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in the village of Jamestown, in said township; and all that part situated and lying south of said division line, shall form the township of West Salem, and the electors thereof shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the school house, near the Big run, in said township, that is, at the place where they have heretofore held the same; and it shall be the duty of the now acting constable of West Salem township, to give notice of the election to be held on the third Friday of March, eighteen hundred and forty-four, 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 officer 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 West Salem and Green, and the expenses thereof to be paid out of the treasury of the county of Mercer.

SECTION 8. That the townships of West Salem and Green aforesaid, School district. be and the same are hereby erected into separate school districts, and

as such shall have power to elect all the officers necessary to carry on

the common school system.

SECTION 9. The said townships of West Salem and Greene are here- Separate and disby declared to be separate and distinct in the assessment of taxes, and tinct district. 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 several laws of this commonwealth in that behalf: Provided, That nothing contained in this act Proviso. shall in any manner affect the collection of any tax now levied and due, that have been assessed for county or school purposes, but that the laws heretofore in force shall in such cases prevail.

SECTION 10. That the qualified electors residing in the south ward Franklin. of the borough of Chambersburg, Franklin county, shall hereafter hold their general and borough elections at the public house now owned and occupied by John Radebaugh, in said borough.

SECTION 11. That the township of Lower Chichester, in the county Delaware. of Delaware, shall hereafter be a separate election district, and the qualified electors thereof shall hold their general and township elections at the Rockhill school house, in said township.

SECTION 12. That the qualified electors residing in Middle creek Union. township, Union county, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the public house of Jacob Moore, now occupied by Abraham Frederick, in said township.

SECTION 13. That on the third Friday of May next, the qualified Germantown tp. voters of the lower ward of the township of Germantown, shall, under lower ward to the same regulations as provided for township elections, of which pro- elect commissionclamation shall be made by the constable of said ward at least ten days ers. before said election, elect three commissioners, who shall, in addition

to the duties now performed under the act to which this is a supplement,

take charge of the public highways within said ward.

SECTION 14. The commissioners so elected shall meet on the first Meeting & classiMonday in June next, at the place of holding the elections of said ward, fication. and divide themselves by lot into three classes: one to serve one year,

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one to serve two years, and one to serve three years; and the voters shall annually thereafter, commencing on the third Friday in March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, elect one commissioner to serve for three years, commencing from the first Monday in June.

SECTION 15. The commissioners shall have power to fill any vacancy in the board until the next general election, when such vacancy shall be filled by the qualified voters.

SECTION 16. The commissioners shall have all the powers now granted to the supervisors, and shall be subject to the like penalties for neglect of duty. They shall place all roads or highways out under contract to the lowest and best bidder, in such manner as a majority of them may deem most advisable, giving at least ten days' public notice, either by advertisement in the Germantown Telegraph, or by handbills: Provided, Nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize them to employ day laborers in repairing said roads.

SECTION 17. The commissioners shall meet annually on the first Monday in April, and shall then elect one of their body as treasurer, who shall give good and sufficient security, to be approved by the other commissioners, in double the amount of the duplicate to be received by him. For the collection and disbursing of the same, he shall receive five per centum on all moneys received.

SECTION 18. All moneys drawn from the treasurer, shall be by orders drawn by one commissioner and endorsed by another.

SECTION 19. The commissioners shall, for their services in attending to and seeing that the roads are in order and the contracts fully complied with, receive in full for all compensation, the sum of twelve dollars each; and any person elected and refusing to take upon himself the duties of the office, shall be liable to a fine of twenty dollars, to be collected as all fines are now collected, and to be used in defraying the expenses of the roads.

SECTION 20. All acts authorizing the election of a supervisor, and so much of the act and its supplement regulating the side-walks in Germantown, as is altered or supplied, (so far as the lower ward is concerned,) be and the same are hereby repealed.

