Meeting of commissioners. Commissioners co. to erect a land for the laying out of said road, and that they be paid out of the treasury of the said county of Cumberland on warrants drawn in the usual way. SECTION 8. That the said commissioners shall meet on or before the first day of June next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and complete the view of said road, and if any vacancy should occur the court of Quarter Sessions of the said county of Cumberland shall supply by appointment of suitable person or persons to perform the duties imposed by this act. SECTION 9. That the county commissioners of Cumberland county are of Cumberland hereby authorized and required, after the laying out and opening of said road by the supervisors of the respective townships through which it bridge over Conedoguinet may pass, to erect a substantial bridge with stone abutments over the Conedoguinet creek on the line of said road, at the expense of the said county of Cumberland as public bridges are now erected in said county. creek. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The seventh day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 187. AN ACT For the relief of Mary Lambrite, widow of a Revolutionary soldier; relating to the Poor House, of Beaver county, and to licensing billiard rooms, etc., in Bradford 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 Annuity to Ma- the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay to Mary ry Lambrite. Time specified in certain act extended. Meeting. Lambrite, or order, an annuity of forty dollars during life, to be paid half-yearly, commencing the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. SECTION 2. That the time specified in the first section of the act of the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyone, authorizing the erection of a house for the employment and support of the poor in the county of Beaver, for the commissioners therein named to carry out the provisions of the said act, in making a purchase of real estate for the purposes therein mentioned, shall be extended to the first day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and that the said commissioners are hereby required to meet and organize on or before the first Monday of July next, and proceed to make such purchase as is required by said act, and make report OF THE SESSION OF 1852. to the county commissioners in writing, signed by a majority of them, on or before the first Monday in October next; said report shall set forth a full description of said property as to quantity, price, and terms of payment. SECTION 3. That the said county commissioners are hereby autho- Commissioners ion for payment. rized and required to make provision for the payment of said property, to make provis as required in the fourth section of the act to which this is a supplement. SECTION 4. That the Court of Quarter Sessions of the county of Vacancies. Beaver, are hereby required to supply or fill, by appointment, any vacancy which may occur in the said board of commissioners, either by death, resignation, neglect of duty, or otherwise. SECTION 5. That the provisions of the act to which this is a supple- Time for elecment, so far as relates to the election of three directors of the poor, is here- tion of direcby extended to the second Tuesday of October, one thousand eight hun- tors extended. dred and fifty-two, and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith, be, and the same are hereby repealed. SECTION 6. That hereafter the license on each billiard room, bowl- License on biling saloon or nine or ten-pin alley, in the county of Bedford, shall be at liard rooms in the rate of two dollars and fifty cents for every month the same may be Bedford co. in use. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 188. AN ACT Incorporating the Chester, Media, and Crookville Plank Road Company. 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 William T. Cook, Dr. Jesse Young, William Eyre, Junior, William Commissioners. Booth, William S. Davis, John M. Sharpless, J. G. Johnson, John E. Cochran, Jesse J. Maris, Frederick J. Hinkson, Joseph H. Hinkson, John O. Deshong, or any five of them, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open the books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style, and title, of "The Chester, Media, Style. and Crookville Plank Road Company," to locate and construct a plank or turnpike road from the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore rail- Location. road in the borough of Chester, in Delaware county, to Sneath Corner, in the township of Chester, in said county, over and upon the Edgmont visions of cer tain act. public road between said points, and from the same along the ProviSubject to pro- dence road to Media, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twentysixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the supplements thereto, so far as the same are not inconsistent with this and the following sections. Capital stock. Proviso. Examination of road. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of four hundred and eighty shares of twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That said company may from time to time, at a meeting or meetings of said stockholders called for that purpose, increase the capital stock to such an amount as in their opinion may be required to com plete the said plank or turnpike road according to the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. Whenever said company shall have finished any two miles of the said plank or turnpike road, the president thereof may give notice to the Governor, who shall appoint forthwith three skilful, judicious, and disinterested persons to view and examine the same, and report on oath or affirmation to him whether the said road is executed and made in a competent and workman-like manner according to the true intent and meaning of said act of twenty-sixth of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and if said report shall be in the affirmative, License to take then the Governor shall grant the license provided by the twelfth section of said act. toll. road. Use