perty situate within the territory aforesaid, by virtue of writs or orders Issued out of or granted by any of the said courts prior to the passage of the said act, when duly confirmed and approved by the said courts, shall be as valid and effectual, to all intents and purposes, as if the said real estate and property remained situate in the said county of Montour, and all such sales and proceedings not yet fully perfected and confirmed, may be proceeded in, and action therein concluded by the said courts. commissioners SECTION 8. That the commissioners of Montour county are hereby Commissioners authorized and directed to deliver to the commissioners of Columbia of Montour co. ounty the book or books containing the last triennial assessment for to deliver to Scott township, now in Columbia county, but heretofore in Montour, of Columbia ogether with all papers connected therewith, and shall also cause, co. certain without delay, correct copies of so much of said last triennial assess- books. nent for the townships of Franklin, West Hemlock and Madison, as elates to property situate in those portions of said townships annexed o Columbia county by the act of fifteenth of January of the present fear, to be made and delivered to the commissioners of Columbia ounty, and the reasonable expense of making such copies shall be paid by the said county of Columbia, and the commissioners of the ast named county shall proceed to have the assessment and collection of taxes in the several districts added to said county by the act aforeaid, made and done in the same manner as if the said last triennial ssessment had been duly taken within and under the direction of the uthorities of the said county of Columbia. SECTION 9. That the sheriff and commissioners of Columbia county Duties of sheriff re hereby authorized and directed to open the wheel wherein the and commisames of persons to serve as jurors for the present year in the several sioners of Coourts of said county are contained, at any time before the drawing of lumbia relative urors so serve in the month of September next, and place therein, in to jurors. he manner provided by existing laws for the annual filling of said heel, the names of forty-five persons qualified to serve as jurors and sident within the limits of the territory added and re-annexed to said ounty of Columbia by the act entitled "An Act relating to the bounary line between the counties of Columbia and Montour," approved le fifteenth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight huned and fifty-three, to wit: twenty such persons resident in the townap of Scott; fifteen resident in the township of Madison; and ten sident in the township of Franklin; and all drawings of jurors, and her proceedings consequent thereon or connected therewith, shall ereafter be the same, and be as valid, as if the names of said perns had been theretofore placed in the said jury wheel in due course law, and all such persons whose names are so placed in the said wheel all be held qualified to serve, upon being drawn as jurors, in the seval courts of the said county of Columbia. SECTION 10. That John Koons and William S. Monroe, of Luzerne Commissioners. unty, and Benjamin Hayman, of Columbia county, are hereby ap iated commissioners to run, lay out and locate a state road, com- ading by the most eligible route to any point within one mile of the Location. n from such point of termination; and they are further authorized mark the line of such road, and make drafts or plots thereof, to be Drafts to be ed in the courts of quarter sessions of the said counties of Luzerne made out and d Columbia, and in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, filed. espectively; and the said commissioners shall each receive the sum Bounty on fox scalps in Lu zerne co. Proviso. awanna and Western railroad co. made valid. of two dollars per day for their services, one-fourth thereof to be paid by the county of Columbia and three-fourths by the county of Luzerne, and such road, upon being laid out and located as aforesaid, (if the said commissioners shall judge the same necessary) shall be opened and kept in repair as other public roads are opened and kept in repair by law. SECTION 11. That the provisions of the second section of the act of fifteenth March, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, entitled "An Act relative to the bounty on Fox scalps in the counties of Dauphin, Westmoreland, Chester, Monroe and Lehigh, be and the same are hereby extended to the county of Luzerne: Provided however, That the bounty in said county of Luzerne shall be for the scalp of a full grown fox fifty cents, and for those not full grown the sum of twenty-five cents. Elections for SECTION 12. That all elections heretofore held for officers of the officers of Lack- Lackawanna and Western railroad company, and all official acts and proceedings of said company, or of the officers thereof, heretofore had and done, are hereby made and declared to be valid and effectual, as fully and amply as if the act entitled "An act relating to certain corporations," approved the thirteenth day of March, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-seven, had never been enacted; and all and singular, the provisions, conditions and regulations of the said act shall not hereafter apply to or affect the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad company. Nescopeck SECTION 13. That the president, managers and company for erecting bridge company, a bridge over the