die without bearing such children, and in case such child or children shall die in his, her, or their minority, then in trust for others, as set forth in the said deed; And whereas, the said George Willing died after the execution of the said deed of trust; And whereas, Clement C. Biddle was by the Supreme court of Pennsylvania, at December term, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, of the said court, appointed trustee in the room of the said George Willing, deceased; And whereas, the said Abigail Willing Peters, Richard Peters, and the said Clement C. Biddle, have represented in their petition that it will be conducive to the best interests of the ces tui qui trusts under the said deed, from Thomas Willing, that the said ground rents or rent charges shall be sold or released, and the proceeds thereof invested more profitably for all concerned; Therefore,

authorized to

SECTION 3. The said Clement C. Biddle, and his successor in the trust, be, and he is hereby authorized to sell, Clement C. at public or private sale, the before mentioned ground rents, Biddle and or rent charges, or any one or more of them, to such pur- his succes chaser or purchasers as are willing to pay the highest and sors in trust, best price for the same, and to execute and deliver such sell, &c. deed or deeds of conveyance, assurance or release for the same, as shall be sufficient in law to transfer the interest of the said ces tui qui trusts in the same, and to invest the proceeds thereof in the stocks of such public or private corporations, or in such real securities as to the said Clement C. Biddle, or his successor in the said trust, may seem proper, the same to be held to the same uses, and in the same trusts as those stated in the said deed from the said Thomas Willing, executed as aforesaid, on the tenth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six: Provided Proviso. however, That before such sale shall take place, the said trustees shall give such security as the Orphans' court of the city and county of Philadelphia shall require, and that the future investments of the proceeds of such sale shall be approved of by said court.

lative to the

WHEREAS, Sidney Gregg, widow of Isaac Gregg, late of the county of Allegheny, and under the providence of God Preamble re a lunatic, and 0. Ormsby Gregg, Issac Gregg, Sarah E. sale of cerGregg, and Sidney J. Robinson, formerly Sidney J. Gregg, tain real es children of the said Isaac and Sidney Gregg, and heirs at tate of Isaae law of the said Isaac Gregg, are seized of certain lots of Gregg, late ground adjoining the borough of Birmingham, in the county of Allegheny of Allegheny, which said lots of ground are at present un- county. improved and unproductive; And whereas, Neville B. Craig has been duly constituted the committee of the person and estate of the said lunatic; And whereas, the said Neville B.

Neville B.

and others,

county.

Proviso.

Craig and the above named children of the said Isaac and Sidney Gregg, all above the age of twenty-one years, unite in representing that the sale, and the investment of the proceeds of the sale of the said estate, would promote the interests of all concerned; Therefore,

SECTION 4. The said Neville B. Craig, committee as Craig, ccm. aforesaid, O. Ormsby Gregg, Isaac Gregg, Sarah E. Gregg, authorized to John G. B. Robinson and Sidney J. his wife, be, and the same sell certain are hereby authorized to sell, at public or private sale, and, lots in Bir by deed or deeds of assurance, to convey all their estate, mingham, right, title and interest of, in, and to certain lots of ground, Allegheny or any of said lots, situate in the township of St. Clair, and adjoining the borough of Birmingham, in the county of Allegheny, and known and designated in a certain plot of lots recorded in the office for recording of deeds in and for the said county of Allegheny: Provided always, however, That one half of the purchase money arising from the sale of any or all of said lots, shall be and remain charged or secured by mortgage, during the life time of said lunatic, upon the lot or lots thus sold, the interest upon the same to be paid semi-annually, the balance of the purchase money to be distributed as follows: one-third thereof to be paid into the hands of said committee, and the remaining two-thirds to be divided equally among the before named children of said 2d Proviso. lunatic: And provided also, That such sale or sales of lots shall be approved by the Orphans' court of the said county of Allegheny, the said court being further authorized to require any additional security to that now authorized by law, from said committee, for the faithful application of the funds that may come to the hands of said committee.

Juniata county court.

Prot'y. of Distc't. c't. for Phil'a.

city and co.

entitled to

certain fees.

Fee of 50

SECTION 5. From and after the passage of this act, no venire shall issue in the court of Juniata, for the summoning of a petit jury for the September term of said court, unless otherwise specially enacted by the said court.

SECTION 6. From and after the passage of this act, the prothonotary of the District court for the city and county of Philadelphia, shall be entitled to receive on all sums of money paid into court, a commission of one cent for every dollar not exceeding three hundred dollars, and one-half cent for every dollar above that sum.

SECTION 7. The prothonotary of said court shall also be entitled to receive for entering judgment, for want of an gents to be affidavit of defence, under the act of the twenty-eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty five, entitled "An act to establish the District court for the city and county of Philadelphia,” a fee of fifty cents, to be taxed in the bill of

taxed in bill of costs.

costs of each suit wherein such judgment shall be rendered. SECTION 8. The town of Williamsport, in the county of Washington, shall hereafter be called by the name of Mo- Borough of nongahela city, and the corporate name and title shall here- Winsp't. in after beThe Burgess and Town Council of Monongahela Wash. co. to city," and so much of the act approved the eighth day of MonongaApril, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty- hela city." three, incorporating said borough, as is inconsistent herewith, be, and the same is hereby repealed: Provided how- Proviso. ever, this act shall not be construed to effect in any way any legal proceeding that may now be pending, wherein said. borough is a party, and every contract heretofore made by the said borough, in the corporate name hereby changed, shall be received in evidence in all legal proceedings, provided it is otherwise competent.

road taxes in

SECTION 9. So much of the act of the third of May, one Part of act of thousand eight hundred and thirty two, entitled "An act May 3d. 1832, relative to certain state roads, and declaring certain creeks relative to highways, and for other purposes,' as relates to the appro- Monroe t'p. priation of road taxes in the township of Monroe, in the Luzerne co. county of Luzerne, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and repealed, &e. the money referred to in said bill, shall be paid to the supervisors of said township, upon the order of the commissioners of said county, to be appropriated under the provisions of the general laws of this commonwealth in such case made and provided.

