Meeting of com

missioners.

Drafts.

Power to vacate.

Duties of super

visors.

Independent school district in Greene co.

erected.

election district.

lar per day, all to be paid in the manner provided for the payment of the commissioners.

SECTION 12. That they shall enter upon the performance of their duties on or before the first of September next, and shall distinctly mark out the line of the road, so that the supervisors may have no difficulty in finding the same; they shall make three drafts, on which shall be carefully noted the courses and distances, as well of the main line as of lateral roads extended and all roads vacated, one of which shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and the others with the clerks of the courts of Greene and Fayette counties, to be deposited in their respective offices.

SECTION 13. That said commissioners shall have authority to vacate any road supplied by the new one, and to connect lateral roads when made necessary by vacating any old road.

SECTION 14. That it shall be the duty of the supervisors of the townships through which the road passes, to open the same as soon after it has been laid out as possible.

SECTION 15. That an independent school district, composed of parts of Dunkard and Greene townships, in Greene county, be, and the same is hereby established, with the following boundaries: beginning at the bridge near Robert Maples' mill; thence up the creek to the deep run; thence up said run, taking the division line between the Lambert and South districts, to the township line; thence around the farms of Robert Keever, Benjamin South, and William South, in Greene township; and thence along the Morgantown road to the beginning; and the said district shall be governed in all respects by the laws regulating other independent school districts.

Ward township, SECTION 16. That the township of Ward, in the county of Tioga, Tioga cos, erect- shall be, and the same is hereby erected into a separate school and eleced into a sepa- tion district; and the qualified voters thereof shall hold their general, rate school and special, and township elections at the house occupied by Andrew Kniffen, in said township; that their first Spring election shall be held on Saturday, the first day of May next, when it shall be lawful for them to elect suitable persons to fill the several township offices created by law, and also a board of school directors for said school district, and one person to be commissioned as justice of the peace, in and for said town. ship; which election shall be conducted by William R. Lyon as judge, and William McIntosh, and Andrew Kniffen as inspectors, who shall give at least five days' notice thereof by three advertisements, posted up in said township; and it shall be lawful for the officers of this, and all subsequent elections, to close the polls at five o'clock in the evening; and it shall further be lawful for the board of school directors, supervisor, and township treasurer, so as aforesaid, elected in May next, to have and receive, and also to levy and collect all taxes authorized by law, which may have been levied or assessed, or which may be collectable for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, on property located and on persons residing within the bounds of the aforesaid township, to be subject in the levying, collection and disbursement of the same, to all the provisions, penalties and restrictions of the laws of this Commonwealth in such cases made and provided..

JOHN S. RHEY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JOHN H. WALKER,
Speaker of the Senate.

WM. BIGLER.

APPROVED The tenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-two.

No. 214.

AN ACT

Relating to the estate of Thomas Bradford, printer, deceased; to incorporate the Blairsville and Kittanning Road Company; relative to the overseers of the poor of the district of West Philadelphia; to the election of a member of the Board of Health by the district of Kensington, and to the claim of the Commonwealth against Alexander M'Dowell.

to the estate of Thomas Brad

ford,

dec.

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 powers conferred upon James H. Bradford, guardian of Charles F. Extension of Bradford and Samuel F. Bradford, minor children of Samuel Bradford, powers relative deceased, by the twelfth section of the act of the eighth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An Act to confirm the title to certain real estate in West Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia; incorporating the Odd Fellows' Hall Association of the borough of West Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia; legalizing investments of bonds or certificates of debts created by the county of Allegheny, the city of Pittsburg, and the city of Allegheny in certain cases; authorizing William Darrach, guardian of Mary Skinner, a minor, and James H. Bradford, guardian of Charles F. Bradford and Samuel F. Bradford to sell certain real estate," to grant, assign, convey, and release to Thomas Bradford counsellor at law, the trustee named in a certain family agreement entered into by the heirs and representatives of Thomas Bradford formerly of the city of Philadelphia, printer, deceased, all the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim, and demand whatsoever, of them the said minors, or either of them at law, in equity, or otherwise howsoever, of in and to certain property in the said section mentioned, according to the terms of said agreement in trust upon the trusts in said section méntioned, and also to sign, seal, and deliver on behalf of said minors, all deeds or instruments of writing which may be requisite and necessary to carry into effect the terms of said family agreement or deeds of trust founded thereon, be, and the same are hereby enlarged and extended so as to authorize and empower the said James H. Bradford and his successors in the said guardianship to make all such conveyances as may be necessary to vest in any person or persons who may be chosen to be trustee or trustees in the place and stead of the said Thomas Bradford, counsellor at law, who has died since the passage of the said act of Assembly, all the said estate, right, title, interest, property, claim, and demand whatsoever of them the said minors, or either of them, at law, in equity, or otherwise, howsoever, of, in, and to the said property in said section mentioned, according to the terms of said agreement in trust upon the trusts in said section mentioned, and also to sign, seal, and deliver on behalf of said minors, all releases or other instruments of writing which may be requisite and necessary to carry into effect the terms of said family agreement or deeds of trust founded thereon: Provided always, That the security required by said act to be given by the said guardian, under the direction of the Orphans' Court of the county of Philadelphia, shall be required to be given under this act.

Commissioners.

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tain act.

Authorized to

Construct a

bridge over

Tolls.

SECTION 2. That William Maher, James Clark, John Graff, Samuel Ray, Richard B. M'Cabe, William M'Farland, Junior, Thomas Walker, William Turner, and James Marshall, of the county of Indiana, and Robert Woodward, Absalom W. Clark, James Johnston, Joseph Buffington, James Douglass, John S. Rhey, Joseph Clark, Absalom W. Reynolds, and Chambers Orr, of the county of Armstrong, or any five of them, be, and they hereby are appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style, and title, of the Blairsville and Kittanning Road Company," to locate and construct a road from the depot of the Pennsylvania railroad company near Blairsville, in the county of Indiana, to the nearest or most conveniently accessable point on the railroad between Pittsburg, Kittanning, and Warren, at or near Kittanning, in the county of Armstrong (after the said railroad shall have been permanently located) not to exceed an elevation of two degrees from a horizontal line for any part thereof, with authority to locate a branch or branches from the main line to the borough of Indiana, or elsewhere, subject to all the limitations and restrictions imposed on the main line.

SECTION 3. That the capital stock of the said company shall consist of fifteen hundred shares of twenty-five dollars each: Provided, That the said company may, from time to time, at a meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose, increase the capital stock to such an amount as in their opinion may be required to complete the works, improvements, and erections authorized by this act.

SECTION 4. That the said company, at their discretion, may lay plank on the whole, or any part or parts of said road and branches as they shall see proper, and shall be subject to the provisions, restrictions, and regulations as to their main road and branches in all respects of the act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fortynine, and the supplements thereto, so far as the same are not inconsistent with this and the following sections.

SECTION 5. That if said company shall find it necessary to erect a bridge over Black Lick creek, in the county of Indiana, for the purposes of said road, they are hereby authorizd to do so, and it shall be Black Lick creek lawful for said company and their successors to erect a gate or gates, and such buildings as they may deem necessary for the residence and accommodation of a toll collector, and to demand and receive toll from travelers and others at said bridge, agreeably to the rates prescribed and fixed in an act of the General Assembly entitled "An Act to authorize the Governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the Conemaugh river, at or near Centreville, in the county of Indiana, and for other purposes," approved the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight: Provided, That all persons who are or shall be exempt by law from payment of toll on said road, shall be free from toll for passing said bridge over Black Lick.

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Penalties.

Supervisors to

SECTION 6. That the several penalties prescribed in the act of the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. eight, above referred to, for persons crossing the bridge at, or near Centreville, with a horse or other animal, faster than a walk, and for any gate keeper of said company demanding and collecting excessive toll for passing said bridge, and the manner and form of recovering the same, shall exist and apply, with full force to the bridge authorized to be erected by this act.

SECTION 7. That the supervisors of the public highway, in the sev subscribe stock. eral townships through which said road and branches may pass, be, and they hereby are authorized in the name, and on behalf, and for the use

of the citizens thereof, respectively, to subscribe any number of shares not to exceed forty by each township, in the capital stock of said company: Provided, That a majority of the voters of each township shall determine by ballot, in favor of subscribing to said stock, and that ten days' notice thereof shall first be given by the constable of each township, by at least six written or printed notices, put up in the most public places in said township; Provided further, That such township shall in subscribing stock as aforesaid, be entitled to all the rights and privileges belonging to other stockholders in said company, to be exercised through the respective offices aforesaid.

made applicable

SECTION 8. That the provisions of the thirteenth and fourteenth sec- Provisions of tions of the act of Assembly entitled "An Act to incorporate a comcertain act pany to erect a bridge over the river Schuylkill, at, or near Phoenixville, in the county of Chester," approved the fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, be, and the same is hereby extended, and made to apply to the bridge authorized to be erected by this act.

of said road.

SECTION 9. That if the said Blairsville and Kittanning road com- Commencement pany shall not complete the construction of the said bridge within seven and completion years from and after the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, this act, so far as it relates to said bridge, shall become null and void.

SECTION 10. That from and after the passage of this act, the over- Overseers of the seers of the poor, in and for the district of West Philadelphia, shall give poor to give segood and satisfactory security to the commissioners of said district, before they shall receive their duplicates, or be authorized to collect the poor rates of their respective wards, and said security shall not be discharged until after a full and complete settlement of the accounts of said

overseers.

SECTION 11. That whenever the commissioners of the district of Ken- Elections by sington have failed, or may hereafter fail to elect a member of the board district of Kenof health, on the second Monday of March, any election on any subse- sington of memquent day of the same week, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be a good and valid election.

ber of Board of Health made

valid.

SECTION 12. That the claim of the Commonwealth against Alexander Claim of ComM'Dowell, former prothonotary of Venango county, be, and the same monwealth vs is hereby released, on the payment by the said Alexander M'Dowell, of Alex. M'Dowell the principal debt without interest.

JOHN S. RHEY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JOHN H. WALKER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED The twelfth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 215.

AN ACT

To authorize the laying out of a State road from the town of Goldsborough, in York county, to the cross roads near Robert Bryson's Time-kilns, in Cumber land county; to laying out a State road in Allegheny and Washington counties; relative to Clifton street in the district of Moyamensing, and to the Delaware and Schuylkill Plank 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, Tha! Commissioners Lewis Hyers, of Cumberland county, and Jacob G. Kester, and Daniel

Location.

Duties of commissioners.

Drafts to be

made out and filed.

Accounts of

Hartman, of York county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, lay out and mark a State road, beginning at a point in the town of Goldsborough, in Newberry township, York county, and extending, by the easiest and most practicable routes, having reference to distance, public convenience, and cost of construction, to the borough of Lewisberry, in said township; and from thence along the old road as near as practicable, through Lisburn, to the cross-roads, near Robert Bryson's lime-kilns in Cumberland county.

SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners, or a majority of them, after having been duly sworn or affirmed before a justice of the peace, who shall file and preserve the same in his office, to perform all the duties enjoined by this act, with impartiality, carefully to view the ground over which the road to be laid out by them may pass, having due regard to a straight and easy road for the public, at an elevation of not more than five degrees from a horizontal line, and thirty-six feet wide, adopting as far as practicable any roads or parts of roads now in use; and that they shall clearly and distinctly mark the road in such a manner as shall render the route agreed upon readily found by the supervisors; and for fulfilling the duties enjoined by this act, the commissioners shall be allowed the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day for every day they shall be necessarily employed in per forming the duties assigned by this act; and the said commissioners are hereby authorized to employ one surveyor at two dollars per day, two chain-bearers, and one axe-man, at a sum not exceeding one dollar per day for each.

SECTION 3. That said commissioners shall make out a fair and accurate draft of the location of the road, noting thereon the courses and distances, and the places, waters, county and township lines, with such other matters as may serve for explanation; one copy of which shall be deposited in the office of the Quarter Sessions in York county, and the other in the office of the Quarter Sessions in Cumberland county, on or before the first day of November next, from which time of depositing said drafts, said road shall be a public highway, and shall be opened and repaired as all other roads laid out by the courts are made and repaired.

SECTION 4. That the commissioners shall draw on the commissioners commissioners, of York county, who shall adjust the account of the commissioners, surbow settled. veyor, chain-bearers, and axe-man, and pay them as other accounts, by orders upon the treasurer of the county, are paid.