CHAPTER CXXXVI. An ACT authorizing the judges of the supreme court to establish return days. SECT. I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in preme court General Assembly met, and it is bereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the judges of the supreme court be, and The judges they are hereby authorized to appoint special return days in of the suthe courts, in bank, in each and every district of the supreme to appoint court, at fixed periods, in term time, or in vacation, as by them special reshall be deemed expedient for the convenience of suitors and turn days. the furtherance of justice, and the days and times so appointed, as return days shall be entered of record, by the Prothonota ries of the said courts respectively, and shall thereafter be deemed legal return days in the said courts respectively. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ABNER LACOCK, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. :0: SIMON SNYDER. : CHAPTER CXXXVII. An ACT confirming the titles of James Hickman, John King, and others, to certain lands, and for other purposes therein mentioned. executed to James Hick man and SECT. I. BE 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 the deeds of conveyance made and executed to James The deeds of Hickman and John King, respectively, by Joseph Moore and conveyance Lucy, his wife, being both dated the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, and recorded in the office for recording of deeds in Delaware county, in book 2, page John King, 760, and 762, be, and the same are hereby declared to be as by Joseph valid in law, to all intents and purposes, as if the said Joseph wife, declaMoore had been a citizen of the United States, at the time of red to be va his purchasing the said land, and of executing the deeds of lid. conveyance aforesaid: Provided always, That nothing herein Proviso.. contained shall be construed to bar or defeat the right or title, interest, claim or demand of any person or persons, bodies politic, or corporate, which they or any of them may have in, or to the said messuage and tracts, or parcels of land, or any part thereof. SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Joseph Miles, one of the administrators of James Moore and to execute Joseph Miles the younger, of Miles township, in Centre county, deMiles admi- ceased, be, and he hereby is authorized and empowered to exnistrator, &c. empowered ecute a release to Samuel Miles of the town of Aaronsburg, in said county, of all the right, title and interest which was of the a release to said James Miles the younger, in and to a certain piece of land Samuel situate in Miles township aforesaid, containing fifty-five acres, certain tract and one hundred and twelve perches, and allowance, adjoining lands of Michael Hoeman, Samuel Miles, and the Nittany mountain, being the share of the real estate of James Miles the elder, deceased, to which the said Samuel Miles is entitled in right of his wife. Miles, for a of land. a certain id. SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, The title of That the title of George Chandlee to a certain tract of land in George Aston township, bounded by Chester creek, by land of AbraChandlee to ham Coppock, Samuel Vernon, and by the road leading to tract of land Duttor's mill, containing one hundred and forty-four acres, declared val- more or less, be, and the same is hereby declared to be as valid in law to all intents and purposes, as if William Lancaster had been a citizen of the United States, at the time he purchased the same: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to bar or defeat any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, of any right, title, interest, claim or demand, which they may have in or to the said tract of land, or any part or parcel thereof. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ABNER LACOCK, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. SIMON SNYDER.、 CHAPTER CXXXVIII. An ACT to authorize the governor to appoint commissioners for the purpose of laying out a road from the town of Washington to the state line, in a direction toward Wheeling in the state of Virginia, at or near William Slator's, where the present road crosses the same. SECT. I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is bereby enacted by the authority Commis. of the same, That the governor be, and he is hereby authorized sioners to be to appoint three disinterested commissioners, one of whom appointed to shall be a practical surveyor, but neither of them shall be an in lay out a road from Washing ton, in a di habitant of either of the townships, through which said road passes, to lay out and mark a state road, beginning at the town of Washington, in the county of Washington, the nearest and best route to the state line, at or near the house of William rection toSlator, where the present road crosses the same, in a direction wards towards Wheeling; and the said commissioners shall proceed to the line of Wheeling, to perform the said service at such time as the Governor shall the state. direct, and deposit a draft of the said road in the office of the And deposit clerk of the quarter sessions of the county of Washington, a draft thereof, &c. which shall be a record of said road, and from thenceforth How said shall be to all intents and purposes a public highway, and shall road shall be be opened and kept in repair, as other roads laid out by order kept in reof the court of quarter sessions are in the said pair. county. tion allowed SECT. IL And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners and surveyor shall be allowed Compensatwo dollars per day, each; and two chain carriers, and one for said sermarker, shall receive one dollar per day, each, for every day vice. that they may be nécessarily employed in viewing, surveying, and marking said road, and the expense shall be paid by the said county of Washington, on warrants drawn by the county commissioners on the treasurer thereof. