man Catholic so boundaries. No. 170. AN ACT To facilitate the settlement of a certain boundary. 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 Trustees of Ro- the trustees or persons in whom, under the will of the Reverend Francis Ignatius Neale, deceased, the legal title and estate of, and in the old cieties in Phila- Roman Catholic chapel lot in the city of Philadelphia, is or may be delphia to adjust vested, shall have power and authority to fix, settle, adjust, and determine with the trustees of the Roman Catholic society worshipping at the church of St. Mary's in the city of Philadelphia, the dimensions and boundaries of a messuage and lot of ground of the said corporation of St. Mary's church, situate on the south side of Walnut street, between Third and Fourth streets, from Delaware, in the said city; and to release and convey to the said corporation, their successors and assigns, all or any adjacent or conterminous real estate, fronting on Walnut street, and extending in depth one hundred feet southwardly therefrom, with the use of the alley or alleys leading into Walnut street, and other the appurtenances; and to receive any price or equivalent that may be the consideration for such conveyance or release, and subscribe and give final and effectual receipts and acquittances therefor. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. No. 171. A SUPPLEMENT To an. act, entitled "An Act authorizing the inhabitants of the township of Passyunk to elect directors for the Girard school, of Passyunk, to be erected and established, and for other purposes," passed the third day of May, A. D., eighteen hundred and thirty-two. WHEREAS, The act to which this is a supplement, passed the third day of May, A. D., eighteen hundred and thirty-two, provided for the Preamble. election annually, by the inhabitants of the township of Passyunk, in the county of Philadelphia, of thirteen directors of the school to be established agreeably to the will of Stephen Girard, deceased, and directed the manner, time and place of holding said elections, and the notice to be given thereof: And whereas, Owing to the neglect of directors heretofore to give notice of said election, and of the inhabitants of said township annually to elect said directors in the manner and form required by law, doubts have arisen as to the validity of the title of said directors to the real estate directed by the will of the said Stephen Girard to be carefully maintained by the directors, and their successors, for the purpose of a school for the poor white children of said township, and to the balance of the legacy, directed by said will to be securely invested as a permanent fund, the interest thereof to be applied towards the support of said school; 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 directors of the Girard school house of Passyunk township, elected Title vested in diby the inhabitants of said township on the first Thursday of May last rectors of Girard past, and their successors, shall have the same title and estate in and to school house of the lot or piece of ground in the said township, and the building thereon Passyunk townerected for a school house for the poor white children of said township, ship. in pursuance of the will of said Stephen Girard, deceased; and shall have the same right to demand, sue for, recover and receive, from any Rights, powers, person or persons whomsoever, in whose hand the same, or any part &c. may be, any balance of the unexpended legacy bequeathed by the will of said Stephen Girard, deceased, for the support of said school, and the same to invest agreeably to the said will; and shall be seized of, possess and have all the estate, property, interest, rights and credits, and discharge all the duties given to, or imposed on the directors by the said will and the act to which this is a supplement, as fully and as effectually, and to the same effect and purpose, as the directors first elected in pursuance of said act, and their successors, were seized of, possessed, or had, or were imposed on them by the said will of Stephen Girard, deceased, and the act to which this is a supplement. APPROVED-The twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 172. AN ACT To repeal so much of the act, entitled "An Act repealing the act allowing premium on foxes and wild cats, in the within named counties, and for other purposes," approved the twenty-fourth April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, as relates to Armstrong county, and for other purposes. 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 Armstrong coun- the act entitled "An Act repealing the act allowing a premium on foxes ty-Repeal and wild cats in the within named counties, and for other purposes, approved the twenty fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as relates to Armstrong county. Clearfield county. Pike county. Bounty. Lancaster co. Repeal. Monroe county. Venango and SECTION 2. That the act entitled "An Act relative to wolves and panthers in the counties of Centre and Clearfield," passed the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same relates to Clearfield county; and that the premium on wolves' and panthers' scalps, shall be and remain at the same rate that they were previous to the passage of the act of the fourth of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. SECTION 3. That so much of any law as authorizes the payment of any bounty on fox scalps, as relates to the county of Pike, be and the same is hereby repealed; and so much of the act of the twelfth March, one thousand eight hundred and forty, entitled "An Act to encourage the destruction of wolves and panthers, in the counties of Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wayne, and Pike, Jefferson, M'Kean, Tioga, Potter, Bradford and Monroe, and for other purposes," as relates to the county of Pike, be and the same is hereby repealed; and hereafter, the bounty on wolves and panthers in the county of Pike, shall be paid and regulated by the act of sixteenth March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled "An Act to encourage more effectually the destruction of wolves and panthers." SECTION 4. That so much of the act, entitled "An Act concerning wolves and foxes," passed March twentieth, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-four, as relates to the county of Lancaster, be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 5. That hereafter in the county of Monroe, the bounty on full grown wolf scalps, killed in said county, shall be twelve dollars; on wolf puppies, two dollars and fifty cents; on wild cats, thirty-seven and a half cents; on fox scalps, seventy-five cents; and on the scalps of panthers, twelve dollars. SECTION 6. That hereafter the bounty on red fox scalps, in the counClarion counties. ty of Venango, shall be seventy-five cents; and in the county of Clarion, fifty cents; and all former laws relating to bounties on red fox scalps in the counties of Venango and Clarion, are hereby repealed. Repeal. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. FRS. R. SHUNK. APPROVED-The twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. No. 173. AN ACT Authorizing John Rider to collect certain outstanding taxes in the township of SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That John Rider, late collector of taxes for the township of Fallowfield, in the county of Washington, for the years one thousand eight hundred and forty, and one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, be and he is hereby authorized to exercise for the space of two years from the passage of this act, all the powers and authorities conferred on him by any legal warrant which he heretofore held as collector of taxes in said township, for the years aforesaid, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 174. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To the charter of the borough of York. WHEREAS, The burgesses and assistant burgesses, of the borough of York, have laid out a street called by them Hartley street, in the said borough, at the distance, on its west side, at its intersection with the Preamble. north side of High street, of seven feet and eight inches east of a certain two story brick dwelling house, erected and owned by Adam Ebert, and also at the distance of three hundred and twenty-three feet east of the point at which the north side of High street intersects the boundary line of said borough on the west : And whereas, On the original plan of said borough, a space was laid down and marked to be occupied as a street, commencing at the western boundary, as above described, of said Hartley street, and extending eastwardly sixty feet in width; but in the course of enclosing and building in said borough, the lots on the north side of High street Hartley street. Mode of signify ing wish for paving, &c. Expense. have been shifted to the west of their position as laid down and marked on the general plan of said borough; and the ground is now held by the owners and occupiers thereof, under a chain of title papers, in such manner as to leave a space of only thirty-eight feet in width unclaimed or occupied by private persons, as aforesaid, on the site of said Hartley street: And whereas, The burgesses and assistant burgesses have now laid out said Hartley street thirty-eight feet in width, and running northwardly at right angles with High street until it intersects Philadelphia street, in said borough; 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 proceedings of the burgesses and assistant burgesses of said borough, in laying out said Hartley strect with the width of thirty-eight feet aforesaid, be and the same are hereby approved and confirmed, and said Hartley street is hereby declared to be a public highway, and to be subject to the same regulations and jurisdictions as the other streets of said borough are now or hereafter may be subject to. SECTION 2. That whenever two-thirds in number of the owners of property on the sides fronting on any of the streets, lanes or alleys, of the borough of York, of any two opposite squares in said borough, shall have signified their wish, by petition in writing to the burgesses and assistant burgesses of said borough, to have so much of any such street, lane or alley, as lies between or in front of said sides of squares, paved, turnpiked or M'Adamized, it shall be the duty of said burgesses and assistant burgesses to have the said paving, turnpiking or M'Adamizing done; and the said burgesses and assistant burgesses shall assess and apportion two-thirds of the expense thereof on and among all the owners of property on said sides of squares, in the same relative proportion as said property shall be charged in the assessment of borough taxes; and the amount so assessed and apportioned shall be collected and be in the same manner as borough taxes are now collected, and be a lien on said properties respectively, in the same manner as other taxes, rates and levies, for the use of said borough, are made a lien on real estate therein, by the ninth section of the act of the fifteenth of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, entitled "A further supplement to the charter of the borough of York;" and the remaining one-third of the expense of such paving, turnpiking or M'Adamizing, shall be paid by the corporation of said borough. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. |