swine to be san or persons taking up such swine for their keeping, the said justice shall issue a notice to the person taking up such swine, requiring him or her to deliver forthwith all such swine, so by him or her taken up as aforesaid, to the said owner or owners, and upon neglect or refusal for the space of three days after demand Penalty for made as aforesaid, he she or they shall forfeit to the owner or neglecting to deliver up owners, any sum not exceeding double the value of the swine, the swine to be recovered for the use of the said owner or owners, before upon tender any justice of the peace, as debts and demands not exceeding of satisfacone hundred dollars are now recoverable, with like right to ap- tion, &c. peal as in other cases, but if no owner or owners shall appear If no owner and make claim to such swine, within five days after the setting appears, the up the advertisements herein before directed, it shall be the duty sold. of the said justice to order and direct the person or persons tak ing up such swine, to make sale of the same by public vendue or outcry, giving at least five days notice of the time and place of Notice sale, and to make return of the monies arising from such sale to given. the said justice, who shall thereupon pay to the person or persons Appropriataking up such swine, the amount at which the damages to him, tion of the her or them were estimated by the said appraisers, as also the proceeds. sum of fifty cents, to each of the said appraisers, and retain the sum of twenty-five cents for his trouble therein, and the residue of the money arising from the said sale, shall be retain- Surplus if unclaimed ed by the said justice for the space of twelve months, next fol- within one lowing the said sale, and if not called for within that fime by year how the owner or owners of the said swine, he shall pay the same to appropriated the supervisors of the roads and highways, for the repair of the roads of the said township, and the owner or owners of all such swine shall be thereupon debarred from any claim or right to thesame, any law, usage or custom'tothe contrary notwithstanding. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight thereof to be hundred and ten. :0: SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER LXIX. An ACT for the benefit of John Ritter and Charles Kessler. and Charles Kessler, printers, of Reading in Berks coun ty, did deliver for the use of the commonwealth, one thousand copies of Read's Digest in the German language, and that they bestowed thereon more labour than was required of them by the law authorizing the printing of the said Digest in the language aforesaid. And whereas it also appears that the aforesaid labour (being the folding and stitching of the said copies) has been beneficial to the commonwealth, to the full amount of the sum claimed by the said printers as a remuneration for the same: Therefore, SECT. I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, $131. 25-100 That the state treasurer be and he is hereby required to pay to the to be paid to said John Ritter and Charles Kessler, the sum of one hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents out of any unappropriated monies in the treasury. Ritter and Kessler. 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. SIMON SNYDER. Who shall CHAPTER LXX. An Act to authorize the Governor of this commonwealth to incorporate a company for erecting a bridge over the river Delaware at the Ferry of Adam Romig, in Durham township, Bucks county. 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, Commission- That Robert Cochran, William Binder and John Shaw, of Phiers named, ladelphia, Michael Fackenthall, Adam Romig and George Piper, of Bucks county, and Philip Fine, George Bidleman, and Jacob Young, of the State of New-Jersey, 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 day of September next, procure at least three books, and procure three therein enter as follows: We whose names are hereunto subbooks and en- scribed, do promise to pay to the president, managers and company, for the erection of a bridge over the river Delaware, at the ferry of Adam Romig, Durham township, Bucks county, the sum of fifty dollars for every share of stock in the 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, in pursuance of an act of the General Assembly, entitled "an act to authorize the Governor of this commonwealth to incorporate a company for erecting a bridge over the river Delaware, at the ferry of Adam Romig, in Durham township, Bucks county." Witness our hands ter, &c. day of in the year our Lord one thousand eight And shall thereupon give notice in one of times and subscribe, scribed for If the books the public papers printed in Philadelphia, one in Bucks county, And give no and one in the state of New-Jersey, for one calendar month, tice of the of the times and places when and where the books will be places of opened to receive subscriptions for the stock of the said com- opening the pany, at which respective times and places some one of the books. commissioners shall attend and shall permit all persons who shall permit shall offer to subsribe in the said books, which shall for that pur- persons to pose be kept open at least six hours in each juridical day, if three &c. days shall be necessary. And on any of the said juridical days The number within the hours aforesaid, any person of the age of twenty-one of shares that years shall have liberty to subscribe in his own name or in the name may be subor names of any person or persons by whom he shall be authorized, by each perfor one share on the first day, on the second day for one or two son. shares, and on the third for one two or three shares, and on any be not filled succeeding day whilst the books shall remain open, for any num- in three days ber of shares in the said stock; and if at the expiration of the the commissaid three first days, the books so opened shall not contain six sioners may hundred shares therein subsribed, the said commissioners respec- Notice of adadjourn. tively may adjourn from time to time, until the said number of journment to shares shall be subscribed, of which adjournment public notice be given. shall be given in each place, and when the said subscriptions in Books to be the said books shall respectively amount to the aforesaid sum of 600 shares six hundred shares, the