And Whereas, George L. Eckert, and J. G. Robison, executors of the said last will and testament of Gabriel Eckert, deceased, did on the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, mistakenly and erroneously pay to the register of the county of Lancaster, aforesaid, the said sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, the said payment being mistaken and erroneous, because the said devisees in remainder, under the said last will and testament of Gabriel Eckert, deceased, as aforesaid, elected to wait their coming into possession of the estate in remainder, so devised to them as aforesaid, to pay the collateral inheritance tax, to which the same was liable, the said tax to remain a lien thereon, bearing interest at six per cent., as provided by the first section of the act of Assembly entitled "An Act relating to collateral inheritance taxes," passed eleventh March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, pamphlet laws, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, page one hundred and seventy: And Whereas, The said executors were not allowed to take credit for the said sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, paid by them as aforesaid, in their final account, passed upon the estate of their said testator; therefore, Eckert and SECTION 3. That the said sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, paid Certain moneya into the register's office, at Lancaster, by the executors of the last will refunded to and testament of Gabriel Eckert, deceased, as set forth in the foregoing Robinson. preamble, be refunded to the said George L. Eckert and J. G. Robison, and that the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay the said sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, to said George L. Eckert and J. G. Robison, out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the said sum of two hundred and fifty dollars be and remain a lien on the estate in remainder, devised as aforesaid, bearing six per cent. interest, until paid. nished to eertain SECTION 4. That the Secretary of the Commonwealth be and he is Colonial Réhereby directed to furnish to the secretary of the Girard College for cords to be furOrphans, and to the High School of Philadelphia, for the use of the libra- institutions. ries of those institutions, the Colonial Records, from and including the first volume, and that the volumes yet to be published, until the series is complete, be also furnished to the said institutions. surety of Jacob SECTION 5. That the Auditor General be, and he is hereby authorized Release of and required, upon the payment of the costs of suit, to release Christian Christian F. F. Haehnlen, of Dauphin county, one of the suretics of Jacob Sallade, Haehnlen, late Surveyor General, from the balance of the original debt caused by Sallade. the defalcation of the said Sallade, which debt is now in judgment on the records of the Court of Common Pleas, of Dauphin county, SECTION 6. That the commissioners of the county of Philadelphia, Broad street, are hereby authorized, with the consent of the county board, to grade, improvement of. regulate and otherwise improve Broad street, from Washington street, in the township of Moyamensing, to high water mark, of the outer channel of the river Delaware, and to render the said street in a passa ble condition for vehicles, horses, and people: Provided, That the ex- Proviso. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The second day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 166. AN ACT Regulating certain election districts; relating to St. Andrew's church, in the city of Pittsburg; to bridges in Lebanon county; and to road taxes in Lycoming 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 Ephrata town the qualified voters of the township of Ephrata, as at present constiship, Lancaster tuted, in the county of Lancaster, shall hold their general and township elections at the house now occupied by John W. Gross, in said township. county. Anthony town SECTION 2. That the general and township elections, for the township, Montour ship of Anthony, in the county of Montour, shall hereafter be held at the public house of Joseph Levers, known as the Exchange, in said township. county. Townships of county. Shippen township, Tioga co. Females holding pews in St. Andrew's Church, Pitts burg, to vote. Silver Lake SECTION 3. That the qualified voters of the townships of Tuscarora and Lack, lying northwestardly of the summit of the Shade mountain, in the county of Juniata, and known as the Black Log valley election district, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the Centre school house, in said distiret. SECTION 4. That from and after the passage of this act, the qualified voters of the township of Shippen, in the county of Tioga, shall hold their special and general elections at the Big Meadow school house, in said township. SECTION 5. That nothing in the act incorporating the Saint Andrews church, in the city of Pittsburg, shall be so construed as to prohibit females holding pews by rent or otherwise, from voting at any election in said church. SECTION 6. That after the passage of this act, the supervisors of Siltownship, Sus- ver Lake township, Susquehanna county, shall have the privilege of dividing their township into as many sub-districts as they may deem quehanna co. Ross township, Repeal. Butler town proper. SECTION 7. That from and after the passage of this act, the qualified electors of the township of Ross, in the county of Monroe, shall hold their general and township elections at the house of Simon Stocker, in said township. SECTION 8. That the twenty-second section of the act of Assembly, entitled “An act authorizing the borough of Bolivar, in Westmoreland county, to dig a public well, and for other purposes," approved the fif teenth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty, be, and the same is hereby repealed." SECTION 9. That hereafter, the qualified electors of Butler township, Adams co. ship, in the county of Adams, shall hold their general and township elections at the public school house in the town of Middletown, in said township. Treasurer of SECTION 10. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the treasurer of Lycoming county, to keep a separate ac Lycoming co. to count of all moneys assessed and collected for road purposes, on the account of cer- unseated lands formerly belonging to the Tilghman estate, but now tain moneys col- held in the name of Wm. Rawle, Benjamin Chew and George Cadwal keep, a separate ader, lying in the townships of Mifflin, Lewis, Cummings, and Cogan- lected for road house, in said county, and the said treasurer shall annually, or as he shall purposes. receive the same, for the term of ten years, pay over to the commission ers of Lycoming county, to be by them invested in the stock of the How invested. Larrie's creek plank road company, and the said commissioners are hereby authorized and instructed to subscribe to the stock of said company to the amount of such tax, as it shall annually accrue, and the amount subscribed as aforesaid, shall be transferable by the said commissioners in the same manner that other stocks of said company may be transferred, and so much of the first section of the act of the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "A supplement to an act entitled An Act authorizing the laying out of a State road from the mouth of Larrie's creek, in Lycoming county, by the way of Wellsboro', in Tioga county, to the New York State line, at or near