of planks SECTION 4. That whereas private individuals have at their own cost and materials of and expense heretofore laid a plank road for a part of the way upon a certain plank said road, it is hereby enacted that the company created by this act shall, with the consent of said private persons, take and use the planks and materials so laid upon said road for the construction and use of the road hereby authorized, said company paying to said private persons a just and fair compensation for the value of said planks and materials, each of said private persons to be paid according to the amount and propor tion of the money he or she has heretofore expended for the furnishing and laying said planks and materials. Commencement of said road. SECTION 5. That if the said company shall not commence the conand completion struction of said road within three years from the passage of this act, and complete the same within five years thereafter, this act shall become null and void, except so far as to close and adjust the affairs of said company and pay the debts of the same. Subject to the provisions of of 1849. SECTION 6. That the provisions of the twelfth section of the act of one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled an act regulating 12th sec. of act turnpike and plank road companies, shall apply to the road hereby authorized to be constructed, whenever two miles or more thereof shall be completed instead of five as in said section provided, and the said company shall not have power to place any toll-gate upon said road southward of the point of intersection of the Providence and Middleton roads without the consent of the council of the borough of Chester. APPROVED-The seventh day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. OF THE SESSION OF 1852. No. 189. AN ACT To authorize Alexander Johnson and Abraham Carlton Johnson, and others, to construct a wooden railroad. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Alexander Johnson and Abraham Carlton Johnson, and such others as they may associate with them, are hereby authorized to construct a wooden railroad from the head of navigation on the east branch of Oil creek, in Crawford county, to the mouth of Hickory creek on the west side of the Allegheny river, in Warren county, a distance of about eight miles, subject to the provisions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the supplements thereto. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, APPROVED-The seventh day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 190. AN ACT To authorize the Canal Commissioners to examine the claims of Sterrett Robison and company, for damages sustained on the Allegheny Portage railroad, at plane number four. 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 Canal Commissioners be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to examine the claim of Sterrett Robison and company, of Indiana county, for damages alleged to have been sustained by them, in consequence of the destruction of a section boat, and goods, on the Allegheny Portage railroad, at plane number four, and report the facts to the Legislature. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, APPROVED-The seventh day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. Location. No 191. AN ACT Authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Wrightsville and Canadocholy turnpike road company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennnsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Commissioners. Henry Wilton, Daniel Wilson, James Boyd, John Livergood, William Wilson, John S. Futhey, William M'Conkey, and James F. Smith, of the borough of Wrightsville, Peter Kline, Henry Ruby, Henry Rupp, William Burg, and Peter Auble, of Windsor township, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, with power to construct a turnpike road, beginning at the southern end of the bridge, across Critz creek, in the borough of Wrightsville, county of York, thence southeastwardly to the Tide Water canal, thence along the berm bank to or near the run passing through Umphey's hollow, thence up the northern side of the run to or near the Windsor road, thence along the eastern side of a spring branch, to the top of the hill, thence along the eastern side of the ravine until it intersects the road leading from the Tide Water canal, in Windsor township, to Margaretta furnace, by the nearest and best route, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine (1849): Provided, That the said company shall have the right to make use of any part of the public road between the points specified, and locate their road upon the ground now occupied by such road, and it shall be lawful for the Court of Quarter Sessions, of York county, to appoint viewers, and vacate such parts of the public road as shall not be used or rendered useless by the said company, as is provided by the general road laws of this Commonwealth, in cases of roads which have become useless, and of this act, excepting that the road hereby authorized shall not be more than thirty feet in width, sixteen whereof shall be made of solid material, and may raise or fall so as not to exceed an angle of six degrees. Subject to pro- tain act. Proviso. Capital stock. of said road. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of one hundred shares, at twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That the said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders at a meeting called for that purpose, increase the capital so much as in their opinion may be necessary to complete the road, and to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. Commencement SECTION 3. That if the said company shall not commence the conand completion struction of said road within three years after the passage of this act, and complete the same within four years from the time of commencing, then this act shall be null and void, except so far as the same may be necessary to close up the affairs, and pay the debts of the company. JOHN S. RHEY, APPROVED. The seventh day of April, A. D., one thousand eight -- hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. |