Cost of paving grading and SECTION 5. That the cost of paving, grading, and curbing of Catharine street, from Seventh street to Eighth street, in the district of curbing CathaMoyamensing, in the county of Philadelphia, shall be charged against rine street, Moyamensing. the owners of property fronting on said street in said square, and that the same shall be recovered as debts of like character are now by law recoverable. Canal Commissioners to examine a certain gomery co. SECTION. 6. That the Canal Commissioners be, and they are hereby authorized to examine the situation and condition of a public road or road in Mont-highway, in the township of Lower Merion, Montgomery county, along the railroad to avoid the inclined plane, about half a mile below the intersection alleged to be rendered dangerous by the construction of said road; and if, in their opinion, the said road is left in a dangerous condition by the agents of the State, to make such changes or repairs as will place it in a secure and safe condition. Road commissioners in Elk township, War ren county, to lay a tax. Bridge over the Conewango creek to be re built. Repeal. Repeal. Supervisors of SECTION 7. That the road commissioners of the township of Elk, in the county of Warren, are hereby authorized to levy a tax sufficient to defray one-fourth the expense of erecting a bridge over the Conewanago creek, at the village of Russelburg, in the township of Pinegrove, in said county, and that the road commissioners of said Pinegrove township, are hereby authorized to levy a tax sufficient to defray three-fourths of the expense of constructing said bridge; said taxes to be collected as other taxes are collected in said township, and that said bridge be constructed under the joint direction of the commissioners of said townships. SECTION 8. That the commissioners of said Pinegrove township are hereby authorized to rebuild the bridge over the Conewanago creek, near the late residence of Thomas Sloan, in said township, and to levy and collect a tax sufficient to defray the expense of the same, when, in their opinion, the public interest shall require it. SECTION 9. That so much of the sixth section of an act relating to the Clarion, Tylersburg and Tionesta turnpike road company, approved April second, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, as relates to the collection of road tax in Woodbury township, Blair county, be, and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 10. That the Act of Assembly, approved March eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and fourty-four, entitled "An Act to incorporate the town of Shirleysburg, in the county of Huntingdon, and for other purposes," be, and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 11. That from and after the passage of this act, the supervisors of the township of Porter, in the county of Huntingdon, are ship, Hunting- hereby authorized and required to collect the road taxes, assessed and don county, to levied in said township, in money, and they are hereby authorized to receive proposals for the construction and the repair of the public roads and highways in said township, and let the same to the lowest and best bidder. collect road taxes in money. Repeal. SECTION 12. That the eleventh section of an act entitled "An Act to authorize the viewing and laying out a State road through parts of Allegheny and Washington counties, etc.; authorizing the commissioners of Washington county to appropriate money on a certain road in said county, approved the fifth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two," 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 thirtieth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 153. AN ACT Authorizing the ministers of the Menonist congregation, of East Lampeter township, Lancaster county, to convey ertain real estate; the trustees of the German Reformed church, of Lancaster city, to sell certain real estate; the holding of adjourned courts of Quarter Sessions in Lancaster county, and prohibiting the sale of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors on the Sabbath in the city and county of Lancaster. land. 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 David Witmer and Tobias Kreider, ministers of the Menonist congre- Ministers of gation, or their successors in office, be, and they are hereby authorized Menonist Conand empowered to grant, assure, and convey unto Benjamin Denlinger, gregation to of East Lampeter township, in Lancaster county, and to his heirs and convey certain assigns, by deed or other legal conveyance, in fee simple, all that piece or parcel of land in East Lampeter township aforesaid, bounded and described as follows, to wit.: Beginning at a post in the middle of a public road; thence along the middle thereof, north eighteen and onehalf degrees west fourteen perches and five hundreths to a stone; thence by land of Benjamin Denlinger, south seventy-five degrees and three-quarters west two perches and thirty-four hundreths to a post; south fourteen and-one quarter degrees east fourteen perches to a post; and north seventy-five degrees and three-quarters east three perches and ninety-seven hundreths to the beginning, containing forty-seven and one-half perches, being that part of three-quarters of an acre of land devised by the last will and testament of Christian Bair, deceased, for the purpose of a burial ground for the Menonist society or congregation, which lies west of a public road laid out and opened through the same, together with the appurtenances thereto belonging, and all the right, title, and interest whatsoever of the said Menonist society or congregation in and to the same, and free and discharged from the trust and purposes for which the same was devised as aforesaid. to sell certain property. SECTION 2. That William Hupert, Henry Bundel, and Lewis Hal-Trustees of Gerdy, trustees of the German Reformed congregation of the city of man Reformed Lancaster, or their successors in office, be, and they are hereby autho- Congregation of rized to sell the parsonage, session house, and lot of ground with the Lancaster city appurtenances, situate on the east side of Duke street in said city, bounded on the north by property of heirs of Amos Ellmaker, deceased, and on the south by property of Ellis Lewis, containing in front on Duke street sixty-four feet four inches more or less, and extending in depth two hundred and forty-five feet to a public alley, for the best price or prices that can be obtained for the same, and to make, execute, and deliver a deed or deeds therefor to the purchaser or purchasers, and after paying the debts against the same, if any there be, to invest the proceeds of such sale in the erection of a new church edifice and a new parsonage on ground in said city belonging to said congregation to be held and enjoyed by the said congregation for the same uses and purposes as the former property was held and enjoyed. Further au SECTION 3. That the trustees of the German Reformed congregation thority to sell of the city of Lancaster, are further authorized to sell, grant, convey, other property. Lancaster co. and assign, either at public or private sale, a small picce of ground belonging to said congregation, fronting East Orange street in said city, and lying between a one-story house of Henry G. Long and the parsonage house, which said congregation intend erecting, being two and one-half feet more or less in breadth, including four and one-half