sell certain real

Henry Dehuff, of the borough and county of Lebanon, be, and hereby Henry Dehuff authorized to sell at public sale, four certain out-lots situated in South authorized to Lebanon township, Lebanon county, adjoining lots of Simeon Guilford, estate. Leonard Fasnacht, and others, containing eight acres, more or less, and make, execute, and deliver a deed or deeds to the purchaser or purhasers, in fee simple, conveying all the estate which Philip Greenawalt ad in the same, at, and immediately before his decease, as also all the state that Mathias Greenawalt had in the same, at and before the time

Court.

f his decease: Provided, That the sale or sales so as aforesaid made, Proviso as to aphall be approved of by the Orphans' Court of Lebanon county, at proval of sales which times the said Henry Dehuff shall give bond to the Common- by Orphans' realth of Pennsylvania, in double the amount of such sale conditioned or the faithful application of the proceeds, which shall be distributed ander the direction of the Orphan's Court aforesaid, to the persons gally entitled to the same.

SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act, John Sheaff John Sheaff Tidd, name Idd, of the city of Lancaster, shall be called and known by the name changed. John Henry Sheaff, and by that name shall be capable of sueing and being sued, and of taking any real or personal estate by descent, deuse, or purchase, and of granting or devising the same in the same manner as if he had always been known by the name of John Henry Leaff.

SECTION 3. That Elizabeth Brooks, wife of George Brooks, and Elizabeth daughter of George Coleman, deceased, all of Lebanon county, shall Brooks legitisave and enjoy all the rights and privileges of a child born in lawful mated. wedlock, and that she shall be able and capable in law to take, hold, mherit, and possess, pass, and transmit, all and every estate, real and personal, of whatever kind or nature, as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes, as if she had been born in lawful wedlock.

APPROVED The twenty-seventh day of February, A. D., one thousand ught hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 81.

AN ACT

Supplementary to an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Northern Liberties Gas Company."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly het, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the c. pital stock of the Northern Liberties gas company be, and it is hereby increased to the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, to be

Capital stock.

Proviso as to expenses.

that the said court is hereby authorized to proceed to trial, verdict, a judgment, as the said court in Centre county, in which the same now pending, could or might do; and that it shall be the duty of t Court of Common Pleas of Centre county to make distribution of t moneys for which these several issues are framed, upon the verdi and judgments which shall be rendered, and entered in and by the s court in Northumberland county on receiving a copy of the recor thereof, and the costs heretofore incurred in said issues shall abide t event of the same, and the record of said issues shall be duly certi by the prothonotary of Centre county to the said Court of Comm Pleas of Northumberland county: Provided, That the said county Northumberland shall be re-imbursed by said county of Centre cost and expenses to be incurred by reason of the transfer of the afo said issues, and said issues shall be tried at one or more adjourn courts, to be held exclusively for the trial of said issues, so as not interfere with the regular business in the courts of said county Northumberland: And provided also, That final judgments of s issues shall be subject to writs of error as in other cases; and in ca of reversal of the same and a venire facias de novo awarded, the sa shall again be transferred and tried in Northumberland county, in t Proviso as to se- same manner as herein before provided for: And provided, That the par curity for costs. requesting the removal of said issues shall, before removing the san give security in such sum or sums as the Court of Common Pleas Centre county may direct, conditioned for the payment of all costs said issues in case final judgment is given against the party applyi for the removal of the same.

Proviso as to writs of error.

APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of February, A. D., one tho sand eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

Preamble.

No. 80.

AN ACT

To authorize Henry Dehuff to sell certain real estate in Lebanon county; change the name of John Sheaff Tidd, and to legitimatize Elizabeth Brooks.

WHEREAS, It is desirable that certain real estate belonging to th estate of Philip Greenawalt, deceased, or to the estate of Mathis Greenawalt, deceased, should be sold, and the proceeds thereof distr buted to, and amongst the heirs entitled in the will of Phil Greenawalt, deceased:

And whereas, There is no authority in the Orphans' Court Lebanon county, to grant an order for the sale of the same; therefore SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represe tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assemb met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, Th

sell certain real

Henry Dehuff, of the borough and county of Lebanon, be, and hereby Henry Dehuff #authorized to sell at public sale, four certain out-lots situated in South authorized to Lebanon township, Lebanon county, adjoining lots of Simeon Guilford, estate. Leonard Fasnacht, and others, containing eight acres, more or less, and make, execute, and deliver a deed or deeds to the purchaser or purchasers, in fee simple, conveying all the estate which Philip Greenawalt ad in the same, at, and immediately before his decease, as also all the state that Mathias Greenawalt had in the same, at and before the time

of his decease: Provided, That the sale or sales so as aforesaid made, Proviso as to aphall be approved of by the Orphans' Court of Lebanon county, at proval of sales hich times the said Henry Dehuff shall give bond to the Common- by Orphans' wealth of Pennsylvania, in double the amount of such sale conditioned

or the faithful application of the proceeds, which shall be distributed ander the direction of the Orphan's Court aforesaid, to the persons legally entitled to the same.

Court.

SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act, John Sheaff John Sheaff Tidd, name Tud, of the city of Lancaster, shall be called and known by the name changed. John Henry Sheaff, and by that name shall be capable of sueing d being sued, and of taking any real or personal estate by descent, derise, or purchase, and of granting or devising the same in the same manner as if he had always been known by the name of John Henry Sheaff.

SECTION 3. That Elizabeth Brooks, wife of George Brooks, and Elizabeth aughter of George Coleman, deceased, all of Lebanon county, shall Brooks legiti have and enjoy all the rights and privileges of a child born in lawful mated. wedlock, and that she shall be able and capable in law to take, hold, nherit, and possess, pass, and transmit, all and every estate, real and personal, of whatever kind or nature, as fully and effectually to all ineats and purposes, as if she had been born in lawful wedlock.

