ridge, in the township of Springfield in said county; subject to all the rovisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road ompanies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, Anno Domini one Proviso. housand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the supplements thereto : Provided, That if a single track shall be deemed sufficient to accom

odate the travel, the said company shall have power to construct the Capital stock. ame, which track shall not be less than eight feet in width.

SECTION 2. That the capital stock of the said company shall con- Commencement ist of eight hundred shares, at twenty-five dollars each. and completion SECTION 3. That if the said company shall not commence the con- of road. Eruction of their road within two years after the passage of this et, and complete the same within five years, this act shall be null

nd void, except so far as it is necessary to settle the affairs of the Repeal. mpany.

SECTION 4. That the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth ections of the act entitled "An Act relating to certain school districts nd roads in Perry county, and for other purposes," approved the elevnth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fiftyne, be and the same are hereby repealed, so far as they apply to Oliver wnship, in said county.

W. P. SCHELL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THO. CARSON,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The thirteenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight undred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 255.

AN ACT

To incorporate the East Liberty and Sharpsburg Plank Road company; relative to the Mechanics' Savings Bank of Harrisburg; authorizing Albert G. Brodhead to cut a channel through a certain island in the river Delaware; authorizing the commissioners of the district of Moyamensing to curb and pave Orange street; legitimating Henrietta Will; and to the safe keeping of prisoners in Westmoreland county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen

tices of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly Commissioners met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That James McCully, George Negley, John N. Berlin, Daniel Negley, Thomas Wallace, James S. Negley, Wm. O. Leslie, James Blakely, and Jonathan Ramalley, or any three of them, be and are hereby appointed commissioners, to open books, and after giving ten days' public notice of the Style. time and place, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, to be Subject to procalled "The East Liberty and Sharpsburg Plank Road company," with visions of corall the powers and privileges, and subject to all the restrictions mentioned in an act approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thou

tain a

Power to construct a plank road.

Capital stock.

Stockholders of
Mechanics'
saving bank in-
dividually
liable.

Channel

through an island in the

river Delaware.

Orange street
to be curbed and
paved.

Henrietta Will legitimated.

Temporary jail

sand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An Act regulating Turnpike and Plank Roads," so far as the same is consistent herewith.

SECTION 2. That the said company shall have power to construct plank road, beginning at the junction of the Pittsburg and Greens burg turnpike road and Highland lane in the village of East Liberty, Allegheny county, and extending along said Highland lane to land now owned by James McCully, and thence by the most practicable route to intersect the Lawrenceville and Sharpsburg plank road at a point on the south side of the Allegheny river opposite Sharpsburg, or to any interme diate point, at the discretion of the president and managers of said company, and when that portion of said road lying between the Pittsburg and Greensburg turnpike road, and the said land owned by James Me Cully, shall be finished, the said company shall have power to erect gates and collect toll for travel thereon, without view or further license. SECTION 3. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of two hundred shares, of twenty-five dollars each, and the said company, at any meeting of the stockholders called for the purpose, shall have power to increase the same, to any amount sufficient to complete said road, and it shall be lawful for the Governor to grant said company letters patent, in the manner prescribed in the second section of said act regulating turnpike and plank roads, when ten persons or more shall have subscribed ten per centum on the capital stock thereof.

SECTION 4. That the stockholders of the Mechanics' Savings Bank of Harrisburg shall be individually liable for the debts of the same, which liability shall be enforced in the manner provided for the enforcing the individual liability of stockholders of banks, by the act of the sixteenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty, entitled "An Act regulating banks," and any officer or agent of said Mechanics' Savings bank who shall embezzle or appropriate to his own use, without authority, any of the funds of said bank, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than the amount so embezzled or appropriated, and shall be imprisoned in the Dauphin county prison for any period not less than six months nor more than two years, at the discretion of the court, and that the seventh section of the act incorporating the said Mechanics' Savings bank of Harrisburg, approved the fifth day of February, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fiftythree, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SECTION 5. That Albert G. Brodhead, junior, of the borough of Mauch Chunk, be and he is hereby authorized to cut and maintain a channel through an island in the river Delaware surveyed in the warrantee name of Joseph Fox and Moses Purton: Provided, The consent of the present owners be first had and obtained.

SECTION 6. That the commissioners of Moyamensing are hereby authorized to curb and pave Orange street from Twelfth street westward as far as the same is opened, and to charge the expenses thereof to the owners of property fronting thereon, according to the existing laws authorizing the paving of streets and alleys within the district of Moyamensing.

