township; payment to be made to the contractor or contractors, as the same shall be from time to time collected from the road taxes: Provided, That the supervisor shall, and hereby is required to visit and inspect the making and repairing of the public roads in said township, at least three times during every month, and be fully satisfied before payment be made, that the contractors have fully complied with his or their contracts; for which services so rendered, the said supervisor shall receive a compensation not exceeding fifty dollars, to be determined by the auditors of said township. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. BENJAMIN MATTHIAS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of February, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 66. A SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled "An Act regulating election districts," approved the tenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. 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 William M. Johnston shall act as judge, and Thomas Gourley and James Means as inspectors, of the spring election to be held in Perry township, Jefferson county, in pursuance of the twenty-fifth section of the act to which this is a supplement, and that said election shall be held on the fourth Monday of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of February, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. Persons insur No. 67. A SUPPLEMENT To the act entitled "an An Act to incorporate the Penn Mutual Life Insurance 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 all persons who shall hereafter insure with the Penn Mutual Life InLife Insurance Surance Company of Philadelphia, and continuing to be insured therein, Company to be- shall thereby become members during the period they shall remain income members, sured by the said corporation, and no longer. ing with the Penn Mutual &c. Votes at elections. May invest funds in bonds, &c. May invest in loans, &c. Annual statement of affairs. SECTION 2. That at elections for trustees, each insured member for any sum not less than one dollar, paid in or secured as a premium of insurance to said company daring the year preceding said election, shall have one vote, and for every additionl fifty dollars so paid, one other vote. SECTION 3. That it shall be lawful for the said corporation to invest their premiums, profits, and capital, in bonds and mortgages, ground rents, stocks, and loans of the United States and State of Pennsylvania, and also in all stocks created by or under the laws of the United States or of this State, or of any of the other States of the Union, and to lend the same upon the security of such stocks, and to sell, transfer, and change the same, and to invest the funds of said corporation when the trustees shall deem the same expedient. SECTION 4. That it shall also be lawful for the said corporation to lend or invest, not exceeding fifty per cent. of their funds in loans or stocks of an incorporated city, district, or borough, or other good securities, and the same to sell, transfer, change, or reinvest, as the trustees may deem proper. SECTION 5. That the officers of said company shall on the first Monday in January of each year, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, cause a statement to be made of the affairs of the company; and if after paying all losses and expenses of the said company, and providing for outstanding risks for the year preceding the same, there remain a surplus, each member shall be entitled to such a proportion of the said surplus as the cash premiums paid by such members may bear to the aggregate surplus so declared; the statement so made shall be binding upon all persons entitled to receive certificates as hereinafter mentioned; for the proportionate share of each member so ascertained, a certificate shall be issued declaring him or them to be entitled to such a portion of the accumulated capital of the company, such certificates to be construed and governed as hereinafter mentioned; but no certificate shall be redeemed or paid off, until the assets of the company amount to four hundred thousand dollars; no certificate shall be issued for a less amount than ten dollars, or for any fractional part of ten dollars. Whenever the accumulated capital shall exceed four hundred thousand dollars, the excess may be applied from year to year thereafter, towards the redemption of each years certificates in whole or in part, as may be determined on by the board of trustees, provided the assets of the com pany exceed the value of the policies in force, to an amount equal to the dividend or certificates to be paid off; but the certificates of a subsequent year are not to be redeemed until those of a preceding year are provided for; the trustees may at their discretion declare and pay interest on such certificates, at a rate not exceeding six per cent. per annum. SECTION 6. That in case of the death of any member of the said Payment of pocompany, the amount of the policy in his name shall be paid to the licies in cases of party entitled thereto by the terms thereof, within sixty days there- death, &c. after; the certificates of dividend standing in his name or to his credit, shall also be transferred at the same time to the person legally entitled thereto, except that in the case of any husband insuring his life for the benefit of his widow; in all such cases the said certificates shall be transferred to the widow. But the profits and accumulation standing to the credit of such persons as have ceased to be members by non payment of premiums, or a renewal of their policies, agreeably to the by-laws, shall be deemed forfeited for the use of the corporation. SECTION 7. That the sections of the act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, and numbered respectively sections four, eight, twelve, fourteen, and fifteen, be, and the same are hereby repealed." JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Repeal. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of February, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 68. AN ACT Relating to supervisors, changing the road laws in certain counties, regulating certain election districts, and increasing the number of commissioners in the district of Penn, in Philadelphia county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Election of snfrom and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful for the quali-pervisors in Mafied voters of South Mahoning township, in the county of Indiana, at honing townthe time and place of holding their township elections, to elect one ship, Indiana person in each school district in said township to serve as supervisors county. in their respective districts for which they shall be elected, for the term of one year from and after their election. SECTION 2. That the said supervisors shall receive, as a compensation Compensation. for their services, one dollar cach, to be paid out of the road funds of Blacklick township, Indiana county. Settlement of their respective districts, for each and every day by them necessarily spent attending to the duties of their office, any other law to the contrary notwithstanding. SECTION 3. That hereafter it shall be lawful for the qualified voters of Blacklick township, in the county of Indiana, at the time and place of holding their township elections, to elect four persons to serve as supervisors of the roads in said township; two of said supervisors shall reside south of Blacklick creek, in said township, and two shall reside north of said creek. SECTION 4. That the supervisors elected under the provisions of the accounts by su- foregoing sections, shall settle their accounts as other supervisors in said county, and be subject to all the penalties of the road laws of this Commonwealth, so far as relates to said county. pervisors. Borough and SECTION 5. That the borough and township of Connellsville, in the township of county of Fayette, be, and the same are hereby divided into two sepaConnellsville di- rate election districts; and the qualified electors residing within the vided into sepa- limits of the borough aforesaid, will meet at their usual place of holding their spring and general elections; and the qualified voters of the township of Connellsville shall hold their spring and general elections at the South-east window in school house number two, in the borough of Connellsville. rate election districts. Election of assessors, &c. in said township. Increase of road SECTION 6. That the qualified voters of the township of Connellsville, in the county aforesaid, shall elect their own supervisors of roads, and assessors of taxes, and do all other acts as citizens of other separate election districts have of right to do: Provided, Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to interfere with the school districts as are now established. SECTION 7. That the supervisors of Auburn township, Susquehanna districts in Au- county, are hereby authorized to increase the road districts to any burn township, number, not to exceed twenty-eight, in the same manner as prescribed Susquehanna in section first of an act entitled "An Act to alter the road laws in the county. township of Lenox, in the county of Susquehanna, and for other purposes," approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. Tremont town county. SECTION 8. That hereafter but one supervisor shall be elected in the ship, Schuylkill township of Tremont, in the county of Schuylkill, who, together with the auditors of said township, shall determine, levy, and assess the amount of road tax required for each year; and they shall jointly appoint a collector of said tax, and shall require from him sufficient bond and security, to be approved by them, for the faithful performance of his duties. The said collector shall from time to time, as he shall receive the same, pay over the amount of tax collected by him to the said auditors, who shall pay all orders drawn upon them, first being satisfied that such orders are drawn for the payment of proper and wellestablished claims. masters in Cho Repeal of an act SECTION 9. That an act relating to path-masters in the townships of relating to path- Choconut and Middletown, in the county of Susquehanna, passed the conut and Mid-eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, dletown t'nshps, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same relates to the Susquehan. co. township of Choconut. ditional com missioners for the District of Authorizing ad- SECTION 10. That on the third Friday of March next, the qualified voters of the district of Penn, in the county of Philadelphia, shall elect six commissioners in addition to those now authorized by law to be annually elected. Two of said additional commissioners shall be elected for one year, two for two years, and two for three years. That annually thereafter the qualified voters shall, on the third Friday of Penn in the county of Philadelphia. March, in each and every year, elect five commissioners, who shall serve for a term of three years. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. BENJAMIN MATTHIAS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of February, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 69. AN ACT To enable J. H. Markland, trustee, &c., of Ann Mary Markland, to seil certain real estate. WHEREAS, John Henry Markland, of the city of Philadelphia, is seised in fee under the last will and testament of his father, John Markland, late of the city of Philadelphia, deceased, of a certain mes- Preamble. suage or tenement and lot of ground, situate on the north side of Sassafras street, at the distance of eighty-nine feet seven inches eastward from Delaware Ninth street, containing in front or breadth on said Sassafras street, seventeen feet three inches, and in length or depth northward, one hundred feet (being the same premises which Jacob Perkins and wife, by indenture, dated February the twenty-seventh, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, in deed book G. S., number thirty-two, page two hundred and twenty-five, &c., granted and conveyed to the said John Markland, in fee), two-third parts thereof in his own right, and the remaining third part as trustee for his sister, Ann Mary Markland, for life; which said last-mentioned third part thereof is by the said will devised to the issue of the said Ann Mary Markland, and in case she should depart this life without leaving any such issue her surviving, the whole estate in the said premises, legal and equitable, is by the terms of the said will vested in the said John Henry Markland. And whereas, The said Ann Mary Markland is now upwards of sixty-two years of age, unmarried, and without children, so that the said John Henry Markland and Ann Mary Markland are the sole persons actually interested in the said premises, and are desirous of making sale of the same. 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 said John Henry Markland, trustee as aforesaid, shall have full Trustees of Ann power to grant and convey the said premises in fee, freed and discharged from all and every trust created by said will, and shall take and hold the consideration or purchase money received for the same, pursuant M. Markland, power to sell real estate. |