in the act incorporating said company, conflicting with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The seventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 107. AN ACT To transfer Crows Island from Dauphin to Perry county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Fennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That a certain island lying in the Susquehanna river, in Upper Paxton township, Dauphin county, belonging to George Blattenberger, and known by the name of Crows island, be and the same is hereby declared to be attached to, and hereafter become a part of Perry county. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The seventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 108. AN АСТ Authorizing the State Treasurer to pay to Means and Edwards certain moneys. 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 state treasurer be directed to pay to Means and Edwards, contractors for building the two and five-eighths miles of the RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, APPROVED-The seventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 109. A SUPPLEMENT To the act incorporating a company to make a Plank Road from Hopewell to Bloody Run, in Bedford county, approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. 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 Name changed. the company organized under and by virtue of the act to which this is a supplement, shall be known by the name, style and title of "The Hopewell and Bloody Run plank and turnpike road company. SECTION 2. That said company shall have power to construct Clay road. and complete such parts of said road with clay or gravel, wher ever the ground over which the same passes will admit. SECTION 3. That said company shall have power to construct a plank or turnpike road, or part plank and part turnpike, from Plank or turnpike the village of Pattonsville, in said county, to intersect their said road from Hopewell to Bloody Run, at any point they may deem proper. Capital may be SECTION 4. That the president and managers of said company shall have power, if it be deemed expedient and necessary, to increased. increase the capital stock of said company to any number of shares not exceeding two thousand of twenty-five dollars each. SECTION 5. That it shall be lawful for the Hopewell coal and Certain compairon company, the Bedford Mineral Springs association, the nies may sub Broadtop improvement company, or any railroad, canal, coal or scribe. improvement company in this commonwealth, to subscribe to the capital stock of the company incorporated by the act to which this is a supplement; said subscriptions to be made by and in the name of the president of any of said companies for the time being, upon the consent of a majority of the stock holders thereof, represented at any meeting of the corporate authorities duly convened for that purpose. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The seventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 110. A SUPPLEMENT To an act relative to the erection of a Bridge over the Youghiogheny river, in Fayette county, approved the twenty-fourth day February, 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' the company incorporated by the act to which this is a supplement, is hereby authorized to construct the bridge therein named at a height above the water, and at a distance between the piers, not less than those of the bridge over the same stream at Connellsville. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The seventh day of March, Anno Domini one . thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 111. A SUPPLEMENT To an act authorizing the laying out of a State Road from Meadville, in Crawford county, to New Wilmington, in Lawrence 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 the commissioners named in the act to which this is a supple- Pay of officers. ment, locate said road by way of Cochranton, and the surveyor employed to make said location, shall receive two dollars and fifty cents per day for his services; but if James A. Leech or Henry Beatty act as surveyor, in addition to his duties as commissioner, then he shall be allowed the sum of one dollar in addition to his per diem allowance as commissioner: SECTION 2. That the proviso of the eighth section to which this is a supplement, is hereby repealed, and the time for making said location is hereby extended until the twentieth day of Oc¡tober next. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, APPROVED-The seventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. Repeal. No. 112. AN ACT To incorporate the Clarion and Mahoning Turnpike Company. 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 Commissioners. Thomas M'Cullough, Joseph Buffington, J. B. Loomis, George W. Arnold, Jeremiah Bonner, Robert Orr, James B. Lawson, Lindsey C. Pritner, Samuel Wilson, (of Strattonville,) J. Pat... ton Lyon, J. N. Hetherington and D. B. Craig, or any three of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions and organize a company, by the Style. name, style and title of the Clarion and Mahoning turnpike company, with power to construct a turnpike road from the borough of Clarion, in Clarion county, to the Allegheny Valley Route. railroad, at or near the mouth of Mahoning creek, in Armstrong county, or at such other point on said railroad, and by such route or routes as the majority of the managers may determine upon, subject to the provisions and restrictions of an act regu- Subject to. lating turnpike and plank road companies, passed the twentysixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto, so far as they are consis tent with this act. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall con- Capital stock. sist of twelve hundred shares of twenty-five dollars each, with power to increase their stock to eighteen hundred shares of like amount. Location of road. Tolls. Limitation. rized. SECTION 3. That said company shall have the right to construct their road upon any of the public roads between the points specified, or bridge or bridges that may be on said route or routes, and with power to construct any branch or branches to said turnpike road, with like privileges. SECTION 4. That it shall be lawful for the said company to erect and set up gate or gates, and to levy and collect tolls from persons traveling along or otherwise using said road, at the rates prescribed in the act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, already referred to, so soon as they shall have completed three miles of the said road. SECTION 5. That if said company shall not be organized within six months after the granting of this charter, then this act shall be null and void, except so far as may be necessary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of the company; and that George W. Arnold, Jesse Teats and Jeremiah Bonner be appointed comState road autho- missioners to view and lay out a state road between the points named in this act, by the nearest and best route, and in accord ance with the provisions of an act regulating the laying out of a state road from Rimersburg, in Clarion county, to the mouth of Mahoning creek, in Armstrong county, approved the twentyseventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, except so much of said act as relates to the time of returning the survey, which time is extended to three months from the expiration of the six months hereinbefore mentioned. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The seventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 113. SUPPLEMENT To an act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the West Chester and Great Valley Plank Road Company, approved the twelfth day of Febru ary, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. 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 time allowed in the act to which this is a supplement for the commencement and completion of the plank road therein authorized, shall be extended to another period of two years from the passage of this act; and the said act to which this is a supplement, and the charter issued in pursuance thereof, incor |