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. Gg SIMON SNYDER. Suits to be brought managers of. tery. RESOLUTIONS. CHAPTER I. RESOLVED, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the governor be, and he hereby is authorized and required to cause suits to be brought on the official bonds against the of the managers named in the act entitled, "An Act for raisthe Susque ing, by way of lottery, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, for hanna and removing the obstructions and improving the navigation of Perkioming the river Susquehanna, and certain branches thereof," or in bridge lotthe supplement to the said act passed thirty-first March, one thousand eight hundred and six, who shall appear to have acted as such managers, and to have received any tickets for distribution, for which they have not yet accounted and settled ;and of the commissioners appointed under an act entitled, "An Act for raising by way of lottery, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be applied to the erection of a stone arch bridge over Perkioming creek, in the county of Montgomery, on the road leading from Philadelphia to the borough of Reading," passed the 21st of February, 1797. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the tenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. :0: SIMON SNYDER, CHAPTER II. In the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania. WHEREAS the legislature of Pennsylvania at their last session, made so explicit an avowal of their sentiments respecting the foreign relations of the United States; gave so firm a pledge of support to the general government, that uncommon events alone could have rendered correspondent declarations by their successors, useful or necessary, but the conduct of Great Britain and the insolence of her minister plenipotentiary, has produced a crisis that has excited public feeling and anxiety, to such an unexampled height, that the general assembly of this commonwealth cannot hesitate to renew the solemn expression of devotion to their country, and of resentment against the governments, under whose order the rights, dignity, and honor of the United States, have been violated and insulted: Therefore, Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, That they unequivocally ap- Measures of the general prove the pacific and liberal measures, which the administra- administration of the U. States has so zealously pursued, for obtaining tion approan adjustment of the existing differences between this country ved. and the governments of Great Britain and France. Resolved, That whilst with sincere pleasure, they thus bear Opinion of testimony to the upright and honorable conduct of their own the Pennsyl vania legislagovernment, they view the refusal on the part of France, to ture as to accommodate the differences between the two nations, as a the conduct flagrant disregard of our national rights, and they cannot hesi- of France tate to pronounce the violation on the part of Great Britain, of andEngland. a solemn and reciprocal engagement, and her subsequent failure to clothe her minister with adequate powers to adjust with our government the disputes that had arisen prior to that event as well as those thereby produced, to be such a manifestation of determined hostility, as must arouse the spirit, and nerve the arm of every American to resent the insults, and to resist the outrages thus wantonly heaped upon an unoffending nation. the general government pledged. Resolved, That when in the opinion of our national coun- Support of cils, an appeal to the patriotism and force of the American people becomes necessary, the general assembly of this commonwealth pledge themselves to co-operate with the general government, to sustain the rights, honor, and reputation, and to avenge the wrongs and insults of their country. Resolved, That the governor of this commonwealth be re- The goverquested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the presi- nor to transdent of the United States, and a copy to each of the senators mit copies and representatives from Pennsylvania, in the congress of the United States. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate APPROVED the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. hereof, &c. :0: SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER III. RESOLVED, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the CommisCommonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That the sioners to be appointed to governor be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint three com- review the missioners to review the road from Kelso's ferry to the Mary- road from land line, in a direction to the city of Washington, one where- Kelso's Fer of to be a resident of Cumberland, one of York, and one of ry to the Maryland Adams county, who shall have power to vacate the whole, or line, any part of said road, and make return and receive the same Compensa. compensation, as well for themselves and attendants, as is protion allowed to. |