No. 230.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

To an act passed the twenty-seventh day of February, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, entitled "An Act to incorporate the district of Richmond, in the county of Philadelphia, in relation to the security of tax collectors in said county, to streets in Germantown, to the vacation of Wager street, in the District of Kensington, and relating to a school house in Philadelphia 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 Commissioners the commissioners of the district of Richmond shall have full power to of the district of contract with any person or persons, body or bodies corporate, for the Richmond au introduction of water into the said district, and all contracts and ments relating to the same at any time heretofore made between the said commissioners and any other person or persons, body or bodies corporate, shall be as valid and binding as if the same were made after the passage of this act.

thorized to introduce water into said district.

Further powers.

Expenses.

Taxes to be a lien.

Regulations.

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SECTION 2. That the said commissioners shall have full power and authority to lay iron pipes and introduce the Delaware river or other wholsome water into any street, road, lane, or alley within said district, and the real estate fronting on any such street, road, or alley, shall be taxed and liable in proportion to its extent in front, for all the expenses that may be incurred in laying the said pipes and introducing the said water, and also shall be subject thereafter to all such taxes or assessments that may be laid from time to time for keeping up the necessary supply of water, and the expenses attendant thereon: Provided, That all expenses incurred in laying the pipes along the intersection of any street, road, lane, or alley, and erecting the necessary number of fireplugs, and for the repairs thereof, shall be provided for and paid in such manner as shall be prescribed by the said board of commissioners.

SECTION 3. That in assessing the expenses of laying the said pipes, the said board of commissioners shall make an allowance on all corner lots of one-third of the length of one of their fronts, making the allowance always and only on the street, lane, road, or alley upon which such street shall have the longest front, but in case both fronts are of equal length, then the allowance shall be made on the street in which the pipes shall be last laid, but in no case shall the allowance exceed more than fifty feet on any one corner lot, and the expense for pipes so allowed shall be provided and paid for in the same manner that fireplugs and pipes laid in the intersection are.

SECTION 4. That the taxes or assessments charged against the said properties respectively, agreeably to the second section of this act, together with the interest thereon and costs of collection, shall be a lien against the said properties, and shall be paid in preference to any subsequent lien on the same, and the claims therefor shall be filed and recovered in law by the said commissioners in the same manner that claims for paving and curbing are filed and recovered.

SECTION 5. That the said board of commissioners be, and they are hereby authorized to make, ordain, and establish such laws, ordinances,

and regulations as shall or may be necessary for the introduction, distribution, and regulation of the said water, and all other matters and things connected therewith, and the same to enforce with like powers as have heretofore been vested in them, and also to make, alter, and amend the same as occasion may require.

curb and pave side walks, &c.

SECTION 6. That the commissioners aforesaid are hereby authorized Commissioners and empowered to curb and pave any of the side walks of said streets, authorized to lanes, or alleys of said district, whenever they may deem the same necessary, and charge the cost of such curbing and paving to the owners of property fronting on said streets, lanes, or alleys, and the cost of the same shall be collected as now provided by law.

Tax collectors

SECTION 7. That in case of dispute arising between the county commissioners of Philadelphia county, and any collector of State and county in Philadelphia taxes as to the sufficiency of the security which may be offered by said county, relative collector for the faithful performance of duties required by law, an ap- to security of. peal shall be had by said collector to the judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions sitting in banc, who shall have and exercise power to determine the matter, and upon the decision of said judges in favor of the acceptance of the security offered, the said commissioners shall proceed to fill up the bonds and receive the security offered as aforesaid, and issue a commission to said collector.

SECTION 8. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may Streets in Gerbe lawful for the surveyor of the borough of Germantown, under the mantown, reladirection of the town councils, to so alter and amend the plan of said tive to. borough, by the addition of one or more streets, as in the judgment of

said council may be deemed necessary, subject to all the rights, privileges, and restrictions of the act to which this is a supplement not hereby repealed.

SECTION 9. That Wager street between Fourth street and the Ger- Wager street, mantown road in the district of Kensington, county of Philadelphia, is part of vacated. hereby vacated, and the title to the soil to the middle of said street is hereby vested in fee simple in the owners of ground fronting thereon.

SECTION 10. That the first section of an act entitled "An Act au- Relating to Walthorizing Watson Comly, Josiah Walton, and Charles Walmsley, to nut Hill school sell and convey certain real estate, and for other purposes," passed the house, in Philanineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, be, delphia county. and the same is hereby repealed.

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

hunndred and fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 231.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

To the act to incorporate the Dauphin and Susquehanna Coal Company, passed the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly Dauphin and met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Susquehanna the stockholders of the Dauphin and Susquehanna Coal Company at Coal Company, their annual elections may elect from their own body such number of relative to elec- directors, not less than seven nor more than eleven, as may be prescribed from time to time by the by-laws of said company; and at all meetings of the directors convened according to such by-laws, five members shall constitute a quorum.

tions by.