Lawrenceville, in said county," be, and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 11. That the Larrie's creek plank road company shall have Branches. power to make branches to their road, not to exceed six miles in length. SECTION 12 That from and after the passage of this act, the quali- South Huntingfied voters of South Huntington township, Westmoreland county, shall ton township, hold their general and township elections at the house of William Tur- county. ner, Esq., in said township. Westmoreland districts, SECTION 13. That the election districts of North and South Union, in North and South the county of Fayette, created by the act of the eleventh day of March, Union election one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, are hereby created seperate Fayette co., school districts, with all the rights, and subject to all the duties and created separate responsibilities of other school districts: Provided, That the first elec- school districts. tion for school directors, for said districts, shall be held on the first Saturday of May next, between the hours of ten o'clock, A. M., and six o'clock, P. M., at the court house in Uniontown, and shall be conducted in the same manner, and the citizens thereof be entitled to all the rights and privileges, and be subject to all the restrictions contained in the school laws of this Commonwealth. APPROVED-The second day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. Corporators. Style. No. 167. AN ACT To incorporate the Erie City Hall Association. 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 Wilson Laird, O H. Irish, John B. Gunnison, A. H. Caughey, John Graham, Isaac Moorehead, Lafayette Warren, J. H. Williams, W. P. Johnson, John Galbraith, James C. Marshall, G. A. Elliott, W. M. Wood, Jos. M. Sterrett, C. M. Reed, W. A. Brown, G. A. Lyon, A. King, Wilson King, James Thompson, Thomas H. Sill, James D. Dunlap, William Kelly, William A. Galbraith, Thomas G. Colt, James Hopkinson, Joseph D. Clark, Charles M. Tibbatts, William G. Arbuckle, S. T. Nelson, W. C. Braley, John W. Hays, Ichiel Towner, James Lytle, Smith Jackson, John Zimmerly, Richard Gaggin, Purdon Sennett, Benjamin Grant, Samuel E. Goodwin, John M. Justice, and Charles Lynch, and their successors, and all persons who now are or hereafter may be associated with them, be, and they are hereby created and erected into a body corporate and politic in deed and in law, by the name, style, and title of "The Erie City Hall Association," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, and to take, and to hold to them and their successors, either by grant, gift, devise, or lease, any lands or real estate for the purpose of erecting thereon a suitable building or buildings for the use of said association, and also, to take and hold for the use of said association any goods or chattles, sum or sums of money, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, will, devise, or bequest, from any person or persons whatsoever, capable of making the same, and the same at their pleasure to grant, bargain, and sell for the use of said association, and to borrow any sum of money for the purposes of said association, not exceeding ten thousand Borrow money. dollars, and to secure the same by bond or mortgage on the property thereof, and generally to do all and singular the matters and things which it shall be lawful for them to do for the well being and due management of the affairs of said association: Provided, That the real estate of which the said corporation shall be at any time possessed, shall not exceed the clear yearly value of five thousand dollars. Privileges. Proviso. Duties of commissioners. Form of subscription. SECTION 2. That the persons herein before named, are hereby ap pointed commissioners to do and perform the several acts and things hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: they or such of them as shall act in the premises, not less than five, shall, as soon as conveniently may be, and within six months next after the passage of this act, procure and open a suitable book or books, at such time and place as they may designate, in the city of Erie, of which time and place at least ten days' previous public notice shall be given in one or more newspapers, published in the city of Erie, in which book or books they shall enter as follows: "We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do promise to pay to the trustees and company of Erie city hall association the sum of twenty-five dollars for each and every share of stock set opposite to our respective names, in such manner and proportions, and at such times as shall be determined by the trustees of said association; witness our day of hands and seals the Proviso. Annual election. SECTION 3. That the said commissioners, or at least five of them, acting in the premises as aforesaid, shall as soon as conveniently may be, after four hundred shares of said stock are subscribed, appoint a time and place for the subscribers to meet, in order to organize the said Organization." association, and shall give at least ten days previous notice thereof in one or more newspapers of the city of Erie aforesaid, and the subscribers when met shall by ballot elect, by a majority of the voters present, five trustees, citizens and residents of said city and county, to conduct and manage the affairs and business of the said association until the first Monday of January of the next following year, and until others are chosen, and shall annually thereafter, at such time and place as the by-laws of said association shall provide, elect five trustees to serve as aforesaid, and the three commissioners first named shall be the judges of the election of trustees, and the judges of all future elections shall be appointed by the trustees of the time being, and notice of such elections shall be given in such manner as the by-laws shall provide. SECTION 4. That it shall and may be lawful for the city of Erie City of Erie auaforesaid, according to the discretion of the mayor and council thereof, thorized to subor a majority of them for the time being, to subscribe to or purchase any number not exceeding one thousand shares of the capital stock of said association, and the said mayor and council are hereby authorized to borrow in anticipation of their taxes, such amount as they may determine to subscribe, in order promptly to meet the payment of such subscription. scribe. SECTION 5. That in the event of any of the subscribers refusing or Penalty for neneglecting in any wise to comply with the terms of subscriptions for glect to comply the space of sixty days after they shall have been respectively notified with terms of thereof, they shall forfeit the money or instalment already paid in by subscription. them respectively, which shall insure to the benefit of the said association, and the trustees are hereby authorized to sell and dispose of such forfeited stock in such manner as they may determine, as if the same had never been before issued or sold. SECTION 6. That the object of said association shall be to provide, erect, and furnish a hall or suitable building or buildings in the city of Erie, for the accommodation of the city authorities, and for such literary associations and beneficial societies as now are and may hereafter be established in said city of Erie, for offices, for reading rooms, and suitable also for public meetings, lectures, exhibitions, entertainments and library, and for other purposes not inconsistent with or to the hindrance of the foregoing. Object. |