CHAPTER CXLVIII. An ACT constituting a tribunal to relieve the distresses of the disabled, or infirm, and poor revolutionary officers and soldiers, who served in the Pennsylvania line. claims. 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 Court instithe secretary of the commonwealth, auditor-general, and state tuted for trytreasurer, or any two of them, be, and they are hereby con- fold soling the claims stituted and erected into a court of inquiry, to ascertain the diers. actual service of such officers and soldiers as shall apply for the benefit of this act, either by themselves or by their legal attorney; and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of said Evidence necourt that any applicant has served in the Pennsylvania line in cessary to the revolutionary war, until he was legally discharged, that he support has not property above the value of fifty dollars, and from bodily infirmity is rendered unable to earn a living by labour, and has not heretofore been placed on the pension list of this state, or of the United States, it shall be their duty, and they Pension book to be kept. are hereby authorized and required, to place his name in a pension book to be opened by them in their offices, respectively, allowing each applicant so as aforesaid entitled, an annuity Allowance. not exceeding forty dollars, to be paid by the state treasurer half yearly: Provided always, that where any commissioned Proviso in officer or private has lost a limb in the service of his country, or has been otherwise disabled from earning a living, by wounds received in the actual service, they shall be severally entitled to an annuity not exceeding sixty dollars: And provided also, that no applicant shall be entitled to the benefit of this act, who has not served three years or more in said line, unless sooner discharged, on account of wounds or other bodily inability. case of wounds. SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Of guardians, That if it shall appear to the secretary of the commonwealth, auditor-general, and state treasurer, or any two of them to be necessary, they shall recommend tothe orphans' court of the coun ed. ty within which any such officer or soldier shall reside, whose How appointduty it shall be to appoint some person to be his guardian,removable at any time by said court, and it shall be the duty of such May be reguardian to draw the annuity from the treasury, and apply the moved. same in procuring diet and clothing for the said officer or soldier, and render an account of said expenditure to said Accounts to court, annually, who are hereby authorized and required to be rendered. Duties of. settle and adjust the same, without fees to said court, or to the officers thereof. JOHN TOD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. SIMON SNYDER. $25000 appropriated for complet ing the new prison in the city and county. CHAPTER CXLIX. An ACT appropriating a sum of money for completing the new prison in the city and county of Philadelphia, and for other purposes. 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 twenty-five thousand dollars be, and is hereby appropriated, to be paid after the first day of August next, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, on warrants drawn by the governor in favour of the board of inspectors of the city and county of Philadelphia, to be by them applied in completing the new prison in the city and county aforesaid, and the payment of debts already accrued in building the Statement of same; and the said board of inspectors shall furnish and subaccounts to be mit a detailed statement of their accounts to the accountant made. department, when called upon for that purpose, by the auditorgeneral, to be settled and adjusted in the usual manner; Provided always, that the governor shall have full power to draw warrants for said money in such instalments only, as in his opinion the progress of the work in finishing and completing said prison, will justify, and the public interest require. Governor to draw warrants, &c. Prisoners to SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, be removed. That immediately after the said prison shall be completed, and suitable for the admission of prisoners, the said inspectors may if they think proper, cause to be removed thereunto, all or any of the persons, convicted of crimes and misdemeanors, that may be then confined in the prison of the city and counAnd convicts ty of Philadelphia, and if necessary, to receive into the said to be received new prison, from time to time, all persons of the aforesaid description, that may hereafter be convicted in this commonwealth, and subject to hard labour, by the existing laws, in the Prison to be jail and penitentiary house of the city of Philadelphia, and the said new prison shall be hereafter, considered, deemed of the com- and taken to be the exclusive property of this commonwealth, monwealth. and subject to such regulations as the legislature may from Part of a for- time to time deem necessary and proper: And provided, that ealed. so much of the act, passed the second day of April, one thou into. the property mer act re sand eight hundred and three, as relates to this subject, which is hereby altered, be and the same is hereby repealed. JOHN TOD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER CL. An ACT for the relief of Alexander