fifty cents; for every such carriage, drawn by two horses, thirty- Proviso. SE T. XI, And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the said company, their successors or assigns, or any per- collecting ilPenalty for son employed by them, shall collect or demand any greater rate legal tolls. or prices for the passing over the said bridge, than what is herein before prescribed, or shall neglect to keep the said bridge in good Or suffering repair, he or they shall, for every such offence, forteit and pay the bridge twenty dollars; one half thereof for the poor of the county of to be out of repair. Allegheney, and the other half for the use of the person who How recov shall sue for the same; to be recovered before any justice of the ered and appeace in and for the county of Allegheney: Provided always, Protobe propriated. That no suit shall be brought in this respect, unless within thirty brought days after the offence committed: Provided also, That the judg- within 30 ment of the said justice in any such case brought before him, days. shall be liable to reversion, either by appeal to the court of com- Appeal mon pleas, if the merits of the case be contested or by certiorari if the legality of his proceedings or his jurisdiction be disputed, SECT. XII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said president, managers and company shall keep a just account of all monies received by their several collectors, of tolls for crossing the said bridge, and shall declare and make a dividend of the income and profits thereof, among all the subscribers to the said company's stock, in proportion to their respective shares, first deducting all contingent costs and charges, and such proportion of the said income as may be sufficient for a fund to provide against the decay, the repairing, or the rebuilding of the said bridge, as time and accident may render necessary; and shall, on every first Monday of June, of every year, ed; C c granted. Account of the receipt of tolls to be kept. Dividends to be declared and publish and paid. Penalty on tion. over said publish the dividend to be made of the clear profits arising from the tolls among the stockholders, and of the time and place, where and when the same shall be paid, and shall cause the same to be paid accordingly. SECT. XIII. And be it further enacted by the authority afore injuring the said, That if any person or persons shall wilfully pull down, property of break or destroy with intent to injure any part or parts of the the corpora- said bridge, or any toll house, gates, bars, or other property of the said corporation, appurtenant to, or erected for the use and convenience of the said bridge, or the person employed in conducting the business thereof, or shall wilfully and without the consent and orders of the said corporation, or any person or persons authorized by them, deface or destroy the letters or figures, or other characters in any written or printed list of the rates or tolls affixed in any place or places for the information Or impeding of passengers and others, or who shall wilfully and maliciously the passage obstruct or impede the passage on or over the said bridge, or any part or parts thereof, he, she, or they so offending shall each of them forfeit and pay for every such offence to the said corporation the sum of thirty dollars, to be sued for and recovered before any justice of the peace, as debts of like amount are recoverable, and he, she, or they so offending shall remain liable to actions at the suit of said corporation for such wrongs, if the said sum or sums herein mentioned be not sufficient to repair and satisfy said damages: Provided always, That no such suit shall be brought unless within thirty days after such offence shall have been committed: Provided the judgment of the said justice in any case brought before him, shall be liable to reversion, either by appeal to the court of common pleas, if the merits of the case be contested, or by certiorari, if the legality of his proceedings or his jurisdiction be disputed. bridge. How reco vered. Suit to be brought within 30 days. of the accounts of tion to be ture SECT. XIV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforeStatements said, That the said president and managers shall, at the end of every third year from the date of the incorporation, until three years next after the said bridge shall be completed, lay the corpora- before the general assembly of this commonwealth, an abstract laid trienni of their accounts, shewing the whole of the capital expended ally before in the prosecution of the work, and of the income, and profits the legisla- arising from said toll, received during such period, together with an exact account of the costs and charges of keeping the said bridge in repair, and all other contingent costs and charges, to the end that the clear annual income and profits thereof be ascertained and known; and if at the end of three years, after the said bridge shall be completed, it shall appear from If the profits the average profits of the said three years, that the clear indo not divide come and profits will not bear a dividend of six per cent. per annum, on the whole capital stock of the said company so exthe tolls may pended, then it shall be lawful for the said president, managers be raised. and company to increase the tolls herein allowed to be taken, 6 per cent. may If more than fund for the Said excess so much on each particular item in proportion as will raise the dividend to six per cent. per annum, and at the end of every ten years after the said bridge shall be completed, they shall render to the general assembly a like abstract of their accounts for the three preceding years; and if at the end of any such decennial period it shall appear from such abstract that the 15, the exclear profits and income of the said company will bear a divi- cess to condend of more than fifteen per cent. per annum then the nett stitute a annual profit, the excess shall compose a fund for the redemp- redemption tion of the said bridge, so as to render it free, save that there of the shall always be a small toll or other revenue for the keeping bridge. it in repair; this excess shall be laid out in bridge stock, or to be vested some other productive funds, and the dividends or annual pro- in producduct shall also be added to this fund, and all private donations tive stock. for freeing said bridge, shall likewise be received and invested in like manner, but if by the operation of the fund herein proposed, there shall be a sufficient sum to free the bridge at a period less than the said term of forty years, then it shall be redeemed, and become free on the stockholders' being paid the appraised value thereof, and of the profits thereof, for the residue of the said term