shall reside out of this state, it shall be lawful to sue such company in any county of this state where the works of such company shall be located, or adjoining thereto, or where any director, manager or other officer of such company shall reside; and service of legal process upon such director, manager or other officer shall be valid and effective upon said company; and such company shall be taken to be both in law and in equity for every purpose of legal proceeding, to be located in this state; and shall also be liable to the writs of quo warranto, mandamus, attachment and execution; and service of such writ upon any manager, director or other officer of such company, shall be, to all intents and purposes, as effective as if served upon the president of such company and he resident of this state, and as if the locality of such companies office were within this state; and any property of any description of such company, which would be liable to attachment or execution, if the same were located in this state, shall be taken to be in this state for such purpose; and shall be liable to levy and sale, in the same manner as if the officers of said company were located in the county of this state, in which the same is made liable to be sued by the provisions of this act. Court of LycomSECTION 3. That the president and associate judges of the county of ing county to ap- Lycoming, are authorized and required to appoint three auditors, who point auditors to shall have authority to re-settle and re-state the accounts of John Sloan, settle account of late treasurer of said county; and that all proceedings or prosecutions John Sloan, trea- that have been instituted against the said Sloan, shall stay until such resettlement is made: Provided, The same be done in three months after said auditors are appointed. surer. be subject to taxation. SECTION 4. That if a connection shall be formed between the PittsPittsburg and burg and Connellsville railroad and the Pennsylvania railroad east of Connellsville rail- the city of Pittsburg, by virtue of the act, entitled "A supplement to road company to an act, entitled An Act to incorporate the Pittsburg and Connellsville railroad company,' passed April third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven," then the tonnage passing over that part of the road sitated between said city of Pittsburg and the point of connection, shal be subject to the same rate of tax and regulations for collecting the same, as are provided in relation to the Pennsylvania railroad company. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 301. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act, entitled "An Act to erect the town of Bedford, in the county of Bedford, into a borough." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly net, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That he burgesses and council of the said borough of Bedford may, at their May alter and essions held at the times specified in the act to which this act is a supamend by-laws. plement, enact, ordain, revive, repeal and amend all such by-laws, ordinances, rules and regulations as shall be deemed expedient to compel the owner and owners of any lots of ground in said borough to pave, in such manner as the said burgesses and council have heretofore directed, or may, by their ordinances, hereafter direct, the footways or sidewalks of said borough, and to renew all pavements already made, which shall have decayed or worn out; and in case the said owner or owners shall refuse and neglect, after having received one month's notice from the said burgesses and council, by the hands of any borough officer, or if the said owner and owners do not reside within the said borough, then, after a notice shall have been put up upon their lots for one month, to pave in accordance with the ordinances aforesaid, and to renew the pavements as aforesaid, the burgesses and council aforesaid shall cause the said pavements to be made or to be renewed, at the expense of the said owner and owners; and after the said pavement or pavements are completed, it shall be lawful for the said burgesses and council to file a certificate for the amount of the cost thereof, signed by the chief burgess, and attested by the secretary, in the office of the prothonotary of the court of common pleas of the county of Bedford, setting forth the amount due by the said owner or owners; and it shall be the duty of the prothonotary to enter the same in his docket, which certificate shall, from such entry, have the same operation and effect as a judgment of said court, and execution may be issued thereon, in like manner as on judgments for the amount remaining unpaid at any time after the entry aforesaid. ground. SECTION 2. That it shall be lawful for the said burgesses and council, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, at any time they may deem expedient, to pass an ordinance directing the citizens of said borough, qualified to vote for borough officers, to vote, at the first elec- To decide by baltion to be held for borough officers next ensuing the passage of said ordi- lot on the sale or nance, or at any time the said burgesses and council may order and lease of public appoint, for or against granting permission to the said burgesses and council to sell or lease the ground belonging to the borough, upon which the springs and reservoir are situated, and which was reserved by the proprietories for the use of said borough, to any company that may be incorporated for the purpose of constructing water works and supplying said borough with water from said springs; and if at such election a majority of the citizens voting shall be in favor of selling or leasing said ground, it shall be lawful for the said burgesses and council to sell or lease the same to such company. SECTION 3. That all suspicious persons who may be found strolling Vagrants and dis- or wandering about any of the streets, lanes and alleys of the said boorderly persons rough, after the hour of ten o'clock at night, and all drunken, disordermay be arrested. ly and riotous persons who, either by day or night, shall make noise or disturbance in any of said streets, lanes and alleys, shall be liable to be taken up by the high constable, or any officer of said borough, and confined in the county jail, or such place as may be appointed by the burgesses and council aforesaid, for any length of time not exceeding twenty-four hours. Turnpike road companies to conform to borough regulations. ble. SECTION 4. That all turnpike road companies, which by their charters are empowered to construct their roads to any point within the corporate limits of the said borough of Bedford, shall be and they are hereby required to conform their roads to the grades and formations of the respective streets upon which they are laid, as fixed by the street commissioners of said borough, and make, repair and renew so much of their roads as lies within the said corporate limits, whenever thereunto required by the burgesses and council of said borough; and the said turnpike road companies shall be liable to all the penalties prescribed in their respective charters, for not keeping their roads in good and passable order, in case of failure to comply with the requisitions of the said burgesses and council, for and during the space of one calendar month after notice shall have been