SECTION 19. If any person or persons whosoever, owning, riding in, or driving any sulkey, chair, chaise, phæton, cart, wagon, sleigh, sled, or other carriage of burden or pleasure, riding or leading any horse, mule or gelding, or driving any hogs, sheep, or other cattle, shall there with pass through any private gates or bars, or along or over any private passage way or other ground near to, or adjoining any gate erected, or which shall be erected in pursuance of this act, with an intent to defrand the company and avoid the payment of the toll or duty for Frauds upon the passing through any such gate, or if any person or persons shall, company, how with such intent, take off, or cause to be taken off, any horse, mare or punished. gelding, or other cattle from any sulkey, chair, chaise, phaeton, cart, wagon, sleigh, sled, or other carriage of burden, or pleasure, or practice any other fraudulent means or device with the intent that the payment of any such toll or duty may be evaded or lessened, all and every person or persons, in all and every, or any of the ways or manners offending, shall, for every such offence, respectfully forfeit and pay to the president and managers of such turnpike road, or plank road, as the case may be, any sum not exceeding ten dollars, to be sued for and recovered, with costs of suit, before any justice of the peace, in like manner, and subject to the same rules and regulations as debts of a similar amount are by law sued for and recovered.

SECTION 20. That the legislature shall have power to alter the rate Rates of toll of toll fixed by this act; and the managers of any such company may may be altered by lessen the same whenever they shall believe it necessary for the well the legislature. being of the company or the community at large.

SECTION 21. That the legislature hereby reserve the right to alter, amend, or repeal the charter and privileges granted by special act, as aforesaid, whenever in their opinion the same may be injurious to the citizens of this Commonwealth; in such manner, however, that no injustice shall be done to the corporators.

WILLIAM F. PACKER,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEORGE DARSIE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight

Reservation.

hundred and forty-nine.

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real estate.

No. 14.

AN ACT

To authorize Hannah F. Jones and Elizabeth F. Chambers, to sell or dispose certain real estate.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembl met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. Th Power to convey Hannah F. Jones and Elizabeth F. Chambers, of the city of Cincinnat Ohio, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to sell, dis pose of, and convey, all the right and interest they may have in an real estate in the city of Philadelphia, state of Pennsylvania, by dee or acknowledgment, made in Cincinnati, Ohio, before any commissione duly authorized by the governor of Pennsylvania to take acknowledg ment of deeds; and that any deed or acknowledgment so made by sa Hannah F. Jones and Elizabeth F. Chambers, and so acknowlege before any such duly authorized commissioner, shall be good and suff cient in law for the transfer of title in said real estate in said city Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania.

WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE DARSIE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED The twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eig hundred and forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster railroad company, anthorized and empowered to

No. 15.

AN ACT

Relative to the Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster railroad co pany.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, T the president and directors of the Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Jo and Lancaster railroad company, be and they are hereby authorized a empowered to purchase from the president and directors of the Columb Marietta, and Portsmouth railroad company, and from the preside and directors of the Columbia, Chiques and Marietta turnpike co pany, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, all the right, title, clai

and demand, in and to the roads of said respective corporations, to wit: purchase the The Columbia, Marietta and Portsmouth railroad company, and the right, title and Columbia, Chiques and Marietta turnpike company, for the purpose claim of certain of laying rails thereon, under the supplements to the act incorporating companies to their respective the Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster railroad com- roads. pany, passed the seventeenth day of March and the seventh day of April, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-eight; and the said Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster railroad company is hereby authorized to lay rails on said roads under the provisions of said supplements.

thorized to sell.

SECTION 2. That the president and directors of the Columbia, Marietta Columbia, Maand Portsmouth railroad company, be and they are hereby authorized rietta and Portsto sell and dispose of, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, to the mouth railroad Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster railroad company, company, auall their right, title, claim and demand, in and to the road of that corporation, for the purpose of laying rails thereon, under the act and several supplements thereto. relative to the incorporation of the said Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster railroad company. SECTION 3. That the president and directors of the Columbia, Chiques and Marietta turnpike road company, be and they are hereby authorized rietta turnpike to sell and dispose of, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, to the road company, Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster railroad company, authorized to all their right, title, claim and demand, in and to the road of that cor- sell. poration, for the purpose of laying rails thereon, under the act and several supplements thereto, relative to the incorporation of the said Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster railroad com

pany.

WILLIAM F. PACKER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Columbia,

Chiques and Ma

GEORGE DARSIE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 16.

AN ACT

To confer on Elizabeth Anderson, of Greene county, the rights and privileges of a child born in lawful wedlock.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate anl House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That

Elizabeth Anderson, daughter of Levi Anderson, of Perry township, Rights of lawful Greene county, shall have and enjoy all the rights and privileges of a wedlock.

child born in lawful wedlock, and shall be able and capable in law to inherit and transmit any estate whatsoever, as fully and effectually as if she had been born in lawful wedlock.

APPROVED-The twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 17.

AN ACT

For the repeal of twenty-third section of the act incorporating the Philadelphia and West Chester turnpike company.

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 twenty-third Repeal of twenty-section of the act of the twenty-fifth of March, Anno Domini, one third section of thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, entitled "An Act authorizing the governor to incorporate the Philadelphia and West Chester turnpike company," be and the same is hereby repealed.

certain act.

WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEORGE DARSIE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight

hundred and forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 18.

AN ACT

Relating to investigations into the affairs of banks or savings institutions applying to the legislature for re-charter.

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 the facts and information which may be elicited by any examination Facts and inforwhich may be instituted by the committee on banks, of either the mation elicited by senate or house of representatives, into the affairs of such banks or the committee on banks, to be resavings institutions as shall apply to the legislature for a re-charter, or extension, or restoration of capital, shall be recorded in the form of in- corded, &c. terrogatories and answers, on the journal, by the clerk of the senate or house of representatives, as the case may be.

SECTION 2. That if any officer of a bank or savings institution, Any bank officer appearing before the committee on banks, of either the senate or house who shall wilof representatives, or before any justice of the peace, or other person fully swear falseauthorized by law to administer oaths, shall wilfully swear falsely to ly, shall be any interrogatories propounded by the committee on banks, or shall, deemed guilty of after having been sworn or affirmed by the chairman, or any member perjury, and be subject to prosethereof, to make true answers to the questions asked him, wilfully state cution and punanything that is false, respecting the condition, resources, or liabilities ishment. of such institutions, or shall wilfully misrepresent any fact concerning their organization, indebtedness, means, or the administration of their affairs, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and be subject to prosecution and punishment therefor.

SECTION 3. That no fees or expenses shall be allowed to any president, No fees allowed cashier, or other officer appearing as a witness before either of the com- officers. mittees as aforesaid.

APPROVED-The twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight

hundred and forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.