No. 197. AN ACT To repeal the sixth section of an act entitled "An Act to prevent kidnapping, to preserve the public peace, prohibit the exercise of certain powers heretofore exercised by judges, justices of the peace, aldermen, and jailors in this Commonwealth, and to repeal certain slave laws." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly r met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the sixth section of the act entitled "An Act to prevent kidnapping, preserve the public peace, prohibit the exercise of certain powers heretofore exercised by judges, justices of the peace, aldermen, and jailors in this Commonwealth, and to repeal certain slave laws," approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, be, and it is hereby repealed. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN. H. WALKER. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 198. AN ACT For the relief of D. Leech and company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenatives 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 to examine the claim of D. Leech and company, for damages for six cars destroyed on plane number four on the Allegheny Portage railroad, and report the facts, together with the amount of damages, if any, to the Legislature. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. Offices in Clar ion county reg ulated. Streets in Brook No. 199. AN ACT Relative to the county offices of Clarion county; to certain streets in the borough of Brookville, and to hawkers and pedlers in Bedford 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 hereafter the qualified electors of the county of Clarion shall elect one person to fill the office of prothonotary, clerk of the courts of general Quarter Sessions and Oyer and Terminer, and one person to fill the office of register of wills, recorder of deeds, and clerk of the Orphans' Court, subject to the provisions of an act entitled "An Act relating to the elections of this Commonwealth," passed the second day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. SECTION 2. That the town council of the borough of Brookville are ville, Jefferson hereby authorized to open Market, Water, Church, and Jefferson streets of said borough, in a straight westerly direction to the western limits of said borough, and are required to declare the same extensions public highways. county. Act of April 17, SECTION 3. That the provisions of the act entitled "An Act supple1846, extended mentary to the acts relating to hawkers and pedlers, and regulating to Bedford co. auctions in the county of Schuylkill," approved the seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, be, and the same are hereby extended to the county of Bedford. APPROVED-The eighth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 200. AN ACT To erect the town of Loganville, in York county, into a borough and separate school district, and to authorize the sale of a school house in the village of Dover, in York 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 the town of Loganville, in the county of York, shall be, and the same Loganville, is hereby erected into a borough and separate school district, which York county, shall be called the borough of Loganville, and shall be bounded and erected into a borough. limited as follows, to wit: Beginning at a stone at the York and Baltimore turnpike, on line of Jacob N. Hiltebrant, and Blymire and others, south fifty-two degrees west twenty-five three-tenths perches to a black Boundaries. oak; thence south sixty-two degrees west forty-four four-tenths perches to a stone; thence north twenty-four degrees west one hundred and forty-nine perches to stones at a spring; thence by lands of Jacob Blymire and others, south eighty degrees east sixteen perches to a white oak; thence north fifteen degrees west seventeen eighttenths perches to a chesnut oak; thence north twenty-eight degrees west thirty-one three-tenths perches to stones; thence by line of George Lentz, north sixty-five degrees east twenty eight-tenths perches to a stone; thence north thirty-three degrees west forty-one six-tenths perches to a chesnut; thence by Samuel Hartman, south eighty-five degrees east seventy eight-tenths perches to a stone; thence north three degrees west twenty-nine perches to stones; thence north forty degrees west twenty-three nine-tenths perches to a stone; thence north two degrees east one hundred and sixty-nine four-tenths perches to stones; thence by L. Bopp's land, north sixty degrees east thirty perches to stones; thence by Daniel Crout, south three degrees west twenty-seven eight-tenths perches to a stone; thence north seventy-three degrees east forty-six eight-tenths perches to a gum; thence north eighteen degrees west fifteen perches to a white oak; thence north sixty-three degrees east one hundred and fifty-nine eight-tenths perches to a big chesnut on lands of Edward Howard; thence south twentyone degrees east one hundred and fifty-nine perches to a post on lands of Isaac Hiltebrant; thence south eighty degrees west twenty-five perches to a stone in lane; thence south fifty-four degrees west ninety perches to a stone; thence by line of Mathias Ness, south thirty-six east nine eight-tenths perches to a stone; thence south fifty-five degrees west twenty-one two-tenths perches to a stone; thence south twenty-five degrees east thirty-eight four-tenths perches to stone; thence south seventy-five degrees, west twenty-eight three-tenth perches to a stone; thence south eleven degrees west one hundred and nineteen perches to a stone; thence south fourteen degrees west fifty-four five-tenths perches to a stone; thence south sixty degrees west thirteen perehes to a stone; thence south thirty-four degrees east twenty-eight twotenths perches to stones; thence south sixty degrees west sixty-two perches to the place of beginning. Election of offi cers for said SECTION 2. That the inhabitants of said borough qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall on the first Monday in borough. Corporation. Style. Meeting. By-laws. Taxes. May next, and on the third Friday in March, in every year thereafter. meet at the same place where township elections are now held, and then and there, between the hours of one and six o'clock in the afternoon, elect by ballot one citizen, who shall be styled chief burgess, one other citizen who shall be styled the assistant burgess, and five citizens to be town council, and shall elect as aforesaid one citizen as high constable, who shall be returned to the next Court of Quarter Sessions of said county, who shall be appointed by the court to serve as constable, in the same manner, with like power and authority, and subject to the same regulations and penalties, and give security as is provided and contained in the law now existing, concerning constables within this Commonwealth, and shall serve and execute all manner of process the same as township constables; also, at the same time and place shall be elected as aforesaid, three citizens as school directors, one to serve one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and thereafter one school director annually, and that the first election held under this act shall be conducted by one judge, two inspectors, and two clerks, to be chosen by the citizens present at the opening of the election, who shall be sworn or affirmed in the same manner as is provided by law, and they shall perform the duties required of them by law relative to township elections. Town Clerk, his duties. SECTION 3. That from and after the first Monday in May next, the chief burgess, assistant burgess, and town council, duly elected as aforesaid, and their successors, shall be one body politic and corporate by the name and style of "The chief burgess and town council of the borough of Loganville," and shall have perpetual succession, who shall be capable in law to have, get, receive, hold and possess goods and chattels, lands, and tenements, in fee simple or otherwise, not exceeding the yearly value of three thousand dollars, and also to grant, sell, and assign, the same goods and chattels, lands, and tenements, and by the name and style aforesaid, they shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any of the courts of law of this Com monwealth in all manner of actions whatsoever, and to have and to use one common seal. SECTION 4. That the town council shall meet on the first Monday next after their election in each year, and choose one of their number president, who shall preside at all their meetings, and it shall be the duty of the said council to hold quarterly meetings on the first Saturday in April, July, October, and January in each year, and oftener if occasion requires, at which meetings they may enact, alter, revise, repeal, and amend all by-laws, rules, and ordinances as shall be determined by a majority of them necessary to promote the peace and good order and benefit of the said borough; they shall assess, apportion, and appropriate such tax as shall be necessary for carrying the rules and ordinances into effect, and also to appoint a town clerk, treasurer, street supervisor and a collector annually, and the inhabitants of said borough shall be exonerated from the payment of all road taxes that may be assessed by the township of Springfield for the property within the borough limits. SECTION 5. That the chief burgess is hereby authorized to issue his precept, when necessary, directed to the collector commanding him to collect all taxes and to pay the same over to the treasurer. SECTION 6. That it shall be the duty of the town clerk to attend all meetings of the town council and perform the duties of clerk thereto, and preserve the records of the corporation, and be answerable for the same. SECTION 7. That the treasurer shall give sufficient security for the give security. delivery of all moneys, books, et cetera, appertaining thereto, into the hands of his successor. Treasurer to SECTION 8. That the town council shall, from time to time, fix the Compensation. the compensation of the high constable, town clerk, and treasurer, which compensation shall be paid out of the treasury by orders drawn. thereon by the president of the council. into a separate SECTION 9. That the said borough of Loganville be, and it hereby is Loganville borerected into a separate school district, and the school directors autho- ough erected rized to be elected by the second section of this act, shall have the same school district. powers, and be subject to the same regulations as school directors of other districts of this Commonwealth, and said school directors shall have power to sell and convey the lot of ground and house thereon erected held by the school directors of Springfield township in the bounds of said borough, transferred by Abraham Snyder, Edward Howard, and Henry Herlinger, trustees to Adam Deihl, Jacob Lutz, Peter Reever, and Joseph Hartman, and their successors, school directors in said township of Springfield, and apply the proceeds of sale toward the purchase of a suitable lot of ground and erecting a school house thereon for common school purposes in and for said borough. York county. SECTION 10. That Daniel Seitz, Henry Melzler, and William S. Pick- Sale of school ing, the present trustees of the Dover school house, in the village of house in Dover Dover, in the county of York, be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to sell the said school house at public sale, and to appropriate the proceeds thereof towards the erection of a new school house for the use of the Dover sub-district, and they are hereby further empowered to convey by deed, the lot of ground on which the said school house hereby directed to be sold now stands, containing in front or breadth on York street sixty feet, and extending back in depth the same breadth two hundred and ninety-seven feet, bounded by an alley and lots of Samuel Heltzel, Abraham Kinzey, and Philip White, to the directors of common schools of Dover township school district: Provided, The Proviso. said common school directors shall build said school house for the use of the said sub-district of such size and dimensions, and with such materials, as shall be determined upon by a majority of the qualified voters of said sub-district, to be ascertained at a public meeting to be held for that purpose. trustees to sell SECTION 11. That if the said directors shall refuse to build said Directors refusschool house under the terms and conditions herein before prescribed, ing to build, then the said trustees shall have full power to sell the said school house school house. with the lot and appurtenances thereto attached at public sale, and to convey the same by deed to the purchaser, so as to vest the same in Lim in fee simple, and the proceeds of said sale to be distributed among all the original contributors or their legal representatives pro rata, who contributed to the purchase of said lot of ground and the erection of the house thereon, who shall make application therefor within one year from the time of sale, and the sum or sums not so applied for shall be paid over to the school directors for the use of said sub-district: Provided, Proviso. That the said trustees shall first pay the necessary expenses attending said sale and distribution of the proceeds thereof out of the money arising from said sale. SECTION 12. That the said common school directors are hereby au- Children of Jathorized and required to permit Jacob Fink to send his children to the cob Fink to go public school in the Dover sub-district, and the farms of Joseph Hantz and to said school. John Haas, Junior, are hereby attached to said sub-district for school purposes. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. WM. BIGLER. APPROVED-The eighth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. |