No. 215.

AN ACT

Authorizing Daniel Sheesley, trustee of Thomas Harrison Jones and Mary Jones, to sell and convey certain real estate.

WHEREAS, By a certain indenture, bearing date the eighth day of November, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, between Peter Mooney and Sophia his wife, of the one part, and Daniel Sheesley of the other part, a certain house and lot of ground situated on Second street, in the borough of Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin, was conveyed to the said Daniel Sheesley, his heirs and assigns, in trust for the sole and separate use of Thomas Harrison Jones and Mary Jones, minor children of Thomas Jones and Amanda Jones.

And whereas, There exists no provision in said deed to authorize said Daniel Sheesley as trustee as aforesaid to sell and convey said house and lot.

And whereas, It is provided in said deed that all the rents, issues, and profits arising from said house and lot of ground shall be paid over by the said Daniel Sheesley, trustee, to such guardian of said Thomas Harrison Jones and Mary Jones as may be legally appointed for

them.

And whereas, It is considered for the interest of the said Thomas Harrison Jones and Mary Jones, both by their parents and the said trustee, that the said house and lot be sold and the proceeds paid over by said trustee to such guardians of said children as may be lawfully appointed for them; 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 Daniel Sheesley, trustee named in the deed of trust to him made by Peter Mooney and Sophia his wife, be, and he is hereby authorized to sell at public or private sale, as he shall deem best for the interest of said children, that certain house and lot of ground mentioned in said deed of trust, in such portions and at such time as he shall see fit, with the appurtenances, and to execute a deed or deeds to the purchaser or purchasers of the same or any portion thereof, and whenever any sale or conveyance of the said trust property shall be made, no purchaser or purchasers of the said property shall be under any obligation to see to the application of the said purchase money, or liable for its nonapplication or misapplication: Provided, That before such sale the said Daniel Sheesley shall execute a bond to the Commonwealth, in such security as the court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county approve, conditioned that the proceeds arising from the sale of said real estate, or such part thereof as may be sold, shall be paid over to the guardian or guardians of the said children as may be legally appointed

for them: Provided also, That said court shall approve and confirm the said sale or sales.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

BENJAMIN MATTHIAS,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The third day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

Incorporate.

Style.

Privileges.

Members.

No. 216.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Independent Company of Montgomery and Bucks counties for the recovery of stolen horses and detection of thieves, to authorize Elijah F. Pennypacker and others, trustees, to sell certain real estate in Norristown, and William Carney, guardian of John Cadwalader, to sell certain standing timber in Montgomery county, to authorize the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery county to incorporate Mutual Saving Fund and Building Associations in said county, and relative to an appeal from the assessment of property in Montgomery 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 the Independent Company of Montgomery and Bucks counties for the recovery of stolen horses and detection of thieves, is hereby erected into a body politic and corporate in deed and in law, by the name, style, and title, of "The Independent Company of Montgomery and Bucks counties for the recovery of stolen horses and detection of thieves," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued in all the courts of law in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, and shall be able to purchase, receive, have, hold, and enjoy, to them and to their successors, lands, tenements, hereditaments, rents, annuities, franchises, goods and chattels, of what nature, quality, or kind soever, real, personal, or mixed, or choses in action, and shall have power the same from time to time to sell, grant, alien, and dispose of: Provided, That the clear yearly income of the lands and tenements, goods and chattels, shall not exceed three thousand dollars; and also to ordain, establish, and put in execution, such subordinate laws and regulations as shall appear necessary and convenient for the government of said corporation, not being contrary to the Constitution of the United States or of this Commonwealth, and generally to do all and singular such matters and things which to them it shall lawfully appertain to do for the well-being of the said corporation and the proper management of its affairs.

SECTION 2. That this society shall consist of all such persons as are now members, or shall hereafter be admitted as such, agreeably to the by-laws of said society.

SECTION 3. That the officers of this society shall consist of a presi- Officers. dent, secretary, and treasurer, and such others as the society may think proper to elect. The duties of said officers shall be particularly set forth in the by-laws of said society.

