ser or purchasers thereof good and sufficient conveyances and assurances; shall vest in such purchaser or purchasers all the estate, right, title, and interest in law and equity, which the said Samuel K. Clark at, and immediately before his death, had and held in the same, as fully and completely, and with like effect, as if the said conveyances and assurances had been made and executed by said Samuel K. Clark in his life time; the money arising from such sale or sales shall be appropriated by said administrator to the payment of the debts owing by the estate of said Samuel K. Clark, deceased, and the surplus after the payment of the debts aforesaid, shall be secured to the widow and paid to the heirs of the said Samuel K. Clark, deceased, agreeably to the laws of this Commonwealth made for the distribution of the estates of intestates: Provided, That before any deed or conveyance shall be executed for the same, the said administrator shall report such sale or sales to the Or phans' Court of the county of Jefferson for approbation and confirmation, but before confirmation of the same, the said court shall be satisfied that such sale is for the interest of the estate of said Samuel K. Clark, deceased: And provided further, That the said sale or sales shall not be approved or confirmed until said administrator shall have filed with the clerk of said court, a bond with sufficient surety to be approved of by said court, conditioned for the faithful application of the purchase money and performance of the duty and trust herein prescribed.

vid Bacon au

SECTION 4. That it shall and may be lawful for the trustees under Trustees under the will of David Bacon, late of the Northern Liberties, in the county the will of Daof Philadelphia, deceased, and the survivors and survivor of them, by thorized to sell public sale to grant, sell, dispose of, and convey in fee simple, or for real estate. any less estate, any or all of the real estate held by them upon or subject to the trusts contained in said will, and to convey and assure the same unto the purchasers thereof discharged of such trusts: Provided, That such sale or sales shall be approved by the Orphans' Court of the city and county of Philadelphia, and that security shall be given to the satisfaction of said court by bond to be filed therein for the faithful appropriation of the proceeds of such sale according to the trusts of said will, and such sales being so approved, and such security being so entered, the purchasers aforesaid shall be absolved from all liability to see to the application of the purchase money.

SECTION 5. That Turner's Lane, in the district of Penn, in the Turner's lane in county of Philadelphia, extending from the south side of Columbia the district of avenue southwestwardly to the east side of Twenty-fourth street (or Penn vacated. William street), be, and the same is hereby vacated, and the title to the soil over which the same now passes, be, and the same is hereby vested in fee simple in the several owners of ground fronting on the said lane respectively, each owner to have and take that part of said lane lying in front of his or her ground to the middle thereof: Provided, That so much of said lane so vacated as lies eastward of the Ridge road, shall not be closed up until Columbia avenue shall be opened for public use from said lane to the said Ridge road, and so much thereof as lies westward of said Ridge road shall not be closed up until Jefferson street from said Ridge road to said Twenty-fourth street, and said Twentyfourth street from said Jefferson street to the said Turner's Lane shall be respectively opened for public use.

Middletown

SECTION 6. That the township elections in the township of Middle- Elections in town (now Clymer), in the county of Tioga, are hereby confirmed, and (now Clymer all the acts and proceedings of the road commissioners or supervisors tp.), confirmed

and school directors of said township are hereby declared legal valid.

JOHN S. RHEY,

Speaker of the House of Representative.

JOHN H. WALKER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The sixth day of May, A. D., one thousand eight ha dred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER

No. 371.

A SUPPLEMENT

To" An Act regulating the assessments and collection of township taxes in the
counties of Bradford, Tioga, and Potter; and fixing the manner of review!
and confirming roads; and of assessing damages when roads are laid
through improved lands in said counties," approved the thirteenth dayd
March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six; to incorporate the Pitstaf
and Lehigh turnpike road company; to extend the provisions of the act ter
courage manufacturing operations in this Commonwealth; to manufacture
mineral paints and artificial siate; to the Western Insurance company;
to the Jackson beneficial society.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. Thi Road commis- the road commissioners of the several townships, in the county of Brad sioners in Bradford, shall have within their respective districts full power and authority, change location upon the application to them in writing, signed by at least ten of the

ford co. to

of roads, &c.

