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the slab dam, and thence down the river to the borough line, also by a line running from the first mentioned borough line, east until it strike: the Juniata river, at, or near the stone-quarry below Huntingdon borough, from thence up the river to the borough line.

APPROVED-The seventeenth day of March, A. D., one thousan eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 116.

AN ACT

To view and lay out a State road from the west side of French creek along the county lines of Mercer and Crawford counties, to the Georgetown and Conneaut Lake road.

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 Russell Vaugn, of Mercer county, and Alexander Power, of Crawford Commissioners. county, be, and the same are hereby appointed commissioners to view and lay out and mark a State road of the breadth of fifty feet, commencing on the west side of French creek, where the road leading from Cochrantown, in Crawford county, to Brown's mills, in Mercer county, crosses the south line of the Fulton tract in Crawford county, and running thence west along the county lines dividing the counties of Mer cer and Crawford, until it meets and reaches a State road already laid out along said county lines, near the Georgetown and Conneaut Lake road.

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Duty of commissioners.

SECTION 2 That it shall be the duty of said commissioners, or a majority of them after having been duly sworn or affirmed before a justice of the peace, who shall file and preserve the same in his office, to perform all the duties enjoined by this act, with impartiality carefully to view the ground over which the road to be laid out by them may pass, having due regard to a straight and easy road for the public, at an elevation of not more than three degrees from a horizontal line, and that they shall clearly and distinctly mark the road in such a manner as shall render the route agreed upon readily found by the supervisors; and for fulfilling the duties enjoined by this act, the commissioners Compensation. shall be allowed the sum of two dollars per day for every day they shall be necessarily employed in performing the duties assigned by this act, and the said commissioners are hereby authorized to employ one surveyor at two dollars per diem, two chain-bearers, and one axe-man, at a sum not exceeding for each one dollar per diem.

SECTION 3 That the said commissioners shall make out a fair and Drafts to be accurate draft of the location of the road, noting therein courses and made out, and distances, and the places, waters, county and township lines, with such where filed. 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 clerks of Quarter Sessions, of the respective counties through which the said road may pass, on the time aforesaid, or as much sooner as practicabl:, and from thenceforth the said road shall be a public highway, and shall be opened and repaired as all other roads laid out by the courts are made and repaired.

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SECTION 4 That the commissioners shall draw on the commissioners Accounts to be of the counties through which the said road shall pass, who shall adjust settled by counthe account of the commissioners, surveyor, chain-bearers, and axe- ty commisman, and pay them as other accounts by orders on the treasurer of the county are paid: Provided, That neither of the said counties shall be Proviso. liable to pay a greater proportion of said expenses than for the work done and services rendered within the said county.

SECTION 5. That said commissioners shall meet on or before the Meeting of com first Monday of August next, or as soon thereafter as a majority of missioners. them shall agree upon and complete the location of said road as soon as practicable, and if any vacancy shall occur by resignation or otherwise, it shall be filled by the judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the county in which said person or persons so resigning shall have resided.

SECTION 6. That it shall be the duty of the supervisors of the sev- Supervisors to eral townships through which said road shall pass, upon notice given, open road. to proceed at once to open and make the said road as other roads are made.

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED The seventeenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 117.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Pattonsville and Woodbury Turnpike Road Company, and relative to road taxes in a certain election district, in Blair county.

Samuel Hoover, G. B. Kay, James Patton, Thomas King, Peter Sterne, G. R. Barndollar, and Daniel Bare, or any five of them, be appointed Commissioners. commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a comStyle. pany by the name, style, and title of "The Pattonsville and Woodberry Turnpike Road Company," with power to construct a turnpike road, commencing at Pattonsville, in the county of Bedford, by the nearest and best route to Woodberry, and from thence to intersect the Morrison's Cove turnpike, at the most practicable point, on the farm of G. B. Spang, in the county of Blair, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

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When to erect gates.

Commencement

of road.

SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of six hundred and forty shares, at twenty-five dollars each: Provided, That the said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders at a meeting called for the purpose, increase their capital stock if it shall be deemed necessary to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act.

SECTION 3. That whenever said company shall have finished two miles or more of said road, they shall have power to erect gates and receive tolls, agreeably to the conditions and restrictions of sections twelve and thirteen of an act approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

SECTION 4. That if said company shall not commence the construcand completion tion of said turnpike road within three years, and complete the same within ten years from and after the passage of this act, this act shall become null and void, except so far as may be necessary to settle the affairs of said company.

Repeal of 5th

SECTION 5 That the fifth section of an act authorizing the acting section of act of executrix of Andrew Newell, late of Huntingdon county, deceased, to 10th April, sell certain real estate, and for other purposes, passed the tenth day of 1850, relating to April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

the sale of real estate.

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Elections in

Snyder township, Blair county.

