districts. SECTION 7. That the said supervisors may as soon as they are orga. Townships to nized, lay out the several townships into districts, as many as they shall be laid out into deem necessary, and may appoint one person in each district who shall be called path-master, and shall furnish each of said path-masters with a list of the taxables in his district, together with the amount of tax to be paid by each person, and the said path-master shall notify each person named in his duplicate of the time and place that he intends to work on said roads, and if the person so notified shall refuse or neglect to work as directed by said path-master, for the space of thirty days, then the said path-master shall make return to the said supervisors forthwith of every such delinquent. SECTION 8. That the said supervisors are hereby authorized and re- Supervisor to quired to issue their warrant directed to the constable of said township, issue warrant. together with a duplicate of the taxes so returned unpaid, requiring him to collect the same in money within the space of sixty days from the date of such warrant, and pay the same over to the township treasurer, and the said constable is hereby required to execute the same under the same regulations and penalties, and proceed in the same manner and have like fees as the said constables now have and do perform under executions. lative to roads SECTION 9. That the several sections of the act entitled "An Act Provisions of relative to public roads in certain counties therein named," approved certain act rethe twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and extended to forty-five, from the first to the fourth inclusive, are hereby extended to Tioga co. the county of Tioga. JOHN S. RHEY, APPROVED-The third day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 327. AN ACT To erect a separate school district out of parts of Findley and North Fayette townships, Allegheny county; to the Lawrence Guards of Lawrence county; to the Lawrenceville and Sharpsburg plank road company; to the laying out of certain streets in the District of Moyamensing, Philadelphia County; changing the place of holding elections in Ulysses township, Potter county; to the claim of John Nevin and J. Totten; dividing the township of Lower Dublin, Philadelphia county, into separate 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 all that portion of the townships of Findley and North Fayette, in Alle- Independant gheny county, including the following farms, be, and the same is sub-school dishereby erected into a separate sub-school district, to wit, the farms now trict erected out of parts of North belonging to Alexander McAdams, Robert Burns, Alexander H. Burns, School taxes. Under control SECTION 2. That all school taxes assessed upon persons residing in said district, shall be collected and paid over to the treasurer of the school fund in Findley township, to be by him applied as shall be directed by the board of school directors of Findley township. SECTION 3. That said sub-school district shall be under the contral of directors of and supervision of the board of school directors of Findley township, Findley tp. and shall enjoy all the rights and privileges of all other schools of said township. Treasurer of neys to Law. SECTION 4. That the treasurer of the county of Lawrence, be, and Lawrence co. to is hereby authorized and required to pay out of the military fund of pay certain mo- said county to the commanding officer of the volunteer corps. Law rence Guards, of said county, the sum of one hundred dollars as their quota in full for the years one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, out of any money that may be in his hands of said years. rence Guards. Proceedings of board of mana gers of Lawrenceville and Sharpsburg plank road co. made valid. Repeal. Ulysses tp., Canal Commis amine certain SECTION 5. That any defect in the proceedings of the board of managers of the Lawrenceville and Sharpsburg plank road company, in the county of Allegheny, in locating any portion of said road in accordance with the provisions of the act incorporating said company, shall be, and the same is hereby remedied, and the proceedings of the said managers therein are hereby declared to be valid and legal. SECTION 6. That so much of the twenty-third section of the act passed the nineteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty, as authorizes the laying out of Oakford street from Schuylkill Fifth to Broad street, in the district of Moyamensing, and county of Philadelphia, be, and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 7. That the special, general, and township elections for the township of Ulysses, in the county of Potter, shall hereafter be held at the house of A. S. Armstrong in said township. SECTION 8. That the canal commissioners are hereby authorized and sioners to ex- required to examine the claims of John Nevin and J. Totten, for wages due them for the time they were employed on steamboat at Duncan's Island, and to draw their warrant on the State Treasurer for the amount (if any) due them, to be paid out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated. claims. Lower Dublin tp., Philadel into two election di tricts. on SECTION 9. That from and after the passage of this act the township of Lower Dublin, in the county of Philadelphia, shall be divided into phia co., erected two election precincts as follows, viz.: Beginning at the Delaware river the line dividing the townships of Oxford and Lower Dublin; thence along said line to the line between Jacob Baker and William B. Cott .man; thence extending north-eastward by the line of William B. Cottman, Samuel Conn, David Saul, James Saul, and William McMillan, on the southeast, and land of Jacob Baker, John Snyder, Samuel