and the officers so chosen shall have and possess the same power they would have had, if elected on the day prescribed by the said law; and the said company shall not forfeit or lose any of its rights, liberties or franchises, by having neglected to elect officers on the day prescribed by law: Pro- Proviso. vided further, That if it shall hereafter happen that the Similar neg. stockholders of said company should not elect officers for lect guarded said company on the day mentioned in the act incorporating against in said company, their charter shall not on that account be forfeited, but may hold the said election at any time thereafter by giving notice as prescribed in the said act. APPROVED-The sixth day of March, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. future. GEO. WOLF. No. 38. AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An act authorizing the Governor to incorpo rate a company to make an artificial road commencing where the Schuylkill canal road intersects the Ridge turnpike road, near Robinson's mill, thence along the bed of said road to the Flat Rock bridge." SEOT. 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 from and after the passage of this act, the number of managers be and it is hereby reduced to five, and No. of mana. that three members shall constitute a quorum of the presi gers reduced, dent and managers of the Manayunk and Flat Rock turnpike road, any thing in the act to which this is a supplement to the contrary notwithstanding. APPROVED-The eleventh day of March, A. D. one thou sand eight hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. &c. No. 39. AN ACT For removing strata of rock from the bed of the Wallenpaupack river, in the counties of Pike and Wayne, and for other purposes. SECT. 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 the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the sum of three $3,000 appro- thousand dollars, to be appropriated to the purpose of removing strata of rocks from the bed of the Wallenpaupack river, in the counties of Pike and Wayne, near Wilsonsville; and further, for the purpose of draining stagnant pools of water in the vicinity of Wilsonsville. priated. Commission SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Otto Kimble and Moses Killam, of Pike, and ers named to Enoch Woodward, of Wayne county, who are hereby apact under pay pointed commissioners to expend that sum for the purposes of counties of aforesaid, shall each of them receive the sum of one dollar Pike and Wayne. and fifty cents, to be paid by the counties of Pike and Wayne, for each day necessarily employed in the business aforesaid; and shall each, before entering on the duties aforesaid, give good and sufficient security for the faithful performance of the duties enjoined by this act, said bond and securities to be approved by the commissioners of the counties of Pike and Wayne. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of March, A. D. thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. No. 40. AN ACT For the relief of George Keller, a soldier, and Louisa Osteer and Catharine 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 the State Treasurer be, and he is hereby author- $40 grat. & ized and required to pay George Keller, of the city of Phiia ann. granted delphia, a soldier, and to Louisa Osteer, of the county of to G. Keller Lancaster, the widow of a soldier of the revolutionary war, and L. Osteer. or to their respective orders, forty dollars immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars to each, payable half yearly during life, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the State Treasurer be, and he is hereby au 40 grat. to thorized and required to pay Catharine Curry, of Allegheny C. Curry. county, or to her order, forty dollars, as a gratuity, in full, for her late husband's services in the revolutionary war. APPROVED-The eleventh day of March, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. No. 41. AN ACT For the relief of James Kirk, Benjamin Watson, James Curry, Thomas SECT. 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 the State Treasurer be and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to James Kirk, of Bucks $40 grat. & county; Benjamin Watson, of Montgomery county; James ann. granted Curry, of Delaware county; Thomas Henderson, of York to J. Kirk, B. county; and Thomas Clark, of Butler county, soldiers of the Watson, J. revolutionary war, or to their respective orders, the sum of Curry, T. Henderson, forty dollars to each immediately, and an annuity of forty and T. Clark. dollars to each during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the State Treasurer be and he is hereby author$40 grat: to ized and required to pay to Adam Lead, of Lancaster county, a revolutionary soldier, or to his order, forty dollars, as a gratuity for his revolutionary services. Adam Lead. $40 grat. & ann. to C. Rehr. SECT. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the State Treasurer be and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to Catharine Rehr, of Berks county, the widow of a revolutionary soldier, or to her order, forty dollars immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of March, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. Election of 3 road super visors in Windsor. No. 42. AN ACT Authorizing the inhabitants of Windsor township, York county, and Skippack and Perkiomen township, Montgomery county, to elect additional supervisors, and for other purposes. 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 from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the electors in Windsor township, York county, to elect annually, at their usual place of electing township offieers, three qualified citizens for supervisors OF THE SESSION OF 1832-33. of the roads, subject to the same rules, regulations, and pen- SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall-Of one for and may be lawful for the electors in Skippack and Perkio- west side of men township, Montgomery county, to elect annually, at Perkiomen. their usual place of electing township officers, one additional supervisor, who shall reside and superintend the roads on the west side of Perkiomen creek, in the aforesaid township, subjest to the same rules and regulations by which supervisors are by law regulated. Westmore land co. erect SECT. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this act, the town- Loyalhanna ship of Loyalhanna, in the county of Westmoreland, shall be township, in a separate election district, and the elections in said district shall be held at the house now occupied by Robert Nichol- ed into a seson, in said township; and that the elections for officers of parate electhe said township, shall be held by the citizens thereof at the tion district, same place, until otherwise ordered by the said citizens, in &c. the manner prescribed by law. 1831, relating SECT. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority afore. suid, That so much of the second section of the act of the Part of 2d General Assembly, passed on the fourth day of April, one sect. of act of thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, regulating the roads 4th April, and highways in the counties of Crawford, Venango, and to Crawford Warren, as authorizes the assessing of an additional road tax co. repealed. on the male inhabitants of the several townships in those counties, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as respects the said county of Crawford. ed to counties SEOT. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this act, the provi- Certain prosions of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth sec- visions of act tions of an act entitled "An act to alter the mode of electing 3d of May, supervisors of public highways, and township auditors, and 1832, extendfor the election of town clerks within the county of Bradford, of M'Kean and for other purposes," passed the third day of May, Anno and Potter. Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be, and the same is hereby extended to the counties of M'Kean and Potter: Provided, That the time of choosing such supervisors, town. Proviso. ship auditors, and town clerks shall remain as it now is, by the seventy-third section of "An act regulating elections," passed the third day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two." SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The eleventh day of March, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. |