and that in taking such roads for public use, full compensation shall be made to the stockholders. APPROVED-The nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 77. AN ACT For the relief of Mungo Murray and wife, and to authorize the managers of the poor in Roxborough, to execute and deliver certain deeds. 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 a certain power of attorney, dated the twenty-eighth day of October, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, by Mungo Murray, of Lintrose Perthshire, Scotland, and Anne, his wife, one of the daughters of Thomas Mayne Willing, late of the city of Philadelphia, deceased, to doctor Charles Willing, of the same city, duly acknowledged according to law on the same day, before the provost and chief magistrate of the royal burgh of Dundee, in Scotland, and so certified under the public seal of the said borough, and intended to be recorded, authorizing the said attorney to sell and convey all or any part of the real estate, lands, tenements and hereditaments, unto the said Anne belonging, or in which she may have an interest wherever situated, be and the same is hereby declared to be of the same legal effect and validity within this state, for all purposes declared and stated in the said power; and all conveyances made by the said attorney in virtue thereof, of real estate within this state, shall be of the same validity and effect to pass the estate of the said Anne and of the said Mungo, in her right in the premises so conveyed, as if the said Anne had executed such power of attorney, conveyance or conveyances personally, together with her husband, in conformity, in all respects, with an act of assembly, passed the eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, entitled "A supplement to an act relative to the Le Raysville Phalanx, passed March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and relative to obligors and obligees, to secure the rights of married women, in relation to defalcation, and to extend the boundaries of the borough of Ligonier." SECTION 2. That the present managers for the relief and employment of the poor of the township of Roxborough, in the county of Philadelphia, or their successors, be and they are hereby authorized and em powered to make, execute, and deliver all deeds, conveyances and assurances that are necessary and requisite, for the conveying the said property to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, agreeably to an act approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE DARSIE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. Preamble. No. 78. AN ACT To authorize John M. Broomell to sell certain real estate in the city of Philadelphia. WHEREAS, Mary Ulrich, late of the Northern Liberties, of the city of Philadelphia, widow, deceased, by her last will and testament, bearing date the seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, duly proved and remaining in the register's office, at Philadelphia, did give and devise unto Robert Burkhart and Jacob Dunton, and to the survivor of them, and the heirs and assigns of such survivor, all that certain lot or piece of ground, with the tenements thereon erected, situate on the west side of Saint John's street, between Green and Coates streets, in the Northern Liberties, aforesaid, bounded on the south by lands in said will devised to said trustees, in trust for the use of Mary Cormell, containing upon said Saint John's street about fifteen feet, and extending back to Rose alley about one hundred feet, widening gradually to twenty-nine feet on said alley, together with the use of an alley next south of the same, with appurtenances, in trust for her son Samuel Ulrich, for life, and after his decease for his lawful issue, their respective heirs and assigns, forever said lot or piece of ground being subject to an annual ground rent of seven and a half dollars; all of which is set forth at large in said will: And whereas, The said Robert Burkhart and Jacob Dunton, having renounced and declined said trust, John M. Broomell, of Chester, in the county of Delaware, was, upon the application of the parties in interest, appointed trustee in their place and stead, by the orphans' court of the city and county of Philadelphia: And whereas, The said property requires improvements and repairs, and the parties interested therein are unable to improve and repair the same, so that it may be fully available in proportion to its value; 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 real estate. the said John M. Broomell, or such person or persons as may be, for Trustee authorthe time being, trustee or trustees under the before recited last will and ized to sell certain testament of said Mary Ulrich, deceased, of the above lot or piece of ground, with the appurtenances, be and he or they are hereby authorized and empowered to sell the said lot, or piece of ground, and the tenements thereon erected, with the appurtenances, either altogether or in such parts as he or they shall deem most advisable, subject to the aforementioned ground rent, at public or private sale, for the best price that can reasonably be obtained for the same, and to convey the same, in fee simple, to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, subject to said ground rent, free from and discharged of every trust, and without any obligation on the part of such purchaser or purchasers, to see the application of the purchase money: Provided, That before the said trustee or trustees shall make any such deed or deeds to the purchaser or purchasers, aforesaid, he or they shall give security, in the orphans' court of the county of Delaware, aforesaid, to be approved of by said court conditioned for the investment of the purchase money arising from such sale or sales, in good real security, upon the same trusts, and for the same uses, estates, and persons as are declared, mentioned, and set forth in the said will of Mary Ulrich, deceased, of and concerning the said lot or piece of ground. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE DARSIE, APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 79. AN ACT Relative to voting at elections in the counties of Adams, Dauphin, York, Lancaster, Franklin, Cumberland, Bradford, Centre, Greene, and Erie. 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 qualified voters of the counties of Adams, Dauphin, Lancaster, York, Franklin, Cumberland, Bradford, Centre, Greene, and Erie, from and after the passage of this act, to vote for all candidates for the various offices to be filled at any election on one slip or ticket: Provided, The office for which every candidate is voted for, shall be designated, as required by the existing laws of this commonwealth. SECTION 2. That any fraud committed by any person voting in the manner above prescribed, shall be punished as similar frauds are directed to be punished by the existing laws of this commonwealth. APPROVED The twenty-seventh day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 80. AN ACT Declaratory of the act of assembly, entitled “An Act declaring obstructions te private roads to be a public nuisance, and for other purposes," passed March sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, relative to the appointment of viewers and reviewers of roads and bridges in Northumberland county, and relative to the vacating of roads. 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 private roads referred to in the first section of said act, shall be deemed and taken to mean such roads only as shall have been laid out by order of the courts in the usual way. SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act, the number of viewers and reviewers of roads and bridges within the county of Northumberland, shall be three; and that the provisions contained in the first, second, third, and fourth sections of the act of assembly, passed the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, entitled "An Act relative to public roads therein named," shall be extended to, and have full force and effect in the said county of Northumberland; and any law to the contrary is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. That whenever any highway, street, court, or alley, shall be vacated, or hath been vacated, by authority of law, the adjoining owner or owners shall be authorized to reclaim the same, to the centre thereof, unless the ground was originally taken in unequal proportions from the then owners thereof, and in such case, the adjoining owners shall reclaim, in the proportion contributed by such owners, or by those under whom they shall have derived their titles. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE DARSIE, APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. Speaker of the Senate. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 81. A SUPPLEMENT To an act, entitled An Act authorizing certain state roads," passed the eighth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representalives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the provisions of the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second sections of the act, passed the eighth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, entitled "An Act authorizing certain state roads," be and they are hereby continued in force until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of the supervisors of the several townships through which the road authorized to be laid out by the foregoing sections of the act aforesaid, shall pass, upon notice given, to proceed at once and make and open the said road as other roads are ade; and on failing to comply, the said supervisors, or any of them, Stall forfeit and pay a fine of not less than fifty dollars, to be collected as other fines are collected, and said fine shall be appropriated for the ase of said road; and the justice of the peace before whom information shall have been lodged, shall have power to appoint another person in place of the supervisor refusing to perform the duties prescribed by this SECTION 3. That the commissioners appointed by, or in pursuance of, the act to which this is a supplement, shall have power to vacate any road or part thereof, which may be rendered useless by the location of the road hereby authorized; and shall also have the power to change the location of any part of the road now in use, between the points mentioned in the act to which this is supplementary. APPROVED The twenty-seventh day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. |