sociation. Objects of as the furnishing of suitable accommodations and medical and surgical treatment to persons afflicted with disease, and establishing wards for the practical instruction of students in medicine and surgery. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO'S. RINGLAND, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. No. 103. A GEO. WOLF. Freamble. AN ACT To relieve from taxation the real estate of Christ Church Hospital. WHEREAS it appears that Christ Church Hospital in the city of Philadelphia, has for many years afforded an asylum to numerous poor and distressed widows, who would proba bly else have become a public charge; and it is represented, that in consequence of the decay of the buildings of the Hospital estate, and the increasing burthen of taxes, its means are curtailed, and its usefulness limited: Therefore, SEOT. 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 Property and same, That the real property, including ground rents now ground rents belonging and payable to Christ Church Hospital, in the city declared free of Philadelphia, so long as they shall continue to belong to the said Hospital, shall be, and remain free from taxes. from taxes. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO'S. RINGLAND, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixth day of April, Anno Domini, eigh teen hundred and thirty-three. GEO, WOLF. No. 104. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To the act entitled "An act to provide for the erection of a house for the employment and support of the poor in the county of Dauphin; and for the house of employment and support of the poor for the county of York." Dauphin co. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the directors of the poor and house of employ of admis ment for the county of Dauphin, shall from time to time sions to poor receive, provide for and employ all such poor and indigent house. persons as shall be entitled to relief, or shall have gained a legal settlement in the county of Dauphin, and any such poor and indigent person as aforesaid, shall be admitted into the house of employment on an order for that purpose granted by one of any of the said directors, or by one justice of the peace of Dauphin county, or by a legal order of removal from any other county within this commonwealth, for which service no justice of the peace shall be entitled to fees or reward; and that the board of directors shall have authority to grant such other relief as they may judge right, and to discharge from the said house of employment of the county of Dauphin, every pauper whom they shall deem to possess sufficient mental and bodily ability to take care of himself or herself, and to provide for his or her maintenance and support, but such pauper so discharged may, at any time Re-admishereafter, be re-admitted in the manner aforesaid, and any one of the said directors is hereby empowered, in the examination of any pauper which he is authorized to make, to administer the requisite oath or affirmation. sion. Examination, on oath, &c. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the directors of the poor and of the house of York co. diemployment for the county of York, or any one of them, rectors aushall have like powers with justices of the peace to adminis. thorized to ter an oath or affirmation to any person or persons touching oaths, &c. or concerning their place of legal settlement, or any other matter or thing connected with the business of said institution. APPROVED-The sixth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen administer hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. 5th sect. of act of 5th May, 1832, repealed. of 3d April, 1832, repeal ed. No. 105. AN ACT Relative to rail roads in the county of Philadelphia, and for other pur poses. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the fifth section of the act passed the fifth day of May, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled "A further supplement to an act entitled, An act to appoint commissioners to regulate the streets, lanes and alleys in the district of Southwark, and to lay out new streets, lanes and alleys therein, for the accommodation of the inhabitants, and to lay out the roads therein mentioned through the said district and parts of the townships of Moyamensing and Passyunk, passed the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven," which authorizes a guarantee to the Southwark rail road company, be and the same is hereby repealed. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so much of the act entitled, "An act to incorpoPortion of act rate the Northern Liberties and Penn Township rail road company," passed the third day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, as prohibits said company from constructing said rail road on the surface of streets, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that the said company shall have the right to construct their road on such street or streets, and by such route in said township and district, as may be found convenient, beginning at the river Schuylkill, at the public landing north of Coates street, and terminating at the river Delaware, at or near Willow street, in the Northern Liberties: Provided, That the said rail road shall not be constructed on that part of any street or streets inwith streets tended for a market house, and that said company shall have the same privileges and immunities, be subject to the same restrictions, and may charge the same rate of tolls, as the Southwark rail road company: Provided also, That the said rail road shall not be carried through the property of the city of Philadelphia, at Fairmount, without the consent of the select and common councils of the said city, nor through the property of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company, without the consent of the said company first had and obtained. Proviso. Rail-road not to interfere intended for market Of the tolls, through city or Lehigh property without con sent. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO'S. RINGLAND, Speaker of the Senate. GEO. WOLF. APPROVED-The sixth day of April, Anno Domini, eigh teen hundred and thirty-three. No. 106. A SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled "An act relative to escheated estates," passed the twenty-first of January, eighteen hundred and nineteen. WHEREAS, by the act to which this is a supplement, it is declared that the real estate of any person who hath died, or shall die intestate, leaving a wife or husband, Preamble. and no heirs or other known kindred, shall vest in and be enjoyed by such surviving wife or husband, for such estate as the decedent held therein, but no mode is prescribed by which such matter shall be adjudicated upon: Therefore, Cases where husbands or account cer. SECT. 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 if any person shall die, or hath died intestate, leaving a wife or husband, and no heirs or other known kindred, such surviving husband or wife, his or her heirs or legal wives die representatives may, at any time after the expiration of one without year from the death of such intestate, and after final settle- heirs. ment of the administration accounts of such intestate, pre- After settlesent his, her, or their petition to the Orphan's Court of the ment of adproper county, setting forth that the said intestate died, lea- ministration ving no heirs or other known kindred, and that he or she died tain proceedseized of real or personal estate, which, by virtue of an achings directed, relative to escheated estates, passed the twenty first of under autho January, eighteen hundred and nineteen, vested in such sur- rity of Orph viving husband or wife, which petition shall be verified by court. the oath or affirmation of the party petitioning, or by some other person knowing the facts, whereupon the said court shall grant a rule upon all the heirs, or other persons interested, or claiming any interest in said estate, to appear in said court at some time certain, and show cause why a decree should not be made, ordering and directing the administrator or administrators of the estate of such decedent, to pay over to such surviving wife or husband, or to his or her legal representatives, the balance of such intestate's estate in his or their hands, which rule shall be published for such length of time, and in such manner as the said Orphan's Court, in their discretion, shall think proper; and if upon the return of the said rule, and due proof of the publication thereof, agreeably to the order of the said court, no heirs claiming said estate shall appear, nor any good cause be shown to the contrary, the said court shall order and decree as aforesaid; and if upon the return of any such rule, any person or persons shall appear in court, claiming to be heirs to such estate, whose right to the same shall be disputed by such surviving wife or husband, his or her legal representatives, then the court may direct an issue to determine the matter, or may take such order therein as they shall think proper. APPROVED-The sixth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. where the creek is now public to the Narrows. No. 107. AN ACT Declaring a certain part of Clearfield creek, in the county of Clearfield, a public highway. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act ClearFrom a point field creek, in the county of Clearfield, commencing at a point where the said creek is declared and known to be a public highway, to a point known as the "Narrows," be, and the same is hereby declared a public highway, and it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons desirous of improving or using the navigation of said stream, to remove thereout all obstructions, except dams for mills and other water works already built, on which dams any such person or persons as aforesaid shall have full power to make slopes, such as are hereinafter described, and to keep the same in repair for the passage of boats, rafts and other craft: Provided, That such slopes be so constructed as not to injure such dams. Proviso. of landhol SECT 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this act contained shall be deemed, Of the right taken or understood, to prevent any person or persons ownders to erect ing or possessing lands on or adjoining said stream, who, independent of the passage of this act, would have a right under the general laws of this commonwealth to erect a dam or dams across the said stream, trom erecting such dam or dams. |