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Company ex- SECTION 9. That from and after the passage of this act, the empt from pa- said Mechanicsburg rifle company shall be exempt from pararading or drill-ding or drilling with any regiment or battalion of militia, ing with

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except at the discretion of the members of said company: Provided, That the above named company shall meet the proper number of days required by law, in their company capacity.

SECTION 10. That the Governor be and he is hereby authodraw his war- rized and required, to draw his warrant in favor of the inspecrant on State tors of the Western Penitentiary, for the sum of seven hundred Treasurer for dollars, being the amount paid by them for counsel fees in a suit $700 in favor with the borough of Allegheny, affecting the right of the Comof Western monwealth to certain ground attached to the said penitentiary. The said amount to be paid out of the sum of five thousand dollars, appropriated by the act of twenty-first of March, Inspectors to settle account eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled "an act making appropriation to the Western Penitentiary," and that the inspectors furnish a statement of the account to the accountant department, to be settled and adjusted in the usual manner.

Baynton to

SECTION 11. That the creditors of the estates of the late Creditors of John Nicholson and Peter Baynton, who have not heretofore Nicholson & presented their claims under their provisions of any prior law, may and are hereby authorized to present such claims to the present their account to the Judge of the Nicholson court of pleas for the State of PennJudge before sylvania, at any time before the first day of October next, and 1st Oct 1841 the claims so presented shall have the same force and effect as if the same had been presented on or before the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

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SECTION 12. That the adjutant general be and he is hereby Pennsylvania authorized to issue arms and other accoutrements to the cavalry Troop to be company styled the Pennsylvania troop, belonging to the twelfth arms by Adi't regiment, first brigade, tenth division Pennnsylvania militia, under such regulations and restrictions as are provided for by law.

General

SECTION 13. WHEREAS, William H. Sloan, administrator of Lewis H. Conover, deceased, is authorized by an act of assembly, passed the sixth day of April, one thousand eight Sales of land hundred and thirty, to sell certain lands in Shade township, made by ad-Somerset county, late the property of the said Lewis H. Conministrator of over, deceased, and it is provided by the act of assembly LH Conover, Somerset co 'aforesaid, that before the said sale shall be valid, it shall be declared valid approved of by the orphans court of Luzerne county, Therefore, Be it enacted, That if any sale or sales of the aforesaid lands, which have been or may hereafter be made by the said William H. Sloan, in pursuance of the aforesaid act of assembly, be approved by the orphans' court of Somerset county, the said sale or sales shall be as valid and effectual to all intents

and purposes, as if the same had been approved of by the orphans' court of Luzerne county.

SECTION 14. That the adjutant general be and he is hereby National authorized to attach the volunteer company, called the Nation-Guards to be al Guards, which is now attached to the one hundred and furnish'd with. twenty-third regiment Pennsylvania militia, to any other regi- arms by Adj't ment he may think proper, within the bounds of the first General division.

McVeytown,

SECTION 15. That the incorporated limits of the borough of McVeytown, in the county of Mifflin, are hereby enlarged Borough of and extended, so as to include the following boundaries to wit: beginning at a post on the Juniata river; thence north limits enlargà seventy-four degrees, west seventy-eight perches and a half to a post; thence by land of Brooks and Co. north eighty-eight and a half degrees, west eleven perches and six tenths to a post; thence south one and a half degrees, west fifty perches to a post; thence north eighty-eight and a half degrees, west thirteen perches and eight-tenths to a post, and thence south one and a half degrees, west forty-eight perches, to a locust; thence south forty-eight degrees, east twenty-two perches and a half, to a locust; thence south seventy degrees, east nineteen perches to a locust; thence north eighty and a half degrees, east thirty-five perches and three-tenths to buttonwood; thence south sixty eight and a half degrees, east thirteen perches and a half to a blackwalnut; thence south eighty-eight and a half degrees, east twenty perches to a post on the bank of the river aforesaid; thence down the same one hundred perches, to the place of the beginning.

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SECTION 16. That it shall and may be lawful for all per- Election of sons entitled by law to vote for burgess and town councilmen officers of the borough of McVeytown, at the same time and place where they vote for said officers, annually to elect two reputable citizens of said borough, and return the names of the Names to be sons so elected to the next court of quarter sessions of the said returned to county of Mifflin, one of whom shall be appointed constable court of the of said borough, in the same manner, with the like power and elected authority, and receive like fees, and be subject to the same regulations and penalties as are provided and contained in the laws now existing, or that may hereafter be passed, concerning constables within this Commonwealth; and shall serve and Duty and execute all manner of process which may by law be directed powers of con to the constable of said borough, and shall do and perform all the duties required to be done by the constable of said borough, in pursuance of this act, and of the by-laws and ordinances of said borough, he shall perform all the duties required to be performed by the constables of Wayne township, (now Oliver) by the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, so far as the same are not taken away by this act, nor by

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the by-laws and ordinances which shall or may be passed by the burgess and town council, in pursuance of the provisions Restrictions of this act, and the act to which it is a supplement, and for all the duties which he shall perform under the by-laws and ordinances which shall or may be passed by the burgess and town couneil aforesaid, in pursuance of the provisions of this act, and the act to which this is a supplement, he shall receive such fees as shall be fixed and determined by the by-laws and ordinances of the said burgess and town council.

