Subject to. further, they shall be subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating railroad companies, approved the nineteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, in so far as the same is not altered, interfered with, or supplied by this act. ISAAC A. SHEPPARD, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. JOHN P. PENNEY, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. We do certify that the bill, No. 411, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Navy Yard, Broad Street and Fairmount railway company," was presented to the governor on the seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and was not returned within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it had been presented to him; wherefore it has, agreeably to the constitution of this commonwealth, become a law in like manner as if he had signed it. E. H. RAUCH, Clerk of the House of Representatives. HARRISBURG, May 16, 1861. No. 650. AN ACT Entitled "An Act to change the place of holding elections in Napier township." WHEREAS, The place of holding elections in Napier township, Bedford county, is now held at the school house in the borough of Schellsburg: And whereas, The election is held entirely at one side of said township; 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 from and after the passage of this act, all general, special and township elections of Napier township, in the county of Bedford, shall be held at school house number ten, near the house of James Allison, in said township. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN P. PENNEY, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. We do certify that the bill, No. 547, entitled "An Act to change the place of holding elections in Napier township," was presented to the governor on the ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and was not returned within en days (Sundays excepted) after it had been presented to him; -wherefore it has, agreeably to the constitution of this commonwealth, become a law in like manner as if he had signed it. Supplementary to an act to incorporate the North Philadelphia Passenger 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 North Philadelphia Passenger railway company be and they Authorized to are hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and use, for the use steam paspurpose of drawing and propelling their cars, on any road or senger cars. railway which they now have built and constructed, and also on any road which they may hereafter build and construct, under any power or authority whatever, steam passenger cars: Provided, That no cars propelled by steam upon said road shall Proviso. be permitted to run south of Columbia avenue. road if sold un SECTION 2. That should said road, or any part thereof, be Emanuel Peters sold, at judicial sale, under any judgment obtained on the may redeem the mortgage which is now on said road, for any sum less than the der judgment on price or sum which said company have contracted to give for mortgage at less the building and construction of said road, then Emanuel Pe- than cost. ters, the builder and constructor thereof, his legal representatives or assigns, shall have the right, at any time within three years from the date of such sale, to claim or redeem the road, which shall have been sold as aforesaid, from any person or persons who shall have purchased the same at said sale, by paying to such purchaser or purchasers the price or sum which Terms. he, she or they shall have paid for the same, with interest, at said sale; and the purchaser or purchasers at said sale, upon being paid or tendered the price or sum for which said road shall have been sold as aforesaid, shall make, execute and deliver a good and lawful deed for said road to the said Emanuel Peters, Deed. his legal representatives or assigns; and thereupon the said Emanuel Peters, his legal representatives or assigns, shall be Rights, powers, vested with all the rights, powers, privileges, immunities, fran &c., vested. chises and appurtenances which shall have belonged to and been enjoyed by said company, at the time of said sale. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN P. PENNEY, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. We do certify that the bill, No. 407, entitled "An Act sup plementary to an act to incorporate the North Philadelpha Passenger railway company," was presented to the governor on the ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and was not returned within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it had been presented to him; wherefore it has, agreeably to the constitution of this commonwealth, become a law in like manner as if he had signed it. To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Philadelphia and Olney 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 said the Philadelphia and Olney railroad company is hereby authorized to commence the construction of their road at Sixth and Diamond streets, and from time to time, as their means will permit, to construct and use the same northward of said point, with the privilege of ten years from the passage of this act to complete their said railroad northward and southward to the respective termini mentioned in the act to which this is a supplement: Provided, That until Fifth street is opened and in public use, from Nicetown lane to Wyoming avenue, the said company may occupy and use said Nicetown lane and Woodpecker lane to the intersection of the latter with Second street: And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize the said company to exceed the limits of he route allowed them by the act to which this act is a supple nent. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN P. PENNEY, We do certify that the bill, No. 1035, entitled "A supplement o an act, entitled 'An Act to incorporate the Philadelphia and Olney railroad company,' was presented to the governor on he eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and was not returned within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it had been presented to him; wherefore it has, agreeably to the constitution, become a law in like manner as if he had signed it. E. H. RAUCH, HARRISBURG, May 16, 1861. Clerk of the Senate. No. 653. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To the act to incorporate the West Philadelphia Passenger Railway Com pany. 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 from and after the passage of this act, the West Philadelphia Extension authoPassenger railway company shall have power and authority to rized. extend their road along Market street, from the present terminus of their road at Third street, to Front street, to be constructed and used in conformity with the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement. pas SECTION 2. That at all elections for directors, after the Votes. sage of this act, each and every share of the stock of said company shall entitle the holder or holders thereof to one vote. SECTION 3. That the said the West Philadelphia Passenger Tax upon excess railway company shall annually pay into the treasury of the of dividends to be paid into city city of Philadelphia, for the use of the said city, whenever the treasury. dividends, declared by said company, shall exceed six per cent. per annum on the capital stock thereof, a tax of six per centum on such excess over six per centum thus declared. SECTION 4. That so much of the act incorporating this com- Repeal. pany, as may be altered or supplied by this act, or which may Proviso. be inconsistent herewith, be and the same is hereby repealed: d Provided, That nothing herein contained shall authorize the change of any part of the route of the said road, in the Twentyfourth ward, as located by the act incorporating said company. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, We do certify that the bill, No. 325, entitled "A further sup plement to the act to incorporate the West Philadelphia Par senger railway company," was presented to the governor on the seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty. one, and was not returned within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it had been presented to him; wherefore it has, agreeably to the constitution of this commonwealth, become a law in like manner as if he had signed it. E. H. RAUCH, HARRISBURG, May 16, 1861. RUSSELL ERRETT, Clerk of the Senate. thorized. No. 654. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Philadelphia and Delaware 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 Sale of portion of the Frankford and Southwark Philadelphia City Passenger railreal estate au- road company (formerly known by the corporate name of the Philadelphia and Delaware River railroad company) be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey such portion of the real estate now owned by them as the board of directors may deem it unnecessary for the said company to hold for the uses and purposes of the said railroad; such sales to be made either at public or private sale, and for such prices and upon such terms as the said board of directors may think fit. May lay track in SECTION 2. The said railroad company are hereby authorized to construct and lay a railway track in Washington street, in street, or connect the Second ward, in the city of Philadelphia, and connect the same with their railroad in Fifth street and Sixth street, in the with road now constructed. |