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receive the same, before such persons or parties to whom said damages may have been awarded, shall be obliged to surrender possession of their respective pieces of property, or be deprived of their rights and interests therein.

sewers.

SECTION 4. That the select and common councils of the city Construction of of Allegheny be and they are hereby authorized, when they may deem the same necessary, to cause sewers to be constructed in any street, lane, alley or common ground of said city, and for the payment of the cost and expenses of the same, they are Cost, how paid. hereby authorized and empowered to make assessment upon all property in said city, which may seem to them likely to be bene- Assessment to be fited thereby, fairly and equitably, in proportion to the benefit made by commis sioners appointed received; said assessment shall be made by a commission of Councils to apthree persons, to be appointed by said councils; and when said prove. assessment is approved by said councils, it shall be a lien upon To be a lien. the property upon which said assessment shall be made, and if

the same be not paid within thirty days after the said approval, To be paid within the amount of said assessment, with five per cent. added thereto, collected by 80thirty days or shall be collected by the solicitor of said city, and by him de- licitor. posited with the treasurer of said city, subject to the order of said councils; for which collection he shall receive the five per Five per cent. cent. added to the amounts collected by him: Provided, That added for collecthe lien of such assessment shall not be divested by any judicial sale, as respects so much thereof as the proceeds of such sale Proviso. may be insufficient to discharge and pay.

tion.

SECTION 5. That the liens created by the fourth section of Liens to be filed in prothonotary's this act, shall be filed in the prothonotary's office of the district office. court of Allegheny county, and shall be proceeded upon by writs of scire facias, in the name of the commonwealth of Pennsyl- Proceedings vania, for the use of the mayor, aldermen and citizens of Alle- upon. gheny; and the prothonotary shall tax the same cost thereon as Costs. now are by law taxable in mechanics' liens and writs of scire facias issued thereon.

added to taxes unpaid on first

SECTION 6. That hereafter the addition for the non-payment Five per cent. of taxes, due the said city of Allegheny on or before the first day of November, in each and every year, shall be five per cent. instead of ten per cent.

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SECTION 7. The treasurer shall issue his warrants for the col- Treasurer to is

taxes in arrear.

lection of taxes, in arrear, due the said city, as soon after the sue warrants for first day of November of each and every year as possible, and he may direct his said warrants to as many of the qualified Collectors. voters of said city as he may deem necessary to collect said taxes with promptness; and the said voters, to whom said warrants may be directed, shall return to the treasurer weekly all Returns of momoneys collected by them; and in all cases they shall make re- neys to be made turn of warrants in their hands within three months from the rants within date of issue.

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three months.

SECTION 8. So much of the act, entitled "An Act relative to Repeal. taxes, rates and levies payable to the city of Allegheny," approved the twenty-seventh day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty, as may conflict with or is supplied by the provisions of sections six and seven of this act, is hereby repealed.

SECTION 9. That it shall not be lawful for any person to erect, The erection or keeping of weighkeep or maintain for public use, within the limits of the city of scales prohibited

Penalty.

Weight of cattle, hay, &c., to be cer tified by weigh

master. Penalty.

Incurably insane

persons to be re

moved to the almshouse upon order of court.

Houses and lots to be numbered.

Allegheny, weigh scales for the weighing of cattle, hogs, sheep, hay or coal, &c., under a penalty of ten dollars for every article weighed thereon, to be recovered as other penalties are now by law recoverable.

SECTION 10. That no person shall sell in said city cattle, hogs, sheep, hay or coal, &c., unless the same shall have been weighed and certified to by a weigh-master appointed by the city of Allegheny, under a penalty of ten dollars for every article so sold, to be recovered in like manner.

SECTION 11. In all cases where incurably insane persons are kept or confined, at the charge of the city of Allegheny, in the Western Pennsylvania hospital, or in any other institution for the insane in Allegheny county, whether by order of the court of quarter sessions of said county or otherwise, the said court shall, upon application of the directors of the poor of said city, order the said insane person to be removed to the almshouse of said city, at the expense of the poor fund of said city.