same shall be closed: Provided always, are subscriThat every person offering to subscribe in the said books, in his bed, own name or the name of any other person, shall previously pay to the attending commissioner or commissioners five dollars $5 on each for every share to be subscribed, out of which shall be defrayed share to be the expenses attending taking such subscriptions and other in- paid on subcidental charges, and the remainder shall be paid over to the Appropria treasurer of the corporation as soon as the same shall be or- tion of ganized. closed when scribing. more SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when twenty-five persons or more shall have subscribed When 25 one hundred shares in the said stock, the said commissioners res- persons of pectively may, and when the whole number of shares shall be shall have subscribed, shall certify under their hands and seals the names subscribed of the subscribers, and the number of shares subscribed by or shall be cerapportioned to each subscriber, to the Governor of this common- tified to the wealth, and thereupon it shall and may be lawful for the Gover- Governor. nor, by letters patent, under his hand and seal of the state, to Who shall iscreate and erect the subscribers, and if the said subscriptions be patent. 100 shares it sue letters not full, then also those who shall hereafter subscribe to the numbers aforesaid, into one body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of "The president, ma- Style and tinagers and company, for erecting a bridge over the river Dela- tle of the ware, at the ferry of Adam Romig, in Durham township, Bucks company. Privileges of county." And by the said name the subscribers shall have per- the corpora petural succession, and all privileges and franchises incident to a tion. No letters patent to is corporation, and shall be capable of taking and holding their capital stock and the increase thereof, and of enlarging the same froin time to time by new subscriptions, in such manner as they shall think proper, if such enlargement is necessary to fulfil the intent of this act, and may make such by-laws, rules, orders and regulations not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this commonwealth, as shall be necessary for the well-ordering the affairs of said company, and generally have like powers, authorities and privileges necessary for carrying on and completing said bridge, and be subject to all the duties, qualifications, restrictions, penalties, fines and forfeitures, and be entitled to the like tolls and profits as are given and granted to the president, managers and company for erecting a bridge over the river Delaware, at the borough of Easton, passed March thirteenth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five. SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this act shall be deemed, taken or construed to sue until the authorize the Governor to incorporate or empower any ferTegislature of sons subscribing as aforesaid, or shall give any power or authority New Jersey to such subscribers, to do any act, matter or thing herein menshall confer tioned, until such time as the legislature of New-Jersey shall by law vest the like power and authority in such subscribers, to erect said bridge, and extend the same from the ferry of Adam Romig across the river Delaware to its opposite shore. similar pow ers. 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. SIMON SNYDER. The office of Deacon in a certain society abolished. And resi CHAPTER LXXI. A SUPPLEMENT to an Act, entitled "An act to incorporate the German Society contributing for the relief of distressed Germans in the state of Pennsylvania. 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 office of deacon to the said society be, and the same is hereby abolished, from and after the twenty-sixth day of December next. SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the limits of the residence of the overseers, secretaries and dence of the solicitor of the said society, be, and the same are hereby extendofficers of, ed southward, beyond the southern bounds of the city of Phil extended. adelphia, to the north side of Christian-street, in the district of Southwark, and northward, beyond the northern bounds of the said city, to the south side of Poplar Lane in the Northern Liberties, so that members of the said society residing any where between the said north side of Christian-street, and south side of Poplar Lane aforesaid, may be elected to serve the said offices of overseers, secretaries and solicitor. SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said society be, and they are hereby authorized and How vacan, empowered to hold elections for the filling of offices, which shall cies in may or may hereafter become vacant by the death, removal or refusal be supplied, to serve of any of the officers at adjourned quarterly meetings, or at special meetings of the society, convened for the purpose. SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sixth section of the said act to which this is a supple- The sixth ment, and which provides that the members of the said society Section of the original shall not at any time thereafter be less than seventy-five in num- act repealed. ber, nor more than three hundred, be, and the same is hereby repealed and made null and void, JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the ninetenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. An ACT to empower John Hopkins and Robert A. Byers, to sell. and convey a certain tract or piece of land therein mentioned. 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 John Hopkins and Robert A. Byers, or the survivor of John Hopkins, &c them be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to sell authorized at public sale, for the best price that can be obtained, all that to sell cerpiece or parcel of land situate in West-Caln township, Chester tain land in county, adjoining lands of Gilbert Gibb, Josiah Wallace, Rich- county. ard Cox and Andrew Mitchel, containing fifty acres, more or And convey less, which land is now held by John Anderson and George the same. Rutter, in trust for the inhabitants of Salsbury township, in proceeds are the county of Lancaster, and to convey the same to the pur- to be dispos chaser, and the monies arising therefrom to be disposed of in sed of: Chester How the |