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beffer, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to do and perform the several things named in said act.

W. P. SCHELL,

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APPROVED-The ninth day of February, A. D., one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 53.

AN ACT

Authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Strasburg and Willow Street turnpike road company; relative to the Lafayette railroad company; and to the collection of taxes in Warwick township, Lancaster county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaes of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Christian Commissioners. Kieffer, Henry Miller, D. Samuel Keneagy, Lewis Sutor, Jesse Gy

ger, Abraham Mylin, Samuel Spiehlman, Martin Roher, and A. H. Hood,
are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions

and organize a company by the name, style, and title of "The Strasburg Style.
and Willow Street turnpike road company," with power to construct a
arapike from the West end of the borough of Strasburg, on the Lam-
peter road, in Strasburg, and West Lampeter townships, in the county
of Lancaster, along said road to the village of Lampeter Square, and

from and through said village along the Blue Rock road to where the Location of
aid Blue Rock road intersects the Willow Street turnpike road, subject road.
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 supplements thereto.

SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. sight hundred shares, at twenty dollars per share: Provided, That said Proviso. mpany may, from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a eeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as ay be necessary in their opinion to carry into effect the true intent

d meaning of this act.

Blue Rock

SECTION 3. That the president and managers of the said corporation Change of lore hereby authorized to change the location of the aforesaid Lampeter cation of the and Blue Rock roads, at such points and to such distance as may be ne- Lampeter and sary to keep the turnpike road within the rise and fall prescribed by roads. the aforesaid acts of Assembly, the said company to pay the damages stained by the landholders, by reason of such change of location, the aid damages to be fixed and determined in the manner provided in the foresaid act of Assembly of January twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

Gates and toll.

Commencement

SECTION 4. That whenever the said company shall have finished the said road, notwithstanding its length may be less than five miles, the same proceedings may be had to enable the company to erect and fix gates upon and across the same and collect tolls, as is provided in the aforesaid act of Assembly in relation to any completed five miles of a turnpike road.

SECTION 5. That the said company shall commence said road within and completion three and finish it within ten years from the passage of this act, and failing to do so, the provisions of this act shall be null and void.

of road.

Commissioners

to run the line

between the

counties of Luzerne and Car

bon to file report.

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Warwick tp.,
Lancaster co.

SECTION 6. That the commissioners, or a majority of them, named in the thirteenth section of an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Lafayette railroad company; and relative to Gray's Ferry road, in the county of Philadelphia, and for other purposes," approved the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, be permitted to file their report made or to be made, in reference to the running, marking, and establishing the county line between the counties of Luzerne and Carbon, according to the requirements of said thirteenth section of said act: Provided, The same be done within sixty days from the passage hereof, and that so much of said act as is hereby altered, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

SECTION 7. That the provisions of the first section of the act of twelfth April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, entitled "An Act relating to the collection of taxes in certain townships in Lancaster county, and for other purposes," be, and the same are hereby extended to Warwick township, in said county.

W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The ninth day of February, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

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No. 54.

AN ACT

Regulating certain election districts.

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 qualified voters in the new township of Jordon, county of Northumbership, Northum- land, shall hold their general and township elections at the house of Abraham T. Troutman, now occupied by Elias Klinger, in said township, and Francis Markley shall act as judge, and John Bush and John Borrel act as inspectors to hold the first township election on the third Friday of March, and thereafter the qualified voters of said township

berland co.

shall elect such township officers at such times as are now provided by law in other townships, in said county.

SECTION 2. That the qualified voters of Jackson township, in Nor- Jackson tp., thumberland county, shall hereafter hold their general and township Northumber elections at the house of George Smith, in said township.

land co.

SECTION 3. That the qualified voters of the township of Harrison, Harrison tp., in the county of Bedford, shall hereafter hold their general, special and Bedford co. township elections at school house number five, near the dwelling

house of Henry Kiser, in said township.

SECTION 4. That hereafter the qualified electors of the township of Blacklick tp., Blacklick, in the county of Cambria, are authorized to hold their gen- Cambria co. eral, special and township elections at the house of Adam Meakin, in

the village of Belsina.

SECTION 5 That the general, township and special elections for Beaver Beaver tp., Jef township, Jefferson county, shall, as heretofore, be held at the house ferson co. formerly occupied by D. D. Wonderly in the village of Heathville, in

said township.

foot tp., Somer

set co.

SECTION 6. That the qualified electors of Upper Turkeyfoot town- Upper Turkeyship, Somerset county, shall hereafter hold their township and general elections at the house of Lemuel King, in said township. SECTION 7. That the qualified electors of Northampton township, Northampton Somerset county, shall hereafter hold their township and general elec- 'P., Somerset tions at the school house at Wells' saw mill, in said township.

