price assessed by the said jury, an appeal to the superior [court] being allowed as in other cases; and the jury shall be allowed the same compensation as jury (juries) upon county roads, to be paid by the party applying for the landing.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT TO THE ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT ERECTING A NEW COUNTY OUT OF THE NORTHERN PART OF LUZErne counTY, TO BE CALLED WYOMING," AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Approved 30th April, 1844. (P. L., 532.)

SECTION 2. That in all cases where the real estate of any corporation shall be sold at sheriff's sale for the payment of bona fide debts, the purchasers shall receive titles discharged from any right of forfeiture to the Commonwealth, by reason of misnomer, limitation, or defect of power in the said corporation, to purchase and hold said, lands; and the purchasemoney shall be distributed according to priority among the lien creditors, as in other cases.

AN ACT FURTHER TO REGULATE PROCEEDINGS IN COURTS OF JUSTICE, ANd for otheR PURPOSES.

Approved 6th May, 1844. (P. L., 1844, page 565.)

SECTION 5. That in all cases where acts creating railroad or canal companies, security to the owners of lands through which any canals and railroads may pass is required to be given, and approved by any of the courts in the counties where such lands lie,-said security may be given and approved of by any two of the judges of said courts during vacation: Provided, That at least five days' notice shall first be given to the owners of such lands, or their known agent or attorney, of the time and place of offering such security, and the names of the sureties to be offered.

(Under the act of May 24th, 1878, P. L., 135, it is provided

that, "in all counties which form separate judicial districts, with but one judge, he shall have the power to do any and all acts which heretofore two or more judges were authorized to do.")

AN ACT FIXING THE CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN ACTS OF ASSEMBLY IN RELATION TO THE RIGHTS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY.

Approved 10th March, 1845. (P. L., 1845, page 126.).

SECTION I. That the fourth section of the seventh article of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, which directs that the legislature shall not invest any corporate body or individual with the privilege of taking private property for public use, without requiring such corporation or individual to make compensation to the owners of said property, or give adequate security therefor before such property shall be taken, shall be deemed to apply to all acts of assembly passed, or that may be passed during the present session of the legislature, as fully and effectually as if the same were incorporated in said act.

AN ACT CONCERNING BAIL AND ATTACHMENTS.

Approved 20th March, 1845. (P. L., 1845, page 188.)

SECTION 1. That in lieu of the bail heretofore required by law, in the cases herein mentioned, the bail in cases of appeal from the judgments of aldermen and justices of the peace, and from the awards of arbitrators, shall be bail absolute, in double the probable amount of costs accrued and likely to accrue in such cases, with one or more sufficient sureties, conditioned for the payment of all costs accrued or that may be legally recovered in such cases against the appellants.

(Section two of the act of April 13th, 1846, provides that the above section shall be so construed as to require the pay

ment by the appellant to the prothonotary of all costs which have previously accrued, whenever an appeal is entered from an award of arbitrators, excepting where executors, administrators, guardians, or trustees are appellants. P. L. 1846, page 303.)

AN ACT CONCERNING BAIL AND ATTACHMENTS.

Approved 20th March, 1845. (P. L., 1845, page 189.)

SECTION 4. That so much of the act of assembly passed sixteenth day of June, 1836, entitled "An act relating to executions," as provides for the levy and recovery of stock, deposits, and debts due to defendants by process of attachment and scire facias, is hereby extended to all cases of attachments to be issued upon judgments against corporations (other than municipal corporations), and from and after the passage of this act all such process which hereafter may be issued may be proceeded in to final judgment and execution, in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations as are directed against corporations by the provisions of the act of 16th June, 1836, relating to executions; and that so much of the thirty-sixth section of the act of 16th June, 1836, as requires service of the attachment on any defendant, be and the same is hereby repealed, except where the defendant is a resident of the county in which the attachment issued.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE OBSTRUCTING OF THE CROSSINGS OF PUBLIC ROADS BY LOCOMOTIVES AND CARS.

Approved 20th March, 1845. (P. L., 1845, pages 191 and 192.)

SECTION I. That it shall not be lawful for any railroad company to block up the passage of any crossings of public streets or roads, or obstruct the said crossings with their locomotives or cars; and if any engineer or other agent of any such railroad company shall obstruct or block up such crossings, he

or they shall be subject to a penalty of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered with costs, in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, before a justice of the peace; one-half of such penalty shall be paid to the informer or informers, and the remaining half shall be paid into the treasury of the Commonwealth Provided, That in the event of the said engineer or agent being unable to pay the said penalty, then and in that case the said railroad company employing the said engineer or agent shall pay the penalty aforesaid.

AN ACT TO RELIEVE CANAL AND RAILROAD COMPANIES FROM PENALTIES FOR NOT PERFORMING CERTAIN ACTS ON THE SABBATH DAY.

Approved 11th April, 1845. (P. L., 1845, page 364.)

SECTION 1. That no part of any act of assembly heretofore passed shall be construed to require any canal or railroad company to attend their works on the Sabbath days, for the purpose of expediting or aiding the passage of any boat, craft, or vehicle along the same; any clause or clauses in their respective charters, imposing a penalty for not aiding boats, crafts, or vehicles to pass within a certain time, to the contrary notwithstanding.

A SUPPLEMENT TO AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT RELATING TO EXECUTIONS," PASSED THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, A. D. 1836.

Approved 15th April, 1845. (P. L., 460.)

SECTION 5. * * * The wages of any laborers, or the salary of any person in public or private employment, shall not be liable to attachment in the hands of the employer.

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE REVENUES AND DIMINISH THE LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Approved 16th April, 1845. (P. L., 1845, page 535.)

SECTION 12. That hereafter it shall be lawful to commence and prosecute to final judgment and execution, in the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county, suits against any and all persons who are or may hereafter be officers of any description whatsoever within this Commonwealth, appointed by the governor or by the board of canal commissioners or elected by either house of the legislature or by both houses in joint ballot, and who shall become defaulters in not paying over or accounting for money in their hands due and belonging to the Commonwealth, and against their sureties, in the same manner and with like effect as if the said defaulting persons and officers and their sureties were residents of the said county of Dauphin; and for this purpose, all necessary writs of summons, writs of fieri facias, writs of fieri facias with clause of attachment, to attach debts owing and stocks, as practiced in other cases, and writs of venditioni exponas, and alias and pluries writs of the same kind, may issue from said court into any county, and at the same time, if deemed necessary, into the several counties of this Commonwealth, there to be transmitted by mail to the sheriff or coroner, as the case may require, whose duty it shall be to execute the same, and make return thereof in the same manner as is now practiced in relation to testatum writs.

AN ACT FIXING THE CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN ACTS OF ASSEMBLY IN RELATION TO THE RIGHTS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY.

Approved 20th April, 1846. (P. L., 1846, page 407.)

SECTION I. That the fourth section of the seventh article of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, which directs that the