To receive from and franchises. pany hereby directed to be incorporated in all the words and effect thereof, except so much thereof as has since been repealed or as is hereby supplied. SECTION 5. That the president and managers of the said company shall have full power and authority to receive, take and hold from the road company purchaser or purchasers of the Franklin railroad, and of all the frantheir privileges chises, powers, privileges and advantages of the said Franklin railroad company, either under the laws of Pennsylvania or of Maryland, at the sale authorized by said act, approved the tenth day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and at any sale authorized, or hereafter to be authorized, by any law of the State of Maryland, a full and absolute grant and conveyance or conveyances thereof, and of all the estate, right, title and interest of said purchaser or purchasers, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns of, in, to and out of the estates, lands, tenements, rights, liberties, privileges, franchises, powers and immunities, formerly belonging to the said Franklin railroad company, purchased by him or them, under the said act, approved the tenth day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and the orders and decrees of the court of common pleas of Franklin county, and purchased, or hereafter to be purchased, under the authority of any law of the State of Maryland, authorizing the sale thereof, which conveyance or conveyances shall be recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of Franklin county, and shall vest in said corporation all the said estates, lands, tenements, powers, privileges, franchises and advantages, and the said president and managers are hereby further authorized to pay for the said grants and conveyances either in cash, stock, or securities of said company, such an amount as may be agreed upon by the said president and managers if by them deemed expedient. SECTION 6. That all the provisions of the original act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Franklin railroad company," and the several supplements thereto, except so far as the same have been hereby altered or supplied, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be extended and applied to the company, to be erected and created under the provisions of this act as fully and effectually as if the same were herein specifically recited and re-enacted in relation thereto, and that the said Chambersburg, Greencastle and Hagerstown railroad company are hereby invested with all the powers and privileges heretofore by law conferred upon the Chambersburg and Hagerstown railroad company. SECTION 7. That the company hereby directed to be incorporated shall be required to re-lay the said railroad from Chambersburg by Greencastle to Hagerstown within eighteen months from the date of the letters patent hereby directed to be issued. W. P. SCHELL, APPROVED-The seventeenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 143. AN ACT Legitimating Sarah Ann Murray; incorporating the Oswayo plank road company; relative to the destruction of foxes, and to the support of schools in Potter county; to the Wellsboro' and Tioga plank road company; to an elec tion district in Clearfield county; in relation to the sale of a certain toll-house in Huntingdon county, and to a toll-gate near the free bridge at Huntingdon, on the Huntingdon, Cambria and Indiana turnpike road. 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 Sarah Ann Murray, of the township of Monroe, in the county of Bed- Sarah Ann Murford, shall have and enjoy all the rights, benefits and advantages of a ray legitimated. child born in lawful wedlock, and shall be able and capable in law, to inherit and transmit any estate whatsoever, as fully and completely to all intents and purposes, as if she had been born in lawful wedlock. SECTION 2. That Benjamin D. Dolly, William Shattuck, George Commissioners. Estus, Salmon Hawley, Salmon R. Miner, William Dalrymple, and Wm. C. M'Dougall, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions of stock, and organize a plank road company in accordance with and subject to the provisions of an Subject to proact regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twen- visions of certy-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, tain act. and the supplements thereto, to be known as the Oswayo Village plank road company, with authority to enter upon lands and public roads, and to construct a plank road from Oswayo Village, in the county of Potter, by the most practicable route to the New York State line, at Location. any point in the said county of Potter, and to make any lateral road or roads to connect the same or any section thereof with the Wellsville plank road, or with any other point, as said company may deem advisable for the promotion of its own and the public interests. SECTION 3. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. ten thousand dollars, in shares of twenty-five dollars each, with the right to increase the same from time to time, as the board of directors may find necessary, or deem expedient. SECTION 4. That the company shall have the right to use and charge Tolls. tolls upon any portion of said main line, or of the lateral roads authorized by this act, whenever, and as often as three consecutive miles shall be completed and approved as required by the act of twenty-sixth January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. SECTION 5. That the work shall be commenced within three years Commencement from the passage of this act, and completed within ten years, but the and completion failure to complete the whole line within that time, shall not work forfeiture of the parts which may have been completed so as to entitle the company to receive tolls on them. of road. SECTION 6. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall not Premium on be lawful for the commissioners of the county of Potter, to pay out of fox scalps in the county funds any bounty on any fox that may be caught and killed Potter county, within the boundaries of said county, and all laws inconsistent herewith be, and the same are hereby repealed. act repealed. 1 common sehools. Bounty on foxes SECTION 7. That the sum of one hundred and seventy dollars, it appropriated to being the amount paid as bounty on foxes, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the common schools of Potter county, and it shall be the duty of the secretaries of the several school districts in said county, on or before the first day of June, in each and every year, to make out a true statement, which statement shall be sworn or affirmed to be true before some justice of the peace, or other person having power to administer oaths, of all resident scholars in their respective districts, whereupon the county commissioners shall draw their orders in the usual manner upon the county treasurer in favor of the treasurer of the several school districts in said county, giving each district their quota, according to the number of scholars. President and SECTION 8. That the president and managers of the Wellsborough managers of the and Tioga plank road company be, and they are hereby authorized and Wellsborough empowered to borrow a sum of money not exceeding ten thousand doland Tioga plank road company lars, and to secure the payment of the amount so borrowed, to execute authorized to and deliver a mortgage or mortgages under the seal of the said