Common council, their number and terms. Meeting of. Aldermen, election of. select council, to serve for two years; of the Seventeenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-first and Twenty-third wards, shall elect each a member of select council, to serve for three years; and the qualified voters, on the second Tuesday of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, of the Second, Fourth, Sixth and Eighth wards, shall elect each a member of select council, to serve for one year; of the Tenth, Twelfth, Fourteenth and Sixteenth wards, shall elect each a member of select council, to serve for two years; and of the Eighteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth wards, shall elect each a member of select council, to serve for three years, SECTION 6. That each ward of the city of Philadelphia shall have a member of common council for each two thousand of taxable inhabitants that it shall contain, according to the list of taxables for the preceding year, who shall serve for two years from the first day of January succeeding their election, except those who shall be first elected under the provisions hereof, who shall draw, by lot, from a list prepared by the clerk, whether their terms shall be for one year, or for two years, and thereafter the members shall be elected for two years; and the terms of the present members of the councils of Philadelphia shall continue until their successors shall be elected and qualified to take their seats; and the newly elected members shall meet in the council chambers, and be qualified, on the first Monday of January, at ten o'clock of the forenoon of each year, at which hour the terms of their predecessors shall expire. SECTION 7. That aldermen in and for the city of Philadelphia, in the place of those whose commissions will expire previous to the time of holding the general election in October of the present year, and also of those whose commissions will expire in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two respectively, shall be elected at the time of holding the general election on the second Tuesday of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one; and thereafter the election for aldermen shall take place on the second Tuesday of October annually, to fill the place of those whose commissions will expire previous to the next succeeding general election; commissions to be issued to the said aldermen under existing laws as to such as shall be elected in the place of those whose commissions had expired at the time of the election in the present year, and as to such as shall be elected in the place of those whose commissions expire before the then next succeeding October election, so as to take effect at the expiration of the respective commissions so terminating, until the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and thereafter on the first day of January succeeding the election. ISAAC A. SHEPPARD, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. G. RUSH SMITH, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 154. AN ACT To confirm the Revised Grade Regulations of a portion of the Second and Third Divisions of the Survey and Regulation of the District of West Philadelphia. 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 plan of the revised grade regulation of Market street and vicinity, in the Twenty-fourth ward of the city of Philadelphia, bounded by Arch street on the north, York street on the south, the river Schuylkill on the east, and Crammond street on the west, prepared in compliance with resolution of select and common councils, approved March twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and approved by the board of surveyors at their stated meeting of December nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, be and the same is hereby confirmed, and all the heights and grades marked thereon established; said plan being on file as number forty-two, in the department of surveys of the city of Philadelphia. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 155. AN ACT Authorizing and directing the Commissioners of Lebanon county to pay out of the Treasury of said county the sum of Three Hundred Dollars, towards the payment of the expenses incurred in the erection of a bridge over Quitapahilla creek, in said 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 of Lebanon county be and they are hereby authorized and directed to pay to William Ault, John Leslie and Henry Wilhelm, out of the treasury of said county, the sum of three hundred dollars, towards the payment of the expenses incurred in the erection of a bridge over the Quitapahilla creek, at the New Market Forge dam, on the line between the township of North Annville and Londonderry, in said county; and that hereafter the said bridge shall be kept in repair by the respective supervisors of the said townships. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. Repeal. Substitution. Prohibition. Penalty. No. 156. AN ACT To alter and amend the act, entitled "An Act to establish a Public Ferry across the Clarion river, at or near Armstrong's Mills, in the counties of Jefferson and Forest, and for other purposes," approved the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. 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 from and after the passage of this act, so much of the act, entitled "An Act to establish a public ferry across the Clarion river, at or near Armstrong's mills, in the counties of Jefferson and Forest, and for other purposes," approved the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, as relates to William Armstrong, his heirs and assigns, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that John Besome, his heirs and assigns, be and the same is hereby substituted. SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to establish a public ferry across the Clarion river, within one mile on either side of said ferry. SECTION 3. That any person or persons violating the provision of the second section of this act, shall forfeit and pay a fine of twenty-five dollars, to be sued for and recovered as similar penalties are now by law recoverable. The said penalty shall be sued and recoverable by the said John Besome, his heirs and assigns, for his and their use, once in each month, as long as the said person or persons shall persist in violating the provision of the second section of this act. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 157. AN ACT To amend an act, approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "An Act to authorize the Auditor General and State Treasurer to re-examine the account between the Commonwealth and the President, Managers and Company of the Bustleton and Feasterville Turnpike Road Company." 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 word Feasterville, where it occurs in the preamble, and first and only section of an act, entitled "An Act to authorize the auditor general and state treasurer to re-examine the account between the commonwealth and the president, managers and company of the Bustleton and Feasterville turnpike road company," approved April the fourteenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, be and the same is hereby changed to, and shall henceforth be called by, and known as Somerton, in compliance with the style and title of the act to which it refers, passed the fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 158. AN ACT Authorizing the Auditor General to examine the Claim of Charles De 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 auditor general be authorized and directed to examine the claim of Charles De Hass and assistant, for services rendered in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, in the survey of a macadamized turnpike road from the town of Chambersburg to the western base of Laurel hill, at or near Laughlinstown, in Westmoreland county, and report to this Legislature, as soon as practicable, the amount (if any) due the said claimants for such survey, and the report thereon. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 159. SUPPLEMENT To an act incorporating the Guardians of the Poor of the city of Pittsburg, passed the sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty seven. 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 Councilmen not no member of the select or common council of the city of Pittseligible. burg shall be eligible to the office of guardian of the poor of the said city of Pittsburg. SECTION 2. That said guardians of the poor shall have the power, by a vote of the board, to vacate the seat of any member of the board who, during the six preceding consecutive |