Proviso. Regulation of supply. Of loans. Proviso. By-laws, &c. Seal. Restrictions. Revocation. act: Provided, If the company neglect, on the day of holding their annual election, to hold their election as is herein directed, the said corporation shall not be dissolved, but may appoint any subsequent time to hold the same, subject to notice as is hereinbefore provided. SECTION 6. The water of said leading spring or springs shall continue to discharge at the points of the present fountains, in manner following, that is: At the lower fountain shall discharge one-third of the whole water, and the upper fountain shall discharge two-thirds of the whole water, the vents or spouts of the fountains shall at no time be stopped; the fountain overseers shall have power to regulate the water of said fountains as is herein directed. SECTION 7. The president, secretary, and fountain overseers of this corporation, shall have power to contract debts or loans of money, not exceeding five hundred dollars, for the purpose of repairing or improving the fountains, leading spring or springs, or any other property belonging to the corporation, and to levy a water tax not exceeding one hundred dollars a year upon the members of the company, according to the quantity of water used by said members, and to collect such water tax as may be levied: Provided, The majority of the members of the corporation shall direct them so; the aforesaid officers shall be under oath or affirmation, when engaged as is herein directed. SECTION 8. The said corporation, and its successors, shall have power at all times to make by-laws, and such rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary for the well being of the corporation, and to alter, revoke and amend the same, from time to time, as shall be sanctioned by two-thirds of the members thereof, to be decided by ballot, by notice given as provided for in the second section of this act; and the corporation shall also have power to make, use, and have a common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure; but such by-laws and ordinances shall not in any manner interfere with, alter, or affect the rights of any one qualified to vote by the third section of this act, nor contain any thing repugnant to the provisions of this charter, the constitution and laws of the United States, or of this commonwealth. SECTION 9. The charter of this corporation may at any time be altered and amended by the legislature, if desired by two thirds of the members thereof: Provided however, That nothing in this charter shall be so construed as giving said company any banking privileges. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. B. STERIGERE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 346. 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 Counties of— the qualified voters of the township of Herrick, in the county of Brad- Bradford. ford, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the Herrick school house, near William Durand's, in said township. SECTION 2. That the borough and township of Elizabeth, in the Allegheny. county of Allegheny, shall hereafter constitute two separate election and school districts, and the elections for said districts shall be held at the house of John Walker, in the borough of Elizabeth. SECTION 3. That the qualified voters of the township of Chillisqua- Northumberland. que, in the county of Northumberland, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the house of William Shannon, in said township. SECTION 4. That the township of Nether Providence, in the county Delaware. of Delaware. shall hereafter constitute an election district, and the qualified voters thereof shall vote at the Union school house, near the centre of said township. SECTION 5. That the qualified voters of the township of Wysox, in Bradford. the county of Bradford, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the Wysox academy, in said township. SECTION 6. That the qualified voters of the township of Rush, in the Susquehanna. county of Susquehanna, shall hereafter hold their general elections at the dwelling house now occupied by Nathan J. Sherwood, in said township. SECTION 7. That the qualified voters of the township of Shade, in Somerset. the county of Somerset, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the house of Henry Fry, in said township. SECTION 8. That the qualified voters of the township of Hebron, Potter. in the county of Potter, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the school house, number three, in said township. SECTION 9. That the qualified voters of the borough of Milton, in Northumberland. the county of Northumberland, shall hereafter hold their general and borough elections at the house of Frederick Sticker, innkeeper, in said borough. SECTION 10. That the qualified electors of the township of South- Somerset. ampton, in the county of Somerset, are hereby authorized to vote, and the inspectors are required to receive, at the general election to be held on the second Tuesday of October next, on which shall be printed or written the names of the places at which they desire that the general and township elections shall be held thereafter, stating distinctly and separately on said ticket the place designed for each of said elections; the general and township elections shall be held at such places as the majority