comborrow money. pany, signed by the president and attested by the secretary of the same, to the lender or lenders thereof upon the road of said company, and the income thereof, and upon their corporate rights and franchises in such form and manner, that upon sale of the same under said mortgage or mortgages for default of payment of principal and interest according to the tenor of said mortgage or mortgages, the same shall be as fully vested in the purchaser or purchasers thereof, as if he, she or they had been the original corporators, and from thenceforth all the provisions of the act of incorporation of said plank road company with corporate powers conferred, and of the several laws of this Commonwealth in relation thereto, and shall be for the benefit of the said purchaser or purchasers: Provided, That it shall not be lawful for said company to declare any dividend upon the shares of the capital stock of said company, whilst a mortgage or mortgages executed under the provisions of this act shall remain unpaid. Proviso. For closure of mortgage. Proviso. field co. SECTION 9. That in case of failure of the said company to pay the moneys secured by said mortgage, as the same shall become due, the mortgagee or mortgagees their executors, administrators or assigns may proceed to foreclose said mortgage or mortgages by scire facias, levari facias, and sheriff's deed, in the manner now authorized and allowed by law for the foreclosure of mortgages in other cases: Provided, That the holder of the mortgage shall be at liberty to foreclose the same as aforesaid, at any time after failure to pay, without waiting twelve months after the last payment falls due. Chess tp.,Clear- SECTION 10. That after the March elections in the present year, the general and township elections in Chess township, Clearfield county, shall be held at the school house near Simon Rorabaugh's, in said township. SECTION 11. That the commissioners of Huntingdon county be, and they are hereby authorized either to sell and convey such estate in a certain toll house and premises, situated at the northern extremity of the bridge across the Juniata river, near the western end of the borough of Huntingdon, as the president, managers and company of the Juniata bridge company, heretofore expressly agreed to sell and vest in the said county as appurtenant to said bridge, under the provisions of an act passed eleventh March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, if they deem it more advisable to hold the same for the use of said county. the west end of SECTION 12. That the Huntingdon, Cambria and Indiana turnpike Toll gate near road company, or the sequestrator of said company or any other person free bridge, at for them, shall not have power to locate or fix a toll gate at any point Hantingdon, nearer the free bridge at the west end of Huntingdon, than the toll prohibited. gate is now located, a violation of the foregoing shall subject said company or sequestrator, or any other person for them, to a fine of one hundred dollars, to be recovered as sums of like amount are now recovered. thorized to make a deed. SECTION 13. That Alanson E. Niles, and Zeephia Johnson, adminis- Alanson E. trators of Luther Johnson, deceased, be, and they are hereby authorized Niles and Zeeto make and execute a deed to James J. Jackson, and Lucy Jackson, phia Johnson auonly heirs of Jonathan Webster, deceased, of a certain mill race, cut and occupied by Jonathan Webster, deceased, in his life time, through and over the land of the said Luther Johnson, deceased, upon the payment to said administrator for the use of the heirs of the said Luther Johnson, deceased, the balance now due for the same, and said deed to be as valid and effectual to convey the right and interest thereto, as though made by the said Luther Johnson, in his life time: Provided, Proviso. That the orphans' court of the county of Tioga, shall approve of and confirm such deed and conveyance. W. P. SCHELL, APPROVED The seventeenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 144. AN ACT To repeal the sixteenth section of the act of third of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, so far as relates to the borough of Coudersport, and relative to the duties of high constable, and sale of liquors in said borough. SECTION 1. 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 the sixteenth section of the act regulating boroughs in this Common- Repeal. wealth, approved the third day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, as far as relates to the borough of Coudersport, in the county of Potter, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and no other qualifications of voters at the borough election be required, than the qualifications now required by law of the citizens voters in their respective township and general elections in this Commonwealth. SECTION 2. That the thirteenth section of said act, regulating the Repeal. powers of high constable, be, and the same is hereby repealed, as far Repeal. as relates to the borough of Coudersport, and the authority of the high constable shall hereafter be confined to the said borough. SECTION 3. That the third section of an act, relating to the sale of liquor in the borough of Mauch Chunk, Coudersport and McKeesport, and to the collection of taxes in the county of Potter be, and the same is hereby repealed. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The seventeenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. Bounty on wolves in M'Kean co. Uppen Ten Mile plank road, time of comple tion extended. Further powers of company. Duties of asses No. 145. AN ACT Relating to the bounty on wolves, in the county of M'Kean; relative to a plank road in Washington and Greene counties; the assessment of a dog tax in Addison township, Somerset county; to the re-location of a turnpike road in Indiana county, and to the registration of certain names by the register of York county. 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 from and after the passage of this act within the county of M'Kean, the bounty on full grown wolves killed in said county shall be twelve dollars, and on wolf puppies, five dollars, and so much of any law as is altered by this act is hereby repealed, so far as relates to the amount of said bounty, but in all other respects to remain in full force. SECTION 2. That so much of the third section of the act, entitled An Act to incorporate the Upper Ten Mile plank road company in Washington county," passed the fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, which requires the company to commence the construction of said road within two years and complete at least four miles, be, and the same is hereby extended for the term of five years, from the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. SECTION 3. That the said company shall have the power of passing over, along and upon the bed of the present road leading from the south end of Main street in the borough of Washington, to the village of Prosperity, on the farm of R. Wallace, in Morris township, and thence by the nearest and most practicable route to the borough of Waynesburg, in Greene county. SECTION 4. That after the passage of this act the assessors of the sors of Addison townships of Addison, in the county of Somerset, shall annually when tp., Somerset taking the names of the taxable inhabitants of said township, take an accurate account of all dogs upward of one month of age, male or co. |