quire, attend for the purpose of transporting travellers and others over the said river, and for services rendered shall receive such price as is customarily paid at other ferries on said river; and the said ferry shall moreover be subject to such rates and regulations as the court of Quarter Sessions of the county of Provided she Cumberland may order and direct: Provided always, That nothing in this act contained, shall be construed so as to vest the said Mary, or her legal representatives, with a right to receive or discharge any travellers, carriages or other loading, on land belonging to any other person, without the consent of the owner. SIMON SNYDER, Speaker do not tres pass on the lands of others. 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 M‹KEAN. Cambria county to en joy similar powers and rights with other coun tis. same, CHAPTER XVI. An ACT to organize the provisional county of Cambria. 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 enacted by the authority of the That from and after the first Monday in November next, the inhabitants of Cambria county shall enjoy all and singular, the jurisdiction, powers, rights, liberties and privileges within the same, which the inhabitants of other counties in this State do enjoy by the constitution and laws of this commonwealth. SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Of the trans- That actions of trespass and ejectment for the trial of titles to fering of land actions of trespass quare clausum fregit for entry into any su ts, pending lands or tenements within the county of Cambria, which shall at of Somerset the time of passing of this act, or before the first Monday in county, to the November next, have been commenced in the court of common in the courts courts of Cambria county. pleas or circuit court of Somerset county, and which shall on the said first Monday of November next be still pending and undetermined, shall be transferred to the court of common pleas and circuit court of Cambria county, there to be proceeded on to trial and determination according to law, in the same state, and subject to the same rules, as they or any of them were on Duties enjoin the said Monday, and the prothonotary of Somerset county shall thonotary of and he is hereby enjoined within thirty days after the said first Monday of November next, to make out a docket, containing ed on the pro Somerset V notary of to be reim. bursed to him a statement of all such actions then pending, and undetermined further to ac Sheriff, &c. of SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Somerset to That the sheriff, coroner and other public officers of Somerset act within county, shall continue to exercise the duties of their respective Cambria unoffices within the county of Cambria as heretofore, until the til he first first Monday of November next. Monday of SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That sheriffs, coroners, treasurers, and all such other officers as County offihave heretofore usually given security for the faithful discharge cers to give of the duties of their respective offices, who shall be hereafter security, &c. elected or appointed in the county of Cambria, before they enter on the duties of their offices, shall give sufficient sureties in the like sums, and in the like manner and form, and for the like purposes, uses, and trusts as such officers are obliged to do in the county of Crawford, or for such sums, or in such manner as may hereafter be directed by law. SECT. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all taxes laid, or directed to be laid within the county of of assessing and levying Cambria, before the passing of this act, shall be laid, assessed, levied, collected, and recovered in the same manner this act had not been passed; and all sums of money due this Cambria, commonwealth for militia fines in the said county of Cambria, taxes within as if the county of gaurch of St. Peter, the other third part of the rents and profits, r, and towards the support of the ministry of said church for er: And as it has been represented by the said trustees and ardens that it would be much more to the interest and advange of the said congregations, if the legislature would pass a 4 authorizing them to dispose of the said plantation, and init the monies arising therefrom in some productive fund, for use of the said churches: Therefore, Trustees to be who are em powered to heretofore be SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- appoin ed of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That as soon as fell a tract of - be after the passing of this act, the elders of the Anna-Bap- land, in Chef congregation in Vincent township, and wardens and vestry ter county, the Episcopal church of St. Peter, in Tredyffrin township, queathed to he county of Chester, shall each of them appoint two persons the Anna Baprustees, who are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and tift congrega. pose of the said plantation or tract of land, with its several tion, in Vinhts, privileges and appurtenances as soon as the same can be and the Epif veniently done, either by public or private sale, for the best copal church of St. Peter, highest price that can be gotten for the same: And to give in Tredyffrin rances and conveyances valid in the law, to the purchaser or township, &c. rchasers, and his or their heirs and assigns for ever, and the And to place nies arising therefrom, to place at interest upon mortgage or the monies er sufficient security, paying or causing to be paid annually, from, at interarifing there. >-thirds of the interest arising therefrom, to the elders for the eft,two-thirds e being, of the Anna-Baptist congregation aforesaid, and the whereof to be maining one-third to the wardens and vestry for the time be- paid annually , of the Episcopal church of St. Peter aforesaid, for the sup- Ba tift church rt of the ministry in the said churches respectively, and up- aforefaid, and ..the death of the said trustees or their successors, or either of the remaining third to the em, the executors or administrators of the said trustees, or Epifcopal eir successors, shall assign and transfer all bonds, specialties, church for ortgages and other securities taken in trust as aforesaid, to the fupport of ch person and persons, as the said elders, church-wardens and their Ministry. stry, shall respectively appoint to succeed the trustee or trustees in cafe of the deceased: Provided always, that in case of the dissolution of the diffolution of rporation of the aforesaid churches, that then all the neat pro- the corp raeeds of the said sale, in whatever manner the same may be vest- churches, the 4,shall descend to the legal representatives of the aforesaid Daniel monies to go Evans, deceased, agreeably to the intestate laws of this common- to to the legal wealth, then in force. reprefenta to the Anna &c. tion of faid tives of the SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Teftator. That within twelve months after the sale aforesaid, the said el- Tablets of ders of the Anna-Baptist congregration aforesaid, and the war- Marble to dens and vestry of the Episcopal church aforesaid, shall cause to erected be erected a tablet of marble, in their respective churches, dedi- rest Of ere&ting public build. ngs for said county. and arrearages of taxes shall be collected and recovered in the same manner as if this act had not been made. SECT. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the commissioners that may be hereafter elected for the county of Cambria, to erect, or cause to be erected; as soon as they may deem expedient, a court-house, prison, and public buildings for the safe keeping of the records and other public papers appertaining to, or in the county aforesaid, in such parts of the public square or lots adjoining the same, as they may think fit to purchase for said court-house, or other public county buildings, in the town of Ebensburgh, in the county of Cambria, as the commissioners of Of liquidating said county may think proper; and the commissioners of Soand settling merset and Cambria counties, are hereby directed to examine, the balance of liquidate, and settle the accounts which have been kept of the between the county taxes, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly of this commonwealth, passed the twelfth day of March, one thouSomerset and sand eight hundred and one, and having ascertained the balance Cambria. which may be due from either county to the other, the commissioners of the debtor county, shall draw an order on their treasurer, directing him to pay the treasurer of the creditor county, the balance which shall be so found due. county taxes counties of house to be procured for holding the County courts SECT. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, A temporary That the commissioners of Cambria county, shall have power to procure a house, in or as near the town of Ebensburg as convenience will admit, at the least possible expence, in which the courts of said county shall be held, until a court-house is erected; or if such house cannot be procured, the aforesaid commissioners shall have power to erect temporary buildings in said county for that purpose. ia. Of the election of county officers, &c. SECT. VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the citizens, inhabitants of Cambria county, who are, or shall be qualified to elect, agreeably to the laws and constitution of this State, shall, at the general election to be held in the county aforesaid, on the second Tuesday in October next, choose two fit persons for sheriffs, two for coroners, and three for commissioners in said county, in the same manner, and under the same regulations and penalties, as by the constitution and laws of this commonwealth, similar officers are chosen in other counties, and said officers when chosen as aforesaid, and duly qualified to enter on the duties of their respective offices, shall have and enjoy all and singular the powers, authorities, privileges and emoluments in, or any way arising out of their respective offices in and for the county aforesaid, as fully as such officers are entitled to in any of the counties within this commonwealth. |