one thousaed eight hundred and fifty-one, the hunting and killing of deer was prohibited in the counties of Cumberland, Franklin and Adams, for the period of five years, from August first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one: And whereas, By the passage of the act of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, that of one thousand seven hundred and sixty, protecting deer from January first to August first, was repealed; therefore, SECTION 1.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 on and after the first day of May next it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to hunt, chase or follow with the design to kill, or shall kill or destroy any buck, doe or fawn, except from the first day of August to the first day of January in each year; and any person or persons within the limits of the counties of Cumberland, Franklin and Adams, who shall violate the provisions of this act, and upon conviction thereof, by one or more creditable witness, or upon their own confession, before any justice of the peace in and for the county in which the same may have been committed, forfeit and pay the sum of twenty-five dollars for every such offence and conviction, onehalf of which shall be paid to the treasurer of the school fund for common school purposes of the township wherein such conviction shall be had, and the other half to the person or persons who shall sue and prosecute for the same; and the collector of school tax in the township in which any person or persons so offending, shall be convicted, shall proceed in the same manner and shall have like force and authority to collect such fines as the collectors of county rates and levies have under the laws now existing, or that may hereafter be enacted, relative to the collection of county rates and levies within this commonwealth: Provided however, That no person shall be prosecuted or convicted for any offence against this act, unless such prosecution shall be commenced within six months after the offence shall have been committed. 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. 514. AN ACT To establish a Ferry over the Allegheny river, in the county of Warren. 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 owners and lessees of Tidioute island, Warren county, Pennsylvania, shall have the right and privilege to erect a ferry from said island to the Deerfield or Limestone shore opposite, as the parties hereby authorized to erect a ferry may decide upon: Provided, Said ferry shall be so constructed as not to interfere with the navigation of said river. 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. to. No. 515. A SUPPLEMENT To the act incorporating the Union Hall Association of the Falls of Schuyl kill, approved the second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. 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 Votes, relative from and after the passage of this act, at the annual election for president, managers and treasurer of the Union hall association of the Falls of Schuylkill, each stockholder holding five shares or less, of the said stock, shall be entitled to one vote, and each stockholder holding more than five shares, shall be entitled to one vote for every five additional shares: Provided, That no stockholder shall be entitled to more than ten votes. Proviso. SECTION 2. That so much of the act to which this is a supple- Repeal. ment, as is inconsistent herewith, 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 first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 516. AN ACT To protect the Wages of Labor 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 in all assignments of property, whether real or personal, which In all cases of may hereafter be made by any person or persons, firm, company assignment the or association, whether chartered or not, to trustees or assignees, ries of employees wages and salaon account of inability or pretended inability at the time of such to be preferred. assignment, to pay his, her, their or its debts, the wages and salaries of persons employed by such person or persons, firm, company or association, shall be preferred and paid by such assignees or trustees before any other creditors of such assignor or assignors. SECTION 2. That in case of the death of any person resident Wages, &c., to within this commonwealth, the wages or salaries of any person have preference in cases of death, employed by him shall be first paid, out of his estate, before any or dissolution of other debts, except necessary funeral expenses and medicine, and firms. attendance furnished in the last sickness. And in case of the dissolution of any firm, company or association as aforesaid, or of the private sale or transfer, or determination whatsoever of the business of such firm, company or association, the wages and salaries of persons employed by them shall be a lien upon their property, and shall be first paid out of the estate, effects and assets of such firm or company. SECTION 3. That in all cases of executions, landlords' war- Sheriff in cases of rants, attachments, venditioni exponas, levari facias, and writs executions, &c, of a like nature, hereafter to be issued for the sale of real or persons employto give notice to personal property against any person or persons, firm, company ed by defendant. or association as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the sheriff, or other officer, executing such writ, to give to the persons employed by the defendant in said writ notice of the issuing thereof, by sheriff. twenty printed handbills, put up in public places in the neighborhood of the property to be sold, at least two weeks before Further duties of the proposed sale, requiring them to make known to him, at least five days before the sale of said property, the kind and amount of their respective claims against such defendant; and when the claims shall have been so made known, it shall be the duty of the sheriff, or other officer, to pay out of the proceeds of the sale under the said writ, the amount due to each of the persons so employed. SECTION 4. That it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons to whom claims, on account of wages or salaries, may be due from any person, firm, company or association as aforesaid, when any such claim amounts to the sum of twenty-five dollars, to proceed to collect the same, by distraining therefor, in the same manner as is provided for the collection of rent under the first section of the act of twenty-first March, A. D. 1772, giving a remedy, by distress, for rent: Provided, That the property of the actual debtor shall alone be liable to such distress. SECTION 5. That the claims for wages, or on account of salaries, mentioned in the foregoing sections, shall be a lien on the real estate of the person, firm, company or association, liable to pay the same prior and superior to all other liens upon said real estate, except the lien of judgments and mortgages given for the purchase money of the property on which they are liens, and the liens of mechanics and material-men filed under the act of 16th June, 1836, and its supplements, and except as may be in the foregoing sections excepted: Provided, That the persons who may be required to pay the claims intended to be preferred by the provisions of this act, shall, in every case, first exhaust the proceeds of the personalty, if there be such, before resorting to the realty; and that no one claim so preferred, or hereby made a lien, shall exceed the sum of one hundred dol lars: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall extend to the county of Berks only. 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. 517. AN ACT To provide for the Erection of a House for the Employment and Support of the Poor for the county of Bradford. 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 Daniel Bailey, William Kingley, E. P. Shaw, Sturgis Squires, Commissioners. E. H. Perkins, Charles Homet, Harry Morgan, C. F. Nichols, L. P. Stalford, William Corbin, Jerre Adams, Isaac Myer and George Dunham, be and are hereby appointed commissioners, tors. whose duty it shall be, or a majority of them, on or before the first Their duties and day of December, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and powers. sixty-one, to determine upon and purchase such real estate as they shall deem necessary for the accommodation of the poor of Bradford county; and it shall be lawful for said commissioners, or a majority of them, to take conveyances therefor, in the name and for the use of the corporation mentioned in the third section of this act; and they shall certify their proceeding therein, under their hands and seals, to the clerk of the court of quarter sessions of Bradford county, to be filed in his office; and at the next general election the qualified electors shall elect three repu- Election of directable citizens of the said county to be directors of the poor and of the house of employment for the county of Bradford for the ensuing year; and the judges of the election of said county shall, immediately on receiving the returns from the several election districts, and casting up the number of votes therein, or within three days thereafter, certify, under their hands and seals, the names of the persons so elected directors, to the clerk of the court of quarter sessions of the said county, who shall file the said certificate in his office, and forthwith give notice in writing to the said directors of their being elected, and the said directors shall meet at the court house in the said county on the first Monday of November next ensuing their election, and divide Meeting and themselves by lot into three classes, the place of the first to be classification of vacated at the expiration of the first year, of the second at the expiration of the second year, and the third at the expiration of the third year, so that those who shall be chosen after the first election, and in the mode above described, may serve for three years, and one-third may be chosen annually. same. SECTION 2. That every director elected in the manner afore- Oath to be taken. said, or appointed as hereinafter directed, shall, within ten days after he is notified of said election or appointment, and before he enters on the duties of said office, take an oath or affirmation before any justice of the peace of said county, who is hereby authorized to administer the same, that he will discharge the duties of director of the poor for said county truly, faithfully and impartially, to the best of his knowledge and ability; and in case of neglect or refusal to take the said oath or affirmation |