on the treasurer of the ftate for the remainder the valuation, in favor of the faid Michael Co to be paid out of any unappropriated monies this commonwealth, as a full fatisfaction an compenfation for all cofts and damages, whic may have been fuftained through the defect an invalidity of the deed of conveyance, made aforefaid, to the faid Jofeph Terrance. ISAAC WEAVER, junior, Speaker SAMUEL MACLAY, Speaker APPROVED February the nineteenth, 1802: CHAPTER XXX. An ACT to enable James Wickersham, Samue Garretfon and Ezekiel Kirk, to convey a cer tain piece of land in the township of Newbury York county. WHEREAS, James Wickersham, Samue Garretfon and Ezekiel Kirk, trustee appointed by the monthly meeting of the fociet of the people called Quakers, held at Warring ton meeting-houfe, in the township of Warring ton, in the county of York, have by their pe tition to the legislature, reprefented that a cer tain tract of land was granted to John Garret fo fon and Jofeph Hutton (now deceased) by patent dated the twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand feven hundred and ninety-fix, in trust for the ufe of faid fociety, in the township of Newbury, in the county aforefaid, for the purpose of a place of meeting and burying ground; and that the faid fociety, at the laft mentioned place, ordered and directed them the faid trustees to fell a part of the faid tract, amounting to thirteen acres and two perches, to defray the expences incurred by patenting the fame, as well as certain expences incurred on account of some poor perfons affifted by the society at the said last mentioned place; and that in purfuance of the faid order and direction, they did fell the faid thirteen acres and two perches of land, to a certain Cornelius Garretfon, for the fum of fixty-four pounds one fhilling and threepence; and therefore the faid trustees refpectfully folicit that an act may be paffed, to veft the title of the faid fociety in the premises in the faid Cornelius Garretfon, in fee-fimple : Therefore, and others cm Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennfylvania, in General Affembly met, and it is bereby enacted by the authority of the fame, 'That J. Wickersham the faid James Wickerfham, Samuel Garretfon powered to and Ezekiel Kirk, the furvivor or furvivors of convey in feefimple a piece them, fhall be, and they are hereby empowered to of land fituate convey in fee-fimple, by deed reciting this act, to in York county the faid Cornelius Garretfon, thirteen acres and two perches of land, by metes and bounds, being part of a certain tract of land, patented to John Garretfon and Jofeph Hutton, on the twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-fix, in truft for the ufe of the fociety of the people called called Quakers, in Newbury township, in th county of York, for the purpose of a place o meeting and burying ground; which faid thi teen acres and two perches, have been fold b them to the faid Cornelius Garretfon, in orde to defray certain expences incurred in neceffar and benevolent purpofes, as fet forth in thei petition to the legislature, in obedience to th order and direction of the said society. ISAAC WEAVER, junior, Speaker SAMUEL MACLAY, Speaker APPROVED-February the nineteenth, 1802: of the Commonwealth of Pennfylvania. The town of Canonsburg erected into a borough and its boundaries defcribed. CHAPTER XXXI. An ACT to erect the town of Canonsburg, in the county of Washington into a borough. Section 1. E Houfe of Reprefentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General As sembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the fame, That the town of Canonsburgh, in the county of Washington, fhall be, and the fame is hereby, erected into a borough, which fhall be called the "Borough of BF it enacted by the Senate and Canonfburgh," and fhall be comprifed with in the following bounds, to wit: Beginning at at the mouth of Bufh-run; thence up faid run, to the divifion line between Craig Ritchie's land and Samuel Witherspoon's lot; thence along the line of faid lot, fo as to include the fame, to Thomas Briceland's land; thence along the line of faid land, until it ftrikes Wells's road; thence to the corner of Nathan Andrews's lot; thence along the north fide of the fame, to the lot attached to the old brewhouse; thence along faid lot, fo as to include the fame, to the weft end of the town lots, on the weit fide of the principal street; thence along the end of faid lots, to the Washington road; thence along the faid road fouth-weft, to a white-oak marked G, at the fouth-welt end of Miller's improvement on Darr and Ogle's land; thence a direct courfe to Chartier's creek; thence down the fame, to the place of beginning. them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That it fhall and may be law- When & what borough offiful for all perfons having refided within the faid. cers fhall be borough fix months next preceding the election, chofen & manand being entitled to vote for members of the ner of choofing general affembly, on the firft Monday of May, in each and every year hereafter, to meet in one of the rooms of the college in the said borough, and then and there elect, by ballot, between the hours of twelve and fix o'clock in the evening, one reputable citizen, refiding therein, who fhall be ftyled the burgefs of the borough, and five reputable citizens to be a town council, and fhall alfo elect a high conftable; but previous to the opening of any fuch election, the faid inhabitants fhall elect three reputable citizens, one of whom fhall prefide as judge, one to act as infpector, and the other to perform the duty of clerk, according to the directions of the general election laws of this commonwealth, fo far VOL. 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K 28 as relates to receiving and counting votes, an shall be subject to the fame penalties for ma practices, as by the faid election laws are in pofed; and the faid judge, inspector and clerk before they enter on the exercife of their r fpective duties, fhall take an oath or affirmation before any juftice of the peace of the count of Washington, to perform the fame with fidel ty, and fhall hold the faid elections from time t time, as occafion fhall require, receive and cour the ballots, and declare the perfons having th greatest number of votes, to be duly elected whereupon duplicate certificates thereof fhall b figned by the faid judge, infpector and cler! one of which fhall be tranfmitted to each of th perfons elected, and the other filed among th records of the corporation, for their fafe kee ing, and in cafe of vacancy, by death, reft nation, refufal to accept, or removal from th faid borough, of any of the faid officers, th burgefs, or in his abfence or inability to a the first named of the town council, fhall iff his precept, directed to the high constable, r quiring him to hold an election to fill fuch v cancy, he giving at least ten days previous n tice, by advertisements fet up at four of the m public places within the faid borough. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the a Incorporation thority aforefaid, That the burgefs and to of the borough officers & their council, duly elected as aforefaid, and the corporate pow- fucceffors forever hereafter, fhall be one bo ers defined. politic and corporate in law, by the name a |