Of the apThat in case the inhabitants of any of the townships in the said pointment of assessors with county of Jefferson have neglected, or may hereafter neglect to in the county elect assessors or assistant assessors, the commissioners of Indiof Jefferson, ana county aforesaid are hereby authorized and required to aptheir powers, point the same; and the said assessor and assistants shall have full &c. power and authority, and are hereby enjoined and required upon receipt of a precept or precepts, which shall be issued and directed to them by the commissioners of Indiana county, to proceed to take an account of all the taxable inhabitants within their respective townships or districts, and of all and every the articles, matters and things made taxable, and to value the same in the same manner and upon the same principles as is provided by the eighth section of the act to raise county rates and levies, passed April the eleventh, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, and shall be subject to the like penalty for neglects, as is provided by the said act in other cases, which valuation shall be as effectual in law, to all intents and purposes as if the same had been duly made at the stated triennial assessment directed by law. SIMON SNYDER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the twelfth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven. THOMAS M‹KEAN. In certain ca ses, in the court of er rors and appeals where abatements CHAPTER VI. A SUPPLEMENT to the act, entitled "An act to alter the Judiciary System of this Commonwealth," and to alter the time of holding the Courts of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions, and Orphans Court in the County of Washington. SECTION I. E 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 in all cases which were depending in the high court of errors and appeals at the term of July, one thousand eight hundred have or shall and five,and which since may have been abated, or hereafter may happen by the abate by the death of all or any of the plaintiffs in the said suits, death of Plain- the surviving plaintiff or plaintiffs, or the representatives of such viving Plain deceased plaintiff or plaintiffs, may take out a new writ of error, tiffs, or their returnable to the said court, any thing in the act to which this is a supplement notwithstanding, and the judges composing the said court are hereby required to cause errors to be assigned new writs of and issue to be joined thereon, and the like proceedings to be had thereon as though the said writ of error had not abated, tiffs, the sur representa tives enabled to take out or, &c. an additional SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the judges of the Judges of said said high court of errors and appeals, to hold one term more, if court authorthe same shall be necessary, in addition to the two terms direct-ized to hold ed to be holden by them, by the act to which this is a supple- term, if neces ment, for the determination of all causes which were before them sary. at the passing of the said act, or which may be brought before them by virtue of this act. SECT. III And be it further enacted by the authority foresaid, That in order to expedite the determination of the said causes The Presidents within the time aforesaid, the presiding judges in each and eve- of the courts ry district or circuit of the courts of common pleas within this of Common Pleas, in all commonwealth, shall be judges of the high court of errors and the districts, appeals, and they are hereby invested with the same rights and cons ituted powers, and required to perform the like duties as those invested Judges of the in, and required of the presidents of the five circuits or districts high court of errors and apof this commonwealth, in, and by the act, entitled "An act to peals. establish the judicial courts of this commonwealth, in conformity to the alterations and amendments in the constitution," passed the thirteenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. tiorari for the SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any writ of certiorari issued since the passing of the act to Of issuing which this is a supplement, for the removal of any cause to the writs of Cersupreme or circuit courts, on or before the first day of the next removal of term after the original process therein shall have been returna- causes to the ble, shall be deemed to have legally issued ; and from and after Supreme or the passing of this act, it shall be lawful to issue writs of certio- circuit courts. rari, to remove causes to the supreme or circuit courts at any time during the next term after the writ or process therein shall have been returnable, subject nevertheless to all other restrictions contained in the twentieth section of the said act. Alteration of SECT. V. Whereas, inconveniences have arisen in the county of Washington, from the courts of common pleas in that county, being held at the same time that the supreme court is held in Pittsburg in the county adjoining: Therefore, Be it fur- the time of ther enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the next holding the April term, the courts of common pleas, quarter sessions of the courts of peace and orphans court for the county of Washington, shall be pleas, &c. in held on the week preceding the courts in the county of Beaver. the county of Washington. SIMON SNYDER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-the twelfth day of January, in the year one thou sand eight hundred and seven. Common THOMAS M·KEAN. the town of CHAPTER VII. An act SUPPLEMENTARY to an act, entitled "An