wholly sustained by private charity and without any charge upon the public treasury: And whereas, The said corporation has now two large buildings, and the inmates thereof to sustain by the income of its invested capital, and are about to erect another that the sexes of the insane department may be separately accommodated, which will require an increase of revenue to sustain it be it, therefore, further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said contributors to the Pennsylvania hospital may acquire and hold for the maintenance and support of the several departments, and the inmates thereof, ground rents, bonds and mortgages, public and corporate loans and stocks, to produce an annual income, together with such investments now held, not exceeding in the whole fifty thousand dollars per annum. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 179. AN ACT To legitimate Mary Kline. 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 Mary Kline, daughter of Christian and Elizabeth Seachrist, of Juniata county, shall have and enjoy all the rights and privileges of a child born in lawful wedlock, and shall be able and capable in law to inherit and transmit any estate whatever, as fully and effectually as if she had been born in lawful wedlock. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 180. AN ACT To incorporate the Barndtsville and Hilltown Turnpike Road Company. 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 Isaiah James, Aaron Barndt, David Barndt, Martin Eckhart, Henry Landis, Peter Swartz, John Swartley, Martin Swartley, Commissioners. Jacob Bachman, Samuel Geil, John Eckhart, John F. King, Samuel Godshalk, John Detweiler, Jacob Geil, Jacob Detweiler, Thomas Jacoby, Jesse More, Samuel Swartley, George Swartley, Henry Fretz, (miller,) C. B. Fretz, Martin D. Rosenberger, John H. Matthias, Owen Heaton, Dr. A. J. Hines, Joseph Rosenberger, Jacob Funk, Abiah James, Samuel Wolf, Charles Branner, Chalkley J. Kimbel, John F. Kline, William Hoffman, Samuel Fly, John Procktor, Jacob Kratz, Simeon Kratz, Jacob Wiser, David Rickert, Abraham Derstein, Samuel Krout, Samuel Shupe, Simeon S. Bitting, John Roberts, Valentine Clymer, Noah Sheip, John Sheip, A. T. Rowland, John Snyder, Enos Hunsperger, Charles Nace, Christian Moyer, Isaac Jacoby, John Albright, Isaac Lewis, Mahlon Haldeman, or any five of them, are hereby appointed commissioners, and invested with all the powers and privileges granted by the act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, passed and approved the twentysixth January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and contained in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first sections of the said act. SECTION 2. That the president and managers of said Barndtsville and Hilltown turnpike road company, when organized, are hereby authorized to lay out said turnpike road, commencing at or near the east end of the White Hall bridge in Barndtsville, Bucks county, and thence by the most practicable route to intersect the Old Bethlehem road at some point between the Octagon school house and Henry Albright's store, in Hilltown township, Bucks county; the aforesaid president and managers to have the power to depart from the present location of the road, where it may be necessary to straighten the present bed of the road as now laid out, or avoid hills, with a grade not exceeding five degrees. SECTION 3. That the president and managers of the said Barndtsville and Hilltown turnpike road company, are hereby authorized to charge and receive the same rate of tolls, and to borrow money, as the Doylestown and Willow Grove turnpike road company are empowered by the act and supplementary acts incorporating the said Doylestown and Willow Grove turnpike road company. SECTION 4. That the company shall not be liable for fractions of a cent for tolls; and the capital stock of the said Barndts ville and Hilltown turnpike road company, shall be nine thou sand dollars, at twenty-five dollars for each share. SECTION 5. That when, and so often as the president and Toll gates. managers of this company shall have completed any one mile or more of the said road, they may proceed to have the same inspected and licensed for taking toll thereon, in the same manner, and with the like restrictions and privileges as is contained in the twelfth section providing for the inspection of five or more miles when finished. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, APPROVED-The twenty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 181. AN ACT Anthorizing the laying out of a certain road in Fulton and Huntingdon counties. 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 James Lyons, William Horton, George W. B. Sipes, of Fulton Commissioners county, David Barnet, of Bedford county, and Jesse Cook, of Huntingdon county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view and lay out a state road, from a point in Wells township, Fulton county, known as the junction of the Broad Top and Hopewell road, to Broad Top city, on the Huntingdon and Broad Top railroad, in Huntingdon county. SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of the said board of commissioners, or a majority of them, after taking and subscribing an oath or affirmation, before a justice of the peace, to perform the duties enjoined upon them by this act, with fidelity and impartiality, to carefully view the ground over which the said road may pass, and lay out the same to the width of forty feet, as near to a straight line from point to point, as the nature of the ground will permit, at an elevation of not more than four