Co.

SECTION 8. That from and after the passage of this act, the general Jackson tp., and township elections of Jackson township, Dauphin county, shall be Dauphin co. held at Bixler's mill, in said township.

SECTION 9 That the qualified voters of Luzerne township, county of Luzerne tp., Fayette, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections in Fayette co. the cross roads' school house, near the residence of Joseph Y. Crawford,

in said township.

SECTION 10. That all part of Milford township, in the county of Milford tp., Somerset, lying west of Middle creek from where the State road crosses Somerset co. the same, near the house of Daniel A. Miller, following said road to Michael Putmans, and from thence to the Jefferson township line, by the house of Jacob Gardiner, and from where the Gebhartsburg and Peterburg road crosses said creek, near the house of Henry Bouchers, to the south line of said township, the southern, western and northern boundary lines remaining as they now are, is hereby erected into a separate election district and township to be called Middle Creek, and the qualified electors shall hold their general, special and township elections at the house now occupied by John Hamilton, in the village of New Lexington, and John R. King is hereby appointed judge and Benjamin V. Bowman and Jacob K. McMillen inspectors of the first election.

SECTION 11. That the said inspectors shall give ten days' notice of Notice to be the time and place of holding the ensuing spring election, by written given. band bills put up at six or more public places in said district.

SECTION 12 That hereafter the general, special and township elec- Keating tp., tions in Keating township, Clinton county, be held at the house of Seth Clinton co. Nelson, in said township.

SECTION 13. That the qualified electors of Delaware township, in Delaware tp., Mercer county, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections Mercer co. at the house of Robert M'Kean, in said township.

SECTION 14. That the general and township elections for Mayberry Mayberry township, Montour county, shall be held at the centre school house, on Monts

Sharp Ridge, in said township, and Jacob Shultz is hereby appointed judge and John Kase and Robert Davidson inspectors to hold the first election in March next.

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APPROVED The ninth day of February, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

No. 55.

WM. BIGLER.

Ann Noblet.

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AN ACT

For the relief of the widow of Thomas Noblet, deceased, a soldier of the RevoJutionary war; relative to the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown railroad company'; and to a State road in Bedford and Fulton counties.

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 State Treasurer be, and he is required to pay to Ann Noblet, of the county of Philadelphia, widow of Thomas Noblet, deceased, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, or to her order, an annuity of forty dollars during her natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

SECTION 2. That the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown Philadelphia, Germantown, railroad company shall be, and they are hereby authorized to purchase and Norristown and hold as much land contiguous to the present route of their road as shall be necessary for the purpose of making a double track along the whole line, agreeably to the original act of incorporation, passed February seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and the double track required by the said act, and the supplements thereto, shall be fully laid and completed within five years from the passage of

pany to purchase land.

Certain road vacated.

this act.

SECTION 3. That so much of the public road leading from Schellsburg, in Bedford county, to Fort Littleton, in Fulton county, or lies between a point where said road intersects the main valley road and a point at or near the house now occupied by John Speer, in Wills township, Fulton county, be, and the same is hereby vacated, and in lieu thereof the supervisors of said township are hereby authorized and required to lay out and open a road from, at, or near a small hickory in the said main valley road, to the north end of the said house now occupied by the said John Speer.

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APPROVED-The tenth day of February, A. D., one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 56.

AN ACT

For the relief of Elizabeth Wise, widow of Martin Wise, a soldier of the Revolutionary war.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly Imet, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the State Treasurer be directed to pay to Elizabeth Wise, widow of Martin Wise, late a pensionary of the Revolutionary war, or her administrator, a gratuity of one hundred and forty dollars, the same that would have been due her said husband if living.

W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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APPROVED-The tenth day of February, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 57.

AN ACT

Authorizing the commissioners of Cumberland county to borrow money, and for other purposes.

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 commissioners of the county of Cumberland are hereby authorized to borrow on the credit of said county such amount of money, not exceeding forty thousand dollars, as they shall deem necessary for the erection of a county jail or prison in lieu of the old one.

SECTION 2. That the commissioners of the county of Cumberland be, and are hereby authorized to advertise and sell at public sale or outery, to the highest and best bidder, all that lot of ground situate on the north side of East High street in the borough of Carlisle, containing sixty feet in front and being in depth two hundred and forty feet, numbered in the general plan of said borough two hundred and thirteen, and to convey the same in fee simple or otherwise to the

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