Style. No. 26. AN ACT To incorporate the Spring Garden plank road company in York county. 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 P. A. Small, Commissioners. Tn. Haller, Chas. Weiser, Danl. Hartman, John Campbell, Esquire, Samuel Landis, John Landis, Joseph Zeigler, Danl. Gotwalt, Henry Smyser, Jacob Boozer, Thos. Gray, Adam Paulus, John Long, Henry Leber, Colonel Danl. Gahley, or any three of them, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, by the name, style, and title of "the Spring Garden plank road company," with power to construct a turnpike plankroad, or a road part turnpike and part plank, from the borough of York to a point at or near Emig's tavern, in Spring Garden township, subject to all the provisions and restrictions, and with all the powers and privileges contained in an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved twenty-sixth January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the supplements to said act, approved seventh April, A. Ď., one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine: Provided, That the said company shall have the right to make use of the whole or any part of the road leading from York to Emig's tavern, by way of Smyser's tanyard, and locate their road upon the ground now occupied by it, and it shall be lawful for the court of Quarter Sessions of York county to appoint viewers to view and vacate such parts of the aforesaid road leading from York to Emig's tavern as shall be used or rendered useless by the said company, as is provided by the general road laws of this Commonwealth, in the cases of roads that have become useless. Privileges. Proviso. Capital stock. Certain persons 10 enter said road. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of this company shall consist of five hundred shares of stock at twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That the said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion may be deemed necessary to complete the road and carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons residing at or near any of the toll gates erected on said road to enter the said road on either side of the said gate and make use of the same beyond the limits of his, her, or their farm without paying the usual tolls to said company, and if the said person or persons, or any other person or persons, shall so enter upon and use the said road, or shall make use of any private road, way, or passage to get around any tollgate, he, she, or they shall not only be liable to said company for their regular toll for the distance actually traveled by them respectively on said road, to be recovered as debts of like amount are by law recoverable, but shall also be liable to a penalty of ten dollars for each and every violation of the provisions of this section, recoverable with costs, of suit as debts of like amount are now recoverable before any justiceof the peace or alderman of the proper county, one-half thereof for the use of the informer (who is hereby declared to be a competent witness in the case) and the other half for the use of said company. of road. SECTION 4. That if the said company do not commence their road Commencement within three years from the passage of this act, and complete the same and completion within six years thereafter, this act shall be null and void, except as far as the same may be necessary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of the company. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 27. AN ACT To revive and continue in force the act entitled "An Act to graduate lands on which money is due and unpaid to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania." 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 aet of the General Assembly of this Commonwealth, approved the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, entitled "An Act to graduate lands on which money is due and unpaid to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," be, and the same is hereby revived and continued in force until the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, as fully and entirely as if all its provisions and sections were re-written and re-stated in this act. SECTION 2. That the time for patenting the in-lots and out-lots in the towns of Erie, Waterford, Beaver, Franklin, and Warren, authorized to be appraised by the fifth section of the act entitled "An Act empowering the burgess and town council of the borough of Erie to borrow money, and to supply the said borough with water, and for other purposes," passed the thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, be, and the same is hereby revived and extended until the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty four. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. Sweden tp., Potter county. No. 28. AN ACT Relating to certain election districts in Potter, Lycoming, Montour, and Clinton counties. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That hereafter the special, general and township elections for the township of Sweden, in the county of Potter, shall be held at the house of Asenath Taggart, in said township. SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act the townPollock tp., Ly-ship of Pollock, in the county of Lycoming, shall be known by the coming county. name of Upper Fairfield and the qualified voters thereof shall hold their general and township elections at the house of George Boyer, in said township. SECTION 3. That the place of holding the general and township elecLimestone tp., tions in Limestone township, Montour county, shall hereafter be at the new Union school house, in said township. Montour co. Keating tp., SECTION 4. That hereafter the general, special and township elections Clinton county. in the township of Keating, Clinton county, shall be held at the house of Seth Nelson, in said township. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 29. AN ACT To authorize the commissioners of Huntingdon county to appropriate a certain sum to erect a bridge over the Jupiata river, at Huntingdon, on certain conditions. 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 commissioners of the county of Huntingdon be, and they are hereby anthorized to appropriate the sum of three thousand dollars to and for the erection of a bridge across the Juniata river, from and at the foot of Montgomery street, in the borough of Huntingdon: Provided, That any and all additional, or further sum or sums of money which may or shall be needed or required to pay for or secure the completion of a bridge at said place, shall first be paid or secured to be paid by the joint and several bond of three or more persons, and approved by two of the judges of the court of quarter sessions of said county, to the said county commissioners, for the use of said county; and that then, in either case, it shall be the duty of said county commissioners to erect, by contract, as is now provided by the general road and bridge laws of this Commonwealth, a county bridge across said Juniata river at the place above designated: And provided further, That the erection and completion of said bridge so as aforesaid, shall be deemed and held to be a good and valuable consideration for the aforesaid bond. APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. Authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Newtown Square and Paoli plank SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly mel, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Commissioners. Davis Beaumont, Henry Pratt, John P. Lewis, Joshua S. Cox, Rene Prott, Joseph Lewis, Townsend Speakman, Nathan Pratt, Enos Williamson, Isaac Thomas, Isaac Haldeman, and James J. Lewis, of Delaware county, and John D. Evans, John Acker, Hugh Steen, Jeffrey Smedley, Charles Bishop, Owen R. Horn, R. E. Lewis, Cadwaladar Evans, Jonathan Jones, Isaac Ruth, Thomas Biddle, Samuel W. Evans, Henry Caufman, Wm. W. Evans, Phinehas Paist, Enos Smedley, J. T. Morris, and James Portens, of Chester county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions and organize a company by the name, style and title of "The Newtown Style. Square and Paoli plank road company," with power to construct a plank road from Newtown Square, in Delaware county, to a point in the Lancaster turnpike, near the Paoli tavern in Chester county, by the Dearest and best route, as the stockholders may determine upon, subject Subject to the to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and provisions and plank road companies, passed the twenty-sixth day of January, A. D., restrictions of 1849, and the supplement thereto, excepting that portion of the thir- certain act. Proviso. Capital stock. Tolls. Commencement of road. teenth section of said act relating to tolls, and the company hereby incorporated shall have power to regulate the tolls within the limits of said thirteenth section, and lessen the same if the interest of the company may make it expedient so to do: Provided That sheep, hogs, and cattle, shall pass over the road free from toll, and that oxen and mules when in draught shall be charged the same rates as horses: And provided further, That the said company shall elect eight instead of five managers, as directed by the third section of this act. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of eight hundred shares of twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That the said company may from time to time by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for the purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion may be necessary to complete their road and carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That whenever said company shall have finished two miles or more of said road, they shall have power to erect gates and receive tolls agreeably to the provisions and restrictions of sections twelfth and thirteenth of the aforesaid act. SECTION 4. That if the said company shall not commence the conand completion struction of their road within three years from the passage of this act, and complete the same in five years thereafter, then this act shall be null and void except so far as the same may be necessary to wind up its affairs and pay the debts of said company. Commissioners to subscribe stock. SECTION 5. The commissioners or supervisors of highways of the or supervisors townships, through which the said road shall pass, shall have the same powers to subscribe for stock in said plank road as is vested in them by the act of Assembly, approved April fifth, A. D., 1842, authorizing subscriptions to turnpike roads on behalf of townships through which said roads may pass, and are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money to pay the instalments bearing an interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum and payable at any time not exceeding ten years, and their certificates of loan for said purpose shall be binding on said township. APPROVED-The twenty ninth day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. |