degrees from a horizontal line; and they are hereby authorized to vacate any road, or part of a road, leading in the same direction, laid out by order of the courts of quarter sessions of the respective counties, which, in their opinion, may be supplied by the same. Duties. SECTION 3. That it shall be the duty of the said commission- Mark location. ers plainly to mark upon the ground, the route agreed upon for the road aforesaid, in such manner as to enable the supervisors readily to find the same; and for the purpose of fulfilling the duties of this act enjoined, the said commissioners are hereby authorized to employ a surveyor, at a per diem allowance not exceeding three dollars, a target man and axeman, and two Draft. Road to be opened Expenses, how paid. Meeting. Vacancies. chain carriers, each at an allowance not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents, and the said commissioners, respectively, shall receive a per diem allowance of two dollars, for each and every day necessarily spent in the discharge of the duties enjoined by this act, to be paid as hereafter directed. SECTION 4. That it shall be the duty of the said board of commissioners to make out a fair and accurate draft of the location of the said road, together with any that may be vacated, or any part thereof, in pursuance of the authority aforesaid, respectively noting thereon courses and distances as they occur, and improvements passed through, also the crossing of township lines, roads and waters, with such other matters as may serve for explanation, one copy thereof to be deposited in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth, on or before the fifteenth day of July next, and one copy in the offices of the clerks of the courts of quarter sessions in the respective counties through which said road may be laid out, on the day aforesaid, or as much sooner as practicable; and said road thereafter shall, to all intents and purposes, be a public highway, and opened to the width aforesaid, and repaired in all respects as roads are opened and repaired which are laid out by order of the courts aforesaid. SECTION 5. That it shall be the duty of the supervisors of the townships through which the said road may pass, to open the same to the width aforesaid, and where excavation or filling may become necessary, the bed of the road shall be at least thirty feet, and its entire course thrown up in the centre, at least fifteen inches above the plane of its sides, so that no part shall exceed an elevation of four degrees from a horizontal line, and on failing to comply with the above, shall be subject to the same fines and penalties, that are now imposed upon supervi sors for refusing to open and repair roads laid out by order of the courts of quarter sessions of the respective counties. SECTION 6. That the accounts of the said commissioners, for their own pay, and allowance for compensation to the persons employed, as aforesaid, shall be made out and returned to the commissioners of the counties in which the said road may be laid out, and paid in proportion to the time they may be so employed in each county, in locating the same, and they shall be paid out of the treasuries of the respective counties, on warrants drawn in the usual way. SECTION 7. That the said commissioners shall meet on or before the fifteenth day of May next, at such place as a majority of them shall agree upon, and complete the location of the said road as soon thereafter as practicable; and if any vacancy shall happen, by death or otherwise, the court of quarter sessions of the county in which the said vacancy shall occur, is hereby authorized to supply the same, by a suitable appointment; and in the difference of opinion, a majority of the commissioners shall determine, and the report of such majority shall be conclusive, and as available as if made by all of them. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 182. AN ACT Incorporating the Sugar and Limestone Valley Turnpike Road Company. 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 Commissioners. Anthony Cleckner, Jonathan Moyer, Jacob Čarstedler, John Shadle, Michael Sypher, William Welshans, senior, Daniel Shadle, J. J. Sanderson, A. H. M'Henry, James Wilson, Jacob Rodermell, George M. Hepburn, William N Wilson and John Sebring, are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style and title of the Sugar and Limestone Valley turnpike road com- Style. pany, with power to construct a turnpike road from or near Logansville, in the county of Clinton, by the way of Rough's Gap, Sanderson's mill, to the east end of the second bridge Route. from the borough of Jersey Shore, in the county of Lycoming, over and on any road now opened or laid out, or which may be laid out at the time the said company may be ready to begin the construction of any part of the said road, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of the act regulating turnpike and Subject to. plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of Janu ary, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall con- Capital. sist of five hundred shares at twenty-five dollars a share: Prorided, That said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as may be necessary, in their opinion, to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That the said company shall commence the said Limitation. road within two years, and finish it within five years, and failng to do so, this act shall be null and void, except so far as to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of said company. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. |