No. 674. AN ACT Providing for the immediate Expenses of the Volunteer Militia of this State, now in actual service. 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 supplying the necessary contingent expenses of the volunteer militia now in the actual service of the United States, until provision can be fully made therefor, by the general government, the state treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such bills as have been, or may be contracted by the regimental quartermasters, and shall appear by the certificate of the quartermarter general to have been necessary to supply the immediate wants of the troops in their respective regiments. The bills to be first submitted to the quartermaster general, together with the vouchers, and if approved by him, presented to the auditor general, who shall file the same in his office, and draw his warrant upon the treasurer for the amount thereof: Provided, That no more than five hundred dollars shall be so paid to any one regiment. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. LOUIS W. HALL, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The tenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 675. AN ACT To provide Stationery and Postage for the Soldiers of this State Drafted into the Service of the United States. 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 one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be set apart, out of moneys not otherwise appropriated in the treasury, for the purchase of stationery and postage stamps, Appropriation for the use of the soldiers of this state now mustered into the for stationery and postage service of the United States, who are still within the state and have received no pay from the general government. stamps. furnish the same SECTION 2. That the colonels of regiments, and in case any Secretary of state of said soldiers shall not have been formed into regiments, the authorized to captains of companies may be furnished, in reasonable and pro- to colonels and portionate amounts, with such stationery and stamps, for the captains. use of the soldiers under their several commands, by the secretary of state, who is hereby authorized to furnish the same; the expense thereof, after first being audited and approved by the auditor general, to be paid by the state treasurer out of the money above provided. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. LOUIS W. HALL, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED―The tenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 676. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act to establish a Board of Wardens for the Port of Philadelphia, and for the Regulation of Pilots and Pilotages, and for other purposes therein mentioned, passed twenty-ninth of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and three. ter warden. 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 every person exercising the profession of a pilot in the bay or Pilots to take river Delaware, under a license duly granted, or may be here- oath before masafter granted by said board of wardens of the port of Philadelphia, shall, immediately after the passage of this act, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, before the master warden of said port, who is hereby authorized and empowered to administer the same, that he will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution and laws of Pennsylvania, and well and faithfully perform his duty as a pilot. SECTION 2. In case any pilot licensed under the provisions of Pilots refusing the act to which this is a supplement, and the supplements to take oath forthereto, shall neglect or refuse to take and subscribe the oath feit licenses. or affirmation herein provided, after notice having been given by the master warden, it shall be the duty of the master warden to withdraw and cancel the license of such pilot; and it Certificate of attached to li cense. Serving on vessels conveying goods, &c., contraband of war, to be deemed high misdemea shall not be lawful for any pilot so refusing or neglecting t take and subscribe the oath or affirmation aforesaid, to perfora the duties of a pilot in the bay or river Delaware. SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the master warden to gire oath taken to be each pilot who has taken and subscribed the oath as aforesaid, a certificate of the same; which certificate shall be attached to the license and a record of the same kept in the warden's office. SECTION 4. That any pilot, captain, or other officer or person. who shall knowingly serve in any capacity on board of any steamship, steamboat, sailing vessel, canal boat or other conveyance by water, having on board any goods, provisions or merchandise whatever, contraband of war, designed for conveyance to, or delivery at any port or place within any seceded state, or with which the United States is at war, with knowledge of such unlawful traffic, and with intent to give aid or com fort to the enemy, shall be deemed and held to be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, in any competent court of criminal jurisdiction of this commonwealth, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and imprisonment at labor not exceeding ten years, or either. nor. Penalty. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. LOUIS W. HALL, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 677. AN ACT To establish a Volunteer Nurse Corps. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Nurse corps to be there shall be established and commissioned by the governor or commissioned. Divisions. Duties. Subject to. commander-in-chief of the military forces of this commonwealth, a nurse corps, named and entitled the Pennsylvania Volunteer Nurse Corps, of twelve divisions; each division to consist of one principal, one first assistant, one second assistant, and twentytwo nurses, who shall attend to the wants of wounded and sick soldiers in the service of the commonwealth, and shall be subject to such regulations and orders, and receive such compen sation as the military authority shall establish. SECTION 2. That for the orderly and efficient performance of Uniform and heir duties, said nurse corps shall be furnished by the commis- equipments. ary department of the state with suitable uniforms and equipments, to be determined upon by the principals of said corps, To remain in sersubject to the order and approval of the governor, and they vice until close hall remain in service until the close of the war, or until their of war. Hischarge by the governor. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. LOUIS W. HALL, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 678. AN ACT Supplementary to the act incorporating the borough of Easton. 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 and school directors, in joint session, by a vote of not less than a majority of the whole number of members, shall have power to appoint a borough treasurer and collector, or either, whenever a vacancy may occur, by death, resignation, declination or failure to give the security required by law, within twenty days after an election, or otherwise, to serve for the remainder of the year, who shall give bond as provided for in the first section of the act, entitled "An Act supplementary to the act incorporating the borough of Easton," approved the eighth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. Appointment of borough treasu. rer and collector. SECTION 2. That the town council is hereby authorized to ap- Appropriation propriate, out of the funds of said borough, such sum as they families of volunfor support of the may deem right and proper, not exceeding the sum of five thou- teers authorized. sand dollars, for the support, comfort and maintenance of the families of such citizens of said borough who are now in the service of the United States or this state, as volunteers, or may hereafter enter such service, to be paid out and expended under such regulations as the said council may prescribe; and if there be not sufficient money in the treasury, the said council is here by authorized to raise the same by taxation, under the rules now Increase of taxaregulating the raising of money for the use of said borough, and tion. notwithstanding that the rate of taxation may be thereby increased beyond what is now allowed. Repeal. SECTION 3. That so much of the act incorporating the si borough of Easton, and any supplement thereto, or any ordnance of said borough, passed in pursuance thereof, or so mad of the school law relating to said borough, as is hereby altered or supplied, be and the same is hereby repealed. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. LOUIS W. HALL, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 679. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act for the Regulation of the Militia of this Commonwealth, approved 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 Reserve brigade in addition to the three brigades of the first division, the city to be organized of Philadelphia, authorized by the act to which this is a supplein Philadelphia. ment, there shall be organized within the city of Philadelphia, another brigade, to be called the Reserve Brigade, which shall consist of four regiments of infantry and one squadron of cavalry for the special defence of said city. When the brigade inspector may organize a regiment. cers. SECTION 2. Whenever five uniformed companies of seventyseven men each, shall be organized, the brigade inspector, here inafter provided for, shall form the same into a regiment, and shall give notice for an election to be held for the choice of Election of offi- suitable persons to fill the offices of colonel, lieutenant colonel and major in such regiment, giving at least two days notice of the time and place of all such elections, and he shall preside thereat; but where companies have already been organized into a regiment and elected their officers, they shall continue in office until the expiration of the time for which they may have been Cavalry to have elected; and the squadron of cavalry shall have a major com a major comman- mandant, who shall be elected as above directed; companies, battalions or regiments serving together shall have precedence, according to arms and priority of organization. Officers of companies already organized, relative to. dant. Governor to ap point brigade inspector. SECTION 3. A brigade inspector shall be appointed by the governor, who shall have all the powers, and be subject to all the liabilities, and entitled to all the privileges, imposed on brigade inspectors by the law to which this is a supplement. |