ilton and William Young, or their agent, under the trust to mortgage Daniel Negley, for a sum not exceeding seven thousand dollars (7,000,) to any person Duncan Hamilor persons, corporation or corporations, one-half of lot number four ton, and Wm. Young authorhundred and seventy-two, bounded and described as follows: Be-ized to mortgage ginning sixty feet from corner of Seventh and Smithfield streets, certain real esthence along the line of lot number four hundred seventy-one, par- tate. allel with Smithfield street, two hundred thirty-nine feet five inches to Strawberry alley, thence along Strawberry alley thirty feet, thence by a line through the centre of said lot to Seventh street, thence along Seventh street thirty feet to the place of beginning, on which is erected a brick stable three stories high, with an ice house in the basement for the purpose aforesaid, the said mortgage shall be good and available in law and equity, to all intents and purposes, as if the said property was held in fee simple by the said trustees: Provided, The Court of Common Pleas of said county of Allegheny shall approve of and decree or direct such loan and mortgage. SECTION 15. That the Auditor General be authorized and directed Auditor General to settle and close the accounts of Alfred Sutton, deceased, late pro- authorized to thonotary of Allegheny county, when it shall be made to appear to settle the achim by proper proofs and vouchers that the full amount of all fees and Sutton, dedues of whatever kind, without any interest on the same, has been paid ceased. and satisfied. counts of Alfred county. SECTION 16. That the county commissioners of the county of Sus- Public buildings quehanna be, and they are hereby authorized, whenever they deem the authorized to be interest of the county require, to build a new court house, jail, and erected in Suspublic offices for the use of said county, at the borough of Montrose : quehanna Provided, The said county commissioners shall not enter into any contract for the erection of said building or buildings until the grand jurors summoned for the next April term, or a subsequent grand jury of the Court of Quarter Sessions for the county of Susquehanna, shall have reported in favor thereof. and levies. SECTION 17. That whenever the said county commissioners shall determine upon building, and shall commence the same, the commissioners of the said county of Susquehanna are hereby authorized and County rates required to add the sum of five hundred dollars to the usual county rates and levies of the borough of Montrose, in said county, for ten consecutive years from the time of the commencement to erect the said building or buildings, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of erecting the same. SECTION 18. That the manner of laying and collecting said tax in Manner of layeach year shall be as follows: After the assessment shall have been ing and collectcompleted, and the day of appeal shall have passed, the commissioners ing said tax shall add to the tax of each person assessed in said borough for county regulated. purposes their proportion of five hundred dollars as the tax of such person shall bear to the aggregate amount of taxies levied upon said borough for county purposes. When such addition shall be made, the duplicate shall be made out, and their warrant issued in manner and form authorized and allowed by law; and all laws applicable to the collection of county rates in the said borough are hereby made applicable to the collection of additional tax hereby imposed. SECTION 19. That the county commissioners of the county of Susquehanna be, and they are hereby authorized to borrow for the purpose of building as aforesaid, any sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars upon the credit of the county, at any interest not exceeding six per cent., and reimbursable at such times as they may deem proper, not exceeding fifteen years. Borrow money. Wiconisco town SECTION 20. That hereafter, the qualified voters of Wiconisco township, Dauphin ship, Dauphin county, shall hold their general, special, and township elections at the public house now kept by George W. Wilt. co, place of hold ing elections in. Repeal of cer a State road from Smecks SECTION 21. That the provisions of the several sections of an act tain act to locate entitled "An Act to locate a State road from Smecksburg to intersect the Clarion and Cherrytree State road at or near the house of William burg to the Cla- Riddle, Esq., in Indiana county, approved March tenth, one thousand rion and Cherry-eight hundred and forty-eight," be, and the same are hereby repealed. SECTION 22. That the district of Richmond, in the county of PhilaDistrict of Rich- delphia, shall not be subject to damages to the Philadelphia and Brismond not to be tol Turnpike Road Company, for obstructing the same during the time of curbing and paving said turnpike road within the limits of said dis tree road. subject to certain damages. trict. APPROVED-The twelfth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 254. AN ACT Regulating certain election districts, and for other purposes. SECTION 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen Lynn township, tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly Lehigh county, met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That authorized to the electors of the township of Lynn, in the county of Lehigh, be anthorized to elect hereafter three supervisors of the public highways, in place of two as heretofore. elect an addi tional supervisor. Perry township, SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act, the quali Clarion county, fied voters of the township of Perry, in the county of Clarion, shall place of holding hold their general and township elections at the house of Andrew Harelections in. shaw, in said township. Lathrop town SECTION 3. That the qualified voters of Lathrop township, Susqueship, Susquehanna county, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the house of Elisha Lord, in said township. hanna county. Borough of Elkland, Tioga