Pay of commissioners.

Claims for sup

der old law.

a suitable citizen or citizens to fill such vacancy or vacancies until the next general election, when a director or directors shall be elected for the unexpired term of said vacancy or va cancies.

SECTION 12. That the commissioners of the said county of Lawrence are hereby directed to pay to each of the commissioners named in the first section of this act, the sum of one dollar per day for each and every day he shall necessarily spend in performing the duties prescribed by the first section of this act, and also to pay each of the directors a reasonable compen sation for their services, during the term they are employed in erecting any building or buildings aforesaid: Provided, That the same shall not, including the annual sum allowed them by this act, exceed fifty dollars for any one year.

SECTION 13. That all claims and demands in relation to the port of poor un- poor in the aforesaid county existing at the time of this act being carried into effect, shall have full force and effect as if this act had not been passed; and when the same shall have been duly adjusted and settled, all moneys remaining in the hands of the overseers, as well as the uncollected taxes levied for the support of the poor in the said townships and boroughs in the said county of Lawrence, shall be paid over to the commissioners of the highways of the respective townships and boroughs, to be by them applied towards repairing the roads

Repeal.

Election to be beld.

therein.

SECTION 14. That so much of the laws of this commonwealth relating to the poor as are by this act altered or supplied, be and the same are hereby repealed, so far as they affect the county of Lawrence.

SECTION 15. That the qualified electors of the county of Lawrence, at the next annual election, shall vote on the acceptance or rejection of the provisions of this act, by printed or written tickets, having on the outside the words, "Poor house," and on the inside, "For a poor house," or, "Against a poor house," which votes shall be counted and returned by the officers of each election district in said county; and if a majority of said votes are cast for a poor house, then this act shall go into effect immediately thereafter; if a majority of said votes shall be against a poor house, then this act shall have no further force or effect whatever.

RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thon sand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK.

No. 378.

AN ACT

To incorporate a company by the name, style and title of the Mechanicsburg, Dillsburg and Petersburg Turnpike Road Company.

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 Benjamin Eberly, Jacob Muma, Andrew J. Kauffman, Joseph Commissioners. Millisen, Doctor Ira Day, John Coover, Henry G. Rupp, Reverend J. S. Loose, Isaac Blizzard, Robert Bryson, Doctor P. H. Long, Doctor Cathcart, J. B. Wentz, Colonel L. Hyers, Michael Cocklin, John Williams, D. M. Williams, John Best, Benjamin Givler, Levi Welty, Henry Sidle, J. Moore, Robert Bryson, Colonel Logan, and such names as may hereafter be added, or any five of them, are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions and organize a company by the name, style and title of the Mechanicsburg, Dillsburg and Pe- Style. tersburg turnpike road company, with power to construct a turnpike road, commencing at the borough of Mechanicsburg, in Cumberland county, thence by the easiest route, by way of Dillsburg, York county, to Petersburg, Adams county, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of the act regulating turn- Subject to. pike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and

the several supplements thereto.

Route.

SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall con- Capitalsist of two hundred shares, at twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That the said company may, from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting to be held for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion may be necessary to complete the road and carry out the true intent and meaning of this act: Provided however, That no stockholder be allowed to buy over fifty shares of stock.

SECTION 3. That whenever said company shall have finished three miles of said road, they shall have power to erect gates and receive tolls, agreeable to the conditions and restrictions of sections twelve and thirteen of an act approved the twentysixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty

nine.

SECTION 4. That if said company shall not commence the construction of the said road within two years and complete the same within five years from the passage of this act, the same shall be null and void, except so far as to authorize the settlement of the affairs and payment of the debts of the said company.

RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WM. M. PIATT,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thou

sand eight hundred and fifty-six.

Tolls.

Limitation.

JAMES POLLOCK.

No. 379.

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act to incorporate the Hollidaysburg and Altoona Plank Road Company; relative to the boundary line between the counties of Lycoming and Tioga; to the borough of Covington, and supervisors of Tioga county, and for other purposes, approved the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

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 Orlando F. Taylor and John C. Bennet, be and hereby are substituted in the place of George Knox and Nathan P. Case, mentioned in the fifth section of the act to which this is a supplement. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK.

No. 380.

AN ACT

To authorize the erection of a public Town Hall in North Shenango township, Crawford 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 Erection of hall the township of North Shenango, in the county of Crawford, authorized-after be and is hereby authorized to erect a town hall in some central election.

