SECTION 11. That the said company shall have power to construct Location. said road on the present public road leading from Lock Haven to Flemington, if they see proper so to do, and to turnpike instead of planking such portions of said road as they may deem expedient.

SECTION 12. That whenever the said company shall have completed Toll-gates. one mile of said road, they shall have power to erect toll gates, and to receive the same rates of toll per mile that are allowed by the twelfth and thirteenth sections of the act approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An Act regulating turnpike and plank road companies," and the suppplements thereto, approved the seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

SECTION 13. That if the said company shall not commence the con- Commencement struction of said road in three years, and complete the same within six and completion years from the passage of this act, then so much of this act as relates of road." to said company shall be null and void, except so far as the same may

be necessary to wind up and settle the affairs and pay the debts of the

company.

SECTION 14. That the Hand-in-Hand fire company, number one, of Company to the county of Philadelphia, shall have authority to erect a stationary erect alarm bell. alarm bell, and to ring said bell in time of fire.

SECTION 15. That it shall be lawful for the commissioners of the dis- Extension of trict of Kensington and county of Philadelphia, to extend the southern Penn's treaty boundary line of the enclosure on the site of Penn's Treaty southward ground. to the line of Delaware avenue.

SECTION 16. That so much of the eighth article of the charter of the Repeal. "Watchmen's beneficial society of Philadelphia," as provides that said society "shall not be dissolved so long as five members thereof are willing that it shall continue a corporation," be, and the same is hereby repealed, and that said corporation may be dissolved at any annual meeting by a vote of two-thirds of the members after one month's notice has been given to the parties concerned.

SECTION 17. That from and after the passage of this act, seven mana- Quorum. gers of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital shall constitute a quorum

to transact business at any meeting of the board.

SECTION 18. That any person who has paid, or shall hereafter pay who may be a into the treasury of said hospital the sum of one thousand dollars in manager. one or more payments, shall thereby become a manager for life, and shall have a right to keep a patient in the medical or surgical wards of said hospital during the natural life of such manager: Provided, The person so kept shall be of the condition required by, and comply with the rules and regulations of the institution.

SECTION 19. That so much of the act of the fourteenth day of April, Repeal. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An Act relating to the commencement of actions, et cetera," as takes from the holder or holders of the titles to the land or parts thereof in partition, the right to take the same or parts thereof consecutively, according to the dates of their respective titles given by the act of fifth May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

SECTION 20. That the qualified electors of the parts of Penn and Election district Elizabeth townships in Lancaster county, included within the following in Lancaster co. boundaries beginning at the Lancaster and Lebanon county line, at the point where the State road from Shaefferstown to Manheim crosses the same; thence along the said State road to the Hummelstown, Ephrata, and Downingtown turnpike; thence along the said turnpike to the commencement of the road from Brickersville to Lexington, at Brickersville; thence along the said road past Peter Stauffer's mill to

Officers of elec

Election of officers.

Lexington; thence along the road passing the house now occupied by Joseph Nixon, in said village of Lexington, until it reaches the red from Warwick to Manheim; thence along the Warwick and Manhei road to the commencement of a new road passing the house now eespied by Benjamin Conley; thence along the said new road until it reaches the Chiquesahunga creek, on the line of Rapho and Penn townships: thence along the line between the said townships to the Lancaster Lebanon county line, and thence along the said county line to the pla of beginning, shall hereafter hold their general elections at the pub house now occupied by Jacob Swar, in the said township of Penn.

SECTION 21. That Emanuel Bollinger and Jacob Neavling are herety appointed inspectors, and Peter Blattenberger, judge, to conduct the next general election in said district.

SECTION 22. That the electors of said district shall hereafter anns ally elect their inspectors and judge of election at the general election on the second Tuesday in October, subject to the provisions of the gen eral laws regulating the election of such officers so far as applicable, and the election officers so chosen shall hold their offices for the term of one year, and shall only conduct the general elections of said district.

Corporators to SECTION 23. That the corporators of the Female Medical college of borrow money. Pennsylvania, be, and are hereby authorized to raise by loan or otherwise, a sum not exceeding eighty thousand dollars, and to expend the same in the purchase of a lot or lots of ground in the city or county of Philadelphia, and the erection thereon of a suitable building or buildings for the accommodation of the college: Provided, That the corp rate property of said college shall be liable for the payment of any loan or debts contracted in the purchase of said lot or lots and the ereetion of said building with interest thereon.

Faculty to be a SECTION 24. That the faculty of said college, and their successors, part of corpora shall constitute, ex-officio, a part of the corporation in law and in fact, and be entitled to all the privileges, and subject to all the restrictions of the original corporators.

Commissioners.

Preamble.

SECTION 25. That Daniel Snyder, Leonard B. Rupert, Samuel Keller, Samuel Creary, John M'Henry, George Miller, Amos Rittenhouse, Peter Eut, Andred Freas, Jacob Hess, and Solomon Newhard, are hereby appointed to act as commissioners, to obtain subscriptions to and dispose of the stock of the Mifflinburg bridge company, in Columbia county. and they shall obtain subscriptions for at least three hundred shares of stock before the said bridge company shall proceed with the erection of the same, under the act of ninth of April, eighteen hundred and thirtythree, incorporating said bridge company.