SECTION 7. That Henrietta Will, daughter of Margaret Will, late of Cambria county, shall enjoy all the rights and privileges of a child born in lawful wedlock.

SECTION 8. That until the completion of the new prison in Westor lock-up house moreland county, which is about being built by the commissioners of in Greensburg. said county, agreeably to the recommendation of two successive grand juries and the court, the said commissioners are hereby authorized to provide some suitable place or building in the town of Greensburg or

its vicinity, to be used as a temporary jail or lock-up house, or that
the said commissioners shall have the right and power to contract with
the proper authorities of the county of Allegheny, or some other ad-
joining county, for the safe keeping and supporting in the common
jail or prison of said county, of all such persons as are now confined
in the jail of Westmoreland county, or that may be hereafter sentenced
or committed to prison, until the completion of the aforesaid building,
and it shall be lawful for any court, judge, justice of the peace, or
committing magistrate, in all cases wherein according to existing laws
he or they might lawfully commit or sentence to be confined any person
in the common jail of the county of Westmoreland, to commit and
order to be confined such person or persons in the said temporary prison
or jail of the said county of Allegheny, or adjoining county, as said
commissioners may determine, and the keeper of said temporary jail,
or the keeper of the common jail of said county of Allegheny, or the
keeper of the common jail of any county adjoining Westmoreland,
is hereby authorized and directed to receive and detain all such per-
sons in said temporary jail or jails, of said county of Allegheny, or
adjoining county, until he, she or they shall be delivered therefrom to
the sheriff of Westmoreland county for trial, or in due course of law,
as in other cases, and upon the completion of said prison, to transfer
all persons who shall be then in confinement in said temporary jail, or
jail of the said county of Allegheny or adjoining county, placed there
by the authorities of Westmoreland county, into said prison, and them
there detain until the expiration of the terms for and during which Proviso.
they shall have been respectively sentenced or committed: Provided,
That the costs and expenses of detaining and keeping the prisoners of
the county of Westmoreland in the jail of Allegheny county, or such
adjoining county as the prisoners may be committed or sentenced to
under the provisions of this bill, shall be defrayed by the said county Proviso.
of Westmoreland: And provided further, That the sheriff of the
county of Allegheny, or of such county as such prisoners may be
committed or sentenced to under this act, shall be civilly and criminally
liable for their safe keeping, in the same manner that they now are
liable for prisoners committed under the general laws.

Compensation SECTION 9. That the sheriff of Westmoreland county shall be en- of sheriff. titled to receive the sum of three dollars per day for every day he is engaged in conveying prisoners to and from the jail in Allegheny county, or of such adjoining county, together with all necessary expenses and charges.

W. P. SCHELL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO. CARSON,

APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-three.

Speaker of the Senate.

WM. BIGLER.

Preamble.

Preamble.

Corporaturs.

Style.

Meeting of corporators.

No. 256.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Aulenbach's Cemetery company, in the township of Alsace, Berks county; to supervisors in Ontalaunee township; to the collection of taxes in Perry township, in said county; and authorizing Ole Bull to hold lands in this Commonwealth.

WHEREAS, The establishment of cemeteries in the vicinities of large cities and popular places, is deemed to be expedient and useful to the inhabitants, and the citizens of Reading and vicinity are desirous of promoting such an establishment at a convenient distance from their city:

And Whereas, Charles Aulenbach, of the said city, has agreed to convey, and already did lay out and establish a cemetery or burial place on a lot of ground containing about two acres, lying near the Perkiomin and Reading turnpike road, about one mile from the city of Reading, in Alsace township, Berks county, which said two acres he caused to be laid out into burial lots, the plan thereof being recorded in the office for recording of deeds at Reading, in and for Berks county, in deed book A, volume fifty-eight, page six hundred and thirty-eight, and has already thereof conveyed lots therein unto John Miller, Richard Hofmaster, Adam Prutzman, Daniel B. Lewis, Henry Happ, John Mohring, Daniel Burkert, Mathias Roland, Henry Hawn, Jacob and George Drenkel, Elizabeth Getz, Solomon Dunkel, John Christian, Charles Fix, Jeremiah Eisenbeis, Daniel O. Seider, William Bingaman, Michael Sands, Frederick Leibrook, Vallintin Graff, and Aaron Albright, and on which are already buried the dead bodies of thirty or more persons: therefore,

