemen, specifying the street and number of the house where such white freeman resides.