Preamble.

Administratrix

Bidlack to make a deed.

Proviso.

said Nathan Beach, the title to the one full equal undivided half part of a certain tract of land, situate then in the township of Hanover, and now in the township of Denison, in the said county of Luzerne, surveyed on warrant granted to Andrew Kennedy, containing four hundred and one acres and allowances.

And Whereas, Since the date of the execution and delivery of said contract, the said Benjamin A. Bidlack hath died without making provisions by will or otherwise for the conveyance to the said Nathan Beach, or his heirs or assigns, of the said undivided moiety or half part of said tract of land:

And whereas, Andrew T. McClintock, Esquire, administrator of the estate of the said Nathan Beach, deceased, pursuant to the provisions of an act of Assembly of this Commonwealth, passed the third day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, hath sold the interest of said Nathan Beach in said described tract of land, to Algernon S. Roberts and Edward Roberts, of the city of Philadelphia:

And Whereas, For the improvement and developement of said tract of land, a conveyance ought to be made to the said Algernon S. Roberts and Edward Roberts, and their heirs and assigns, of the said undivided moiety or half part of the said tract of land; therefore,

SECTION 2. Be it enacted that the said Matilda M. Miner, adminisof Benjamin A. tratrix, as aforesaid, be, and she is hereby authorized and empowered to execute and deliver a deed, conveying and confirming to the said Algernon S. Roberts and Edward Roberts, and their heirs and assigns, all the aforesaid full equal undivided moiety or half part of the said tract of land in the warrantee name of Andrew Kennedy, as aforesaid, and the said deed shall be as effectual to vest the title thereto, as if the said Benjamin A. Bidlack, in his life-time, in due form of law, had conveyed the same; Provided, however, That the said administratrix shall not deliver the said deed until a deed shall have been executed by the administrator of Nathan Beach, deceased, and delivered to said Algernon S. Roberts and Edward Roberts, pursuant to the said recited sale; And provided also, That the signatures of the said Benjamin A. Bidlack, and of the subscribing witness to the herein before recited contract, shall be proved by the oath of at least one disinterested person acquainted with said signature endorsed on said contract, and that said contract, when so proved, shall be recorded, together with the deed of the administratrix aforesaid, in the office of the recorder of deeds, et cetera, of the said county of Luzerne.

Proviso.

non co.

Time of holding SECTION 3. That so much of the act of the fourteenth day of courts in Leba- April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, as requires the courts in Lebanon county, to be holden on the first Monday in August, and to continue two weeks, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and so much thereof as requires the courts in Dauphin county, to be holden on the third Monday in August, be, and the same is also hereby repealed, and in licu thereof, the courts in Lebanon county shall commence on the third Monday in August, and continue for one week, if the business depending in the same shall require it, and the courts in Dauphin county shall commence on the Monday next following the fourth Monday in August, and continue as heretofore, and the terms

of the said court shall be, and the same are hereby altered to correspond with the provisions of this act.

W. P. SCHELL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO. CARSON,
Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The nineteenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 150.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Girard and Albion plank road company.

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 James Webster, George H. Cutler, John M'Clure, John Gulliford, J. Commissioners. L. Forster, Agrippa Martin Williams, Maynard Leffert, Hart Robertson, Wilcox J. J. Halstead, Samuel Sisson, M. S. Rouse, Pelham Barker, H. A. Hills, Pierson Clark, J. Howland, Litchfield Azer Barrett, or any five of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, to receive subscriptions and organize a company by the name, style and title of the Girard and Albion plank road com- Style. pany, to locate and construct a plank road from Girard in Erie county,. to Albion in said county, by such route as shall be best and most practicable, said road to be so graded that it shall in no place rise or fall more than will form an angle of four degrees with a horizontal line, subject to the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike Subject to proand plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, visions and reA. D., one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the several strictions of supplements thereto, so far as they are not inconsistent with this and the following sections.

certain act.

SECTION 2. That the capital of said company shall consist of six Capital stock. hundred shares of twenty-five dollars each share: Provided, That said Proviso. 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 to

carry out the true intent and meaning of this act.

SECTION 3. That when the said company shall have finished three Letters patent. miles or more of said road, the president thereof may give notice to

the Governor, who shall thereupon do and perform the duties prescribed in the twelfth section of said act of the twenty-sixth day of January,

one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

SECTION 4. That the said company shall have power to connect with Connection with the Meadville and Edinboro plank road, or with any plank road run

other roads.

ning along the valley of the Cussawago, at or near Cussingville, or continue the same to Meadville or Conneautville, in Crawford county. SECTION 5. That if the said company shall not commence the conCommencement and completion struction of the said road within three years after the granting of this charter, and complete the same within ten years thereafter, this act shall be null and void, except so far as the same may be necessary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of said company.

of said road.

W. P. SCHELL,

APPROVED-The nineteenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 151.

AN ACT

For the relief of Dorcas Vanhorn, widow of an old soldier; authorizing the Bloomsburg railroad iron company to sell their real and personal estate; and relative to an election district in Indiana 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 State Treasurer the State Treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized and required to to pay Dorcas pay to Dorcas Vanhorn of Indiana county, widow of Isaiah Vanhorn, Vanhorn certain a soldier of the revolutionary war, an annuity of forty dollars, com

money.

