Fire Department, Phila. Judges to exereise certain powers in ref erence to. Richborough turnpike co., may sell road. have the same powers, and be subject to the same restrictions, imposed upon the said company, as is provided for in their original act of incorporation, approved the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and its several supplements, to which this is a supplement. SECTION 6. That from and after the passage of this act, the judges of the court of quarter sessions of the peace for the city and county of Philadelphia, shall be authorized in all cases arising under the first section of an act of assembly of this Commonwealth entitled "An Act for the better regulation of the Fire Department in the city and incor porated districts of the county of Philadelphia," approved the seventh day of March, A. D., eighteen hundred forty-eight, to rescind the order of the court made in such cases, and restore any company to actual service whenever the said court shall be satisfied that injustice has been done. SECTION 7. That the president and managers of the Richborough and Feasterville and Feasterville Turnpike Road company be and they are hereby authorized to sell at public sale, and transfer to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, their road estate and corporate property, on such terms as may be agreed upon, and for such price as may be obtained for the same, the proceeds whereof to be applied first to the payment of the debts of the company, and the balance, if any, to be distributed pro rate among the stockholders: Provided, That the said president and managers shall give public notice of such sale, at least twenty days, in two newspapers published in the county of Bucks. Proviso. John F. Cowan, SECTION 8. That the title of John F. Cowan, his heirs and assigns, title to certain in and to the lands purchased by him situate in Potter county, Pennlands of not to sylvania, shall not in any way be impaired or effected by or on account be impaired. of the said Henry Beckett, of whom he purchased, having been an alien at the execution of the indenture, but that the said John F. Cowan, his heirs and assigns, shall hold the said lands as fully and amply, to all intents and purposes, as if the said Henry Beckett had been a citizen of the United States at the execution of the said indenture. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. KUNKEL, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twentieth day of April, A. D., eighteen hun dred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 351. AN ACT ncorporate the Beneficial Saving Fund society of Philadelphia; relative to Girard College for Orphans; and to a vacation of Turner's lane to Schuytil Third street, in Pena district, Philadelphia county. ECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen ces of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly. - and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That ert Ewing, John Devereux, Francis Cooper, Jacob B. Lancaster, Corporators. eis Tiernan, P. Brady, Mark Anthony Frenaye, Mark Devine, es M. Smith, Charles A. Repplier, Hugh O'Donnell, William V. ting, James M'Cann, William Goodwin, Robert F. Walsh, WilWhelan, Alfred C. Gibson, Henry Crilly, Michael Keenan, John ond, Charles Kelly, Cornelius Tiers, William Morgan, James J. in, and Michael McGill, and their successors forever, be and they hereby made a body politic and corporate in law, under the name, and title of "The Beneficial Saving Fund society of Philadelphia," Style. by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able capable in law to have and use a common seal, to sue and be sued, lead and be impleaded, and to do all such things as are incident to rporation. ECTION 2. That the above named persons shall be managers of the Managers. "The Beneficial Saving Fund society of Philadelphia:" The said oration shall have power from time to time to make by-laws, rules Powers. regulations, relative to the election, duties, times of service, and By-laws. ber of managers, and their successors, and the appointment of able officers and assistants; the said managers for the time being I have power to direct and determine the manner, conditions and s of receiving deposits, and the return and re-payment of the e when demanded by the depositors, and the investment in subtial securities of the amount in the custody of the corporation, and erally to do and execute all and singular such acts, matters and gs, which to the said corporation shall or may appertain, and may ecessary for the purposes thereof, according to the object, provis and conditions of this act, the articles and by-laws enacted from to time by this corporation, and not being contrary to the Constion and laws of this Commonwealth: Prov ded, That this act shall Proviso. be construed to confer on the said corporation banking privileges of kind whatever. ECTION 3. That the said corporation shall be able and capable in Privileges. to purchase, receive, improve, and hold such real estate as to the agers may seem proper for the purposes of said corporation and