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No. 153.

AN ACT

To authorize the school directors of the township of Penn, Chester county, to sell certain real estate.

WHEREAS, Samuel Ramsey and Alice, his wife, by deed, date the ninth day of February, A. D. one thousand seven hundred and ninetyfive, did grant, and to farm let unto Samuel Bechtel, Henry Reese, Henry Moore, John Shour, Richard M'Guffin, Philip Hofecker, Peter Cosner, and Thomas Charlton, their heirs or successors, and to the neighbors by survivorship, a certain messuage or lot of ground, situate in the township of Londonderry, (now Penn) in the county of Chester, containing twenty-four perches, be the same more or less, to have and to hold the said messuage or lot of ground to the above named neighbors or their successors, for and during the term, time or space of nine hundred and ninety-nine years, for educational purposes, which said deed is recorded in the recorder's office of Chester county, in book MQ volume thirty-six, page four hundred and sixteen:

And whereas, By reason of the erection of a public school house in said township, and by changes in the immediate vicinity of the said lot, it is worthless for the purposes for which it was conveyed; therefore,

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 Power to sell and the school directors of the township of Penn, in the county of Chester, be and they are hereby authorized to sell, at public or private sale, the lot of land aforesaid, and the building thereon, and to make, execute and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers a good and sufficient deed for the same, clear of all incumbrances, and to apply the proceeds of said sale, first to the payment of the costs of sale, and the balance to be applied by the said directors, or their successors in office, in maintaining the public school in said district.

JAMES COOPER,

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APPROVED-The third day of March, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-seven.

FRS. R. SHUNK.

No. 154.

SUPPLEMENT

To an act, entitled "An Act to authorize the governor to incorporate the Falls of
Schuylkill bridge company, over the river Schuylkill, at said falls."

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

it shall be lawful for the commissioners, appointed by an act to which Duties of comthis is a supplement, passed the nineteenth day of April, A. D. eighteen missioners conhundred and forty four, entitled "An Act authorizing the governor to tinued. incorporate the Falls of Schuylkill bridge company," to open books for the purpose, and receive subscriptions of stock to said bridge company, at any time on or before the first Monday of May next; and that the said company shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges conferred by said act, to which this is a supplement, in the same manner as if the provisions in the first section of the said act had been complied with. JAMES COOPER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

CH. GIBBONS,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.

FRS. R. SHUNK.

No. 155.

AN ACT

To annul the charter of the Lehigh County Bank.

WHEREAS, In the opinion of the legislature, the charter of the Lehigh County Bank may prove injurious to the citizens of this commonwealth;

therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacied by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacied by the authority of the same, That the act of the general assembly, passed the twenty-sixth day of April, Charter annulled. one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Lehigh County Bank," be and the same is hereby repealed; and that all corporate powers and privileges granted and established by the said act be and they are hereby revoked and annulled, and shall,

Power to collect debts due the bank.

Dispose of real

estate.

from and after the passage of this act, cease and determine, except only as hereinafter reserved.

SECTION 2. That the corporators of said bank may use the corporate name and style of said bank, to enable them to sue for and recover any and all just debts due thereto, and said corporators may be sued in the name of said bank, in the same manner as if this act had not passed; and said corporators may sell and dispose of any and all property belonging to said bank, and if necessary, use the corporate name of said bank to convey title, but they shall not use or exercise the name or corporate powers or privileges of the said bank, in any other manner, or for any other objects or purposes whatever than those specified in this section: Provided, That nothing contained in this be so construed as to release any director, stockholders or officers of said bank, from any Not to effect lia- of the liabilities, conditions or restrictions, imposed on them by the act bility. of incorporation of said bank, or any other act or acts of assembly applicable to them.

Proviso.

JAMES COOPER,

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APPROVED-The third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and

forty-seven.

FRS. R. SHUNK.

No. 156.

AN ACT

Entitled "An Act to authorize the trustees of the Calvanistic Independents to convey certain real estate in the borough of Minersville, Schuylkill 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 Power to convey. David Price, Reese Jones, John Thomas, Reese Davis and Morgan

Williams, trustees of the Calvanistic Independents, in Schuylkill county, and the Reverend Evan B. Evans, formerly a trustee of said religious society, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey, by deed or deeds, in fee simple, to Joseph Heisler, that certain lot or piece of land, situate in the borough of Minersville, in said county of Schuylkill, being the western moiety of the lot known in the general plan of said borough of Minersville. as lot number eighty-one, and bounded as follows, viz: northwardly by Carbon street, eastwardly by the other moiety of lot, number eighty-one, southwardly by North street, and westwardly by Second street, containing twenty feet on North and Carbon street, and one hundred and fifty feet on Second street, and along the other moiety of the aforesaid lot, number eightyone, it being the same lot of ground sold and conveyed by Joseph Jeanes, by his attorney in fact, Daniel R. Bennett, by deed, bearing

date the twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and thirty-seven, to the aforesaid Evan B. Evans, Benjamin
Morris (since deceased) and the aforesaid Reese Jones, and their suc-
cessors, trustees of the Calvanistic Independents, aforesaid, in trust for
the use of the said Calvanistic Independents: Provided, That before Proviso.
this act shall be operative, the said trustees shall give security, to be
approved by the orphans' court in Schuylkill county, for the faithful
execution of their trust.

JAMES COOPER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

CH. GIBBONS,

APPROVED-The third day of March, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-seven.

Speaker of the Senate.

FRS. R. SHUNK.

No. 157.

AN ACT

Authorizing the commissioners of the county of Philadelphia, to cause Passyunk road to be paved from Federal street to the Philadelphia county prison.

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 commissioners of the county of Philadelphia, by and with the con- Pave a part of sent and approbation of the Philadelphia county board, be authorized, Passyunk road. should they deem it expedient, to cause to be paved the road known as Passyunk road, in said county, from the termination of the pebble pavement at Federal street, to the south line of the Philadelphia county prison; and the expenses incurred thereby, shall be paid out of the county fund, from such appropriation as may be made by the county board for the payment thereof: Provided, That the said county commissioners shall conform to the regulations of heights and water courses now made and confirmed for the said Passyunk road.

JAMES COOPER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

CH. GIBBONS,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The third day of March, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-seven.

FRS. R. SHUNK.

No. 158.

A SUPPLEMENT

To the act, entitled "An Act relating to the directors of the poor of Lancaster county," approved the second March, eighteen hundred and forty-six.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the sume, That An act relating to the provisions of the act, entitled An Act relating to the directors of the poor, extend- the poor of Lancaster county," approved the second day of March, ed to York coun- Anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-six, be and the same are hereby extended to York county.

ty.

JAMES COOPER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

CH. GIBBONS,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The third day of March, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-seven.

FRS. R. SHUNK.

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No. 159.

AN ACT

To prevent kidnapping, preserve the public peace, prohibit the exercise of certain powers heretofore exercised by judges, justices of the peace, aldermen and jailors in this commonwealth, and to repeal certain slave laws.

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 if any person or persons shall, from and after the passage of this act, by force or violence take and carry away, or cause to be taken or carried away, and shall by fraud or false pretence entice or caused to be enticed, or shall attempt so to take, carry away or entice any free negro or mulatto, from any part or parts of this commonwealth, to any other place or places whatsoever out of this commonwealth, with a design and intention of selling and disposing of, or of causing to be sold, or of keeping and detaining, or of causing to be kept and detained, such free negro or mulatto as a slave or servant for life, or for any term whatsoever, every such person or persons, his or their aiders and abettors, shall be deemed guilty of high misdemeanor, and on conviction

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