Bloomsburg railroad iron

mencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to be paid annually on the first day of January and July. SECTION 2. That the Bloomsburg railroad iron company, be, and are hereby authorized to sell and convey all the property, real and percompany autho-sonal, of the said company, wheresoever situated, and after payment of tain real estate. all the debts of said company, to distribute all proceeds of the said property among said stockholders rateably, according to the number of shares held by each, so that said corporation may be dissolved, and the business of the same be finally closed.

rized to sell cer

SECTION 3. That from and after the passage of this act, the qualified Armstrong tp., voters of Armstrong township, in Indiana county, be, and are hereby

Indiana co.

authorized to elect four supervisors of the public highways, at the usual time and place for holding township elections in said township. W. P. SCHELL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The nineteenth day of March, A. D., one thousand

eight hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 152.

AN ACT

To authorize the Canal Commissioners to examine the claims of James O'Connor and company.

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 Canal Commissioners be, and they are hereby authorized and required to examine the claim of James O'Connor and company, for injuries done to the two section boats named Cincinnati and Enterprise, and their cargoes, on the Western division of the Pennsylvania canal, in the month of November, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and if they shall ascertain that the damages sustained were occasioned by the negligence, carelessness, or inattention of any of the agents or officers of the Commonwealth appointed to keep and preserve the canal in proper navigable order, then to assess the amount thereof and report the same to the Legislature as speedily as practicable: Provided, That no damges shall be allowed except for the actual injury done to the boats and cargoes, and no item of damage shall be allowed unless the amount of the actual loss, deducting the value of the wrecks and damaged goods, shall be clearly established by affi

davit.

W. P. SCHELL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO. CARSON,
Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The nineteenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

No. 153.

WM. BIGLER.

AN ACT

To authorize the borough of Greensburg to subscribe to the capital stock of the Pennsylvania railroad company; relative to vacancies in the board of directors of road companies in Allegheny county; to borough officers in Port Clinton, Schuylkill county; relating to the prothonotary of Westmoreland county; relative to the Manor turnpike and plank road; and repealing the act authorizing the sale of the Warren bridge; and relating to overseers of the poor and supervisors of the several townships in Allegheny county.

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 Borough of the burgesses of the borough of Greensburg in the county of West- Greensburg to moreland, be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to sub-subscribe to the

capital stock of scribe, not exceeding one thousand shares, to the capital stock of the the Pennsylva- Pennsylvania railroad company, for the purpose of constructing a nia railroad co. branch of said railroad from a point on said road at or near said

Proviso.

Vacancies in

borough, to the borough of Uniontown in Fayette county, and the said burgesses are hereby further authorized and empowered to issue bonds of the said borough of Greensburg, to the amount subscribed as aforesaid, bearing interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, the principal whereof shall be payable at a period not exceeding twenty years, which said bonds may be received by the Pennsylvania railroad company, in payment of the stock subscribed as aforesaid, and not to be issued for sums less than one hundred dollars, and assignable only upon the book or books provided by said burgesses for that purpose by the holders thereof, or their heirs or legal representatives, or by some person having a power of attorney to make such assignment: Provided, That the said bonds shall not be issued as aforesaid until the taxable inhabitants of said borough shall first approve of the subscription aforesaid, at an election to be called and held for that purpose by the burgesses of said borough, and to be conducted according to such rules as the said burgesses shall establish.

SECTION 2. That in case by resignations, death or otherwise, the road companies board of directors of any incorporated road company in the county of in Allegheny co. Allegheny, shall be left without a quorum, it shall and may be lawful for the stockholders of such company to supply such vacancy by a new election, whereof ten days previous public notice shall be given by the secretary or treasurer of such company.

Port Clinton,

Schuylkill co.

County officers in Westmoreland co.

Amendment of certain act.

Commencement

SECTION 3. That from and after the passage of this act, the election for borough officers of the borough of Port Clinton, Schuylkill county, shall be held at the house now occupied by Daniel L. Boyer, in said borough.

SECTION 4. That at the next general election for the office of prothonotary and clerks of the several courts in the county of Westmoreland, the qualified electors of said county shall elect one person to fill the office of prothonotary, and one person to fill the office of clerk of the courts of general quarter sessions of the peace, clerk of the court of oyer and terminer, and clerk of the orphans' court of said county.

SECTION 5. That the act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Manor turnpike and plank road company," and to increase the capital stock of the Pennsylvania railroad company, be altered and amended as follows: That the said Manor turnpike and plank road shall begin at the point on the New Alexandria and Pittsburg turnpike road at or near Salem, in Westmoreland county, as designated in the act to which this is a supplement, from thence by way of Jenning's mills, Harrison city, the Manor station, and terminating on the Greensburg and Pittsburg turnpike road at or near to the borough of Adamsburg, and that Joseph Walthour, Samuel Rosk, Mathias Sholion, Joseph Heybronk, David Kistler, David Gilchrist, Michael Baughman and John Goess, senior, be appointed additional commissioners, to open books, receive subscription, and to do and perform all other things provided for in the act to which this is a supplement, so far as it relates to Manor turnpike and plank road company.

SECTION 6. That the time allowed said Manor turnpike and plank and completion road company shall be extended one year longer to commence, and one year longer to finish said road, than is provided for in the original act to which this is a supplement.

of road.

Repeal.

SECTION 7. That the nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first and twentysecond sections of an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the village