to the other, and at said election none shall vote except members of Authority of one the congregation whose interest is to be disposed of, but in no case congregation to sell property to: shall either of said congregations interfere with the ecclesiastical orother. ganization or peculiar tenets of the other.

SECTION 17. That all elections shall be held in the church, and no- Elections, tice of each election shall be publicly given from the pulpit on the where to be Sabbath day, immediately before or after Divine service, by the minister held, and notice officiating or some other proper person, two weeks previous to the time

of holding said election.

of.

county.

SECTION 18. That Cyrus Blood, of the county of Forest, William Commissioners Thompson and Perry Kahle, of the county of Clarion, be and they are to lay out a state hereby appointed commissioners to view, lay out and mark a State road in Jefferson road, beginning on the Brookville and Tionesta road west of the Clarion river; thence by the nearest and best route to the Olean road, at or Location. near the north-west end of George Catz's lane, opposite to the Brookville road.

SECTION 19. That it shall be the duty of the said commissioners, or Duties of a majority of them, after having been sworn or affirmed before some jus- commissioners. tice of the peace, who shall file and preserve the same in his office, to perform the duties enjoined on them by this act with impartiality and fidelity, carefully to view the ground over which the road by them laid out may pass, and lay out the same as near to a straight line between the aforesaid points as the nature of the ground and circumstances will permit, and so that the vertical departure from a horizontal line shall in no point exceed five degrees, except at crossing ravines and streams, where by moderate filling and bridging, the declination of the road may be preserved within that limit; and further, it shall be the duty of said commissioners to have due regard to the crossing of waters, the nature of the ground, and damages to private property, and all other circumstances that may affect the route, so that by a judicious combination of them, the route adopted may best promote the public good, and that they shall clearly and distinctly mark upon the ground the route agreed upon, in such a manner as to enable the supervisors readily to find the same, and for the purpose of fulfilling the duties in this act enjoined, the commissioners herein mentioned shall receive a per diem allowance of one dollar and fifty cents each day for every Compensation. day they shall be necessarily employed in performing the duties enjoined by this act; and in case any of said commissioners shall perform the duties of surveyor, he shall receive fifty cents per day in addition; and said commissioners are hereby authorized to employ one surveyor at two dollars per day, two chain-bearers, and one axeman, at seventyfive cents per day.

SECTION 20. That it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to Draft of locamake out a fair and accurate draft of the location of said road, noting tion to be made thereon the courses and distances as they occur, the improvements out. passed through, and also the crossing of county and township lines, roads and waters, with such other matters as may serve for explanation, one copy whereof shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth on or before the first day of January next, and one copy in the office of the clerk of the court of quarter sessions of the respective counties through which said road may pass, on the day aforesaid, or as much sooner as practicable, which shall be a record thereof, and from thenceforth the said road shall be to all intents and purposes a public highway, and shall be opened and repaired in all respects as roads are opened and repaired which are laid out by order of courts aforesaid, and damages sustained by the owners of private pro- Damages. perty shall be assessed and paid in the same way and manner.

Accounts how paid.

When commis

SECTION 21. That the accounts of said commissioners for their own pay, and for the pay of surveyors, chain bearers and axeman, shall be adjusted by the commissioners of the respective counties through which the road may pass, and paid by the treasurers thereof, on warrants drawn in the usual way, in proportion to the length of road in such county respectively.

SECTION 22. That said commissioners shall meet on or before the sioners to meet. first Monday of June next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, at such places as a majority of them shall agree upon, and complete the location of said road as soon as practicable, and if any vacancy or vacan cies shall happen by resignation or any other cause, the court of quarter sessions of the proper county, as the case may be, are hereby authorized to fill the vacancy or vacancies by a suitable appointment.

Vacancies how supplied.

Provisions of certain act ex

tended to

SECTION 23. That the provisions of the second section of the act entitled "An Act authorizing the paving of the Gray's Ferry road," &c., approved the fifth day of April, A. D., eighteen hundred forty-nine, are Clarion county. hereby extended to the county of Clarion, and that in the cases mentioned in said section, lateral railroads may be constructed in said county, not exceeding four miles in length, to connect with any streams in which logs can be floated in the time of freshets, instead of plank roads, under and subject to all the provisions of the act regulating lateral railroads, approved the fifth day of May, A. D, eighteen hundred thirty two, and that it may be lawful for any person or per sons owning or using saw mills on Mill creek, or at the mouth thereof, to float logs in said creek from his or their lands to their mills on said creek, or at the mills at the mouth of said creek: Provided, This act shall only extend to that part of said creek in Clarion county from the forks to the mouth thereof.

Subject to provisions of cer

tain act.