shall have selected, and the returns of said elections shall be Mercer. School district, Proviso. Mifflin. delivered and filed in the office of the prothonotary of said county; and the high sheriff of Somerset county is hereby required to embody this section in his next annual proclamation for holding the general election in said county. SECTION 11. That all that part of Mahoning township, in the county of Mercer, situate and lying north of a line to be run, beginning on the Ohio state line, from three and one-half to four miles south of the northwest corner of Mahoning township, and running east to the Shenango creek, thence down said creek to the line dividing Mahoning and Neshanock townships, is hereby erected into a new township, to be called Pulaski, with the power to elect the usual township officers, levy and collect taxes, and such other matters and things as are lawful and proper for townships to do; and the electors thereof shall hold thei general and township elections at the school house, in the village of Pulaski, in said township; and all that part situated and lying south of said division line shall form the township of Mahoning, and the electors thereof shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the school house, in the village of Edenburg, in said township, and it shall be the duty of the acting constables of Mahoning township, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-five, to give notice of the election to be held on the third Friday of March, one thousand eight hundred and fortysix, in each of said townships respectively, and the qualified electors of said township, between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock, A. M., of said day, in each of said townships respectively, when assembled at the place of holding said township elections, in case no officers shall have been elected, or shall attend for the purpose of holding said election, shall have power to choose such officers by election, in the manner in which they shall then and there determine; and the commissioners of the county of Mercer, are hereby authorized and required to have run and marked, by a competent surveyor, the said division line between said townships of Mahoning and Pulaski, so that as few tracts of land and sub-school districts shall be divided as the nature of the case may permit, and the expenses thereof to be paid out of the treasury of the county of Mercer. SECTION 12. That the townships of Mahoning and Pulaski aforesaid, be and the same are hereby erected into separate school districts, and as such shall have power to elect all school officers that other districts are by law authorized to elect. SECTION 13. The said townships of Mahoning and Pulaski are hereby declared to be separate districts, in the assessment of taxes and collection of county rates and levies, as well as any other assessments that have heretofore been jointly made, and for all common school purposes, either in regard to the election of directors or levying taxes, or any other provisions contained in the school laws of this commonwealth in that behalf: Provided, That this and the two preceding sections, except so far as relates to the running and marking the division line between said townships of Mahoning and Pulaski, and the general election which shall be held in October next, as herein directed, shall not take effect until the first day of February next; and all taxes assessed before that time, shall be collected and applied in all respects according to the laws heretofore in force. SECTION 14. That the school directors of the borough of Lewistown, in the county of Mifflin, be required to permit Henry Eisenbise, of Derry township, in said county, to send his children to the public school in said borough. SECTION 15. That the commissioners of the county of Cumberland Cumberland. be, and are hereby authorized to select and fix upon a place or places, in the borough of Carlisle, for holding all elections which were held at the court house in the said borough, until the erection and completion of a court house, where the elections thereafter shall be held. SECTION 16. That the qualified electors of the township of Lebanon, Wayne. in the county of Wayne, be and they are hereby authorized to hold their general and special elections at the house of John Lincoln, in said township. SECTION 17. That the qualified voters of the new township of North Berks. Heidelberg, in the county of Berks, shall hold their township and general elections at the public house owned by John Kalbach, in said township, and that Adam Kalbach shall be the judge, and John Gerhard and Jonathan L. Reber shall be the inspectors of the elections, until others are duly elected; and it shall be the duty of the commissioners of said county to appoint assessors of the township aforesaid, until others are duly elected. SECTION 18. That the qualified electors residing within the borough Philadelphia. of Manayunk, in the county of Philadelphia, shall annually, at the time and place that they meet to elect borough officers, and judge and inspectors of elections, which shall hereafter be held on the third Friday instead of the first Monday of March, and conducted by the same officers, vote for school directors, assessors, and when necessary assistant assessors, and all other township officers, (except justices of the peace for