Election of

the poor

SECTION 17. That it shall and may be lawful for all persons entitled by law to vote for burgess and town councilmen of the Overseers of borough of McVeytown, at the same time and place where they vote for said officers annually, to elect two reputable citizens of said borough, to serve as overseers of the poor of said borough, whose names shall be returned to the next court of quarter sessions of the said county of Mifflin, in the same manner as is required in the case of the election of a constable, and the said overseers of the poor shall have the care and guardianship of the poor of the said borough of McVeytown, and shall provide for the same according to the provisions of the existing poor laws of this Commonwealth, and shall settle To settle their their accounts annually with the burgess and town council, at accounts an- such time, and in such manner, as they shall by their by-laws nually direct and appoint.

SECTION 18. That the twenty-ninth section of the act to Repeal of 29th which this is a supplement, is hereby repealed, and the said section of ori-borough of McVeytown, from and after the passage of this act, ginal act shall constitute a separate election district, and all general or electoral elections, and all borough elections for said borough of McVeytown, shall be held at the Union school house, in said borough, and the said borough is hereby separated from the township of Oliver.

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SECTION 19. That from and after the first day of June, one Perry county thousand eight hundred and forty-two, the connty of Perry erected into a shall constitute a separate brigade, and the militia men within separate brig- the bounds of said brigade shall have power and are hereby required to elect the proper officers (agreeably to existing Election of laws) necessary to the complete organization of said brigade. SECTION 20. That the appraisers of canal damages in ascertaining the damages done, by reason of the opening of Damage done State street, in the borough of Harrisburg, from the capitol to by opening the canal, shall not take into view the advantages which the State street in persons applying for damages shall have derived from the Harrisburg construction of the publie works in the case of any property, justed by ap- as to which the advantages of the Pennsylvania canal, have been already considered by the viewers of canal damages, and in cases where assessment of damages has been made contrary to the intent and meaning of this act, and not finally settled

how to be ad

praisers

and paid, the viewers are hereby authorized and required on application of the owners of said property, to re-examine the

same in the manner directed, and subject to the provisions of State Treasuthis bill, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized and direc- rer to pay ted to pay the same, out of any money in the treasury not damages otherwise appropriated.

SECTION 21. That from and after the passage of this act it Auditor of shall be the duty of the auditors of the county of Philadel- Philadelphia phia, in addition to any other duties now imposed by law, to co to audit audit the accounts of the guardians for the relief and employ- accounts of ment of the poor of the city of Philadelphia, the district of guardians for Southwark, and the townships of the Northern Liberties and the relief and Penn, and the accounts of the inspectors of the county of the poor, employment prison, and the accounts of the board of health, and the ac- Board of counts of the controllers of the public schools, within ninety Health, &c days after the expiration of the fiscal year of said guardians, inspectors of prison, board of health, and controllers of public schools, respectively, at their respective offices, and make To report to report thereof to the court of common pleas of said county, together with a statement of balances due from or to such guardians, inspectors of prison, board of health, or controllers of schools, and for such services no additional compensation whatever shall be allowed, above the per diem compensation now allowed by law, and if said auditors, or any one of them, Penalty for shall refuse or neglect said duties herein enjoined upon him or neglect of them, he or they, so neglecting or refusing, shall be subject to duty all the penalties imposed by the act of ninth of April, eighteen hundred and forty.

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SECTION 22. That the commissioners of the county of Com'issioners Jefferson, be and are hereby authorized to subscribe to the of Jefferson co Bookville academy, the sum of five hundred dollars, and that authorized to on the second Tuesday in October next, and every year there- s'bscribe $500 after, the qualified voters of the said county, shall elect three to Brookvilla suitable persons, as trustees for the said academy, and the said academy trustees shall be divided agreeably to the provision of the second section of the act thirteenth April, eighteen hundred trustees. and thirty-eight, establishing an academy at the borough of Brookville, in the county of Jefferson, and that so much of the act above refered to, as interferes with the provisions of this section, be and the same is hereby repealed.

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SECTION 23. That the balance of the appropriations made Non-acceptunder the act entitled an act to establish a general system of ing school diseducation by common schools, passed the first day of April, tricts entiteled one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and the several to their share supplements thereto, and the balance of the first appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars, and all subsequent balances which shall remain undrawn on the first of November, one til Nov. thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and all subsequent 1843 balances shall remain in the treasury, and accumulate for the

of annual State appropriations un

use of such district or districts, entitled to the same for any
time not exceeding two years, from the first of November, one
thousand eighteen hundred and forty-one, and all such balan-
ces remaining in the treasury on the first day of November,
one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, shall be repaid
into the common school fund, and in like manner the undrawn
balances of subsequent appropriations, shall be repaid into the
said fund annually thereafter.
WM. A. CRABB,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JN. H. EWING,

APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand

eight hundred and forty-one.

Speaker of the Senate.

DAVID R. PORTER.

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[No. 143.]

AN ACT

Incorporating the Penn Insurance Company, at the city of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny.

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 of the same, That there shall be and is hereby established at the city of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny, an insurance company with a capital of two hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of fifty dollars each, and subscribed and paid by individuals, companies or corporations in the manner hereinafter specified, which stockholders and subscribers and their successors shall be and are hereby created a body corporate and politic, with perpetual succession, by the name and style of the Penn insurance company, and by that name shall be capable of contracting and being contracted with, of suing Powers, &c and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, in all courts and places, and in all matters whatsoever, with full power and authority to hold, possess, use, occupy and enjoy all such real estate as shall be necessary or convenient for the transaction of business, or which may be conveyed to said company for security, or in payment of any debt that may become due or owing to the same, or in satisfaction of any judgment of a court of law, or any order or decree of a court of equity in their favor, and the same real estate to sell, convey and dispose of; and said corporation may have and use a common

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