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sand dollars hereby appropriated shall, as the same shall be from time
to time received by the said board of managers, be appropriated to
wards the erection of new buildings for the accommodation of white
juvenile delinquents, and for no other purpose whatsoever.

JOHN S. RHEY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JNO. H. WALKER,

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Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

Preamble.

No. 22.

AN ACT

For the relief of Henry R. Graybill.

WHEREAS, A serious accident happened on the twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, on the cabin of the boat "Hungarian," used as a towing boat in crossing the Susquehanns river at Clark's ferry, from the bursting of one of the fluid lamps in use on said boat, by which Henry R. Graybill, then employed by the Commonwealth as an engineer upon said boat, was so severely injured and disabled as to render him entirely unable to maintain himself and family by bodily labor; therefore,

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 Amount appro- State Treasurer be authorized and required to pay out of any monies priated. in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine hundred and forty dollars, to Henry R. Graybill, or to his legal representatives, as a full compensation for the injuries sustained by him.

JOHN S. RHEY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JOHN H. WALKER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The third day of February, A. D., one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 23.

A SUPPLMENT

To the act entitled "An Act to erect the town of Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin, into a borough," passed the first day of February, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and eight.

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 so much of the sixth section of said act erecting the town of Harrisburg into a borough as provides that no person shall be punished for a breach of a by-law or ordinance made as aforesaid, until ten days have expired after the promulgation thereof in at least one English and one German newspaper printed in the said borough, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and all by-laws or ordinances heretofore passed, or that may be hereafter passed by the town council of the borough of Harrisburg, shall be held valid and effectual for all purposes without such publication as above required.

JOHN S. RHEY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JOHN H. WALKER,
Speaker of the Senate.

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

WM. BIGLER.

No. 24.

AN ACT

To confirm the title of certain real estate to Alexander Browne.

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 deed of Patrick Ryan and Ann G. his wife, Robert Flinn and wife, and Paul Reilly, to Alexander Browne, dated the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, duly entered among the records of the Court of Common Pleas, and recorded in the office for recording deeds in the county of Philadelphia in conformity with the provisions of the act of Assembly of the sixteenth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An Act to facilitate the barring of entails," which deed was acknowledged by the said

Patrick Ryan and wife, at Cincinnati, Ohio, on the nineteenth day of February in the year first mentioned, and was not recorded until the sixth day of September of the same year, shall be valid and effectual in law to bar the entail of the estate thereby conveyed in like manner and in all respects as if the same had been recorded within six months from the date of its acknowledgment as aforesaid.

JOHN S. RHEY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JOHN H. WALKER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

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ed and secure the same by Tortgage.

No. 25.

A SUPPLEMENT

To the act entitled "An Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Hanover Branch railroad company," approved the sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.

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 whenever the company incorporated by the act to which this is a supplement, shall borrow money, under the provisions of the tenth section of the said act, they shall have power, and are hereby authorized, to execute Company au- bonds or obligations for the payment of the said money, with interest, thorized to exe- in such manner and form as they may deem expedient, and to secure cute bonds for the said bonds or obligations by a mortgage or mortgages of their lands, money borrow-tenements, hereditaments, railroad works, undertaking property, franchises, tolls, revenues, rights, and privileges, or such part thereof as they may deem expedient, which mortgage or mortgages, when duly executed and recorded, is, or are hereby declared to be good and valid as a lien or liens on the subject matter mortgaged, to all intents and purposes, and the remedies upon such bonds, obligations, mortgage, or mortgages, shall be the same as are now provided or used in case of such instruments, executed by natural persons, and if, in the pursuance of any of the said remedies, a sale shall be made of the lands, tenements, hereditaments, railroad works, undertaking property, franchises, tolls, revenues, rights, and privileges of the said company, or any part thereof, mortgaged as aforesaid, the purchaser or purchasers shall take and hold the same interest therein as was held by and vested in the said company at the execution of said mortgage or mortgages, and in a case of a sale of the said railroad works and undertaking of the said company, the purchaser or purchasers, his or their heirs and assigns, shall have and hold the same, under and subject to the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, with all the powers, franchises, rights, and

privileges provided in the said act, as well as in this supplement, in the
same manner as the said company had and held the same: Provided,
That no bond, obligation, or certificate of loan hereby authorized to be Proviso.

executed or issued, shall be for a less sum than one hundred dollars. Provisions of SECTION 2. That the provisions of the eleventh section of the act 11th section of entitled "An Act to incorporate the Liberty Fire Company, of Holmes- act relating to burg, in the county of Philadelphia," approved the twenty-sixth day of Liberty Fire Co. July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, be, and the same are extended to hereby extended to the said Hanover Branch railroad company.

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

WM. BIGLER.

Hanover Branch
Railroad Co.

No. 26.

AN ACT

Appointing David Lupfer and Philip Moyer, trustees, to sell certain real estate.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That David Lupfer and Philip Moyer are hereby appointed trustees of the everal congregations of the German Reformed church of the Bloomfeld charge, in the county of Perry, to sell and convey a certain lot of ground, situate in Centre township, in said county, containing five acres, more or less, bounded by lands of George Barnett and Finlan McCown, with the improvements thereon erected, to John Whitmore, who has greed to become the purchaser of said property; and the said trustees are hereby authorized to execute a deed of conveyance for said property the said Whitmore, conveying to him the right and title to the same, s is vested in the said congregations, or either of them.

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APPROVED The fourth day of February, A. D., one thousand eight

undred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

Patrick Ryan and wife, at Cincinnati, Ohio, on the nineteenth day of February in the year first mentioned, and was not recorded until the sixth day of September of the same year, shall be valid and effectual in law to bar the entail of the estate thereby conveyed in like manner and in all respects as if the same had been recorded within six months from the date of its acknowledgment as aforesaid.

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APPROVED-The fourth day of February, one thousand eight handred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

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ed and secure the same by 10ortgage.

No. 25.

A SUPPLEMENT

To the act entitled “An Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Hanover Branch railroad company," approved the sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.

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 whenever the company incorporated by the act to which this is a supplement, shall borrow money, under the provisions of the tenth section of the said act, they shall have power, and are hereby authorized, to execute Company au bonds or obligations for the payment of the said money, with interest, thorized to exe- in such manner and form as they may deem expedient, and to secure the said bonds or obligations by a mortgage or mortgages of their lands, money borrow-tenements, hereditaments, railroad works, undertaking property, franchises, tolls, revenues, rights, and privileges, or such part thereof as they may deem expedient, which mortgage or mortgages, when duly executed and recorded, is, or are hereby declared to be good and valid as a lien or liens on the subject matter mortgaged, to all intents and purposes, and the remedies upon such bonds, obligations, mortgage, or mortgages, shall be the same as are now provided or used in case of such instruments, executed by natural persons, and if, in the pursuance of any of the said remedies, a sale shall be made of the lands, tenements, hereditaments, railroad works, undertaking property, franchises, tolls, revenues, rights, and privileges of the said company, or any part thereof, mortgaged as aforesaid, the purchaser or purchasers shall take and hold the same interest therein as was held by and vested in the said company at the execution of said mortgage or mortgages, and in a case of a sale of the said railroad works and undertaking of the said company, the purchaser or purchasers, his or their heirs and assigns, shall have and hold the same, under and subject to the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, with all the powers, franchises, rights, and

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