Roxborough township ;) and the judge and inspectors of said election shall meet the judge and inspectors of the town election for Roxborough township, on the first Monday succeeding such election, at the Leverington hotel, on the Ridge road, now in the occupancy of C. Hallowell, at ten o'clock, A. M., and the said judges and inspectors shall then and there add together the number of votes given at each of the above named polls for school directors, assessors, and the several township officers voted for, (except justices of the peace for Roxborough township,) and the persons having the highest number of votes shall be returned by said judges accordingly; and the said judges and inspectors shall make out and sign a certificate to each person elected a township officer, to be delivered by one of the constables of said township of Roxborough, according to existing laws: Provided, That one school director, one director of the poor, one supervisor of the highways, and one constable, voted for at each of the above named polls, shall reside within the limits of the said borough of Manayunk, and one of each of the last named officers voted for at each of the above named polls, shall reside without the limits of said borough. SECTION 19. That the borough officers, now in office in the borough Borough of of Manayunk, shall be continued in office until their successors are Manayunk. elected. SECTION 20. That the township election for township officers for Roxborough tp. Roxborough township, shall hereafter be closed at nine o'clock in the evening. SECTION 21. That the qualified voters of the township of Allen, in Northampton. the county of Northampton, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the public house now occupied by George Audenreid, in said township. SECTION 22. That the qualified voters of the township of South- Franklin. ampton, in the county of Franklin, shall hereafter hold their township Clearfield. Berks. Schuylkill. Monroe. Franklin. Westmoreland. Greene. Tioga. Potter. Adams. Cambria. Perry. Indiana. and general elections at the public house on the turnpike near the residence of John Kressler, in said township. SECTION 23. That the qualified voters of the township of Burnside. in the county of Clearfield, shall hereafter hold their township and general elections at the house of John Young, in said township. SECTION 24. That the qualified voters of the township of Carnarvon, in the county of Berks, shall hereafter hold their township and general elections at the Morgantown school house, in Morgantown, in said township. SECTION 25. That the qualified voters of the township of West Penn, in Schuylkill county, lying north of the Sharp mountain, shall hereafter vote with the qualified voters of the borough of Tamaqua, at the general elections. SECTION 26. That the qualified voters of the township of Price, in the county of Monroe, shall hereafter hold their general elections at the house of Eliza Price, at Price's mills, in said township. SECTION 27. That the qualified voters of the township of Greene, in the county of Franklin, shall hereafter hold general elections at the house now occupied by Charles M'Glaughlin, in Green Village; and the qualified voters of the township of Fayette, in the county of Franklin, shall hereafter hold their township and general elections at the house that the general elections have heretofore been held for the election district voting at Fayetteville, in said county; and the elections held in said townships for justices of the peace and township officers, on the twenty-first March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, are hereby legalized. SECTION 28. That the qualified voters of the township of Mount Pleasant, in the county of Westmoreland, shall hereafter hold their township elections at the house of Peter Blystone, in said township. SECTION 29. That the qualified voters of the township of Jackson, in the county of Greene, shall hereafter hold their township and general elections at the house of Gilbert Thomas, in said township. SECTION 30. That the qualified voters of the township of Westfield, in the county of Tioga, shall hereafter hold their township and general elections at the house of David Close, in said township. SECTION 31. That the qualified voters of the township of West Branch, in the county of Potter, shall hold their general elections at the house of Lemuel Hammond, in said township. SECTION 32. That the qualified voters of the township of Conewago, in the county of Adams, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the house of John Busby, innkeeper, in said township. SECTION 33. That the qualified voters of the township of Conemaugh, in the county of Cambria, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the school house number thirteen, in said township. SECTION 34. That the qualified voters of the township of Juniata, in the county of Perry, shall hereafter hold their township and general elections at the house of Jeremiah Raffensperger, in said township. SECTION 35. It is hereby made the duty of the commissioners of the county of Indiana, as soon as convenient may be after the passage of this act, to have run and marked, by a competent surveyor, a line, commencing at the line between the counties of Armstrong and Indiana, at the junction of the line dividing school district number two and three, |