No. 350. AN ACT To prevent the destruction of game in the county of Northumberland, and is the townships of Delaware and Walker, in the county of Juniata; incorporating the Brady Lodge Association of Old Fellows of Muncy; and appointing commissioners and treasurer of Forest county. 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 Killing of game from and after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful for any prohibited. person or persons in the county of Northumberland to shoot or other wise kill any pheasant, partridge, or rabbit, between the first days of January and September, nor any woodcock between the first day of January, and the first day of July, in any year. Penalty. Killing of certain game pro hibited. Penalty. Corporators. Style. Privileges. SECTION 2. That any person or persons offending against the provisions of the foregoing section of this act shall forfeit and pay the sum or fine of five dollars for every such offence with all costs and charges, which may be recovered before any justice of the peace for said county of Northumberland, as debts of a similar amount are by law recoverable, the one-half of the fine to the use of the informer, who is hereby made a competent witness, and the other half to the overseers of the poor of said county, for the use of said poor. SECTION 3. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons in the townships of Delaware and Walker, in the county of Juniata, to shoot or otherwise kill any tur key, pheasant, partridge, grey squirrel, or rabbit, between the first day of January and the first day of September, in any year. SECTION 4. That any person or persons offending against the provisions of the foregoing section of this act, shall forfeit and pay the sum or fine of five dollars for every such offence, with all costs and charges, which may be recovered before any justice of the peace for said county of Juniata, as debts of a similar amount are by law recoverable, the one-half of the fine to the use of the informer, who is hereby made a competent witness, and the other half to be paid to the school treasurer of the township where the offence shall have been committed, to be applied to the use of common schools. SECTION 5. That David Mecum, Ellis Michael, George Gowers, J. M. B. Petriken, John Flack, Daniel Clapp, and John Burrows, and all persons who are now, or may hereafter be associated with them, be, and they are hereby erected into a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style, and title of "The Brady Lodge Association of Odd Fellows," of the borough of Muncy, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, in any court of law or equity, and sue for and recover any debts due to the trustees of the Brady Lodge of Muncy, or any of them shall be capa ble of purchasing land for the purpose of erecting a suitable building for the use of said association, and generally to do all and singular the matters and things which shall be lawful for them to do, for the wellbeing and due management of the affairs of said association, provided that the real estate of said corporation shall not exceed the net yearly income of two thousand dollars. affairs. SECTION 6. That the government of said Odd Fellows' hall associ- Management of ation, and the management and disposition of its affairs and property,' real and personal, shall be vested in a board of trustees, who shall be elected at such time and in such manner as the said association shall by its by-laws provide; the officers of the association shall consist of a president, secretary, and treasurer, who shall be elected at the annual meeting of the members of the Association, at such time and manner as the said Association shall by its by-laws provide. SECTION 7. That it shall be lawful for said corporation to have a Seal. common seal, and to change, alter, and renew the same, as they think proper. SECTION 8 The said corporation shall have power to make by-laws By-laws. conformable to this charter, and not in violation of the laws of this Commonwealth, and of the United States. SECTION 9. That Cyrus Blood, Charles J. Fox, and John Wynkoop, Officers. are hereby appointed commissioners, and John D. Hunt, treasurer, of the county of Forest, to serve in and perform the duties of said offices, until the general election of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and until others are duly qualified to serve in said offices. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The fourth day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 351. AN ACT Relating to the sale of liquor in the boroughs of Mauch Chunk, Condersport, and M'Keesport; and to the collection of taxes in the county of Potter. manner Manch Chunk, 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 from and after the passage of this act, no intoxicating drinks in less Sale of liquors quantities than thirty gallons, except for medicinal, mechanical, or sa- in borough of cramental purposes, shall be sold, vended, or disposed of in any by any person within the limits of the borough of Mauch Chunk, in the county of Carbon, nor in the township of Mauch Chunk, in the county aforesaid, within three miles of the court house, in said borough: Provided, The Court of Quarter Sessions of said county may license Proviso. such taverns, under the laws now existing, as may be deemed necessary for the accommodation of the public. SECTION 2. That the penalties mentioned in the third section of an Penalties. act to authorize the voters of Mifflin county to decide the question of tavern licenses therein, and to prohibit the sale of intoxicating drinks Potter co. within specified limits in certain counties, approved the twenty-first day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, are hereby extended to violations of the first section of this act, and also to violations of the second section of the act above mentioned within the limits to which the provisions of the same have been extended or hereafter may be extended in either the counties of Carbon or Schuylkill. Sale of liquors SECTION 3. That hereafter it shall not be lawful for any person, exin Coudersport, cept regularly licensed innkeepers, to sell within the bounds of the bo rough of Coudersport, in the county of Potter, any malt or spirituous liquors, unless he shall first have obtained a license therefor, signed by the burgess, and a majority of the town council, under the seal of said borough, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each and every offence, to be collected by action of debt in the name of said borough, and to be applied to the ordinary funds of the same: Provided, That nothing in this act shall exempt any seller of vinous, malt, or spirituous liquors, upon obtaining license as aforesaid, from the payment of the mercantile tax to the Commonwealth, as provided by existing laws. Court of Common Pleas of SECTION 4. That the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Potter, is hereby authorized to attach any one township to another township, Potter co. may in said county, for the purpose of assessing and collecting State, county, school, and road taxes, and to designate which townships in said connection, when any two are attached as aforesaid, shall collect said taxes through its officers elected for such purposes according to law. attach tps. Repeal. SECTION 5. That the third section of an act entitled "An Act relating to tavern licenses, in the county of Allegheny," approved April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, extending the provisions of an act to prohibit the sale of spirituous, vinous, and malt liquors, in the county of Washington, to the borough of M'Keesport, in Allegheny county, be, and the same is hereby repealed. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The fourth day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 352. AN ACT To incorporate the Johnstown and Armagh Plank Road Company; to authorize the location of a State road in the counties of Bedford and Cambria; construing the first section of the supplement to the charter of the Sunbury and Erie railroad company; changing the place of holding elections in Pike township, Potter county; extending the provisions of the act entitled "An Act relating to boroughs;" to the borough of Towanda, Bradford county; authorizing the canal commissioners to examine the claim of Kier and Jones; annexing certain farms to the borough of Armagh, Indiana county, for school purposes; relative to the sale of real estate of David Wallace, deceased; to the West Newton and Madison plank road; and to the estate of Charles Wharton, of the city of Philadelphia, ceceased. 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 Peter Levergood, George S. King, J. P. McConoughy, J. Frowheiser, Commissioners. James Potts, Henry Sutton, R. B. Gageby, John Amsbough, Eli Benshoof, Alexander Elliott, William Parker, Junior, Amos Watterson, Thomas Davis, Samuel Elder, Sylvester C. Baker, Findley Mathews, David Stewart, George M'Cartney, all of Cambria and Indiana counties, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they or any eight of them, are hereby authorized to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style, and title, of "The Style. Johnstown and Armagh plank road company," with power to construct a plank road from the borough of Johnstown, in the county of Cambria, by the best route to a point on the northern turnpike, at or near Armagh, in Indiana county, taking and using for the bed of their road. 80 much of the bed of the towing path of the Pennsylvania canal pass- Location. ing through Laurel Hill Gap as the canal commissioners may determine not to be necessary for the purposes of navigation, subject to all the Subject to proprovisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road visions of cercompanies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of tain act. our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. three hundred shares at twenty-five dollars per share, and 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 the same according to the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That if the said company shall not commence the con- Commencement struction of said road within three years from the passage of this act, and completion and complete the same within five years thereafter, then this act shall of road. be null and void. SECTION 4. That George W. Kern, of Cambria county, and James Commissioners. Barns and William Griffith, of Bedford county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view and lay out and mark a State road of the breadth of thirty-three feet, commencing at the borough of Johns- Location. Duty of com. missioners. SECTION 5. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners, or a majority of them, if they shall consider the construction of said read necessary, after having been duly sworn or affirmed before a justice d the peace, who shall file and preserve the same in his office to perform all the duties enjoined by this act with impartiality, carefully to view the ground over which the road to be laid out by them may pass, having due regard to a straight and easy road for the public at an elevation d not more than five degrees from a horizontal line, and that they shal clearly and distinctly mark the road in such a manner as shall render the route agreed upon readily found by the supervisors, and for fulfil ing the duties enjoined by this act, the commissioners shall be allowed Compensation. the sum of two dollars per day for every day they shall be necessarily employed in performing the duties assigned by this act, and the said commissioners are hereby authorized to employ one surveyor at two dollars per diem, two chain-bearers and one axc-man, at sum not exceeding for each one dollar per diem. Drafts to be made out and filed. Accounts of how settled. SECTION 6. That the said commissioners shall make out a fair and accurate draft of the location of the road, noting therein courses and distances, and the places, waters, county and township lines, with such other matters as may serve for explanation, one copy whereof shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and one copy in the office of the clerks of Quarter Sessions of the respective coun ties through which the said road may pass, as soon as practicable, and from thenceforth the said road shall be a public highway, and shall be opened and repaired as all other roads laid out by the courts are made and repaired. SECTION 7. That the commissioners shall draw on the commissioners commissioners, of the countics through which the said road shall pass, who shall adjust the account of the commissioners, surveyor, chain-bearers, and axe-man, and pay them as other accounts, by orders on the treasurer of the county, are paid: Provided, That neither of the said counties shall be liable to pay a greater proportion of said expenses than for the work done, and ser vices rendered within the said county. Duty of supervisors. SECTION 8. That said commissioners shall meet at such time as a majority of them shall agree upon, and complete the location of said road as soon as practicable, and if any vacancy shall occur by resigna tion or otherwise, it shall be filled by the judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the county in which said vacancy shall have occurred. SECTION 9. That it shall be the duty of the supervisors of the several townships through which said road shall pass, upon notice given to proceed at once to open and make the said road as other roads are made. SECTION 10. That the first section of the supplement to the charter certain act rela. of the Sunbury and Erie railroad company, approved February tenth, tive to the Sun- one thousand ight hundred and fifty-two, shall be so construed as to bury and Erie authorize a majority of the constituted or corporate authorities of any Construction of railroad. Pike township, Provisions of municipal corporation, except the districts of Spring Garden, and Northern Liberties, in the county of Philadelphia, to subscribe to the stock of the said company, and to issue bonds in payment therefor. SECTION 11. That the general, special, and township elections for the township of Pike, in the county of Potter, shall hereafter be held at the house of Elijah Johnston, in said township. SECTION 12. That the provisions of the act entitled "An Act regucertain act ex-lating b.roughs," approved April third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, be, and the same are hereby extended to the borough of Towanda, in Bradford county, so far as the same are applicable to or not inconsistent with the act incorporating said borough, and the several supplements thereto. tended to the borough of Towanda. |