Proviso.

counties, certain

proceedings null and void, and

new commis

sioners appoin

ted:

Division line SECTION 24. That the proceedings and acts of A. H. M'Henry and between Lyco- John Piatt, in running and marking the division line between the ming and Tioga counties of Lycoming and Tioga, in pursuance of the act of twentyninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and its sup plements, together with their report in relation to said line, filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth on the twenty seventh day of December, eighteen hundred fifty-two, are hereby declared null and void, and that A. H. M'Henry of Lycoming county, William Bache of Tioga county, and Joseph Baily of Perry county, are here. by appointed commissioners to run and mark said line, ascertain, view, and they, or a majority of them, make report of the same to the commissioners of each of said counties: Provided, That the daily pay of each of said commissioners whilst running and marking said line shall be three dollars, and that of each of the chain carriers, markers and assistants, shall be one dollar and fifty cents.

Proviso.

Preamble.

SECTION 25. WHEREAS, The Tioga Improvement company have purchased and now hold three thousand acres of land in Tioga county, surveyed on six several warrants, in the name of Robert Coleman, numbered as follow, to wit:-Number five thousand eight hundred thirty-five, number five thousand eight hundred thirty-six, number five thousand eight hundred thirty-seven, number five thousand eight hundred thirty-eight, number five thousand eight hundred thirty-nine, and five thousand eight hundred forty; therefore,

Tioga improveBe it enacted, &c., That said Tioga Improvement company are ment company, hereby authorized to purchase and hold in fee simple the balance of authorized to said six several warrants, and numbered as aforesaid, and to increase the capital stock of said company one hundred thousand dollars: Pro vided, That the whole amount of land held by said company at the

hold certain

lands. Proviso.

expiration of three years from the passage of this act, shall not exceed three thousand acres.

SECTION 26. That the second section of the act of Assembly passed Repeal of cezthird day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, enti- tain act, so far tled "A further supplement to the acts of Assembly relating to auctions as relates to in the city of Lancaster, and other towns in this Commonwealth," be Fayette county. and the same is hereby repealed so far as relates to Fayette county.

SECTION 27. That the president and directors of the Tioga and El- Tioga & Elmira mira plank road company may, if they deem it expedient, change the plank road, may location of said road from that provided for by the act of incorporation change location. approved the twenty-seventh day of April, eighteen hundred and fiftytwo, and shall have power to construct said road from any point at or near Yeoman's steam mill in Jackson township, by the best and most convenient route, to the Wellsboro' and Tioga plank road, at or near the village of Tioga, in Tioga county.

repealed.

SECTION 28. That all that portion of a certain State road within Certain state the limits of Westmoreland county, authorized to be laid out by an road in Westmoreland co., act of the fifteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, from Elizabethtown, in Allegheny county, by way of Alexander Guffy's salt works, to intersect the Greensburg and Pittsburg Turnpike road at Greensburg, Westmoreland county, or some other point west of it, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that all actions, that may have been held in relation thereto is hereby made null and void.

sold.

SECTION 29. That Franklin Stewart is hereby authorized and em- Certain real espowered to sell and convey either at public or private sale, all and any tate of J. L. Jaof the real estate belonging to the estate of Isaac L. Jaques, deceased, ques, deceased, lying and being in the township of Bloss, in the county of Tioga, and authorized to be to make and execute to the purchaser and purchasers of the same good and sufficient conveyances and assurances in the law, so as to vest in such purchaser or purchasers all the estate, right, title and interest which the said Isaac L. Jaques at the time of his death had and held in the same: Provided, That such sale or sales shall be reported by Proviso. said Stewart to the Orphan's court of the county of Tioga, for their approbation and confirmation: And provided further, That said sale Proviso. or sales shall not be approved or confirmed by the court until said Stewart shall have filed with the clerk of said court a bond, with sufficient sureties, to be approved of by the court, conditioned for the faithful appropriation and distribution of the proceeds of said sale among the persons entitled thereto.

to settle certain

SECTION 30. That the court of common pleas of Indiana county, Court of Indiis hereby authorized and required to appoint three competent persons ana county, to of said county as auditors, who shall have authority to re-examine and appoint auditors re-settle the accounts of Samuel J. Rankin, late treasurer of said accounts. county, with the Commonwealth, and that all proceedings instituted against the said Samuel J. Rankin or his sureties, in reference to said accounts, shall be stayed until such re-settlements shall have been made: Provided, That the same be done within six months after said Proviso. auditors have been appointed.

SECTION 31. That the annual township and borough elections in the Time of certain county of Tioga shall hereafter be held on Friday preceding the first elections in TiMonday in February, in each and every year

oga county,

Estate of John

SECTION 32. That the administrators of the estate of John Knox, changed. deceased, late of Donegal township, Washington county, be and they Knox, deceased, are hereby authorized and directed, after the payment of all just of Washington debts against the said estate, to pay to William Knox, his heirs or as- county.

