No. 236. AN ACT Relative to Vagrants in 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 hereafter all fees to be received by any mayor, alderman or Fees of mayor, justice of the peace in the county of Berks, in any vagrant alderman, &c. case, shall be twenty cents. SECTION 2. That hereafter all fees to be received by any con- Fees of constable stable or police officer in said county, in any vagrant case, shall be twenty cents, and for conveying the same to jail, the mile age heretofore allowed by law. SECTION 3. That all acts of assembly, or parts of acts, hereby Repeal. supplied or inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. ISAAC A. SHEPPARD, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. J. P. PENNEY, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 237. AN ACT Authorizing the Auditor General, Attorney General and State Treasurer, to examine the claim, for damages, of J. R. Bittner and Brother, of Lancaster city, Lancaster county. WHEREAS, On the twentieth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, J. R. Bittner and company, forwarding merchants of the city of Lancaster, were shipping goods from Philadelphia to Lancaster, upon their cars, over the Columbia and Philadelphia railroad: And whereas, In consequence of some defect in the spark catcher of a locomotive then passing, a great quantity of fire was thrown out, by which one long car, containing twelve bales of cotton and other goods, were consumed, along with said car, which appears by depositions taken on the part of Messrs. Bittner and company and the commonwealth. 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, attorney general and state treasurer, be and they are hereby authorized and required to examine the claim of John R. Bittner and Brother, of Lancaster city, Lancaster county, for damage, and if any claim be found for the said J. R. Bittner and Brother, to authorize the payment of the same out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 238. AN ACT To provide for the Collection of Additional Taxes in the townships of Homer, Sylvania and Ulysses, in the county of Potter. 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 road supervisors of the townships of Homer, Sylvania and Ulysses, in the county of Potter, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered, in addition to the tax now authorized by law to be assessed and collected in said townships, to levy and collect an additional tax, not exceeding one per centum in any one year on the last adjusted valuation of property in said townships for county purposes; the same to be levied and collected in manner as is now provided by law for levying of taxes in said townships; the same to be appropriated in making roads and bridges in said townships. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 239. AN ACT To protect Sheep and tax Dogs in Lycoming and Columbia 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 provisions of an act approved the twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, entitled "An Act for the protection of sheep and taxing of dogs in the county of Blair," be and the same is hereby extended to Lycoming and Columbia counties: Provided, That the tax aforesaid shall in no case exceed the sum of fifty cents for each and every dog or bitch owned by any person or individual: Provided further, That every dog or bitch so taxed, shall be deemed and held to be personal property; and any person who shall steal any such dog or bitch shall, on conviction, be liable to all the pains and penalties by which persons convicted of larceny are now by law punishable: And provided further, That every such dog or bitch shall be deemed and considered a domestic animal, and the provisions of 154 section of an act, entitled "An Act to consolidate, revise and amend the penal laws of this commonwealth," shall include and are hereby extended to embrace every such dog or bitch, as fully, and to the same extent, as horses or cattle therein mentioned and included and embraced. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 240. AN ACT Relating to the claim of James M'Kean and Marmaduke Rambo. 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, attorney general and state treasurer, be and they are hereby authorized and required to examine the claim of James M'Kean and Marmaduke Rambo, for labor done and materials furnished on section number eighty-two of the Erie extension of the Pennsylvania canal, and they shall, after such examination, report the amount they find due (if any) to the said James M'Kean and Marmaduke Rambo, to the legislature during the present or the next session thereof. ISAAC A. SHEPPARD, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. JOHN P. PENNEY, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. Corporators. Object. Location. Style. Privileges. By-laws. No. 241. AN ACT To incorporate the Green Mount Cemetery. 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 William Ingram, Jonathan B. Garrett, John Lent, James Atwood, Joseph P. Wilson, Robert W. Levis, James B. Wood, M. D., John T. Worthington, Joseph Hunt, William Everhart, William Matlack, Townsend Eachus, Danie! Meredith, David M'Conkey, Cheyney Nields, Hickman James, George Fitzsimmons, John F. Ingram, William Whitehead and Enos V. Garrett, and all such other persons as shall, on or before the first day of July next after the passage of this act, contribute any sum, not less than twenty-five dollars each, for the purpose of constituting a capital sum, to be appropriated to the purchase and ornamenting of grounds suitable for a cemetery, in or near the neighborhood of the borough of West Chester, in the county of Chester, and state of Pennsylvania, and their successors, be and they are hereby created and declared a body corporate, by the name, style and title of Green Mount cemetery, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, shall be capable in law to purchase, hold, possess, use, enjoy, and sell and dispose of estate and property, real and personal, to have a common seal, to plead and be impleaded, to make by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of the corporation, and to do all such other things as are incident to a corporation, and, until the election of managers, shall exercise all the powers thereof. SECTION 2. That the affairs of said corporation shall be con- Managers. ducted by five managers, who shall be elected annually by a majority of the votes of the members of the corporation, and who shall themselves be members of the same; they shall elect from amongst their number a president, to serve for one year, and shall have power to appoint all necessary officers, and fix their several duties and compensations. The first election of Election of. managers shall be had at such time and place as the corporators named in the first section of this act shall appoint. SECTION 3. That the said corporators shall have power to Powers. purchase a suitable lot of ground, within the county of Chester, not exceeding one hundred acres, for a cemetery, and the same to lay out and ornament, and divide and arrange into suitable plots and burial lots, to erect suitable buildings, and do all other things necessary or proper to be done to make the said ground suitable for a cemetery, and to sell and dispose of such plots and burial lots, for the purpose of sepulture, to individuals, societies or congregations, under such conditions, rules and regulations as the said corporators or managers may establish. SECTION 4. That all trespasses upon the property of the corpo- Penalty for tresration, or of the owners of lots within the limits of the ceme- passes. tery, and all injury done to any of the buildings, fences, trees, monuments, avenues, walks or devices of or belonging to the corporation, or to the owners of lots, shall be deemed and considered as acts of malicious mischief, and punished accordingly by any court having jurisdiction of criminal offences. SECTION 5. That no road, street, lane or passage-way what- No road to be ever, shall be opened through said cemetery, without the con- opened through sent of the said corporation, under their common seal. cemetery without consent. Exemptions. SECTION 6. That none of the said lots, so purchased, shall be used for any other purpose than that of sepulture; and they shall be free from seizure, levy or sale, under or by virtue of any execution, process in the nature of an attachment, or of attachments against any such grantee or grantees; and no grantee shall be at liberty to transfer his or her lot to any per- Transfer. son whatever, without consent of the managers first had in writing; and the said cemetery shall be forever exempted from taxation, except for state purposes. tion, &c. SECTION 7. That as soon as the money received from the sale When lot-holdof lots in said cemetery shall be sufficient to pay the purchase ers become memmoney expended by the persons hereby incorporated, with bers of corporainterest, and the expenses that shall have been incurred by them in laying out, enclosing and improving the grounds, and erecting the necessary buildings, then each lot-holder shall become a member of the corporation, and have a right to vote for the officers thereof; and at all elections held thereafter, under this act, each member of the corporation shall be entitled to one vote, and no more. SECTION 8. That the corporators or managers for the time Notice of elecbeing, shall give at least twenty days' notice of the time of tion. holding elections for managers, by publishing the same in one or more of the newspapers of said county. If it shall happen that no election shall be held on the day prescribed, it shall be lawful, on any other day, after similar notice, to hold an elec |