Susquehanna river at the falls of Nescopeck, and when to hold. commonly known by the name of the Nescopeck bridge company, shall elections. hereafter hold their annual elections upon the last Saturday in March instead of the first Monday of May, as heretofore provided. pany to increase grade of road. Wilkesbarre SECTION 14. That the Wilkesbarre and Providence plank road comand Providence pany, organized under an act approved the fifteenth day of April, one plank road com- thousand eight hundred and fifty one, shall have the right to increase the grade on the unfinished portion of their road to an elevation of five degrees, if it shall be necessary so to do, and said company are hereby authorized to borrow money, to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, to complete said road, and to issue their bonds therefor, to be signed by the president and treasurer, in amounts not less than one hundred dollars each, bearing an interest not exceeding seven per centum per annum. People of Columbia, Lu zerne, and Sulli van may pursue SECTION 15. That it shall be lawful to pursue foxes and other wild animals with dogs in the counties of Columbia, Luzerne and Sullivan, and any person shooting or otherwise injuring any dog while so enga foxes with dogs. ged in such chase, shall be liable to pay a penalty of twenty dollars to the owner of such dog, to be recovered as debts of a like amount are by law recoverable, and that any fox or other wild animal captured, or about being captured, by such chase, shall belong to, or when taken by another person causelessly interfering in such chase, be held to belong to the owner of such dog or dogs, in case such owner shall follow the said chase with reasonable diligence, and without unnecessary interruption or delay: Provided, That any person engaged in hunting, as aforesaid, shall be liable for any damage committed by his dogs in killing sheep or materially injuring enclosures: And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall authorize any violation of any law heretofore enacted for the protection of game during certain months of the year, in the counties above named. Estate of Sam SECTION 16. That it shall and may be lawful for Henderson Gaylord, wel Davenport. administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits which were of Samuel Davenport, late of Plymouth, Luzerne county, deceased, to grant, bargain, sell and convey, such parts and portions of the real estate of said decedent as may be in his opinion needful to pay debts and educate the minor children of the decedent, or such parts and portions of said real estate as in the opinion of said administrator it would be advantageous to the estate of said decedent to have sold, and the said administrator is hereby authorized to sell at public or private sale; but before any such sale vests title in the vendee, the terms and conditions of said sale shall be reported to the orphans court of said county, and shall be accompanied by the assent, in writing, to such sale, of the widow of said decedent, and the guardian of the minor children of said decedent, and if on report, the said court shall approve any such sale, then and in such case the said court shall order such report to be filed and approved, and a bond to be filed, with like condition as is prescribed when an administrator is authorized to sell real estate for the payment of debts, under an order of the orphans' court, and in such amount and with such security as the said court shall order and direct; any sale or sales having been reported with the written assent as aforesaid, approved by the court, and bond given and approved, the said court shall thereupon confirm the sale absolutely, and then the said administrator shall have power to convey the lands so reported to be sold, and all such estate and title as the intestate had therein at and immediately before his death: And Whereas, The said decedent in his life time made many sales Preamble. in writing and parol; in some cases the purchase money has been in part or mostly paid, in some wholly paid, in some instances none has been paid: SECTION 17. That the said administrator is hereby authorized to re- Administrator port such sales to said court, with a statement of amount of purchase to make report money due, and which report, having the assent in writing of said to court. widow and guardian, if the said court shall approve the said report, thereupon a like order as aforesaid shall be made as to bond and security for any of said purchase money that may yet be due, and upon the filing of said bond, with security where purchase money is yet due, the said court shall thereupon order a deed to be made by the said administrator to the purchaser, and the said administrator shall then have power to convey to the purchaser all such estate and title as the intestate had at and immediately before his death in and to the lands purchased: Provided, That the said administrator, whether in making Proviso. or reporting sales, shall have the power to give time for payment of purchase money in part, and where he shall secure by judgment lien any unpaid balance of purchase money on the land conveyed and shall keep the same a lien, he shall not be answerable for any monies that cannot be collected and do not come to his hands. APPROVED The second day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 196. A SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Lancaster, Lebanon and Pine Grove railroad company," approved the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. 