Building committee.

part of said township, and which location shall be determined by the qualified voters thereof, convened for that purpose between the hours of one and six o'clock in the afternoon of the third Monday next after the passage of this act, at the place of holding the township elections in said township, and which said. election shall be held and conducted by the officers authorized to hold the general and township elections for the time being, and in the same as other township elections; and at the same time and place the said qualified electors shall in like manner elect three reputable citizens of said township to be styled a building committee, and who shall be authorized and required to proceed within thirty days thereafter to levy a tax on the same property and things now by law taxable for road purposes, to an amount not exceeding one-half of the estimated cost of completing said town hall, in any one year, on the basis of the

then existing valuation for other township purposes; and said committee, or any two of them, shall superintend and direct the collection of said tax by the township treasurer for the time Their duties. being, who is hereby authorized and required to receive and collect the same, in the same manner and with like powers as are given to the collectors of county rates and levies, on a warrant for that purpose issued by said committee; and the said treasurer shall pay over the said tax when collected upon orders drawn by said committee, or any two them, as may be necessary and required to effect the objects of this act and the economical and convenient erection and completion of said building; and said treasurer shall give security to be approved by said committee for the safe-keeping and disbursement of said tax: Provided, That the cost of constructing said building, including materials and grounds, shall not exceed the sum of eight Cost of building. hundred dollars; and the constable of said township shall give at least six days' notice of said election in the usual manner, the returns whereof shall be filed with the town clerk, and by

him entered of record within five days thereafter.

SECTION 2. The said committee shall and are hereby author- Powers of comized and required to obtain the necessary ground for the location mittee. of said town hall, and receive a conveyance thereof to the said township in fee simple, not exceeding in quantity one acre ; and the said grounds shall be with the said town hall held under the superintendence of the town clerk for the time being for the public uses of the said township and citizens thereof; and the same town clerk may insure the said hall in the name of said township and at the proper expense thereof.

SECTION 3. That said committee shall be allowed a compensa- Pay of committee tion for their services not exceeding one dollar per day for every day necessarily and diligently employed in and about the duties hereinbefore authorized and imposed, to be approved by the township auditors and paid out of the funds levied under the provisions of this act; and the township treasurer shall be allowed to retain the sum of five per cent. out of the same for collecting and disbursing thereof.

Accounts.

SECTION 4. That the said town shall be completed within one year from the passing of this act, and immediately thereafter the said committee and treasurer shall render a true account under oath to the township auditors, who shall report upon the same in the same manner and with like effect, rights and consequences as in other cases of reports of township officers: Provided, That said committee shall continue in the discharge and Proviso." liabilities of their office until the said tax be all levied as far as practicable, and the liabilities for the erection of said town hall be all paid, and their final account as aforesaid settled by said auditors as aforesaid, and any surplus, if any remains of said town hall fund, shall be subject to the order of the supervisors as other township funds for the use of the roads. And all general, special and township elections of said township next after the completion, of said town hall shall be held therein. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WM. M. PIATT,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thou

sand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK.

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No. 381.

AN ACT

To authorize the collection of Road Taxes in Loyalhanna township, in Westmoreland county, in money.

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 supervisors of Loyalhanna township, in the county of Westmoreland, and their successors in office, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to appropriate any money they have or may have in their hands towards paying and defraying one-half the cost and expenses of building a bridge across the Loyal. I hanna creek, at William M'Quaid's mill; and in case said supervisors may not have money sufficient for said purpose, then they or their successors in office are hereby authorized and directed to lay and collect in money, a sum sufficient to pay and discharge any balance that may be wanting and necessary to defray the one-half of the costs and expenses of building and erect. ing said bridge at the place aforesaid; and the said supervisors are hereby authorized in return to subscribe, on behalf of said township, a sum of money sufficient to pay and discharge onehalf the cost and expenses of erecting and putting up said bridge at the place aforesaid.

RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WM. M. PIATT,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK.

No. 382.

A SUPPLEMENT

To the act authorizing the construction of a certain Water Course in Clinton county, approved the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

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 L. A. Mackey, William Fearon, junior, John Jones, John Fallon, Christopher Fallon, Philip M. Price, James D. Whetham, D. K. Jackman and Allison White, their associates or assigns, be and are hereby authorized and empowered to extend the said