cated subse CHAPTER XCVIII. An ACT to probibit in Courts of Justice, the reading or quot ing of British Precedents subsequent to the fourth of July, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six. SECT. I. BE E it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in Ge neral Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority No British of the same, That from and after the first day of May next, it case adjudi- shall not be lawful to read or quote in any court in this Comquent to July monwealth, any British precedent or adjudication which may 4,1776, to be have been given or made subsequent to the fourth day of July read in the in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six. courts of this Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the reading of any precedent of maritime law, or of the law of common wealth. Those rela- nations. the law of nations excepted. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. CHAPTER XCIX. SIMON SNYDER. An ACT establishing an academy in the borough of Gettysburgh, in the county of Adams, and granting a sum of money thereto. SECT. I. BE E 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, An academy That there shall be, and hereby is established in the borough of in Gettys- Gettysburgh, in the county of Adams, an academy, or publick. established burgh. school for the education of youth, in the English and other lan guages, in the useful arts, sciences and literature, by the name, style, and title of " Gettysburgh Academy," under the care, diStyle and ti tle of. rection and government of eight trustees, to wit: Reverend WilTrustees na- liam Paxton, William Gilliland, Alexander Russel, James Dobmed, bin, Doctor William Crawford, William Maxwell, William Miller, and Robert Miheny; which said trustees and their successors to be elected as is hereinafter mentioned, shall be, and hereWho and by are declared to be one body politic and corporate, in deed and their succes in law, by the name, style and title of "The trustees of Getsors to be a body corpotysburgh Academy:" and by the same name, shall have perpetu al succession, and shall be able to sue, and be sued, plead, and be Name and impleaded in all courts of record and elsewhere, and shall be style of, competent and capable in law and equity, to take and to hold to them and their successors, for the use of said academy, lands; tenements, hereditaments, goods, and chattels, of whatsoever kind, rate. and powers and privileges. "The reading or quoting of" omitted in the original nature, or quality, real, personal or mixed, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, will, devise or bequest, from any person or persons whomsoever, capable of making the same; and the same from time to time, to grant, bargain, sell, demise, alien or dispose of, for the use of said academy, and to erect such buildings as may be necessary; and generally to do all and singular the matters and things, which shall be lawful for them to do for the well being of the said academy, and the due management and ordering the affairs thereof: Provided always, That the yearly value or income of the estates or money, shall not exceed four thousand dollars. Number of No one of to elected. How the SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the number of trustees shall be eight as aforesaid, and shall be so changed, as that none of them shall continue in office for a trustees to longer term than four years, without being re-elected by the be eight. people of the said county; and for that purpose, it shall be the serve longer duty of the said trustees at their first meeting, when not less than than four five of them shall be present, (which members shall be a board years, withor quorum to do business,) and they are hereby authorized and out being rerequired to cast lots for ascertaining the members to be changed Five meneach year, until the whole number shall be changed; and in order, bers to be a annually, to supply the vacancy as the same may take place, the quorum. citizens of the said county of Adams, on the second Tuesday of members October next, and annually thereafter, forever, at the same places, shall be in the same manner, and under the same laws, rules and changed. regulations, as members of the state legislature shall be chosen, tees to be eshall elect two trustees to supply the place of the trustees going lected annu out of office: Provided always, That in case the places of any of ally, on the the trustees shall become vacant by death, resignation or second otherwise, the remaining trustees shall appoint a person or per- October. Tuesday in sons to fill such vacancy or vacancies until the next general elec- How vacan tion, when the class in which said vacancy or vacancies may hap- cies by death, pen are to be chosen. Two trus are to be supplied. SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the first meeting of the said trustees shall be at Gettys- First meetburgh on the third Tuesday of May next, and at such other ing to be times as a majority of the trustees for the time being shall deter- the 3d Tues mine. held on day in May to be ap SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, next &c. That the trustees shall appoint a treasurer, annually, who shall Treasurer receive and hold all monies belonging to the institution and pay pointed. the same on orders signed by the board; he shall keep fair ac- Who shall counts thereof, to be open at all times to the inspection of the give bond trustees, and before he enters upon the duties of his office, shall &c. give bond in any sum at their discretion, with two or more sufficient sureties conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties enjoined, and the re-payment of all monies received by him, S $2000 granted to said acade my. How to be appropriated. Poor chil dren to be admitted. Proviso. to exhibit which bond shall be deposited with the prothonotary of the county. SECT. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby granted out of any unappropriated money which shall be in the treasury of this commonwealth, to be paid to the treasurer of the institution by the state treasurer, on the order or orders of the said trustees or any five of them herein before mentioned, to be applied under their direction, one thousand dollars thereof in the erection of a building or buildings suitable for the accommodation of the institution, and the purchasing of books, mathematical instruments, and the necessary Philosophical apparatus, and the remaining one thousand dollars shall be placed in some safe productive fund or funds, and the income thereof shall be forever applied in aid of other revenues to compensate a teacher or teachers in said academy, and there shall be admitted into said academy in consequence of the aforesaid grant, any number of poor children that may at any time be offered in order to be taught gratis: Provided, The number so admitted and taught shall at no time be greater than four, and that none of the said children so admitted shall continue in said academy to be taught gratis should others apply, longer than two years. SECT. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said trustees under the penalty of forty dollars each, to Penalty on the trustees be recovered for the use of said corporation as debts to that neglecting amount are by law recoverable, shall, annually, exhibit all their books, accounts and vouchers of every kind to the auditors of the said county of Adams, if the said auditors or any two of them shall require the same to be settled, adjusted and published in the same manner as the accounts of the county commissioners are by law directed to be settled, adjusted, and published. JOHN WEBER, Speaker their ac counts annually to the auditors of Adams county if required. of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER C. An ACT for the removal of the seat of justice in Wayne county, from THEREAS, it appears to the legislature, that those inhabitants of Wayne county who live near the line of Northampton county and along the river Delaware below Milford are subjected to very great hardships in their attendance on courts and public business at Bethany, on account of the great distance and the uninhabitable region over which they are obliged to travel ̈ And whereas it also appears, that Bethany is situate many miles to the north of the territorial centre of Wayne county; and that by a removal of the seat of justice to a place at or near, the said centre, the inhabitants first above mentioned would gain some relief, whilst the inhabitants of the upper townships would not suffer any material disadvantage by such removal: Therefore, missioners SECT. I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- The Governsentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General As- or to appoint sembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, three ComThat the governor, be, and he is hereby authorized and required to fix on a to appoint three persons as commissioners, to fix on a place for site within the seat of justice, at or within five miles of the territorial centre five miles of of the said county: Provided, That none of the commissioners so of said counto be appointed, shall be an inhabitant of Wayne county, or be owner of any lands within ten miles of the aforesaid centre: Pro- No one of vided also, that if one or more of the said persons should, after be- whom shall ing appointed, refuse to serve, the governor shall appoint another Wayne or others as often as it shall be necessary. the centre ty. reside in county. Proviso. Duty of the and make SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the said commissioners, to proceed to commisthe said county, and view as much thereof as shall be necessary oners. to enable them to fix on a place as aforesaid: and they are also May receive hereby authorized and required to receive and make proposals proposals from, and to as many persons as they shall think proper as to for lands &c terms and conditions of grants and conveyances to be made of And take lands for the use of public buildings, and for the benefit of the conveyances May receive county, and to take a conveyance or conveyances from any person money &c. or persons to the commissioners of the county of Wayne and towards their successors, for the use of the said county. And they are erecting the also hereby authorized to receive any other beneficial proposals, ings. public buildsuch as payment of money towards erecting public buildings, or an undertaking to erect them free from county expence, and to accede to any such offers and proposals as they may think proper: Provided always, That they take sufficient conveyances or covenants, with sureties if they shall think it necessary, or other instrument or instruments of writing for the purpose of duly securing to the said county, the lands, gifts, or other benefits before mentioned Provided also, That all such conveyances, covenants, All convey. and other instruments be made to the county commissioners or their successors in office for the use of the said county. And it shall further be the duty of the said commissioners first named, county. to deliver over, or cause to be delivered over to the county which shall commissioners, the conveyance or conveyances aforesaid. And be delivered they, the first named commissioners shall be entitled to receive over to the from the treasurer of Wayne county who is hereby required to county com. Proviso. ances to be taken for the use of said missioners. 1 Commis. sioners to pay to each of them the sum of three dollars for every day during which they shall have been employed in the duties mentioned in receive $3 the preceding sections. per day. the town and out lots. Which shall be SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforeShall lay out said, That as soon as the county commissioners aforesaid shall have received the conveyance or conveyances aforesaid, they shall proceed to lay out the same in proper town and out lots, and shall sell at public auction after due notice given, and convey in fee simple, clear of any reservations whatsoever, so many sold at pub- of the said town and out lots as they may think proper, and to appropriate the monies arising from such sales for the purpose of Appropria erecting a court-house and prison for the use of the county tion of the aforesaid, Provided always, That they reserve a sufficient quantity proceeds of. of land in the most proper place for the public buildings of the Commis. said county. lic auction &c. Proviso. sioners to house and prison. Offices, records, papers and SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, erect a court That the said county commissioners are hereby authorized and required as soon as may be done, to erect a court house and prison on some convenient and proper spot or spots within the place fixed on, by the first named commissioners. And as soon as a court-house and prison shall be completed so far as to answer the purposes for which such buildings are erected, the public offices and all records and papers thereto belonging, shall be prisoners to transferred and removed from Bethany to the place aforesaid; be removed and it shall also be the duty of the sheriff of Wayne county, to remove all the prisoners from the gaol of Bethany, to the new gaol aforesaid, and thenceforth, the place where such new courthouse and gaol shall have been erected, and no other shall be the seat of justice of Wayne county: and all the public or county offices shall be kept, and all the courts be held at the place aforesaid. thereto from Betha ny. Tax may be levied for erecting said build. ings &c. Proviso. Repealing section. SECT. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the purpose of defraying the expence of erecting a court-house and prison as aforesaid, as well as all the expences incident to the removal of the offices and records and prisoners the county commissioners aforesaid are hereby authorized to raise the sum necessary by one or more county tax or taxes: Provided always, That the sum to be added for this purpose to the sum which the said commissioners shall think proper to raise for other purposes shall not be more than one-fourth of the lat ter sum. SECT. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so much of any other act, as is contrary to or inconsistent with the present act, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight. hundred and ten. SIMON SNYDER. |