No. 15. RESOLUTION Relative to the claims of Thomas Collins. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Comnonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the canal Canal commiscommissioners are hereby authorized and directed to examine the esti- sioners. nates of work done, and materials furnished by Thomas Collins on the Gettysburg extension of the Pennsylvania railway, and if they discover any error in the said estimates, or in the accounts settled for said work or materials, they are hereby authorized to ascertain and fix the amount to which he is entitled, and report their determination and reasons Report to legislatherefor to the legislature. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of April, one thousand eight hundred ture. and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 16. RESOLUTICN Relative to the claim of Philip Noon. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the canal Canal commiscommissioners be and they are hereby authorized to examine the claim sioners. of Philip Noon, for furnishing horse power on the Summit level between inclined planes numbers five and six, on the Portage railroad, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-three, and if they shall ascertain that there was a contract either express or implied between said Philip Noon and the superintendent of said road, whereby a greater price was to be allowed than was fixed by the contract for said level for said year, To allow. entered into by the said superintendent with a certain John Lucket, they shall allow him such amount as may be found justly due. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. Preamble. Canal commissioners. No. 17. RESOLUTION To compel the Susquehanna and Tide Water canal company to receive their notes WHEREAS, The Susquehanna and Tide Water canal company has issued notes, in the form of bank notes or certificates of indebtedness, which read on their face redeemable in the bonds of the company, bearing an interest of six per cent., payable semi-annually, and to be received in payment of tolls on the canal: And whereas, The said company has refused to receive their notes or certificates of indebtedness in payment of tolls, and a large proportion thereof has fallen into the hands of persons who are unable to bear the loss: therefore, Bes AF Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the di canal commissioners of this commonwealth be, and they are hereby authorized and required to close the out-let lock at Columbia, and thereby cut off all communication with the Susquehanna and Tide Water canal company, so long as the said company shall refuse to redeem their notes or certificates of indebtedness in current funds, or receive the same in payment of tolls, when offered in sums, not exceeding pany to be taken fifteen per cent. of the amount of toll demanded of captains, owners and agents, having the charge or care of boats or crafts in descending said canal, which said fifteen per cent. of said toll shall be credited upon the back of said notes or certificates of indebtedness, when presented Provided, That this resolution shall not take effect until ten days after the passage of this resolution. Issues of com for toll. Proviso. Resolved, That the said company shall receive in payment of tolls their notes and certificates of any and every denomination, and if the note or certificate tendered by any person in payment of toll be for a larger amount than the amount of toll proposed to be paid by such person, then and in that case the company shall receive it, and pay back to the person offering it the change or difference between the amount tendered and the amount to be paid in their own notes: Provided, That if the said company shall be unable to pay the change or difference between the amount tendered, and the amount to be paid, that then and in that case the said company shall receive on deposite, and shall give a certificate of deposite for the balance of the amount, after deducting the toll, and hold said deposite, subject to the check of the person depositing the same, to be paid to him either in their own notes, or to be made applicable to tolls, as they shall become due by the depositor: Provided further, That the said company shall not be compelled to pay a larger per cent. on their notes and certificates than is required by the first section of this resolution. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 18. RESOLUTION Relative to Charles Horton, prothonotary of Elk county. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That Charles Exempt from Horton, prothonotary of Elk county, appointed to fill the vacancy payment of fees. occasioned by the death of Wm. J. B. Andrews, in the said county of Elk, be exonerated from the payment of any fees on his commission. FRS. R. SHUNK. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. No. 19. RESOLUTION Relative to the claims of the Reliance Portable boat company. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the canal Canal commiscommissioners be, and they are hereby required to examine the claims sioners. of the Reliance Portable boat company, for injury done to two sections of the canal boat Indiana, and the trucks damaged at the inclined plane near Philadelphia, on the evening of September fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine; and also, for damage done to the canal boat Alabama, Damages. at plane number one, on the Allegheny Portage railroad, the seventeenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and to ascertain and report the amount of damages, if any, to the next legislature : Provided, That no damages shall be allowed under the provisions of Proviso. this act, unless it shall be made obvious that the accident or accidents occurred in consequence of insufficiency of the state ropes, or negligence of the state agents: And provided also, That the damages allowed, any, shall in no case exceed the actual expenses necessarily incurred for repairs at the time. if FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. B. STERIGERE, Speaker of the Senate. FRS. R. SHUNK. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. 11th section. Proviso. No. 20. RESOLUTION Correcting errors in certain acts. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the fol Proviso added to lowing proviso be added to the eleventh section of the bill, entitled "An Act concerning certain sheriffs and coroners sales, and for other purposes," to be taken and considered as part of said section: Provi ded also, That this section shall not effect any interest of any person, who may have entered any judgment subsequent to such setting aside or striking off, and before such restoration: And provided further, That the third section of bill number five hundred and sixty one, of the house of representatives file, authorizing William Ayres, and others, to purchase certain real estate, &c., be and the same is hereby stricken from said bill: And provided, That nothing in the act, entitled "An Act supplementary to an act, entitled An Act to preserve and perfect the validity of judgments entered upon the continuance and appearance dockets of the courts, and for other purposes," "shall be construed so as to affect or prejudice the rights or interests of any mortgagee or judgment creditor, acquired before the passage of the said act and supplement thereto. Third section stricken from. 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. CERTIFICATE. SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HARRISBURG, May 26, 1845. } I certify, that in obedience to the directions of an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, I have collated with and corrected by the original rolls on file in this office, the proof sheets of the printed copies of this edition of the Laws and Resolutions of the General Assembly, passed during the session ending on the sixteenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, including seven laws, passed by both branches of the Legislature, at the session of one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, which, not having been signed by the Governor, nor returned with his objections, became laws, under the provisions of the constitution, during the late session. J. 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