No. 125.

SUPPLEMENT

To an act incorporating the East Liberty and Penn Township Plank Company, approved the fifth day of April, Anno Domini one tho eight hundred and fifty-two.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repr tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Asse met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, in lieu of the tolls now chargeable, the president and mana of the East Liberty and Penn Township plank road com shall be and they are hereby empowered to charge on carts wagons laden with coal, sand or lime, passing over said ro distance not exceeding three miles, at a rate not exceeding and one-half cents per mile for one horse drawing the same, for each additional horse not exceeding two cents.

SECTION 2. That the said plank road company be and i hereby authorized to borrow money, not exceeding in am six thousand dollars, for the construction and repair of said r and to pay the debts of said company, at any rate of inte not exceeding six per cent. per annum, and upon the said or any part thereof, in amount not less than one hundred lars, being taken by any person or persons, the president of company is authorized to issue bonds, in amount not less t one hundred dollars, for said loan, or so much thereof as be taken, payable at any time before the first day of Janua Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty; said bo shall be signed by the president of the said company, and terest thereon shall be paid semi-annually by the treasurer demand, and the treasurer is authorized to pay the principal the maturity of the bonds.

RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives WM. M. PIATT,

Speaker of the Senate

APPROVED-The twelfth day of March, Anno Domini thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK

No. 126.

AN ACT

Relative to Orrsville, in Armstrong county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repres tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Asse bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same,

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hat part of the twenty-seventh section of an act, entitled “An et relating to certain townships, boroughs, and election disriets, and to the erection of a lock-up house in the borough of Bridgeport, Fayette county," approved the eleventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, which anlexes Orrsville, in Pine township, Armstrong county, to Madion township, in said county, for election purposes, be and the ame is hereby repealed.

RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WM. M. PIATT,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twelfth day of March, Anno Domini one Gousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK.

No. 127.

AN ACT

o change the place of holding the general and township elections for the townships of Latimore and Huntington, in the county of Adams.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assemly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That rom and after the passage of this act, the general election for he township of Latimore and Huntington, and also the townhip election for the township of Huntington, in the county of dams, shall be held at the public house of Caleb Hildebrand, the town of Petersburg, in said county.

RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

APPROVED-The twelfth day of March, Anno Domini one

ousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK.

May borrow money.

Annual election.

May hold land in other states.

No. 128.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

To an act passed the eleventh March, one thousand eight hundred an twenty-six, entitled "An Act authorizing the Governor to incorporat the Lackawanna and Susquehanna Railroad Company."

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, Tha the Lackawanna railroad company be and they are hereby au thorized, in addition to the sums which they have been hereto fore authorized to borrow, to borrow any sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding seven per centum per annum, and to secure the same in any manner the managers of said company may deem proper.

SECTION 2. That the annual election for officers of said com. pany shall be held at such place, in the county of Luzerne, as shall be fixed by the board of managers, of which notice shall be given, by any officer of said company, in one or more news papers published in said county, at least twenty days prior thereto; and so much of said act, or of any supplement thereto, as requires that the meetings of said managers shall be held in Pennsylvania, be and the same is hereby repealed; and at any election of the stockholders of said company each share shall be entitled to one vote.

SECTION 3. That said company may hold, when authorized so to do by the by the laws of other states, such lands and tenements in such other states as may be deemed by the board of managers convenient and necessary for the carrying on of the legitimate business of said company, not exceeding twenty acres at any one place.

RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WM. M. PIATT,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twelfth day of March, Anno Domini one thou

sand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK.

No. 129.

AN ACT

Relating to Elections in the city of Erie.

WHEREAS, By sundry acts of assembly provision is made for holding all elections in the city of Erie at the court house therein, since the passage of which acts a new court house has been erected in said city, and the use of the old one for court purposes discontinued, and difficulties and doubts have in consequence arisen as to whether the elections in said city should be holden at the new or the old court house; for remedy whereof. 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 until otherwise provided, the place for holding all elections in the city of Erie, local, municipal, as well as general, shall be at the old court house, in said city, where all such elections have heretofore been held.

RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WM. M. PIATT,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twelfth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK.

No. 130.

AN ACT

For the relief of the widow of Joseph C. Channell, of Lancaster county, deceased.

WHEREAS, Joseph C. Channell, late of the city of Lancaster, was killed at Penningtonville, in Chester county, (on the morn ing of the ninth of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five) on the Columbia and Philadelphia railway, whilst in the service of the state, and at the time in performance of his duties as a faithful fireman :

And whereas, The said Joseph C. Channell had been in the employ of the state for about two years as fireman; during said time he was a careful fireman, and on account of his character for sobriety and honor had acquired the full confidence of the superintendent and managers of the state road:

And whereas, On the morning of the ninth of November last, the boiler of the locomotive "Columbia" bursted, whereby Joseph C. Channell was instantly killed :

And whereas, The said Joseph C. Channell has left a widow and a minor child to lament his loss; therefore,

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 state treasurer be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Ann Mary Channell, the widow of said Joseph C. Channell, the sum of five hundred dollars.

RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WM. M. PIATT,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twelfth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK.

No. 131.

AN ACT

Authorizing the Canal Commissioners to examine the claims of James Kerr and Jonathan M'Millin, contractors on the Erie Extension, Pennsylvania Canal.

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 canal commissioners be and they are hereby authorized and required to examine the claims of James Kerr and Jonathan M'Millin, contractors on the Erie extension of the Pennsylvania canal, and if they find them entitled by equity and justice to additional compensation for labor performed under their contract, to report the amount so found, if any, to the Senate and House of Representatives.

RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WM. M. PIATT,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twelth day of March, Anno Domini one

thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK.