all for every such offence pay such fine as may be imposed by the -laws of the company, to be recovered by suit, before any justice of e peace; that logs and timber hauled upon wheels, or by sleds, when ere is snow on the road, shall be held and treated as lumber, and for e purposes of toll all lumber shall be reduced to inch measure. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. KUNKEL, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The nineteenth day of April, one thousand eight huned and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 344. AN ACT or the relief of Jacob Housman, Barbara Widaw, and others, soldiers and widows of soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian wars; authorizing the court of Quarter Sessions of the county of Luzerne to confer corporate privileges on the town of Waverly, in said coun y; to incorporate the Jefferson and Bedford Turnpike or Plank Road company authorizing George Deardorff and others, trustees, to sell a certain school house and burial ground in Latimore township, Adams county; and attaching the farms of Jonas and Levi Chronister to Han pton school district, in said county, for school purposes, for the relief of Jane Beaty, of Beaver county; to the Delaware and Susquehanna Railroad company; to an Election District in Luzerne county; to extend the limits of the borough of Sunbury; for the relief of Catharine Johnson of Beaver County; and relative to the claim of Kier and Jones. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly nel, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That to. he State Treasurer be and is hereby authorized and directed to pay An old soldier, to Jacob Housman, of Westmoreland county, a soldier of the Indian and widows of wars, Henrietta Gehr, Catharine Buzzen, and Budd Gaskill, of Craw. soldiers, annuity ford county, Barbara Widaw and Elizabeth Plank, of Adams county, and Catharine Reem, of Westmoreland county, widows of soldiers in the Revolutionary and Indian wars, or their respective orders, an annuity of forty dollars each during life, payable half-yearly, to com. mence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. corporate. SECTION 2. That the court of quarter sessions of the county of Lu- Waverly, Luzerne, be and the same is hereby invested with power and jurisdiction zerne co., court anthorized to into confer and grant a special act of incorporation for municipal purpose to the citizens of Waverly, in Abington township, in said county, embracing a territory not exceeding one mile square, with such powers franchises and privileges as may be adjudged proper by said court, in nowise exceeding the powers, franchises and privileges which may be granted under the general act for the incorporation of boroughs, and the supplements thereto, and for that purpose to grant a special ebar ter, with special provisions, vesting the entire municipal government Board of com- in a board of three commissioners, to be elected and invested with missioners. Proviso. Proviso. Commissioners. legislative and executive powers, as shall be provided by the order and deeree of said courts, and providing also, for the election and duties of a burgess: Provided, That no separate election district shall be established thereby, except to elect the officers of the corporation, and that such act shall not constitute such a borough as to require the} election of justices of the peace or other general officers separate from the township, and that the citizens within the bounds of said corpor tion shall be and remain for all purposes the citizens of said township: Provided further, That the same court shall have power to amend any charter thus granted, the same as in case of the incorporation d boroughs by the court. SECTION 3. That R. L. Johnston, William Lemon, John M'Co Ephraim Crum, Thomas M'Connell, James Burk, Henry Weaver, John Kane, William Palmer, Michael Holderbaum, Frederick D. Beegle Daniel W. Leahman, John Conrad, Michael Wertz, John H. Ake Castleton Ake, William Griffith, George F. Riddle, E. S. Andersony Joseph Miller, be and are hereby appointed commissioners, to oped books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, by the name, Jefferson and style and title of the "Jefferson and Bedford Turnpike or Plank Road company," with power to construct a turnpike or plank road from Jefferson, in the county of Cambria, to St. Clairsville in Bedford county, by the nearest and best route or routes, as the stockholders or directors may determine upon, subject to all the provisions and restric tions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, passed the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fortynine, and the several supplements thereto. Bedford turn pike or plank road company. Subject to pro visions of certain act. Capital stock. Proviso. When may take tolls. Commencement of read. SECTION 4. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of two thousand five hundred shares, at twenty 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 necessary to complete the road, and carry out the true intent of this act. SECTION 5. That whenever said company shall have finished twy miles or more of said road, they shall have power to erect gates and receive tolls, agreeably to the conditions and restrictions of sections twelve and thirteen of the act aforesaid, approved the twenty-ndry of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. SECTION 6. That if the said company shall not commence the con and completion struction within three years after the passage of this act, and complete the same within seven 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 the company. Jefferson and SECTION 7. That the public road called the Jefferson and Ebensburg Ebensburg road. road, in the county of Cambria, from the village of Jefferson to the point where the Jefferson and Ebensburg plank road leaves the same, in Summerhill township, and county aforesaid, a distance of about one mile, be vacated, and the Jefferson and Ebensburg Plank Road com pany have power to collect tolls for their road located thereon. SECTION 8. That George Deardorff, Jacob Stitsel, and Samuel Burk holder, trustees of a certain school house and burial ground, situate in Latimore township, Adams county, are hereby authorized to sell and convey a portion of the ground belonging to said school house, and purchase certain other ground adjoining said school house and burial ground. CTION 9. That from and after the passage of this act, the pro- Hampton school es of Jonas Chronister and Levi Chronister, now in the Hampton district, ol district, Reading township, Adams county, shall be attached to township of Reading. CTION 10. That the State Treasurer be and is hereby authorized Jane Beaty, required to pay to Jane Beaty, of Beaver county, the widow of the widow of an old John Beaty, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, or her order, an soldier, annuity ity of forty dollars each year during her natural life, to be paid yearly, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight red and fifty-three. to. railroad com pany, charter CCTION 11. That the time allowed for taking subscriptions and Delaware and mencing the work by the Delaware and Susquehanna Railroad com- Susquehanna , authorized to be incorporated by the act of sixth of April, one sand eight hundred and thirty, be and the same is hereby extended extended. he further period of two years from the passage of this act, and years for completing the same; and the said company may mence their road at any point on the said river Delaware that to à shall seem most expedient, at or below Carpenter's Point, and in lieu of the commissioners named in the said act and its sup.. ents, Oliver S. Dimmick, Henry M. Labar, Theodore Bowhanan, ike county, Edward O. Hamlin and Richard Lancaster, of Wayne ty, Isaac Depew and Ira Tripp, of Luzerne county, be commis- Commissioners. ers to take subscriptions of stock. ted into a sepa rate school ECTION 12. That the township of Jenkins, Luzerne county, be and Jenkins tp., Lusame is hereby erected into a separate election district, and the gen- zerne co., erecand township elections shall be held at the school near the pubouse of Samuel Hodgdon, junior, in said township, and that the district. ent judge and inspectors of the elections of the election district of th Pittston be the judge and inspectors of elections of the said ship, until the next township elections, and that so much of any of this Commonwealth as is inconsistent herewith, be and the same ereby repealed. ECTION 13. That so much of the farm or tract of land lately owned Borongh of SunMrs. Sarah Gobin and Susan Scott, as lies west of the ravine com- bury, limits ly called the Gut, and so much of the farm late the estate of Sam- extended. Hunter, deceased, as lies west of the said Gut, be and are hereby exed to and ineluded within the corporate limits of the borough of bury: Provided, That the right of ferriage on the Susquehanna Proviso. r adjoining said lands, be and remain in the owners of the same, within the limitsof Sunbury so extended; the Danville Railroad pauy may connect with the Philadelphia and Sunbury railroad, the said Danville Railroad company, or the board of directors Danville railreof, are hereby authorized to borrow such sums of money, not ex- road co., to bording in all the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, and to issue row money. ir bonds therefor, and sell and dispose of the same on such terms at such rates as may be deemed expedient, and to make the prinal of said loan or loans convertible into the stock of the said company, such terms as may be agreed upon, and to make the principal and erest of said loan or loans payable at such time or times as may be visable, and for the security of said loan or loans, may execute a deed trust or mortgage of the railroad and other property of the company possession, or to be acquired, and its corporate rights and franchises, such other property as may be conveyed to the company for that rpose; and in the event of a sale under such deed of trust or mort ge, all the property conveyed in such deed of trust and mortgage, and corporate rights and franchises of the company shall pass to the rohaser or purchasers, free from all incumbrances subsequent to the May increase capital stock. Proviso. Catharine John to pay $600. execution thereof, and to be vested in him or them; and the said company may from time to time increase its capital stock any further sum not exceeding seven hundred thousand dollars, as shall be deemed, expedient; and the shareholders shall have one vote for each share · which he, she or they may hold of the capital stock: Provided, That no bonds shall be issued for a less amount than one hundred dollan." SECTION 14. That the State Treasurer be and is hereby authorized son, widow of and required to pay to Catharine Johnson, of