Catawissa bridge co to finish a cer tain road under direction of canal comm'rs. wissa Bridge company to finish, at the expense of said bridge company, a good wagon road not less than twenty feet wide, for public use, under the control and direction of said commissioners, commencing at a projection of rocks on section eighty-nine, and extending so far on section eightyeight as to meet the public road already laid out. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO'S. RINGLAND, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. No. 141. AN ACT For the relief of Mary Ziegler, the widow of a soldier of the revolutionary war, and the heirs of John Thompson, deceased, of Mercer county, 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 State Treasurer be, and he is hereby au$40 ann. and thorized and required to pay Mary Ziegler, of York county, grat granted the widow of a revolutionary soldier, or to her order, the to Mary sum of forty dollars immediately, and an annuity of forty Ziegler. dollars, payable half yearly during life, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty of Mercer co. three. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore$271 granted said, That the State Treasurer be and he is hereby authorized to the heirs of and required to pay to the heirs or legal representatives of J. Thompson, John Thompson, late of Mercer county, deceased, or to their order, the sum of two hundred and seventy one dollars, in for donation full for a tract of donation land which was granted to Joseph Roe, as a reward for his services as a revolutionary soldier, whose right and interest therein became legally vested in the said John Thompson, situate in what is called the struck donation, in the second district, number three hundred and land of Jos. Roe. thirty, containing two hundred acres, and released to the Commonwealth by said John Thompson, on the sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO'S. RINGLAND, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. No. 142. AN ACT Provisionally to organize the county of Potter, and for other purposes. 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 first day of September, in Organization the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, the inhabitants of to take effect the county of Potter shall be entitled to, and have all and on 1st Sept singular the courts, jurisdictions, offices, powers, rights and 1835. privileges to which the inhabitants of other counties in this state are entitled by the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth. Election of and authority SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That from and after the first day of September, in the year aforesaid, the inhabitants of the said county shall elect under the same laws, rules and regulations as the inha to county bitants of other counties in this state now do or may, such of officers. ficers as by the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth they are entitled to elect, who shall within the said county have and exercise the like power, authority and privileges, and perform the said duties which the like officers in other counties of this state now have, exercise and perform. SECT. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sheriff, coroner, treasurer, prothonotary, and Surety of all such officers as are by law required to give security for sheriff, coro the faithful discharge of the duties of their respective offices, ner, treasu who shall after the said first day of September, in the year aforesaid, be elected or appointed in the said county, before rer, &g. 314 Officers of they or any of them shall enter on the execution thereof, shall give sufficient surety in the same manner and form, and for the same uses, trusts and purposes as such officers, for the time being, are subject by law to give in the other counties of this Commonwealth. SECT. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sheriff, coroner, and other officers of the county of McKean, who now or shall for the time being perform duties within the said county of McKean, shall continue to perform the same until similar officers shall be elected or apare qualified. pointed, and qualified agreeably to law to act within the said county. act until offi. cers of Potter courts. SECT. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the said first day of September, in the year aforesaid, the judges of the Supreme Court, the Authority of president of the said judicial district hereinafter mentioned, and the associate judges to be appointed in and for the said county of Potter, shall have and exercise like powers, jurisdictions and authority within the same county, as by law they are vested with, and entitled to have and exercise in other counties of this state, and all process that shall be made returnable to the first term in the said county, shall bear test, as of the first day of September, in the year aforesaid. Return of process. Transfer of suits from Potter. SECT. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all suits which shall be pending and undetermined in the court of Common Pleas of McKean county, on the said M'Kean to first day of September, in the year aforesaid, when both parties shall be residents of the said county of Potter shall be transferred to the court of Common Pleas of the said county of Potter, and shall be considered as pending in the said court, and shall be proceeded in like manner as if the same had been originally commenced in said court, except that the fees in the same due to the officers of McKean county shall be paid to them when recovered by the prothonotary or sheriff of the said county of Potter; and the prothonotary of M'Kean county shall, on or before the first day of September, in the year Prothonotary of M'Kean co. aforesaid, purchase a docket, and copy therein all such entries respecting the said suits to be transferred as aforesaid, and shall, on or before the said first day of September, in the year aforesaid, have the said docket, together with the records, declarations, and other papers respecting said suits so entered therein, ready to be delivered to the prothonotary, to be appointed for the said county of Potter, the expenses of the said docket and copying to be paid by the treasurer of the said county, upon a warrant to be drawn upon him by the commissioners of the said county. to prepare a docket for Potter. SEOT. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That it shall be lawful for the commissioners of the said county of Potter, and they are hereby required as soon thorized. as they may deem it expedient, to erect or cause to be erect- Erection of ed, on such parts of the public ground in the town of Cow- public builddersport, as they may deem best suited thereto, a court ings in Cowhouse, jail and other offices, for the safe keeping of the public dersport aupapers and records of the said county, and until such court house is erected the courts of justice hereinbefore directed Comm'rs to to be held in the said county, shall be opened and held in obtain temsuch building in the said town of Cowdersport as the said porary court commissioners may obtain for that purpose. house. cial district authorized. Potter, SECT 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the said first day of September, Formation of Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, the 18th judithe said county of Potter and the counties of M'Kean, Warren and Jefferson, shall be formed into a separate judicial district, to be called the eighteenth district, and a person of Composed of integrity, learned in the law, shall be appointed and com- M'Kean, missioned by the Governor to be president and judge of the Warren, and courts of Common Pleas within the said district, which presi- Jefferson dent shall receive the like salary and have and execute all counties. and 'singular the powers, jurisdictions and authority of president and judge of the court of Common Pleas, court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, Orphans' Court, and justice of the court of Quarter Sessions of the peace, agreeably to the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth; the courts in Potter county shall be held on the first Time of holdMondays of February, May, September and December of ing respeceach year; the courts in McKean county on the first Mon- tive courts. days after those in Potter county; the courts in Warren county the first Mondays after the courts in McKean coun ty, and the courts in Jefferson county on the first Monday after the courts in Warren county, the courts in each county to continue one week if necessary. SAM'L. ANDERSON, THO'S. RINGLAND, Speaker of the Senate. sand eight hundred and thirty-three. APPROVED-The eighth day of April, A. D. one thou GEO. WOLF. No. 143. AN ACT Relating to the descent and distribution of the estates of intestates. SECT. 1. It is enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General As Disposal of sembly met, That the real and personal estate of a decedent, the interest of whether male or female, remaining after payment of all just debts and legal charges, which shall not have been sold or disposed of by will, or otherwise limited by marriage settlement, shall be divided and enjoined as follows, viz: a widow or husband. Article 1. Where such intestate shall leave a widow and Widow and issue, the widow shall be entitled to one third part of the real estate for the term of her life, and to one third part of the personal estate absolutely. Widow and collateral heirs. heirs. Article 2. Where such intestate shall leave a widow and collateral heirs, or other kindred, but no issue, the widow shall be entitled to one half part of the real estate, including the mansion house and buildings appurtenant thereto, for the term of her life, and to one half part of the personal estate absolutely. Article 3. Where such intestate shall leave a husband, he Husband and shall take the whole personal estate, and the real estate shall descend and pass as is hereinbefore provided, saving to the husband his right as tenant, by the courtesy which shall take place, although there be no issue of the marriage in all cases where the issue, if any, would have inherited. Interest of lineal descendante. Children only. Grand chil dren only. Other lineal descendants SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That subject to the estates and interests herein before given to the widow or surviving husband, if any, the real estate of such intestate shall descend to, and the personál estate not otherwise herein before disposed of, shall be distributed among his issue, according to the following rules and order of succession, viz: Article 1. If such intestate shall leave children, but no other descendant being the issue of a deceased child, the estate shall descend to and be distributed among such chil dren. Article 2 If such intestate shall leave grand children, but no child or other descendant being the issue of a deceased grand child, the estate shall descend to and be distributed among such grand children. Article 3. If such intestate shall leave descendants in any other degree of consanguinity, however remote from him, in same de- and all in the same degree of consanguinity to him, the estate shall descend to and be distributed among such descendants. gree. Brticle 4 If such intestate shall leave descendants in different degrees of consanguinity to him, the more remote of Descendants them being the issue of a deceased child, grand child, or other descendant, the estate shall descend to and be distri buted among them as follows, viz: in different degrees. A. Each of the children of such intestate shall receive Children and such share as such child would have received, if all the grand chil. children of the intestate who shall then be dead, leaving insue, had been living at the death of the intestate.. dren. |