SECTION 2. That for the purpose of extending, completing, and Borrow money stocking the railroad of said company, and of discharging its debts and liabilities, and for its general business, the said company are hereby empowered from time to time to borrow on terms as may be agreed upon such sums as may be requisite, not exceeding in the aggregate four hundred thousand dollars, and to pledge any of their property for the payment of the same, with the right to the lender of converting said loan or any part thereof into so much of the stock which said company is now authorized to issue: Provided, That in lieu of deferring the payment to the State Treasurer of any part of the bonus of one per cent. on their stock until the completion of said railroad as now provided by law, the said company shall pay to the said treasurer in full for said bonus the sum of four thousand dollars in four annual instalments of one thousand dollars each, the first instalment thereof to be paid on the first day of July next.

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

hundred and fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 232.

AN ACT

Authorizing the commissioners of Armstrong county to sell certain real estate, in relation to the sale of the real estate of John Stewart, of Adams county, to the Lykens Valley Railroad Company, and incorporating the Loretto Turnpike Road Company in Cambria county.

WHEREAS, Two successive grand juries of the county of Armstrong have made presentment to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of said county that the public buildings in said county are unfit for public use, and that a new court house, public offices, and jail ought to be erected;

And whereas, The said court and the commissioners of said county have approved of said presentments;

And whereas, The tax-payers of said county are desirous that the lot of ground situate in the borough of Kittanning, in the county aforesaid, on which the court house, academy, and public offices are erected should be sold, and the proceeds of sale be applied to the erection of the proposed new public buildings; therefore,

Preamble.

of Armstrong

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprezentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the county commissioners of the said county of Armstrong be, and Commissioners they are hereby authorized to divide the said lot of ground into lots of county authorsuch size and number as in their opinion will at a public sale yield the ized to sell cerlargest amount of funds for the purpose herein before mentioned, and tain real estate. that after such division the said commissioners, after having first given fifteen days' notice of sale in the newspapers printed in said county, shall sell at public sale at the court house in Kittanning the aforesaid lot of ground divided into lots as aforesaid, together with the buildings thereon, for the highest price that can be obtained for the same respectively, and to execute in their names to the purchasers thereof good and sufficient deeds for the same in fee simple, and that such deeds shall confer a good and indefeasable title to the respective purchasers in the property therein described, the proceeds of said sale to be paid into the treasury of said county, and to be applied towards defraying the expense of erecting the proposed new public buildings.

SECTION 2. That James Cunningham, executor of the last will and Executor of testament of John Stewart, late of Adams county, deceased, be, and he John Stewart is hereby authorized and empowered to sell all the right, title, interest, authorized to claim, and demand of the said John Stewart, deceased, at the time of sell real estata. his death, of and to certain real estate situated in Adams county, the profits of which the said decedent devised by his last will and testament to his wife Deborah during her life or widowhood, and that the said executor make and execute to the purchaser or purchasers thereof good and sufficient conveyances in law for the same; the proceeds of such sale, after payment of all necessary expenses, to be distributed to amongst the residuary legatees under said will: Provided, That such sale and conveyance shall not be made without the assent of the said Deborah Stewart, widow of said decedent, being first had: And provided, Said executor shall first give good and sufficient security to

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Lykens Valley Railroad Company, relative

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the satifaction of the Orphans' Court of Adams county, conditioned for the faithful and proper application of the money arising from such sale or sales: And provided further, That said sale or sales shall be approved of and confirmed by said court.

SECTION 3. That the proceedings under the provisions of the fourth and fifth sections of an act of the General Assembly of the twentysixth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, relative to lateral railroads in Lykens Valley, Dauphin county, shall be subject to the appeal allowed by the act of the General Assembly of the fifth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled "An Act regulating lateral railroads," and the several supplements thereto; and the provisions of the said acts of Assembly shall apply to the said locality, notwithstanding its distance from the coal and iron deposits: Provided, That the connections of such lateral railroads with the Lykens Valley railroad shall in all cases be within one mile of the western termination thereof.

SECTION 4. That George Litzinger, Henry Scanlan, Edward Glass, Peter J. Little, Abraham Troxel, Augustin Little, Jacob Hamilton, Patrick Braniff, Peter Christy, Daniel Gallaher, and Sabastian Frye, of the county of Cambria, or any five of them, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style, and title, of "The Loretto Turnpike Road Company," to locate and construct a turnpike road from the borough of Loretto, in the county of Cambria, to a point in Washington township, in said county, on the Pennsylvania railroad, at or near where said road crosses the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh turnpike road, Subject to pro- subject to all the provisions and restrictions of "An Act regulating visions of cer- turnpike and plank road companies," approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto, so far as the same are not inconsistent with this and the following sections.

Location.

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Capital stock.

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ment and completion of road.

SECTION 5. That the capital stock of the said company shall consist of two hundred and fifty shares of twenty dollars per share: Provided, The said company may from time to time, at a meeting of the stockholders called for the purpose, increase their capital stock to such an amount as in their opinion may be required to complete the road according to the true intent and meaning of this act: And provided also, The said company may at their option construct a plank road on any part or parts of the same in lieu of a turnpike, as a majority of the stockholders in amount may determine at a meeting to be called for that purpose, and notice thereof to be first given.

SECTION 6. That if said company shall not commence the construction of their road within three years after the passage of this act, and complete the same within seven years thereafter, the two preceeding sections of this act shall be null and void, except so far as the same may be necessary to wind up the affairs of and pay the debts of said company.

JOHN CESSNA,

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

hundred and fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.