be levied, collected and paid unto the respective county treasurers at the same time, and in the same manner that county taxes are levied and collected, and shall be by them paid in the manner herein after directed; and the accounts shall be settled in the same manner as other county levies are.

for crows

SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when any person or persons shall kill any squirrels or crows Allowance in said counties, after the passing of this act (upon producing for squirrels the scalps of the same to any justice of the peace, said justice is scalps and hereby required to receive the scalps then produced, and, in the scalps in juspresence of the deliverer, burn or otherwise destroy the same, tices certifiand grant him or them a receipt for the number of scalps by him so received, which receipt shall be received in whole or in Scalps to be part for his or their county tax, at the rate of one cent and a before the half for each squirrel's scalp, and three cents for each crow's first of Noscalp, provided the said scalps be delivered before the first day vember anof November, yearly. nually.

cates.

exhibited

cates receivable in payment of

SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person or persons producing such certificate or certifi- Said certificates as aforesaid, to the treasurer of his or their proper county or counties, the said treasurer or treasurers shall pay the said person or persons the amount of such certificate, out of the money taxes, collected for that purpose, and take a receipt on the back thereof for the sum paid as aforesaid.

SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so much of any former act or acts of the General Assem- Repealing bly of this Commonwealth, as is hereby altered or supplied, be, clause. and the same is hereby repealed.

SIMON SNYDER, Speaker

of the House of Representatives,

P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hund

red and seven.

THOMAS MCKEAN.

CHAPTER XLI.

A SUPPLEMENT to the act, entitled "An act to provide for the erection of a house for the employment and support of the poor in the county of Dauphin.”

WH

WHEREAS it has been represented to the legislature, that the place fixed on for the erection of a house for the employment and support of the poor in the county of Dauphin, is very ineligible, that the soil of the land is gravelly and barren, and that its local situation, with regard to the population of the

A former site for a

poor house

in Dauphin

county, and its great distance from any market town where supplies might be procured, or the produce of the farm sold, when reared, renders it highly improper to cause the necessary buildings to be thereon erected: 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 enacted by the authority of the same, That the directors chosen in pursuance of an act to which this is a supplement, shall be, and they are hereby authorized to sell and convey all the right, title and interest, which the county of Dauphin county to have in the plantation or tract of land contracted for by the be sold and another commissioners named in the act aforesaid, or make such comchased. promise with the person from whom the plantation or tract of land was purchased as shall appear most advantageous to the county, and purchase such other plantation or tract of land as to them or a majority of them may appear eligible, having due regard to soil and water, and shall cause the necessary buildings to be erected thereon for the employment and support of the poor in the county of Dauphin.

pur:

SIMON SNYDER, Speaker

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

APPROVED the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hund

red and seven.

THOMAS McKEAN.

CHAPTER XLII.

An ACT granting to Joseph Salmon a tract of Donation Land, in remuneration for his services and sufferings during the revolutionary

war.

W

HEREAS it appears that Joseph Salmon, late a captain in Colonel James Murray's regiment of Northumberland county militia, whilst in the service of his country during the revolutionary war, was taken prisoner by the Indians, and detained in captivity upwards of two years, during which time his then infant family solely dependant on his labour for support, was left destitute, and himself treated with all the rigour incident to savage warfare, and it also appearing that he hath not received from his country any compensation for his services and sufferings: Therefore,

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met,

Donation

and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That there A tract of is granted to the said Joseph Salmon a tract of donation land to land granted contain three hundred acres, for which a patent shall be made to to J. Salmon. him, his heirs or assigns in the usual manner.

SIMON SNYDER, Speaker

of the House of Representatives.

P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hun

dred and seven.

THOMAS M.KEAN.

CHAPTER LXIII.

An ACT for the relief of Gaspar Driver.

IT is honourable to the government of a free people to compensate those who have faithfully served it in trying times, and to provide for the necessities of men who have assisted in the late glorious revolution, and have been disabled by wounds received in defence of their country's rights, and as it manifestly appears to the legislature, that Gaspar Driver was a soldier in colonel Wayne's regiment, that at the battle of the Three Rivers in Canada, he received two wounds, one from a ball passing through his arm, and the other from a bayonet passing through his thigh, that at the same time he was made a prisoner, and remained a prisoner for a considerable length of time, that after his exchange, though disabled from the wounds aforesaid, yet he enlisted again into the regiment commanded by colonel Humpton in the Pennsylvania line, for and during the war, and continued in the service until the termination thereof; that from the sufferings, hardships and the effects of his wounds, he is not able to maintain himself and family: Therefore in discharge of a most grateful duty,

