SECTION 9. That it shall be lawful for the burgess and town council Burgess and of the borough of Manheim, in the county of Lancaster, and they are of Manheim, hereby authorized and empowered to have built, or otherwise provided Lancaster counand supported within the bounds of said borough, at the expense ty, anthorized to thereof, a suitable building for the security and temporary detention build a lock-up. ́ and confinement of any person or persons committed by any justice of the peace, or any constable, or the burgess of said borough, or member of the town council acting in his place, for any violation of the laws of this Commonwealth, or of the ordinances of the borough aforesaid, for which such person or persons could lawfully be committed, there to remain and be kept until such offender or offenders can be removed to the common jail of said county, if committed for an indictable offence, or until discharged according to law: Provided, That no person or Proviso. persons shall be confined in said lock-up house at any one time for a longer period than forty-eight hours, except such person or persons be charged with an indictable offence, or until discharged by law, or removed to the common jail of the aforesaid county. SECTION 10. That the expenses of committing and keeping any Expenses of person or persons in said building on a charge of any indictable of committing of fence, shall be paid by the said county of Lancaster, on the presenta- fenders, how to be paid. tion of proper accounts of the same to the commissioners of said county. taxes. SECTION 11. That the burgess and town council of said borough are Authority to hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect annually such levy and collect taxes as may be necessary to carry into effect the ordinances, rules and regulations of said borough, and that the collector or collectors of taxes in said borough, shall have the same powers and authority, and are hereby authorized to adopt the same remedies to enforce the payment of borough taxes in said borough, as are provided by law for the collection of county and township rates and levies. SECTION 12. That the assessor of the township of Rapho, in the Assessor to furcounty of Lancaster, shall, when required by the burgess or any mem nish valuation of ber of the town council, aforesaid, furnish gratuitously a copy of the of taxable proplast adjusted valuation of things made taxable for county purposes in said borough. erty. SECTION 13. That from and after the passage of this act the ninth Repeal of 9th section of an act entitled "An Act to change the manner of appoint- section of an act ing road and bridge viewers, and of assessing damages sustained by of 1852. owners of lands in the county of Lawrence; relative to roads in Mifflin county, to a school district in Allegheny county; to validate a sale of a lot of land in the borough of Erie; and declaring Choke creek in Luzerne county a public highway; approved the first day of May, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, be and the same is hereby repealed. of Anville, $800 SECTION 14. That immediately upon the passage of this act, the Executors of R. executors of Rudolph Herr, late of Lebanon county, deceased, are Herr to pay to authorized and directed, and it is hereby made the duty of the said United Brethren executors, to pay over unto the trustees of the United Brethren wor- for use of conshipping in the meeting house situate in the town of Annville, in the gregation. county of Lebanon, the sum of eight hundred dollars, bequeathed by their said testator, the said sum of money to be applied or expended in such manner in and about the said meeting house, or for the use of the congregation worshipping therein, as the members thereof may judge necessary and expedient. SECTION 13. That the bridge, as authorized by the act of April one Bridge in Indithousand eight hundred and fifty, over the Blacklegs creek, in Cone- ana county. Where to be erected. Canal Commis sioners authorized to lease a water-power in Tarentum. County Com maugh township, Indiana county, shall be erected at the most suitable place between the places where the roads leading from Saltsburg to Clarksburg and Warren, crosses said creek, to be designated by three competent and disinterested persons, to be appointed by the court of common pleas of Indiana county, who shall receive the per diem allowance of one dollar per day, and that the supervisors of said Conemaugh township are hereby authorized to levy and collect the onefourth part of the road taxes in money, assessed for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, to be applied to the building of said bridge. SECTION 16. That after the passage of this act it shall be lawful for the Canal Commissioners, and they are hereby authorized and empow ered, to let or lease the water power connected with the locks in the borough of Tarentum, or confirm any lease they may have heretofore made. SECTION 17. That the county commissioners of the county of Mcmissioners, M'- Kean, are hereby authorized to appropriate any sum of money not exKean county, to ceeding one thousand dollars, of the funds of said county, to the marepair certain king and repairing of the public highways on Portage Branch of the Allegheny river, between Port Allegheny and the Potter county line, said money to be laid out under the direction of said commissioners, upon the road mentioned. roads. Sequestrators of orized to surren SECTION 18. That the sequestrator of the Huntingdon, Cambria and Indiana turnpike road company, is hereby authorized to make an agreement in writing with the corporate authorities of the borough of Blairsville, by which the control of so much of said road as lies within the limits of said borough shall be surrendered by the said company, der road to au- as fully as by law they were entitled to the same, to the said borough, on such terms as will forever thereafter relieve the said turnpike road company, their officers and agents, or the sequestrators thereof, from all liability for the condition of the same: Provided, That the said agreement shall be first exhibited to and approved by the court of quarter sessions of Indiana county, and by the said court ordered to be filed of record. thorities of Blairsville. Proviso. Borough of ers extended. Proviso. SECTION. 