one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto. APPROVED-The twelfth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. Limits of the borough of tended. No. 278. A SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled "An Act to erect the town of Minersville, in Schuylki county, into a borough," approved the ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. 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 limits of the borough of Minersville, in the county of Schuylkill, be extended; and that from and after the passage of this act, the Minersville ex- boundary line of said borough shall be as follows: Beginning forty perches eastwardly from the north-west White Oak Corner of lands now or late the property of the Delaware Coal Company on the northern line of said lands in Cass township; thence through lands of said Delaware Coal Company and lands now or late of Bollock & Company south thirtytwo degrees, east or parallel with the original line of said borough two hundred and thirty-nine perches; thence through lands of said Bollock & Company to lands now or late of the Miners' Bank, and a tract of land known as the Dreibelbies tract, south sixty degrees, west two hundred and thirty-nine perches; thence through said Dreibelbies tract and lands now or late of Robert M. Lewis and Lawrence Lewis, and lands of Joseph Jeans, north thirty-two degrees, west two hundred and thirtynine perches; thence through lands of said Joseph Jeans and along the division line between the said Delaware Coal Company's lands and a tract of land known as the Oak Hill tract, north sixty degrees, east two hundred and thirty-nine perches, to the place of beginning. Quorum. Who entitled to vote in said borough. SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act, five members of the town council of the said borough shall form a quorum. SECTION 3. That the inhabitants of said borough entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, and who shall have resided within the said borough for six months immediately preceding any election for borough officers, and shall have paid a county or borough tax within one year immediately preceding such election, shall be qualified voters entitled to vote at any of said elections. SECTION 4. That so much of the first, second, and eighth sections of Repeal. the act to which this is a supplement, as is altered or supplied by this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. APPROVED-The twelfth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 279. AN ACT Requiring the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana county to take off the confirmation in a certain case of lunacy, and declaring certain creeks in Indiana county public highways, and relative to the elections of supervisors in White township, in said 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 Court of Common Pleas of Indiana county be, and it is hereby Confirmation of authorized and required to take off the confirmation of the inquisition a certain inquifound in the case of the Commonwealth vs. John Taylor, of Blacklick sition in a certownship, in Indiana county, by which inquisition the said John Taylor nacy in Indiana was found a lunatic, and to allow the said John Taylor to traverse the county authorsaid finding, and proceed to trial thereon with like force and effect, and ized to be taken to all intents and purposes the same, as if said finding of the said inqui- off. sition had not been confirmed by said court. tain case of lu SECTION 2. That Blacklick creek, in the county of Indiana, from its Blacklick creek, mouth or junction with the Conemaugh river up to the mouth of Two- Indiana county, lick creek, and Twolick creek from its mouth up said creek to the junc- declared a pubtion of the north branch of said creek, be, and the same are hereby lic highway. declared a public highway; and it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons desirous of using or improving said streams, to remove all obstructions, natural or artificial, in said streams, except mill or other dams erected for the purpose of using the water in said streams; and it shall be lawful for the supervisors of highways in each township through which said streams do pass, so far as they are hereby declared public highways by this act, to expend a portion of the road tax of said. townships in improving said streams; and it shall be the duty of any owner or owners of any dam or dams now erected or that may hereafter be erected across said streams, so far as they are hereby declared public highways, to fix or construct to each and every dam or dams aforesaid a sufficient schute or slope, so as to admit of a free passage of all boats, rafts, and other crafts descending said streams: Provided, Such slopes election of supervisors in. or schutes can be so constructed as not to injure the use of said dams. All other laws heretofore declaring said streams public highways as are inconsistent with this act, be, and are hereby repealed. White township, SECTION 3. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be Indiana county, lawful for the qualified voters of White township, in the county of Indiana, at the time and place of electing supervisors for said township, to elect annually four persons to serve as supervisors in said township; and John B. Allison and Abraham Moore are hereby appointed additional supervisors to serve in said township for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. APPROVED-The twelfth day of April, A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 280. AN ACT To incorporate the Dunks' Ferry and Buck Turnpike or Plank Road Company. 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 Vandegrift, Jacob Hummell, C. S. Vandergrift, Joseph Paxon, Commissioners. Thomas Hallowell, Alfred Vandergrift, Simeon V. Fenton, Benjamin Style. Location. Vanzant, Jesse Tomlinson, Joseph Lennig, John Vanzant, Thomas F. Gordon, Noah Shull, William Gibson, J. Bickley, James Thornton, Dr. King, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, by the name, style, and title, of "The Dunks' Ferry and Buck Turnpike or Plank Road Company," with power to construct a plank or turnpike road from Dunks' ferry in the county of Bucks, by the nearest and best route or routes as the stockholders or directors may determine upon, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of " An Act regulating turnpike and Subject to pro- plank road companies," passed the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, except that portion of the thirteenth section of said act relating to tolls which discriminate in favor of wheels of the breath of four inches and upwards. And the company hereby incorporated shall have power to regulate their tolls within the limits prescribed by the said thirteenth section, without reference to the width of wheels in any case. visions of cer tain act. Capital stock. SECTION 2 That the capital stock of said company shall consist of one thousand shares at twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That said company may from time to time by a vote of the stockholders at a Hy meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock 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 construc tion of their road within three years after the granting of this act, and Commencement and completion complete the same within seven years thereafer, this act shall be null of road. and void except so far as the same may be necessary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of said company. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. BENJAMIN MATTHIAS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twelfth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 281. AN ACT Authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Youngsville and Sugar Grove 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 Chauncey Smith, William Siggins, A. C. Blodget, John M'Kinny, Car- Commissioners. ter V. Kinneas, Alexander Siggins, and H. P. Kinneas, of Youngsville, and Alonzo Patch, Alvah Evens, N. B. Langdon, James Gray, and Green Clark, of Sugar Grove, in Warren county, be, and they are appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style, and title, of "The Youngsville and Sugar Grove Plank Road Company," with power to construct a plank road from Youngsville to Sugar Grove, in the county of Warren, Location. by the way of Patches, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of "An Act regulating turnpike and plank road companies," approved the Subject to protwenty-sixth day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hun- visions of cerdred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto. Style. tain act. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. two hundred and fifty shares, at fifty dollars each. SECTION 3. That if said company shall not commence the construc- Commencetion of their road within three years from the passage of this act, and ment and comcomplete the same within five years thereafter, this act shall be null and pletion of road. void, except so far as the same may be necessary to wind up the affairs and JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. BENJAMIN MATTHIAS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twelfth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. Commission ers. Form of subscription. No. 282. AN ACT To authorize the Governor to incorporate the Prompton and Cherry Ridge SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- |