forty, be and the same are hereby extended to the aforesaid townships: FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 141. AN ACT To amend the charter of the trustees of the Fire association of Philadelphia. 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 trustees of the Fire association of Philadelphia, shall deduct from Dividends. the first, and all subsequent dividends to be made by said association, for the benefit of the several companies composing the same, a sum not greater than ten per cent. on all such dividends; which said sum so deducted, shall form and constitute a contingent fund, for the purpose of insuring to said companies a regular annual dividend: Provided always, That the said contingent fund, formed as aforesaid, shall at no time exceed ten thousand dollars. SECTION 2. That all and every provision in the said charter, incon- Repeal. sistent with the above section, be and the same is hereby repealed. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 142. A SUPPLEMENT To the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Allen and East Pennsborough 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 Allen and East Pennsborough mutual fire insurance company, of Cumberland county, be and it is hereby permitted to extend its operations to the county of Dauphin, in addition to those of Cumberland and York. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. Preamble. No. 143. AN ACT Authorizing the school directors of Tell township school district, in the county of Huntingdon, to draw on the treasurer of said district for a certain amount of money, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, The board of school directors of the Tell township school district, in the county of Huntingdon, were under the necessity of employing counsel to prosecute a criminal cause at the April term of one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, in the court of quarter sessions of said county of Huntingdon, against certain individuals for the burning of two school houses in said school district, which individuals were by the aid and assistance of said counsel prosecuted to conviction: AND WHEREAS, Said school directors did, in their own individual capacity, give their note to said counsel for the sum of sixty dollars, bearing interest; therefore, 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 said school directors of said school district, are hereby authorized to draw their order on the treasurer of said district, in favor of said counsel, for the amount of their said fees in said prosecution, together with the interest that may be due on their note to said counsel. SECTION 2. That an act entitled "A Supplement to an act, entitled Chester county An Act relating to common schools in West Chester and Schuylkill schools. townships, Chester county,' and for other purposes," approved the seventeenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, shall not be so construed as to extend the provisions of the fifth and seventh sections of said supplement, to the township of Pennsbury, in the coun- Pennsbury townty of Chester. APPROVED The twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight ship. hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 144. AN ACT Relative to the estate of Ann Hood, deceased. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representalives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That James Carstair and Jacob B. Clement, trustees under the will of Ann Trustees to sell Hood, late of the city of Philadelphia, deceased, be and they are hereby real estate. authorized to dispose of, at public or private sale, as they may deem best, all the real estate conveyed to them in trust, by two several deeds, dated the sixth day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, one recorded at Philadelphia, in deed book G. S., number thirty-three, page seven hundred and nineteen, and the other in Schuylkill county, in deed book number twenty, page one hundred and sixty-six, &c., and make full, complete and valid titles thereto, to the purchaser thereof, free, and discharged from all accountability, as to the appropriation of the purchase money: Provided nevertheless, That Proviso. the proceeds of such sales shall be held by the said trustees, and invested by them in the mode directed by the will of the said Ann Hood, deceased, and subject to the limitations and trusts therein made and appointed. SECTION 2. The said trustees are required, before executing the Bond. authority given by this act, to execute a bond to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the use of all persons interested in such sum, and with such security as shall be approved by the orphans' court of Phila delphia county, with condition for the faithful discharge of all the duties imposed by the provisions of the foregoing section. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. Preamble. Duty of trea surer. No. 145. AN ACT Providing for the sale of unseated lands in the county of Northumberland. WHEREAS, The sale of unseated lands for taxes in the county of Northumberland, by the treasurer thereof, on the second Monday of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, was postponed on account of a defect in the notice of the sale, and no sale of said lands has been held for upwards of four years; therefore, 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 treasurer of the county of Northumberland is hereby authorized and directed to commence, on the second Monday of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and adjourn from day to day, if necessary, and make sale of the whole or any part of such tracts of unseated lands, situate in the said county, as will pay the arrearages of the taxes due and unpaid thereon on the second Monday of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty four, agreeably to the provisions of existing laws upon the subject. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 146. AN ACT Extending the time of holding the courts of common pleas in Erie and Crawford 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 there shall be holden in the county of Erie, courts of common pleas, Erie county commencing on the last Mondays of January, April and October, in courts. each year, each of which shall continue one week if the business there. in shall require it, which shall be in addition to the several courts or terms required to be holden in said county, by laws heretofore enacted and now existing, and the several return days of said court shall remain as heretofore; and the first of said additional courts, shall be holden on the last Monday of October next; and the said court may direct the number of jurors, not less than twenty-eight nor more than forty-eight, which shall be summoned to attend at any court of said county. SECTION 2. The court of common pleas of Crawford county, for the Crawford county February, April, and November terms of each year, shall continue two courts. weeks, if the business therein shall require it; and the court of quarter sessions shall be holden on the first week of each term; and the April term of said court shall commence the first Monday of April; and the term of April, for the county of Venango, shall commence on the third Monday of April, of each year; and adjourned courts shall be holden in said counties, whenever the same shall be necessary for the despatch of business; and the aforesaid courts shall be subject to the provisions of the act relative to the organization of courts of justice, passed the fourteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, excepting so far as the same is hereby altered: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not take effect until after the first Monday of May, eighteen hundred and fortyfive. SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the prothonotaries of the counties Prothonotaries of of Erie and Crawford, respectively, to have every list of causes for trial Erie and Crawat any court of the respective county, published in two or more news- ford counties. papers printed in such county, at least four weeks before the commencement of the court at which such cause shall be for trial, which publications shall be continued three consecutive weeks; and for defraying reasonable charges of such publications, it shall be lawful for the prothonotary to apportion the same equally among the several causes so published, and tax in each case the amount of its apportionment, which shall be recovered as other costs of the case, and applied by the prothonotary in payment of such publication: Provided, That the amount taxed for one such publication in any case, shall not exceed twenty cents: And provided, That the proper court shall have power to dis 14 |