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be lessened.

SECTION 18. That the legislature shall have power to alter the rate Rates of toll may of tolls fixed by this act, and the managers of said company may lessen the same whenever they shall believe it necessary, for the well being of the company, or the community at large.

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APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-five.

FRS. R. SHUNK.

No. 245.

AN ACT

To prevent the hunting of deer with dogs, in the county of Warren.

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, if any person or persons, in the county of Warren, shall hunt, chase or follow, with any dog or dogs, with the design to kill or destroy any unwounded buck, doe or fawn, within said county, at any season of the year, or shall entice any dog or dogs to chase as aforesaid, with the like design, he or they, on being convicted thereof, shall forfeit and pay, for every such offence, the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be sued for and recoverable with costs of suit, before any justice of the peace, in the name of the commonwealth, at the instance of any person who will sue therefor, as debts of like amount are now recoverable by law; one-half of said fine or penalty shall be paid to the person or persons suing for the same, and the other half to the treasurer of said county, for the use of the county.

FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WILLIAM P. WILCOX,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-five.

FRS. R. SHUNK.

No. 246.

AN ACT

Relating to certain turnpike road companies.

and the Centre and Kishacoquillas turnpike road

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 Bellefonte and the stockholders in the Bellefonte and Philipsburg turnpike road com- Philipsburgpany, and the Philipsburg and Susquehanna turnpike road company, Philipsburg and and the Centre and Kishacoquillas turnpike road company shall each, Susquehanna, on the first Monday in March, elect by ballot five managers, (one of whom shall be chosen president,) and such other officers as they shall think proper to manage the concerns of the said company for the ensuing companies. year, and until others shall be duly chosen in their respective places. SECTION 2. That should any of the stockholders be in arrears in any Forfeiture of stock subscribed to either of the said companies, it shall and may be stock. lawful for either of the said companies, to give three months notice thereof to the said subscriber, their executors or administrators, of the amount due, with lawful interest thereon, from the time the same was due and unpaid; and after such notice aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the said companies, within ten days thereafter, to proceed to forfeit the whole so due and unpaid, for the benefit of the said company or companies.

SECTION 3. That so much of any act or acts of assembly, as is Repeal. hereby altered and supplied, be and the same is hereby repealed.

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APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-five.

FRS. R. SHUNK.

No. 247.

AN ACT

To annul the marriage contract of Reynolds M'Pherson and Elizabeth, his wife.

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 marriage contract heretofore entered into between Reynolds M'Pherson and Elizabeth M'Pherson, his wife, be and the same is hereby annulled and declared void, and the parties released and discharged from the said contract, and from all legal duties and obligations arising therefrom, as fully and effectually, as if they never had been joined in marriage.

FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.

FRS. R. SHUNK.

Boundaries.

No. 248.

AN ACT

To incorporate the village of Troy, in Bradford county, into a borough.

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 village of Troy, in the county of Bradford, and territory included within the following boundaries, to wit:-Beginning at a stake in the Elmira road, near the north-east corner of the bridge across Sugar creek, near D. Dobbins' house; thence west one hundred and thirty-eight rods, (or thereabouts) to an elm tree, on O. P. Ballard's east line; thence south forty-six degrees, west ninety-one perches, to a stake on the north side of the road leading to Wellsborough; thence south twelve and a-half degrees, west one hundred rods, to a stake on Jerry Adams land; thence south eighty-two degrees, east one hundred and five and a-half perches to a dry maple tree, on lands of Seely Mann; thence north fifty degrees, east one hundred and forty-one and five-tenth perches to a stake, on land of S. W. Paine, on south side of the road leading to Burlington; thence north seven and a-half degrees, east eighty-five rods,

to the place of beginning; is hereby erected into a borough, to be called

and styed the borough of Troy.

SECTION 2. That all the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act to Powers, priviincorporate the town of Hookstown, in the county of Beaver, into a leges, duties, &c. borough," passed the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, from the second section inclusive, be extended to

the borough of Troy: Provided, That the constable of Troy township Proviso. shall notify, for the first election for borough officers, the same as he is Notice of elecrequired to do for township elections; and the said election shall be held tion. and conducted by the inspectors and judge of the township of Troy, for the time being, in manner and form under existing laws, for holding township elections: And provided further, That nothing herein contained, shall be construed to exonerate the citizens of the borough of Troy, from the payment of their share of the present debts and liabilities of the township of Troy, the same as though this act had not been passed.

FINDLEY PATTERSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WILLIAM P. WILCOX,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.

FRS. R. SHUNK.

No. 249.

A SUPPLEMENT.

To an act, entitled "An Act concerning the trust estate of Hugh Roberts, deceased, and for other purposes," passed July sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.

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 trustee and trustees, for the time being, of the residuary estate of Hugh Roberts, late of the township of the Northern Liberties, deceased, shall have power, in his, or their discretion, the consent of the devisee for life, and of a majority of the cestui que trusts interested in the same being first had and obtained, to apply out of the principal moneys of the said trust estate a further sum of six thousand five hundred dollars, in addition to the sum already expressed in the third section of the act, to which this is a supplement, to the further improvement of the church alley estate there in described, with the same and like powers, limitations and conditions in all respects in relation thereto as are in the said third section of the act, to which this is a supplement, already given and set forth concerning the same, and the said trustee and trustees shall be entitled, in like manner, to credit in his and their accounts, for the money so as aforesaid expended: Provided, That the court of common

Bond.

pleas of Philadelphia county, shall first approve of the application of the trust fund as directed in this act; and the said trustee or trustees shall give a bond to the commonwealth, with sufficient security, for the use of the parties interested, in such amount as the court may direct and approve, conditioned for the faithful application of the moneys of the trust estate, according to the directions of this act, and to account fully for the same to those interested.

FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-five.

FRS. R. SHUNK.

Governor to appoint and commission.

Bond.

Oath.

Judges to furnish opinion.

Proviso.

No. 250.

AN ACT

To provide for the appointment of a reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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 governor shall appoint, and on having taken the security hereinafter required, shall commission, before the first day of July next, for the period of five years, and on the expiration of every five years thereafter, a person of known integrity, experience and learning in the law, to be the reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of this state, who shall give bond to the commonwealth, with at least two sufficient sureties, to be approved by the governor, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, upon condition for the correct and faithful performance of his official duties; and shall further take and subscribe before some judge, an oath or affirmation, to be filed in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth, that he will perform said duties of his office with correctness, impartiality and fidelity.

SECTION 2. That the judges of the supreme court shall reduce their opinion in every case to writing, at the time such case may be decided, endorsing thereon also whether said court deem the opinion of sufficient importance for publication, and shall immediately file the same, together with one of the paper books, amongst the records of said court, where said reporter shall be authorized to receive and retain the same for such reasonable time as he may require to make a copy thereof, when the said opinion shall be returned, and remain a part of said records: Provided, That no minority opinions of the said court shall be published by said reporter.

SECTION 3. That said reporter shall correctly arrange, with suitable indices and captions, all the opinions of said court, with a statement of

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