SECTION 4. That the officers shall be chosen by ballot at a general Annual elecmeeting of the said society on the first Monday in January in each and tion. every year, at such places as a majority at a preceding annual meeting may direct, and to continue in office for one year, or until their successors be elected.

SECTION 5. That the funds of the society shall be exclusively ap- Fund. propriated to the payment of rewards offered for and the expenses incurred for the recovery of stolen horses and detection of thieves, and defraying the necessary costs attending the meetings of the society.

SECTION 6. That the Legislature reserves the right to alter, amend, Reservation. or annul this charter at any time hereafter.

authorized to

I sell certain real

estate.

SECTION 7. That Elijah F. Pennypacker, Thomas Hopkins, Isaac Elijah F. PennyRoberts, Robert Iredell, Joseph W. Conrad, Thomas Levezey, Isaac packer and Shoemaker, Daniel Foulk, Nathan Cleaver, and Lewis Jones, trustees others, trustees, named in a certain deed or declaration of trust executed by them, and recorded in the public office for recording deeds at Norristown, in and for the county of Montgomery, in deed book number sixty-six, page three hundred and eighty-three, &c., for the holding of a certain lot or piece of land situated in the borough of Norristown, in the said county, bounded by Sweede street and by lands late of Mordecai R. Moore and William H. Slingluff and Samuel Jacoby, and particularly mentioned and described in the said deed, containing two acres and seventy-six perches of land, more or less, for the purpose of erecting a meeting house thereon, at such time as may be found expedient or practicable for the use and accommodation of the members of the society of Friends (or Quakers) in unity with the yearly meeting of Friends held in Philadelphia, on second day following the second first day in the fifth month, and also for a a burial place for the dead, and for the other uses and purposes mentioned and set forth in the said deed or declaration of trust, be authorized and empowered, and they and the survivors of them are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and dispose of so much and such portion of the said lot or piece of ground as in their judgment it may be expedient and advisable to sell and dispose of, and execute a deed or deeds for the same to the purchaser or purchasers thereof in fee simple: Provided, That the said trustees, or the survivors of them, shall appropiate and apply the purchase money or proceeds arising from the said sale toward the erecting and building of a meeting house on the remaining portion of the said lot, and in the purchasing and procuring of another lot for a burial place more remote from the populous and improving parts of said borough, and also of a small strip of ground contiguous to the said first-mentioned lot or piece of land, so as to adapt the same to the present location of the streets in that part of the said borough, to be held by them, the said trustees and the survivors of them, upon the same trusts and for the same uses and purposes as are mentioned, set forth, and declared in the said deed or declaration of trust hereinbefore referred to, and for no other intent, use, or purpose whatever.

SECTION 8. That the directors of common schools of the Norristown Norristown district are hereby authorized to sell to the said trustees in the first school district. section mentioned, or to exchange with them for other land, any portion

of the ground belonging to said directors or held by them and adjoining the property mentioned in said first section, for the purpose of

Guardian of

to sell certain

standing timber.

straightening the division line between the properties, or otherwise, as the parties may agree.

SECTION 9. That William Carney, of Upper Dublin township, MontJohn Cadwala- gomery county, guardian of John Cadwalader, a minor child of Joel der authorized Cadwalader and Agnes his wife, late of Abington township, Montgomery county, or his successor in the trust, is hereby authorized and empowered to sell at public sale, after due public notice, any amount of standing timber not exceeding ten acres that is now standing upon the farm, late the aforesaid Joel Cadwalader's, in Abington township aforesaid, and the proceeds of such sale or sales to be secured at interest and remain and be subject to all the provisions, proportions, contingencies, and reversions that the real estate of the aforesaid Joel Cadwalader is subject to by his last will and testament, and the interest arising from the proceeds of such sale or sales to be applied in the same manner and in the same proportion and subject to the same contingencies that the income of the real estate of the aforesaid Joel Cadwalader is made subject to by his last will and testament: Provided, That the said William Carney, guardian as aforesaid, or his successor in the trust, before he proceeds to sell the said standing timber, shall enter into bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the Orphan's Court of Montgomery county aforesaid, conditioned for the faithful application of the proceeds of the sale of the said timber according to the true intent and meaning of this act: And provided, That the said William Carney or his successor in the trust shall not proceed to sell any timber off said premises until Agnes Cadwalader, widow of Joel Cadwalader aforesaid, shall by a written instrument request the said William Carney or his successor in the trust to sell said timber, she designating the quantity to be sold and the time of sale or sales.

