SECTION 11. The said directors shall each of them receive for their Directors, pay of. services, annually, the sum of twenty dollars, to defray the expenses of their necessary attendance on the duties of their office. SECTION 12. In case of any vacancy, by death, resignation or other- Vacancy, how wise, of any of the said directors, the remaining directors shall fill such filled. vacancy by the appointment of a citizen of their county, under the same penalty as is provided by the third section of this act, to serve until the next general election, when another director shall be elected to serve as if no such vacancy had happened. SECTION 13. All claims and demands existing at the time of this act Existing claims being carried into effect, shall have full force and effect as if this act and demands had not passed; and when the same may have been duly adjusted and to have full force settled, all moneys remaining in the hands of the overseers, as well as and effect. the uncollected taxes levied for the support of the poor in the several townships in the county of Westmoreland, shall be paid over to the supervisors of the highways of their respective townships, to be by them applied towards repairing the roads therein. SECTION 14. As soon the poor of the county of Westmoreland shall Office of overseer have been removed to the house of employment of said county, and of the poor, when the outstanding taxes collected and paid over, the office of overseer of to be abolished. the poor within said county shall from thenceforth be abolished. SECTION 15. The powers conferred and the duties imposed on the Certain powers overseers of the poor, in and by an act to empower the overseers and conferred on the directors of the guardians of the several townships within this commonwealth to recover certain fines, penalties and forfeitures, and for other purposes, are here- poor. by conferred and imposed upon the directors of the poor in the said county of Westmoreland; and that the justices of the peace and sheriff within the said county are hereby required and enjoined to pay to the directors, to be by them applied, to the maintenance of the poor of the county, the aforesaid fines, forfeitures, penalties, within the time and in the manner prescribed by the said act, for the payment thereof in other counties to the overseers of the poor, and to give notice of the receipt thereof to the said directors within the time and in the manner aforesaid; and that for any neglect or refusal to perform any of the duties enjoined on them by the said act, the justices of the peace and sheriff in the said county, shall be subject to all fines, penalties and forfeitures to which the justices and sheriffs in other counties by the said act are subject or liable. SECTION 16. The commissioners of said county are hereby authorExpenses of the ized and empowered to pay to the persons appointed commissioners by commissioners the first section of this act, the expenses incurred by them in the per- named in this act, formance of their duty; and, also, pay the said directors a reasonable to be paid by the compensation for their services during the term they are employed in county commiserecting any building or buildings aforesaid: Provided, The same shall sioners. not, including the annual sum allowed them by this aet, exceed fifty dollars for any one year. SECTION 17. So much of the laws of this commonwealth, relating to the poor, as are by this act altered and supplied, be and the same are hereby repealed, so far as they affect the county of Westmoreland. Proviso. Repeal. SECTION 18. That the sheriff of said county shall, in due time, Sheriff to give notify the said commissioners of their appointment, and when and notice to commiswhere they shall meet for the entering upon the duties assigned them sioners of their by this act, which place of meeting shall be as near the centre of the appointment, &c. county as possible. Election as to the SECTION 19. For the purpose of ascertaining the sense of the citi- expediency of zens of Westmoreland county, as to the expediency of erecting a poor erecting a poor house, it shall be the duty of each of the inspectors of the several house, &c. townships and borough, at the next general election, to receive tickets, either written or printed, from qualified voters thereof, labeled upon the outside "poor house," and on the inside for a poor house," or "against a poor house;" and if it shall appear upon casting up the votes of the different districts at the court house, on the same day that other returns are made out, that a majority of those who voted are for a poor house, then the foregoing act to take effect; but if a majority of votes are found to be against a poor house, the foregoing act to be and the same is hereby null and void. APPROVED The fifth day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 281. A SUPPLEMENT To an act incorporating the Buckingham and Doylestown turnpike 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 any person or Penalty for pass-persons traveling on the Buckingham and Doylestown turnpike road, ing through any gate without payor so much of said road as has been licensed to take tolls, and pass ing or offering to through or by any gate without paying or offering to pay the toll autho rized to be charged for traveling on said road, or use any fraudulent pay toll. means or device whatever, to deceive or avoid the payment of the said toll so authorized to be charged and collected, may and shall be proceeded against agreeably to, and in conformity with the provisions contained in the fourteenth section of an act incorporating the Doylestown and Danborough turnpike road company, passed and approved on the twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and with the like penalty contained in said section for avoiding tolls as aforesaid: And provided further, That if any person or persons removes, injures, defaces or otherwise interferes with improvements made and erected on said road, or the surveyed limits thereof, or place upon any part of said road or the limits thereof, any dirt, shavings, ashes, weeds, rubbish or any kind of material or offensive matter, or removes from said road or the bounds thereof, any mould, dirt, gravel, sand, stone or other material, without first having obtained the consent of the managers to remove the same therefrom, shall, upon being convicted thereof by one or more credible witnesses, before a justice of the peace, be adjudged to pay a fine not exceeding five dollars, together with the Proviso. damage and injury caused by the act complained of, together with the costs of suit, all to be recovered as debts of a like amount are by law recoverable, and the said fine and damage to be paid to the treasurer of said turnpike road company. SECTION 2. That the president and managers of the said turnpike road company, are hereby authorized to charge and collect the same rate Rate of tolls. of tolls upon all kinds of traveling on and over said road, as is allowed by law to be charged by the Cheltenham and Willow Grove, and Doylestown and Willow Grove turnpike road companies. 