for security of the depositors, and the same to grant, bargain, sell, ase, mortgage and dispose of, as to them may seem expedient, and ake, receive, hold, possess, enjoy and retain, all and all manner of ls, tenements, rents, stock, annuities, franchises and hereditaments, any sum or sums of money, and any manner or portion of goods chattels and effects, of what kind or nature soever, whether real, sonal or mixed, by gift, grant, demise, bargain and sale, devise, quest, testament, legacy, loan, deposit or advance, or by any other Proviso. Officers not to be allowed to borrow money from society. Right to annul act reserved. Orphan children in Girard College, Mayor, &c, of Phila. to bind out as ap prentices. mode of conveyance or transfer whatever: Provided, The amount of the deposits received by said corporation shall at no time exceed one million of dollars. SECTION 4. That no manager, officer or agent of the said corporation shall be allowed, directly or indirectly, to borrow any money or moneys from the said saving fund society, nor shall the said society have, hold or purchase any bonds, notes or mortgages, or other securities, for the payment of money drawn, or endorsed by, or existing against any manager, officer or agent of the said saving fund society. SECTION 5. That if at any time the said corporation misuse or abuse any of the privileges granted by this act, or if it may appear that the said privileges are injurious to the citizens of this Commonwealth, the Legislature shall have power to revoke and annul them at any time they may deem the same expedient. SECTION 6. That the mayor, aldermen and citizens of Philadelphis, or such persons as they shall by ordinance direct and appoint, shall bind by indenture as apprentices, the orphan children in the Girard College for Orphans, in the manner, and upon the terms and conditions mentioned and contained in the act entitled "An Act relative to the Girard College for Orphans," approved the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, to suitable persons within this Commonwealth, in suitable occupations, such as agriculture, navigation, arts, mechanical trades, and manufactures, as mentioned in the will of the late Stephen Girard. Torner's Lane, SECTION 7. That Turner's lane, from Columbia avenue to Schuylkill Phila. co., par Third street, in the district of Penn, in the county of Philadelphia, be of to be vacated. and the same is hereby vacated, and the title to the soil over which the same passes is hereby vested in fee simple in the several owners of grounds adjoining and fronting on the said lane respectively, each owner to have and to take one-half part thereof so far as his respective lot adjoins and fronts upon the said lane: Provided, That before closing the said lane, there shall be first opened and dedicated to public use, without expense to the county of Philadelphia, Schuylkill Third street southward to Columbia avenue, and Columbia avenue westward to Turner's lane aforesaid. APPROVED-The twentieth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 352. AN ACT To incorporate the borough of Jamestown; authorizing the Overseers of the Poor of the borough of Williamsport to erect a poor house; relative to a State road in Huntingdon and M fin counties; and to a State road in Clarion and Forest counties; to relieve from taxation certain property of Wm. Forest, deceased; and authorizing the President Judges of the tenth and fourteenth ⚫ judicial districts to hold Special Courts. 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 Campbell, senior, Sylvester Campbell, Thomas Sherboudy, Commissioners Richard Carr, and T. G. Moats, citizens of Greene township, Mercer to survey and county, are hereby appointed commissioners to survey and mark boun- mark boundaries of borough of daries to a territory lying in the township of South Shenango, Crawford Jamestown. county, and Greene township, Mercer county, to include the village of Jamestown, to commence at the centre of the Jamestown and Greenville road, between the lands of Thomas Moorland and heirs of William Dowling; thence east along the south line of lands of said Dowling heirs, James Campbell and James M'Kinley; thence north from the south-east corner of James M'Kinley, along the tract line to the Crawford and Mercer county line; and from thence due north in a direct line to a point due east from the centre of a road leading from William Dowthett's; thence west along the centre of said east and west road, in a direct line to a point due north from the point of starting; due from thence due south to the place of beginning; that the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall make a return of said survey to the Recorder of Mercer county, who shall record the same as evidence of said boundary, for purposes hereinafter mentioned, and the territory so designated to be called the borough of Jamestown, in the county of Mercer, and the same is hereby erected into a borough, to be called the borough of Jamestown, under and subject to all the provisions of an act entitled "An Act regulating boroughs," approved