No. 53. A SUPPLEMENT To an act authorizing the laying out a State Road leading from Reimersburg, in Clarion county, to the mouth of Mohoning creek, in Armstrong county, approved the twenty-seventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. 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 Robert D. Lawson, of Clarion county, be and he is hereby appointed a commissioner in the place of George W. Arnold, as provided in the first section of said act, and that the time specified in the second section for the return of the survey of said road be and it is hereby extended to the first of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six: Provided, That if either of the commissioners appointed to view and lay out said road shall perform the duties of surveyor, he shall be entitled to receive an additional compensation of one dollar per day for each and every day he shall be employed in surveying said road. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The eleventh day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 54. AN ACT For the Security of certain Transporters on the Public Works of this Commonwealth. 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 for the encouragement and security of individual transporters upon the main line of the public works, the faith of the commonwealth is hereby pledged to such transporters, that in case of the sale of the said main line, or any part thereof, the boats and cars of such transporters hereafter placed upon and used on said main line, or upon a part thereof, so sold, shall be taken, if the owners thereof so desire, by the purchaser or purchasers of said main line, or part thereof, as the case may be, at a fair RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, APPROVED-The eleventh day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 55. AN ACT To incorporate the Lewistown and Stone Valley Turnpike Road Company. Style. 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 Robert Cummings, senior, Henry Lee, Robert Johnson, John M. Commissioners. Smith, John Oakes, William Smith, of Huntingdon county, and Robert M'Burney, Robert Campbell, John Henry, William Cummings, George W. M'Williams and John A. Wright, of Mifflin county, or any three of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style and title of the Lewistown and Stone Valley turnpike road company, with power to construct a turnpike or other artificial road, commencing at any point on the West Kishacoquillas Valley turnpike road, in Mifflin county, thence by the nearest and best route to a point on the public road at or near M'Alevy's fort, in Stone valley, Huntingdon county, and to locate the same on any public or state road, or roads already laid out, if they desire to do so, subject to the Subject to. provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved on the twenty-sixth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fortynine, and the supplements thereto, so far as they are not inconsistent with this and the following sections. Route. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of the said company shall Capital stock. consist of four hundred shares of fifty dollars each: Provided, That the said company may from time to time, at a meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose, increase their capital stock to such an amount as, in their opinion, may be required to complete the road according to the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That said company shall commence the construc- Commencement tion of said road within two years, and complete it within six and completion. years from the passage of this act, or else it shall be null and void, except so far as the same may be necessary to wind up the affairs, and pay the debts of said company. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The twelf h day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. commissioners. Νο. 56. AN ACT For the laying out and opening of Reigart Street, in the city of Lancaster. 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 Court to appoint the court of quarter sessions of Lancaster county is hereby au thorized and required to appoint commissioners to lay out a new street within the limits of the city of Lancaster, to be called "Reigart street," to commence at a point on the south-west side of Church street, where a fourteen feet wide alley commences; thence along and over said alley southward, to High street; thence through improved land of Jacob Gable, Jr., and others, to a point on the north-eastern side of a road leading from the city of Lancaster to the borough of Strasburg, commonly called the " Factory road." To be sworn. Their duties. SECTION 2. That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, having first taken an oath before an alderman of the city of Lancaster, to perform the duties enjoined upon them by this act, with fidelity and impartiality, shall proceed, as soon after the passage of this act as convenient, to attend to the duties specified in the preceding section of this act, if in the opinion of a majority of them, said "Reigart street" ought to be laid out and opened, as designated in the preceding section, they shall lay out the same of the width of not less than forty feet, the south-western boundary to be the same as the south-western boundary of said alley is at present, and to be continued at that course in a straight line to said Factory road, and shall make a draft or plot of said "Reigart street," so laid out to be opened by its courses and distances, and make return of the same, under the hands and seals of a majority of them, to the court of quarter sessions of the peace of Lancaster county, to be entered on record; and thereupon the said street so laid out shall become a public highway, and it shall be the duty of the street commissioner of the city of Lancaster to proceed forthwith to open the same. SECTION 3. That the court of quarter sessions of Lancaster Damages. Bounty, on the petition of any owner of land through which the said street shall be extended and opened, representing that he or she has sustained damage thereby, shall proceed and ap point viewers to appraise the damages, any five of said viewers being present, and any four out of said five may make report, law to the contrary notwithstanding. any RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, APPROVED-The twelfth day of February, Anno Domini one housand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 57. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act, entitled “An Act to incorporate the Jeddo and Carbon County Railroad Company," approved the third March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-tour. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tives of the Come onwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assemby met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That shall be lawful for the Jeddo and Carbon County railroad May extend road. company to extend their railroad so as to intersect with the Lehigh and Susquehanna railroad in Luzerne county, and to extend a branch of their road down the valley of Big Black reek, or so far as may be necessary to accommodate the owners of coal lands in the valley of Big and Little Black creeks, in Luzerne county. roads. SECTION 2. That the said company be and they are hereby uthorized to run their cars and locomotives on all connecting May ran other nd continuous railroads, and do transportation business thereon, with the consent of the companies owning the same. SECTION 3. That a majority of the stockholders of said railroad, convened in pursuance of this act, may change the cor- name. porate name to The Lehigh and Luzerne railroad company." RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The twelfth day of February, Anno Domini one housand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. May change ney. No. 58. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act to authorize the Governor to incorporate the Philadel and Baltimore Central Railroad Company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repres tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Ass bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, T May borrow mo. for the purpose of constructing and equipping the Philadelp and Baltimore Central railroad, chartered by the legislature Pennsylvania and Maryland, the said company is hereby aut rized to borrow money to any amount not exceeding fift Interest thereon. hundred thousand dollars, at any rate of interest not exceed seven per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, and to is their bonds therefor, in sums of not less than one hundred o lars, and to secure the payment of the said bonds and their inter by executing and delivering to such trustee or trustees as t may select, a mortgage or mortgages of all or any part of th road, property, rights, liberties and franchises of the said co pany in the state of Pennsylvania. Bonde. Mortgage. Assent to an act by Maryland. Damages. SECTION 2. That the full and entire assent of this comm wealth be and the same is hereby given to the provision any law now enacted, or that may hereafter be enacted by legislature of the state of Maryland, authorizing the borrow of money by the said Philadelphia and Baltimore Central railr company, to any amount not exceeding fifteen hundred thous dollars, at any rate of interest not exceeding seven per c perannum, payable semi-annually, for the construction and eq ping of the said company's road, and the issuing of bonds th for, and the mortgaging of all or any part of the same, sit and being in the state of Maryland, for the securing the ment of said bonds with their interest. SECTION 3. That whenever the parties cannot agree upon damages claimed either for lands or materials taken by the company in the prosecution of their work, the said comp may tender a bond, and proceed in all respects as is provi and specified in the second section of an act, entitled "A plement to an act incorporating the Pennsylvania coal c pany," approved the seventh day of March, Anno Domini thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representative WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senat APPROVED-The twelfth day of February, Anno Domini thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOC |