No. 290. AN ACT To authorize the commissioners of Butler county to borrow money; and relative to the boundaries of the borough of Kittanning. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represe tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Commissioners the commissioners of the county of Butler, be, and they are hereby auof Butler co. to thorized to borrow a sum of money not exceeding twenty thousand borrow money. dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum, pay Repeal. able semi-annually, and the principal at such time or times as may be fixed by them not exceeding twenty years, certificates to be issued therefor in sums not less than one hundred dollars, and not subject to taxation as money at interest; and said loan, or so much thereof as said commissioners shall deem necessary to take, shall be paid into their hands and by them be disbursed in the erection of new public buildings for said county, at the county seat thereof. SECTION 2. That the first section of an act entitled "An Act to extend the boundaries of the borough of Kittanning, in Armstrong county, and for other purposes," approved the sixteenth day of April, one thous and eight hundred and forty-five, be, and the same is hereby repealed JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives.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. 291. AN ACT To incorporate the Meadville and Jamestown Plank Road Company. 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 Commissioners. John Dick, B. L. Richmond, James E. McFarland, Samuel Gordon, James L. Parks, David Wier, Jacob C. McGranahan, John Custard, of Crawford county, and William Gibson, James Campbell, James Bow man, John McMichael, and Samuel Madge, of Mercer county, be, county of Mercer, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an Subject to proact regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty- visions of cersixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and tain act. the several supplements thereto. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. one thousand shares, of twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That Proviso. said company may, from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion may be deemed necessary to complete the road and carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That if said company shall not commence the construc- Commencement tion of their road within three years after the passage of this act and and completion complete the same within five years thereafter, this act shall be null of road. and void, except so far as the same may be necessary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of said company. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 292. AN ACT Relating to the Towanda Plank Road Company; to hawkers and pedlers in Bradford and Beaver counties; to the trustees of Athens Academy; and to tenpin alleys and billiard rooms in Wyoming 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 time for the commencement and completion of the Towanda creek Time for the plank road required by act of Assembly, passed the twenty-ninth day completion of of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, be, and the same creek plank is hereby extended three years from the passage of this act, and the road extended. said company shall have power to locate said road on such parts of the public road as said company shall consider necessary for the construction of said plank road by the most eligible and convenient route. the Towanda Hawkers and pedlers in Bradford county. Provisions of certain act extended to pedlers of stoves in Bradford co. SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act, no person persons shall sell, or expose to sale, as a hawker, or pedler, or traveli merchant, in the county of Bradford, any watches or gold, silver, plated ware, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each and every offence to be inflicted in the manner provided for in the act of April sixth, ent thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, entitled "A supplement ta the act regulating auctions in the city of Lancaster and other towns this Commonwealth," passed the seventh day of April, eighteen h dred and thirty-two. SECTION 3. That the provisions of the act passed the sixth day d February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, entitled "An act r gulating tin and clock pedlers," are hereby extended to hawkers and pedlers of stoves within the county of Bradford, and all the provisions said act are hereby extended to hawkers and pedlers of stoves within said county, as fully and amply as if persons concerned in said busi ness or employment were specifically mentioned in said act, with this change only that the sum to paid for a license shall be fifty dollars. No person al- SECTION 4. That no person for whom provision is not made by exist lowed to peddle ing laws relating to hawkers and pedlers, shall employ himself or be without license. concerned in the business or employment of hawking or peddling of any goods, wares, or merchandize of any kind, whether foreign t domestic, within the county of Bradford, without having previously ob tained a license so to do as hereinafter provided, and any person n being licensed as required by this act, who shall be found hawking, ped dling or traveling from place to place through any part of said county to sell or expose for sale any foreign or domestic goods, wares, or mer chandize of any kind shall be liable to a fine of fifty dollars, to be reco vered and applied in the manner provided by the first section of an aci regulating tin and clock pedlers, passed February sixth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions to grant licenses. Billiard rooms &c. in Wyo ming county. Trustees of SECTION 5. That the clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of sail county of Bradford is hereby authorized to grant licenses to extend to said county for one year under the seal of said court for the purposes aforesaid, for which there shall be paid for the use of the Commonwealth for a license to travel with one horse and wagon or other vehicle fifty dollars, with two horses and wagon or other vehicle sixty dollars: Pr vided, That hawkers, pedlers or traveling dealers in spirituous or malt liquors shall pay ten per cent. in addition to the amount required for a license to other hawkers and pedlers. SECTION 6. That the nineteenth section of the act entitled "An Act to create a sinking fund, and to provide for the gradual and certain extinguishment of the debt of the Commonwealth," shall not be so construed as to authorize the granting of a license to any person or persons to keep any billiard room, bowling saloon, or ten-pin alley, in the county of Wyoming. SECTION 7. That the trustees of Athens Academy, in Bradford Athens Acade- county, shall consist of six in number, to be elected annually at the borough and township elections, to hold their office during the term of three years, and two to be elected each year, one from the borough of Athens and one from the township of Athens. my. Election of SECTION 8. That the election of two trustees shall take place at the next borough and township elections, and the two thus elected, with four of the trustees of the present board, which shall be determined by casting lots, shall constitute the new board of trustees, and the term of office of two of the old board shall be for one year, and of the other two for two years, to be determined by casting lots for the term of office; and the president of the board of trustees shall not have the rivilege of voting, except the vote be a tie, when he shall have the sting vote; and four trustees shall form a quorum for the transaction all business, and in case there shall be a failure to elect trustees, the d trustees shall continue in office till an election shall take place and e trustees elected shall accept the office. SECTION 9. That from and after the passage of this act, no person Hawkers and persons shall engage or be concerned in the business of hawking and pedlers in Beaddling in Beaver county, on stands or stalls on the streets or highways said county, any foreign or domestic goods, made-up clothing, drugs id medicines, and jewelry, without first obtaining a license so to do, id pay therefor to the treasurer of said county for the use of the Comonwealth, the sum of thirty dollars, which license the treasurer of ad county is hereby authorized to grant within said county. ver co. SECTION 10. That if any person shall so engage or be concerned in Fine for ped- JOHN S. RHEY, JOHN H. WALKER, putative Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of April, A. D., one thousand ight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 293. AN ACT To authorize the commissioners of Cumberland county to provide a temporary prison, or to enable them to contract with the authorities of Franklin or Dauphin county for the safe keeping and support of prisoners, until the completion of the new prison in Cumberland 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 until the completion of the new prison in Cumberland county, which is Commissioners about being built by the commissioners of said county, agreeably to of Cumberland the recommendation of two grand juries and the court, the said com- county to promissioners are hereby authorized and required to provide some suitable vide a templace or building in the town of Carlisle, or in its vicinity, to be used as a temporary jail and lock-up house, or that said commissioners shall have the right and power to contract with the proper authorities, either of Franklin or Dauphin county, for the safe keeping and supporting porary jail. in the common jail or prison of said county, of all such persons as are now confined in the jail of Cumberland county, or that may be hereafter sentenced or committed to prison, until the completion of the aforesaid building, and it shall be lawful for any court, judge, justice of the peace, or committing magistrate, in all cases wherein according to existing laws, he or they might lawfully commit or sentence to be confined, any person in the common jail of the county of Cumberland, to commit and order to be confined such person or persons in the said temporary prison or jail of said county of Franklin or Dauphin, as said commissioners may determine, and the keeper of the common jail of said county of Cumberland, or the keeper of the said jail of the county of Franklin or Dauphin, is hereby authorized and directed to receive and detain all such persons in said temporary jail or jail of the said county of Franklin or Dauphin, until he, she, or they, shall be delivered therefrom, in due course of law, as in other cases, and upon the completion of said prison, to transfer all persons who shal then be in confinement in said temporary jail or jail of the county of Franklin or Dauphin, placed there by the authorities of Cumberland county, into said prison, and them there detain until the expiration of the terms for and during which they shall have been respectively sentenced or committed: Provided, That the costs and expenses of detaining and keeping the prisoners of the county of Cumberland, in the jail of Franklin or Dauphin county, under the provisions of this bill, shall be defrayed by the said county of Cumberland. JOHN S. RHEY, APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 294. AN ACT To incorporate the Westminster Collegiate Institute; relative to the poor house in Mercer county; to auditors in Sandy Creek township; to extend the powers of the Erie City authorities; to a certain escheated estate; to the sale of a certain school lot; fixing the time of holding courts in Lawrence and Beaver counties. That 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, Collegiate insti- the Westminster collegiate institute, in the county of Lawrence, and in the vicinity of New Wilmington, and the same is hereby erected into an institution of learning in the arts and sciences. tute. |