No. 305. AN ACT For the relief of Mary Tripner and Margaret Mattox, widows of soldiers of the 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 State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay to Mary Tripner, of the county of Philadelphia, and to Margaret Mattox, of the county of Mercer, or to their order, an annuity of forty dollars each, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, payable half-yearly, on the first day of January and July. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The first day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 306. AN ACT Authorizing the Court of Common Pleas of Cambria county to make a feigned issue between John Fenlon and the Canal Commissioners. 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 Cambria county shall direct an issue in Court of Comthe nature of a feigned issue as upon a wager, wherein John Fenlon mon Pleas of shall be named as plaintiff, and John A. Gamble, William T. Morison, Cambria co., to and Seth Clover as defendants, to try the question whether the title to direct a certain feigned issue. a certain piece of ground, situate in said county, bounded and described as follows: all the boat plane and ground now occupied by the State for boat plane and engine house, in the borough of Conemaugh, being the same property described in the article of agreement between John Snodgrass, superintendent of the Allegheny portage railroad, and Thomas Young, dated the tenth September, one thousand eight hundred and Report to the forty-two, is in the said John Fenlon, or in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the said parties shall conduct the said issue to final judg ment. SECTION 2. That if the final judgment thereon shall be in favor of the plaintiff, the said defendants shall report the same to the Legisla ture at its next session, together with the amount of money which the Commonwealth should pay to the said John Fenlon for the said lands JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, APPROVED-The first day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 307. AN ACT To divide the State into Congressional districts for the election of Representatives in the Congress of the United States. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That for the purpose of electing representatives of the people of Pennsylvania to serve in the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States, this State shall be divided into twenty-five districts, as follows: I. Southwark, Moyamensing, Passyunk, in the county of Philadel phia, and Cedar, Lombard, Spruce, and New Market wards in the city of Philadelphia. II. The city of Philadelphia, excepting the before mentioned wards. III. Kensington, and Northern Liberties, in the county of Philadelphia. IV. Spring Garden, Penn District, North Penn, Kingsessing, West Philadelphia, Blockley, Richmond, unincorporated Northern Liberties, Bridesburg, Aramingo, in the county of Philadelphia. V. Montgomery county, and Bristol township, Upper and Lower Germantown, Upper and Lower Manayunk, Frankford, Roxborough, Byberry, Lower Dublin, White Hall, Oxford, and Moreland, in the county of Philadelphia. VI. Chester and Delaware counties. VII. Bucks and Lehigh counties. VIII. Berks county. IX. Lancaster county. X. Lebanon, Dauphin, and Union counties, and township of Lower Mahanoy, in the county of Northumberland. XI. Schuylkill and Northumberland counties, except Lower Mahanoy township. XII. 'Montour, Columbia, Luzerne, and Wyoming counties. XV. Lycoming, Sullivan, Clinton, Potter, Centre, and Mifflin counties. XVI. York, Cumberland, and Perry counties. XVII. Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford, and Juniata counties. XVIII. Somerset, Cambria, Blair, and Huntingdon counties. XIX. Westmoreland, Armstrong, and Indiana counties. XX. Fayette, Greene, and Washington counties. XXI. Allegheny county, except that part which lies northeast of the Ohio and northwest of the Allegheny rivers. XXII. Butler county, and that part of Allegheny county not included in the twenty-first district. XXIII. Beaver, Lawrence, and Mercer counties. XXIV. Venango, Warren, McKean, Clearfield, Jefferson, Forest, Elk, and Clarion counties. XXV. Erie and Crawford counties. SECTION 2. That the election of representatives to serve in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, agreeably to the Constitution of the United States, and the direction of this act, shall be held by the citizens of the State qualified to vote for members of the State Legislature, on the second Tuesday of October, next, for the thirty-third Congress, and in every second year thereafter, until an enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States shall be taken, agreeably to the Constitution and laws of the United States, at the same places, respectively, under the care and direction of the same officers, and subject to all the laws, penalties, rules, and regulations in force, for conducting and governing elections within this Commonwealth. SECTION 3. That the returns of the election held under this act, shall be made at the times and in the manner prescribed for making returns of elections, by the seventy-sixth, seventy-seventh, seventy-eighth, seventy-ninth, eightieth, eighty-first, eighty-second, eighty-third, eightyfourth, eighty-fifth, and eighty-sixth sections of the consolidated acts, regulating elections within this Commonwealth, passed the second day of July, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and the several supplements thereto. SECTION 4. That the judges of the first, second, third, and fourth districts shall meet at the State house, in the city of Philadelphia. The judges of the fifth district shall meet in the town hall, in the borough of Norristown, in the county of Montgomery. The judges of the sixth district shall meet at