manding officers of said companies: Provided, That the above named companies shall meet the proper number of days required by law, in their company capacity. LEWIS DEWART, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. JOS: RITNER. Appropriating the sum of five hundred thousand dollars to the Common School fund. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That the sun of five hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the Common School fund, $500,000 appropriated. to be paid on the first day of June next, and distributed according to the several laws of this commonwealth, regulating the distribution of such appropriations, said sum to be drawn from any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to be applied by the several districts, either for the building, repairing, or purchasing school houses, or for education, as they may deem best. Resolved, That it is hereby declared to be the true intent and meaning of the fourth paragraph of the tenth section of the act of June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled "An act to consolidate and amend the several acts relative to a General System of Education by Common Superintens Schools," that the Superintendent of Common Schools shall, dent of Com. Schools may and may employ such assistance in the department of state, as shall actually be necessary for the performance of the employ assis business of the Common School System. LEWIS DEWART, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. JOS: RITNER. tance. No. 18. Resolution Relative to the costs in the case of the alleged escheated estate of Daniel Keith, of Westmoreland county. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly Costs of Da met, That the Auditor General be, and he is hereby authoriniel Keith's Zed and required to settle and adjust the costs in the case estate es- of the alleged escheated estate of Daniel Keith, deceased, of Westmoreland county. cheated. Claims of J. Noble Nisbet to be settled. Resolved, That the Canal Commissioners are hereby authorized and required to re-examine the work done, and damages sustained by the contractor in the construction of dam number two, Ligonier line, and settle and adjust the claims of J. Noble Nisbet therefor, upon principles of justice and equity, and shall have power to send for persons and papers, and the Auditor General is hereby authorized to audit and settle the same in the way and manner other claims of the same nature are audited and settled. LEWIS DEWART, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. JOS: RITNER. No. 19. Resolution Relative to the claim of Etherington Appleton. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That the Canal Commissioners be, and they are hereby authorized and required to estimate, or cause to be estimated, having due regard to the provisions of the contract the amount of extra work done, and iron furnished, or damages sustained, if any, by the contractor Etherington Appleton, in the building and construction of locks number sixteen and seventeen, on the Beaver Division of the Penn-sylvania Canal, and are hereby authorized and required to settle and adjust whatever sum may be found due. LEWIS DEWART, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. JOS: RITNER. No. 20. Resolution Relating to the claim of Hugh Keys. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That the Canal Commissioners be, and they are hereby authorized and required to examine the work done by Hugh Keys, in building a viaduct over the Beaver dam branch of the Juniata, and settle and adjust his claims, upon principles of justice and equity, having a due regard to the provisions of the contract, and the Auditor General is hereby authorized to audit the same, in the way and manner other claims against this commonwealth are audited; and that the Canal Commissioners have power to issue subpoenas to witnesses, and, if necessary, to compel their attendance by attachment. LEWIS DEWART, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. JOS: RITNER. Preamble. ers, to be settled. No. 21. Resolution To pay Engineers on the Lewisburg and Hollidaysburg Railroad. WHEREAS, the Canal Commissioners, in pursuance of an act passed eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, directed a survey to be made and estimate, and report upon the practicability and importance of laying out and locating a railroad from Lewisburg, in Union county, to intersect the public works at or near Hollidaysburg, in Huntingdon county; And whereas, The said survey and estimate has been made, in pursuance of the orders of the said Canal Commissioners, but the sum appropriated was not sufficient to pay off the engineers and hands employed in making the said survey; And whereas, Justice and good faith requires that those persons should be paid; And whereas, Surplus remains in the treasury unexpended, of an appropriation made by the legislature for the purpose of surveying the route from Laughlinstown to Pittsburg, and examining into the practicability of crossing the Allegheny mountain at the Portage Railroad without planes; Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That the Canal Commissioners are hereby authorized Accounts of to settle and adjust the account of Charles De Hass, civil Charles De engineer, and others, employed in the survey of a railroad Hass & oth- from Lewisburg, to intersect the public works at or near Hollidaysburg, and whatever balance may appear justly due them, the said Canal Commissioners are hereby authorized to draw in favor of the said Charles De Hass, and those who assisted in making the aforesaid survey, on the State Treasurer, for the same, and the State Treasurer is hereby authorized to pay said drafts out of the funds appropriated for surveying the route from Laughlinstown to Pittsburg, and examining the Portage Railroad. LEWIS DEWART, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. JOS: RITNER. No. 22. Resolution Relative to removing the office of the Schuylkill Bank, at Port Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That it shall be lawful for the Schuylkill bank, in the city of Philadelphia, to remove their branch from Port Removal of Carbon, in Schuylkill county, to Pottsville, in said county, at any time after the first of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. Bank. Resolved, That when the office of discount and deposit aforesaid shall have been removed, it shall be the duty of the Five Direc directors of the Schuylkill bank, to select from among the tors to be stockholders of said bank residing in Schuylkill county, five elected. directors, to manage the concerns of the said office for one year, or until others are chosen, which selection is to be made from year to year, as long as the said office shall remain in the said borough. Resolved, That the tenth section of the act entitled "An Repeal of the act to authorize John Gamber, of Dauphin county, to con- 10th section struct a canal or slip from the Pennsylvania Canal to his of aet of June furnace, and for other purposes," passed the sixteenth day 1 6h, 1836, of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, be, and authorizing the same is hereby repealed, and that the company in said construct a section mentioned, shall elect their directors on the first canal, etc. Monday in May next, and on the first Monday in every May thereafter annually. LEWIS DEWART, J. R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. JOS: RITNER. J. Gamber to |