No. 63. AN ACT For the payment of the claim of Colt and Brobst. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repres tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, T there is allowed to Colt and Brobst, contractors on the No Branch canal, at the pool of the Nanticoke dam, the sum sixteen hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty cents, for da ages caused by a change in the character of their work, un the direction of the engineer upon said line; and that the st treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay to Sam D. Brobst, the surviving partner of said firm, thirteen hund and sixty-two dollars and thirty-two cents of said sum, out any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SECTION 2. That the auditor general is hereby directed enter a credit upon the books of his department to the sa Samuel D. Brobst, for two hundred and ninety-seven dollars a twenty-eight cents, the balance of the above sum allowed damages, which credit shall be in full extinguishment of t demand of the commonwealth against the said Brobst; b nothing herein contained shall prejudice or affect any dema of the said Brobst for services as supervisor upon the Nor Branch canal, but the same shall be adjusted and settled in t ■sual manner. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirteenth day of February, Anno Domi one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. Νο. 64. A SUPPLEMENT To an act relating to Overseers of the Poor in the county of Allegher approved March fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty five. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represe tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Asse bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, Th so much of the first section of an act relative to overseers of RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 65. AN ACT Relative to the St. Clair Cemetery Association of the borough of Greensburg, Westmoreland county. WHEREAS, Richard Coulter, James C. Clarke, James F. Woods, Hugh Y. Brady, Jacob Welty, John Morrison, Thomas J. Barclay, Alexander M'Kinney, Henry Welty, John Arm- Preamble strong, John Armstrong, Jr., Samuel P. Brown, Edgar Cowan, Henry D. Foster, William Jack's executors, John Loor, Daniel Kistler, Jr., David W. Shryock, Philanthropy Lodge, number two hundred and twenty-five, Free and Accepted Ancient York Masons, W. H. Markle, Mathew J. Shields, David Fullwood, Israel Uncapher, Jacob Turney, James Todd, William A. Stokes, John H. Isett, William A. Cook, Robert Graham, Harriet M'Clelland, Lewis Trauger, Andrew Graham and J. Heron Foster, together with all others who may become owners, by purchase or otherwise, of burial lots in the hereinafter named cemetery, intend to apply to the court of common pleas of Westmoreland county to be created a body politic in law, under the name and title of the "St. Clair cemetery association ;" therefore, Conveyance 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 it shall be lawful for the burgesses and assistant burgesses of the borough of Greensburg, in the county of Westmoreland, or a majority of them, to convey by deed of indenture, in fee authorized. simple forever, unto the said Saint Clair cemetery association, after their incorporation, for the use of the said cemetery, all the Greensburg borough burial ground, containing one hundred and thirty-one perches, it being the last described lot of ground conveyed unto the said borough by William Jack, Esq., by deed dated the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, and recorded in the recorder's office for said county, in deed book number seven, pages one hundred and seven and eight. Prohibition. SECTION 2. That no street, lane, road, railroad, canal or other highway shall ever be laid out through the grounds of the same, except by the authority or consent of the association. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The thirteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 66. AN ACT Fixing the time of holding the Courts in Juniata 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 courts of common pleas of Juniata county shall hereafter be holden on the fourth Monday of April, and the first Mondays of September, December and February, and the several terms of the courts of quarter sessions of said county shall continue during the same time as the courts of common pleas: Provided, That when, in the opinion of the judges, the business depending in said county shall not require four courts during the year, for the trial of cases by jury, they may omit awarding a venire for jurors at any one of said terms during the year. SECTION 2. All laws or parts of laws which are altered or supplied by or are inconsistent with the preceding section, are hereby repealed. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 67. AN ACT To repeal an act relative to the appointment of Tax Collectors in Montgomery 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 an act relative to the appointment of tax collectors in Montgomery county, approved the fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, be and the same is hereby repealed. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 68. AN ACT Authorizing the Burgess and Town Council of Troy, in Bradford county, to increase their Borough Tax, 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 burgess and town council of the borough of Troy, in Bradford county, be and they are hereby authorized annually to as sess, levy, collect and expend any amount of taxes they may deem necessary for the benefit and improvement of said borough, to any amount not exceeding ten mills on the dollar of the last adjusted valuation. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 69. AN ACT Authorizing the Collection of certain Taxes in the borough of Columbus, 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 road and borough taxes assessed by the borough of Columbus, Warren county, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, be and the same are hereby declared legal, and the burgess and council are authorized to collect the same. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. Incorporation. Style Powers and priviloges, No. 70. AN ACT Incorporating the Congregation of the United Brethren of the town of 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 members of the congregation of United Brethren, commonly called Moravians, of the town of Nazareth and its vicinity, be and the same are hereby created and erected into one body poli tic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of "The Congregation of United Brethren of the town of Nazareth and its vicinity." SECTION 2. That the said corporation, by the same name, style and title, shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and to be sued, to plead and be impleaded in all courts of law and elsewhere, and shall be able and capable, in law and equity, to take, purchase, hold and receive, to them and their successors, in trust for and also to the use of the said congregation, any lands, tenements, goods and chattels, of whatever kind, nature or quality, real, personal or mixed, which are now or shall |