next, as fully, in the same manner, and with like effect, as though the same had been done pursuant to the provisions of the act of the thirteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. SECTION 2. That the president judge of the district court of Special court Allegheny county, be and he is hereby authorized to hold a to be held in special court in the county of Armstrong, to try such causes Armstrong co as may be certified to him by the president judges of the tenth and seventeenth judicial districts, being such as they were concerned in either as counsel or parties. in cert'n cases and district court of Lan SECTION 3. That the concluding clause or provision of the Original jurisfifth section of an act passed the tenth day of April, one thou-diction restorsand eight hundred and twenty-six, entitled "An act reorgani- ed to court of zing the district court for the city and county of Lancaster, so common pleas far as the same takes away the original jurisdiction of the court of common pleas of said city and county of Lancaster, caster co in in civil actions, where the sum in controversy exceeds two certain cases hundred dollars," be and the same is hereby repealed, so that from and after the passage of this act, the said court of common pleas and the said district court, shall have original and concurrent jurisdiction in all such cases as aforesaid; and that the fifth section of the act entitled " "An act to re-establish the district court for the city and county of Lancaster," pas ed the eleventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty, be and the same is hereby extended to the said court of common pleas. WM. A. CRABB, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighth day of April, A. D. eighteen hun dred and forty-one. DAVID R. PORTER. [No. 79.] A SUPPLEMENT To an Act Incorporating the Borongh of Carlisle. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority Fines, &e in of the same, That the several fines and penalties im osed by borough of the ordinances of the borough of Carlisle, may be sued for and Carlisle--how recovered before any justice of the peace of said borough, as debts of similar amount are by law recoverable. recovered WM. A. CRABB, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. DAVID R. PORTER. APPROVED-This sixth day of April, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-one. Act of 11th March, 1840 extended Duty of co com'sioners [No. 80.] A SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled "A further supplement to an act entitled 'An act to Graduate Lands on which money is due and unpaid to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes.' SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the provisions of the second section of an act entitled "A further supplement to an act entitled 'An act to graduate lands on which money is due and unpaid to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."" passed the eleventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty, be and the same is hereby extended to the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and no longer. And it shall be lawful for the commissioners of said counties, to appraise said lots at any time before the first day of November next, as fully, in the same manner, and with like effect, as though the same had been done pursuant to the provisions of the act of the thirteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. SECTION 2. That the president judge of the district court of Special court Allegheny county, be and he is hereby authorized to hold a to be held in special court in the county of Armstrong, to try such causes Armstrong co as may be certified to him by the president judges of the tenth and seventeenth judicial districts, being such as they were eoncerned in either as counsel or parties. in cert'n cases court of Lan SECTION 3. That the concluding clause or provision of the Original jurisfifth section of an act passed the tenth day of April, one thou-diction restorsand eight hundred and twenty-six, entitled "An act reorgani-ed to court of common pleas zing the district court for the city and county of Lancaster, so and district far as the same takes away the original jurisdiction of the court of common pleas of said city and county of Lancaster, caster co in in civil actions, where the sum in controversy exceeds two certain cases hundred dollars," be and the same is hereby repealed, so that from and after the passage of this act, the said court of common pleas and the said district court, shall have original and concurrent jurisdiction in all such cases as aforesaid; and that the fifth section of the act entitled "An act to re-establish the district court for the city and county of Lancaster," pas ed the eleventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty, be and the same is hereby extended to the said court of common pleas. WM. A. CRABB, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighth day of April, A. D. eighteen hun ! dred and forty-one. DAVID R. PORTER. [No. 81.] AN ACT To annul the Marriage Contract of Jacob Bartow and Adeline his wife. 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 marriage contract entered into by Jacob Bartow and Adeline his wife, be and the same is hereby Marriage conannulled and made void, and the parties released and dischartract annulled ged from the said contract, as fully and effectually, and absolutely as if they had never been joined in marriage: Provided, That nothing herein contained, shall be construed to render illegitimate any child or children of said marriage. WM. A. CRABB, Speaker of the House of Representatives. We do hereby certify, that the bill entitled "An act to annul the marriage contract of Jacob Bartow and Adeline his wife." was presented to the Governor on the twenty-sixth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and was not returned within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it had been presented to him. Wherefore, it has, agreeably to the consti tution of this Commonwealth, become a law in like manner as if he had signed it. ALEX. RAMSEY, Clerk of the House of Representatives. HARRISBURG, April 8th, 1841. SESSION OF 1841. 107 [No. 82.] AN ACT Supplementary to an act entitled "An act to consolidate and amend the several acts relative to a General System of Education by Common Schools," passed the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, The borough of Doylestown being an accepting school district, having failed to elect school directors for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and having elected directors by virtue of a resolution of the general as- Preamble sembly, which resolved that an election shall be held in the borough of Doylestown, in the county of Bucks, on the twenty-fifth day of May, one one thousand eight hundred and forty, for all such officers as by law should have been elected on the third Monday of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty, in accordance with a supplement to an act incorporating the borough of Doylestown, in the county of Bucks, passed the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyeight, and for other purposes; which election was held on the twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty, which was after the time provided and fixed by the fourth and fifth sections of the act to which this is a supplement, for carrying into effect certain provisions of the said fourth and fifth sections: Therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gencral Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all the provisions of the aforesaid fourth and Doylestown fifth sections of the act to which this is a supplement, be and election of the same is hereby extened to the borough of Doylestown, in the county of Bucks, as fully and effectually as though the said school directors had been duly elected under the provisions of the second section of the aforesaid act of the thirteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six. school direct's confirmed SECTION 2. That the aforesaid directors be, and the same are Election for hereby authorized, as soon as conveniently may be after the acceptance of passage of this act, to hold an election for the acceptance or school law non acceptance of the common school system, as directed by the thirteenth section of the act to which this is a supplement; and if a majority of the votes polled at the said election, be in favor of accepting the common school system, said system Appropriať'n shall be as fully accepted as if the question had been so determined on the first Monday of June, one thousand eight hun |