removed to house when erected. corporation, and also an account of all sales, purchases, donations, devises and bequests, as shall have been made by or to them. SECTION 6. As soon as the said buildings shall have been Paupers how erected or purchased, and all necessary accommodations provided therein, notices shall be sent signed by any two of the said directors to the overseers of the several townships of the said county of Lycoming, requiring them forthwith to bring the poor of their respective townships to said house of employment, which order, the overseers are hereby enjoined and required to comply with, or otherwise to forfeit the costs of all future maintenance except in cases when by sickness or any other sufficient cause, any poor person cannot be removed, in which case the said overseers shall represent the same to the nearest justice of the peace, who being satisfied of the truth thereof, shall certify the same to the said directors, and at the same time, issue an order under his hand and seal to the said overseers, directing them to maintain such poor until such time, as he or she may be in a situation to be removed, and then convey the said pauper, and deliver him or her to the steward or keeper of the said house of employment, together with the said order, and the charge and expense of such temporary relief and of such removal shall be paid by the said directors. Certain expenses how paid. SECTION 7. The said directors shall from time to time receive, provide for and employ according to the true intent and meanWho are en- ing of this act, all such poor and indigent persons, as shall be titled to relief entitled to relief or shall have gained a legal settlement in said how granted. county of Lycoming, and shall be sent there by an order or warrant for that purpose under the hands and seals of any two justices of the peace, directed to any constable of the said county or to the overseers of the proper township in any other county of this commonwealth and the said directors are hereby authoOut door relief rized when they shall deem it proper and convenient to do so to permit any person or persons to be maintained elsewhere: Provided, The expense of their maintenance does not, in any case, exceed that for which they could be maintained at the said poor house. Provisio. Powers of di- Revenue. Provisio. 2 Provisio. SECTION 8. The said directors or any two of them, who shall be a quorum in all cases to do business, shall have full power to make and ordain such ordinances, rules and regulations as they shall think proper, convenient and necessary for the direction, government and support of the poor and house of employment aforesaid, and the revenues thereunto belonging, and of all such persons, as shall come under their cognizance: Provided, The same be not repugnant to this law or any of the other laws of this state or of the United States. And provided also, That the same shall not have any force or effect until they shall have been submitted to the court of common pleas for the time being of the county of Lycoming, and shall have received the approbation of the same. tors. SECTION 9. A quorum of said directors shall and they are Monthly meehereby enjoined and required to meet at the said house of em- ting of direcployment at least once in every month, and visit the apartments and see that the poor are comfortably supported, and hear all complaints, and redress or cause to be redressed, all grievances that may happen by the neglect or misconduct of any person or persons in their employment or otherwise. SECTION 10. The said directors shall, each of them, receive for their services annually the sum of forty dollars, to defray Compensat❜n the expenses of their necessary attendance on the duties of their office. SECTION 11. In case of any vacancy by death, resignation Vacancies. or otherwise of the said directors, the remaining directors shall fill such vacancy by the appointment of a citizen of the county, under the same penalty as is provided by the third section of this act, to serve until the next general election, when another director shall be elected to serve the remainder of the term. lative to tax. Office of over seer abolish'd. SECTION 12. All claims and demands existing at the time of this act being carried into effect, shall have full force and effect as if this act had not passed, and when the same may have been duly adjusted and settled, all moneys remaining in the hands of the overseers as well as the uncollected taxes levied for the Duties of support of the poor in the several townships in said county, shall be oversesrs, repaid over to the supervisors of the highways of their respective townships, to be by them applied towards repairing the roads. SECTION 13. As soon as the poor of said county shall have been removed to the house of employment, and the outstanding taxes collected and paid over, the office of the overseer of the poor within the said county, shall from henceforth be abolished. SECTION 14. The power conferred, and the duties imposed on the overseers of the poor in and by an act to empower the overseers and guardians of the poor of the several townships within this commonwealth to recover certain fines, penalties and ferfeitures, and for other purposes, are hereby conferred and Transfer of imposed on the supervisors of the highways in the said county, and the justices of the peace and sheriff, within the said county, are hereby required and enjoined to pay to the supervisors, to be by them applied to the repair of the highways the aforesaid fines, forfeitures and penalties within the time and manner prescribed by the said act for the payment thereof in other counties, to the overseers of the poor, and to give notice of the receipt thereof, to the said supervisors within the time and in the manner aforesaid, and that for any neglect or refusal to perform any of the duties enjoined on them by the said act, the said justices of the peace and sheriff in the said county shall be subject to all fines, penalties and forfeitures to which the justices certain duties to supervisors Co. coms. to defray expenses of viewers and and sheriffs, in other counties, by the said act, are subject or liable. SECTION 15. The commissioners of the said county