SECTION 10. So much of the sections eighty-seven, eighty- Certain seeeight, eighty-nine, ninety-three, ninety-five, ninety-six, tions of acts ninety-seven, ninety-eight, and ninety-nine, of the law pas- of 1834-5, sed eighteen hundred thirty-four and thirty-five, as relates to relating to inspection of the inspection of butter and hog's lard, be, and the same is butter & lard, hereby repealed, so far as relates to the size of the tub or repealed. keg containing the same: Provided, the same should not Proviso. exceed in size to hold the weight of more than five hundred pounds: Nothing in the act of fifteenth April, eighteen hundred and thirty five, entitled "An act relating to Inspectors," or in any other act, shall be construed to forbid the exportation of lumber and staves of an inferior quality, from the port of Philadelphia: Provided, the same shall first have 2d Proviso. been inspected by the proper inspector, and the quality thereof shall be clearly described in the shipper's manifest, and in the clearance at the Custom House, according to the inspector's report of its quality.

SECTION 11. The Auditor General be, and he is hereby Auditor authorized to demand and receive the following fees, to be Gen'ls. fees,

Preamble re

settlem't. of

accounted for and paid by him into the state treasury, quar terly: for every search, where no other service is performed, to which any fee is attached, twelve and one-half cents; for copy of an account, for every item one cent; for copy of any entry, or paper filed, or any part thereof, for every ten words or figures one cent, for certificate and seal fifty cents: Provided, That each person settling an account in said office, shall be entitled to a certified copy of said account without fee, as heretofore.

WHEREAS, an act of assembly was passed at the present lative to the session of the legislature, and approved on the first day of the affairs of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, entitled "An 5th ward, of act supplementary to an act entitled An act to incorporate Pittsburg.

the city of Pittsburg;"" whereby the borough of the Northern Liberties of Pittsburg was united with the city of Pittsburg, and constituted the fifth ward thereof, and it was omitted therein to provide for the settlement and final arrangement of the affairs of said borough; Therefore, Rights,ered- SECTION 12. All the rights, credits and effects, and all the North'n. Lib-estate, real and personal, of the borough of the Northern erties of Liberties of Pittsburg, be, and the same are hereby declared Pittsb'g.ves to be vested in the city of Pittsburg, the said real estate to ed in city of be had and held by the said city of Pittsburg, for the same Pittsburg.

its, &c. of the

Powers of the city to sue and be sued.

Powers of

uses and purposes as the same is now held by the said borough, and the said borough is hereby authorized to assign and transfer to the said city, all the said rights, credits and effects, and all the said real and personal estate, and any assignment and transfer thereof made before the passage of this act, is hereby confirmed, and the said city shall have authority to sue, and be liable to be sued, in its own corporate name, for all debts due to or by the said borough, and on all contracts made by or with it, as fully as if the said debts had originally been due to or by the said city, or the said contracts originally made with it.

SECTION 13. All the rights, privileges, powers and authorities of the borough of the Northern Liberties of Pittscity to finish business al burg, are hereby vested in the city of Pittsburg, so far as the ready begun, same are necessary to finish the business already begun by' the said borough, to complete contracts already entered into, and to wind up the affairs of the said borough.

Election of

the poor,

SECTION 14. From and after the passage of this act, the overseers of select and common councils of the city of Pittsburg shall, and they are hereby authorized to fix the time and place, or places, of holding elections for overseers of the poor for said city, and so much of any act or acts of assembly as is hereby altered or supplied, is hereby repealed.

SECTION 15. The sum to be expended in the opening of a

street from the state capitol to the canal, in or near the Street from borough of Harrisburg, in pursuance of the enactments and State Capitol resolutions heretofore passed on the subject, shall not ex- to canal. ceed four thousand dollars.

LEWIS DEWART,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

J. R. BURDEN,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The first day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.

JOS: RITNER.

No. 68.

An Act

To incorporate the Washington and Pittsburg Railroad company.

Commission

ers.

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 Daniel Moore, William Hunter, Alexander Reed, James Ruple, John K. Wilson, John H. Ewing, John Cook, John Dagg, Doctor John Wishart, William Smith, Doctor Samuel Murdock, Robert Officer, John Watson, Daniel Huston, Joshua Emery, and Samuel Hazlet, of the county of Washington, Alexander McKee, Henry Ingram, Charles Shaler, James Henry, William Lea, John Ross, Robert C. McFarland, Robert Snodgrass, William Byrne, Alexander Carnahan, Jeremiah Dunlavy, Caleb Forster, John McDowell, Andrew Murphy, James Findlay, Samuel P. Darlington, William Graham, Jr., and Rees C. Townsend, of the county of Allegheny, or any two of them, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to do and perform the several things hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: they shall, on or before the first day of December next, procure three books, one of which shall be opened at a public house in Washington, Washington county, and one at a public house in the borough of Cannonsburg, in said county, and one at a public house in the city of Pittsburg, in each of which they shall enter as follows: "We, whose names shall be openare hereunto subscribed, do promise to pay to the president ed.

Where books