Board of health, duties of.

Further

powers.

Authorized to remove nuisances, &c.

the mode of visiting and examining vessels, persons, goods, and houses; they shall also have power to appoint such physicians, officers, and servants as may be necessary to attend the lazaretto and city hospital, and to provide communication and supplies to the same, and such other officers and servants as may be necessary for the preservation of the health of the said city, together with all temporary officers and servants that may be rendered necessary by the existence of any dangerous contagious disease.

SECTION 6. That any master, commander, or other person having charge of any vessel or steamboat violating any of the rules or regula tions prescribed by the said board of health under the provisions of this act, shall upon conviction thereof by indictment or prosecution in any court having jurisdiction, pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be recovered and paid into the treasury of said board of

health.

SECTION 7. That whenever the board of health shall receive infor mation that any malignant or contagious disease (measles excepted) prevails within any port or place within the United States, they shall make diligent inquiry concering the same; and if it shall appear that the disease prevails as aforesaid, all communication with such infected port or places shall be subject to such control and regulations as the board of health may from time to time direct and publish in one or more newspapers published in the city of Pittsburgh; and thereupon every person or persons, and all goods, wares, and merchandize, bedding and clothing from such infected port or place, and having entered and been brought into the city of Pittsburgh contrary to such regula tions, shall be subject to the same penalties as is provided for in the preceding section. And any person or persons having entered or been brought into the city of Pittsburgh from such infected port or place aforesaid, may be conveyed by any person authorized by said board to such place of purification as the board may appoint or direct for that purpose, and be there detained at the pleasure of the board any time not exceeding twenty days, at the expense of such person or persons.

SECTION 8. That it shall and may be lawful for the board of health when they shall have reason to believe from the report of any physician appointed by said board that any person within the city of Pittsburgh is afflicted with any contagious disease dangerous to the community, to take measures for preventing the spreading of the contagion by forbidding and preventing all communication with the infected house or family, except by means of physicians, nurses, or messengers, to convey the necessary advice, medicines, and provisions to the afflicted, and exercise all such other powers as the circumstances of the case shall require, and as shall in their judgment be most conducive to the public good with the least private injury.

SECTION 9. That it shall be the duty of the said board to have all objects which may have a tendency to endanger the health of the citizens to be removed or corrected as they shall deem necessary for the health of the citizens. And if the owner or owners or occupiers of any premises on which such nuisance shall be found, refuse or neglect on due notice to remove or correct the same, he, she, or they so refusing or neglecting shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not less than twenty nor more than two hundred dollars, to be recovered and applied to the use of said board as provided by the sixth section of this act.

Regulations in SECTION 10. That whenever any person shall die in the said city, case of death. the physician or surgeon who shall have attended such person during his or her last sickness, shall leave a note in writing with his name

with some one of the family in the house where such person shall have died, specifying the name, age, color, residence, whether married or i single, employment, and the disease of which he or she shall have died; and every physician or surgeon refusing or neglecting to make and deG' liver such note shall forfeit the sum of five dollars, and that no sexton of any church or other person having charge of any cemetery, vault, or burial-ground within five miles of the court house of Allegheny county, shall permit any dead body from the said city to be interred therein until he has received such note in writing, so signed as aforesaid, or in case no physician or surgeon shall have attended such deceased person, or the physician or surgeon who did attend shall have neglected or refused to leave such note, then the family in which such person shall have died shall apply to a physician who shall be appointed by the board of health to make the necessary examination in such cases, and who shall give to the family a note as herein before provided, the contents of which note in writing shall be entered by such sexton or other person on a blank schedule to be furnished by the clerk of the health office, or such other person as the board shall direct, and delivered together with the schedule on the Monday of every week to the health officer for publication in such form as may be directed by the said board of health; and every sexton or other person having charge of any place of interment as aforesaid, neglecting or refusing to perform any of the duties required by this act, shall forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars, the penalties provided for in this section to be applied to the uses of said board: Provided, That for the purpose of preserving uniformity in said returns the board may cause printed blanks to be prepared for the use of the physicians and surgeons in carrying out the provisions of this section.

