authorized to appoint two additional assistant geologists, who shall possess the same qualifications, and receive the same salary as those appointed under the act to which this is a supplement, and that the annual report of the said state geologist shall be made to the legislature on or before the first day of February in each year. SECTION 2. For the payment of the said additional assistant geologists, and such expenses as may be incurred in the formation of the state and county cabinet collections of mineral specimens, with other incidental expenses, incurred in the prosecution of the survey, the sum of three thousand six hundred dollars is hereby added to the future annual appropriation mentioned in the seventh section of the act to which this is a supplement. SECTION 3. So much of the act to which this is a supplement, as is hereby altered or supplied, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 4. The Governor of this Commonwealth is hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer, on the first day of April next, in favor of the treasurer of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, for the promotion of the mechanic arts," for the sum of two thousand dollars; and for the further sum of one thousand dollars, on the first day of April for each of the two years next ensuing, for the purpose of promoting the improvement of meteorological science, and the furnishing of each county of this commonwealth with the necessary instruments for the observation of such atmospheric changes and phenomena as may be useful for the promotion of knowledge in the science of meteorology. LEWIS DEWART, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS S. CUNNINGHAM, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of March, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. JOS: RITNER. No. 47. An Act To confirm the partition of the real estate of Daniel Sheetz, deceased. SECTION 1. 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 decree of the Orphans' court for the city and county of Philadelphia, made on the twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, confirming the partition of the estate of Daniel Sheetz, and the several proceedings wherein the same was founded, be, and the same hereby are declared to be valid and effectual, to all intents and purposes whatever, as if the said Daniel Sheetz had died intestate. SECTION 2. That all persons lawfully holding under those to whom the several parts and shares of the said estate were allotted by the partition aforesaid, whether as purchasers or otherwise, are hereby confirmed in their several titles and estates, and the same are hereby declared to be good and available to them in all respects, as if the said Daniel Sheetz had died intestate: Provided, That the proceedings in the said Orphans' court has in no way interfered with the rights and privileges of the heirs of the said Daniel Sheetz, deceased. LEWIS DEWART, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The twenty-fourth day of March, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. JOS: RITNER. No. 48. An Act Granting to Priscilla Grier, daughter and heir of Lieutenant John M'Clelland, compensation for a tract of donation land. SECTION 1. 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 State Treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized and required to pay unto Priscilla Grier of Juniata county, or her order, immediately after the passage of this act, the sum of four hundred dollars, in full for compensation for four hundred acres of donation land, to which she is entitled for the services rendered by her father, Lieutenant John M'Clelland, in the war of the revolution. LEWIS DEWART, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-fourth day of March, Anno Domni, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. JOS: RITNER. No. 49. An Act For the relief of Frederick Septre, and other soldiers and widow's of soldiers of the Revolutionary war. SECTION 1. 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 State Treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized to pay to Frederick Septre of Westmoreland county, William Hutcheson of Chester county, Adam Reichart of Bucks county, Samuel Beyers and Alexander Ew. ing of Mercer county, John Fluck of Bedford county, Catharine Roshon of Montgomery county, Barbara Breniman of York county, Salome Longstreath of Greene county, Catharine Cleaver of Berks county, Peter Egner of Northumberland county, Rosanna Peterman of Lancaster county, and Elizabeth Harmon of Columbia county, soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war, or to their respective orders, forty dollars each immediately, as a gratuity, and an annuity of forty dollars each during life, to be paid half yearly, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. gra SECTION 2. That the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay to John Trissler of the city of Lancaster, and to Isaac Gushart of the county of Franklin, a tuity of forty dollars to each immediately, in full for the services performed by them in the revolutionary war; the foregoing pensions and gratuities to be paid in conformity with the existing laws. LEWIS DEWART, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-fourth day of March, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. JOS: RITNER. No. 50. An Act Authorizing William Adams and Michael Haak of the county of SECTION 1. 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 William Adams and Michael Haak of the county of Berks, in the state of Pennsylvania, commitRelative to tee of John Haak of the said county, a lunatic, and Eliza. the estate of beth Haak, the wife of the said lunatic, be, and they are John Haak, hereby authorized to sell and convey the estate, right, title and interest of the said John IIaak and the said Elizabeth a lunatic. Haak, in a certain tract or parcel of land situate in the county of Mercer, (late Westmoreland,) in the third district of donation lands, beginning at a walnut tree, the numbered corner, and running east by lot number sixty-one, two hundred and sixty-five perches to a white oak, thence south by vacant land one hundred and sixty perches to a mulberry tree, thence west by lot number sixty-three, two hundred and sixty-five perches to a white oak, thence north by vacant land one hundred and sixty perches to the beginning, containing two hundred and fifty acres and allowance, granted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by patent dated twelfth March, seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, to Samuel Woods; and also in a certain tract or parcel of land situate in the county of Crawford, (late Westmoreland,) in the sixth district of donation lands, beginning at a white oak, the numbered corner, and running east by fot number one thousand two hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and thirty perches to a chesnut, thence south by lot number one thousand two hundred and eighty-five, two hundred and sixty-one perches o a white oak, thence west by lots number one hundred and eleven and one hundred and twelve, one hundred and thirty perches to a stake, thence north by lot number one thousand wo hundred and eighty-seven, two hundred and sixty-one perches to the place of beginning, containing two hundred icres and allowance of six per cent. for roads, numbered one housand two hundred and eighty-six, and granted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by patent dated the eighth day of October, seventeen hundred and eighty-six, to Philip Klinger, and to make and execute all or any such deeds and Issurances as may be sufficient and necessary for completing such sales and conveyances, which deeds may be acknowl dged by the grantors in the same manner as if the said Elizabeth Haak were sole owner and unmarried, and being so acknowledged, shall be admitted to record in the counties where the said lands respectively lie, with the same force ind effect as deeds recorded according to the existing laws of this commonwealth, and the said grantor may execute and deliver receipts and other acquittances for the purchase money of the said lands, which shall fully acquit and discharge the persons paying the same; and it shall and may Guardian be lawful for any guardian now appointed, or hereafter to be may sell the ppointed, by the Orphans' court of Berks county, for Wil- interest of Wm. Haak, iam Haak, a minor son of the said John and Elizabeth Haak, a minor son to sell and convey the interest and estate of the said minor of said John n the tract of land herein first mentioned and described, & E. Haak. nd having first given security, in such manner and for such um as shall be ordered and directed by the said Orphans' |