amended. No. 2. A SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled "An Act to erect the town of Dillsburg, in York county, and the village of McVeytown, in Mifflin county, into boroughs, and the supplements to the acts erecting York and Harrisburg into boroughs." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, Certain act relaand it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the fourtive to the bor-teenth section of the act approved the ninth day of April, A. D., one ough of York thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, entitled "An Act to erect the town of Dillsburg, in York county, and the village of McVeytown, in Mifflin county, into boroughs, and supplements to the acts erecting York and Harrisburg into boroughs," shall be so amended as to strike out the word "three," and insert the word seven in lieu thereof, and that portion of the act referred to which is inconsistent with this act, is hereby repealed, JOHN CESSNA, APPROVED-The twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. Philadelphia College of Medicine authorized to borrow money. No. 3. AN ACT To authorize the Philadelphia College of Medicine to borrow money. SECTION I. 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 corporators of the Philadelphia College of Medicine be, and they are hereby authorized to raise by loan or otherwise, a sum not exceeding eighty thousand dollars, and to expend the same in the purchase of a lot or lots of ground in the city of Philadelphia, and the erection thereon of a suitable building or buildings, for the accommodation of the college : Provided, That the corporate property of said college shall be liable for the payment of any loan or debts contracted in the purchase of sid lot or lots, and the erection of said buildings with the interest thereon. APPROVED-The twenty-third day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 4. A SUPPLEMENT To the act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Williamsport Bridge Company, in the county of Lycoming, and for other purposes," passed the third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty. 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 president and managers of the Williamsport Bridge Company, in the county of Lycoming, shall keep a just and true account of all moneys received by the several collectors of tolls for crossing the said bridge, and after deducting therefrom all contingent costs and charges, and such proportions of the said income as may be deemed necessary for a growing fund to provide against the decay, and for the repairing and re-building of the said bridge, shall semi-annually declare a divi- Dividends. dend of the profits and income thereof among all the stockholders, and shall give notice of the time and place, when, and where the same will be paid, and shall cause the same to be paid accordingly. SECTION 2. That the eighth section of the act to which this is a sup- Repeal. plement be, and the same is hereby repealed. APPROVED-The twenty-third day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. Preamble. Certain school No. 5. AN ACT Authorizing Frederick Smith to collect the balance of school tax in Hopewell township, York county, in one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. WHEREAS, The school directors of Hopewell township, York county, did, agreeably to the then existing laws of the State, assess a tax for school purposes in May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, and in June following issued their warrant to Washington Meads, of said township, for collection : And whereas, Said Washington Meads volunteered his services in the Mexican war, and left said township in March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and died at Tampico in August following, having appointed an agent to collect the balance of said tax: And whereas, Two years elapsed, leaving a considerable amount uncollected, and the original warrant having expired by its own limitation, it is advised by the superintendent to have an act passed to authorize and empower some fit person to collect said balance; 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 anthority of the same, That the school directors of Hopewell common school district, in York county, tax in Hopewell be, and they are hereby authorized to issue their warrant to Frederick school district, Smith, or some other person, authorizing the collection of the balance York county, au- of school tax unpaid on the duplicate of one thousand eight hundred thorized to be and forty-six, which warrant shall have the same force and effect as the original warrant had when issued. collected. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The twenty-third day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 6. AN ACT To authorize the Sheriff of Allegheny county to sell certain real estate, and to secure money on bond and mortgage. WHEREAS, James C. M'Cully, late of Upper Saint Clair township, Allegheny county, died intestate and without issue, owning certain real estate which is incumbered by certain judgments, upon which said real estate has been levied upon and is about being sold to pay debts: And whereas, All the parties interested as heirs-at-law of the said deceased, have united in a memorial to this Legislature, praying that the proceeds of said real estate beyond what is required to pay debts, should be secured by bond and mortgage, and remain chargeable upon said real estate until the death of Thomas McCully the father, and Mary McCully the widow, of the said decedent; 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 sheriff of Allegheny county, in the sale of the said real estate of James McCully, deceased, is authorized to sell the same in such manner that all the proceeds beyond the amount required to pay the debts, shall be secured by bond and mortgage upon the said real estate, the interest payable semi-annually to the father and widow of said decedent, respectively, and the principal to be paid, one-half on the death of the said father, and the other half on the death of said widow, to the persons who may be entitled thereto under the intestate laws of this Commonwealth. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. BENJAMIN MATTHIAS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 7. AN ACT Authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Columbus and State Line Plank 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 John Judson, Williard Murry, Henry Stevens, Elijah Hill, Porter Da- Commissions. mon, George W. Humphrey, Horatio Crosby, and Erastus Pearce, or a majority of them, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books and receive subscriptions and organize a company by the name, style, and title of "The Columbus and State Line Plank Road Com- Style. pany," with power to construct a plank road from the village of Columbus, in the county of Warren, to the New York State Line, so as to intersect the Westfield and Clymer Plank Road by the nearest and Subject to probest route, as the stockholders may determine, subject to all the pro- visions of cervisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road tain act. Capital stock. Commencement of road. companies, passed the twenty-sixth day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the supplements thereto. SECTION 2. That the capital of said company shall consist of three hundred shares, at twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That the said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital so much as in their opinion may be necessary to complete the road, and to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That if said company shall not commence the construcand completion tion of their road within three years after the passage of this act, and complete the same within ten years thereafter, this act shall be null and void, except so far as may be necessary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of said company. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 8. AN ACT To authorize the justices of the peace elected for Marion township, in Greene county, to hold their offices within the borough of Waynesburg, in said county. 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 it shall be lawful for the justices of the peace elected for the township of Marion, in the county of Greene, to hold their offices within the borough of Waynesburg, in said county, and their official acts shall be good and valid as if done or performed within the limits of their proper township, and it shall also be lawful for the said justices of the peace, elected for said township, to accept their commissions respectively, now lying in the proper office of said county, on complying with the requirements of the law, although more than six months have elapsed since the date thereof. APPROVED-The twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. |