Persons dissat

isfied with the location of roads to give notice.

citizens of their respective townships, to inquire of and to change or cate the whole or any part of any public road, excepting State roads, which has been or may be laid out or opened by authority of law, when ever the same shall have become useless, inconvenient, or burdensome, and the said commissioners shall furnish the town clerk of said township with a return of all such roads so changed or vacated, in the same manner that they are now required to make report in the case of laying out roads.

SECTION 2. That any person or persons dissatisfied with the change or vacation of the whole or any part of any such public road, and who de sires to prevent such alteration or vacation, may give notice of such dis satisfaction in writing to said town clerk at any time within thirty days after the filing with the said town clerk of the report of the commissioners changing or vacating the same; and thereupon the said town clerk shall appoint a day, not exceeding ten days after the day of receiving said notice, for the meeting of said commissioners, and person or persons giving such notice at the office of said town clerk, or at some other convenient place in the neighborhood, of which time and place the said commissioners and person or persons giving notice shall be in

rmed by the town clerk, at least four days before the day of meeting,
which time and place the town clerk shall attend, and if the said com-
issioners, or any one of them shall attend, he or they may name one
ommissioner of roads and highways of an adjoining township, and the
erson or persons dissatisfied may also name one commissioner of roads
nd highways of an adjoining township, and the two commissioners thus
amed shall select a third commissioner, not of the township in which
he altered or vacated road complained of lies, and the commissioners
hus named and selected shall proceed to review the road where the al-
eration or vacation complained of has been made, together with the
parts of roads adjacent, and may confirm or rescind the same, and make
report to the town clerk of the township in which such road lies, and
their report shall be entered of record as in other cases, and shall be
final and conclusive in regard to said alterations or vacations for two
years thereafter: Provided, That if the said alteration or vacation is Proviso.
rescinded by the commissioners who review, their day wages for said
services shall be paid by the township in which such road is situated,
but if it be confirmed then by the person or persons who gave notice of
dissatisfaction: And provided further, That if no commissioner shall Proviso.
attend at the time and place named by the town clerk to name commis-
missioners to review, then the town clerk shall name one on behalf of
the commissioners of said township, and like proceedings shall be had
as if the commissioners, or one of them, had attended.

SECTION 3. That all damages sustained by any owner of lands by Damages, how reason of the altering or vacating of the whole or any part of any such paid. public road, shall be paid by the township in which said road is altered or vacated, and the owner of said lands who may consider himself injured by said alteration or vacation, shall and may at any time within three months after the filing, in the office of the town clerk, report of the commissioners altering or vacating the same, file with the town clerk a statement of the injury sustained, and of his intention to claim damages, and thereupon all and singular the acts and proceedings marked out and designated by the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth sections of the act to which this is a supplement, which provides for the assessment of damages sustained by the owner of improved lands, by reason of laying out and opening roads through his improved lands, shall be done, taken, and persued so far as the same are applicable by the person claiming damages, by reason of said alteration or vacation, and by the various persons and tribunals to whom the same may be submitted.

SECTION 4. That Yost Driesbach, George Miller, John S. Carpenter, Commissioners. William S. Readin, James D. Forsman, R. J. Wisner, and Theodore Strong, of Pittston and vicinity, be, and they are hereby appointed. commissioners, to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, by the style of the Pittston and Lehigh turnpike road company, with power to construct a turnpike road, commencing at the Pittston ferry bridge, and thence by the most eligible route, to intersect Location. with the Easton and Wilkesbarre turnpike, at or near Bear creek, or near the house on said turnpike, formerly owned by Charles L. Ter

millegar, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regu- Subject to prolating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth visions of cerday of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty- tain act. nine, and the supplements thereto.

SECTION 5. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. five hundred shares of ten dollars per share.

Commencement

SECTION 6. That if the said company shall not commence the con- and completion struction of said road within three years, and complete the same within of road.

tended.

five years from the passage of this act, then it shall be null and vi except so far as the same may be necessary to wind up the affairs a pay the debts of the company.

Act regulating SECTION 7. That the provisions of the act of Assembly, passed Apri manufacturing seventh, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, "to operations ex- courage manufacturing operations in this Commonwealth," shall b and they are hereby extended to companies formed for the mining i manufacturing of mineral paints and artificial slates, and other artis made by the use of said painting materials: Provided, That the p visions of this section shall not apply to the city and county of Phi delphia.

Proviso.

Western insurance co., powers extended.