served upon any president, treasurer, director, secretary or toll gatherer of any such turnpike road company. SECTION 5. That the electors of said borough of Bedford shall anTo elect consta- nually, at the court house in said borough, on the day appointed for the election of constables in the different townships of this commonwealth, elect two reputable citizens of said borough, and return the names of the persons so elected to the next court of quarter sessions of said county, one of whom shall be appointed constable for said borough, in the same manner, with like power and authority, and subject to the same regulations and penalties as are provided and contained in the laws now existing, or that may hereafter exist, concerning constables within this commonwealth; and so much of any law of this commonwealth as is hereby altered and supplied, be and the same is hereby repealed. Relative to high constable. SECTION 6. That the name of the person elected high constable of the said borough of Bedford, at the regular annual election, on the third Friday of March, shall be returned by the persons holding said election, to the court of quarter sessions next ensuing the said election; and the said court shall appoint the said person so returned to be a constable for the said borough, in the same manner, with like power and authority, and subject to the same regulations and penalties-as are provided and contained in the laws now existing, or that may hereafter exist, concerning constables within this commonwealth. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. WILLIAMSON, APPROVED-The fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK No. 302. AN ACT To reduce the expenses in Montgomery county, and relative to the treasury of 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 after the passage of this act the commissioners, and the clerk to the Compensation of commissioners of Montgomery county shall, respectively, receive out commissioners of the county treasury, the sum of one dollar and fifty cents for each and clerk of Montday they shall necessarily attend to their duties: Provided, That the gomery county. pay of any one of the commissioners or clerk, shall not exceed one Proviso. hundred and seventy-five dollars per annum. surer. SECTION 2. That the salary of the treasurer of Montgomery county Salary of treashall not, in one year, exceed the sum of six hundred dollars, including all fees and per centage arising for state and county purposes, the excess, if any, to be paid into the county treasury. SECTION 3. That from and after the passage of this act, the treasurer Duties of Dauof the county of Dauphin shall, in addition to his other duties, receive phin county treaall moneys belonging to the house for the employment and support of surer increased. the poor, in the county of Dauphin, and shall disburse the same on orders drawn on him by a board of the directors of the poor of said house of employment; and that so much of the fifth section of the act, entitled An Act to provide for the erection of a house for the employ- Office of poor ment and support of the poor, in the county of Dauphin," approved house treasurer of the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, Dauphin county as authorizes the directors of said house of employment to appoint a treasurer, be and the same is hereby repealed; and also, that the twenty- Compensation of third section of the act, entitled "An Act supplementary to the resolution relative to the claim of Brown and Sawyers, passed the thirty- sioners and direcfirst day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and for tors of the poor of other purposes," approved the sixteenth day of April, one thousand Dauphin county, eight hundred and thirty-eight, be and the same is hereby repealed. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. WILLIAMSON, APPROVED-The fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred abolished. county commis reduced. and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. To levy a tax on mortgages, &c. for city purposes. Proviso. tate made a lien thereon. Proviso. No. 303. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Lancaster." 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 same, That from and after the passage of this act, the select and common councils of the city of Lancaster, in addition to the powers heretofore conferred. shall have full power and authority to lay, assess, levy and collect a tar for the use of said city, on all mortgages, moneys at interest, debts due by solvent debtors, whether by promissory note, (except notes or bills for work and labor done, and bank notes) penal or single bills, bonds or judgments, on all stock or shares owned or held by individuals resident in said city, or enjoying the rights of resident citizens in said city, in any bank, institution or company, incorporated by any state or terri tory, on articles of agreement and accounts, bearing interest, and al public loans or stocks whatsoever, owned or held as aforesaid: Previded, That in no one year, shall the said tax exceed fifty cents in every hundred dollars so owned or held. SECTION 2. That all taxes, rates and levies, which may hereafter be Taxes on real es- lawfully imposed or assessed by the corporate authority of the city of Lancaster, on real estate situate in said city, shall be and they are hereby declared to be a lien on the said real estate, on which they may hereafter be imposed or assessed; and the said lien shall have priority to, and shall be fully paid and satisfied before any recognizance, mortgage, judgment, debt, obligation or responsibility, which the said real estate may become charged with, or liable to, from and after the passage of this act: Provided, That the existence of such lien shall not affect the right of freehold in any real estate otherwise unincumbered. SECTION 3. That the lien of a mortgage upon any real estate situate in the city of Lancaster, shall not be destroyed, or in any way affected upon mortgaged by any sale of the mortgaged premises under a subsequent judgment. (other than one entered upon a claim, which was a lien on the premises prior to the recording of such mortgage) by reason of the prior lien of any tax, charge or assessment whatsoever, but the same shall continue as if such prior lien did not exist, when by existing laws the lien of such mortgage would otherwise continue: Provided, That the continuance of the lien of such mortgage shall not prevent the discharge of such prior liens for taxes, charges or assessments by such sale, or the satisfaction thereof, out of the proceeds of such sale. Effect of lien property. Proviso. water tax. SECTION 4. That the select and common councils of the city of LanPower to assess a caster, in addition to the powers conferred by the act, entitled "An Act relating to the borough of Uniontown, Fayette county, and for other purposes," passed April first, eighteen hundred and thirty seven, shall have full power and authority to lay, assess, levy and collect a tax, to be called the water tax," from all lots whereon any dwelling houses, warehouses, stables or other improvements whatever, are now or hereafter may be erected, situate within three squares of any street or streets through which pipes are or hereafter may be laid, for conducting the water from the water works into the said city, for the use |