Preamble. No. 14. AN ACT Authorizing the administrators of Daniel Fisher to make a deed for certain real estate. WHEREAS, Daniel Fisher, late of Oley township, Berks county, deceased, in his life time sold to Daniel A. Bertolet, of the same place, a small piece of land, situate in the township and county aforesaid, bounded by lands of Peter Nagle, Samuel D. Knabb, and other lands of Daniel Fisher, deceased, containing one hundred and six perches or thereabouts, and received the purchase money for the same, but never executed a deed to said Daniel A. Bertolet: And whereas, The said Daniel A. Bertolet also died, and his administrators, by virtue of a decree of the orphans' court of Berks county, sold his real estate for the payment of his, the said deceased, debts, among other real estate, sold the foregoing described piece of land to Samuel D. Knabb, and received the purchase money for the same: Therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senute 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 it shall and may be lawful for George Gernant and John Herbine, administrators of Daniel Fisher, deceased, or either of them, to execute, acknowledge and deliver to Samuel D. Knabb, a deed conveying a piece of land situate in Oley township, Berks county, bounded by lands of Peter Nagle, Samuel D. Knabb and Daniel Fisher, deceased, containing one hundred and six perches or thereabouts, with the appurtenances: Provided, That all costs and charges shall be paid by said Samuel D. Knabb. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 15. AN ACT To repeal so much of an act, entitled "An Act concerning road views and road damages in Berks, Lancaster and Bucks counties," as relates to Lancaster county. 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 so much of an act, entitled "An Act concerning road views and road damages in Berks, Lancaster and Bucks counties," passed thirteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, as relates to Lancaster county, be and the same is hereby repealed. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 16. AN ACT Authorizing the inhabitants of Big Beaver township, Beaver county, to elect four supervisors. 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 from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the electors of Big Beaver township, Beaver county, to elect annually at their usual place of electing township officers, four qualified citizens for supervisors of the roads subject to the same rules and regulations by which supervisors are now by law regulated. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, APPROVED-The eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. Commissioners of Commissioners of Bond. No. 17. AN ACT Authorizing the commissioners of Cumberland and Perry counties to pay a certain amount of money to the supervisors of Mifflin and Jackson townships, in said 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 the commissioners of Cumberland county be and they are hereby authorized and required to pay to the supervisors of the roads of Mifflin township, (who shall be elected at the next township election,) the sum of four hundred dollars out of the county funds, to be applied by said supervisors to the construction of a road lately laid out from M'Cormick's mill, in said township, to the Perry county line, on the top of the mountain. SECTION 2. That the commissioners of Perry county be and they are hereby required to pay to the supervisors of the roads of Jackson township, who shall be elected at the next township election, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars out of the county treasury, to be applied by said supervisors to the construction of a road lately laid out from M'Farland's tannery, in said township, to the Cumberland county line, on the top of the mountain. SECTION 3. The aforesaid supervisors shall give to the commonwealth a bond with one or more sufficient sureties, to be approved of by the judges of the court of quarter sessions of their respective counties, for the faithful application of the aforesaid sums of money as directed by this act. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of February, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 18. AN ACT Relative to roads in certain townships in the county of Delaware. 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 act, entitled "An Act granting certain powers to the authorities of the cities of Lancaster and Philadelphia, and for other purposes," approved the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and the supplement thereto, approved the eleventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, relative to roads in Delaware county, be and the same are hereby repealed so far as said acts relate to the townships of Ridley and Thornbury, in the county of Delaware. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 19. AN ACT Supplementary to "An Act to incorporate sundry Baptist churches in Chester, 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 so much of the second section of an act passed the twenty-third day of May, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, entitled "An Act to incorporate sundry Baptist churches in Chester, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties, called the Central Union association of Independent or Congregational Baptist churches," as relates to the time for the election of a board of trustees for the management of the affairs of Election of trussaid corporation, be and the same is hereby repealed, and said trustees tees. shall be elected in the manner provided in the said section on the Wednesday succeeding the last Tuesday in May of every year. Former election ter. SECTION 2. That the failure to elect trustees at the last annual meetnot to void char- ing of said association, shall not be construed so as to render said act of incorporation inoperative and void, but said corporation shall have power to elect trustees, under said act of incorporation, at the next annual meeting of the association, and so on from year to year, agreeably to the directions of the second section of this act; and in case of the failure to elect trustees on the day fixed by law, the corporation shall not, on that account, be dissolved, but the election shall be holden on some other day which a majority of the trustees may appoint. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 20. AN ACT To confer on Mary Ann Brubaker the rights and privileges of a child born in lawful wedlock. 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 Mary Ann Brubaker, of Manheim township, Lancaster county, shall have and enjoy all the rights and privileges of a child born in lawful wedlock, and shall be able and capable in law to inherit and transmit any estate whatsoever, as fully and completely, to all intents and purposes, as if she had been born in lawful wedlock. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The fourteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. |