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be given in Pittsburg instead of Philadelphia: And provided Quorum further, That the number of directors shall be five, a majority

of whom shall be a quorum.

WM. A. CRABB,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JN. H. EWING,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The sixth day of May, one thousand eight

hundred and forty-one.

DAVID R. PORTER.

[No. 131.]

AN ACT

Authorizing a Loan.

Loan autho

rized

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority the same: That the Governor be and he is hereby authorized to negotiate a loan for the sum of nine hundred and thirty thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent per annum, payable half yearly, and the faith of the Interest Commonwealth is hereby pledged for the reimbursement of the principal within five years. The interest to be paid semi- Reimbursable annually on the first day of February, and first of August, at

the state treasury or at the Bank of Pennsylvania. The pro- How applied ceeds of said loan to be applied to the payment of a stock loan of nine hundred and thirty thousand dollars, authorized by the act of the second April, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, Certificate of and due first of June next. And the Governor is authorized stock to cause to be executed certificates of stock, signed by the auditor general and state treasurer, for the sum thus borrowed, bearing interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, and reimbursable as aforesaid, which shall be transferable by the owner or owners in the usual way; Provided, That the Proviso Governor be and he hereby is authorized to renew any portion or all of the loan then becoming due to the holders thereof, at the same rate of interest per annum, and for the same term that the original loan was taken.

Transferable

SECTION 2. The Governor be and he is hereby authorized to negotiate, in anticipation of revenue of the current Temporary year, a temporary loan on the credit of the Commonwealth, for such sum as may be requiried to meet any deficiency there

loan

Interest

Re-paid

may be in the internal improvement fund, for the payment of interest on the public debt, upon the first day of August next, at an interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum. The amount which may be borrowed under this section, to be repaid to the lender or lenders within one year from the period at which the loan is negotiated, and authority is hereby given to the Governor to reimburse the said loan out of any money them in the treasury.

WM. A. CRABB,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JN. H. EWING,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.

DAVID R. PORTER

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Preamble

[No. 132.]

AN ACT

To confer on Elizabeth, John and Henry M'Guire, Augustus Boyle and Maria Mayberry, the rights and benefits of children born in lawful wedlock, and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, It appears that Mary Jones, late of the township of West Brunswick, in the county of Schuylkill, lately died intestate, leaving a small estate and five illegitimate children, named Elezabeth M'Guire, John M'Guire, Henry M'. Guire, Augustus Boyle and Maria Mayberry, some of whom are still in their minority, and may become chargable to the county of Schuylkill: And whereas, It is just and proper that whatever estate was left by the mother, should be appropriated to the support and education of the said children. Therefore,

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 said children above named, shall be Heirs of Mary entitled to inherit in equal proportion, all and every part of Jones legeti- the estate of said Mary Jones, deceased, as fully and effectumatized ally as though the said children were born of her body in lawful wedlock.

SECTION 2. That the several provisions of the second section of an act, entitled an act to establish the district court of the city and county of Philadelphia, passed twenty-eighth

day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and of the City & coun first section of the supplement thereto, passed eleventh day of ty Phila.— Removing March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, be and they are here- nuisances.

be deemed and construed to extend to all actions of scire facias, or claims filed or to be filed by the board of health, for removing nuisances under the laws of the Commonwealth.

SECTION 3. That it shall be the duty of the town council of the borough of Bellefonte, in the county of Centre, to enact Bellefonte, such by-laws, and make such rules, regulations and ordinan- boro'-regula ces, as shall be determined by a majority of them, necessary for improving, repairing and keeping in order the streets, streets, &c lanes, alleys and highways, and to appoint two persons to act

tions for im

provement of

as street and road commissioners, to be entitled to the same Street comemoluments as the supervisors are entitled to, within their missioners respective townships of this Commonwealth.

SECTION 4. So much of the tenth and eleventh sections of the act to which these sections are supplementary, as relates Supervisors to the office of supervisors, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Christopher

SECTION 5. Whereas Christopher Ford and Jane his wife, executed a deed to James M'Namara, junior, dated the sev- Ford & wife enth day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventeen, conacknowledgveying to the said James M'Namara, junior, a certain tract of ment of deed land called "arcadia," situated then in Woodbury township, to J. McNaBedford county, but now in Greenfield township, in the said mara, jr legacounty, containing one hundred and seventy-two acres and a lized half and allowance, for which a patent was granted to the said Christopher Ford, bearing date, first of December, seventeen hundred and ninety-six, which said deed was acknowledged by the said grantees, before Amos Kellogg, a justice of the peace of Ashtabula county, in the state of Ohio, on the said seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and seventeen, but by the laws of Pennsylvania then in force, the said Amos Kellogg had no authority to receive the acknowledgment of said deed, and the subscribing witnesses to said deed cannot now be found. Therefore be it enacted, That the said deed is hereby declared to be as good and effectual to pass the estate of the said Christopher Ford and Jane his wife to the said James M'Namara, junior, at the time of the execution of the said deed, as if the same had been acknowledged in due form before the proper officer, and the same may be recorded in the said county of Bedford, in like manner as if it had been legally acknowledged, and the said deed shall be admissible in evidence, in any court in any controversy respecting the title to the land described therein, with the like effect as if the acknowledgment had been legally taken.