Conn, and William Bartolett on the northwest, crossing Pennypack creck to the middle of a road near the creek; thence extending down the said road; thence crossing land of William B. Conly, to the line between William B. Conly and Charles Neville, and continuing the same course between lands of William B. Conly, John Neville, Senior, Simon H. White, Isaiah Dewees, Charles Dewees, and Joseph Ashton, on the southeast, and Charles Neville Handly, Jesse Conly, and Joseph Ashton on the northwest, to the line between Moreland and Lower Dublin township; thence down the line to Poquessing creek; thence down said creek to Delaware river; thence down said river to place of beginning, and all that part of Lower Dublin township lying within the above described bounds shall be called the Delaware precinct, and the remaining part of said township be called Lower Dublin precinct. tions. SECTION 10. That the qualified voters of Delaware precinct shall hold Delaware pretheir general, special, and township elections at the Atheneum Hall in cinct, place of the village of Holmsburg, and the qualified voters of Lower Dublin pre- holding elec cinct shall hold their general, special, and township elections at the places now provided for by law, and the judge and inspectors elected shall conduct the election of Lower Dublin precinct, and they shall appoint one judge and two inspectors to conduct all general, special, and township elections for Delaware precinct until the third Friday in March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, when it shall be lawful for each precinct to elect one judge and two inspectors annually to conduct such election. ballot boxes, &c. SECTION 11. That it shall be the duty of the commissioners of Phi- Commissioners ladelphia county to furnish the judges and inspectors of each precinct of Philadelphia with the necessary ballot boxes, blank forms, and lists of taxable inha- co. to furnish bitants as are now furnished to the several districts and precincts in the county of Philadelphia, and that the said judges, inspectors, and clerks shall receive the same compensation, take the same oaths, and perform the same duties as is now provided by law for election officers, and in accordance with the provisions of an act entitled "An act relating to the elections of this Commonwealth," passed the second day of July, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and the several supple ments thereto. JOHN S. RHEY, entative Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 328. A SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled "An Act incorporating the German Reformed congregation, of Shippensburg, in the county of Cumberland; relative to the common schools in the borough of Carlisle; and authorizing H. G. Wilcox to locate a certain land warrant," passed the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. 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 provisions of the twelfth and thirteenth sections of the act passed the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, enti tled "An Act incorporating the German Reformed Congregation of Shippensburg, in the county of Cumberland; relative to the common schools in the borough of Carlisle; and authorizing H. G. Wilcox to locate a certain land warrant," be, and the same are hereby extended to the successors in office of the trustees therein named and particularly mentioned. APPROVED The third day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER No. 329. AN ACT Relative to the expenses of the suit of McFadden versus Downing. 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, Thst the State Treasurer and Auditor General be, and are hereby authorized to settle the expenses of the suit of McFadden versus Downing, brought in the Court of Common Pleas of Chester county, to recover damages for injury done to the property of the Commonwealth, and to test the title of the Commonwealth to the land on, and through which the public works are constructed, and that the State Treasurer be, and is hereby authorized to pay the amount so settled out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated: Provided, Said amount shall not exceed five hundred dollars. JOHN S. RHEY, entatit APPROVED-The third day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 330. AN ACT Authorizing the laying of certain railroad turn-outs in the city of Reading. 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 Reading steam forge company, be, and the same is hereby authorized to lay a turn-out track across North Eighth street, in the city of Reading, for the purpose of connecting its works with the Philadelphia and Reading railroad; and the Reading manufacturing company is also authorized to cross South Ninth street, in said city, with a turn-out track for the same purpose: Provided, That said tracks shall cross said streets at the present grade thereof. APPROVED-The third day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 331. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To the act entitled "An Act to improve the navigation of the river Lack awaxen." 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 eighteenth section of an act entitled "An Act to improve the navigation of the river Lackawaxen," passed the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, which provides for the resumption by the State of the improvements of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, known as the Pennsylvania section of the Delaware and Hudson canal, together with the corresponding stipulations, if any, in the supplements to said act, be, and the same are. hereby repealed, and the Delaware and Hudson canal company are hereby authorized to conduct their business as they have heretofore done, according to their charter, and maintain and use their works |