inches of ground on which the eastern gable-end wall of said parsonage will rest, and extending in depth such length as said trustees may designate, and also to sell as aforesaid the eastern half part of the gable-end wall of said parsonage house, and to convey to the purchaser of said piece of ground and moiety of gable-end wall a title in fee simple, and clear of all incumbrances whatsoever. Adjournment of SECTION 4. That the judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Courts of Quar-Peace of Lancaster county shall have power to adjourn the sessions of ter Sessions in the court from time to time as they may think proper, and at such adjourn courts to act upon and try all cases, as well as decide all matters depending therein, with the same effect as they might or could do at the terms appointed for the holding of such court as aforesaid, and the said court shall have power to award a venire for jurors returnable at such adjourned court. Sale of spiritu ous liquors in the city of Lan caster on the Sabbath day prohibited. Prosecutors' not SECTION 5. That if any inn-keeper, beer-house keeper, or other person, in the city or county of Lancaster, shall sell or retail any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors on the Sabbath day except for medicinal pur poses, such person shall be liable to indictment, and on conviction thereof shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of twenty dollars; one moiety of which shall go to the person prosecuting for the same, and the other moiety to the use of the Commonwealth. SECTION 6. That any person prosecuting under this act shall not be incompetent to rendered incompetent to testify by reason that the moiety of the fine is testify. given to himself, but every such person otherwise competent shall be admitted to give testimony in all prosecutions under this act. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirtieth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 154. A SUPPLEMENT To the act erecting an academy in the town of Bloomfield, Perry county, entitled "An Act to establish an academy at Brookville, in the county of Jefferson, and for other purposes," passed the thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight; and relative to the Talbot academy in the district of West Philadelphia, and relative to roads in Perry 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 ized to sell the same. the board of trustees, or a majority of them, of the Bloomfield Trustees of the academy, in the county of Perry, are hereby authorized to sell and Bloomfield dispose of the lands, buildings, and all the appurtenances of the said academy authorBloomfield academy thereunto belonging, and to make and execute such deed or deeds of conveyance as will in law or equity convey to the purchaser or purchasers a full and clear right and title to the premises, as fully and at large as the corporation of the said Bloomfield academy, now holds and enjoys the same. SECTION 2. That the county commissioners of the county of Perry, Commissioners be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase from of Perry co. authe trustees of the said Bloomfield academy, all the lands, tenements, thorized to purbuildings, and other appurtenances belonging to the said academy, and chase. to receive and hold the same with the title thereof, for the use, benefit, and behoof of the county of Perry, as fully as the same is now vested in the trustees of said academy, in their corporate capacity: Provided, Proviso. That thereafter the grounds, and buildings, and appurtenances shall at all times be appropriated as a seminary of education, either as an academy, normal, or high school: And provided further, That if at any time the same cannot be so appropriated, the county commissioners may lease or let the same on rental, not exceeding the term of one year, at any one time, and the proceeds thereof shall go into and be applied to the use of the county. SECTION 3. That the county commissioners of the county of Perry County comshall ex-officio, be three of the trustees of the said academy, and the missioners to be Court of Common Pleas of the said county shall annually appoint three three of the other persons as trustees, who shall have concurrent powers and jurisdiction with the county commissioners in the management, direction, and conducting the said academy. trustees. SECTION 4. That the county treasurer shall, ex-officio, be treasurer of County treassaid academy, and shall settle his accounts in the same manner his ac- urer to be treascounts as county treasurer are settled, and the same shall be published in like manner, by the county commissioners. urer. SECTION 5. That the trustees shall from time to time appoint such Duties of trusprofessors, teachers, steward, matron, and make such by-laws as they or tees. a majority of them shall deem most advisable, for the better management and carrying on either an academical, normal, or high school, or female seminary, and shall at all times have a general supervision over the same, and at their discretion may suspend or discharge any professor, teacher, steward, matron, or student, if in their opinion the welfare of the institution requires the same. Court neglecting to appoint trustees, the last appointed to serve. Consent of court SECTION 6. That in the event of the court neglecting to appoint trustees as is provided for in the third section of this act, the trustees so last appointed shall continue in office until successors shall be appointed, as aforesaid, and in case of the death, resignation, refusal to serve, or from any other cause or inability to act, the court, on the representation of the fact, at any term of the said court shall supply such vacancy or vacancies in the board. SECTION 7. That before any such sale shall be made to the county and grand jury commissioners, the consent of the court and grand jury shall first be had approving the same. Repeal. Property of district of Penn SECTION 8. That so much of any act or acts of Assembly relative to the Bloomfield academy heretofore passed, as are hereby altered or supplied, be, and the same are hereby repealed. SECTION 9. That all the right, title, and interest of the corporation Talbot academy now extinct, known by the name of "the trustees of the Talbot acadevested in the my," in the village of Hamilton, and in two certain lots of ground, comptrollers of with the appurtenances, situated on the south side of James street, in public schools in the district of West Philadelphia, and county of Philadelphia, numthe first school bered respectively thirty and thirty-two, in the plan of Hamilton village, with the school house or building thereon erected, known as the "Talbot academy," is hereby vested in the "Comptrollers of public schools of the first school district of Pennsylvania," to be held by the said comptrollers in trust for the same uses and purposes, and upon the same conditions that the said buildings and lots of ground were held by the said trustees of the Talbot academy during their corporate exis sylvania. Repeal. tence. SECTION 10. That the fifth section of the act entitled an act to incorporate the Sherman's valley plank road company, and relative to roads in Wheatfield township, Perry county, passed the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same relates to roads in Wheatfield township. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The first day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. |