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. 282. AN ACT Authorizing the governor to incorporate the Willow Street turnpike 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 John Mecartney, Andrew Mehaffey, Christian Hess, junior, Joseph F. Commissioners. Herr, Benjamin M. Frick, John P. Long, Abraham S. Mylin, Levi Huber, William Carpenter, Robert Moderwell and David Bair are here by appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and Open books. organize a company by the name, style and title of "The Willow Style. Street turnpike road company," with power to construct a turnpike road from the south end of the bridge over the Conestoga river, on the Location. Lancaster and Willow Street road, in West Lampeter township, in the county of Lancaster, along said road through the eastern part of Willow Street, where said road intersects the road from Strasburg to Safe Harbor; and also to construct a turnpike road branching from the aforesaid road, from at or near Martin Kendig's tavern house, along the Martic Forge road, to where it intersects the said road from Strasburg to Safe Subject to all the provisions and reHarbor, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of the act regu- strictions of a lating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth certain act. day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. SECTION 2. The capital stock of said company shall consist of six Capital stock. hundred shares, at twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as May increase may be necessary in their opinion, to carry out the true intent and capital stock. meaning of this act. May change the location of the Martic Forge road. Erect gates. Collect tolls. Commencement SECTION 3. That the president and managers of the said corporation are hereby authorized to change the location of the said Martie Forge road, whereon the aforesaid branch turnpike road shall be constructed, from its commencement at the said Willow Street road, to such distance as will be required to keep the turnpike road within the rise and fall required by the aforesaid act of assembly; the said company to pay the damages sustained by the landholders by the landholders by reason of such change of location, to be fixed and determined as provided for in the aforesaid act of assembly, in respect to damages occasioned by reason of the construction of turnpike roads. SECTION 4. Whenever the said company shall have finished the said turnpike road and branch, the length whereof being less than five miles, the same proceedings may be had to enable the company to erect and fix gates upon and across the same, and collect tolls as is provided in the aforesaid act of assembly, in relation to any five miles of a turnpike road finished. SECTION 5. The said company shall commence said road within three and completion years, and finish it within the space of ten years, and failing so to do, the provisions of this act shall be null and void. of road. 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. Certificates of loan issued by the county of Allegheny, city of Pittsburg, 283. AN ACT To exempt certain certificates of loan from taxation for county and municipal purposes. 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 certificates of loan heretofore issued, or which shall hereafter be issued by the county of Allegheny, by the city of Pittsburg, by the city of city of Allegheny and city of Phila- Allegheny or by the city of Philadelphia, in payment of any subscription made by said county or cities, to the capital stock of the Pennsylvania railroad company, or to the capital stock of the Ohio and Pennsylvania railroad company, be and the same are hereby exempted from all taxation within this commonwealth, except for state purposes. delphia, exempt from taxation, except for state purposes. Corporations of the cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny, au SECTION 2. That the city corporations of the cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny, are hereby authorized to subscribe to the capital stock of the Ohio and Pennsylvania railroad company, each to an amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, if they should deem it expe dient so to do, and to vote at elections by their authorized officers, in the thorized to subsame manner as individual stockholders. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and scribe to the capital stock of Ohio and Pennsylvania railroad. forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 284. AN ACT To authorize John H. Townsend and William Guthrie to construct a dam in the 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 H. TownJohn H. Townsend and William Guthrie, of the county of Westmore- send and William land, be and they are hereby authorized to erect a dam, not exceeding Guthrie authorsix feet in height, over the Kiskiminetas river, at or near Warren, in ized to erect a Armstrong county, in such manner as shall do no damage to either pub- dam. lic or private property: Provided however, That a plan and location Proviso. of said dam shall be first approved by the canal commissioners, and shall be commenced within two years, and completed within five years after the passage of this act. SECTION 2. That the real estate and all other property belonging to Property of fire the fire association of Philadelphia, and the Washington hall associa- association of Philadelphia, &c. tion of Bristol, Bucks county, and all such dividends as may from time exempt from taxto time be declared by said companies, be and the same are hereby ation except for exempted from taxation, except for state purposes. to borrow money. state purposes. SECTION 3. That the president and managers of the Danborough and Danborough and Point Pleasant turnpike road company are hereby authorized to borrow, Point Pleasant for the purposes of the company, any sum not exceeding two thousand turnpike comdollars, in addition to what they are already authorized to borrow, under pany authorized the same provisions and restrictions as are imposed and provided for by the second section of an act, entitled "A supplement to an act, entitled An Act to incorporate the president and managers of the Danborough and Point Pleasant turnpike road company,' approved the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight." WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE DARSIE, APPROVED―The fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. |