tain act. wk and peddle as aforesaid, shall be ten dollars for each foot traveler, subject to profifteen dollars for each horse and wagon employed; no manufacturer visions of certhe above articles shall hawk or peddle, or offer the same for sale, any except his principal place of business, in less quantities than five llons, under the penalty of twenty dollars for each offence, to be revered and applied in the same manner as is provided for by the acts rein referred to. SECTION 6. That the school directors of the district of New Hope, School directors Bucks county, be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to of New Hope, rrow any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole the sum Bucks co., to three thousand dollars, which they may deem necessary, at any rate borrow money. interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum, for the payment of e debts of said school district, and for the improvement of the school Pike street, ex use and grounds attached to the same, in said school district: Pro- Proviso. ded, That no certificate of loan for the sum or sums so borrowed, all in any case be issued for a less sum than one hundred dollars. SECTION 7. That Pike street, in the city of Pittsburg, be, and the me is hereby extended from its present termination at Harrison tension of. reet, in the Fifth ward, to Allegheny street in the Ninth ward, at the me width and distance from Penn strect that Pike street now has om Harrison street westwardly. SECTION 8. That Etna strect be, and the same is hereby extended Etna street, exom Harrison street to Columbia street, the same width and course tension of. lat Etna street has west of Harrison street: Provided, however, Proviso. 'hat so much of Alexander Bradley's brick shop as now stands on the ne of the street, shall not be subject to this act, so long as the said uilding stands, but in case of re-building the owner thereof shall onform to the line of the street. SECTION 9. That Butler street be, and the same is hereby extended Butler street, rom its present termination (sixty feet west of Pine street) to Colum- extension of. ia street, the same course that the southern line of said street bears n Joseph Patterson's plan of lots, and thirty feet in width. SECTION 10. That the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny Duty of Court ounty, on being petitioned by ten or more citizens of Pittsburg, for of Quarter the opening of the streets named in the preceding sections, shall, and Sessions. they are hereby authorized to appoint six discreet and disinterested. citizens, who, after being sworn or affirmed, shall proceed with as little delay as possible to view and examine the ground proposed for the extension of the above named streets; the said viewers, or any four of them, shall enquire what damages any individual or individuals shall or may sustain by the opening and extending said streets as public highways, and shall make a fair estimate of the same, and they shall enquire to whom the opening of the said streets and highways shall be a benefit, and they shall apportion and assess the amount of damages Damages. so found upon and among the individuals so benefitted, fairly and equitably in proportion to the benefit received therefrom, and the said viewers, or a majority, shall file the said apportionment and assessment in the said court, and on the same being approved by the said court, it shall be entered and recorded at large upon the docket thereof, and shall bind and conclude all parties owning or claiming to own the property adjudged by the said viewers, to be so benefitted by the opening of said streets as public highways, and the sums so assessed and apportioned shall be and remain a lien upon the property so adjudged to be benefitted as aforesaid, until the same, together with the costs, shall have been paid or tendered to the persons entitled to receive the same: Proviso. Provided, That the said report of the viewers to the court shall not be approved without the said court first having given at least ten days' Damages, process may issue for if not paid. Expenses. Court to notify lator. notice of the time, in two daily newspapers published in the city of Pittsburg, that so soon as the damages and costs so assessed shall be paid to the persons entitled thereto by said report, or into court to abide it order of distribution, the prothonotary shall so certify to the court and the court shall order said streets to be opened forthwith; in case of the inability or neglect of any of the viewers to attend, the court may ap point others. SECTION 11. That the damages assessed as aforesaid upon the lots reported to be benefitted by the opening of said streets, if not pa within one year after the approval by the said court, process may issue from said court in the nature of a writ or writs of scire facia upon a mortgage in the name of the Commonwealth, for the use of th person or persons, or their legal representatives, entitled thereto, and may be prosecuted to trial, judgment, and execution, for the amoun: of said damages, with interest and costs. SECTION 12. That the expenses of viewing and assessing damages, and all other incidental matters not fully provided for in this act, shall be governed by the general road laws of this Commonwealth. SECTION 13. That the court aforesaid, on the application of the ten recording regu- or more citizens for the opening of the said streets, shall notify the recording regulator of the city of Pittsburg to proceed to lay out and mark the extension of said streets on the ground, who shall make an accurate map or plan of the same, exhibiting the lots, et cetera, over which the said streets shall be extended, with the names of the owners of lots marked thereon, which plan shall be filed in the office of the regulator aforesaid, for the inspection of the citizens, a copy of which shall be furnished to the viewers; the expense of this plan to be defrayed by the city of Pittsburg. JOHN S. RHEY, APPROVED-The first day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER No. 310. A SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the North Philadelphia plank road company; to refund certain money to Harriet Jenkins; relative to the election in the borough of Gratz, county of Dauphin; to the Schuylkill railroad; to Glen Hope and Little Bald Eagle turnpike road company; refunding certain money to David Sankey; relative to elections in Lebanon county; and to an election district in Luzerne county," passed April, eighteen hundred and fifty-two. 