No. 478. AN ACT Relative to the Coroner of Northampton county. 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 in all cases hereafter of violent deaths in the county of Northampton, when an inquest shall be held on the body of the deceased, and it shall be deemed necessary by the coroner or justice of the peace holding the inquest to call upon a surgeon or physician to make a post mortem examination, the fee to be received of the county by such surgeon or physician shall be fifteen dollars, unless the commissioners of the county shall be of opinion that his services deserve more, when it may be increased by them to such an amount as they may think just. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The nineteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 479. AN ACT To legitimate Mary Clendening. 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 Mary Clendening, daughter of Robert Wallace, now of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, shall have and enjoy all the rights and privileges, benefits and advantages, of a child born in lawful wedlock, and shall be able and capable in law to inherit and transmit any estate whatsoever, as fully and completely, to all intents and purposes, as if she had been the legitimate child of the said Robert Wallace. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The nineteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. rized. No. 480. AN ACT To authorize the extension of the Chester Valley Railroad and the West 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 Extension autho- it shall and may be lawful for the Chester Valley railroad company and the West Chester railroad company, or either of them, or for any company to be hereafter incorporated for that purpose under the provisions of the general railroad act of this commonwealth, to connect the said railroads, by constructing a railroad from any point on the said Chester Valley railroad to any point on the said West Chester railroad, subject to the provisions respecting the payment of damages, and all other provisions, restrictions and enactments contained in the general railroad act of this commonwealth, approved on the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine: Provided, That the road so to be constructed shall not exceed in length the distance of five miles. Subject to. road. SECTION 2. The said companies, or either of them, shall have May mortgage the same power in regard to mortgaging the road so to be con structed, and the issuing of bonds and preferred stock, and securing to any holders thereof priority of payment over all other claims, as the power granted and conferred in the act relating to the Chester Valley railroad company, approved on the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The nineteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. Preamble. No. 481. AN ACT Relating to the location of the boundary line between the counties of Carbon and Luzerne. WHEREAS, By the sixth section of the act of ninth February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, entitled "An Act authorizing the governor to incorporate the Strasburg and Wil low Street turnpike road company; relative to the Lafayette railroad company, and to the collection of taxes in Warwick township, Lancaster county," it was provided that the commissioners, or a majority of them, to run, mark and establish the county line between the counties of Carbon and Luzerne, should file their report within sixty days from the passage of that act: AND WHEREAS, The said commissioners did file their report in the proper office in Luzerne county, on the fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and in the proper office in Carbon county, on the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three: AND WHEREAS, It is doubtful whether failure to file in one county within the time specified in the act may not lead to difficulties hereafter, and the said counties having paid for the running, marking and establishing said line, it is right and proper that the same should be settled, therefore, 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 Filing of report the said report shall be deemed, taken and considered as having legalized. been duly filed and in time under said act, and that the line so run, marked, established and reported shall be the boundary line between said counties. to Carbon. SECTION 2. That so much of the territory of the county of Part of Luzerne Luzerne as is embraced within the lines and description here- county annexed after given, shall be and the same is hereby annexed to and made a part of the county of Carbon, said line to begin at a post corner in the line established and confirmed by the preceding section, and also in a line of a tract of land in the warrantee name of George Smithers, junior; thence north three degrees. east one hundred and forty-eight perches, to a stone corner in line of a tract of land in the warrantee name of Jeremiah Smith; thence north sixty-nine degrees east five hundred and thirtytwo perches, crossing the said Jeremiah Smith and another tract in the warrantee name of Henry Smithers, to a stones corner by a pine; thence south eighty-seven degrees east two hundred and twenty perches, to a stones corner in line between tracts in the warrantee name of Samuel Scott and Alexander Hunter; thence south eighty-nine and a half degrees east one hundred and fifty perches, to a post corner in the said county line, the said line being one run on the eighth and ninth days of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, by Henry Colt, deputy surveyor of Luzerne county. SECTION 3. That the said Henry Colt be and he is hereby au- Line to be run thorized and required, upon the approval of this act, to go upon and marked. the ground and carefully to run and thoroughly mark said line, embracing the territory hereby annexed to the county of Carbon, and where no living monuments can be had for corners, he shall cause permanent stone corners to be put down; and as soon as the work shall have been completed on the ground, he shall make two accurate drafts thereof, noting courses, distances and corners, et cetera, thereon, one of which shall be delivered to the commissioners of Luzerne county, and one to the com. missioners of Carbon county, to be filed in their respective offices; the expenses of which survey and marking the same, and making said drafts, shall be borne in equal shares by said counties. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The nineteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 482. AN ACT To authorize the appointment of Notaries Public in Luzerne county. 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 governor be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint a notary public for this commonwealth, to reside in the city of Carbondale, Luzerne county, who shall be in addition to the number now authorized by law to be appointed for that county. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The nineteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 483. AN ACT Relative to Hawking and Peddling in Clearfield county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That hereafter no person or persons who are not residents of the county of Clearfield, shall sell, or expose to sale, within the limits of said county, as a hawker or pedler, or traveling mer chant, any tin, japan, copper, sheet-iron or hollow-ware, without first obtaining a license so to do, and paying therefor to the treasurer of said county, for the use of the commonwealth, fifty dollars, which license the treasurer of said county is hereby authorized and required to grant upon the payment of such sum, SECTION 2. That if any person shall so engage or be con cerned in hawking and peddling as aforesaid within said county, without having first obtained a license as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars, the one-half for the use of the commonwealth, and the other half for the use of the person who shall prosecute for the same, the said penalty to be recovered by action of debt before any justice of the peace in said county, as debts of like amount are by law recoverable. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives.. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The nineteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 484. AN ACT To incorporate the Mount Pleasant and Latrobe Plank and Turnpike Road Commissioners 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 Edward Braden, Daniel Shupe, Martin Overholtz, Robert Hitchman, Christopher Soudal, Abraham Horback, Thomas Hurst, Thomas Latta, Joseph Jack, John Giffin, Mathias Stockbarger, Jesse Kilgore, David Williams, John L. Chambers, George Bennett and George Smith, or any five of them, be and they are hereby appointed to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, by the name, style and title of The Mount Style. Pleasant and Latrobe plank and turnpike road company, with the power to construct a plank or turnpike road, or a part thereof a plank road and a part a turnpike road, by the nearest and best route, from, at, or. near Mount Pleasant, to or near Route. Latrobe, in Westmoreland county, subject to all the provisions and restrictions, and with all the powers and privileges con- Subject to. tained and specified in an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the supplements thereto: Provided, That the said company shall have the right to use any public bridge on the line of the route of their road, Proviso. and to locate their road on the ground occupied by any public or private road between, said points, when and wherever found |