WHEREAS, Patrick J. Byrne, did, in and by a certain indenture, dated February twenty-seventh, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and nineteen, grant and convey to Samuel J. Fisher, a certain lot or piece of ground situate on the south side of Sassafras street, between Tenth and Eleventh streets, from Delaware, in the city of Philadelphia, beginning on Sassafras street, at the distance of one hundred and seventy-six feet westward from the west side of Tenth street aforesaid; and from thence extending westward along the south line of Sassafras street, and fronting and bounding thereon twenty-two feet to a corner of other ground of the said Patrick J. Byrne; thence southward by the same at right angles with Sassafras street ninety-five feet to a three feet wide alley, laid out by the said Patrick J. Byrne upon his ground, and extending southward into Cherry street; thence eastward by the north end of the said three feet alley, on a line parallel to Sassafras street, three feet to the north-easternmost corner of the said alley; [thence southward by the east line of the said alley;] thence southward by the

t line of the said alley, on a line parallel to Tenth street, one hund and eighty-eight feet to Cherry street, as now widened to the adth of fifty feet; thence eastward by the north line of Cherry eet, widened as aforesaid, nineteen feet to a corner of other ground the said Patrick J. Byrne; thence northward by the same on a line rallel to Tenth street, two hundred and eighty-three feet to the place beginning:

And whereas, The said Patrick J. Byrne did, in and by the said inature, expressly charge and make chargable the said lot or piece of ound with the payment of the whole of a certain yearly rent or sum six pounds current gold and silver money of Pennsylvania, annually, ever, payable to the trustees of the Roman Catholic society, woripping at the church of Saint Mary, in the city of Philadelphia, their ccessors and assigns, in trust for the use and support of the free school longing to the congregation worshipping at said church; which said arly rent or sum had been theretofore charged upon a certain large lot, which the said lot or piece of ground above described was part, as and by the said indenture duly acknowledged and recorded in the oper office at Philadelphia, in deed book M. R., number twenty-two, ge five hundred and three, &c., will more fully appear:

And whereas, It is desirable that the said premises should be freed id discharged from the said annuity; therefore,

SECTION 26. That the said trustees of the Roman Catholic society, Trustees to conorshipping at the church of Saint Mary, in the city of Philadelphia, vey certain all have full power to grant and convey the yearly rent to the owner

rents.

r owners of the said lot or piece of ground and premises whereon the ame is charged, and thereby wholly to merge and extinguish the same. SECTION 27. That George W. Kern, of Cambria county, and James Burns, Junior, and William Griffith, of Bedford county, be, and they Commissioners. re hereby appointed commissioners, to view and lay out and mark a

itate road, of the breadth of thirty-three feet, commencing at the bo

ough of Johnstown, in the county of Cambria, and running to a point Location. a Dunning's creek, in the county of Bedford, at or near where Bob's

reek enters into said Dunning's creek.

APPROVED-The fourth day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun

dred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

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cess.

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ted.

No. 342.

AN ACT

Relative to Courts in this Commonwealth.

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, Tha where any person or persons being residents of this Commonwealth shall engage in business in any other county than the one in which he, she, or they shall reside, and not being in the county at the time of the issuing of such writ or process, it shall be lawful for the officer charged with the service thereof to serve any writ of summons, or any other mesne precess upon the agent or clerk of any such defendant, at the usual place of business or residence of such agent or clerk, and to have the same effect as if served upon the principal personally.

SECTION 2. That all actions pending, or hereafter to be brought in actions permit- the several courts of this Commonwealth, and in all cases of judgments entered by confession, the said courts shall have power, in any stage of the proceedings, to permit amendments by changing or adding the name or names of any party, plaintiff, or defendant, whenever it shall appear to them that a mistake or omission has been made in the name or names of any such party.

Witnesses in certain cases.

SECTION 3. That hereafter it shall and may be lawful for any court of criminal jurisdiction in this Commonwealth, upon the trial of an indictment for the making or passing, and uttering of false, forged, and counterfeited money, to receive in evidence the oaths or affirmations of witnesses who may by experience and habit have become expert in judging of the genuineness or otherwise of such coin or paper, and such testimony may be submitted to the jury without first requiring proof of the handwriting or the other tests of genuineness as the case may be, which have been heretofore required by law.

JOHN S. RHEY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

C. MYERS, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The fourth day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun

dred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 343.

AN ACT

alter the plan of the borough of Frankford; and to open Bedford street, in the district of Moyamensing.

ford.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly t, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That plan of the borough of Frankford, made in compliance with an act Amendment of Assembly, approved April fifth, one thousand eight hundred and plan of the bur ty-one, and confirmed by the Court of Quarter Sessions of the county ough of FrankPhiladelphia, be so altered and amended as to change the location of thodox street, as laid down on said plan, between Mulberry street d the eastern boundary of the said borough, so as to run parallel th Gillingham street, on said plan, and at right angles with the said alberry street; and that so much of said Orthodox street, eastward >m Mulberry strect, as laid down on said plan of the borough aforesaid, vacated.

SECTION 2. That the commissioners of the district of Moyamensing, Opening of Bedthe county of Philadelphia, be, and they are hereby authorized and ford street, quired to open Bedford street, in said district, from the point to which Moyamensing. now opened between Eleventh and Twelfth streets, eastward into leventh street, of the same width as is now opened to said Twelfth reet; and the damages, if any, accruing to the owners of property in le continuation of said street, shall be assessed and paid in like manner s is provided for by the laws of this Commonwealth, regulating the pening of streets in the city of Philadelphia, and its districts.

JOHN S. RHEY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

C. MYERS,
Speaker of the Senate..

APPROVED-The fourth day of May, A. D., one thousand eight bun

dred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.