County courts

are to be

SECT. IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the courts of common pleas and quarter sessions of the When the peace, for the county of Cambria, shall from and after the first Monday of November next, commence and be holden on the holden, &c. first Mondays in March, June, September, and December, and the judges of the supreme court, the president of the tenth district or circuit, and the judges to be appointed in the said county of Cambria, shall have and exercise like powers, jurisdictions and authorities within and over the same, as are or may be warranted to, and exercised by the judges in other counties within

this state.

SIMON SNYDER, Speaker

of the House of Representatives. P.C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-January the twenty-sixth, in the year of cur Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seven.

THOMAS M‹KEAN.

CHAPTER XVIL

An ACT to enable aliens in certain cases to purchase and hold real estate within this commonwealth.

SECTION LE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Ge

resident with

eral Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall and may be Alien friends lawful for any alien or aliens, actually resident within this com- in the commonwealth, and not being the subject or subjects of some sove-monwealth, reign state or power, which is or shall be at the time or times of empowered such purchase or purchases at war with the United States of Ame- to purchase rica, to purchase lands, tenements and hereditaments within this estate;

and hold real

commonwealth, and to have and to hold the same in fee simple, or for any lesser estate as fully to all intents and purposes as any natural born citizen or citizens may or can do: Provided always, Provided That such alien or aliens shall previously to such purchase or such aliens purchases, declare his or their intention to become a citizen or have declared citizens of the United States, agreeably to any law of the Uni- their intented States, at that time in force upon that subject: And provided come citizens, al, That no such alien or aliens shall be competent to purchase agreeably to and hold more than five hundred acres, until he or they shall he act of conhave actually become a citizen or citizens of the United States, gress, &c. SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

on to be

Purchasers heretofore

made by alien friends resident as aforesaid,

red their in

That where any alien or aliens resident as aforesaid, may her tofore have purchsed any land or other real estate within th commonwealth, after having declared his intention to become citizen, in conformity with an act of congress at that time force upon that subject, the same purchase shall be as valid having decla all intents and purposes, and shall be construed to vest the sa tention to he land or real estate in the said alien or aliens as fully and abs come citizens, lutely as though the said declaration had been made in confo agreeably to mity to the act of congress, entitled "An act supplementar the act of to and to amend the act entituled "An act to establish an un then in force, form rule of naturalization, and to repeal the act heretofor declared val passed upon that subject," passed the eighteenth day of Jun one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.

of Congress

id.

Former acts

SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesai That so much of any act heretofore passed upon this subject, hereby alter is hereby altered or supplied be and the same hereby is repeale SIMON SNYDER, Speaker

ed-repealed.

of the House of Representatives.

P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-February the tenth, in the year of our Lord, on thousand eight hundred and seven.

THOMAS M‹KEAN.

CHAPTER XVIII.

An ACT authorizing certain Trustees to sell and convey a plantation or tract of land, in Chester county, being the joint property of th Anna-Baptist congregation, in Vincent township, and the congre gation of St. Peter's church, in Tredyffrin township.

HEREAS it hath been represented to the legislature, by

the trustees of the Anna-Baptist congregation, in Vin cent township, Chester county, and by the wardens of the Epis copal church of St. Peter, in Tredyffrin township, in the county aforesaid, That Daniel Evans, late of the township of West Whitefield, in said county, by his last will and testament, dated the twenty-seventh day of August, seventeen hundred and seventy-five, did give and bequeath unto the said two churches, a plantation or tract of land, in the township of West Whiteland aforesaid, whereon he then lived, after the death of his wife Sarah (who is since dead), containing one hundred and fifty-seven acres more or less, the said Anna-Baptist church, to have two-thirds of the rents and profits thereof for ever, towards the support of the ministry of said church; and the said Episcopal

church of St. Peter, the other third part of the rents and profits, for, and towards the support of the ministry of said church for Te ever: And as it has been represented by the said trustees and ewardens that it would be much more to the interest and advan

tage of the said congregations, if the legislature would pass a law authorizing them to dispose of the said plantation, and inest the monies arising therefrom in some productive fund, for the use of the said churches: Therefore,