county. SECTION 4. That from and after the passage of this act, the borough of Elkland, in the county of Tioga, shall be a separate election district, and the qualified voters in said borough shall hold their borough and general elections at the house of D. B. Shoff; and John Parkhurst shall be judge, and Charles Ryan and Leander Culver inspectors, of election in said borough: Provided, That after the first election the qualified voters in said borough shall elect their officers. น SECTION 5. That the general and special elections for the township Upper Merion, of Upper Merion, Montgomery county, shall hereafter be held at the Montgomery public house known as the King of Prussia, in said township. county. SECTION 6. That the qualified voters of Upper Hanover township, Upper Hanover in the county of Montgomery, shall hereafter hold their general elec- township, Monttions at the public house of Abraham Croll, in said township. gomery county. SECTION 7. That the qualified voters of the township of Green, in Green township, the county of Clinton, shall hereafter hold their general and township Clinton county. elections at the house now occupied as an office by Levi Conser, in the village of Logansville, in said township. SECTION 8. That the qualified voters of the township of Allison, in Allison townthe county of Clinton, shall hereafter hold their general and township ship, Clinton elections at the school house in the village of Flemington, in said county. township. SECTION 9. That the township of Laporte, in the county of Sulli- Laporte townvan, shall hereafter constitute a separate election district, and that ship, Sullivan the qualified electors thereof shall hold their general and township elec- county. tions at the house now occupied by John C. Wilson, in said township; and that the election held at said house, in pursuance of an order of the Court of Quarter Sessions of said county, on the ninth day of October last, of justices of the peace and other township officers of said township, shall be held to be as valid, to all intents and purposes, as if the same had been held by a judge and inspectors who had been previously elected or appointed. SECTION 10. That from and after the passage of this act, the quali- Deerfield townfied voters of the township of Deerfield, in the county of Tioga, shall ship, Tioga hold their general and township election at the school house of Caleb county. Shorts, in said township. Greene county. SECTION 11. That hereafter, the qualified voters of the township of Cumberland Cumberland, in the county of Greene, shall at their annual spring elec- township, tions, elect two supervisors of roads and highways in addition to the two already authorized by law, who shall be invested with the same powers and authorities, and be subject to the same duties, that are prescribed by existing laws. SECTION 12. That all that part of the south-western part of Pittston South Pittston township, in the county of Luzerne, be, and it is hereby set off into a election district separate election district, to be called South Pittston; that is to say, in Luzerne beginning at the Susquehanna river on the north line of Samuel Tay-county, erected. lor's land in Pittston, thence a south-east course along said line and continuing the same course to the east line of certified Pittston. The north line of the said district shall commence on the south line of William Tompkins' land at the Susquehanna river, thence back the course of the said line to the said east line of certified Pittston. The Susquehanna shall be the western boundary of the said district, and the said certified line the eastern boundary, and Peter Winters shall be the judge of the next general and township election, and George Cooper and John Blanchard inspectors thereof, and the elections for said district shall be held at the public house of Samuel Hodgson. SECTION 13. That the qualified voters of M'Kean county are hereby Election of authorized and required to elect at the next general election one per- county officers son to fill the offices of prothonotary, clerk of the Courts of General in McKean Quarter Sessions and Oyer and Terminer, and one other person to fill county. the offices of register of wills, recorder of deeds, and clerk of the Orphans' Court. SECTION 14. That the qualified voters of all that part of Armaugh Armaugh town- township, in Mifflin county, lying east of the line commencing at the ship, Mifflin middle of the road at the stone meeting house in Brown township, in county, place of said county; thence along said road to the end of the lane known as holding elec tions in. Industry election district in Beaver county, erected. Sparta town Jonathan Abraham's lane, near the residence of Thomas Longwell, junior; thence running in a straight line to the west end of Cressman's knob, to the Union county line, shall hold their general elections at the office of E. E. Lock, and that Hugh Connelly and Benjamin Wallace shall be inspectors, and Andrew M'Farland shall be judge, at the next ensuing election. SECTION 15. That all the territory included within the following boundary, to wit: Beginning at the Ohio river, in Brighton township, Beaver county, south-east corner of tract No. 5, M'Cleans district; thence to the north end of said tract; thence to widow Dannels; thence to Daniel Knights; thence to Joseph Ewings, in Ohio township; thence to Alexander Ewings; thence to John Reeds; thence to George Masons and Samuel Ewings; thence to Alexander Todds; thence by the east line of Samuel and Jesse Smith's farm to the Ohio river; thence up said river to the place of beginning, is hereby erected into a separate and independent election district, to be called "Industry," and shall hold their general election and judge and inspectors election at the public school house in the town of Industry. Richard Knight shall act as judge, and John W. Engle and Thomas Wilson as inspectors, of the next general election, and shall hold and exercise the duties of their said offices until their successors are duly elected; which election will be