SECTION 11. That the councils of the said city are hereby authorized Appropriations. to set aside such revenues or to make such appropriations of money as

may be necessary to carry out fully the designs and objects of this act.

SECTION 12. That it shall be lawful for the judges of the Court of Licenses in ButQuarter Sessions of Butler county to grant license to keep public houses ler county. of entertainment at the ensuing June term of said court: Provided, Application be made in the manner prescribed by existing laws.

APPROVED-The eighth day of April, A. D., eighteen hundred and

fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

ncorporate.

Style.

Privileges.

Trustees.

Annual election of trustees.

Powers.

No. 323.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Sheafferstown Academy, relative to suits on registered taxes in the county of Philadelphia.

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 there shall be, and is hereby established in the town of Sheafferstown, in the county of Lebanon, an academy or public school for the education of youth in the English, Latin, and other languages, and in the useful arts, sciences, and literature, by the name, style, and title, of "The Sheafferstown Academy," under the care and direction of seven trustees, who and their successors in office shall be, and are hereby declared to be one body politic and corporate in deed and in law, by the name, style, and title, of "The Sheafferstown Academy," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts of law and equity, and shall be capable in law and equity to take, hold, and purchase, for the use of said academy, lands, goods, chattels, moneys, of any kind what soever by gift, grant, conveyance, devise, or bequest, from any person or persons whomsoever capable of making the same, and the same from time to time to sell, convey, mortgage, or dispose of for the use of said academy, and to erect such buildings as may be necessary, and generally to do all and singular the matters and things which may be lawful for them to do for the well-being of the academy and the due management and ordering of the affairs thereof.

SECTION 2. That until trustees for said academy shall be elected in the manner herein provided, George. F. Miller, William M. Weighly, Thomas Benter, Samuel Fetler, Michael Ream, Allen J. Hibsham, and Michael Mace, shall serve as trustees of said academy, four of whom shall be a quorum to transact business.

SECTION 3. That an election of trustees shall take place on the first Monday of January in each year, to be held in the principal buildings belonging to said corporation. Said election shall commence at three o'clock, P. M., and continue until five o'clock, P. M., which election shall be conducted by two managers appointed by the trustees then acting as such. No person shall be allowed to vote for trustees, unless he be a stockholder in the property and effects of said corporation to the amount of at least one share, and each shareholder shall be entitled to one vote for every share he may hold.

SECTION 4. That the board of trustees shall have power to fill vacancies, to appoint their president and secretary, each of whom shall be one of the trustees. They shall have power to choose a treasurer who shall be a stockholder, and enact such by-laws as may be necessary, not being inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States or the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth. Four of said trustees shall constitute a quorum, who may in the absence of the president appoint a president pro tempore. Said trustees shall be authorized to receive subscriptions in sums of any amount for the purpose of purchasing the real estate, books, philosophical apparatus, and other property necessary for the affairs of said corporation, and to give to such subscriber,

provided he subscribe to the amount of ten dollars, a certificate under the seal of said corporation, which certificate shall constitute the holder thereof a shareholder. Said trustees may, if they deem it expedient, lease and hire out the real and personal effects of said corporation to a competent teacher or teachers, and receive and collect rent and compensation for the use of such real and personal estate, and the same to divide rateably among the stockholders, after first deducting all necessary charges and expenses for repairs, taxes, and the due management of the affairs of said academy.

SECTION 5. That the trustees may sell a sufficient quantity of stock Sale of stock. at the original cost (to wit, at ten dollars) per share to finish the build

ing and pay the debts of the institution, and may also effect an insurance of the premises against fire, either temporary or perpetual, out of the funds of the institution.

SECTION 6. That three of the stockholders shall be appointed trus- Title to lands, tees, to whom the title of the lands and building shall be made and held &c., to vest in in trust for the use and benefit of the said corporation.

trustees.