the court house, in West Chester, in the county of Chester. The judges of the seventh district shall meet at the court house, in Doylestown, in the county of Bucks. The judges of the eighth district shall meet at the court house, in the city of Reading, in the county of Berks. The judges of the ninth district shall meet at the court house, in the city of Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster. The judges of the tenth district shall meet in the court house, in Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin. The judges of the eleventh district shall meet at the public house of George Seitzinger, in Butler township, in the county of Schuylkill. The judges of the twelfth district shall meet at the court house, in Bloomsburg, in the county of Columbia. The judges of the thirteenth district shall meet at the court house, in Stroudsburg, in the county of Monroe. The judges of the fourteenth district shall meet at the court house, in Towanda, in the county of Bradford. The judges of the fifteenth district shall meet at the court house, in Lock Haven, in the county of Clinton. The judges of the sixteenth district shall meet at the court house, in Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland. The judges of the seventeenth district shall meet at the court house, in Chambersburg, in the county of Franklin. The judges of the eighteenth district shall meet at the court house, in Hollidaysburg, in the county of Blair. The judges of the nineteenth district shall meet at the court house, in Indiana, in the county of Indiana. The judges of the twentieth district shall meet at the court house, in Waynesburg, in the county of Greene. The judges of the twenty-first district shall meet at the court house, in the city of Pittsburg. The judges of the twenty-second district shall meet at the court house, in Butler, in the county of Butler. The judges of the twenty-third district shall meet at the court house, in New Castle, in the county of Lawrence. The judges of the twenty-fourth district shall meet at the court house, in Clarion, in the county of Clarion. The judges of the twenty-fifth district shall meet at the court house, in Erie, in the county of Erie. JOHN S. RHEY, APPROVED-The first day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No 308. AN ACT To incorporate the village of Venango, in the county of Crawford, into a borough; to change the name of Deer Creek township, Mercer county; changing the place of holding elections in West Fallowfield township, Crawford county; extending the provisions of the general manufacturing law to the manufacture of oil from rosin or pitch; relative to the location of French creek bridge; authorizing the commissioners of the district of Southwark to erect gas works; to the high constable of the borough of Lewisburg; fixing the place of holding elections in Chapman township, Union county; to confirm title to certain real estate; appointing trustees of the Easton female seminary; authorizing the trustees under the last will and testament of Francis Rogers, deceased, to sell certain real estate; to the pay of the commissioners of Armstrong county for the sale of the Warren bridge; to the sale of real estate in Lancaster county; and to a plank road in Fulton county; and relative to the application of Henry Hartzler, of Mifflin county, for a tavern license. 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 territory lying in the townships of Hayfield and Venango, in the Borough of Vecounty of Crawford, included within the following described limits and nango erected. boundaries, to wit: beginning at the township of Hayfield, at French creek, the southeast corner of Jacob Keplar's land; thence a westerly course by the south line of said Jacob Keplar's land to the southwest corner of the same; thence a northerly course by the west line of the aforesaid Jacob Keplar's land and through lands of John Campbell, John Pieffer, and others, in the same direction to the north line of land of Robert Coulter, in Venango township; thence an easterly direction by the said north line of the said Robert Coulter to low water mark of French creek; thence by low water mark of said creek and down the same its various courses to the place of beginning, is hereby erected into a borough, to be called "Venango." SECTION 2. That the inhabitants of said borough entitled to vote for Who are enmembers of the General Assembly, having resided within the bounds titled to vote. of said borough six months immediately preceding the election, and within one year paid a borough tax, if such shall have been levied, shall be entitled to vote at the borough election, and shall on the second Friday of May next, and on the third Friday in March, in every year thereafter, meet at the school house in said borough, and then and there, between the hours of one o'clock and seven o'clock in the afternoon, elect by ballot, one citizen thereof who shall be styled the burgess of the said Election of boborough, and four other citizens, to be members of the town council, rough officers. and at the first election three school directors, one to serve one year, one to serve two years, and one to serve three years, and thereafter one school director annually, and one person to be constable of said borough, whose name shall be returned to the next Court of Quarter Sessions for the like purposes as in the election of township constables, the said inhabitants shall also, at the same time and place, elect one judge and inspectors of election, and assessors, agreeably to the laws of this Commonwealth; the said election shall be conducted in the same manner as is provided for the election of township officers of this Commonwealth. SECTION 3. That from and after the said second Friday of May next, Corporation. the burgess and town council duly elected for the said borough, and |