No. 77.

AN ACT

o incorporate the Clayton, Schultzville and Boyerstown Turnpike Road Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assemy met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That enry Landis, C. K. Schultz, John Landis, John M. Oberholt- Commissioners. , Daniel S. Shultz, John H. Funck, Doctor Samuel Young, eter Y. Brendlinger, Daniel B. Boyer, William Bender, John uldin, Samuel H. Landis, George Landis, Nicholas B. Johnon, Samuel W. Weiss, Samuel D. Heil, Richard F. Smith, C. 1. H. Fisher, John Knetz, Joseph B. Bechtel, Henry L. Eshach, Andrew K. Schultz, John Melchior, Andrew Schultz and Villiam H. Bechtel, or any five of them, be and they are herey appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, nd organize a company by the name, style and title of "The Clayton, Schultzville and Boyerstown turnpike road company, with power to construct a clay or stone turnpike or plank road om the terminus of the Hereford turnpike road, in the village Clayton, Berks county, thence by the nearest and best route via. Schultzville to Boyerstown, in the county aforesaid, subect to the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turn- Subject to. pike and plank road companies, passed the twenty-sixth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fortyine, and the several supplements thereto.

Style.

Route.

SECTION 2. That the capital stock of the said company shall Capital stock. consist of two hundred shares of fifty dollars each, and by a ote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for the purpose, may be increased to two hundred and sixty shares, if the same shall be deemed necessary to carry into effect the true intent nd meaning of this act.

SECTION 3. That if said corporation shall not commence the Commencement construction of said road within two years, and complete the and completion. same within five years from the passage of this act, the same shall be null and void, except so far as the same shall be neces sary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of the company. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WM. M. PIATT,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-fifth day of February, Anno Domini

one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK.

No. 78.

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Wabank House, on the banks of the Conestogo, in Lancaster county," approved on the seventh of May, 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 it shall be lawful for said corporation, at any time or times hereafter, to sell and convey, in fee simple, by deed or deeds executed under the common or corporate seal of the said corporation, and signed by the president and attested by the secretary, the whole or any parts of the real estate belonging to said corporation, and acquired under the said act of incorporation, to such person or persons, and for such price or prices and upon such terms of payment as the board of directors, or a majority of them, may deem proper: Provided, That authority for that purpose shall be first given by a majority, in number and value, of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose.

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

APPROVED-The twenty-fifth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK.

No. 79.

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act to incorporate the Philadelphia Steam Tug Company for Saving and Protecting Property, approved the second day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

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 in addition to the rights and powers already conferred, the directors of the Philadelphia steam tug company be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to employ and use so much of their capital and property as they may consider necessary and expedient, from time to time, in the building, purchase, equipment and repairs of ice-boats, propelled by steam or other

wise, for the purpose of keeping the channel of the Delaware river and bay open and free from ice.

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

WM. M. PIATT,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-fifth day of February, Anno Domini sae thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK.

No. 80.

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act to incorporate the President and Managers and Company of the Monongahela Bridge Company, at Brownsville.

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 several privileges, qualifications and restrictions granted in an act of assembly to authorize the governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the Monongahela river, at Brownsville, approved March sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, shall not be so construed as to authorize the said company, or any of its agents, to ask, demand, take or receive toll from any person or persons for any horse, mare or gelding, for any carriage, buggy, sleigh, sled or other vehicle used by any person or persons going to and returning from divine service or funerals; and also, that said bridge company shall be required, immediately after their annual election for managers, to publish the names of the several persons so elected during three successive weeks in one newspaper published in Washington county, and in one newspaper published in Fayette county.

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

APPROVED-The twenty-fifth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK.

No. 81.

AN ACT

To vacate Washington street, extending from Arch to Cherry streets, the city of Philadelphia.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represe tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assemb met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, Tha Washington street, in the city of Philadelphia, extending from Arch to Cherry street, at the distance of ninety feet eastwar from the north-east corner of Twenty-second and Arch street eighteen feet wide, and two hundred and eighty-eight feet deep be and is hereby vacated, and the soil therein vested in th owners of the adjoining ground on each side thereof.

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

WM. M. PIATT,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-fifth day of February, Anno Domin one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK.

Lepeal.

No. 82.

'AN ACT

Relative to the appointment of an Auctioneer in the borough of Allentown in the county of Lehigh.

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, Tha the second section of an act, approved the eighteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty three, entitled "A further supplement to the act relating to in spectors," passed the fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and for other purposes extending to the borough of Allentown, in the county of Le high; the provisions of the fifth section of an act, entitled "Ar Act to confer on George, Polly, Susan, Elizabeth and Peggy Strohl and Marinda Wurtz, the rights and benefits of childre born in lawful wedlock, and for other purposes," passed the eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty. be and the same is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. That the second section of an act, entitled "An Act relating to hawkers and pedlers in the counties of Lehigh, Dauphin, Sullivan, Wyoming and Bucks," approved the twentieth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty four, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same extends to the county of Lehigh.

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

WM. M. PIATT,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-fifth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

Repea!.

JAMES POLLOCK.

No. 83.

AN ACT

For laying out a State Road through parts of Luzerne, Carbon and Schuylkill counties.

Commissioners.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That William A. Tubbs, of the county of Luzerne, Israel Beahm, of the county of Carbon, and Benjamin Heilner, of the county of Schuylkill, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view and lay out, by courses and distances, a state road, to commence at a point on the Berwick turnpike, in Luzerne county, about one-half mile (more or less) south of Horn's tavern; thence by the Cranberry mines, to Yorktown, in Carbon Boute. county; thence to a point about one mile (inore or less) east of Belzenberger's tavern, on the state road leading from Orwigs. burg, Schuylkill county, to Wilkesbarre, Luzerne county, having due respect to private property, and that the said commissioners have power to vacate any old road, so far as it is supplied by the new.

SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of the said commission- Their duties. ers, or a majority of them, after taking an oath or affirmation before a justice of the peace, to perform the duties enjoined upon them by this act, with impartiality and fidelity, carefully to view the ground over which the said road may pass, and lay out the same as near to a straight line between the aforesaid points as the nature of the ground and other important circumstances will permit, and in such manner that the vertical departure from a horizontal line shall at no point exceed five degrees, unless it be at the crossing of ravines and streams, where by moderate filling and bridges, the declination of the road may be preserved within that limit.