19. That it shall be lawful for the said court of quarter Blairsville, pow-sessions, upon application made, to extend the provisions of the act of third April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An Act regulating boroughs," to the said borough of Blairsville: Provi ded, That section twenty-four, and so much of section twenty-six, pamphlet, laws, three hundred and twenty-two, as limits taxation for borough purposes to one half of one per centum, and limits the authority to borrow money to one per centum of the assessed value of taxable property, shall not be in force in said borough after such action of said court: And provided further, That the second proviso of the ninth section of the act entitled "An Act to incorporate the town of Blairsville, in the county of Indiana," passed the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, shall be as to said borough unrepealed and in full force, after the action of the court as aforesaid. Proviso. Authority to borrow money. SECTION 20. That the corporate authorities of the borough of Blairsville be and they are hereby authorized to borrow a sum or sums of money, on the credit of the borough, and issue scrip therefor, not exceeding in the aggregate ten thousand dollars, for the purpose of effecting such improvements as may be deemed proper and necessary in said borough: Provided, The scrip hereby authorized to be issued Proviso. shall not be in sums less than one hundred dollars. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 259. AN ACT In relation to the "Independent Anti Sectarian House of Worship" of Newtown, Bucks county; incorporating the Hilltown and Sellersville Turnpike Road company; authorizing the school directors of Richland and Haycock school districts, in Richland and Haycock townships, Bucks county, to sell a certain school house and lot of ground; to the sale of a school house in Shiremanstown, Cumberland county; repealing the eleventh section of the act of the thirteenth April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, in reference to the construction of water works by the authorities of the borough of Erie; to appoint Wood Inspectors in the borough of Jersey Shore, in Lycoming county; authorizing the school directors of Union township, Centre county, to build a new school house. WHEREAS, by an act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act to authorize William Linn, trustee, &c., and for other purposes," passed the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, authority was given to John Bond, Amos Wilkinson, Samuel Philips, and Thomas Gorlin, remaining trustees for an association of sundry inhabitants of Newtown and its vicinity, in Bucks county, for the purpose of erecting an independent anti-sectarian house of worship, to convey the said trust to the burgess and town council of the borough of Newtown: And Whereas, The said trustees did convey the same to the said burgess and town council, by indenture bearing date the eighteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two: Preamble. Preamble. And Whereas, the said burgess and town council are now desirous Preamble. that the said trust reposed in them shall again revert to the original trustees; therefore, 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 burgess and town council of the borough of Newtown, Bucks Burgess and county, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to re-convey town council said trust to John Bond, Amos Wilkinson, Samuel Philips, and of Newton, em Thomas Gorlin, the remaining trustees, for an association of sundry inhabitants of Newtown and its vicinity, in Bucks county, for the purpose of erecting an independent anti-sectarian house of worship. powered to re convey a t Power to elect trustees. Powers of trust ees. Proviso. Commissioners Sellersville turnpike road. SECTION 2. That the members of said association, in addition to the power conveyed in said deed of trust to fill vacancies made in the number of said trustees by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, shall have full power to elect by ballot, every two years, the number of trustees required in the original deed of trust, on such day of the year as a majority of said trustees shall have agreed upon by rule or by-law, and that all such persons as may hereafter contribute money for the improvement of said house of worship, or free burial ground, shall be entitled to all the privileges conferred by said deed of trust, upon the original members of said association. SECTION 3. That the said trustees, their successors and associates, as shall from time to time be selected by a majority of the efficient members of said association, in addition to the purposes named in said deed of trust, shall have and exercise the full power to open said house for the meetings of moral or scientific associations, and for lectures on moral or scientific subjects, and for other purposes: Provided always, That no use of said house shall at all prevent or interfere with the intent and meaning of the association in keeping up an independent anti-sectarian house of worship. SECTION 4. That Henry Troxel, Abraham Cressman, Barnet Headof Hilltown and man, Noah Wam bold, Amos Jacoby, George Diehl, Michael Headman, Samuel Carey, Henry Kemmerer, John B. Missimer, Henry Ochs, Thomas Strawer, Frederick Wolfe, David Johnson, Charles Foulke, R. Y. Strassburger, Josiah W. Leidy, Abraham Reiff, Elias Hartzell, Tobias Fluck, Peter D. Bloom, William Snyder, Tobias Cope, Michael Snyder, Edward Artman, Charles Dubbs, Refler Himmelright, George Steinman, Samuel B. Stout, Peter Shelley, John G. Brunner, John Fluck, Jesse Roberts, John