of forty years, which may then be unexpired, and if the said fund shall be adequate to the purpose If the bridge last mentioned, the legislature may at any time after the expi- be not freed ration of the said term of forty years, declare it a free bridge, the legisla (providing at the same time, the means of keeping it in repair) ture may reand the company shall be obliged to take such sum of money deem the therefor, as shall be allowed on a fair appraisement by disinterested persons, to be appointed in such manner as shall be directed by law, the like appraisemont shall take place when the sinking fund is adequate to the redemption of the bridge, and the establishment of a toll be not thought more eligible for In what keeping the bridge in repair, but if the said bridge shall not be manner. redeemed and paid for as a free bridge before or at the expira- deemed in tion of said term of forty years, the said corporation may and that time, shall continue to hold the same on the terms of this act, be- the corporation may conyond the said term, and until the same shall be redeemed and tinue to hold paid for in manner herein directed. in 40 years, same. If not re it. within 3 and SECT. XV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the said company shall not proceed to carry on Work to be the said work within the space of three years from the passing commenced of this act, and shall not within the space of seven years from completed the passing thereof, complete the said bridge, it shall and may in 7 years. be lawful for the legislature of this commonwealth to resume all and singular the rights and privileges hereby granted to the said company. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. SIMON SNYDER. office of the ment of. CHAPTER CXXIX, An act making appropriation for the employment of additional clerks in the Land-offices. 7HEREAS, by the operation of the act, entitled, "An act directing the mode of settling accounts in the land offices, and to prevent frauds in obtaining warrants for land;" passed April the thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and seven, there has been such an influx of business into the land-offices, as requires an extraordinary effort to bring up the books, and issue the patents now pending therein; and as that cannot be done without a large appropriation of money for the payment of clerk-hire for the present year: Therefore, SECT. 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 sum of $3600 ap-three thousand six hundred dollars be, and hereby is appropriapropriated for the pay- ted for the employment of clerks in the office of the secretary of ment of nine the land-office, for the year commencing on the first of April one clerks in the thousand eight hundred and ten, to be expended by the officer aforesaid, together with the permanent appropriation for that of secretary of land-office; fice, of one thousand six hundred dollars, in paying the salaries of nine clerks, at the following rates, viz. to the first clerk, or deputy-secretary, one thousand dollars; to three other clerks, ́each six hundred dollars; to four other clerks, each five hundred dollars; and to one other clerk, four hundred dollars. And $2200 ap- that the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars be, and herepropriated for the pay by is appropriated for the employment of seven clerks in the of ment of 7 fice of surveyor general, for the year commencing on the first clerks in the day of April aforesaid; which, together with the permanent apneral's of propriation of two thousand dollars for that office, shall be expended by the said surveyor-general in the payment of the salaries of seven clerks, at the following rates, viz. to a deputy, or first clerk, one thousand dollars; to three other clerks, each six hundred dollars; to two other clerks, five hundred dollars each; and to one other clerk, four hundred dollars; to be paid in quarterly payments, as usual, out of the monies appropriated for the payment of the expenses of government. surveyor-ge fice; apportion ment of. Land-offi cers to re SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the land-office and port to the surveyor-general to make report to the legislature, during the legislature first week of next session thereof, of the amount of business that the state of shall have been performed in their respective offices, during the their offices. part of the year which shall then have expired; particularizing the different items, together with the state of the offices at that period. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER CXXX. An ACT to enable the Governor to incorporate a company to make an artificial road from the Blue-Ball tavern on the Downingstown, Ephrata and Harrisburgb turnpike, through New-Holland to Binkley's bridge, from thence to the borough of Lancaster. SECT. I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in Gen named. in. eral Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Peter Diller, George Thompson, Jacob Ringwalt, CommisMatthias Shirk, Christian Carpenter, George Bard and John sioners Landis, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to do and perform the several duties hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, they shall on or before the first Monday Who shall in May next, procure two books, and in each of them enter as procure two follows, “We whose names are hereunto subscribed, do books. promise to pay to the president, managers and company of the Entry thereNew-Holland turnpike road, the sum of one hundred dollars for every share of stock in said company, set opposite to our respective names in such manner and proportions, and at such times as shall be determined by the president and managers of the said company, in pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of this commonwealth entitled, “An act to enable the Governor of this commonwealth, to incorporate a Company for making an artificial road from the Blue-Ball Tavern, on the Downingstown, Ephrata and Harrisburgh turnpike, through New-Holland, to Binkley's bridge, from thence to the borough of Lancaster." Witness our hands the in the day " and shall thereupon give notice in two of the Notice to be public newspapers in the borough of Lancaster, one calendar given of the month at least of the times and places, when and where the time and said books shall be kept open to receive subscriptions for the places of opening the stock of the said company, at which respective times and books. places, some two of the said commissioners shall attend, and Two of the commis. permit and suffer all persons of lawful age, who shall offer to subscribe in the said books in their own name or the names of any other persons who shall duly authorize the same, for any sioners to attend, |