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been sworn or affirmed before some justice of the peace, who shall file and preserve the same in his office, to perform the duties enjoined on them by this act with impartiality and fidelity, carefully to view the ground over which the road by them laid out may pass, and lay out the same as near to a straight line between the aforesaid points as the nature of the ground and circumstances will permit; and further, it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to have due regard to the crossing of the waters, the nature of the ground and damages to private property, and all other circumstances that may affect the route, so that by a judicious combination of them the route adopted may best promote the public good, and that they shall clearly and distinctly mark upon the ground the route agreed upon, in such a manner as to enable the supervisors readily to find the same; and for the purpose of fulfilling the duties in this act enjoined, the commissioners herein mentioned shall receive a per diem allowance of one dollar and fifty cents each for every day they shall be necessarily employed in performing the duties of this act, and in case any of the said commissioners shall perform the duties of surveyor he shall receive fifty cents per diem in addition, and the said commissioners are hereby authorized to employ one surveyor, at two dollars per diem, two chain bearers and one axeman, at a per diem allowance not exceeding one dollar.

SECTION 10. It shall be the duty of the said commissioners to make out a fair and accurate draft of the location of said road, noting thereon the courses and distances as they occur, the improvements passed through, and also the crossing of county and township lines, roads and waters, with such other matter as may serve for explanation, one copy whereof shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth, on or before the first day of January next, and one Where depo- copy in the office of the clerk of the court of quarter sessions of the respective counties through which said road may pass, on the day aforesaid or as much sooner as practicable, which shall be a record thereof, and from thenceforth the said road shall be to all intents and purposes a public highway, and shall be opened and repaired in all respects as roads are opened and repaired, which are laid out by orders of courts aforesaid, and the damages sustained by the owners of private property assessed and paid in the same manner.

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SECTION 11. The accounts of the said commissioners for Com'issioners their own pay, and for the pay of surveyors, chain carriers and markers, shall be adjusted by the commissioners, if the respective counties through which said road shall pass, and paid by the treasurers thereof, on warrants drawn in the usual way, in proportion to the length of road in such counties respectively.

SECTION 12. The said commissioners shall meet on or

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before the first Monday in August next, or as soon thereafter Meeting as practicable, at such places as a majority of them shall agree upon, and complete the location of said road as soon as practicable, and if any vacancy or vacancies shall happen by Vecancy resignation or any other cause, the court of quarter sessions of the proper county, as the case may be, are hereby authorized to fill the vacancy or vancancies by a suitable appointment.

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SECTION 13. That the time for the performance of the Delaware co. duties required of the supervisors elected on the nineteenth Middletown day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-one, for the town- tpsupervisors' ship of Middletown in the county of Delaware, by the twen- time for pertieth section of an act entitled an act granting certain powers formance of to the authorities of the cities of Lancaster and Philadelphia, certain duties and for other purposes, passed the sixteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, be and the same is hereby extended to the first day of June, eighteen hundred and fortyone, and all contracts made under the provisions of said section, shall continue until ten days after the next annual election for township officers and so much of any act as is hereby altered, be and the same is hereby suspended until the aforesaid next annual election.

SECTION. 14. That the streets, roads, lanes and alleys in Heidleburg the town of Heidleburg, in the county of Adams, are hereby street, &c dedeclared public highways, subject to all the provisions of the clared public general road laws regulating the same. highways

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SECTION. 15. That the several provisions of the seventh, Luzerne coeighth and ninth sections of the act entitled an act relating to roads, highways and bridges, passed the thirteenth day of June, damages on one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, relative to the state roads assessment of damages on public roads, be and the same is hereby extended to state roads, laid out and opened in the county of Luzerne: Provided, That the one year therein limited for presenting petitions to the court of quarter sessions in the case of public roads, shall be extended to one year from the passage of this act, as to all state roads opened within five years immediately preceding the act, and all state roads hereafter opened the period of one year from said opening.

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SECTION 16. That the time fixed for the settlement of the account of the commissioners appointed to expend an appro- to Beaver and priation on the state road from Beaver bridge to the Ohio Ohio state state line, near Petersburg, is hereby extended to the tenth road day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. SECTION 17. That the provisions of the eighty-seventh section of the act relating to counties and townships, and county sions by Asand township officers, passed the fifteenth day of April, sessors not to eighteen hundred and thirty-four, shall not be construed to cause their authorize the county commissioners to appoint a person to removal fill the office of assessor or assistant assessor in consequence of

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any omission in the assessors or assistant assessors heretofore elected, to produce a copy of their oaths or affirmations as provided in the eighty-eighth section of said act, and the period in the said eighty-eighth section mentioned is hereby extended. for the period of twenty days from the passage of

this act.