Brown, Samuel Watt, and Brown. SECT. I. BE it enacted by the senate and house of represen tatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same,That Alexander the state treasurer be, and he is hereby directed to pay unto Alexander Brown, of Bedford county, or order, the sum of forty dollars, immediately after the passing of this act, and an annuity of forty dollars, payable half yearly, during his life, to commence from the first day of January last. ́SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Samuel That the state treasurer be, and he is hereby directed to pay Watt. unto Samuel Watt, the sum of forty dollars, immediately after the passing of this act. SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Patrick MarThat the state treasurer be, and he is hereby directed to pay tin. unto Patrick Martin, the sum of forty dollars, immediately after the passing of this act. મેં JOHN TOD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER CLI. An ACT to continue in force an act, entitled " An act for establishing health-office, and to secure the city and port of Philadelphia, from the introduction of pestilential and contagious diseases," and supplementary thereto.. SECT. 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 board of health mentioned in the act to which this is a settle and adjust the same, without fees to said court, or to the officers thereof. JOHN TOD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. SIMON SNYDER. $25000 appropriated for complet ing the new prison in the city and county. CHAPTER CXLIX. An ACT appropriating a sum of money for completing the new prison in the city and county of Philadelphia, and for other purposes. 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 twenty-five thousand dollars be, and is hereby appropriated, to be paid after the first day of August next, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, on warrants drawn by the governor in favour of the board of inspectors of the city and county of Philadelphia, to be by them applied in completing the new prison in the city and county aforesaid, and the payment of debts already accrued in building the same; and the said board of inspectors shall furnish and subStatement of accounts to be mit a detailed statement of their accounts to the accountant made. department, when called upon for that purpose, by the auditorgeneral, to be settled and adjusted in the usual manner; Provided always, that the governor shall have full power to draw warrants for said money in such instalments only, as in his opinion the progress of the work in finishing and completing said prison, will justify, and the public interest require. Governor to draw warrants, &c. Prisoners to SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, be removed. That immediately after the said prison shall be completed, and suitable for the admission of prisoners, the said inspectors may if they think proper, cause to be removed thereunto, all or any of the persons, convicted of crimes and misdemeanors, that may be then confined in the prison of the city and counAnd convicts ty of Philadelphia, and if necessary, to receive into the said to be received new prison, from time to time, all persons of the aforesaid description, that may hereafter be convicted in this commonwealth, and subject to hard labour, by the existing laws, in the Prison to be jail and penitentiary house of the city of Philadelphia, and the property the said new prison shall be hereafter, considered, deemed of the com- and taken to be the exclusive property of this commonwealth, monwealth. and subject to such regulations as the legislature may from Part of a for- time to time deem necessary and proper: And provided, that mer act re- so much of the act, passed the second day of April, one thou into. pealed. sand eight hundred and three, as relates to this subject, which is hereby altered, be and the same is hereby repealed. JOHN TOD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER CL. An ACT for the relief of Alexander Brown, Samuel Watt, and Brown. SECT. I. BE it enacted by the senate and house of represen tatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same,That Alexander the state treasurer be, and he is hereby directed to pay unto Alexander Brown, of Bedford county, or order, the sum of forty dollars, immediately after the passing of this act, and an annuity of forty dollars, payable half yearly, during his life, to commence from the first day of January last. ́SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Samuel That the state treasurer be, and he is hereby directed to pay Watt. unto Samuel Watt, the sum of forty dollars, immediately after the passing of this act. SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Patrick MarThat the state treasurer be, and he is hereby directed to pay tin. unto Patrick Martin, the sum of forty dollars, immediately after the passing of this act. JOHN TOD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER CLI. An ACT to continue in force an act, entitled " An act for establishing a health-office, and to secure the city and port of Philadelphia, from the introduction of pestilential and contagious diseases," and supplementary thereto. SECT. 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 bythe authority of the same, That the board of health mentioned in the act to which this is a |