No. 96. AN ACT To repeal the eighth section of the act of the third of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An Act supplementary to an act passed the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo, entitled An Aet relating to Orphans' Court, and relating to contracts of decedents and escheats in certain cases, and relating to the District Court of the city and county of Philadelphia, and to Registers of Wills."" 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 eighth section of the act of the third of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An Act supplementary to an act passed the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled An Act relating to Orphans' Court, and relating to contracts of decedents and escheats, in certain cases, and relating to the District Court of the city and county of Philadelphia, and to Registers of Wills,"" be, and the same is hereby repealed. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The eighth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 97. AN ACT Supplementary to an act to incorporate the subscribers to the American Fire 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 so much of the statutes of mortmain, or of any other disabling laws Statutes of as might render voidable, or invalidate the title to any real estate, at momain receiany time held by the American fire insurance company, whether in ved in regard to security for the payment of debts, or otherwise, be, and the same is hereby waived and dispensed with, so far as this waiver or dispensation by the Ameri a certain conveyance made can Fire Insur- by the Commonwealth be requisite in order to confirm or establish any ance company. conveyance, or assurance thereof made, or to be made, by the said American fire insurance company within the city and county of Philadelphia. Authorized to extinguish ground rents on real estate purchased by said company. To hold real es SECTION 2. That where the said American fire insurance company has, or shall purchase or receive a conveyance of real estate to protect any debt due to the said company, it shall be lawful for said company to pay off and extinguish any ground rent thereon, and where said company shall heretofore have purchased, or cause to be purchased, for itself any ground rent or premises so purchased or taken, the title thereof shall be as valid as if expressly authorized by the original charter to which this is a supplement. SECTION 3. That from and after the passage of this act, the said tate received in American fire insurance company shall be, and they are hereby authorsecurity for ized to purchase, hold, and convey real estate received as security for payment of debts, and that all the provisions of the charter restraining the same are hereby repealed. debts. APPROVED-The tenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 98. AN ACT To authorize the burgess and town council of the borough of Warren to define and establish the boundaries of streets in certain cases, and relative to an election district in Tioga 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 in all cases where there shall be doubt or dispute in relation to the line or boundary of any street in the borough of Warren, it shall be the Burgess and duty of the burgess and town council, or a majority of them, on applitown council of cation of any person interested, to proceed to view the same, and to fix the borough of on and establish said lines or boundaries in such place as the public interest and the circumstances of the case may justify, and when the old lines of any street shall be in doubt or dispute, the said burgess and town council may, if not inconsistent in their opinion with the public interest, establish another: Provided, They shall not carry any street, or any part of the same, on the land of any individual, without the consent of the owner or owners of the same. Warren to fix boundaries of streets. Proviso. metes and a sur SECTION 2. That after the line of any street shall have been fixed, Streets to be as aforesaid, the said burgess and town council shall designate the designated by same by proper metes or monuments, and shall file a survey and proper description of the same in the Court of Quarter Sessions of said county, to be recorded therein, for the usual fees for such services to be paid by said borough. vey filed. SECTION 3. That from and after the passage of this act, the qualified voters of the township of Morris, in the county of Tioga, shall Morris townhold their township and general elections at the public house of Wil- ship, Tioga co. liam C. Babb, in said township. JOHN S. RHEY, APPROVED The tenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 99. A SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled "An Act to authorize the Governor to incorporate a company to erect a toll bridge over the West Branch of the river Susquehanna, at Walton's Landing," passed the thirteenth day of March, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. 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 in lieu of the names mentioned as commissioners in the act to which Change of this is supplementary, the names of the following persons shall be sub- Commissioners stituted to act in their stead, viz.: J. M. B. Petrikin, Isaac Bruner, Daniel S. Rissel, Thomas Lloyd, Jacob Cooke, Daniel Clapp, Robert Montgomery, Benjamin Bear, Joseph Davis, John Hileman, Joseph Gudykunst, Edward Lyon, and Gersham Biddle, and that the time specified in said act for the several duties to be performed by the commissioners therein named, be extended to the commissioners named in this act until the first day of November, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. Duties extended SECTION 2. That the words "at Walton's Landing," wherever they Change of occur, be stricken from the act to which this is a supplement, and the words in former words, "at or near the borough of Muncy," be substituted. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The tenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight act. hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 100. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To the penal laws of this State to render their limitations uniform. 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 from and after the passage of this act no indictment for misdemeanor, except forgeries and perjuries, shall be commenced or prosecuted in any of the courts of this Commonwealth, unless the same shall have been commenced and prosecuted within two years from the time at which the alleged offence shall have been committed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall extend in any way to persons fleeing from justice. WM. BIGLER. APPROVED-The tenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. No. 101. AN ACT To regulate the time of holding courts in the Eleventh Judicial District. 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 Terms of courts from and after the passage of this act, the terms of the courts of Monin Montour co. tour county shall commence on the last Mondays of April, August, To continue one November, and January, in each and every year, the terms of the Mayor's Court of the city of Carbondale, shall commence on the second Mondays of May, September, December, and February, in each and every year, and the terms of the courts of Wyoming county, on the several Mondays next following the terms of the said courts of Carbondale. SECTION 2. That the terms of said courts shall continue one week if necessary: Provided, That the said Mayor's Court of the city of Carbondale may direct the venires for grand and traverse jurors, to be returnable on the Tuesdays of the weeks of said courts, instead of the first day of the term. March 1852 SECTION 3. That all writs and other process issued prior to the fif- Process issued teenth day of March, of the present year, returnable to the next terms prior to 15th of the said courts respectively, shall be as valid and effectual as if returnable at the times respectively prescribed for holding the same by this act, and all business whatsoever in any of the said courts at the next terms thereof, after the passage of this act, shall be proceeded in, heard, and determined as if the said courts had been held at the times heretofore prescribed by law. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The tenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 102. A SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled "An Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Haverford Plank Road Company;" to authorize the Commissioners of Kensington district to levy a water tax in lieu of water rent; to open Delaware Sixth street, north of Elwood lane; to the election poll of Upper Ward, Germantown; to Washington street, in Kensington; to the plan of the survey of the borough of Frankford, and to the appointment of deputy tax collectors on the days of general and special election. 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 Repeal of part so much of the act of which this is a supplement, which requires the of act relating to president and managers of the Haverford plank road company to com- plank road commence the construction of their road at the boundary line of West Philadelphia, be, and the same is hereby repealed. the Haverford Lany. SECTION 2 That it shall and may be lawful for said president and managers to make their road upon the bed of Fisher avenue, from the Philadelphia and West Chester plank road, to the Haverford road, then Location. upon the bed of said Haverford road, from the point of intersection of said Fisher avenue westward, to the point of termination, as directed by the act to which this is a supplement, or if to said president and managers it may be deemed more advisable so to do, it shall and may be lawful for them to make their road upon the bed of Coulteses road, known as Gray's Lane, from its point of intersection with the Phila |