APPROVED The twenty-seventh day of February, A. D., one thousand Lght hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 81.

AN ACT

Supplementary to an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Northern Liberties Gas Company."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly et, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the epital stock of the Northern Liberties gas company be, and it is Lereby increased to the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, to be

Capital stock.

Repeal.

divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and to be disposed of i such manner and at such times as the trustees of the said compan may deem necessary-the whole of the capital stock of the said com pany to be subject to the same conditions of conversion to the commis sioners of the district of the Northern Liberties as is set forth in th act to which this is a supplement.

SECTION 2. That so much as may be contained in the act to which this is a supplement as restricts the expenditure of said capital to th district of the Northern Liberties, be, and it is hereby repealed.

APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of February, A. D., one thou sand eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 82.

AN ACT

Lelative to the district of Richmond, in the county of Philadelphia; to the Commissioners of the district of Kensington, and the Kensington and Oxford turnpike road company, and to the side-walks on the Germantown turnpike road, north of the Kensington boundary line.

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 the Commissioners Commissioners of the district of Richmond, in the county of Philaof the district of delphia, are hereby authorized and directed to have the grade upon the Richmond to Frankford road, at its intersection with Indiana street (now vacated), change the and at such other parts as may be necessary, so altered by the surveyor grade of the Frankford road, or surveyors of the said district, as to provide a suitable passage or passages for the said water, and a plan of the alterations so made, shall be filed in the office of the Court of Quarter Sessions, of said county, and thirty days' public notice given of the same, which notice, together with the whole proceedings, to obtain a confirmation of the said alterations by the said court, shall be in conformity with the sixteenth section of the act of incorporation of the said district, approved on the twentyseventh day of February, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fortyseven; and the said alterations, when confirmed, shall be marked by the surveyor or surveyors upon the plans of survey of said district already filed in the said office, and the court shall direct the surveyor or surveyors to alter the grades of the said turnpike and streets, to conform to the said confirmed plan, and from thenceforth the same shall be, and remain unalterable.

Commissioners

SECTION 2. That the said commissioners are hereby authorized and authorized to empowered to alter the grade of any other street or highway in the said

other streets.

in the district of

district, whenever the public interests may require the same: Provided, change the That before the same be done they shall proceed in all respects as is grade of any irected in the first section of this act. SECTION 3. That all the streets and avenues laid down upon the Certain streets hird section of the plan of survey and regulation of the district of Richmond vaRichmond, in the county of Philadelphia, as intersecting Delaware cated. venue and terminating at low water mark in the river Delaware, be, and the same are hereby vacated from the south-eastwardly side of the said Delaware avenue to their extreme point of termination in the said fiver; and the recording surveyor of the said district is hereby authorsed and directed to lay out the said streets and avenues anew, between the limits aforesaid, so that the same shall run at right angles with Richmond street, in straight lines to low water mark in the Delaware river, aforesaid, and he shall make the alteration herein directed, upon the aid third section of the plan of survey of the said district.

the streets.

SECTION 4. That the Commissioners of the district of Richmond, Commissioners is the county of Philadelphia, are hereby authorized to place public to place public hamp posts upon the streets and in the market of said district, at such lamp posts upon times and in such manner as they may deem best adapted to the public afety and convenience, and to light the same with gas. WHEREAS, It has been agreed among other things, between the Preamble. president and managers of the Kensington and Oxford turnpike road company, and the commissioners and inhabitants of the district of Kensington, in the county of Philadelphia, that the latter shall have the privilege of laying out foot-ways on either side of the said Kenington and Oxford turnpike road, within the said district of Kensington, and of curbing, grading, and paving the same, and shall in consideration thereof, forever keep in good and perfect order, all that part of the said Kensington and Oxford turnpike road, lying in the and district of Kensington, in the county of Philadelphia; therefore, SECTION 5. That it shall and may be lawful for the said the com- Commissioners missioners and inhabitants of the district of Kensington, in the county of Kensington of Philadelphia, at any and all times hereafter, that they shall see fit authorized to 10 lay out foot-ways, on either side of the said Kensington and Oxford lay out, curb, turnpike road, within the said district of Kensington, and to curb, grade, and pave grade, and pave the said foot-ways, or cause the same to be laid out, foot-ways. curbed, graded, and paved.

and inhabitants

SECTION 6. That the said the commissioners and inhabitants of said district of Kensington shall, at all times hereafter, keep in good and To keep in good perfect order, as the same is now required by law to be kept, all that repair certain part of the said Kensington and Oxford turnpike road lying in the portion of the Kensington and said district of Kensington; and if at any time the said the commissioners Oxford turnpike and inhabitants of the district of Kensington shall neglect or fail to road. keep the same in good and perfect order as aforesaid, then, and in such case, it shall and may be lawful for the said the president and managers of the Kensington and Oxford turnpike road company to put the said portion of the said turnpike road, or any part thereof, in perfeet order and repair, at the expense of the said the commissioners and inhabitants of the district of Kensington, to be recovered from them by the said the president and managers of the Kensington and Oxford turnpike road company by action of debt or otherwise.

SECTION 7. That it shall and may be lawful, at any and all times President and hereafter, for the said the president and managers of the Kensington managers of the and Oxford turnpike road company to sell at such prices as they can Kensington and obtain therefor, any number of shares of the capital stock of the said Oxford turnpike road company to the Kensington and Oxford turnpike road company which may be sell shares of necessary to pay off any debt or debts of the said the Kensington and stock.