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 second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth sections of the act to which this is a supplement, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The first day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 311. AN ACT Relative to the West Chester railroad; the Delaware County Mutual Protection ter railroad company, further powers 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 in all cases where the Philadelphia and West Chester railroad company Philadelphia is or shall hereafter be authorized to take private property for the use and West Chesof said corporation, and the damages done to the owner of such property shall have been or shall be assessed according to law, and exceptions to or appeals from such assessment shall be pending, it shall be lawful for said corporation or individual to apply, by petition to the Court of Common Pleas of the county in which the property so to be taken shall lie, and the said court may permit such corporation or individual to pay into court, for the use of such owner, the amount so assessed, and upon notice to and hearing of such owner, may permit said corporation to granted to. Proviso. Act incorporating the Delaware County mutual protection company extended twenty years. West Town and Thornbury school district erected. School directors. give security to such owner in such form and amount, and with such sureties as the said court may approve, for the payment of any damages that may eventually be assessed or agreed on beyond the amount so paid into court: Provided, That if the first assessment of damages be set aside upon exceptions or appeal, and a second or any subsequent assessment be made which shall be less favorable to the exceptor or ap pellent than the first, he shall pay the cost of such second or subsequent assessment: And provided further, That only such amount as shall be finally asssessed shall be taken out of court by such owner. SECTION 2. That an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Delware County Mutual Protection Company," approved the twelfth day June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, is hereby extended twenty years from the of this act, and that in lieu of the names passage mentioned in said act as corporators be inserted: Dr. George Smith, William Eves, William Ogden, John M. Broomall, William Booth, Sketchley Morton, Levis Miller, Joseph Edwards, Adam C. Eckfelt, James A. Moore, Homer Eaches, John C. Beatty, Isaac Thomas, James J. Lewis, Joel Evans, Isaac M. Trimble, James Barton, John H. Andrews, Armesley Newlin, Walker Y. Hoopes, Minchall Painter, Eli D. Pierce, Nathan H. Barker, John Hill, and John Jackson, who shall be the first directors, and that the third section of said act shall be construed to conform with this act. SECTION 3. That hereafter that part of the township of West Town, in the county of Chester, lying east of the western line of the West Town school farm, that part of the township of Thornbury, in the same county, lying east of the western lines of the farms now held by Edward Shimer, and John Entrikin, and the farms and lands now in the occupancy and possession of Benjamin Hickman, Joseph G. Gibbons, Alexander Stephens, Joseph Cheyney, Evans E. Green, and Jesse Russell, situate in the township of Thornbury, Delaware county, be, and the same are hereby erected into a separate school district, to be called the West Town and Thornbury eastern school district, and the said district so erected shall be entitled to receive its proportion of the State appropriation, and also its proportion of the taxes raised in the townships aforesaid, for school purposes. SECTION 4. That Wellington C. James, James Roney, Robert H. Miller, Benjamin Hickman, Thomas W. Cheyney, and Evans E. Green, be, and they are hereby appointed school directors for the said West Town and Thornbury eastern school district, for the present year, and until the next regular election for that purpose, at which time the citi zens of said district shall elect six school directors; two to serve three years; two to serve two years; and two to serve one year; and the above named directors hereby appointed, may appoint a treasurer for the present year, to exercise the same powers and perform the same duties that are now exercised and performed by the treasurers of other school districts. APPROVED-The first day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. OF THE SESSION OF 1852. No. 312. AN ACT To remove four certain actions now pending in the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks county, brought against William Eckert, Henry Ebner, and others, late directors of the Northampton Bank, in Lehigh county, to Carbon county. moved to Carbon co. 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 four certain actions now pending in the Court of Common Pleas of Certain suits Bucks county, brought against William Eckert, Henry Ebner, and in Bucks co. reothers, late directors of the Northampton Bank, to December term one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, number nineteen, December term, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, number twenty, April term, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, number sixtynine, and September term one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, number ninety-one, be, and the same are hereby removed and transferred to the Court of Common Pleas of Carbon county to be there tried at one of the regular terms of said court, or at a special court there held for said purpose, which must be granted on the request of either of the parties in the same manner as if they had been originally instituted in the said last named court, and the record in said actions shall be certified by the said Court of Common Pleas of Bucks county to the said Court of Common Pleas of Carbon county for trial aforesaid, and on final judgment such writs of execution shall be issued as be necessary to carry the same into full effect, and the said judgment shall be liens on real estate in Lehigh county, the same as though the said judgment had been originated in Lehigh county: Provided, That the county of Carbon shall not be subjected to any costs or expense in consequence of, or by reason of the transfer and removal of the above actions, but the same or such part thereof as would otherwise fall on the said county of Carbon shall be paid by the commissioners of Lehigh county, and that the said final judgment shall be subject to writs of error to the Supreme Court as in other cases, and in case of reversal and new trials awarded, they shall be retried in Carbon county in the manner as is herein before described. may JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The first day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. |