ted to G,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representafres of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That An annuity the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized to draw his war- of 40 Dolrant on the State-treasurer, in favour of Gaspar Driver, for the lars, gransum of forty dollars, which shall be paid out of any unappropri- Driver. ated monies in the treasury, and that an annuity of forty dollars be granted for the use of Gaspar Driver, to be paid to Francis MClure, or his executor or executors, administrator or administrators, or his or their lawful attorney, to commence from the first day of January, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seven, and to be paid half-yearly to the said Francis McClure, or his executor or executors, administrator or administrators, or

to his or their lawful attorney, on warrants to be drawn by the Governor on the State-treasurer, which annuity shall be expended by the said Francis McClure, his executor or executors, administrator or administrators, or his or their lawful attorney in providing clothing, diet and lodging, for the said Gaspar Driver, and it shall and hereby is made the duty of the said Francis McClure, his executor or executors, administrator or administrators, or his or their attorney, to make an annual return to the orphans' court of Allegheny county, on oath or affirmation, how and in what manner he or they have executed the trust in him or them confided by this act.

SIMON SNYDER, Speaker

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

APPROVED -the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven.

THOMAS MOKEAN.

An ACT to enable Abraham Reist and Jacob Hostetter to sell and convey a certain lot of ground therein mentioned.

WH

HEREAS it is represented to the legislature, that John Metzler, late of the town of Manheim in the county of Lancaster, lately died intestate, seized in his demesne as of fee at the time of his death, of and in a certain lot or piece of ground, situate, lying, and being in the said town of Manheim, containing in front on Prussian-street, fifty-seven feet, and in depth to Wolf-street, two hundred and seventy feet, bounded on the south by a lot of Samuel Ensminger, on the east by Wolf-street, on the north by High-street, and on the west by Prussian-street, on which lot of ground a small brick barn is erected: That the said John Metzler left a widow named Elizabeth, and issue four children, viz. Jacob, John, Elizabeth and Ann, who are all minors: That the said lot of ground will not admit of a division among the said widow and children; that it is unproductive and going to decay for want of necessary repairs, and that it would be for the interest of the family of the said intestate, if the administrators were enabled by law to sell and convey the said lot of ground, with the appurtenance, and to apply the proceeds thereof for the benefit of the widow and the maintenance and education of the said minor children: Therefore,

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatrees of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met

in the town

money is to

and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Abraham The adminReist and Jacob Hostetter, administrators of all and singular, istrators of the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of John John MetMetzler, late of the town of Manheim in the county zler, emof'Lancaspowered to ter, deceased, be, and they are hereby authorized to sell at pub- sell at public lic vendue, to the best and highest bidder, and for the best and vendue, a highest price which shall be bidden for the same, all that lot of lot of ground ground in the town of Manheim, with the appurtenance herein of Manheim before particularly described and set forth, late the estate of the in the counsaid John Metzler, deceased, and for such estate and interest as ty of Lancasthe said John Metzler had and held therein, at the time of his ter late the property of decease, and on the payment of the purchase-money therefor to said Metconvey the same to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, as fully zler. and amply as the said John Metzler might or could have done in his life-time: And upon receipt of the said purchase-money, How the the said administrators shall vest one third part thereof in some purchase productive fund, either by mortgage, or in the purchase of stock, be disposed and shall apply the interest thereof to the use of the said widow of. during her natural life, and upon her decease shall distribute the aid one third part to and among the said children, or their legal representatives, according to the course of distribution under the intestate laws of this commonwealth: and the said administrators shall apply the remaining two third parts of the said purchase-money, either by vesting the same at interest as aforesaid, or may otherwise expend the same as may be most expedient and most beneficial for the purpose of maintaining and educating the said minor children, and shall distribute the surplus according to the course aforesaid: And the said administrators shall Administra settle their accounts of the expenditure and appropriation of the tors to settle said purchase-money before the Register and Orphans' court of counts, with the county of Lancaster, and shall be subject to the like orders the Register of the said court touching the same, as if the same had been and Orphans' personal estate at the time of the death of the said John Metzler, caster counexcept as to the objects and the mode of expenditure thereof as ty.

their ac

court of Lan

is authorized by this act : Provided nevertheless, That before the To give bond said administrators proceed to execute the duties herein intrusted and sureties. to them, they shall enter into bond with sufficient sureties to the Register of Wills, &c. of Lancaster county for their faithfal performance thereof.

SIMON SNYDER, Speaker

of the House of Representatives.

P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hun

dred and seven.

THOMAS M‹KEAN.