SECTION 6. That the sixth section of an act to incorporate the president and managers of the Clarion, Tylersburg, and Tionesting turnpike road company, and relative to the collection of road taxes in Antis and Woodberry townships, Blair county, and to a State road in Schuylkill county, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as relates to Antis township, in Blair county.

SECTION 7 That the qualified voters of the township of Snyder, Blair county, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the new school house in the town of Tyrone City, in said county.

JOHN S. RHEY,

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No 118.

AN ACT

Authorizing the election of four supervisors in Indiana township, Allegheny county; to change the place of holding elections in certain districts, and erecting the township of Wilkesbarre, in Luzerne county, into two road districts.

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 from and after the passage of this act, the township of Indiana, in the Indiana towncounty of Allegheny, shall be divided into four road districts, and ship, Allegheny Zacheas Patterson, Edward M'Korkle, and Robert M'Pherson, of said county to be ditownship, are hereby authorized and appointed to make said division vided into four and put up notices thereof in each district, at least one month before the election of supervisors in said township, describing said district.

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SECTION 2. That the qualified electors of Indiana township, shall Election of four elect a supervisor, resident within each district, whose duty it shall be supervisors. to take the entire and exclusive charge and control of the township roads and bridges within his respective district, and become individually responsible for neglect of duty.

SECTION 3. That each supervisor shall make out a separate duplicate Each supervisor containing the names of all taxables within his district and the amount to make dupliof tax levied on each, and the taxes thus levied and collected shall be expended within the district where the same is levied.

SECTION 4. That if the electors of said township should fail to elect any of the said supervisors, or if any so elected should refuse to take

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upon themselves the said office, or in the event of a vacancy in any of Vacancies how

the districts by death or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the Court of supplied.

Quarter Sessions, of said county, to fill such vacancy by appointing

supervisors to serve until the next annual election in said township.

SECTION 5. That all laws inconsistent with this act are hereby re- Repeal.

pealed, as far as relates to said township.

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SECTION 6. That hereafter the citizens of Mount Pleasant township, Mount Pleasant Westmoreland county, residing south of the clay pike shall hold their township, Westgeneral elections at the brick school house on the turnpike road east of the borough of Mount Pleasant, and the citizens of said township residing north of the clay pike shall hold their general elections at the brick Mansion House of William Fisher, now occupied by David Newingham, in the village of Pleasant Unity, in said county, and that Joseph Jack be the judge, and Adam Fisher and James P. Hurst be the inspectors, to hold the first election at Pleasant Unity, and Andrew Robinson be the judge, and William Reynolds and Jacob Lobingier, Senior, the inspectors, to hold the first election at the brick school house near the borough of Mount Pleasant.

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SECTION 7. That from and after the passage of this act, the town- Township of ship of Wilkesbarre, in the county of Luzerne, shall be divided into Wilkesbarre, two road districts by the line of the Wilkesbarre and Easton turnpike ty, divided into extended to the Susquehanna river, all that portion of the township two road dis(excluding the borough) south of said line, shall constitute one districts. trict, and all north of said line shall constitute the other district.

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SECTION 8. That the qualified electors of each district shall elect a supervisor resident within the same, whose duty it shall be to take the entire and exclusive charge and control of the township roads and bridges within his respective district, and become individually responsible for neglect of duty.

SECTION 9. That each supervisor shall make out a separate duplicate make out separ- containing the names of all taxables within his district, and the amount ate duplicates. of tax levied on each, and the taxes thus levied and collected shall be expended within the district where the same is levied.

Failure to elect
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Repeal.

Newton town

SECTION 10. That in case of any failure to elect supervisors in pursuance of the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the peace to appoint one supervisor for each district, and it shall be the duty of such supervisors to carry out the provisions of this act from and after such appointment.

SECTION 11. That all laws inconsistent with the four preceding sec tions of this act, are hereby repealed.

SECTION 12. That hereafter the qualified voters in Newton township, ship, Cumber in the county of Cumberland, shall hold their township and general elections at the Oakville school house, in the village of Oakville, in said township.

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Wayne township, Crawford county.

SECTION 13. That after the passage of this act, the qualified voters of the township of Wayne, in Crawford county, shall hold their general and township elections at the house of Henry L. Browns, in said township, and that the spring election in the north and south wards in the borough of Meadville, in said county, shall be held on the third Friday in March.

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

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No. 119.

AN ACT

Relating to the lien dockets of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery county; to incorporate the Spring House Odd Fellows' Hall Association of Montgomery county; to enable Charles Lukens, M. D., to convey certain real estate; to vacate a certain street in Wellsboro', in Tioga county, and relative to a certain school district in Bucks county.

WHEREAS, Since the passage of the act of the twenty-ninth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, entitled "An Act for the better preservation of the records in the public offices of the several counties of this Commonwealth," the judgment and lien dockets of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery county, have been kept,

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