Provisions of certain act ex

SECTION 10. That the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth sections of an act entitled "A Supplement to an act entitled An Act tended to Mont- to prevent waste in certain cases within this Commonwealth, passed gomery county. the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and

Further provisions.

twenty-two, to land and building associations, giving the court of Susquehanna county jurisdiction in a certain case, relative to the service of process in certain cases, to party walls in West Philadelphia, to the proof of a certain will, to the sale and purchase of certain burial grounds in Philadelphia, to the laying of gas pipes in the district of Moyamensing, to the relief of certain sureties in Erie county, to the State Lunatic Hospital, relative to the service of process against sheriffs, to the rights of married women, to ground rents, and relating to foreign insurance companies,"" approved the twenty-second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, be, and the same are hereby extended to the county of Montgomery.

SECTION 11. That all the provisions of the fifty-second section of the act of Assembly of this Commonwealth, entitled "An Act regulating election districts, and for other purposes," passed the first day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, be, and the same are hereby extended to Mongomery county, to have the same effect therein as if said section were now enacted at length.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives

BENJAMIN MATTHIAS,
Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The third day of April, A. D., one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 217.

AN ACT

To reduce the expenses of collecting State and county taxes in the county of Venango, to incorporate the Greenville and Ohio State Line Plank Road Company, and authorize the appointment of an auctioneer in the county of Law

rence.

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 hereafter it shall be the duty of the commissioners of the county of Venango, in each and every year immediately after the assessment of of taxes for State and county purposes shall be completed in the manner prescribed by law, to cause their clerk to make fair duplicates thereof in a convenient form, and deliver the same to the treasurer of the said county, together with a certificate under their hands respectively, and attested by their clerk, certifying that the taxes charged in said duplicates have been duly assessed according to law.

Duties of commissioners.

county treasurer.

SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of the county treasurer of said county, after he shall receive the duplicates of the assessments from the Duty of the county commissioners as herein before provided, to give at least thirty days' notice by weekly publication in one or more newspapers printed in said county, of the times and places at which he will attend in each township and borough in said county, for the purpose of collecting and receiving State and county taxes; and it shall be the duty of the said treasurer to attend at least one day in each township and borough in said county for the purpose aforesaid, previous to the first day of August in each year, and he shall give receipts for taxes in all cases when required by the person paying the same: Provided, That if any person shall on or before the first day of August aforesaid pay to such treasurer the amount of his or her taxes, such person shall be entitled to a deduction of five per centum on the amount thereof, which shall be in lieu of the abatement of five per cent. allowed the county by the forty-second section of the act to reduce the State debt, &c., passed the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. SECTION 3. In case any State or county tax assessed in any township or borough within the said county shall remain unpaid for a period of thirty days from and after the first day of August aforesaid, it shall

be the duty of the treasurer to issue his warrant under his hand, accom- Treasurer to panied by a schedule of all such unpaid taxes, and the names of the issue warrant, persons respectively to whom the same are charged in the proper dupli- &c. cate directed to the constable of the proper township or borough, whose duty it is hereby made to receive the same, authorizing and requiring him to demand and receive from the persons named in the schedule the sums with which they are therein charged respectively; and the said warrant shall further authorize and require such constable, in case any person named in the schedule thereto annexed shall fail to pay the amount with which such person is therein charged within ten days after demand therefor made by such constable, to levy the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such delinquent, giving ten days' public notice of such sale by written and printed advertisements; and