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 it shall be lawful for the Lancaster, Lebanon and Pine Grove railroad Lancaster, Leb- company, to extend their road from a point in Berks county, at or near anon and Pine Morgantown, and thence through or near Phoenixville, in Chester Grove railroad county, to the city or districts of Philadelphia, subject to the general co. to extend their road. Quorum. regulations and privileges contained in the eleventh section of the act incorporating said company, and shall have power to connect their said railroad with any railroad belonging to any other company in the route of the same, and that said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for the purpose, increase their capital stock if it shall be deemed necessary, to an amount not exceeding forty thousand shares, of fifty dollars each, and that the said company be and are hereby authorized to pay the shareholders entitled to receive the same, in the months of May and November of each year, interest at the rate of six per centum on all instalments paid, and continue to pay interest upon the same until said railroad, branches, or laterals, shall be completed, and that all the profits and earnings of said railroad shall be credited to and all interest thus paid shall be charged 'to the cost of construction: Provided, That interest shall not be paid upon any shares of stock upon which any instalments has become due and remain unpaid, and also that the provisions of the tenth section of the original act be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. That tive members of said board shall constitute a quorum to transact business, instead of three, as provided in the original act to which this is a supplement. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. We do certify that the bill entitled "A supplement to au act entitled 'An Act to incorporate the Lancaster, Lebanon and Pine Grove railroad company,' approved twenty-eighth March, A. D., eighteen hundred and forty-six, was presented to the Governor on the seventeenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and was not returned within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it had been presented to him, wherefore it has, agreeably to the Constitution of this Commonwealth, become a law in like manner as if he had signed it. WM. JACK, Clerk of the House of Representatives. JOHN M. SULLIVAN, HARRISBURG, April 5th, 1853. Clerk of the Senate. No. 197. AN ACT To incorporate the Blockley and Merrion Turnpike or Plank road company; relative to the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad company; to the paving of side-walks in the unincorporated Northern Liberties and North Peun; and to paving of Sutherland Avenue in Moyamensing, Philadelphia county; to certain election districts; to the borough of Blockley, Philadelphia county; and to the Justice Docket of L. P. Stalford, of Bradford county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Owen Jones, Jacob Stadelman, James McGee, Michael McGee, Thomas G. Corporators. Lodge, John Waynwright, John Hansell, David Morgan, Jesse Shlater, Henry Hoppen, Paul Jones, Paul Hoffman, Jesse George, Isaac Heston, Reese Price, Louis Wister, Edmond George, David George, Joseph Lentz, Samuel Martin, David Rhoads, and such others as may hereafter become associated with them, are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and Style. title of the Blockley and Merrion Turnpike and Plank road company," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and all the privileges and franchises incident to a corporation, and capable of holding their capital stock and the increase and profits thereof, and of Privileges. enlarging the same, in such manner as they may think proper, and of purchasing, taking and holding, to them and their successors and assigns, and of selling, transferring, conveying, in fee simple or for any lesser estate, all such lands, tenements, hereditaments and estates, real and personal, as shall be necessary to them in the prosecution of their work, and of suing and being sued, and of doing every other matter or thing which a corporation or body politic may lawfully do. SECTION 2. That the capital stock shall consist of one thousand Capital stock. shares, of twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That said com- Proviso. pany may by a vote of a majority 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, agreeably to the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That the said company shall have power to construct a Powers of complank or stone road, commencing at or near the three mile stone on pany. the Lancaster turnpike in the county of Philadelphia, and terminating at or between the junction of Whiteman's lane on the old Lancaster road with said turnpike, in the county of Montgomery, by such route as they shall consider will be best and most practicable, and shall have power to lay the track of the same on the bed of the old Lancaster road, or any other roads, or on the grounds contiguous to said roads, as the managers may deem most expedient, and shall be subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act of Assembly regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the supplements thereto, excepting so much of said acts as are hereby altered or supplied: Provided, That the said company shall have power to open Proviso. said road to any width not exceeding sixty feet, at such time or times |