WHEREAS, More than fifty qualified voters of the township of PinePinegrove, War-grove, in the county of Warren, gave notice in writing to the constable ren county. thereof, that they desired to vote at the then next constable's election for an increase of justices of the peace in said township: And whereas, The constable of said township did, by at least ten written handbills, put up in the most public places in said township, fifteen days previous to the day of holding said election, give notice that at said election a vote would be taken to ascertain whether the qualified voters of said township would vote for an additional justice of the peace: And whereas, On the fourteenth day of February last past, the qualified voters of said township, in pursuance of the foregoing notice, did, by nearly a unanimous vote, decide to elect an additional justice of the peace; Therefore,

Justice of peace.

SECTION 21. 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 it shall be lawful for the qualified voters of said township, at the next constables' election, to elect an additional justice of the peace for said township.

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SECTION 22. That the borough of Birmingham, with the several tracts Birmingham boof land near to and attached to the same, now owned or occupied by rough, HuntingThomas M. Owens, John K. M'Cahen, Andrew Robeson, John Guise- don county. mer, and William Guisemer, situate in the township of Warrior Mark, in the county of Huntingdon, shall hereafter constitute a separate general election, township election, and common school district, with the same rights and privileges granted by law to the other general and township elections and common school districts; and the qualified voters of said district shall elect, at the public school house in said borough, on the first Election, when Monday in May next, six school directors for said district; two to serve three years, two to serve two years, and two to serve one year; which said election shall be held by the officers elected in said borough, on the second Tuesday of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and shall be conducted as elections for school directors are now by law conducted; said school directors are hereby empowered, on application Regulation of being made to them in writing for that purpose, by two-thirds of the citizens of said district, entitled to send children to said schools, to prohibit said children under a certain age, that said directors may agree upon, from attending said school or schools in the winter months, and also over a certain age in the summer months.

schools, &c.

Annual election.

SECTION 23. That the qualified voters within the bounds of said district shall, on the second Tuesday in March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and annually thereafter, hold their borough and township elections, and on the second Tuesday of October next, and annually thereafter, hold their general election at the public school house in said borough of Birmingham; that John Nevling and John Graffius, Officers of eleeinspectors, and John Calderwood, judge, who have been elected by the tion. citizens of said borough on the second Tuesday in March, last past, as inspectors and judge of elections, or their successors lawfully chosen, shall be and are hereby declared to be lawful officers of elections; and who shall, after being duly qualified according to law, hold and conduct said borough, township and general elections, at said public school house, in and for said district, and until others are elected in their room and stead, at the next annual township election, at said place, agreeably to the election laws of said commonwealth.

SECTION 24. That the qualified voters within the bounds of the dis- Township officers trict aforesaid, shall hereafter be entitled to vote at their said township election, at said public school house in said borough of Birmingham, on the said second Tuesday in March, annually hereafter, in conjunction with the other part of the said township of Warrior Mark, for all of the township and county officers that they are now by law entitled to vote for at the township election, on the third Friday in March annually.

SECTION 25. That it shall be the duty of the inspectors and judge Returns of elecof said district, on closing said township elections, to make out or tion. cause to be made out and signed by themselves, a correct duplicate return of all the names of the persons voted for at said election, for any township office, in conjunction with the other part of said township, with the number of votes polled for each attached to each of their respective names; and the said judge shall deliver the same to any of the officers of elections of the other part of said township of Warrior Mark, within twenty-four hours after said election is closed, who is hereby enjoined to receive and take charge of the same, and to add the said votes to the number of votes given for the same person for the same office at the election in the other part of said township, which he was an officer of, so that the highest in vote for any township office may be

Duty of constable

ascertained, and so declared by him and his colleagues, to be duly elected according to law.

SECTION 26. That it shall be the duty of the constable of the said borough of Birmingham, at least ten days previous to the said second Tuesday of March annually, to give notice of said elections by posting up or cause to be posted up, at least, six advertisements at the most public places in said district; also, to give notice of the said first election herein directed to be held on the first Monday in May next, by at least six advertisements, posted up as aforesaid, at least four days previous to said election; and further, that the said constable shall attend in person at said elections, and see that the same is opened and conducted according to law.

SECTION 27. That so much of the eighty-first section of the act passed the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyfour, relating to county and township officers, as requires the election of three supervisors, is hereby repealed, so far as relates to the township Bradford county. of Wysox, in the county of Bradford, and it shall be the duty of the electors of said township, at their annual township elections hereafter, to elect two supervisors who shall serve for one year, and shall perform the duties and be subject to the responsibilities provided by the act above mentioned.

