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property, or so much thereof as may be necessary, belonging to Thomas Collins, and fronting on Walnut street aforesaid, at a reasonable price, not to exceed in any event the sum of two thousand dollars.

W. P. SCHELL,

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

WM. BIGLER.

No. 227.

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act entitled "An Act to prevent the continuance or establishment of obstructions to the navigation of the river Delaware," approved March twentyninth, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

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 so much of the first section of the act entitled "An Act to prevent the continuance or establishment of obstructions to the navigation of the river Delaware," approved March twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, as is construed to authorize the courts of quarter sessions to erect dams in said river, is hereby repealed: Provided, The State of New Jersey repeals the act concurring with the said act of nineteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

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APPROVED-The eighth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

Special tax in the borough of

Indiana.

Paving and curbing side walks in the

No. 228.

AN ACT

To authorize the Burgess and Town Council of the borough of Indiana to assess and collect a special tax, to pay for land damages, right of way, and depots, for the extension of the Pennsylvania railroad from the borough of Blairsville to the borough of Indiana, in the county of Indiana; relative to pavements in Hollidaysburg; to the sale of a burial ground in Kensington, Philadelphia county, to the New York and Washington Printing Telegraph company; and to the estate of Charles Wharton, deceased.

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 the burgess and town council of the borough of Indiana be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to assess and collect as a special tax, upon and from all property in said borough liable to county rates and levies, such amount of tax as may be necessary and required to pay for land damages, right of way, and all incidental expenses for and respecting depots, water stations, and right of way for the extension of the Pennsylvania railroad from the borough of Blairsville to the borough of Indiana, in said county: Provided, That the amount of tax so assessed shall not exceed three per centum upon the valuation of the aforesaid property in any one year.

SECTION 2. That the town council of the borough of Hollidaysburg shall have full power and authority to require by ordinance or resolution, the owners of lots within said borough to curb and pave the sideborough of Hol- walks in front and adjoining their respective lots, at such grades as may idaysburg. be established by the street commissioners of said borough, and to keep such pavements as are now made, and which shall hereafter be made, in good order and repair.

High constable to give lot

owners notice.

In case of ne

town council.

SECTION 3. That whenever the town council of the borough of Hollidaysburg shall by ordinance or resolution, require the owner or owners of any lot or lots, or land, in said borough, to curb or pave or repair the pavements on the sidewalks, in front of or bounding on his, her or their lot or lots, or land, it shall be the duty of the high constable of said borough to give to the owner or owners of said lot or lots, or land, notice of such ordinance or resolution, in writing, which shall be served by the delivering thereof to such owner or owners personally, or by putting up the same at the dwelling house or other conspicuous place on said lot or lots, or land, and the affidavit of said constable shall in all cases be evidence of the service of such notice.

SECTION 4. That when the owner or owners of any lot or lots, or land, glect, duties of in said borough, shall neglect or refuse to curb or pave or repair the pavements or the sidewalks adjoining his, her or their lot or lots, or lands, on being duly required so to do, it shall be lawful for said town council, after the expiration of twenty days from the service of the notice aforesaid, to purchase and procure materials for such curbing, paving or repairing, and cause the same to be put up, erected and made, at the proper cost and expense of said owner or owners, and on the completion thereof, or within six months thereafter, the said town council may file a claim in the corporate name of said borough, against said owner or owners, in the prothonotary's office of Blair county, for the cost and expense

of such curbing, paving or repairing, duly certified by the burgess of
said borough, and such claim shall be and remain a lien on said lot or
lots, or land, of like effect, and may be recovered in like manner, as
the liens of mechanics and material men under the existing laws of
this Commonwealth: Provided, nevertheless, That such costs and ex- Proviso.
penses shall remain a personal charge against said owner or owners, and
may be recovered by personal action against him, her or them, in like
manner as debts of like amount are by law recoverable.

ern Liberties to

SECTION 5. That the German Reformed congregation in the North-German Reern Liberties of the county of Philadelphia, be and they are hereby formed congreauthorized to sell and dispose of the burial ground and lot belonging gation in Northto them, situate on Brinton (now Howard) street and Hope alley, (now sell burial Hope street,) between Franklin and School streets, in the district of ground. Kensington, county of Philadelphia, either in whole or in such parts and portions as they may deem proper, said sale or sales to be made in fee, upon ground rent, or on lease, and without any liability on the part of any purchaser to see to the application of any purchase money, or any payment made in extinguishment of any ground rent, so to be reserved, and it shall be the duty of said congregation to cause to be removed and re-interred in some burial ground in the county of Philadelphia, the bodies which may have been buried in said ground, within sixty days after said sale or sales.

to erect lines

SECTION 6. That the New York and Washington printing telegraph New York and company shall have authority to keep up and erect a line or lines of Washington telegraph wires or conductors through this State, from the border of printing telethe State of New Jersey, through Philadelphia, to the border of the graph company State of Delaware, aiong, upon, or under, any of the public roads and through this highways, or across, through, or under, any of the public waters, and State. also along, over, or under, any other land within the limits of this State, by the erection of masts, poles, posts, and other necessary fix. tures for sustaining the wires or conductors of such line or lines, and by suspending such wires or conductors thereon, or by constructing, establishing, and maintaining, lines of wire or conductors upon or under the ground or under water, with or without tubes or covering, or by any other means, which may from time to time be deemed most expedient by the said company, and such company shall be authorized to select and adopt from time to time, in addition to or in the lieu of the original route or routes selected by them, another or other eligible route or routes for their line or lines, and also to construct and maintain any side lines or other additions thereto, and also to add to the number of wires or conductors, and repair, amend, improve, and maintain such line or lines, and such additions thereto : Provided, That such line or lines in no case be constructed so as to incommode the public use of said road or highway, or injuriously interrupt the navigation of said public waters, and said corporation shall make full compensation to the owners and occupiers of the lands taken or used for the purpose aforesaid.

owners.