held as aforesaid on the second Friday of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two; and it shall be the duty of the constable of Brighton township to give public notice of such election at least ten days previous, by at least three printed or written notices set up at the most public places in said district. SECTION 16. That the citizens of Sparta township, Crawford county, ship, Crawford shall hereafter hold their township and general elections at the Spartansburg school house, in said township of Sparta. county. Troy township, ty. Preston township, Wayne county. Mount Pleasant township, Wayne county, repeal of certain act relative to. Official adver SECTION 18. That the qualified electors of the township of Preston, in the county of Wayne, shall after the passage of this act elect six supervisors and two overseers of the poor in said township; and all laws conflicting with this section so far as relates to said township are hereby repealed. SECTION 19. That so much of the act of twenty-sixth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled "An Act declaring certain creeks mentioned public highways," is hereby repealed so far as relates to the Lackawaxon creek from Aldenville, in Clinton township, to the turnpike bridge near the house of Thomas Slayton, in Mount Pleasant township, in Wayne county. SECTION 20. That on and after the passage of this act, all official tisements in Lu- advertisements of the various officers in the county of Luzerne, for zerne county, which the said county is required to pay, shall be published under the how paid for. direction of the commissioners of the county of Luzerne, in such paGilbert Warner, pers as they shall designate. authorized to SECTION 21. That Gilbert Warner, Esquire, recently elected a jushold his office as tice of the peace for the township of Bridgewater, in the county of justice of the Susquehanna, be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to hold peace, in Bridge-his courts and to transact all the business of his said office within the water township, Susquehanna borough of Montrose, the said borough being situate within the said township of Bridgewater. county. SECTION 22. That the time of completing the Clearfield and Cur- Clearfield and winsville turnpike road is hereby extended for the period of three years, Curwensville and that William Powell, James Alexander, and Isaac Smith are hereby turnpike road, time of compleappointed commissioners to do and perform the several things provided tion extended. in the charter of said Clearfield and Curwinsville Turnpike Road Company, in the place of John R. Bloom, Thomas Brown, and Joseph Boon. SECTION 23. That the State Treasurer be, and he is hereby author- Emanue! Remized to pay to Emanuel Remley, of Greene county, or order, an old ley, an old solsoldier, an annuity of forty dollars payable half yearly, commencing on dier, for relief the first day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred of. and fifty-one. SECTION 24. That the election of William Frick at the late borough Election of election in the borough of Lewisburg, as a councilman of said borough, Wm. Frick as councilman of shall be valid to all intents and purposes, the same as though he had Lewisburg valiresided in the said borough for the period of one year previous to said dated. election. SECTION 25. That the qualified electors of Pine township, in the Pine township, county of Allegheny, shall hold their general and township elections at Allegheny counthe house of Hugh Crummy in said township, and that Thomas Wal- ty, place of lace is hereby appointed judge, and William Rogers and William holding elecM'Kinney are appointed inspectors to act until others are duly elected tions in. to fill said office. SECTION 26. That hereafter, the qualified voters of M'Candless town- McCandless ship in Allegheny, shall hold their general and township election at the township, Allegheny county. house of James Anderson in said township, and William Peters is hereby appointed judge, and William Peebles and Benjamin Sarver are hereby appointed inspectors, to act until others are duly elected to fill said offices. and inhabitants SECTION 27. That the commissioners aud inhabitants of the district Certain powers of Southwark be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to granted to the lease for the benefit of the said district the ends of the public streets commissioners or highways fronting upon the river Delaware within the said district, of the district of as public landings in such way and manner as they have heretofore Southwark. been accustomed to lease the same, and also to have the same power, authority, use, and enjoyment of the same, as is now exercised and possessed by the city of Philadelphia over the landings at the foot of the public streets upon the same river within the said city: Provided, That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to use the ends of any such streets fronting upon the river Delaware, for the purpose of storing wood, coal, lumber, staves, or other merchandize. SECTION 28. That the qualified voters of the township of Springhill, Springhill townin the county of Bradford, shall hereafter hold their general and town- ship, Bradford ship elections at the school house near James Black's in said township, county, place of and said township of Springhill shall hereafter be known and called holding elecby the name of Tuscarora. tions in. dale erected into SECTION 29. That from and after the passage of this act, the city of Carbondale shall be and constitute one school district, and for the ex- City of Carbonisting school year and until the next annual spring election the directors a school district. elected for the district of Carbondale, and resident within the limits of said city, shall be the board of school directors for the district composed by the said city of Carbondale, with power to fill vacancies and do all and every the things which to said office appertain, and which the board of school directors are by law in their respective districts authorized to do. |