Amendment of charter of Jack son beneficial society.

SECTION 8. That the Western insurance company of Philadelphia shall have all the powers and privileges conferred on or exercised y the Mercantile mutual insurance company of Philadelphia, under th provisions of an act entitled "An Act to extend the boundary line d the borough of Newton Hamilton, and other purposes," passed the ninth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and forty-nin SECTION 9. That the charter of the Jackson beneficial society c Pennsylvania, is hereby altered and amended in such manner as the nine members of the society shall constitute a quorum.

JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

APPROVED-The sixth day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hur dred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

Officers.

Certain lands

excluded from city limits.

No. 372.

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Carbondale," passed fifteenth March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

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 all officers of city of Carbondale shall hold their offices until successors shall be respectively elected and duly qualified, and that at each charter election the citizens shall vote for one select council man from each ward, whose term of office shall be for one year.

SECTION 2. That the several tracts of land, or any parts thereof, in the warrantee names of Sarah Ryan, Henry Rider, and G. M. Hollenback, which are embraced within the limits of the city of Carbondale, are hereby excluded from said limits, but any taxes thereon heretofore 23sessed, shall be collected and recovered as if this act had not passed.

SECTION 3. That persons who are required to serve as jurors in said Compensation. Mayor's Court, when residing beyond the limits of the said city, shall e entitled to receive three cents a mile circular for travel, and one ollar per diem for attendance; and the duties in the twenty-third secion of the act to which this is a supplement, of selecting and drawing uries, may be performed by the deputy sheriff, assisted by a majority of the select council men.

SECTION 4. That the first and second wards shall elect one constable, Election of offine overseer of the poor, and one-half of the number of school directors; cers.

he third and fourth wards shall elect one constable, one overseer of the

oor, and one-half of the board of school directors, and the said officers

shall act as heretofore, conjointly.

SECTION 5. That judgments in the said Mayor's Court shall be a Judgements to ien upon lands lying within the said city, and such lands are hereby be a lien. nade liable to execution upon writs issuing out of the said Mayor's Court in like manner as if the same were issued out of the Court of Common Pleas, of Luzerne county, and all the laws of this Commonwealth in relation to execution process in the several Courts of Common Pleas, shall be in force in relation to such process from the said Mayor's Court.

SECTION 6. That when scire facias shall be issued, or amicable action Entries of judginstituted to revive any judgment in the said Mayor's Court, which ments. shall have been certified to the Court of Common Pleas, of Luzerne county, for the purpose of acquiring a lien upon lands therein, the clerk

the said Mayor's Court shall, upon application of either party, give a certificate of the docket entry of the commencement of such action, with the seal of the court, for the fee of twenty-five cents, which the prothonotary of Luzerne county shall, upon application, enter of record upon the appearance docket for the like fee, referring in such entry to the number and time of the judgment so previously entered, upon certificate, and such entry shall be notice to all persons interested of the proceedings of revival in said Mayor's Court, and shall continue the lien of said judgment in Luzerne county, the same as if the proceedings were wholly within the Court of Common Pleas thereof, and upon final judgment in said Mayor's Court, the clerk, for the like fee, shall give a further certificate thereof, which the prothonotary shall, upon application, for the further fee of twenty-five cents, enter in the judgment docket of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid, and thereupon the judgment shall be revived in the said court and the lien continued for a period of five years after judgment shall have been entered in said Mayor's Court: Provided, That the last mentioned certificate shall alone be sufficient when it can be obtained and entered in the Common Pleas of Luzerne county before the lien of the judgment has expired.

SECTION 7. That the records of all judgments of the courts of com- Certain judg mon law, jurisdiction, and of all aldermen and justices of the peace of ments admitted the Commonwealth shall, when duly authenticated, be admitted to of record. record in the said Mayor's Court, and shall thereupon have all the incidents of judgments in said court, and the record of any judgment in said Mayor's court in like manner duly authenticated shall upon application to the proper officer of any of the courts of record in this Commonwealth; be entered of record therein, and thereupon have all the force and incidents of a judgment regularly obtained in any of said courts, and all certioraries to and appeals from the judgments of the aldermen of said city of Carbondale, or the justices of the peace of the townships of Fell, Greenfield, Scott, and Carbondale aforesaid, may be heard, tried, and determined in and by the said Mayor's Court.