Tolls on cars. Proviso. warrant for bridge, so that cars can readily pass from one to the other, the expense of such connection to be defrayed out of any moneys that now are or hereafter may be appropriated to the line of the said works, the said company shall be empowered to demand and receive such tolls as may be agreed upon between the officers of said bridge company, and the board of canal commissioners, subject to the control of the Legisla ture: Provided, no part of the money hereafter appropriated be paid until such arrangement of tolls is agreed upon as aforesaid. And be it further resolved, That whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of the cana! commissioners, by them certiUpon comple- fied to the Governor, that double tracks of rails are laid over tion of tracks, and on said bridge, suitable for the passage of rail road cars, Gov. to draw he shall draw his warrant in favor of said company on the $4,012 52, to State Treasurer for the sum of four thousand and twelve dolbe paid to co. lars and fifty-two cents, to be paid out of the appropriation out of a for- made for the improvement of the navigation of the Susquemer appropri- hanna river from Columbia to tide, per act of the thirty-first provement of of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and ation to im river. it shall be the duty of the president and managers of the aforesaid bridge company to keep the said rails in good order and repair, and to allow at all times the passage of cars' along the same, subject to such regulations as may be adopted by said company on the payment of tolls, as aforesaid agreed upon. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ́ JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-sixth day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. Cases of M. No. 11. RESOLUTION Relative to the payment of the costs in certain cases of supposed Escheat. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That the Auditor General be and he is hereby authorized and directed to settle and adjust the costs which accrued in the case of the alledged escheat of the estates of Mark V. Kennell, late of Union (formerly Northumberland) county, and of Charles M'Cullum, John Walter and George Bender, all c. M'Callum, late of Lancaster county, and of Ann Roney of Washington J. Walter, G. county, and to draw his warrants on the State Treasurer for Bender and the amount which shall be found due in the aforesaid cases Ann Roney. respectively. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. WHEREAS, lotteries are an acknowledged evil of great, magnitude, vitally injurious to the morals and industry of any community: And whereas, the public and private injuries resulting from lotteries can only be remedied by their total abolition: And whereas, one state cannot effectually suppress the sale of lottery tickets, and the pursuit of this mode of gaming, without the co-operation of the other states of the Union: And whereas, the state of Pennsylvania has recently enacted that all lotteries shall be totally abolished in said state from and after the thirty first day of Decem ber next, and has prohibited the sale of any ticket or tickets within the same, after said period; Therefore, Preamble. and 2d sect's Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, Governor That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of the requested to first and second sections of the act of Assembly, passed transmit 1st March the first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, of act of 1st entitled "An act for the entire abolition of lotteries," to March, 1833, gether with a copy of these resolutions, to the Governor of to the Govereach State, with a request that he will, at the earliest period, nors of the lay the same before the Legislature of his State, and several states, their co-operation in the efforts of this Commonwealth to effect the entire abolition of lotteries. request And be it further resolved by the authority aforesaid, That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of the And to the said sections and of these resolutions to the President of President of the United States, with a request that he will, at the earliest the U. S. period, lay the same before Congress, and use such measures as may, in his opinion, be best calculated to effect the entire abolition of lotteries within the District of Columbia. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. $1000 No. 13. RESOLUTION Relative to the repairing of the Public Buildings. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as appropriated. may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of making any necessary repairs to the State Capitol and Public Offices of the State, and for doing any necessary painting to the same, to be laid out under the di rection of the clerk of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives, and to be drawn from the treasury by a warrant or warrants from the Governor in favor of the said clerks, and to be settled by the Auditor General in the usual way. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourth day of April, Anno Domini, eigh teen hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. No. 14. RESOLUTION Relative to the payment of lock-keepers and collectors. WHEREAS, doubts have heretofore existed in regard to the authority of the commissioners of the internal improvement Preamble. fund to pay collectors and lock-keepers out of the monies arising from tolls: Therefore to remove such doubts hereatter Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That the commissioners of the internal improvement fund are To be paid authorized to pay collectors and lock-keepers out of from proceeds nies heretofore or hereafter arising from tolls. of tolls. SAM'L. ANDERSON, any mo Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO'S. RINGLAND, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. No. 15. RESOLUTION For the relief of Isaac Griffith, late Marshal of the eastern district of Pennsylvania. WHEREAS by a resolution passed at the last session of this legislature and approved by the Governor of this Commonwealth, on the fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, Isaac Griffith, late deputy marshal of the Eastern district of Pennsylvania, was exonerated from the payment of a certain judgment obtained against him in the court of Common Pleas of Bucks county, at the suit of the Commonwealth, but not from the payment of costs of said suit: And whereas, The same principle on which the amount of the judgment was released should extend to the costs: Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That the Auditor General be and he is hereby authorized to Preamble, Certain au settle an account for said costs not exceeding one hundred thority to and thirty-nine dollars and fourteen cents and draw his warAud. General rant on the State Treasurer in the usual manner. 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 thou sand eight hundred and thirty three. GEO. WOLF. No. 16. RESOLUTION Relative to canal damages on Grant's Hill. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, Authority to That the canal commissioners be directed, as soon as praccanal com're. ticable, to make a thorough examination and survey of the damages sustained by the owners of private property by the and report to construction of the tunnel of the Pennsylvania canal through next Legisla Grant's Hill in the city of Pittsburg, and to apportion said ture. damages amongst said owners respectively, in the same manner as though no examination had ever been made; and for the purpose of correctly ascertaining the same, it shall be the duty of said commissioners to give notice to the parties in terested of the time of making such examination and survey, to receive the testimony of disinterested witnesses as to the value of property damaged, and also to estimate the expense of filling up the thorough cut through Grants Hill; and also to report whether, in their opinion, the city of Pittsburg or the State should pay said damages, and to make a detailed report of the same to the next Legislature. 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. |