lisle, to assess and return to the town council of said borough, Daty of assessor. all persons who may remove into the borough of Carlisle, after the assessment for county levies shall have been made in each year, as well as all persons who may be omitted in the assessment for county levies, together with a valuation of their professions, callings, things or property liable to taxation; said objects so returned to be taxed for borough purposes, the same as if they had been returned by the commissioners of the county, giving, however, to persons so assessed and returned, the right to be heard on an appeal, by the town council, if such Appeal. persons should so require to be heard, at any regular meeting of said council, before the duplicate for the collection of taxes so assessed, shall have been issued to the collector. filled. SECTION 2. That in case of a vacancy in the office of chief Vacancy in office burgess of said borough, by death, inability or refusal to perform of burgess, how the duties of said office, on the part of both the chief and assistant burgesses, it shall be the duty of the town council of said borough to elect some qualified person to fill such vacancy until the next annual borough election. SECTION 3. That the several fines and penalties imposed by Fines, how rethe ordinances of the said borough of Carlisle, may be sued for covered. and recovered before any justice of the peace of said borough, as in the case of debts of similar amount: Provided however, That upon the conviction of any person or persons, of violation Proviso. of a borough ordinance, and judgment rendered for the amount of the penalty imposed for such violation, it shall be the duty of the officer executing such judgment, upon the refusal of the person or persons thus convicted, to pay the amount of such judgment, together with the costs, to proceed to collect the amount of the penalty thus imposed, together with the costs, in like manner as is rendered the duty of the collector of county rates and levies, upon the neglect or refusal of any person to pay the amount of tax assessed against him: Provided further, That in case of the violation of a borough ordinance, by a per- Proviso. son not resident within the borough of Carlisle, such person so offending, may be arrested by any qualified officer, taken immediately before a justice of the peace, and upon conviction of the offence charged, be liable to immediate payment of the penalty imposed for violating such ordinance, or in default of the payment of said penalty, be committed to jail for a period not exceeding forty-eight hours. SECTION 4. That from and after the passage of this act, the Boundaries. limits and boundaries of said borough of Carlisle, shall be as follows: Beginning at the Carlisle and Chambersburg turnpike; thence south two and a half degrees west two hundred and thirty-two perches to Steele's lane; thence south eighty-one degrees east ninety-five perches to a post in the field of John Noble; thence north eighty-nine degrees east across the Carlisle and Hanover turnpike down the Green lane across the Letort spring to a post at the Spring road two hundred and twelve perches; thence north seventy degrees east one hundred and eighty-one perches to a post at the York road; thence north nine and a half degrees west one hundred and ninety-four and five-tenths perches to the centre of Cumberland Valley railroad; thence north fifty-five degrees west through the Garrison Repeal. lands across Letort spring and across the Carlisle and Harrisburg turnpike two hundred and twenty-five perches to a post at Stinking lane; thence by said lane north twenty-two degrees west thirty-four perches to a post; thence north seventy-eight and a half degrees west forty-one and five-tenths perches to a post at the Sulphur Spring road; thence south seventy-two degrees west two hundred and four perches to a post; thence south eight degrees west one hundred and thirty-eight perches to the place of beginning. SECTION 5. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed, so far as relates to the borough of Carlisle. JOHN J. PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The seventeenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 326. AN ACT For the laying out of a certain State Road in Monroe and Carbon counties. SECTION I. 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 Commissioners. William S. Reese, Samuel Miltenberger, of Monroe county, and Philip Woodring, of Carbon county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a state road, commencing at the public house of Samuel Miltenberger, on the Eastern and Wilkesbarre turnpike, in Monroe county, and running from thence, by the nearest and best route, until it intersects a publie road in Carbon county, leading from Merwinsburg to White Haven, at or near the public house of Cornelius Zeigenfus. Route. Duty of commissioners. SECTION 2. That the said commissioners or a majority of them, after being first sworn or affirmed to perform the duties enjoined upon them with fidelity, shall carefully view the ground between the proposed points for said road, and shall lay out the same in as nearly a straight line as the nature of the ground and other important circumstances will permit, so as to promote the public good; and they shall be authorized and empowered to emChain bearers, ploy two chain bearers, one axeman and one staff bearer, at a per diem allowance not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents per day for each person so employed. &c. SECTION 3. That the said commissioners shall cause the road Drafts. which they shall lay out, to be distinctly marked upon the ground, and shall cause three accurate drafts to be made of the said road, noting thereon the courses and distances, streams of water and township and county lines, one of which shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth and one in the office of the clerks of the respective courts of quarter sessions of Monroe and Carbon counties, on or before the first day of December next; and from the time of the same being so filed, the said road shall be a public highway, and shall be opened, repaired and kept in order by the supervisors of the respective townships through which it shall pass, as other public roads and highways are now by law required to be opened and repaired, and to be of the width of thirty-three feet. SECTION 4. That the compensation of said commissioners shall Compensation. be two dollars per diem each, with a like compensation to a surveyor, if necessary, for every day necessarily employed by virtue of this act; and the accounts of said commissioners, for Accounts, how their own pay and the pay of their surveyor and hands afore- settled. said, shall be adjusted and allowed by the commissioners of Monroe and Carbon counties, in proportion to the distance run in said counties, and paid by the treasurers thereof, by warrants drawn in the usual way; and if any vacancy shall happen in Vacancies. the board of commissioners, by resignation or otherwise, the remaining two shall be authorized to fill the vacancy by a suitable appointment. Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. JOHN J. PATTERSON, ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The seventeenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 327. A SUPPLEMENT To an act to incorporate the Veterinary College of Philadelphia, approved 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 original corporators, together with C. F. Lex, B. R. Miller, St. George Tucker Campbell, G. W. Bowler, S. S. Kilpatrick, and Robert Jennings, or any three of them, shall and may, and they are hereby authorized to open books and receive subscrip tions to the stock of the Veterinary college of Philadelphia, to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, in shares of ten dollars each, which shall be the capital of said company; and on twenty or more shares thereof being subscribed, a meeting of the stockholders may be called by the holder of one of said shares, on notice being given by advertisement, for three days consecutively, in one daily newspaper in the city of Philadel phia, stating when and where such meeting shall be had in said city; and that at said stockholders' meeting there shall be elected five directors, who shall serve from the time of such election until the first Monday in April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one; said directors shall elect a president, secretary and treasurer, and shall appoint the faculty and exercise all the corporate powers of the company; that a stated meeting of the stockholders shall be held on the first Monday of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. one, and annually thereafter; of which meetings three days' notice shall be given as aforesaid, for the election of five directors, to serve for one year, or until others shall be elected. Special meetings of the stockholders may be called by the presi dent, at the request of ten or more stockholders; and on the publication of a notice, as required for said first meeting, and at all meetings of said stockholders, each share shall be entitled to one vote; that the said corporation shall have power to borrow any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole fifty thousand dollars, to issue their bonds for the payment of the same; the said bonds to be each for the sum of one hundred dollars, and to secure the payment of said bonds, by a mortgage or mortgages of the real estate of said corporation. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The seventeenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 328. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act to incorporate the city of Philadelphia. 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 there shall be an allowance to all payers of taxes who shall pay the same in the year for which they are assessed, as follows: Five per cent. if paid on or before the first day of April, four per cent. if paid on or before the first day of June, two per cent. if paid on or before the first day of July; if paid after the first day of July and on or before the first day of September, no deduction shall be made; if paid after the first day of September and on or before the first day of October, an addition of two per cent. shall be added to and payable on the same, and if not paid until the first day of December, then an addition of five per cent. shall be added to and payable on the same; and the councils of Philadelphia shall have the power to allow any other per centage for the payment of taxes, or add any other penalty for their non-payment during the current year: Provided however, That the provisions of this act shall not be construed to apply to the tax levied and assessed in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one: Provided, That the provisions of the sixth section of the act, approved May first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, entitled "An Act relative to the district of West Philadelphia," be and the same is hereby repealed. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN P. PENNEY, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The seventeenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 329. A SUPPLEMENT To an act to incorporate the Johnstown and Scalp Level Turnpike Road Company, approved the seventeenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. 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 said Johnstown and Scalp Level turnpike road company shall have, in addition to the period fixed by the fourth section of the act incorporating said company, approved the seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, |