School directors SECTION 12. That after the passage of this act the school directors Union township, of Union township, in Centre county, shall have power to build a new Centre county, school house on the lot of of ground known as the meeting house lot, build new school where the old school house now stands. authorized to house. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 260. AN ACT To incorporate the Shippensburg and Spring Run Turnpike or Plank Road company; relative to Allegheny Valley Railroad; to vacating old Harrison street, in the district of Kensington; and to recurbing and repaving in said district. 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 Commissioners. Samuel C. Filson, William W. Skinner, William McLean, John Wyn Name and .Style. Location. Capital stock. Where may take toll. koop, Miron R. Skinner, John Gish, William A. Mackey, Samuel Kunkel, or any five of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style and title of "The Shippensburg and Spring Run Turnpike or Plank Road company," with power to construct a turnpike or plank road from the borough of Shippensburg, in the county of Cumberland, to Spring Run, in Fannet township, Franklin county, by the nearest and best route, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of five hundred shares, at twenty dollars each: Provided, That the said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital so much as in their opinion may be necessary to complete the road and carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That whenever the said company shall have finished erect gates and two miles or more of said road, they shall have power to erect gates and receive tolls, agreeably to the conditions and restriction of the twelfth and thirteenth sections of an act approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. Allegheny val- SECTION 4. That the Allegheny Valley Railroad company are hereby ley railroad, au- authorized to construct branches of their road in the counties of Clarion, Jefferson, Elk, Forest, McKean, and Potter, or either of thority to conthem, if the said company may deem the same necessary for the de- struct branches. velopment of the minerals of said counties, or either of them: And further, They are authorized to connect the main line of road or branches at the State line with any railways or canal improvements authorized by the laws of the State of New York: Provided always, That Proviso. the connection hereby authorized, shall be made in the counties of McKean and Potter: Provided, That said company shall not inter- Proviso. fere with the location of the Lafayette railroad, in McKean county. SECTION 5. That old Harrison street, between Front street and Part of Harrison Howard street, in the district of Kensington, county of Philadelphia, street, Kensingbe and the same is hereby vacated, and the title to the soil over which ton, vacated. said street passes, is hereby vested in the owners of the ground holding the legal title to the same: Provided, That said vacation be first approved by the board of commissioners of said district. Proviso. SECTION 6. That the first section of an act entitled "A further sup- Kensington dis. plement to the act entitled 'An Act to incorporate the Kensington dis- trict; relative trict of the Northern Liberties,"" passed the twentieth day of March, to repairing A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty, shall be so construed as foot-ways, &c. to extend to any work done or materials furnished for or in the recurbing or repaving the footways of any street, road or alley, in front of any real estate in said district of Kensington. W. P. SCHELL, APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. To incorporate the Beallsville and Waynesburg Railroad company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly Thet, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That J. G. Hart, John Clemens, William S. Mellinger, Shesh Bentley, sen., Commissioners, Alexander Wilson, Richard Richardson and Solomon Wise, of Washington county, and Jesse Hook, Jesse Lazear, Daniel Boner, L. D. Ingram, T. P. Pollock, Amos Walton, Levi H. Bell, Samuel Colver, John Bell, sen., and Joseph S. Smith, of Greene county, or any five of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style and title of Name and "The Beallesville and Waynesburg Railroad company," with all the Style. powers, and subject to all the provisions and restrictions prescribed by Powers. Capital stock. Location of road. an act entitled "An Act regulating railroad companies," approved the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty nine. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of five thousand shares, of one hundred dollars each: Provided, That the said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion may be necessary to complete the said road and carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That the said company shall have the right to build or construct a railroad from Waynesburg, Greene county, thence by way of Beallsville, Washington county, by such practicable route and moderate grades as will, in the opinion of the president and directors To connect with of said company, be most conducive to the public interest, and to conHempfield rail- nect the said road with the Hempfield railroad, at the most practicable point west of Monongahela city, Washington county. road. When road may be opened. Commencement of road. SECTION 4. That whenever any section of three miles of said road shall be completed, the said company may use, employ and enjoy the same, in the same manner as when the entire length thereof shall be constructed. SECTION 5 That if said company shall not commence the construcand completion tion of said road within five years from the passage of this act, and complete the same within twelve years thereafter, this act shall be null and void, except so far as it may be necessary to wind up the affairs of said company and pay the debts of the same. