o fix the width of the same, as in their opinion would promote he business of its citizens and the convenience of the public. To establish by ordinance or resolution, the manner of assessing lamages to private property through which said street or streets may be laid out and opened, and also to designate whether said damages shall be paid by general or special assessment; and where they shall determine that said assessment should be special, they shall make such apportionment of the same, upon the property specially benefitted, as in their opinion would be equitable; and the several amounts so assessed may be added to the duplicates of, and collected in the same manner as borough taxes are now by law recoverable: Provided, That a party aggrieved, either in the assessment of damages to private property or in its apportionment by special assessment, may signify their desire to have the same reviewed at any time within twenty days after the filing of the same in the office of the said town council, by serving a written notice upon the burgess of said borough, signifying their desire to have a board established to review and settle definitely the controversy. Upon the receipt of any such notice, the said burgess shall fix a time not more than three days from the receipt thereof, of which said party shall have reasonable notice in writing, when and where the said burgess will meet the said party, and select three disinterested citizens of said county, to hear, examine, and determine the same. And in case they cannot agree upon said citizens, the said burgess shall select one, the party one, and the two so selected shall appoint a third, who shall compose said board. It shall be the duty of the high constable of said borough to serve notice upon the persons so chosen, and also to said party, within three days thereafter, of the time and place in said borough of meeting of said board, to be fixed by the said burgess. At the time and place so fixed, the said board shall meet, and any vacancy in said board may be filled in the same manner as said board were appointed, and having been first duly sworn or affirmed, shall review, examine, and determine the matter in controversy, as to them may appear equitable. And such determination shall be final and conclusive upon all parties interested; and the said assessment shall be re-adjusted in accordance with said determination, and in case said determination shall not be more favorable to the party applying for said review, than the original assessment, costs shall be added to the amount to be collected, or deducted from the amount to be paid in ac cordance with the principles of equity. The members of the said board shall receive one dollar per day each, and the same mileage as by law allowed to jurors, and the said high consta ble the same compensation as allowed to constables for similar services, to be paid out of the treasury of said borough. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 545. AN ACT For the relief of Arnold and Clover. 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 canal commissioners are authorized and required to examine the claim of Arnold and Clover, late contractors on the Alle. gheny Portage railroad, for increased compensation upon work performed by them, and report the facts in the case, with their judgment as to the justice of said claim, to the legislature. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 546. AN ACT To repeal certain acts of Assembly upon non-payment of the enrollment tax. 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 all private acts of assembly heretofore passed and which are subject to the payment of an enrollment tax under the provisions of the act of sixteenth April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and the several supplements thereto, and on which said taxes have not been paid, be and the same are hereby re pealed: Provided, That this section shall not in anywise effect any such act upon which said enrollment tax shall be paid with. in one year after the passage hereof; and the fact of enrollment shall be conclusive evidence of the payment of such tax. SECTION 2. That no private act of assembly hereafter to be passed, and which shall be subject to enrollment tax as afore. said, shall be enrolled or have the force or effect of law unless said taxes due thereon respectively shall be paid within one year after the approval thereof by the executive, or shall otherwise become a law. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 547. AN ACT To authorize the Scranton Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Luzerne county to convey certain Real Estate. WHEREAS, George Scranton and others, by indenture bearing date the fifth day of July, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, did grant and convey unto Barton Mott and others, trustees of the Methodist Episcopal congregation in Providence township, Luzerne county, and to the survivor and survivors of them, their heirs and assigns forever, two certain contiguous lots of ground in the village of Scranton, formerly called Harrison, situate on Lackawanna avenue, being one hundred and ten feet front by one hundred and twelve feet deep, together to hold the same under certain trusts for the use of the members of the said congregation: AND WHEREAS, Recent improvements and the laying of the railroad leading from Scranton to the Water Gap, have made the two lots above mentioned and the church building erected thereon undesirable for a place of worship; therefore, 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 Scranton society of the Methodist Episcopal church of Luzerne county, be and the same is hereby authorized to sell and convey the real estate aforesaid in fee simple, released and discharged from all and every trust charged upon the same, as contained in the aforesaid deed of indenture, and the proceeds thereof to re-invest in other real estate in said county, to be charged with the same and all the trusts mentioned in the aforesaid deed, and to be held for the use of the members of the said congregation. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini ole thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 548. AN ACT To authorize Ziba Bennett, guardian of George S. Bennett, to sell and convey certain Real Estate. WHEREAS, Joseph Slocum, late of the borough of Wilkesbarre, in the county of Luzerne, deceased, by his last will and testament, executed on the twenty-first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and by a codicil to said will, executed on the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, provided for the division and apportionment of his estate, to and amongst his children, and the representatives of his deceased children, in equal shares, by three appraisers, to be agreed upon by the parties, or to be appointed by two judges of the orphans' court of said county, without however providing for the filing or recording of the report of said appraisers, or for the preservation of said report, or the perpetuation of the testimony thereof: AND WHEREAS, Pursuant to the provisions of said will and codicil, appraisers of said estate (a large portion whereof consists of land,) have heretofore been appointed by said orphans' court, who on the eleventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six made a division and apportionment of said estate to and among the children of said testator and the children of Mrs. Hannah F. Bennett, a deceased daughter of said testator, in right of their said mother, in equal shares: AND WHEREAS, All of the said representatives of the said estate desire that mutual deeds of release should be executed, in pursuance of said report of said appraisers, in order to vest in said representatives of the said estate the respective shares apportioned and allotted to each of them : AND WHEREAS, For this purpose it is necessary that authority to execute such releases, should be conferred upon Ziba Bennett, guardian of George S. Bennett, who is a minor child of the said Hannah F. Bennett, deceased; 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 the said Ziba Bennett, guardian of the said George S. Bennett, be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to sign, seal, ,execute and deliver deeds to the several children and heirs of the said Joseph Slocum, deceased, releasing and confirming to to said children and heirs and their heirs and assigns, the several parcels and lots of land to them respectively allotted by the aforesaid appraisers of the estate of said Joseph Slocum, deceased; and that said deeds so to be executed and delivered by said guardian, shall be as effectual to release and convey the interest of the said George S. Bennett, in said parcels and lots I lands, as if the said George S. Bennett were of full age ad personally executed and delivered the same. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. and APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini ne thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 549. AN ACT Authorizing the State Treasurer to pay Samuel R. Richards a certain sum of money. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly net, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That he state treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay to Samuel R. Richards, a former canal contractor, the sum of one thousand dollars, in full compensation for all work of every description whatsoever done by him and those under his employ, pon dam number three, guard-lock number three, lift-lock number four, and section number seventy-nine, on the Kiskininetas and Conemaugh line of the Western division of the Pennsylvania canal, said sum to cover and include all expenses and damages incurred in the removal of hill slides at and upon aid section and locks. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini one housand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 550. AN ACT Authorizing certain Land to be Patented. WHEREAS, Orvaline Miller has for a long time possessed a ertain piece of land in Erie county, containing about two and |