the power vested in the Hopewell coal and iron company, to take and hold land and real estate in fee simple on Broadtop, shall be and the same is hereby confined to land and real estate in the townships of Broadtop and Hopewell, in Bedford county. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 343. AN ACT Relating to the Foster Home. 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 the managers of the Foster Home, of the city of Philadelphia, shall have the same power that the Northern Home for friendless children has, to take the guardianship and bind out as apprentices children placed under the care of said Foster Home. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 344. AN ACT Relative to Meadow Lane. 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 that portion of Meadow Lane, in the borough of Harrisburg, between Market and Chesnut streets, which has been heretofore granted by the town council of said borough to the Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster railroad company, for the purpose of erecting a suitable depot, be and is hereby vacated as a highway, and the said grant ratified and confirmed to the use of the said company, as fully as was intended by the said town council. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 345. A SUPPLEMENT To an act incorporating the Western Saving Fund Society of Philadelphia, approved the eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful for the board of managers of the "Western Saving Fund society" to fix and determine the rate of interest to be paid to depositors therein, not exceeding six per centum per annum, and nothing contained in the act to which this is a supplement shall be so construed as to prohibit said society from paying its depositors on demand, or on shorter notice than two weeks. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, Anno Domini one thou sand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 346. "AN ACT Supplemental to the acts incorporating the Pittsburg and Connellsville Certain acts vali 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 any defect or irregularity in the proceedings of the commis- dated sioners appointed by the several acts of assembly incorporating the Pittsburg and Connellsville railroad company, in taking subscriptions to and organizing said company, and any defect or irregularity in the proceedings of the board of directors of said company, in organizing and conducting the affairs of the same, so far as the said defect or irregularity may have proceeded from the neglect or omission of the said commissioners or board of directors fully to comply with the requisitions of the said acts of incorporation and their supplements, be and the same are hereby remedied and supplied; and that the charter of incorporation of said company shall not be affected or invalidated in consequence of such omission or neglect, by said commissioners or board of directors to comply fully with its require ments. That tain cases. SECTION 2. That whenever it shall be necessary for said com Damages, how aspany to enter in and upon, and occupy for the purpose of mak- certained in cering said railroad, any land upon which the same may be located, if the owner or owners of the land shall refuse to permit such entry or occupation, and the parties can not agree on the amount of damages claimed, the company shall tender a bond, with sufficient security, to the party claiming the damages, the condition of which shall be, that the company will pay or cause to be paid such amount of damages as the party shall be entitled to receive, after the same shall have been agreed upon by the parties, or assessed agreeably to the provisions of the act of assembly prescribing the mode of ascertaining the same. in case the party or parties claiming damages refuse to accept the bond as tendered by the company, the company shall, in every such case, present the bond to the court of common pleas of the proper county, and if the court approve of the security, shall direct the same to be filed for the benefit of those to whom it is given, which bond shall be answerable, as all other debts, for the amount of the damages assessed, if the same be not paid in a reasonable time after such assessment; and the said company, their agents or contractors for making or repairing the said road, may immediately enter upon and use the said land, without awaiting the issue of the proceedings to determine the damages. SECTION 3. That in all cases where viewers have been or may Viewers and their hereafter be appointed, in pursuance of the acts of assembly re- powers. lating to said company, for the purpose of assessing damages, one or more of said viewers shall have power to adjourn from day to day, and a majority of the said viewers so appointed shall have power to view and assess damages and report as fully Penalty for not and with like effect as though all were present: Provided, That acting as a viewer a penalty of ten dollars be imposed on any of the said viewers who shall neglect or refuse to attend after appointment and due notice at the time and place named, unless unavoidably prevented, said penalty to be recoverable before any justice of the peace as debts of similar amount are recoverable, for the use of the person suing for the same. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 347. A SUPPLEMENT To an act concerning certain sheriffs' and coroners' sales, and for other purposes, approved April sixteenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. 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 so much of the proviso to the ninth section of the act to which this is a supplement, as limits the amount of compensation of the coroner of Philadelphia city, be and the same is hereby repealed: Provided however, That the fees to be received by said coroner for his own services, shall not exceed the sum of twentyfive hundred dollars. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twelfth day of April, Anno Domini one thou sand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 348. AN ACT To confirm the sale of certain real estate in Delaware county. 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 the title of Benjamin Maule, and his heirs and assigns, in and to all that certain messuage or tenement and tract or piece of land situate in the township of Radnor, in the county of Delaware, and state of Pennsylvania, bounded by lands of H. Jones Brooke, Charles T. Wilson, Hiram Cleaver, by a public road, by land of William Siter, by land of Isaac Peters, and by lands late of Pugh Davis, deceased, containing ninety-one acres and sixty-three square perches of land, more or less, (being the same premises which Thomas Maule and Benjamin Maule, executors of the last will and testament of Benjamin Maule, senior, late of Radnor township aforesaid, deceased, by their indenture, dated the first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, granted and conveyed to George Maris, who by deed dated the same day and year, and recorded in the recorder's office in and for said county of Delaware, in Deed Book W, page five hundred and thirty, et cetera, granted, sold and conveyed said premises to said Benjamin Maule, one of said executors in fee,) shall in nowise be impeached, denied, questioned, invalidated or impaired by reason of said Benjamin Maule being an executor as aforesaid, or because the fact doth not appear that said sale, made by said executors, was a public sale; but the said purchase and conveyance to him, and the title to the said premises, shall be and remain firm, stable and indefeasable to the said Benjamin Maule, his heirs and assigns, as if he had never been executor as aforesaid: Provided, That the orphans' court of Delaware county, upon petition therein filed, shall be satisfied that the purchase money of said premises has been fully accounted for, and affirm such sale. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twelfth day of April, Anno Domini one thou sand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. |