No. 80. AN ACT Authorizing the qualified Voters of Elizabeth township, Allegheny county, and Tobyhanna township, Monroe county, to elect one additional Supervisor. 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 hereafter the qualified voters of the township of Elizabeth, in the county of Allegheny, and the township of Tobyhanna, in Monroe county, shall, at the time and in the manner provided by law, elect three supervisors of roads in said township, instead of two, with the same powers, duties and responsibilities provided by existing laws. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-eighth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 81. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act to incorporate the Philadelphia and Darby Railroad Company. 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 lieu of the number of directors now required by law to be elected, the stockholders of the Philadelphia and Darby railroad company, at their next annual meeting, in January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and at every annual meeting thereafter, shall choose, by a majority of votes present, six directors, three of whom, with the president, shall constitute a quo rum for the transaction of business: Provided, The stockholders, at their next annual meeting, accept the provisions of this act. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. G. RUSH SMITH, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The twenty-eighth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 82. AN ACT Supplemental to an act to incorporate the Johnstown and Ashtola Railroad and Tram Road Company. 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 an act, entitled "An Act incorporating the Johnstown and Ashtola railroad and tram road company," passed and approved the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, upon the payment by the commissioners therein named of the enrolment tax, be and the same is hereby declared to be in full force and virtue from the date of its passage, notwithstanding the non-payment of the said enrolment tax; and that all the acts done by the commissioners and the company organized under said act, are hereby declared to be valid and effectual, to all intents, as if the enrolment tax upon the said act had been duly paid within the period prescribed by law: Provided, That said enrolment tax shall be paid within three months from the passage of this act. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. G. RUSH SMITH, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The twenty-eighth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 83. AN ACT Relating to the official term of the Commissioners, Prison Inspectors and Directors of the Poor of Dauphin county. 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 provisions of an act, entitled "An Act designating the period for the commencement of the official term of the commissioners, prison inspectors and directors of the poor and house of employment of Lancaster county," approved the sixteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, be and the same are hereby extended to the county of Dauphin. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. G. RUSH SMITH, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The twenty-eighth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 84. AN ACT Relative to Turnpike Roads within the borough of Chambersburg. 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 various turnpike road companies, or either of them, whose roads meet in the Diamond of the borough of Chambersburg, to wit: The Harrisburg, Carlisle and Chambersburg turnpike road company, the Chambersburg turnpike road company, and the president and managers of the Chambersburg and Bedford turnpike road company, be authorized, by a resolution of the board of managers of said companies, to abandon, surrender and relinquish to the public so much of their respective roads as lie within the limits of the borough of Chambersburg; that thereafter said companies shall be released and exonerated from keeping such portions of their said roads thus abandoned in repair, and shall not be allowed to receive or collect tolls upon said portions; that this act shall take effect when the board of managers of any of said companies, whose roads run to the Diamond of said borough, shall have passed resolutions releasing to said borough, and published the same in two or more papers in Chambersburg, for three weeks. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. G. RUSH SMITH, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The twenty-eighth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 85. AN ACT Supplementary to an act, entitled " An Act to incorporate the Foster Goal and Iron Company," passed April sixteenth, 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 the eighth section of the act of assembly, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Foster coal and iron company," passed the sixteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty, be and the same is hereby so altered and amended as that the orphans' court of the counties in which the lands set forth and described in the preamble to the said act are situated, shall and may, upon the petition or petitions of the guardian or guardians of the minor children of the said William B. Foster, junior, deceased, order and decree a sale of the coal and mineral rights referred to in the said preamble, as well as the lands; and if the corporators named in the act to which this is a sup plement, shall purchase the said lands and coal and other mineral rights under the decree of the said courts, then the said courts shall authorize the said guardian or guardians to receive, in payment of such lands and coal and other mineral rights, from the purchasers thereof, certificates of stock in said corporation, as provided for in the third section of the said act: Provided, That the number of shares of stock received for said lands, coal and other mineral rights, shall not be less than eight hundred shares. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-eighth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 86. AN ACT To vacate Ruan street, between Frankford and Paul streets, in the late borough of Frankford, Twenty-third ward, Philadelphia. 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 all that part of Ruan street, as laid down in the plan of the late borough of Frankford, now in the Twenty-third ward of the city of Philadelphia, running from Frankford or Main street to Paul, be and the same is hereby vacated; and in lieu thereof, that the proper department of the said city of Philadelphia cause to be laid out and opened, for public use, two streets on the vacant ground belonging to the said city, on each side of the present police station house and market house, allowing an eight feet footway or pavement on each side of said street. APPROVED-The twenty-eighth day of February, Anno Do mini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. |