months, shall have attended no regular nor special meeting of the board. 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. 160. AN ACT Relating to Hawkers and Pedlers in the county of Armstrong. 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 provisions of the act, entitled "An Act supplementary to the act relating to hawkers and pedlers, and regulating auctions in the county of Schuylkill," approved the seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, be and the same are hereby extended to the county of Armstrong: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not be so construed as to apply to citizens of said county of Armstrong. 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. 161. AN ACT Relative to the Claim of James Condran, of Blair county. 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 auditor general and state treasurer are hereby authorized to examine the claim of James Condran, for damages occasioned by the sinking of his boat in the Pennsylvania canal, in the month of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; and that the state treasurer be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay the amount of damages sustained by said Condran, if the persons above named, after an examination of the claim, conclude that he sustained and is entitled to damages, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. 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. 162. AN ACT Relative to the Cemetery of Miners' Lodge, number twenty, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the State of Pennsylvania. 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 Miners' lodge, number twenty, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the State of Pennsylvania, be and they are hereby authorized to hold their present cemetery ground, in the borough of Pottsville, not exceeding four acres of land, free and exempt from all taxation, so long as the same is held by them, to be disposed of only for burial purposes. 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. 163. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act authorizing the Limerick and Colebrookdale Turnpike Company to extend their road from or near Boyerstown, in Berks county, to the township line of Douglass, near Jacob Bowers' Mill, passed the twentysixth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfive. 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 all persons, with their vehicles or horses, going to or from funerals or places of public worship, or of military trainings or elections, shall be exempt from the payment of tolls when traveling on said extended road or part of road. ISAAC A. SHEPPARD, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. G. RUSH SMITH, APPROVED-The twenty-first day of March, Anno Domini one one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 164. AN ACT Regulating the fees of Justices and Constables of Cumberland 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 Fees of mayor, from and after the passage of this act, all fees to be received by alderman or jus- any mayor, alderman or justice of the peace in the county of tice in vagrant Cumberland, in any vagrant case, or case of intoxication, shall be thirty cents, and no more. casos, &c. Fees of constable in same. SECTION 2. That all fees to be received by any constable in the said county in any vagrant case, or case of intoxication, shall be as follows: For arresting and bringing before a justice, mayor or alderman, and conveying to jail, twenty cents, with mileage heretofore allowed by law, only where the distance traveled exceeds one mile. ISAAC A. SHEPPARD, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. G. RUSH SMITH, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 165. AN ACT Relating to the Courts of Union and Snyder 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 hereafter the regular terms of the courts of Union county shall commence on the third Monday of February, May, September and December; and the Snyder county courts shall commence the Monday following, except the December term, which shall be held the week preceding the Union county court. 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. 166. AN ACT To extend the act relating to Sheriff and Prothonotary costs in Luzerne county, approved the seventeenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, to the county of Berks. 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 provisions of the act, approved the seventeenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "An Act relating to sheriff and prothonotary costs in Luzerne county," be and the same is hereby extended to the county of Berks. ISAAC A. SHEPPARD, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. G. RUSH SMITH, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 167. AN ACT To vest the Escheated Estate of Lydia Price in her nephew, Reese P. Wal ter. 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 all the right, title and interest of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in and to all the estate, real and personal, of which Lydia Price, late of Lower Merion township, Montgomery county, died seized and possessed, said real estate being in said township, on the Lancaster turnpike, and the same which the execu tors of Joseph Price conveyed on the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, unto Jane Walter, the mother of said Lydia Price, and by her devised to the latter in fee, be and the same is hereby vested in the only descendant of the said Jane Walter, Reese P. Walter, his heirs and assigns: |