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No. 262.

AN ACT

For the protection of miners, mechanics and laborers in certain counties.

laborers to be

preferred in certain cases.

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 all assignments of property, whether real or personal, which shall Wages of miners, hereafter be made by any person or persons, or chartered company, mechanics and engaged in the mining of coal, either as owners of the soil or having a lease of a coal mine or mines, or by any person or persons owning or leasing forges, furnaces, rolling mills, nail factories, machine shops or foundries, to trustees or assignees, on account of inability at the time of the assignment to pay his or their debts, the wages of the miners, mechanics and laborers employed by such person or persons, or chartered company, in and about such business aforesaid, shall be first preferred and paid by such trustees or assignees before any other creditor or creditors of the assignor: Provided, That the claims of each miner, Proviso. mechanic and laborer thus preferred, shall not exceed fifty dollars.

SECTION 2. That in all cases of the death of any person or persons In case of death engaged in the operations aforesaid, the wages of each miner, mechanic the wages not exand laborer employed as aforesaid, not exceeding fifty dollars, shall ceeding fifty dolrank and be paid immediately before rents as they are now payable in lars to be prefersuch cases by existing laws.

red to rent, &c.

Miners, laborers

SECTION 3. In all cases of executions, landlords' warrants, attachments and writs of a similar nature, hereafter to be issued against any and mechanics, to person or persons, or chartered company, engaged in the operations give notice of before mentioned, it shall be lawful for such miners, laborers and me- their claim to offichanics to give notice of their claim or claims, and the amount thereof, cer. to the officer executing either of such writs, at any time before the actual sale of property levied on, and such officers shall pay to such miners, mechanics or laborers out of the proceeds of sale, the amount each is justly and legally entitled to receive, not exceeding fifty dollars, in like manner as rents are now payable in such cases: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall only extend to Schuylkill, Berks, Washington, Centre, Somerset, Westmoreland and Carbon counties. WILLIAM F. PACKER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEORGE DARSIE,
Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The second day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand

eight hundred and forty-nine.

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No. 263.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

To the act, entitled "An Act authorizing the governor to incorporate the Shippensville and Emlenton turnpike road company," approved the tenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.

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 Charter extended the charter for the Shippensville and Emlenton turnpike road, passed the tenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, be and is hereby extended to March first, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyCommissioners. four, and that W. E. Bishop, William Perry, George A. Meeker and George Kribbs be and are hereby appointed commissioners, to act in connection with the surviving commissioners named in the act to which this is a supplement.

to this act.

Provisions of cer- SECTION 2. That the provisions of the several sections of the act tain act extended to which this is a supplement, be and are hereby extended to this act; and that so much of the act, entitled "An Act regulating turnpike and plank road companies," approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, as is not inconsistent with the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, be also extended to this act.

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APPROVED-The second day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand

eight hundred and forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 264.

AN ACT

Supplementary to an act, entitled "An Act authorizing the laying out of certain state roads, and for other purposes," passed the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; and a supplement to an act to authorize the governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the Little Conemaugh, at Johnstown, Cambria county, approved the eleventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

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

petual, &c.

the privileges and immunities granted to the Pittsburg and Steubenville Privileges and turnpike company, by the fourteenth and fifteenth sections of the act of immunities of the tenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, entitled 14th and 15th "An Act authorizing the laying out of certain state roads, and for other sections of certain act declared per-purposes," are hereby declared to be perpetual; and the said act shall be deemed to extend to, and embrace all bridges that have been or may hereafter be erected across the mouth of Saw Mill run by said company, on the site of the bridge referred to in the said act; and the court of quarter sessions of Allegheny county, is hereby authorized to exercise the same jurisdiction and power in regard to said bridge, as they have hitherto exercised under the act referred to.

SECTION 2. That Robert P. Linton and John Galbraith be and they Robert P. Linton are hereby appointed commissioners, in the place and stead of Philip and John GalGoughnour and George S. King, for the purpose of performing the braith, appointed duties specified in the act of the general assembly, of the eleventh day commissioners in of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, entitled An place of Philip Goughnour and Act to authorize the governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge George S. King. over the Little Conemaugh, at Johnstown, in Cambria county."

SECTION 3. That so much of an act, approved the eighth day of Repeal.
April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, entitled "An Act
authorizing certain state roads," as authorizes the laying out of a state
road from Mount Pleasant, in Westmoreland county, by the way of
East Liberty, in Fayette county, to Uniontown, be and the same is
hereby repealed; and that the road laid out by authority of the said act,
be and the same is hereby declared to be vacated.

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

GEORGE DARSIE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The second day of April, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

Trustees

No. 265.

AN ACT

Supplementary to an act, passed the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, incorporating the Presbyterian congregation of the Associate Reformed church, in the borough of Butler, in the county of Butler.

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 John L. Bartly, David Logan and George Miller be and they are hereby appointed trustees of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian congregation of the borough of Butler, the said John L. Bartly to serve for three years, from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and Term of service. fifty, and the said David Logan, for two years from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and the said George Miller, for one year from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty: Provided, That the persons now acting as trustees shall continue so to act until the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty; and the said congregation shall on the first Monday in January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and annually thereafter, on the first Monday in January, elect one trustee in the manner now provided by law; and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, the number of trustees of said corporation shall not exceed three: so much of the act of assembly to which this is a supplement, as is hereby altered, be and the same is hereby repealed.

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APPROVED-The second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand

eight hundred and forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 266.

AN ACT

Declaratory of the fourth section of an act supplementary to the charter of the Pennsylvania railroad company, approved March twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.

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 last proviso to the fourth section of the supplement to the act to incorporate the Pennsylvania railroad company, passed the twentyseventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, shall be so construed, that those cases wherein proceedings have been commenced under the twelfth section of the act of the thirteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, and have been proceeded in, shall be continued to final judgment and execution, under and according to the provisions of the act of one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, which as well as the said proviso, shall remain in full force for that purpose.

WILLIAM F. PACKER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEORGE DARSIE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 267.

A SUPPLEMENT

To the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Allegheny;" regulating streets in the city of Pittsburg, and authorize the town council of Monongahela City, in Washington county, to collect wharfage.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representalives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly

met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That City councils of the city councils of the city of Allegheny, shall have power by ordi- the city of Allenance, to grade and pave, and repair, or M'Adamize any pavement, gheny, powers street, lane, alley or sidewalk, or any parts thereof, within the corpo- of, to grade, &c. rate limits thereof, on the petition of not less than two-thirds of the

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