Subject to. Stock. ville, in Wyoming county, to any point near the house of Henry Leach, in Abington, Luzerne county, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto, excepting as hereinafter provided. SECTION 2. That the stock of said company shall consist of five hundred shares at twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That said company may from time to time, by a vote of the May be increased stockholders called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion may be deemed necessary to complete the road and carry out the true intent and meaning of this When road to be act. SECTION 3. That if said company shall not commence the commenced and construction of said road within three years from the passage when completed. of this act, and complete five miles of the same within seven years, and the remaining part within seven years from the date thereof, this act shall be null and void, except so far as the same may be necessary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of the company. When tolls may be collected. SECTION 4. That whenever said company shall have finished one mile or more of said road, they shall have power to erect gates and collect tolls, agreeably to the conditions and restrictions of sections twelve and thirteen of the act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, except so far as relates to tolls which discriminate in favor of wheels of a greater width than four inches; and the company hereby Regulation of incorporated shall have power to regulate their tolls, within the limits prescribed by said act and the several supplements thereto, without reference to width of wheels. APPROVED-The first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 465. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To the act incorporating the Allentown Water Company, and its several supplements. 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 owner or owners of any real estate, situated within the borough of Allentown, at or upon which the water of the said company shall be used for any purpose whatsoever, shall hereafter be personally liable to the said company, for the annual rents for the use thereof; and in case the said owner or owners shall fail or refuse to pay the same in a reasonable time after the same shall have been demanded, it shall be lawful for the said company to recover the said water rent, by a personal action against the said owner or owners, in the same manner as debts of like amount are now by law recoverable; and in addition thereto to file their claims in the prothonotary's office of Lehigh county; from the time of which filing they shall be and remain a lien upon the real estate against which the said claims may be filed, in the same manner as the claims of mechanics and materialmen may now by law become liens; and it shall furthermore be lawful for the said company to enforce the collection of the said liens, in the same manner as the liens of mechanics and materialmen are now by law enforced. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN P. PENNEY, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 466. A SUPPLEMENT To an act to Consolidate and Amend the Road Laws of Tioga, Potter, M'Kean and Elk counties, passed April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. 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 additional, or increased tax, authorized by the fourth section of the act of the fourteenth of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-five, entitled "An Act to consolidate and amend the road laws of the counties of Tioga, Potter, M'Kean and Elk," shall, when collected, be applied, first to the payment of judgments against the townships, in the order of their priority as to date, and next to the payment of orders drawn by the supervisors, in the order of their presentment to the township trea surer; and the provision in the seventh section of said act giving preference to the claims of persons upon whose applica tion the additional, or increased tax, now ordered, is hereby repealed. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 467. AN ACT To authorize Charles Bower and James N. Vanzand to Sell certain Real Estate. WHEREAS, The late Keystone division, number 480, Sons of Temperance of the borough of Newton Hamilton, previous to disbanding, appointed a committee, consisting of Charles Bower and James N. Vanzand and J. W. Hart, deceased, to make sale and distribute the proceeds among the members, of their real estate, consisting of two town lots, situate in said borough of Newton Hamilton, in the county of Mifflin; therefore, 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 sale and conveyance of said lots by the above named committee, or a majority of them, shall be deemed valid, and that their acts and deeds may be recorded as such. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN P. PENNEY, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 468. AN ACT To annex a part of the township of Norwegian, in the county of Schuylkill, to the borough of Pottsville, and to establish a new ward in said borough. 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 so much of the township of Norwegian, in the county of Schuyl- Part of township kill, as lies within the following described boundaries, be and is to be annexed to hereby annexed to the borough of Pottsville, viz: Beginning at Pottsville. a point in the present western line of the said borough, on or Boundaries. near the top of the Sharp mountain, where a continuation of the south line of Henry Morris's land would cross said borough line; thence along said mountain south sixty-nine degrees and twenty-five minutes west about two hundred and sixteen perches; thence north nineteen degrees and fifty-four minutes west passing along the western line of a farm late of Thomas Sillyman, deceased, along Franklin street, in the town of. Yorkville, and through land of Edward O'Conner and others, four hundred and sixty-four perches to a post; thence north seventy degrees and three-quarters east two hundred and twenty-two perches to the north-west corner of the present borough; thence along the western line of it to the place of beginning. SECTION 2. That the above described territory, and so much New ward formed of the present borough of Pottsville as lies westwardly of the following described lines, viz: Beginning on the aforesaid con tinuation of the south line of Henry Morris's land; thence Boundaries. north eighteen degrees and thirty-five minutes west so as to pass along the western side of the German Catholic cemetery to Schuylkill avenue; thence westwardly along said avenue to Dumont, or Ninth street; thence northwardly along said Dumont street to Lyon street, and the same course through land of Samuel Heffner to High street; thence westwardly along it to West street; thence northwardly along it to the Minersville road and westwardly along it to the line between the lands of Moses Parrot and George Patterson; thence northwardly along said line along another portion of West street, along the lines between lots numbers forty-five and forty-six, numbers one hundred and ten and one hundred and eleven, and numbers one hundred and twenty-seven and one hundred and twenty-eight, in the Norwegian addition of Pottsville, to the west branch of the Mount Carbon railroad; thence continuing the course of the last named line to the north line of the borough, be and the same are hereby established and erected into a new ward, to be called West ward, which shall have and possess all the powers and privileges, rights and immunities that the other wards in the said borough of Pottsville now possess or are entitled to. to Pottsville SECTION 3. That the said ward shall be attached to and be- To be attached come a part of the Pottsville school district, and shall consti- school district. election. tute a separate election district, with the same right of electing borough and other officers now possessed by the other wards of the said borough, and at the same times. The first election Time and place shall be held on the first Monday in May next, at the house of of holding first M. B. Bell, at the south-west corner of Market and Spring streets, in said ward, which shall be held and conducted by Election officers. Stephen Rogers, as judge, and M. B. Bell and Peter Fashold as inspectors, who are to appoint two clerks, all of whom shall be sworn or affirmed according to law; at which said election a vote shall be taken of the qualified electors of said ward, to decide, by ballot, upon the place where the elections in the said ward shall thereafter be held, which said election shall be conducted, and the returns of it made, in the same manner as they now are in the other wards of the said borough; and that at the said first election, all persons residing in said ward and qualified to vote for members of the legislature, shall be permitted Vote to be taken upon place of holding elections Voters to vote. J. H. SELTZER, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. JOHN P. PENNEY, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 469. AN ACT To authorize the Erie Canal Company to perfect a certain Contract. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Certain contract the Erie canal company is hereby authorized and empowered to to be perfected. perfect a certain written contract entered into on the part of of the commonwealth, by the superintendent or supervisor of the Beaver division of the Pennsylvania canal, and Joseph Hemphill, of the borough of Beaver, in the county of Beaver, now deceased, for the sale, by the latter, to said commonwealth, of a certain lot of ground, for the purpose of erecting thereon a lock-house or collector's office, on said division; which lot is situate in the borough of Rochester, in said county, and bounded on the north by a lot occupied by T. M. Taylor, east by the Pittsburg road, south by a lot of Henry Woods, and west by a public lane, being fifty feet or thereabouts, in width, and about two hundred feet in length, by paying to the legal representa Terms |