shall hereafter at all township and general elections vote at the public house now kept by Abraham T. Trautman, in said Hegins township.

SECTION 11. That a certain action now pending in the discrict court Trial of certain of the city and county of Philadelphia, of March Term, Anno Domini action transferone thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, number six hundred and red. twenty-four, wherein the Doylestown Bank, endorsee of Edward Nicholson, is plaintiff, and Edward Nicholson is defendent, be and the same is hereby transferred to the court of common pleas of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, to be there tried in the same manner as it might have been if originally instituted in the said last mentioned county, and the record of the said action shall be certified by the Prothonotary of the said district court of Philadelphia to said court of common pleas of Bucks county, for trial, as aforesaid.

SECTION 12. That the general and township elections for the town- Upper Milford ship of Upper Milford, in the county of Lehigh, shall hereafter be tp., Lehigh co., held at the house now occupied by Philip Hittle, in said township.

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER

No. 287.

AN ACT

Relative to Suits in Ejectments.

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 any person wishing to bring ejectment for land claimed adversely to him by any person or corporation not resident or being within the county where such land lies, may bring his action and serve the writ on any person within the county having charge or superintendence of the land, in behalf of or as agent of such party claiming adversely: Provided, That before any trial or judgment shall be had in such suit, it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the court, that the defendant has had notice in fact of the suit in time to appear and defend it, and if the defendant be a corporation, this notice may given to the president, or other chief officer of it.

APPROVED The eighteenth day of April, A. D. one thousand

eight hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 288.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Frankford and Germantown Turnpike Road company in the county of Philadelphia; to lay out a State road in Armstrong and Jefferson Counties; to the borough of Patterson; to Flower street in the district of Moyamensing, Philadelphia county; and to the duties of assessors in Rome township, Bradford 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 Commissioners. Harvey Rowland, William H. Trotter, William E. Hamill, Nathan

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Hillis, James Thorp, Robert W. Solly, James Horrocks, William Whitaker, Samuel C. Ford, William Overington, Peter Caster, John Deal, Charles B. Gilbert, Jacob B. Foulkrod, Isaac Worrell, Thomas Caster, Walter Knight, William M. Markel, and John A. Wright, any five or more of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the Name and style. name, style and title of "The Frankford and Germantown turnpike road company," to locate and construct an artificial road of stone, Adamized, plank, or gravel, or partly of one kind and partly of another, from Frankford to the Kensington and Oxford turnpike road, and as much farther towards or to Germantown as the president and managers of the company hereby authorized to be incorporated may at any time, or from time to time, determine, over the bed of any public road, or over any private lands, or partly over one and partly over the other, the said road not to exceed sixty feet in width at any place: Provided, That the said road shall be commenced within two years from the pas sage of this act, and shall be completed within five years after such

Location.

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Capital stock.

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Tolls.

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commencement.

SECTION 2. That the capital stock of the said company shall consist of one thousand shares, of the par value of twenty-five dollars: Provided, however, That the said company may from time to time, at any lawfully convened meeting of the stockholders, increase the capital stock to such an amount as in the opinion of a majority of votes may be required to complete the road according to the true intent and mean. ing of this act.

SECTION 3. That every stockholder shall, at each meeting of the stockholders, and at all elections, be entitled to one vote for each share of stock held by him.

SECTION 4. That as soon as the road shall be put in good order from Frankford to the Kensington and Oxford turnpike road, they may collect tolls, and so on for every additional half mile which they may make, which tolls shall not exceed two cents per horse per mile for every horse led, ridden or driven over the same, but all fractions of a mile shall be chargeable with one cent toll if under half a mile, and two cents if over half a mile; the tolls shall in other respects be such as are au thorized by either of the acts of Assembly recited in the following sections: Provided, That said company shall not be authorized to make their road into or through the borough of Germantown so as to interfere with the grades of the streets or the general plan of the borough, without the consent of the town council thereof.

act.

SECTION 5. That all the powers conferred on the president and mana- Powers of cergers of the Kensington and Oxford turnpike road company by the act tain acts conauthorizing its incorporation, and any supplemental acts or enactments fered on this relating to the last named corporation, are hereby conferred on the said "The Frankford and Germantown turnpike road company," together with all the power and authority conferred on any corporation by the act entitled "An Act regulating turnpike and plank road companies," passed the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and in all respects not inconsistent with the powers and privileges conferred on the said "The Frankford and Germantown turnpike road company," by this and the preceding sections of this act, the said corporation shall be subject to the provisions of the said last mentioned act.

SECTION 6. That John Steele and David Putney, of Armstrong Commissioners. county, and Robert Kennedy, of Jefferson county, be and are hereby appointed commissioners to view and lay out a public road from the mouth of Pine Creek, in Armstrong county, by way of Putneyville, to a point on the State road leading from Smicksburg to Brookville, at or near Sandyville, Jefferson county, by the nearest and best route, and said commissioners shall have the same powers, and be subject to Subject to prothe same restrictions, as are conferred and imposed by the act of the visions of certhird March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two; entitled "An Act authorizing the laying out of a State road from Ringgold, Jefferson county, to Kittanning, Armstrong county, and relating to an election district in Armstrong county, and to certain school districts in Jefferson county," so far as said act relates to said State road.

tain act.