the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one: Pro- Proviso. vided, Article fourth in section third of said act, shall read "may publish in at least one newspaper, if such be printed in the proper county, or by not less than twelve written or printed advertisements, to be put up in the most public places in the borough, every enactment, regulation, ordinance, or other general law, at least ten days before the same shall take effect." SECTION 2. That the inhabitants of said borough entitled to vote Officers. for members of General Assembly, having resided therein one month immediately preceding the election, shall on the third Friday of August next, and annually on the third Friday of May thereafter, or such time as may be fixed for the election of township officers within this Common. wealth, meet at the school house in said borough between the hours of one and six P. M., and elect for borough officers as provided in said act the third of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one: Provi- Proviso. ded, That nothing in this act shall be so construed to prevent the qualified voters of Greene township from continuing to hold their town Williamsport, overseers of poor. May assess taxes. Town council to appoint over seers. Estate of Wm. tion. ship and general elections at the house of Jacob Moats, in the village of Jamestown. SECTION 3. That it shall be lawful for the overseers of the poor of the borough of Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming, to purchase a farm, not excceding one hundred acres of land, in said county, and to erect such buildings thereon from time to time as shall be found necessary for the comfortable accommodation of all paupers charge. able on said borough, and to employ such person or persons, and adopt such rules and regulations, as shall be found expedient for the proper control, regulation and management of such farm and paupers. SECTION 4. That it shall be lawful for the overseers of the poor of said borough, in accordance with the provisions of the laws providing for assessing taxes for the maintenance of the poor, to lay a rate or assess ment not exceeding one cent. on the dollar at one time, upon all real and personal estates, trades and occupations, now taxable by law for county purposes, in said borough, and collect the same, for the pur pose of carrying the provisions of the third section of this act fully into effect. SECTION 5. That it shall be lawful for the town council of the borough of Williamsport, immediately after the passage of this act, to appoint one additional overseer of the poor for said borough, and to appoint three overseers of the poor annually, at the usual time of appointing borough officers, to hold their appointments for one year. SECTION 6. That all the estate, real and personal, held by or which Forest, exemp. may hereafter be held by the trustees of William Forest, late of the ted from taxa- city of Philadelphia, for the education of poor children, and for other like charitable purposes, be and the same is hereby exempted from all city, county, poor and other taxes, excepting only the tax levied by the State for its own purposes: Provided, That it shall be the duty of the assessor of the proper district, to assess any of said property, and return the same, in the same manner as though this act had not passed. Proviso. State road in SECTION 7. That the authority of the commissioners appointed by Huntingdon and an act approved the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight Mifflin counties. hundred fifty-one, entitled "An Act authorizing the laying out of a State road from Petersburg, in Huntingdon county, to a point know as Brown's mills, in Mifflin county," be and the same is hereby renewed, enlarged and extended, so as to enable said commissioners to make s report, in accordance with the fifth section of said act. SECTION 8. That the supervisors of the township of Farmington, in Farmington P the county of Clarion, shall expend the road tax of all the land war Clarion county. Bennet Dobbs rants adjoining the State road leading from Tylersburg, in Clarion county, to a State road at the Tionesta river, near Charles J. Fox's, in Forest county, or an amount equal thereto, upon said road, and that the supervisors, road commissioners, and path masters of the several townships through which said road is laid out, in the counties of Venango and Forest, are hereby required annually to expend thereon the road tax of all the land warrauts that extend to within one mile of the said road, or an amount equal thereunto, in such a manner in the first place so as to make a bridle road the whole length of the road where it is not opened, which when done, they shall in the second place proceed further to open said road, by commencing at the several township lines, and extend the work therefrom in equal proportions, until the said road shall be opened and in good repair. SECTION 9. That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of to make report. this act, Bennet Dobbs is hereby appointed to make report of such |