Beaver county, widow of an old soldier, the late David Johnson, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, or to bet State Treasurer heirs, the sum of six hundred dollars, the amount of back pay at the rate of forty dollars per year from the death of her husband, the siru day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, to the sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. Kier and Jones, SECTION 15. That from and after the passage of this act, the Cam Canal Commis- Commissioners be and they are hereby authorized to examine the elain sioners author of Kier and Jones, for damages alleged to have been sustained by them by reason of the destruction of boat, cargo and mule, with other er penses attending the same, on the Portage Railroad, in one thousand eight hundred and fifty, on plane number six, and if they shall aseer tain that said damages, or any portion thereof, was occasioned by ne glect or misconduct of any State officer or agent, or any defect in the machinery of the road, they shall assess the same, and report the amount to the Legislature with a statement of the facts Provided, That no" damages shall be allowed except for the actual injury done to the cars, merchandise, and loss of a mule, et cetera, et cetera, contained therein, and no item of damages or expense shall be allowed, unless the amount of the actual loss, deducting the value of the damaged cars, merchan dise, loss of mule, et cetera, et cetera, shall be clearly established by affidavit. ized to examine laim of. Proviso. APPROVED-The nineteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-three. No. 315. WM. BIGLER. AN ACT To provide for the Ordinary Expenses of Government, the repair of the public SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repres tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Appropriations, the following sums be, and the same are specifically appropriated to the several objects hereinafter mentioned, for the year commencing he first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro ted. ECTION 2. For the salary of the Governor of the Commonwealth, Executive dee-thousand dollars; for the salary of the Secretary of the Com- partment. wealth, twelve hundred dollars, and the further sum of five hunI dollars to be paid to him as Superintendent of Common Schools; the salary of the Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth, twelve dred dollars; for the salary of the Auditor General, including his pensation as Commissioner of the Sinking Fund, seventeen hundred ars; for the salary of the Surveyor General, fourteen hundred dol; for the salary of the Attorney General, three hundred dollars; the salary of the Adjutant General, three hundred dollars; for the ry of the State Treasurer, including his compensation as Commiser of the Sinking Fund, seventeen hundred dollars; for clerk hire he State Department, three thousand dollars; for clerk hire in the litor General's office, six thousand two hundred dollars; for clerk in the State Treasurer's office, four thousand dollars; for clerk in the Surveyor General's office, five thousand seven hundred ars; for the salary of the State Librarian, five hundred dollars; the salary of the Clerk of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, hundred dollars. ECTION 3. For the payment of the contingent expenses of the Ex- Contingent exive and State Departments, including the department of Common penses, Execu ools, to wit: For stationery, five hundred and fifty dollars; for tive and State age, including telegraphic despatches, eighteen hundred dollars; departments. the pay of messengers, eight hundred and fifty dollars; for fuel and ts, sixty dollars; for cleaning offices and executive chambers, thirve dollars; for miscellaneous expenses in the Secretary's office, dollars; for blank books, forty dollars; painting, whitewashing carpeting, two hundred and fifty dollars. ECTION 4. For the payment of contingent expenses of the Auditor Auditor Gener eral's office, to wit: For postage, five hundred dollars; for the al's office. of messenger, four hundred dollars; for stationery, three hundred ars; for fuel, sixty-five dollars; for miscellaneous expenses, sixty dollars. ECTION 5. For the payment of the contingent expenses of the Treasury doe Treasurer's office, to wit: For postage, three hundred and fifty partment. ars; for the payment of telegraphic despatches, one hundred and nty-five dollars; for stationery and blank books, three hundred and dollars; for fuel and lights, seventy-five dollars; for miscellane-> expenses, one hundred dollars; for messenger and night watch, five dred and fifty dollars. ECTION 6. For the payment of the contingent expenses of the Surveyor Genveyor General's office, to wit: For the pay of messenger, three hun-eral's office. and sixty dollars; for stationery and books, three hundred and nty-five dollars; for postage, three hundred dollars; for scrubbing washing, forty-dollars; for fuel, eighty dollars; for miscellaneous enses, ninety-five dollars. SECTION 7. For the payment of the expenses of the Legislature, in- Legislature. ling the pay of members, clerks, officers and contingent expenses, hundred thousand dollars. SECTION 8. For the public printing, folding, stitching and binding, Printing. nty-five thousand dollars. SECTION 9. For packing and distributing the laws and journals of Distribution of Legislature, seven hundred dollars; the packing and distributing laws. |