Kinsey, Abraham Cope, Samuel C. Bradshaw, Charles Z. Nace, Joshua Foulke, Charles Leidy, senior, Charles W. Everhart, Henry K. Nace, Samuel B. Cressman, Daniel S. Heist, Joseph Schleifer, Isaac Huntzberger, John N. Shelly, and Isaac Stout, of Bucks county, Samuel Detwiler, Jacob Sloop, Isaac Rosenberger, senior, Charles White, Thomas Sellers, Mathias Young, William H. Ball, Charles Slifer, David Blyler, Jacob W. Haines, N. K. Shoemaker, Enos L. Reiff, William Hershey, John D. Morris, Jacob Trewig, of Montgomery county, or any five of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to open books, receive subscriptions to stock, and organize a company by the name, style and title of "The Hilltown and Sellersville Turnpike Road company," with power to locate and construct a turnpike road commencing at the Spring House, Northampton Town and Bethlehem turnpike road, at or near the county line between the counties of Bucks and Montgomery, in the township of Hilltown, and extending thence to the south end of the bridge at Sellersville, in said county of Bucks, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank roads, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the supplements thereto, except that the said turnpike road company shall not be subject to that part of the said act regulating tolls, but they are hereby authorized to charge and receive Rates of tolls. the same rates of tolls as are allowed to be charged by the act incorporating the said Spring House, Northampton Town and Bethlehem turnpike road company, and the several supplements thereto : And provided further, That when the said company shall have made and completed their said road between the two points mentioned in this act, they shall have power to collect and receive toll on the same, notwithstanding the distance may be less than five miles. Name and style. Location of road. Proviso. SECTION 5. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. two hundred and eighty shares, at twenty-five dollars each: Provided, That said company may, by a vote of the stockholders, called for that purpose, increase their capital so much as in their judgment may be necessary to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 6. That if the said company shall not commence the con- When to be struction of their road within three years after the passage of this act, commenced and and complete the same within five years thereafter, this act shall be null completed. and void, except so far as may be necessary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of the company. county, author SECTION 7. That the school directors of Richland and Haycock School directors school districts, Richland and Haycock townships, Bucks county, are Kielland and hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey for the benefit of Haycock school districts, Bucks said school district, all such school houses and lots of land thereunto belonging, in said township, as are no longer available for school pur- ized to sell real poses: Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall be so con- estate. strued as to authorize the sale of any property under the charge of any religious society, or any in which a right of individual property at this time exists. manstown, au SECTION 8. That Matthias Bitner, Henry G. Mosser, and W. D. Trustees of Shoop, be and they are hereby authorized to sell and convey at public school house sale, the school house and lot of ground thereunto belonging, with the and lot in Shireappurtenances, situate in Shiremanstown, Lower Allen township, in the thorized to sell county of Cumberland, and held by trustees for the use and benefit of old school house the citizens of the town and its neighborhood for a school-room, town and build a new meetings, and religious purposes, and that they be further authorized one. to make settlement with Henry Rupp, Daniel Shelly, and Michael P. Dill, the present trustees, and collect outstanding claims, pay the debts, if any,) and the balances arising from the sale and the dues owing, be appropriated towards the building of a new school house for the use of the town. SECTION 9. That the limitation in the eleventh section of an act en- Provisions of titled "An Act empowering the burgess and town council of the borough 11th section of an act of April of Erie, in the county of Erie, to borrow money, and to supply the said 13th, 1853, not borough with water, and for other purposes," passed the thirteenth of to apply to first April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, shall not be con- four sections of strued to apply to the first four sections of this act. this act. ized. SECTION 10. That it shall and may be lawful for the burgess and Wood Inspecttown council of the borough of Jersey Shore, in the county of Lycom- or, Jersey Shore, ing, to appoint two competent persons to be Inspectors of Wood in said Lycoming, borough, who shall continue in office for the term of one year from and county, appointafter the term of their appointment, or until others are appointed, and ment authorthe said inspectors shall, before they enter upon the duties of their appointment, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before some judge Oath required. or justice of the peace of said county of Lycoming, faithfully to perform the duties of Inspectors of Wood according to law, and to the best of their knowledge; a certificate of said oath or affirmation shall be filed with the burgess of said borough, and it shall be the duty of the Duties. said inspectors, when required to do so by any person or persons interested, to measure all wood and give to the seller of the same a certificate showing the quantity of solid feet in any load or pile of wood by them inspected. SECTION 11. That the inspector or inspectors appointed as aforesaid, Fees, how regul may receive for inspecting and measuring wood such sum or sums as lated. may be established by the said burgess and town council, the buyer pay ing for inspecting. |