shall be twenty-five hundred and seventy-one cubic inches for each and every bushel thereof. JAMES COOPER, APPROVED-The twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 11. A SUPPLEMENT To the act, entitled “An Act relating to counties and townships, and county and township officers. 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 Relating to she- the former, present and future sheriffs and coroners of the county of riffs' and coroners' Philadelphia, shall be and hereby are exempted from the operation of dockets in city so much of the seventy-eighth section of the act of fifteenth of April, and county of eighteen hundred and thirty-four, as directs the deposit of their books Philadelphia. or dockets in the office of the prothonotary of the courts of common pleas of the county. JAMES COOPER, APPROVED-The twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 12. A SUPPLEMENT To an act, entitled "An Act authorizing the citizens of certain counties to decide by ballot, whether the sale of vinous and spirituous liquors shall be continued in said counties," passed the seventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa sessions in Erie tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly Court of quarter met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the court of quarter sessions of the county of Erie, shall not have power county, when to to grant any license for retailing vinous or spirituous liquors, until after grant licenses. the election to be held in March next, for determining whether such license shall be granted or not. SECTION 2. That the legal voters of the borough of Erie, in the county Citizens of Erie of Erie aforesaid, shall vote as provided by the law above referred to, borough to decide and if a majority of the whole votes cast within the said borough, shall by ballot. be "against the sale of liquors," then the provisions of the act above referred to shall be complied with; and if a majority of the legal votes polled as aforesaid, shall be for the sale of liquors," then licenses shall be granted in the said borough as heretofore. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 13. AN ACT For the renewal of certain loans made to the commonwealth by the banks under their charters. 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 several banks whose loans to the commonwealth, under the act of the twenty-fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twentyfour, entitled An Act to re-charter certain banks," which have fallen due or shall hereafter fall due, be and they are hereby required to renew the same on the same terms, and in accordance with the several acts of 66 incorporation; and the certificates of stock for said loans so falling or having fallen due, shall be delivered to the auditor general and cancelled, and new certificates of stock therefor shall be issued, re-imbursable at the expiration of their several charters. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. Administrators to sell real estate. No. 14. AN ACT Authorizing the administrators de bonis non of James Loughead, late of the county of Columbia, deceased, to sell and convey certain real estate. 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 Alexander Best and William Forsyth, administrators de bonis non cum testamento annexo of James Loughead, late of Danville and county of Columbia, deceased, and the survivors of them, be and are hereby authorized from time to time, as occasion shall require, to sell at public or private sale, by parcels or otherwise, as may be most convenient, all the lands and real estate of which the said James Loughead died seized or possessed, situate in the county of Columbia aioresaid; Proceeds, how to and to apply the proceeds of such sale or sales, after deducting the exbe applied. penses of sale, and the commissions which shall be allowed to them for their services, by the orphans' court of the said county of Columbia, to the payment of the legacies and bequests made and bequeathed by said testator; and the said Alexander Best and William Forsyth or the survivors of them, are further authorized to make and execute a deed or deeds, for the said lands and real estate, to the purchaser or purchasers, all the title and interest which the said James Loughead had and held in the same, at and immediately before the time of his death: Provided, That the said Alexander Best and William Forsyth shall give bond to the commonwealth in such form, in such sum and with such sufficient surety or sureties, as the orphans' court of the said county of Columbia shall direct and approve, conditioned for the faithful execution of the trust hereby committed to them, and for due and proper application of the proceeds of said sale or sales: And provided also, That before any such sale shall be valid, it shall be approved by the said orphans' court. Proviso. Proviso. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. FRS. R. SHUNK. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. No. 15. A SUPPLEMENT To "An Act to create the office of state printer," passed the twenty-fourth day of of documents printed. 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 state printers shall hereafter print, or cause to be printed, from the original forms used in printing the Executive Documents, fifteen hundred Number of copies extra copies in the English language, and five hundred extra copies in the German language, of the following reports, to wit: the auditor general's report on the finances, the auditor general's report on banks, the canal commissioners' report, and twenty-five hundred copies in the English language of the report of the superintendent of common schools; and shall deliver at the opening of each session of the legislature, or as To whom to be soon thereafter as possible, one thousand copies of each document in delivered. the English language, and three hundred and twenty-five in the German language, to the clerk of the house of representatives, except of the report of the superintendent of common schools, of which fifteen hundred copies shall be delivered to the clerk of the house of representatives, and five hundred copies to the superintendent of common schools, and five hundred in the English language and one hundred and seventyfive in the German language, to the clerk of the Senate, who shall cause the same to be distributed among the members of the respective houses: Distribution. Provided, That no compensation shall be allowed for composition in printing said extra copies. SECTION 2. That hereafter no charge for composition shall be allowed Compensation for printing extra copies of any document, which appears in the journal regulated. of either house: Provided, The same is ordered within three days of Proviso. the date at which such documents shall have been presented to the house, on whose journal the same appears. for SECTION 3. That hereafter no voucher for the payment of money, on Auditor general account of the purchase of paper for the use of the state printer, shall to settle accounts be settled or allowed by the auditor general, unless the same shall be paper. accompanied by the deposition of the person from whom such paper shall have been purchased, setting forth that the same is just and true, and the items charged in the bills or accounts as presented, are at the lowest cash prices; and also the oath or affirmation of the proper state printer, that all the paper charged in said bills or accounts, was used for the use of the state in the performance of the public printing. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CH. GIBBONS, APPROVED-The twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 16. AN ACT To vacate part of Old Hickory lane in the district of Spring Garden, in the county of Philadelphia. 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 Old Hickory lane in the district of Spring Garden, as formerly laid out from the angle west of Twelfth street, extending first north fifty-four degrees and forty-eight minutes west, and then south thirty-nine degrees and twenty-six minutes west, into the Wissahickon or Ridge road, be and the same is hereby vacated; and the right of soil in the said part of Hickory lane to the middle thereof, is hereby vested in fee simple, in the several parties deriving title under those who were the owners of ground, fronting on each side of the said vacated lane, at the time the same was discontinued as a public highway. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. Amount appropriated. No. 17. AN ACT To provide for the payment of the interest on the public debt of this commonwealth, falling due on the first days of February and August of the present year. 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 sum of two millions of dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated to the payment of the interest on the funded debt of this commonwealth, which will fall due on the first day of February, and on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven: Provided, That the payments hereby authorized, shall be made in such funds as may be in the trea |