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. Managers. No. 262. AN ACT To incorporate the York Cemetery company, in the county of York; relative to the borough of Providence, Luzerne county; to the destruction of woodcock in Cumberland county; to the Washington Guards, of Cambria county; to a State road in Allegheny and Butler counties; and to an election district in the county of York; extending the law authorizing the incorporation of building associations to Allegheny 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 Alexander Small, John G. Campbell, Daniel Hartman, Charles Weiser, Wm. S. Roland, Thomas P. Potts, Peter McIntyre, John Evans, Gee. S. Morris, Daniel Loucks, T. N. Haller, V. K. Keesey, D. F. Wil liams, T. E. Cochran, and John Hiestand, together with such other Powers. SECTION 2. That the affairs of the said company shall be conducted Affairs of comby a board of nine managers, to be elected annually by the lot-holders, pany, how to be on the first Monday in March, and in such elections each person shall conducted. be entitled to one vote for every lot he or she may own not exceeding four, and one vote for every four lots beyond four; the managers shall have power to purchase and hold any tract or tracts of land within the county of York not exceeding in the whole one hundred acres, for the purpose of a cemetery, and to lay out and ornament the said lands, (or so much as shall be appropriated to cemetery purposes,) arrange and sell burial lots, and make such by-laws and regulations as they may deem necessary and proper for the protection of the cemetery and the management of the business of the company: Provided, That the Proviso. persons named in the first section of this act shall be the managers until others shall be elected; five of the managers shall form a quorum. SECTION 3. That no street, road or lane shall be laid out or opened Road through through the said tract of land occupied as a cemetery, without the and tax on cemconsent of the managers, and the grounds of said cemetery company ed. etery, prohibitshall be exempted from taxation, and the lots in the said cemetery shall not be subject to attachment or execution for the debts or liabilities of the respective owners. SECTION 4. That all laws of this Commonwealth now in existence Grounds, &c., protecting the grounds of any cemetery from trespass, or the tomb-protected from stones or monuments, railing or fences, from injury, shall be and the injury. same are hereby extended to this cemetery company. apply to Provi SECTION 5. That so much of the fourth division of the third section Part of an act of an act approved April third, eighteen hundred and fifty one, enti- relating to bortled "An Act regulating boroughs," requiring the corporate officers oughs, not to of boroughs to publish enactments, regulations, ordinances, or other dence, Luzerne general laws ordered or passed by the burgess and town council, in one county. newspaper, &c., at least ten days before the same takes effect, is hereby repealed so far as the same relates to the borough of Providence, Luzerne county. season. SECTION 6. That from the first day of January till the first day of Woodcock in July, in each year hereafter, it shall be unlawful for any person to Cumberland shoot, kill or destroy any woodcock in Cumberland county, under the county; fine for penalty of five dollars for each and every offence, and so much of the killing out of act entitled "An Act to prevent the destruction of trout in Letart Spring, and the preservation of the same in the county of Cumberland, et cetera," passed the sixteenth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, as conflicts with the provisions of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 7. That the several sections relating to Mutual Savings Provisions of act Fund, Land and Building associations, contained in the act passed April relating to Savthe twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, entitled A ings Fund, Lani supplement to an act entitled 'An Act to prevent waste in certain and Building ascases, within this Commonwealth,' passed the twenty-ninth day of tended to AlleMarch, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two; "to land and build- gheny county. ing associations; giving the court of Susquehanna county jurisdiction sociations, ex Name of Wash changed. Proviso. in a certain case; relative to the service of process in certain cases; to party walls in Philadelphia; to the proof of a certain will; to the sale and purchase of certain burial grounds in Philadelphia; to the laying of gas pipes in the district of Moyamensing; to the relief of certain sureties in Erie county; to the State Lunatic Hospital; relative to the service of process against sheriffs; to the rights of married women; to ground rents; and relating to foreign insurance companies;" and the supplements thereto, be and the same are hereby extended to Allegheny county. SECTION 8. That from and after the passage of this act, the "Washington Guards ington Guards," a volunteer intantry company in Cambria county, shall be hereafter called the "Washington Rifles ": Provided, That all acts done under the former name of the Washington Guards, shall not be effected in any manner by this act, and the said corps shall enjoy all the advantages in point of date or age as if this act had not been passed. Commissioners to lay out a State road. SECTION 9. That E. Menhoff, William Purviance, of Butler county, and James A. Gibson, of Allegheny county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to review and lay out so much of that part of a State road running from the Great Western iron works, as lies between the road leading from the Glade Mill to Freeport, at Niblock's meeting house, to the house of Alexander Caslie, junior, on the Bakerstown road, on the nearest and most practicable route. Canoe township SECTION 10. That the qualified voters of the township of Canoe, in York county; the county of York, shall hereafter hold their township and general place of holding elections at the house now occupied by Doyle P. Hazleton, and owned by Henry Sidle, in the borough of Dillsburg, in said township. elections changed. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 263. AN ACT To empower the city authorities of Reading to widen certain streets; supple mentary to an act entitled "An Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Reading Water company," approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and nineteen; and supplementary to the poor laws of the city and districts of Philadelphia. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the mayor, alderman and citizens of Reading are hereby authorized and ng, part required to widen that part of Third street extending from Penn street Pord street, |