Certain act revived and extended.

signs, the balance of said estate remaining in their hands, excepting only the collateral inheritance tax due the Commonwealth.

SECTION 33. That so much of the act approved the third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, entitled "An Act for the relief of David and Andrew Clark, of Columbia county," which requires the Canal Commissioners to examine the claim of David Clark and Andrew Clark of Columbia county, be and the same is hereby revived and extended one year from the passage of this act.

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred

and fifty-three.

To incorporate the Strasburg and Millport Turnpike Road company; relative to certain Election districts; changing the name of the Susquehanna Coal.com. pany; to prohibit Cattle and Swine from running at large in the township of Rex. borough, Philadelphia county; to change the name of Scott township, Columbia county.

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. John N. Lane, Emanuel Schaeffer, Thomas E. Franklin, Henry Mus selman, Amos F. Herr, Daniel Potts, Cyrus N. Herr, John Musselman, John Echternach, John F. Herr, Benjamin Eshleman and Christopher Hager, or any three of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to open books, receive subscriptions, and Name & style organize a company, by the name, style and title of "The Strasburg and Millport Turnpike Road company," with power to construct a turnpike road from a point near the Swan Tavern, in the borough of Strasburg, over the public road by Musselman's Mill and Millport tos point on the Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike near Millport, and to straighten said public road wherever it may be expedient, subject to all the provisions and restrictions, and with all the powers and privileges contained in an act regulating Turnpike and Plank Road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the supplement thereto, approved the seventh day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty-nine, except that the said company may erect toll gates and charge tolls upon the completion of the said turnpike road, although the same shall not extend five miles in length.

Subject to the provisions and

restrictions of certain act.

SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. eight hundred shares, of twenty-five dollars per share; Provided, That said company may, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as may be deemed necessary to complete the road and carry out the true intent and meaning of this act.

of road.

SECTION 3. That if said company shall not commence the said road Commencement within three years from the passage of this act, and complete the same and completion within six years thereafter, this act shall be null and void, except so far as may be necessary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of the

company.

SECTION 4. That from and after the passage of this act, the quali- Places of elecfied electors of the borough of Jersey Shore and Porter township, in tions, in Jersey Shore, Porter, Lycoming county, shall hold their elections in the Town Hall of Jersey Wolf, and Shore; and the qualified electors of Wolf township, in said county, Franklin tps., shall hold their elections at the store room of Ellis Bryans in said Lycoming co. township; and the qualified electors of Franklin township, said county,

shall hold their elections at the house of George S. Lohr in said town

ship.

SECTION 5. That the corporate name, style and title of the Susque- Susquehanna hanna Coal company shall hereafter be "The Susquehanna Coal and coal company, Coal Mountain company," and by that name, and title, shall hereafter name changed. sue and be sued, and have and enjoy all the corporate rights, franchises, privileges and immunities, and shall be subject to all the restrictions, granted and imposed upon the said company by the act authorizing

the same to be incorporated, and the supplements thereto; and that May increase the said company be and are hereby authorized to put in their lands as number of capital stock, and divide the said stock into as many shares as they shares of stock. may deem expedient, and to issue certificates for said shares of stock to

the stockholders of said company.

SECTION 6. That the laws now in force relative to cattle and swine Provisions of running at large in the borough of Germantown, be and the same are certain act exhereby extended to the township of Roxborough, in the county of Phil- tended to adelphia.

Roxborough. SECTION 7. That the name of the township of Scott, in the county Scott tp., Coof Columbia, is hereby changed to and shall hereafter be called Lo- lumbia co.

cust.

SECTION 8. That hereafter the elections in the several wards of the Lancaster, placity of Lancaster shall be held at the following places: in the North- ces of elections. east ward at the public house now kept by Daniel Swope; in the Southeast ward at the public house now kept by J. G. Leber; in the North-west ward at the public house now kept by Adam Trout; in the South-west ward at the public house now kept by Frederick Hess.

SECTION 9. That hereafter the qualified voters of the several wards To elect assesof the city of Lancaster shall elect an assessor and constable for each sors & constable of said wards, in the manner prescribed by existing laws for the elec- for each ward. tion of such officers, and the constables so elected shall have all the authority and privileges heretofore conferred by law upon the consta

bles of Lancaster city: Provided, That the high constable of said city Proviso. shall be elected as heretofore by the voters of the whole city.

divided into

SECTION 10. That for the election of members of the Select Council, For elections of the said city shall be divided into three districts, as follows: the North- members of west ward shall compose the first district; the North-east ward the councile, city second district; and the South-east and South-west wards jointly, the districts. third district; in each of which districts a member of the Select Council shall be annually elected, for the term of three years, with the qualifications now required by law; and for the election of members