Accounts. Increase shares. Dividend. Report to legisla ture. Commencement imited. plead the general issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence, and that the same was done in the pursuance and by the authority of this act. SECTION 21. The president and managers of the said company shall keep fair and just accounts of all moneys which may be received or paid by them, or expended in the prosecution of their said work, and shall, at least once in every year, submit such accounts to a general meeting of the stockholders; and whenever it shall be found that the said capital stock will be insufficient to complete the said road according to the true intent and meaning of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the said president, managers, and company, at a stated or special meeting, to be convened according to the provisions of this act or their own by-laws, to increase the number of shares to such extent as shall be deemed sufficient to accomplish the work, and to demand and receive the moneys subscribed for such shares, in like manner and under the like penalties as are hereinbefore provided for the original subscription. SECTION 22. As soon as the annual profits of the said work shall enable them to make such dividend, the president and managers shall, on the first Monday in February in every year, declare a dividend of the clear profits among the stockholders, and give notice of the time and place, when and where, the same will be paid. SECTION 23. The said president and managers shall, at the end of five years from the date of the incorporation of the said company, lay before the general assembly of this commonwealth, an abstract of their accounts, showing the amount of their capital expended in prosecution of the said work, and of the income and profits arising from the said toll, for and during the said period; and at the end of three years after the said road shall be completed, and at the end of every period of three years thereafter, the said president and managers shall render to the general assembly, a like abstract of their accounts for the three preceding years. SECTION 24. If the company shall not commence the said work nd completion within five years after the passing of this act, or shall not, within ten years thereafter, complete the same according to the true intent and meaning of this act, in either of these cases it shall and may be lawful for the legislature to resume all and singular the rights, liberties, privileges and franchises, hereby granted to the said company. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 32. AN ACT To repeal so much of the first section of an act, entitled "An Act to authorize the president, managers, and company, of the Susquehanna and Lehigh turnpike road to extend the same, and to construct a branch therefrom," approved the seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, as authorizes the said company to extend their main road from its present termination near the mouth of Nesquehoning, through the Narrows to the Lehigh, at or near Weiss's ferry, in Northampton 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 the first section of an act, entitled "An Act to authorize the president, managers, and company, of the Susquehanna and Lehigh turnpike road to extend the same, and also to construct a branch therefrom," approved the seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, as authorizes the said company 'to extend their main road from its present termination near the mouth of Nesquehoning, through the Narrows to the Lehigh, at or near Weiss's ferry, in Northampton 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 seventeenth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 33. AN ACT Providing for ascertaining and marking the lines or boundaries between Northumberland and Columbia counties. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly et, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the everal courts of quarter sessions of Northumberland and Columbia ounties shall have authority within their respective counties, to cause he lines or boundaries to be ascertained and marked, for which purpose any of the said courts, upon application by petition, signed by the itizens of either county, shall appoint three disinterested and impartial men as commissioners; and it shall be the duty of the said commissioners, or any two of them, to view and examine the said lines or boundaries, and make, or cause to be made, a draft of the same, agreeably to the provisions of the act of assembly erecting the said line or lines, or boundaries, and to report their proceedings to the next term of the said court, which court shall take such order thereupon as shall seem to them just and proper; and the costs of said proceedings, including the pay of said commissioners, which shall be one dollar per day, shall be paid out of the county treasuries respectively. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The seventeenth day of February, Anno Domini on thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. District court in No. 34. AN ACT To repeal the act concerning executions, passed sixteenth July, one thousand eigh hundred and forty-two. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembl met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That th act concerning executions, passed sixteenth July, one thousand eigh hundred and forty-two, shall continue in force until the first day of Janu ary next, and no longer, except as to cases wherein bonds have bee given for the delivery of personal property which fails to bring two thirds of the appraised value, and cases wherein such bonds may b given prior to said first day of January next. SECTION 2. That so much of the fourth section of an act, approve the twenty-fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty four, as authorizes the continuance of the district court for the period o one year, from the date of said act, in the county of Mercer, is hereb repealed; and from and after the passage of this act, the first, second an third sections of said act, shall be in as full force and effect within th said county of Mercer, as if the fourth section of said act had not bee passed, and as if the time therein specified for the continuance of sai court had now fully expired. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The seventeenth day of February, one thousand eig hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 35. AN ACT To authorize the canal commissioners to purchase an additional number of trucks for the main line of the public improvements. 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 canal commissioners be and they are hereby authorized and required to procure, upon the most favorable terms practicable, for the commonwealth, an additional number of trucks for the main line of the public improvements: Provided, That the sum expended for the purchase of said trucks shall not exceed twenty thousand dollars, to be paid out of the motive power fund. FINDLEY PATTERSON, WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 36. AN ACT Authorizing the citizens of Tulpehocken, Upper Tulpehocken, and Marion townships, in Berks county, to vote at the next constables' election for or against a new township out of parts of said townships. 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 citizens of Tulpehocken, Upper Tulpehocken, and Marion townships, in the county of Berks, shall, at their next annual election for constables of said townships, also determine by ballot whether there shall be a new township erected out of parts of said townships. SECTION 2. Each person entitled to vote for constable in said townships may at the same time also vote for or against a new township, by putting in a ticket with the words written or printed, on the outside, Manner of voting. the words "new township," and in the inside "for a new township, in case he shall vote in favor of it, or against a new township," if opposed to it. 66 Return of election. Orders of court suspended. SECTION 3. The officers of the elections for constables in the said townships, shall make a return of the votes polled for and against a new township to the then next court of quarter sessions of the said county, and if a majority of the voters of the said townships shall be found to be against a new township, then there shall be no new township erected out of parts of said townships, but if a majority shall be found in favor of it, then such new township shall be established, agreeably to such order as the said court of quarter sessions shall make in the premises. SECTION 4. All orders and action of the said court, so far as regards such new township, and all proceedings by virtue thereof, are hereby suspended until after the holding of the election hereinbefore provided for. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 37. Manayunk. Manayunk. Inspectors and judges. Proviso. Manayunk and AN ACT Regulating election districts. 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 borough of Manayunk, in the county of Philadelphia, shall hereafter compose a separate election district, and the qualified voters residing within the said borough shall hold their general and special elections at the lock-up house in said borough. SECTION 2. That it shall be lawful for the qualified voters of said borough of Manayunk to elect, at their borough election, on the first Monday in March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and at each annual borough election thereafter, judges and inspectors of elections, who shall hold all general, special and borough elections of said borough, according to the provisions of the general election laws of this commonwealth: Provided, That in case the qualified voters of said borough should fail to elect judge and inspectors of elections on the first Monday of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, then it shall be lawful to hold their first election on the first Monday of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. SECTION 3. That all elections in the borough of Manayunk and in the township of Roxborough, except the township election for township officers, shall be closed at nine o'clock in the evening; that so much any former act as is hereby altered or supplied, is hereby repealed. of |