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Wayne county.

Carbon county.

Susquehanna co.

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Huntingdon co.

Cambria county.

SECTION 28. The qualified voters of the proposed new township of Franklin, in the county of Columbia, shall hold their general and township elections at the school house, near the house of John Mench, in said township, and the boundaries as described in the petition to court for the said new township, shall be the boundaries of the said election district.

SECTION 29. That the qualified electors residing in Damascus township, Wayne county, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at district school house, number six, in said township.

SECTION 30. That the qualified electors residing in Banks township, Carbon county, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the Beaver Meadow hotel, formerly kept by William Bruce, in said township.

SECTION 31. That hereafter the qualified voters of the township of Forest Lake, in the county of Susquehanna, shall annually elect two persons to serve as overseers of the poor, who shall hold their office for one year, and any law inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed.

SECTION 32. That the qualified voters of the township of Towanda, in the county of Bradford, shall hereafter hold their general elections at the school house, near the house of Andrew C. Gregg, in said township.

SECTION 33. That the east and west election districts of the township of Fallowfield, in the county of Crawford, shall hereafter be separate and distinct townships, for all purposes, to be called East Fallowfield and West Fallowfield, respectively. That the court of quarter sessions of said county, shall appoint proper persons to ascertain the division lines of said townships, as now provided by law.

SECTION 34. That the qualified electors residing in Union township, Huntingdon county, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the school house, at or near Nathan Greenlands, in said township.

SECTION 35. That the qualified electors residing in Conemaugh township, Cambria county, shall hereafter hold their general and town

ship elections at the public school house, on lot number seventy-seven, on the island adjoining the borough of Johnstown, in said township.

SECTION 36. That the qualified electors residing in that part of Derry Westmoreland co township, Westmoreland county, voting at the town of New Derry, shall hold their election at the house of Edward Laton, in said village.

SECTION 37. That the qualified electors residing in Middle Smithfield township, Monroe county, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the vacant store house, at or near Moses W. Coolbaugh's, in said township.

Monroe county.

SECTION 38. That it shall be lawful for the qualified electors residing Crawford county. in Randolph township, Crawford county, to elect one supervisor in each district in said township, but no qualified elector shall vote for more than one person for supervisor in each district; and it shall be the duty of the officers of the election in said township to provide a separate box for each district, for the electors thereof to deposite their votes therein. When the election is closed, the officers thereof shall make return of said election as is now directed by law.

SECTION 39. That hereafter it shall be lawful, and the judges of the Erie, Warren & several courts of common pleas in Erie, Warren and Crawford coun- Crawford counties, are hereby authorized, upon the petition of at least one-third of ties. the taxable inhabitants, to alter, change or appoint the place of holding the general and township elections in the aforesaid counties: Provided, Proviso. That it shall be the duty of the several judges of the courts aforesaid, in all cases, to appoint the place of holding the said elections as near as practicable in the centre of the several election districts in said counties.

SECTION 40. That the qualified electors residing in Jordan township, Clearfield. Clearfield county, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the school house, near to Bloom's, in said township.

SECTION 41. That the qualified electors residing in Lumber township, Clinton county, shall hereafter hold their township elections on the first Tuesday in February, at the several places as is now by law directed, in said township.

Clinton.

SECTION 42. That the qualified electors residing in Armenia town- Bradford. ship, Bradford county, shall hereafter form a new election district, and hold their general and township elections at the house now occupied by

Lyman Hinman, in said township.

SECTION 43. That the qualified electors of the township of East Lancaster county Strasburg, in the county of Lancaster, 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, a ticket 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 designated 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 delivered and filed in the office of the prothonotary of said county; and the high sheriff of Lancaster county is hereby required to embody this section in his next annual proclamation for holding the general election in said county.

SECTION 44. That the qualified voters of the south part of Delaware Mercer county. township, in Mercer county, which have heretofore held their general

elections in the borough of Mercer, shall hereafter hold their general

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