SECTION 12. Authority is hereby given to the select and common councils of the city of Allegheny to number all the houses Names of streets. and lots in said city, and to place on street corners the names of streets, in such manner as may seem to them the best and most expedient, and to assess the cost of the same upon the owner of each house and lot numbered; the said assessments to be recoverable as other debts are now by law recoverable. JOHN J. PATTERSON,

Cost,

Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

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. 629.

AN ACT

To change the name of the First Regiment of Artillery, third Brigade, first Division, Pennsylvania Militia.

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 name of the regiment now known as the First regiment of artillery, attached to the third brigade, first division, Pennsyl vania militia, be changed to, and that it shall be known hereafter as the First regiment of Philadelphia City Guards, and that the companies composing the same, viz: First company

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Continental Guards, Roxborough Artillery company, Warren Guards, Steuben Guards, and Second Continental Guards, be known respectively hereafter as Philadelphia City Guards, company A., Philadelphia City Guards, company B., Philadelphia. City Guards, company C., Philadelphia City Guards, company D., and Philadelphia City Guards, company E.

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. 630.

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the borough of Patterson, in the county of Juniata," approved March, 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 no person shall be entitled to vote at an election for borough officers, for the borough of Patterson, unless he shall have resided within the said borough at least six months immediately preceding the election, and within one year have paid a borough tax, if such tax shall have been assessed.

J. H. SELTZER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

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. 631.

AN ACT

Providing for the Election of Tax Collectors in the county of Cumberland.

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 qualified electors of the several wards, boroughs and townships, in the county of Cumberland, shall at their next ward, borough and township elections, and annually thereafter at said elections, elect a collector of state and county taxes, and the person so elected shall be a resident of the ward, borough of township for which he is elected: Provided, Said collectors, elected as aforesaid, shall give security, to be approved by the county commissioners; and that all vacancies shall be filled as now directed by law.

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.

Corporators

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No. 632.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

To the act authorizing the construction of a certain Water Course in Clinton county, approved the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

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 for the purpose of carrying into effect the act to which this is a further supplement, Philip M. Price, H. T. Beardsley, Alfred Gill, D. K. Jackman, L. A. Mackey and George M. Bartholomew, their successors, assigns and associates, who shall become stockholders, are hereby erected into a body corporate and have perpetual succession, under the name and style of the Clinton County water course company, and capable in law of suing and being sued, to have and use a common seal, and authority to

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make all necessary by-laws for the regulation of the company: By-laws. Provided, The same shall not be inconsistent with the laws of Proviso. this commonwealth. The officers of said company to consist of Officers. a president, secretary, treasurer and five directors.

SECTION 2. The said company shall have the right to connect Privileges. their said water course with the canal on the south side of the basin of Blanchard, Craig and Company, instead of going through said basin, should they see fit so to do; and shall have the right

to charge and collect tolls on all boats or flats entering said May collect tolls. water course, and on all lumber, timber, saw-logs and other commodities whatever, transported on or floated through said water course, or any part thereof, not exceeding the following rates, to wit: On each boat or flat passing in or out of said Bates of water course, for each trip, one dollar; on each thousand feet, board measure, of lumber, timber or saw-logs, twenty-five cents; and on all other freight, twenty-five cents per ton; and the said company shall be required to keep open a channel of not less Required to keep than forty feet in width through said water course, for the passage of certain width. open a channel of boats, et cetera ; the right to charge tolls to commence when the said water course shall have been completed to the present When tolls may embankment on the south side of Bellefonte avenue. be charged.

SECTION 3. The capital stock of this company shall not exceed Capital. thirty thousand dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each; and it shall be lawful for any company or body corporate within this

commonwealth to subscribe for said stock, in addition to the Subscriptions. individual subscriptions that may be made.

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APPROVED-The first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 633.

SUPPLEMENT

To an act incorporating the Bethlehem Water Company, approved February twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.

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 president and managers of the Bethlehem water company Protection tax shall be and are hereby authorized to lay and assess yearly and authorized. every year, a tax, to be called a protection tax, upon the owners

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