in front by ninety feet in depth; the vendee or vendees to hold the same, to them, their heirs and assigns, in fee simple, forever. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The sixteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 115. AN ACT Supplementary to the act relative to the Lancaster County Prison, passed to send vagrants 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 inspectors of the Lancaster county prison, or any four of Inspectors of prithem, shall have power, at each of their stated monthly meet- son empowered ings, to remove and send such and so many of the vagrants as to poor house. may, at the time of such meetings, be in confinement in said prison, as they shall deem to be paupers, to the poor and house of employment of Lancaster county, there to be detained by the officers thereof until the expiration of the respective sentences, and to be dealt with as other inmates remaining therein. persons. SECTION 2 That the said inspectors, or any four of them, May also send inshall have power, at each of their stated monthly meetings, to sane or idiotic remove and send such persons as may, at the time of such meetings, be in confinement in said prison, who shall be insane or idiotic, to the lunatic department of said poor and house of employment, there to be detained by the officers thereof until the expiration of their respective sentences, and according to the terms of the same, and to be dealt with as other inmates therein confined. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 116. AN ACT Relative to the Collection of Taxes in the city of Lancaster. 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 hereafter the commissioners of Lancaster county shall appoint two collectors of taxes for the city of Lancaster; one for the North-West and South-West wards, and one for the North-East and South-East wards of said city. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 117. AN ACT To ratify the Charter of the Hayes Mechanics' Home. WHEREAS, Ferdinand J. Dreer, George W. Simons, Samuel Sears, Dundas T. Pratt, James E. Caldwell, Frederick C. Brightly, Lewis E. Wells and James D. Anderson were, on the twentyfirst day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, incorporated under the name, style and title of the Hayes Mechanics' Home, for the purpose of founding a home for disabled, aged or infirm and deserving American mechanics, and with the intention of carrying into effect the charitable objects provided for by the last will and testament of George Hayes, deceased, late of the city of Philadelphia, at the instance of the said Lewis C. Wells, the acting executor of the said George Hayes, deceased: And whereas, The said corporation are desirous that their charter should be ratified and confirmed by an act of the general assembly; 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 charter of the said the Hayes Mechanics' Home, as enrolled in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth in charter book, volume number twenty-eight, pages ninety, ninety-one and ninety-two, be and the same is hereby confirmed and ratified; and that the corporators therein named shall be and constitute a corporation or body politic in law, in accordance with the terms of the said charter; and that the said corporation shall have power to take and hold the real and personal estate devised and bequeathed by the said last will and testament of the said George Hayes, deceased, for the purpose of founding and supporting, or uniting in the support of any institution that may be then founded to furnish a retreat and home for disabled or aged and infirm and deserving American mechanics. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 118. AN ACT To amend the Charter of the Presbyterian Church of Frankford, approved the ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eight. convey lots for 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 board of trustees of the Presbyterian church of Frankford, Board of trustees in the county of Philadelphia, and their successors in office, empowered to shall have power to release and convey, by deed of absolute burial purposes. assurance in perpetuity, lots of moderate and sufficient size for burial purposes, in the grounds now belonging to the said church: Provided, That the same shall be granted only to pew-holders Proviso. or members of the congregation, or to persons interested, by reason of relationship, to the dead interred in the said grounds: And provided further, That no grave now occupied in the said Proviso. SECTION 2. That the lots so conveyed to individual proprietors Lots exempt from shall be exempt from assessment, and shall not be liable to be assessment, and sold upon execution under any judgment or decree of court, or under any assignment for the payment of debts. not be sold upon execution. No public way SECTION 3. That no public way, street or road shall ever be through grounds. laid out or opened through or upon any part of the said burial grounds belonging to the said church. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-sixth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. Preamble. fined. No. 119. AN ACT To fix the Boundaries of the borough of Mechanicsburg. WHEREAS, The borough of Mechanicsburg, in the county of Cumberland, has laid out and procured a plot or draft to be made of the boundaries, streets, lanes and alleys of the said borough, all of which are distinctly marked and laid down in the said plot; and inasmuch as the said boundaries include a small amount of territory which is not embraced in the decree of the court which enlarged the same, and as there are not inhabitants within the territory thus embraced who can petition the court to include it; therefore, 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 Boundaries de- the territory included within the following lines be and the same is hereby constituted the borough of Mechanicsburg, to wit: Beginning at a white oak on land of Christian Hartzler; thence north sixty-nine and one-half east three hundred and sixty perches to a stone; thence south twenty and one-half east one hundred and eighty-six perches to a stone; thence south sixtynine and one-half west three hundred and sixty perches to a stone; thence north twenty and one-half west one hundred and eighty-six perches to the place of beginning. Streets, lanes and alleys established. SECTION 2. That the streets, lanes and alleys of the said bor. ough, as laid out, run, marked and designated in a plot thereof made by Abraham Lamberton, Esq., dated the tenth December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, be and the same are hereby declared to be the lawful streets, lanes, alleys and public highways of the said borough of Mechanicsburg, as fully and amply, and with the same force and effect, as if they had been established under the provisions of the act of the third April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one: Provided however, Proviso. That with regard to any street, lane or alley which has not already been opened, the same shall not be opened over the private property of any individual, until the said borough shall have first proceeded, under the provisions of the act before recited, to ascertain the amount of damage to which he may be entitled, or contribution to which he shall be subject. SECTION 3. That nothing contained in this act shall be con- Reservation. strued to take from the said borough any of the privileges or provisions of the act of the third April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, which now govern it. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 120. A SUPPLEMENT To an act to encourage the destruction of Noxious Animals in certain counties. 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 bounty fixed in an act, entitled "An Act to encourage the destruction of noxious animals in certain counties," approved the fourteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty, shall be one dollar for the scalp of a full grown fox; for the scalp of a full grown wild cat, one dollar; for the scalp of a full grown skunk, fifty cents; for the scalp of a full grown mink, fifty cents; and so much of any act as is hereby altered, is hereby repealed. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. |