SECTION 6. That the Rright Reverend Francis Patrick Pedrick, coadjutor of the Bishop of the Diocese of Philadelphia, be and he is hereby authorized to sell and convey, for the

Pedrick authorized to sell real estate in Bellefonte

Rev'd F. P. best price that can be obtained for the same, either at public or at private sale, a certain lot or piece of ground in the borough of Bellefonte, containing fifty feet in front, on Allegheny street, and extending thence westward two hundred feet, to a twenty feet alley, and designated on the general plot or plan of the town of Bellefonte aforesaid, by number one hundred and forty-eight, the title to which said lot of ground, is vested in the Bishop of the Diocese of Philadelphia, and his lawful successors in office, in trust for the Roman Catholic congregation of the said borough of Bellefonte.

Trustees of M

E Church in

SECTION 7. That the trustees of the parsonage house of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the borough of Huntingdon, be Huntingdon and they are hereby authorized to sell the said parsonage house authorized to and lot of ground and premises thereunto belonging, situate in sell real estate the said borough of Huntingdon, and also the furniture in said house, for the best prices that can be obtained for the same, and make a deed therefor to the purehaser, and after paying the debts existing against the same, they shall distribute the prohow disposed ceeds of said sale amongst the contributors towards the purchase of said property, in proportion to the amounts contributed by them respectively.

Proceeds

of

SECTION 8. That from and after the passage of this act, Courts of Schuylkill co the December term of the court of common pleas of Schuyltorm altered kill county, instead of being commenced on Monday preceding the last Monday of December, shall be commenced on the first Monday of December in each year, and shall continue two weeks, if the business depending in said court shall require it. And the December sessions of the court of quarter sessions of the peace, and courts of oyer and terminer of Schuylkill county, in place of being commenced on the last Monday of December, shall be commenced on the second Monday of December in each year, and shall continue one week, if the business depending in said court shall require it. And the said December term of the said court of common pleas, shall be subject to be abridged or enlarged by the judges thereof, by virtue of the provisions of the thirty-first and thirty-second sections of the act entitled "An act relative to the organization of the courts of justice," passed the fourteenth April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. And the other terms of the said courts, during each year, shall continue to be held as heretofore, at the respective times now provided by law. SECTION 9. That on the high constable of Minersville, in High consta Schuylkill county, giving security to be approved by the court of quarter sessions of said county, in the same sum and ers enlarged manner prescribed by law for township constables in said county, it shall be lawful for said constable to have all the powers and jurisdiction, and do and perform all the duties and be entitled to like emoluments, and subject to like penal

ble Minersv'le

duties & pow

ties and liabilities prescribed by the laws of this Commonwealth, in relation to township constable.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WM. A. CRABB,

JN. H. EWING,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The seventh day of May, one thousand eight

hundred and forty-one.

DAVID R. PORTER.

[No. 133.]

AN ACT

Authorizing the Wardens of the English Episcopal Church, in Huntingdon township, Adams county, to sell and convey certain real estate, and for other purposos.

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 Thomas Stephens and Leonard Marsden, the present wardens of the English Episcopal church, in Wardens auHuntingdon township, Adams county, (commonly known as thorized to Christ church) or their successors, be and they are hereby sell real estate authorized to sell at public sale, to the highest and best bidder, the whole or any part or portion of the real estate, except the burial ground, now held in trust by said wardens, for the use of the officiating minister of said church, and his successors, and to convey and assure the same to the purchaser or purchasers, free and discharged, of the use aforesaid, by a good and sufficient deed or deeds of conveyance for the same. And the proceeds of such sale, after Proceeds indeducting all expenses attending the same, shall be inves- vested ted by the said wardens jointly with the officiating minister of said church, who shall in the selection thereof, have an equal voice with the said wardens, in some permanent productive fund, as soon as may conveniently be done, and the interest or revenue arising from the same, shall be applied to and be and remain for the use of the said minister, and his successors in like manner as the proceeds of the said real estate is now limited and applied: Provided, That the principal of such investment shall ever remain untouched and unimpaired, and that the said wardens and officiating minister and their successors, may from time to time, as may

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