are hereby authorized and empowered to pay to the persons who are appointed commissioners by the first section of this act, the excompensate penses incurred by them in the performance of their duty, and also to pay to each of the said directors a reasonable compensation for their services during the term they are employed in erecting any building or buildings aforesrid: Provided, That the same shall not, including the annual sum allowed them by this act, exceed fifty dollars for any one year. directors. Repealing clause. Sheriff to notify comr's of their appoint ment. Citizens to poor house. SECTION 16. So much of the laws of this commonwealth relating to the poor, as are, by this act, altered or supplied, be and the same are hereby repealed so far as they affect the county of Lycoming. SECTION 17. The sheriff of the said county shall, in due time, notify the said commissioners of their appointment, and when and where they shall meet for entering upon the duties assigned by this act, which place of meeting shall be as near the centre of the county as possible. SECTION 18. For the purpose of ascertaining the sense of the vote "for" or citizens of Lycoming county, as to the expedieney of erecting a "against" a poor house, it shall be the duty of each of the inspectors for the several townships and boroughs at the next general election to receive tickets, either written or printed, from the qualified voters thereof, labelled on the outside poor house, and in the inside for a poor house, or against a poor house; and if it shall appear upon casting up the votes in the different districts at the court house on the same day that other returns are made out, that a majority of those who voted, are for a poor house, then the foregoing act to take effect, but if a majority of votes are found to be against a poor house, the foregoing act shall be and the same is hereby declared null and void. Sheriff to pub of this act. SECTION 19. And the sheriff of Lycoming county shall cause lish 18th sec. to be published, the eighteenth section of this act in all the newspapers printed in said county, at least six weeks previous to the next general election, the expenses of which shall be paid out of the county treasury. NER MIDDLESWARTH, Speaker of the House of Representatives, pro tem. CHARLES B. PENROSE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-This twenty-seventh day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty one. DAVID R. PORTER. [No. 30.] AN ACT Supplementary to an act entitled "An act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Codorus Navigation Company," passed the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five. for the repay 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 State pledged of the same: That the faith of the State be and is hereby pledg- ment of a ed for the repayment at the end of ten years from the time of Loan of its negociation of a loan of six thousand dollars, to be contract- $6,000 to Coed by the president and managers of the Codorus navigation dorus nav. co. company: Provided, That the interest on said loan shall be Provisio. paid by said president and managers, and the principal applied to the repair of its canals, locks, towing path, dams and slack Money how applied. water navigation, and to no other uses and purposes whatsoever: Provided, That all the tolls collected upon the said navigation Provisio, tolls annually after deducting the amount necessary for repairs, and how applied. to pay the officers, shall be applied to the payment of the interest and principal of the said loan until the whole be paid, and the said president and managers shall not declare any divi- Dividends. dend upon the stock of said company until the debt hereby authorized be entirely liquidated. NER MIDDLESWARTH, JOHN STROHM, Speaker, pro tem of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of March, A. D. eighteen hun dred and forty-one. DAVID R. PORTER. [No. 31.] AN ACT To enable William Price and Henry McLaughlin, junior, to sell certain real estate. WHEREAS, it is presented to the Legislature that John Mc- Preamble. Laughlin and Catharine, both now deceased, were seized rized to sell certain real estate in of a farm, situate partly in Franklin county, Pennsylva nia, and partly in Washington county, Maryland, one portion of the same being the right and estate of the said John, and the other portion the right and estate of the said Catharine. And whereas, the said farm is now vested in their children and descendants the said John's portion by descent, and the said Catharine's by devise. And whereas, by a decree of Washington county court, in the state of Maryland, sitting as a court of equity, the said William Price and Henry McLaughlin, junior, have been appointed trustees to sell and convey that part of the said farm which lies in the state of Maryland. Therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enected by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority Wm. Price & of the same, That William Price and Henry McLaughlin, H. McLaugh- junior, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to lin jr. autho- sell and convey such portion of the real estate aforesaid, of the said John McLaughlin and Catharine McLaughlin, as is situate in the county of Franklin in this Commonwealth, in like manFranklin co. ner as they, the said William Price and Henry McLaughlin, are authorized under the decree aforesaid, to sell and convey that portion of the said real estate lying in the state of Maryland: Provided however, That the said William Price and Henry McLaughlin shall first give sufficient security, to be approved of by the orphan's court of Franklin county for the proper distribution of the proceeds of the sale of the said real estate, lying in the said county, among the persons entitled thereto, according to the laws of this commonwealth. Provisio. To give security for distribution of proceeds. NER MIDDLESWARTH, Speaker, pro tem of the House of Representatives. JOHN STROHM, Speaker, pro tem of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-one. DAVID R. PORTER. [No. 32.] AN ACT To extend the time for the sale of certain stock in the Manufacturers and SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen |