hundred and fifty, as relates to the township of Aleppo, in the county of Greene, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 279.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Tioga and Elmira Plank Road Company; relative to roads in Oliver and Miller townships, in Perry county; to elections in M'Candless township, Allegheny county; to James M'Combs, of Lancaster county; to streets in the borough of Indiana; and to the pay of poor house directors, of Blair 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 Alvah C. Bush, John Arnot, William B. Clymer, Simeon Benjamin, Commissioners. John W. Guernsey, Wright Dunham, Seth Dagget, Stephen L. Parmenter, Hector L. Miller, William Maxwell, David H. Tuthill, Riggs Watrons, Robert Covell, Junior, Samuel B. Strang, William Webb, or any five of them, are hereby appointed commissioners, to open the books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, by the name, style, and Style. title of "The Tioga and Elmira Plank Road Company," to locate and construct a plank road from the State line, by way of the Miller settlement, and Yeoman's steam mill, to the head of Westbrook creek; thence Location. down said creek to the river road, about two and a half miles below

Tioga village, in the county of Tioga, subject to all the provisions and Subject to prorestrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, visions of cerapproved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred tain act. and forty-nine, and the supplements thereto, so far as the same are not inconsistent with the following sections.

SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. one thousand shares, at twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That Proviso.

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 said road, according to the true intent and meaning of said act.

SECTION 3. That if the said company shall not commence the con- Commencement struction of said road within two years, and complete the same within and completion four years, this act shall be null and void, except so far as may be necessary to settle the affairs of the company.

of road.

Officers may

SECTION 4. That said company may, if they deem it for their interest, reside in New elect to office in said company, persons resident in Chemung county, in the State of New York.

York State.

Construction of certain act.

Duties of supervisors in Oliver

and Miller townships, Perry county.

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SECTION 5. That the words "first section," wherever they occur in the sixth and seventh sections of an act entitled "An Act relating to certain school districts and roads in Perry county; and relative to elec tions in the borough of Landisburg, in said county," approved the eleventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, shall be construed to mean the third section of said act.

SECTION 6. That it shall be the duty of the supervisors of the townships of Oliver and Miller, in the county of Perry, to examine the condition of the public roads in said townships at least once in every month, or oftener if necessary, and if they find that any contractor neglects to keep his section in the condition required by the terms of his contract, they shall give him notice to do so, and if he fail, after ten days, to comply, it shall be duty of said supervisors to repair the same, in the manner provided by the act to which this is a supplement, entitled "An Act relating to certain school districts and roads in Perry county; and relative to elections in the borough of Landisburg, in said county," approved the eleventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

SECTION 7. That hereafter the general and township elections, in M'Candless - M'Candless township, in the county of Allegheny, shall be held at the house of Daniel Shoup, in said township.

Allegheny co.

James M'.

SECTION 8. That James M'Combs, of Lancaster county, is hereby Combs autho- authorized to peddle merchandize within said county, for five years, rized to peddle without paying a license.

in Lancaster co. Lines of borough of Indiana, Indiana co., extended.

SECTION 9. That the boundary lines of the borough of Indiana, in the county of Indiana, are hereby extended so as to embrace within the corporate limits of said borough, such territory as is bounded on the east by that part of Mahoning street, which is now opened and extended south of Church street; and on the south by the southern boundary line of said borough, extending eastwardly of Clymer street, until it meets Mahoning street as aforesaid, extended at right angles.

SECTION 10. That from and after the passage of this act, the directors of the poor and of the house of employment, in the county of Blair, shall each receive one dollar and fifty cents per day for every day necessarily employed as directors of the poor and of the house of employment, in said county.

JOHN S. RHEY,

APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of April, A. D., one thousand

eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 280.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Philipsburg and Glade turnpike road company; relative to the Bellefonte and Philipsburg turnpike company; to the Bald Eagle plank road company; to the supervisors of Harris township, Centre county; relative to the fees of the prothonotary of Lycoming county; and to authorize Charles Allen and Furman Fields to erect a boom in the West Branch of the Susquebanna river.

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 Bagshaw, C. R. Forster, Daniel Eyers, John G. Runk, Ed- Commissioners. ward Perks, Jesse Richards, Clement Beckwith, Hamilton Humes, William Willson, John Thompson, James Love, George P. Mattern, Jacob Pottsgrove, Robert Elder, P. B. Wilson, William H. Humes, A. M. Elder, Jacob Creps, John Lyon, William Burchfield, John Glenn, John Bailey, Samuel E. Stover, George W. Meek, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style, and title of "The Philips- Style. burg and Glade turnpike road company," with power to construct a turnpike road, commencing at or near Philipsburg, Centre county, thence by the easiest route by the way of Walkersville, in Half Moon Valley, Centre county, to intersect the public road through Spruce Creek Valley, on the Glade, at a point near to the residence of John Glenn, in Spruce Creek Valley, Centre county, subject to all the provi- Subject to the sions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road com- provisions of panies, approved twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight certain act. hundred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto.

SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of four hundred and twenty shares at fifty dollars per share.

Capital stock. SECTION 3. That if the company shall not commence the construc- Commencement tion of this road within four years from the passage of this act, this act and completion shall be null and void, except so far as the same shall be necessary of road. wind up the affairs and pay the debts of said company.

to

make a certain

SECTION 4. That the president and managers of the Bellefonte and Bellefonte, and Philipsburg turnpike road company, be, and are hereby authorized to Philipsburg make, or cause to be made, a turnpike road from a point at or near the turnpike road public house of James Antis, in Rush township, Centre county, to in- company to tersect the Bald Eagle plank road, at, or near Julian furnace, in Hus- turnpike. ton township, subject to the same privileges and restrictions as are prescribed by their original act of incorporation, and that they shall have power to vacate any part of said road from a point at or near the public house of James Antis, in Rush township, to Unionville, in Union township, Centre county.