SECTION 7. That if the said company shall not have previously agreed Use of land and with the owners and occupiers of any land through, upon, under, or settlement with over which the telegraph line or lines constructed or owned by such association do or shall pass, for the price of compensation to be paid by such company for the use of such land, or the damage done, or which may be done thereto, it shall or may be lawful for the said company, or such owners and occupiers, or any or either or them, to apply to the court of common pleas of the county in which such lands are, by petition, in that manner provided by the sixth section of an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Atlantic and Ohio telegraph com

Penalty for injury.

Account to be rendered to Auditor General.

Estate of

ton.

pany," approved the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and thereupon such proceedings shall be had for the purpose of ascertaining the amount to be paid to such owners and occupiers, and to secure the payment of the same, as are provided by the said act.

SECTION 8. That if any person shall willfully or knowingly break, injure, destroy or interrupt the telegraph and communications, or any part thereof, or any work, erection, edifice, structure or device, or any part thereof, erected by said company, or to be erected by them, in pursuance of this act, he, she, or they, shall pay said corporation one hundred dollars for said offence, and shall be further liable for all damages which the said corporation may suffer in repairing the injury, and from the interruption of their business, to be recovered in an action of trespass, and if any person incurring the penalty aforesaid, shall, through insolvency or other cause, be unable or fail to pay the penalty or damages aforesaid, and shall a second time commit trespass upon said lines, or any part thereof, to an imprisonment in the county jail, of not less than one month nor more than six months.

SECTION 9. That the said company shall render to the Auditor General a correct account of the cost of their works within this State, and the stock of said company, in amount equal to such cost, shall be subject to taxation, in the same manner and at the same rate as the stock and dividends of telegraph companies incorporated by the laws of this State are subject.

SECTION 10. That so much of the second section of the act approCharles Whar ved on the ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty, entitled "An Act to amend an act entitled," et cetera, as declares that the annual rent or rents to be reserved on the conveyance of all or any of the lots of ground devised by Charles Wharton in trust for the use of his late daughter, Sarah R. Craig, deceased, her husband and children, shall be redeemable or extinguishable within any number of years not less than ten years from and after the execution of the conveyance by which the said ground rents were reserved respectively, be and the same is hereby repealed, and all such annual rents as have heretofore been reserved by the trustees or trustee of the said estate, shall be redeemable at any time within ten years from the date of the conveyances by which the same were created respectively: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall invalidate any release heretofore executed by the said trustees or trustee, of any annual rent or rents heretofore reserved, but the same are hereby confirmed, as if the said act had been originally enacted.

Duties of trustees.

SECTION 11. That in addition to the modes of investment specified in said act, of and concerning the money to be paid on the redemption or extinguishment of any of the said rents, it shall be lawful for the said trustees or trustee to invest such money under the authority of the orphans' court, as therein directed, in the purchase of real estate, to be held by the said trustees or trustee upon the like trusts as are mentioned and declared in the will of the said Charles Wharton, relative to the real estate so as aforesaid devised in trust for the said Sarah R. Craig, her husband and children.

W. P. SCHELL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO. CARSON,

APPROVED-The eighth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-three.

Speaker of the Senate.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 229.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

the act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Swatara and Good Spring creek Railroad company," approved second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one; to incorporate the Lutheran Church of Lewisburg; and relative to certain drains in Selinsgrove, Union county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representares of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met,

road to pay

d it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the presi- President and ent and managers of the Swatara railroad company, be and they are managers of the reby authorized, if they deem it expedient, to pay to the sharehold- Swatara rail3 of the same, in the month of May and November of each year, shareholders in1 per centum, in money or certificates of capital stock, upon the terest. Count of the capital stock which has been subscribed, or may reafter be subscribed, and shall credit all the profits or earnings of said railroad annually to the cost of construction, and shall charge interest thus paid to the same account, and to continue to pay the me until said road, extension or branches which are now made, or may creafter be made, shall be completed and dividends declared out of

e profit or earnings, as provided for in the original act: Provided, Proviso.

hat the interest, as aforesaid, shall not be paid upon any share of

ock upon which any instalment which has been called in remains

paid.

SECTION 2. That at elections of the said company each share of stock Ratio of votes. all be entitled to one vote for each share of stock which has been anding on the books of said company, at least thirty days prior to id election, in the name of the said stockholder, and that absent ockholders may vote by proxy, to be dated and executed not less than a days prior to said election, and that the annual election for officers t said company may be held and statement made in the month of anuary instead of the month of December.

SECTION 3. That it may be lawful for the said company to place May place any y number of trucks or cars upon their road suitable for carrying number of al or other articles, and may charge for the use of the same at the tracks or cars on ite not exceeding one cent per ton per mile on coal, iron ore, road. lime, thestone, or stone, and may charge such rates of toll per mile on other ticles as the president and managers may direct: Provided further, Proviso. hat all existing laws inconsistent with the foregoing sections are

en by repealed.

SECTION 4. That a corporation is hereby created which shall be Corporation. lled by the name, style and title of Christ's Evangelical Lutheran hurch and Congregation of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania," and by the ime name the present members, and all who shall hereafter become embers, shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be led, plead and be impleaded, in all courts of law and elsewhere, and Privileges. Je trustees hereinafter named and their successors, shall be able and apable in law and equity to take and hold, to them and their succesora, for the use of the said church and congregation, lands, tenements, oods and chattels, of whatsoever kind, nature, or quality, real, persoal, or mixed, which is now or hereafter shall become the property of

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