SECTION 7. That no misnomer of said corporation shall defeat or an- Misnomer. nul any gift, grant, devise, or bequest, to or from the said corporation: Provided, That the intent of the parties shall sufficiently appear upon the face of the gift, will, or writing, whereby any estate or interest was intended to pass to or from the said corporation.

SECTION 8. That so much of any law or laws of this Commonwealth Registered taxes as require three months' notice to be given of publication in a daily in Philadelphia newspaper of the county of Philadelphia before suit brought for the county, relative recovery of registered taxes in said county, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and that on and after the passage of this act, one week of such publication shall be deemed and taken to be sufficient notice.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

BENJAMIN MATTHIAS,
Speaker of the Senate.

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

to.

hundred and fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 324.

AN ACT

Authorizing the laying out of a State road from a point on the public road leading up Mill creek, at or near John G. Miles' saw mill, in Huntingdon county, to intersect the public road leading from the mouth of Mill creek through Kishaquoquillas valley to Brown's mills, in Mifflin county, incorporating the Sullivan and Bradford Plank Road Company, relative to the claim of Benjamin Bonsall, to an election district in Mifflin county, and to the collection of school tax in Beale township, Juniata 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

Location of road.

Commissioners. Thomas Fisher and Hon. John Ker, of Huntingdon county, and William Wilson, of Mifflin county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, lay out, and mark a State road, beginning at a point on the public road leading up Mill creek to Couch's mill, at or near John G. Miles' saw mill, in Huntingdon county, thence over Stone mountain to intersect the public road leading from the mouth of Mill creek through Kishaquoquillas valley to Brown's mills, at any point which the said commissioners, or a majority of them, may consider the most eligible between Roxberry, in Huntingdon county, and Allenville, in Mifflin county.

Duty of commissioners.

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Accounts.

SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of the said commissioners, or a majority of them, appointed to view as aforesaid, after having been sworn or affirmed before some justice of the peace or other competent authority to perform the duties enjoined on them by this act with impartiality and fidelity, carefully to view the ground over which the road by them laid out may pass, and lay out the same on as direct a route between the aforesaid points as the nature of the ground and circumstances will permit, and so that the vertical departure from a horizontal line shall at no point exceed five degrees, except at the crossings at ravines and streams, where by moderate filling and bridging the declination of the road may be preserved within that limit; and further, it shall be the duty of said commissioners to have due regard to the crossing of waters, the nature of the ground and damages to private property, and all other circumstances that may effect the route, so that by a judicious combination of them, the route adopted may best promote the public good; and that they shall clearly and distinctly mark upon the ground the route agreed upon in such a manner as to enable the supervisors readily to find the same. And for the purpose of fulfilling the duties in this act enjoined, the commissioners herein mentioned and named shall receive a per diem allowance of one dollar and fifty-cents each for every day they shall be necessarily employed in performing the duties enjoined by this act; and in case any of the said commissioners shall perform the duties of surveyor he shall receive fifty cents per diem in addition; and the said commissioners are hereby authorized to employ one surveyor at two dollars per diem, two chain carriers and one axeman at a per diem allowance to each not exceeding one dollar.

SECTION 3. That it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to make out a fair and accurate draft of the location of said road, noting thereon the courses and distances as they occur, the improvements passed through, and also the crossing of county and township lines, roads, and waters, with such other matters as may serve for explanation; one copy whereof shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth on or before the first day of January next, and one copy in the office of the clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of each of the counties in which any part of the said road may be located according to the provisions of this act, on the day aforesaid, or as much sooner as practicable, which shall be a record thereof; and from the time of the depositing of the said draft in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth and in the office of the clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of each of the counties in which any part of the said road may be located, the said road shall be, to all intents and purposes, a public highway, and shall be opened and repaired in all respects as roads are opened and repaired which are laid out by orders of the court aforesaid.

SECTION 4. That the accounts of the said commissioners for their own pay and for the pay of surveyors, chain carriers, and markers, shall be adjusted by the commissioners of the respective counties in which any part of said road may be located, according to the provisions of this