SECTION 18. That from and after the passage of this act, Union Greys the Union Greys of Clearfield county, shall be exempt from Clearfield co-parading or drilling with any regiment or battallion of Militia, exempt from except at the discretion of the members of said company: drilling with Provided, That the above named company shall meet the militia proper number of days required by law, in their company capacity.

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SECTION 19. That John Pfoutz surviving trustee of Susanna John Pfoutz Sennet, under the last will and testament of John Pfoutz, authorized to senior, deceased, be and he is hereby authorized to sell at sell certain public or private sale, and convey, discharged of any trust, a certain messuage and tract of land, situated in Warwick township in the county of Lancaster, containing thirty-six acres and eighty-seven perches strict measure, which was conveyed to him as trustee aforesaid, by Henry Herchilroth and Anna his wife, on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty: Provided nevertheless, That before the said John Pfoutz, shall execute any deed for the aforesaid tract of land, he shall give bond to the Commonwealth, with such security as the orphans' court of Lancaster shall direct, conditioned for the proper investment of the money arising from such sale, and the application of the proceeds thereof, for the uses and purposes mentioned in the said last will and testament of John Pfoutz, senior, deceased.

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Acceptance or SECTION 20. That the third section of the act passed the non-accep- twenty-first of April, eighteen hundred and forty-one, entitled an act to authorize S. B. Young, guardian of Emanuel and bia & Luzerne William Bowser, minor children of Mathias Bowser, late of Armstrong county, deceased, to sell and convey certain real estate, and for other purposes, be and the same is hereby repealed.

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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. 137.]

AN ACT

To Incorporate the Alexandria Delaware Bridge Company.

WHEREAS, The legislature of the State of New Jersey, by an act passed the fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, entitled "An act to incorporate the Alexandria Delaware bridge company," have appointed and authorized five commissioners therein named, who with commissioners to be appointed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, shall be authorized to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said company, at such times and places, and in such manner, and for such purposes as are set forth in the said act.

Preamble

And whereas, The said act provides for the incorporating of the persons holding shares into a company, with certain power, privileges and franchises in the said act particularly 2d preamble set forth, to which act the concurrence of the legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is requested, in order that the same may be carried into effect; 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 Joseph M. Cowell, John M. Pursel, George Wyker, Henry S. Stover, Adam Barnets, and N. D. Williams, or a majority of them, all of the county of Bucks Com'issioners and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners together with the commissioners appointed by the legislature of New Jersey as aforesaid, to receive subscriptions to the said capital stock; and that all the powers and authority given by the above recited act of the legislature of the State of New Jersey, to the commissioners therein named, be and the same are hereby given to the commissioners appointed by this act.

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SECTION 2. That all and singular the power and authority, privileges, franchises, and emoluments given by the said recited act of the legislature of New Jersey, to the justices of the supreme court of said state, and the company to be incorpo- court commen rated by virtue of the said act, respectively, be and the same pleas Bucks are hereby given in like manner to the court of common pleas county of the county of Bucks, and the said subscribers and the company to be incorporated by virtue of this act; and that the assent of this Commonwealth be and the same is hereby given to the said recited act of the legislature of the State of New

Jersey, and the same is hereby adopted, ratified and confirmed by this Commonwealth, as fully and amply as if the same had been re-enacted at large, section by section, and the provisions thereof shall be of full force and effect within this Commonwealth, and the same shall be annexed to and printed with the laws of this State..

STATE OF NEW JERSEY.

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AN ACT

To Incorporate the Alexandria Delaware Bridge Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and General Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the capital stock of the Alexandria Delaware bridge company, shall amount to thirty thousand dollars, and may be increased to forty thousand dollars if the same shall become necessary; and the stock shall be divided into shares of fifty dollars each; and the subscribers to the said capital stock shall pay the sum or sums of money for the share or shares by them respectively subscribed, at such periods and in such proportions as the directors of the said company may determine.

SECTION 2. And be it enacted, That Hugh Capner, William Case, senior, Lewis M. Prevost, Cornelius Huff, senior, and William L. King, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners on the part of this State, who with commissioners to be appointed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, shall be authorized to receive subscriptions to the said capital stock, and at such times and places as they or a majority of them may direct, by giving notice thereof in two of the newspapers printed in the county of Bucks, in the State of Pennsylvania, and in two of the newspapers printed in the county of Hunterdon, in this State, for at least twenty days next preceding the time of receiving said subscriptions, and of the times and places where and when the said subscriptions shall be received; at which times and places, books of subscriptions shall be opened by the said commissioners, or a majority of them, and be kept open for three days at least, from ten o'clock in the forenoon until six o'clock in the afternoon of each day; and if the number of shares subscribed for shall exceed the amount or number of shares authorized by this act, then the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall apportion the said stock among the subscribers, in proportion to the amount by them subscribed for, but no appor