SECTION 5. That the president and managers of said company, be, Change of route and they are hereby authorized to make such alterations in the route of authorized. said road, between the boroughs of Bellefonte and Milesburg, as they shall deem expedient, subject to the same privileges and restrictions as are prescribed by their original act of incorporation, and that they shall have power to vacate any part of said road where the route may be changed.

SECTION 6. That the president and managers of said company are Company auhereby authorized to sell, and the president and managers of the Bald thorized to pur

chase certain turnpike.

Borrow money.

row money.

Eagle plank road company authorized and empowered to purchase, that part of the said turnpike road between Unionville, in Union township, and the borough of Milesburg, including the bridge over the Bald Eagle creek, on such terms and conditions as the parties may agree upon.

SECTION 7. That the president and managers of the Bald Eagle plank road company, be, and are hereby authorized to borrow a sum of money not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, to be used in the construction of the said road, and that they be, and are hereby authorized to issue bonds or certificates of indebtedness, signed by the president, under the seal of said company, in sums not less than one hundred dollars, bearing six per cent. interest, payable semi-annually by the treasurer of the company, or in the city of Philadelphia.

SECTION 8. That the supervisors of Harris township, Centre county, Supervisors of Harris tp., Cen- be, and are hereby authorized to borrow the sum of three thousand tre co., to bor- dollars, to be applied to the payment of stock which the citizens of said township have, at an election duly held, authorized to be taken in the Boalsburg and Bellefonte turnpike company, and to issue bonds in sums of not less than one hundred dollars, for the payment of the same. Stone the road.] SECTION 9. That the said turnpike company, be, and are hereby authorized to stone their road twelve feet wide.

Construction of

SECTION 10. That the seventh section of the act of Assembly, passed certain act rela- the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitive to the fees tled "An Act to incorporate the president and managers of the Beech of the prothono- creek plank road company; relative to the fees of the prothonotary of tary of Lyco- Lycoming county; for the acknowledgment of treasurer's deeds; for

ming co.

Boom to be

erected in the West Branch

the river Susquehanna.

Proviso.

the relief of Amos Addis," shall be so construed, and the true intent and meaning of the same is hereby declared to be that the prothonotary who entered the acknowledgments of the treasurer's deeds, for the lands sold at the treasurer's sales, of unseated lands in Lycoming county, in June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, shall be allowed and enti tled to receive from the late treasurer of said county, the same fees for so doing that were allowed prothonotaries for entering the acknowledgment of treasurer's deeds, by the act of the thirteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and that the fees thereafter to be allowed to the prothonotary of said county for similar services, shall be the same that are authorized by the act last aforesaid.

SECTION 11. That Charles Allen and Furman Field, of the county of Lycoming, their heirs and assigns, be, and they are hereby authorized of and empowered to erect and maintain on the West Branch of the river Susquehanna, from an island owned by said Furman Field, to adjoin the land of the said Charles Allen, such boom or booms with piers, as may be necessary, for the purpose of stopping and securing logs, masts, spars, and other lumber floating upon said river, and to erect such piers, side branch, or shear booms at the west end of said island, as may be necessary for that purpose: Provided always, That the said boom piers, &c., shall be erected and maintained under the like restrictions, and limitations, and with the same powers and authorities (excepting the corporate powers) granted to John Leighton, and his associates, by an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Susquehanna boom company," passed the twenty-sixth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-six.

JOHN S. RHEY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN H. WALKER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED The twenty-seventh day of April, A. D., one thousand

eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 281.

AN ACT

Regulating certain election districts.

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

Monroe county.

from and after the passage of this act, the qualified electors of the town- Middle Smithship of Middle Smithfield, in Monroe county, shall hold their general field township, and township elections at the house of James Place, in said township. SECTION 2. That the qualified electors of Franklin township, in the Franklin towncounty of Lycoming, shall hereafter hold their general and township ship, Lycoming elections at the house of Philip Renn, in said township.

county.

SECTION 3. That hereafter the qualified electors of the township of Tell township, Fell, in the county of Luzerne, shall hold their general and township Luzerne county elections at the house of Kilmer and Finch, in said township.

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SECTION 4. That all that part of Salem township, in the county of New Salem disWestmoreland, beginning at the Hempfield township line, near widow trict, WestmoreGoreley's farm; thence along the dividing ridge, including the farm of ted. John Sawers; thence along said ridge to the head waters of Beaver run, on the east side of Mathias Alexander's farm; thence down said run to the mouth of Porter's run; thence along the Saltsburg road to the crossing of the Greensburg road; thence along said road to the Washington township line, at or near Jacob Rugh's; thence along said line to the Franklin township line; thence along said township line to the Hempfield township line; thence along said line to the place of beginning, shall compose an election district for general and township election purposes, and hereafter the general and township elections shall be held at the school house in the borough of New Salem, in said district, and John Zimmerman is hereby appointed judge, and Robert Young, and George M'Laughlin, inspectors to hold the first election which shall be held on the second Tuesday of October next, and said elections shall in all cases be governed by the election laws of this Commonwealth, and that the judges of said township elections of the said New Salem district and Salem township, shall, on Monday after such elections, meet at the house now occupied by Adam Coole, in Salem township, and then and there cast up the votes given for the several candidates and make return thereof agreeably to the election laws of this Commonwealth.

APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of April, A. D., one thousand

eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.