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 said John Miller, Richard Hofmaster, Adam Prutzman, Daniel B. Lewis, Henry Happ, John Mohring, Daniel Burkert, Mathias Roland, Henry Hahn, Jacob and George Drenkel, Elizabeth Getz, Solomon Dunkel, John Christian, Charles Fix, Jeremiah Eisenbeis, Daniel 0. Seider, William Bingaman, Michael Sands, Frederick Leibrook, Vallintin Graff, and Aaron Albright, together with such other persons as may hereafter become purchasers of lots in said cemetery, be and they are hereby made a body politic and corporate in law, under the name, style and title of "Aulenbach's Cemetery company," and by that name shall be able and capable in law to use a common seal, and to sue and be sued, to plead and to be impleaded, and to do all such other things as are incident to a corporation.

SECTION 2. That the said John Miller, Richard Hofmaster, Adam Prutzman, Daniel B. Lewis, Henry Happ, John Mohring, Daniel Burkert Mathias Roland, Henry Hahn, Jacob and George Drenkel, Elizabeth Getz, Solomon Dunkel, John Christian, Charles Fix, Jeremiah Eisenbeis, Daniel O. Seider, William Bingaman, Michael Sands, Frederick Leibrook, Vallintin Graff and Aaron Albright, together with such other persons as may hereafter become purchasers of lots in said cemetery, shall meet on the last Monday in February in every year, and elect by ballot, one person as treasurer and secretary, and five

persons as trustees, all of which shall be lot-holders, each lot-holder
to have one vote in such election, the officers so elected shall superin-
tend the improvement of said cemetery, and contract with and employ
mechanics and others to enclose the said cemetery, and otherwise to
plant and embellish the same with trees, shrubbery, flowers, walks,
and other ornaments; the said officers may also make and propose all
such by-laws, rules and regulations as they may deem necessary or
proper in relation to the same, and at an annual meeting place the
same before the lot-holders for their approval or disapproval, twelve
lot-holders shall be a quorum, except the officers, but there shall never
be any religious rules or ceremonies adopted for the burying of the
dead, against the opinion of any lot-holder, for each and every lot-
holder shall have the privilege to bury his or her dead with such cere-
monies as he or she, the lot-holder, may see proper, and no dead
body of any white person shall ever be refused to burial in said ceme-
tery: Provided, A lot-holder choose to bury the same on his or her Proviso.

lot.

SECTION 3. That the trustees elected as aforesaid, shall have power Powers of trusto accept and fulfil a further trust from the said Charles Aulenbach, tees. in case the said Charles Aulenbach should choose to convey unto them the lots already laid out on the said two acres and not yet sold, and also any other ground adjoining the said cemetery, the same to be laid out in the same manner for a place of interment, and subject to the same rules and regulations, and for the same purpose as the first mentioned lot, if the same shall be thought expedient.

SECTION 4. That no street, lane, or highway or railroad, shall here- No street, lane, after be opened through the land so occupied as a cemetery as afore- or alley to be said, and the same shall be exempt from taxation, and no lot or sub-opened through division of a corporation shall be subject to attachment or execution for his or her debt.

the lands.

&c.

SECTION 5. That it shall be lawful for the said corporation to take Corporation to and hold any grant, donation, or bequest of property, upon trust, to hold any grant, apply the same under the direction of the said trustees for the improvement or embellishment of the said cemetery, or any building, structure, or fences, erected or to be erected thereon.

'aunee township, Berks

SECTION 6. That from and after the passage of this act, the super- Duties of supervisors of Ontalaunee township, Berks county, shall not apply any of visors of Onta, the monies belonging to said township either to the construction of any new foot bridge over the Maiden creek, in said township, or to the county. repair of those now constructed.

county.

SECTION 7. That from and after the first day of January, Anno Collection of Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, the collection of taxes in Perry State and county taxes in Perry township, Bucks county, shall be township, Bucks given to the lowest bidder, proposals thereof to be presented to the commissioners of said county at least three weeks prior to the giving out of said collection of taxes, and the difference between the commissions now allowed by law for the collection of such taxes and the bids obtained under the provisions of this act, shall be paid into the common school fund of said township for educational purposes: Pro- Proviso. vided, That the persons to whom the collection of such taxes shall be thus allotted, shall give sufficient security to said county commissioners for the true performance of their duties in the collection of said taxes, in the same manner as collectors under existing laws are required to

do.

Ole Bull author.

SECTION 8. That Ole Bull be and is hereby empowered to purchase ized to pure! lands, tenements, and hereditaments, within this Commonwealth, and and hold