SECTION 7. That John J. Patterson, Joseph Middagh, and James Borough of PatNorth, of the borough of Patterson, are hereby required to do and per- terson. form all the duties required of them in the act of incorporation incorporating the town of Patterson into a borough, and hold their first election on the third day of May next, agreeable to said act, and the

borough officers so elected shall be entitled to demand and receive from Officers to colthe citizens of said borough all the road and school tax assessed or to lect taxes. be assessed on property within said borough for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, for borough purposes.

SECTION 8. That Flower street between Catherine and Christian Flower street streets, in the district of Moyamensing, in the county of Philadelphia, Moyamensing, shall be reduced from its present width of fifty-six feet seven inches to to reduce width. the width of forty feet, and all of the westerly side of said street beyond the width of forty feet shall be and the same is hereby vacated, and the right of soil thereof shall vest in fee in owners of ground fronting on the westerly side of the said street, in proportion to their respective fronts.

SECTION 9. That it shall be the duty of the assessors of Rome Rome tp., Bradtownship, Bradford county, annually hereafter, when taking the as- ford county, sessments of said township, to take an accurate account of all dogs up- Dogs taxed. ward of one month of age, owned or kept by any person or persons in said township, and return the same, with the name of the owner or owners thereof, to the board of school directors of said township, whereupon the said school directors shall levy and cause to be collected by the collectors of the school tax, who are hereby invested with like authority and power to collect said tax on dogs as are the collectors of township rates and levies, the sum of fifty cents from every person for each and every dog owned, possessed or kept by him, her or them, which tax when collected, shall be paid by the collector to the treas

urer of the board of school directors for said township of Rome, and when so paid, shall constitute a part of the school fund of said school district.

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

Joseph W. Hough to legitimate.

Perkiomen

No. 289.

AN ACT

To legitimate Joseph W. Hough of Allegheny county; to a certain school dis trict in Montgomery county; and to the Kittatinny Slate company.

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 Joseph W. Hough, an illegitimate son of John Hough, of Allegheny county, State of Pennsylvania, shall have and enjoy all the rights, privileges, benefits and advantages of a child born in lawful wedlock, and shall be able and capable in law to inherit and transmit any estate whatsoever, as fully and completely, to all intents and purposes, as if He had been a legitimate child of the said John Hough, born in lawful wedlock.

and

SECTION 2. That the lands of Jacob Schneider, George Poley, school district. Peter Smith, now included in the Perkiomen school district, Montgomery county, are hereby attached to the school district composed of that part of the township of Marlborough, Montgomery county, not incla ded in the Perkiomen district.

Kittatinny slate company.

SECTION 3. That it shall be lawful for the Kittatinny Slate com. pany to increase the number of managers of said company to any number not exceeding six, exclusive of the president.

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hun

dred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 290.

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Beaver Manufacturing company, ia Beaver county;" and relative to a State road in Beaver 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 the pro- Provisions visions of the act incorporating the Beaver Manufacturing company, extended. of Beaver county, approved the seventh April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, be and the same is hereby extended to the manufacturing of railroad cars, carriages, omnibuses, steam engines,

and iron, and that the capital stock of said company may be Capital stock increased from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders increased. thereof, to any amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars:

Provided, That it shall require a vote of two thirds of the whole stock Proviso. of the company subscribed to authorize such increase.

SECTION 2. That at all elections for directors of said company, and in all meetings of the stockholders, each share of stock shall be entitled to one vote: Provided, That no share of stock upon which an assessment has been made and remains unpaid, shall be entitled to a vote at any such election or meeting of stockholders.

SECTION 3. That the said company be and is hereby authorized to Subject to proconstruct a railroad or railroads from any coal lands which they may visions and own, for the purpose of transporting coal thereon, under all the provisions restrictions of and restrictions of an act entitled 'An Act regulating railroad companies,' certain act. passed the twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine: Provided, That no such road shall exceed three miles in -length: Provided, That said company shall pay to the State Treasurer, for the use of the Commonwealth, one-half of one per centum on the capital stock thereof, in five annual instalments, the first whereof shall be paid within one year after the company shall be organized.

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Commissioners.

SECTION 4. That Francis Reno, Stephen Philips, Sr., and C. Black, of Beaver county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view and lay out a State road from Freedom, in Beaver State road in county, by way of or near the Great Nob in said county, to intersect Beaver county. the Beaver and Butler State road, at or near where said road crosses

the Beaver and Butler county line.

SECTION 5. That it shall be the duty of said board of commission- Duties of ers, or a majority of them, after taking and subscribing an oath or commissioners. affirmation before some competent authority, to perform the duties enjoined upon them by this act with impartiality and fidelity, to carefully view the ground over which said road may pass, and lay out' the same on the nearest and best ground to a straight line, and in no place to exceed an elevation of four degrees from a horizontal line, except on crossing ravines, where moderate filling is required.

SECTION 6. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners plainly and distinctly to mark the ground on the route agreed upon for the road aforesaid, in such manner as to enable the supervisors readily to find the same, and for the purpose of fulfilling the duties in this act enjoined, the said commissioners are hereby authorized to employ,

Duties.