Exemption. Limitation. Lot owners or occupiers paying water rents exempt. President and managers to ap point a collector of water rents. ers of. and occupiers of all lots having any building or buildings erected thereon, within the borough of Bethlehem: Provided, That no tax be laid or assessed upon any lot having any building erected thereon not bounding on a street where a water pipe of the company is laid opposite thereto, or within one hundred yards from said pipe: Provided also, That each protection tax shall not exceed the sum of three dollars on a front not exceeding sixty feet: And provided further, That no such protection tax shall be laid and assessed upon lots whose owners or occupiers pay water rents for the use upon said lots of the water furnished by the company. SECTION 2. That the president and managers shall have power to appoint some suitable and competent person as collector of water rents, to whom a warrant shall be issued by the president and countersigned by the secretary, authorizing and requiring Duties and pow him to demand and receive from the owners or occupiers of lots, such water rents and protection tax as shall have been laid and assessed by authority of the board of managers, in the same manner and with like power and authority to enforce the col lection of the same, as is now or may hereafter be conferred by law upon the collector of county taxes; and the board shail have the right at all times to make such abatements and exonerations as to them shall appear just and reasonable. J. H. SELTZER. Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. ROBT. M. PALMER, APPROVED-The first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. # A. G. CURTIN. No. 634. AN АСТ Legalizing the Township Elections in Cameron county. 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 township elections for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the county of Cameron, be and the same are hereby legalized; and all officers elected at said elections, shall have, hold and exercise their several offices as fully and effectu ally as though the said elections had been held under an act of assembly authorizing the same; and the supervisors and road commissioners so elected, shall exercise their offices during the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and until the next election, the supervisors shall act under the general laws of this commonwealth, and the road commissioners under an act, entitled "A supplement to an act erecting the county of Cameron," passed one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. 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. 635. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Philadelphia," passed February second, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. 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 twentieth section of the above act is hereby amended to entitle the qualified voters in the Twenty-second ward to elect twelve citizens, qualified to serve as members of the Senate of this commonwealth, four of whom shall be elected to serve for one year, four for two years, four for three years, as directors of the public schools; said directors to be elected at the next election held for city officers, and annually thereafter the qualified voters of the Twenty-second ward shall elect four citizens, of like qualification, to serve as directors of public schools for three years. 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. 636. A SUPPLEMENT To an act to incorporate the Frankford Mutual Insurance Company of the county of Philadelphia, approved April fifth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-three. 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 aet to incorporate the Frankford Mutual insurance company of the county of Philadelphia, approved April fifth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, be and the same is hereby continued in full force and virtue for the term of twenty years, from the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, with power to purchase and hold real estate in a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, in cases where indebtedness to the corporation will be secured thereby. 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. Burgess and council empow the public square ered to enclose Penalty for mutilating shade trees. No. 637. AN ACT Relative to the borough of Franklin. 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 burgess and town council of the borough of Franklin, in the county of Venango, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to enclose the public square or Diamond, in said borough, with such fence or railing as may be sufficient to prevent the passage of teams and vehicles, and the trespassing of domnestic animals, over and upon the same. SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful for any person or persons, to injure, mutilate or destroy any shade trees now planted or that may hereafter be planted on said public square or Diamond; and if any person shall so mutilate, injure or destroy any such tree or trees, he or she shall, upon conviction before any justice of the peace in said borough, be fined the sum of five dollars, and in default of the payment thereof, with the costs, shall be imprisoned in the county jail, for a period not exceeding fifteen days. J. H. SELTZER, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. ROBT. M. PALMER, APPROVED-The first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 638. AN ACT Relating to the borough of Rome, in 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 the town council of the borough of Rome, in the county of Bradford, be and they are hereby authorized to levy and collect, for the current year, a tax not exceeding one-half of one per cent. upon all persons and property made taxable in said borough by law, for county purposes; and in levying said tax they shall be governed by the last adjusted assessment for the township of Rome, in the said county. 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. 639. AN ACT Relative to the Cumberland Road, in the county of Fayette. 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 governor of this commonwealth shall appoint one person to be superintendent of said road, in Fayette and Somerset counties, for the term of two years from the date of said appoint ment, at a salary not exceeding two hundred dollars per annum, to be paid out of the tolls collected upon said road, whose duties shall be those of superintendent of said road, as now directed by the law of this commonwealth authorizing the court of Fay ette county to appoint a superintendent, approved the twentysecond day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JOHN J. PATTERSON, 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. Commissioners. Route. No. 640. AN ACT Providing for the completion of a Public Road in the county of Tioga. 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 William W. Babb, Samuel Doane, and William Bache, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and open a public road, in the township of Morris, in the county of Tioga, from the Babb's Creek road, from a point near young Campbell's tavern southwardly to the line of Lycoming county, as nearly in the direction towards Texas, in Pine township, Lycoming county, as the nature of the ground will admit. |