Trustees to be

who are em

heretofore be

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- appoin ed ves of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, powered to and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That as soon as fell a tract of may be after the passing of this act, the elders of the Anna-Bap- land, in Ches tist congregation in Vincent township, and wardens and vestry ter county, of the Episcopal church of St. Peter, in Tredyffrin township, queathed to in the county of Chester, shall each of them appoint two persons the Anna Bapas trustees, who are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and it congregadispose of the said plantation or tract of land, with its several tion, in Vincenttownship, rights, privileges and appurtenances as soon as the same can be and the Epifconveniently done, either by public or private sale, for the best copal church of St. Perer, and highest price that can be gotten for the same: And to give in Tredyffrin assurances and conveyances valid in the law, to the purchaser or township, &c. purchasers, and his or their heirs and assigns for ever, and the And to place monies arising therefrom, to place at interest upon mortgage or the monies ether sufficient security, paying or causing to be paid annually, from, at intrarifing there. two-thirds of the interest arising therefrom, to the elders for the eft,two-thirds time being, of the Anna-Baptist congregation aforesaid, and the whereof to be remaining one-third to the wardens and vestry for the time be- paid annually ing, of the Episcopal church of St. Peter aforesaid, for the sup- Ba tift church port of the ministry in the said churches respectively, and up- aforefaid, and on the death of the said trustees or their successors, or either of the remaining third to the them, the executors or administrators of the said trustees, or Epifcopal their successors, shall assign and transfer all bonds, specialties, church for mortgages and other securities taken in trust as aforesaid, to the support of such person and persons, as the said elders, church-wardens and their Ministry, vestry, shall respectively appoint to succeed the trustee or trustees in cafe of the so deceased: Provided always, that in case of the dissolution of the diffolution of corporation of the aforesaid churches, that then all the neat pro- the raid the corporareeds of the said sale, in whatever manner the same may be vest-churches, the ed,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.

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 be dens and vestry of the Episcopal church aforesaid, shall cause to erected in the be erected a tablet of marble, in their respective churches, dedi- respective

churches de-cated to the memory of Daniel Evans, deceased, with approp dicated to the ate inscriptions of his donation to said churches respectively. memory of

Daniel Evans,

the Tefta or,

with appro

priate infcriptions, &c.

SIMON SNYDER, Speaker

of the House of Representatives.

P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-February the tenth, in the year of our Lo one thousand eight hundred and seven.

THOMAS MCKEAN.

James Mitchell to be

placed on the list of soldiers entitled to donation

land.

WHE

CHAPTER XIX.

An ACT for the relief of James Mitchell. WHEREAS it hath been represented to the legislatu that James Mitchel entered the army of the Uni States, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventyand was wounded in the ancle at the battle of Long Island the same year, which rendered him unfit for duty for so time, and in consequence of which he did not receive his pay, that on his recovery he resumed the public service, was some time afterwards appointed serjeant-major in the r ment commanded by colonel Richard Butler, in which capa he continued to serve until after the surrender of Cornwalli York-town in Virginia, when he was discharged, which charge has been lost: And it further appears that he never ceived any thing in consequence of his wounds, nor a trac donation lands, for remedy whereof;

m

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represe tives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly and it is hereby enac ed by the authority of the same, That the per officers shall place James Mitchell on the list of soldie titled to draw donation lands, and on his application, eit person, or by his agent or attorney constituted for that pisa P shall draw and patent him such quantity of donation land em of his rank is entitled to, in full of all his claims agai d l

commonwealth.

tr

SIMON SNYDER, Speakerntil of the House of Representa qu

P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Savic

APPROVED-February the tenth, in the year of our Loi thousand eight hundred and seven.

DOSS

re

THOMAS McKEin

h

CHAPTER XX.

An ACT for the relief of divers purchasers of the confiscated estate of
Harry Gordon, who were evicted from the same.

WH

HEREAS the supreme executive council of this commonwealth, did by proclamation bearing date the twentieth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, name and require Henry Gordon to render himself to the proper officer in this state on or before the first day of November then next ensuing, and to abide his trial for high treason in pain of being attainted and forfeiting as persons attainted ought to do; and whereas the party named and required did not render himself as aforesaid, in consequence whereof, the agents for forfeited estates seized two certain tracts of land in (then Bedford now) Huntingdon county, the property of a certain Harry Gordon, one of the said tracts containing fourteen hundred and ninety-five acres, and the other containing three hundred and twenty-five acres, and sold the same to a certain James Woods : And whereas the supreme executive council refused to give a deed for the said lands to the purchaser, by reason of doubts. whether the said Harry Gordon was properly required to render himself by the name of Henry Gordon; whereupon the legison the thirty-first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, passed an act for the attainder of Hary Gordon, unless he should surrender himself on or before ensuing, and abidede the twenty-fourth day of July, then next

lature of this
co

should not so su

his trial for high treason; and in case he sale, and make frender himself, did thereafter confirm the said it of the same validity, as if the said Gordon had been properly council: Ay named and duly attainted by the proclamation of himself and whereas the said Harry Gordon did not render the suprecording to the provisions of the said act; whereupon one tho me executive council did on the second day of October, the sainsand seven hundred and eighty-three, execute a deed for the pri tracts of land, to the said James Woods, therein reciting the saemises: And whereas seven hundred and fifty acres of the said larger tract of land, came by sundry conveyances from of Hud Woods to the devisees of Adam Holliday, of the threentingdon; and four hundred and sixty-two acres and of the same tract, came by sundry conveyances to D quarters the avid Hayfield Conyngham, of the county of Philadelphia, been, ossession of the remainder of the same tract not having said recovered by said David Hayfield Conyngham; and the by susmaller tract of three hundred and twenty-five acres came and undry conveyances to Daniel Martin of Huntingdon county, the devisees of the said Adam Holliday, the said David H.

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