said office: Provided, That no stockholder shall be entitled to more than one vote at any such election; and all former law or laws conflicting with this, are hereby repealed. 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. 175. A SUPPLEMENT To an act, passed the third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty, relating to Landlords and Tenants. 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 so much of said act as requires the lessor to make complaint before any two aldermen or justices of the peace, as the case may require, is hereby repealed; and it shall be lawful for any such lessor, or his authorized agent, to appear before any alderman or justice of the peace of the county, as the case may require, and make such complaint on oath or affirmation, which said complaint shall be sufficient for the said alderman or justice to issue his precept, and to hear and determine the case as fully and effectually as the two aldermen or justices were required to do; and when either one of two aldermen or justices before whom such proceedings shall have been commenced has died, resigned or been removed from office, or from any other cause become unable or disqualified to act, the proceedings may be continued before the other alderman or justice. 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. 176. A SUPPLEMENT To the act of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, entitled "An Act relating to the Attachment of Vessels." 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 provisions contained in the act, passed the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, entitled "An Act relating to the attachment of vessels," are hereby extended to all manufacturers of iron; and the lien provided by said act shall exist in their favor, with like effect as though originally named therein. ISAAC A. SHEPPARD, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 177. AN ACT To repeal an act relative to Hucksters in Northumberland and Union 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 act, entitled "An Act relative to hucksters in Northumberland and Union counties," approved the fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty, be and the same is hereby repealed. ISAAC A. SHEPPARD, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. 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. 178. AN ACT To repeal an act appointing Commissioners to lay out and open a State Road in the counties of M'Kean and Elk, passed the sixteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-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 so much of an act, passed the sixteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, appointing commissioners to lay out and open a State road in the counties of M'Kean and Elk, as relates to the townships of Hamlin and Sergeant, in M'Kean county, and the township of Jones, in Elk Repeal. county, be and the same is hereby repealed. counts. SECTION 2. That it shall not be lawful for the said commis- Commissioners to sioners to perform any further duties imposed upon them by settle their aosaid act within the said townships of Hamlin, Sergeant and Jones, except to settle their accounts and expend upon said road, in the said townships, any moneys in their hands unexpended which have been raised by virtue of said act in the said townships. 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. 179. AN ACT Relative to the borough of Kutztown, Berks 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 sixteenth paragraph of the second section of the act, approved the third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An Act regulating boroughs," be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same applies to the borough of Kutztown, in 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. Vacation of roads, streets, alleys, avenues tive to. No. 180. SUPPLEMENT To an act incorporating the city of Harrisburg. 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 in addition to the powers and duties conferred upon the commissioners for making a plot or draft of the city of Harrisburg, and lanes, rela- under sections thirty-three and thirty-four of the act of March nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, incorporating the said city of Harrisburg, said commissioners shall have the power to recommend the vacation of any turnpike, state, county or township road, street, alley, lane or avenue within the boundary of said city; and the court of quarter sessions of Dauphin county, upon their approval of said plot or draft, shall have power to declare, from time to time, as public necessity requires, (upon application from the city council, or any person or persons interested therein,) said roads or ways, either in whole or in part, vacated. Width of the lished. SECTION 2. That the width of all streets, alleys or lanes within same, how estab- the limits of said city shall be ascertained, fixed and established as set forth on the plot or draft of the said street commissioners, as approved by the court of quarter sessions: Provided, That South street, in front of the public ground, required by the said act of incorporation to be sixty feet wide, shall be and remain of its present width; and that Sixth street, between Market and South streets, required by the said act to be fiftytwo and a half feet wide, shall remain of its present width. Proviso. Commissioners may alter the boundaries of wards. Approval of court. SECTION 3. That said commissioners shall also have power to alter the boundaries of the wards of said city, so as to make them conform to said plot or draft, which alterations shall be effectual when approved by said court of quarter sessions. SECTION 4. That the action of the said commissioners, when approved by said court, shall be valid and effectual, though interfering with and requiring the removal, either in part or entirely, of any building now erected in the course of any of the said streets, lanes, alleys or highways. SECTION 5. That any portion of the said act incorporating the Repeal. said city of Harrisburg, inconsistent with any of the foregoing provisions, be and the same is hereby repealed. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 181. A SUPPLEMENT To an act to authorize Mortgages of Coal Leases in Schuylkill county, approved the fifth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. 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 so much of the provisions of the act, entitled "An Act to authorize mortgages of coal leases in Schuylkill county," approved the fifth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, as requires the original mortgage to be filed in the recorder's office, and that a copy of the mortgage, together with a statement exhibiting the interest of the mortgagee in the property mortgaged, be filed in the office aforesaid within the Repeal. term of one year, be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. That the lien of all mortgages recorded in pursu- The lien of cerance of the provisions of said act shall remain unaffected, not- tain mortgages withstanding a judicial sale hereafter of the property mortgaged to remain ununder any execution, the lien whereof attaches only by virtue of said execution. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. affected. |