act directing the sale f certain town lots in the town of Beaver, and other lands adjacent thereto. SECTION I. E it enacted by the Senate and House of RepresentaD tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in Ge neral Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the The commis same, That John Lawrence of Beaver town, Samuel Wilson and sioners for the David Potter of Beaver county, commissioners appointed by sale of lots in law to sell certain town lots in the town of Beaver, and other Beaver autho land adjacent thereto be and they are hereby authorized to rized to sue sue for and recover in the name of the commonwealth, the for the pur first moiety of the purchase money for the lots and land aforechase money, said, under the act to which this is a supplement; and upon recovery thereof, and on receipt of the debt and costs to enter satisfaction upon the record thereof. &c. SIMON SNYDER, Speaker of the House of Representatives: P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-the twelfth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven. THOMAS M‹KEAN. W CHAPTER VIII. An ACT for the relief of James Oglivia. HEREAS it has been represented to the Legislature that James Oglivia, of the county of Montgomery, at the commencement of the revolutionary war, served several tours of duty in the militia, that on the fifth of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, he enlisted in Captain Christie's company of the fifth Pennsylvania regiment commanded by Colonel Francis Johnston and continued therein until the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty, he was then put into the second battalion of Pennsylvania troops commanded by Colonel Richard Butler, that the term of his enlistment expired on the fifth of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, but did not ask his discharge until after he saw the capture of Cornwallis at York town, in Virginia, that he then on the fifth of November, received his discharge, that he has now become infirm by age and by accident, and destitute of support: : Therefore for the relief of a very meritorious soldier, SECTION I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assem bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That An annuity SIMON SNYDER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—January the twenty-sixth, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seven. THOMAS McKEAN. CHAPTER IX. An ACT to authorize Jonathan Hill and Elizabeth Thatcher, executors to the estate of Daniel Hill, deceased, to convey a certain piece of land therein mentioned. WH THEREAS it has been represented to the legislature, that a certain Daniel Hill of the county of Beaver, now deceased, did in his life-time, covenant with a certain Thomas Williams, to convey and assure to him in fee simple, fifty acres of land, particularly described and set forth in the agreement thereof, by metes and bounds, and that since the decease of the said Daniel Hill, it has been fully ascertained that the said described fifty acres of land, are not included within the bounds or limits of the real estate of the said Daniel Hill, but are the property C of Dan Hill, convey to of another person; by reason whereof, the said contract cannot be carried into effect; and it is further represented that the said Thomas Williams is willing to accept of other fifty acres of land, part of the real estate of the said deceased, in discharge of the said covenant and agreement, and has agreed with the acting executors of the said Daniel Hill, to discharge the estate of the said Daniel Hill from any further liability by reason of such covenant, provided they may be enabled by law to execute a conveyance for such other fifty acres of land; and that it will be manifestly to the interest of the said estate, that the said latter agreement should be carried into effect; all which premises have satisfactorily appeared: Therefore, SECTION I Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enac ed by the authority of the same, That Jonathan The executors Hill and Elizabeth Thatcher, acting executors of the estate of authorized to Daniel Hill, deceased, shall be, and they are hereby authorized, to execute a sufficient deed in fee simple, to Thomas Williams, Thomas Wil for fifty acres of land, part of the real estate of the said Daniel liams fifty acres of land Hill, deceased, in lieu of other fifty acres of land, agreed to be in discharge conveyed to the said Thomas Williams, by the said Daniel Hill, of a contract in the life-time of the said Daniel Hill, in such manner as has male hy the been agreed upon between the said parties, and as shall be most advantageous to the estate of the said Daniel Hill, which said deed shall be as effectual to convey the estate, right, interest, property and possession of in and to the said land, as if the said Daniel Hill in his life-time had conveyed the same to the said Thomas Williams in fee simple, and which deed shall be taken to be in full satisfaction and discharge of the covenant and agreement of the said Daniel Hill, with the said Thomas Williams, to all intents and purposes, and in lieu thereof. restator. SIMON SNYDER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-January the twenty-sixth, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seven. THOMAS MOKEAN. CHAPTER X. An ACT to enable the administrators of the estate of James Carmichael, deceased, to complete the title to certain lands sold by their intestate by certain articles of agreement. W HEREAS it has been represented to the legislature, that James Carmichael, late of the county of Greene, deceased, |