No. 399.

AN ACT

For the relief of Shirk and Royer.

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 directed to re-examine the claims of Shirk and Royer, of the city of Lancaster, for damages alleged to have been sustained by them through fire, caused by sparks from the locomotive engine in said city, on the eighteenth day of November, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fortytwo, and to report to the legislature the amount, if any, that they may find to be due to said claimants by the commonwealth, for damage sustained as aforesaid.

APPROVED-The tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and

forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 400.

AN ACT

Supplementary to an act, entitled "An Act to enable the governor of this com monwealth to incorporate a company for making an artificial road from the intersection of Front street and the Germantown road, in the Northern Liberties of the city of Philadelphia, through Frankford and Bristol to the ferry at Morrisville, on the river Delaware.

WHEREAS, It has been agreed between the commissioners and inhabitants of Richmond, in the county of Philadelphia, and the president, Preamble. managers and company of the Frankford and Bristol turnpike road, that the former shall have the privilege of laying out footways on either side of said road, within said district, and of curbing and paving the same, and shall, in consideration thereof, forever keep in repair the said turnpike road from the northern boundary of the Kensington district to the most distant point on said road, within said district of Richmond, where footways may be filled up, or curbed, or paved on one or other side of said road; therefore,

Duty of commissioners and inhabitants.

Commissioners and inhabitants

required to keep in good and perfect order, part of said turnpike.

Real estate on each side of said turnpike to be subject to a lien,

&c.

Certain rights

and privileges to remain in full

force and effect.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That whenever the said commissioners and inhabitants shall wish to lay out footways on either side of the said turnpike road, and to curb or pave the same, it shall be their duty to give notice, in writing, of their wish so to do, to the president or secretary of the said turnpike company; and at the expiration of twenty days from the time of leaving such notice, it shall and may be lawful for the said commissioners to grade, curb and pave the footways mentioned in such notice, or to permit the same to be done.

SECTION 2. That the said commissioners and inhabitants shall at all times hereafter, keep in good and perfect order, as the same is now required by law to be kept, the whole of said turnpike road from the northern boundary of the Kensington district, continuously to the end of the footways, now or at any time hereafter filled up, graded, or curbed, or in the course of being filled up, or graded within the said district, notwithstanding any intervals or gaps in said footways; and if at any time the said commissioners shall neglect or fail to keep the same in good and perfect order, as aforesaid, then and in such case it shall and may be lawful for the president, managers and company of the said turnpike road to put the same, or any part thereof, in perfect order and repair, at the expense of the said commissioners and inhabitants of Richmond, to be recovered by action of debt or otherwise.

SECTION 3. That the real estate on each side of said turnpike road, within the said district, shall be subject, in proportion to the front thereof, to a lien for the expenses of grading, curbing and paving, laying water pipes, and such other municipal charges as the real estate on streets within said districts are now subject, under the same conditions, and recoverable in the same way as the same are now, by law, recoverable in other parts of said district.

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted, That all the rights, privileges and franchises of the president, managers and company of the Frankford and Bristol turnpike road, not hereby expressly limited or altered, shall be deemed to remain in full force and effect.

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

APPROVED-The tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and

forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 401.

AN ACT

Declaring certain public highways; relating to a claim of Binghams and Dock; relating to the culverts in Richmond, in the county of Philadelphia; and incorporating the Olney classical institute in the county of Philadelphia.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly Part of Sinnemet, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That mahoning creek from and after the passage of this act, the Sinnemahoning creek is hereby declared a public highway. declared a public highway, from the point where it is now a highway, up to Stephen Bundys, in Houston township, Clearfield county. SECTION 2. That Big Mill creek, in the county of Elk, is hereby declared a public highway, from its mouth to a point two miles up said creek.

Big Mill creek.

SECTION 3. That Blue Eye run, in the county of Warren, from its Blue Eye run. mouth to a point on and one-half mile up said run, be and the same

is hereby declared a public highway.

SECTION 4. That so much of the act, entitled "An Act to increase Repeal of certain the revenues, and diminish the legislative and other expenses of the act relative to encommonwealth," passed the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight rolment tax on hundred and forty-five, as imposes an enrolment tax on plank and turn- turnpike and pike road charters, be and the same is hereby repealed.

plank road com

pany.

to be examined.

SECTION 5. That the canal commissioners be and they are hereby authorized and directed to examine the claims against the common- Dock, claims of Binghams and wealth, of Binghams and Dock, for cars and merchandize said to have been destroyed by fire at the top of plane, number five, on the Portage railroad, on the night of the twentieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, or the morning of the twenty-first of September of the same year, and report the facts to the next legislature.

SECTION 6. That from and after the passage of this act, the cost and Cost of constructexpenses of constructing and repairing common sewers in the district of ing and repairing Richmond, in the county of Philadelphia, under the authority of the sewers in district commissioners and inhabitants of said district, shall be paid out of the of Richmond, to corporate funds of said district; and so much of the act to which this be paid out of is a supplement, as authorizes the assessment of the costs and expenses corporate funds of said district. of said common sewer, to the freeholders in front of, or through whose grounds the same may be constructed, and the filing of liens therefor, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

WHEREAS, Samuel C. Ford, John D. Myers, Thomas Rouland, Isaac Preamble. Ford, George F. M'Almont, and Samuel Arthur, have associated themselves together for the purpose of promoting education, under the name, Style. style and title of "The Olney classical institute in the county of Philadelphia," and have adopted a constitution for the better management and regulation of the said institute; therefore,

SECTION 7. Be it enacted, &c., That the said parties in said preamble named, and such others as are now or hereafter may be associated with Incorporated. them, shall be and are hereby created a body corporate and politic in law, under the name, style and title aforesaid; and that the members of said institute, who from time to time shall be associated together according to its constitution, which may be changed from time to time in the

Privileges.

Proviso.

manner therein provided, shall be a body corporate and politic, having succession forever under said name, style and title; and that the president and trustees of said institute, from time to time appointed to said offices, according to the said constitution, shall have power to grant to such students as shall have studied in said institution, degrees and diplomas of excellence in the various branches of education; and that said body corporate shall have power to acquire property, and hold by purchase, gift, bequest or otherwise, within this commonwealth, and to sell, mortgage, or encumber the same: Provided, That the clear yearly income thereof shall not exceed five thousand dollars; and the said body corporate shall have power, by the name and style aforesaid, to sue and be sued, and shall enjoy all the rights and privileges granted to other bodies corporate and politic created in this commonwealth, for literary and scientific purposes.

APPROVED-The tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and

forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 402.

AN ACT

To authorize the canal commissioners to examine the claim of Peter S. M'Closky.

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 inquire and examine the claim of Peter S. M'Closky, for damages sustained by him, by the fire which burnt down the engine house at the head of plane number five, on the Allegheny Portage railroad, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and report the facts to the next legislature.

APPROVED-The tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and

forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 403.

AN ACT

Relative to premiums on fox and wild cat scalps in Forest and Jefferson counties, and for other 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 provisions of the act, entitled "An Act relating to premiums on fox and wild cat scalps," passed the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, for the county of Elk, be and the same are hereby extended to the counties of Forest and Jefferson.

SECTION 2. That the provisions of the act, entitled "An Act relating to the hunting of elk or deer in Huntingdon, Carbon, Luzerne, Dauphin, Mifflin or Elk," passed the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, be and they are hereby extended to the counties of Forest and Jefferson.

WILLIAM F. PACKER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

APPROVED-The tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 404.

AN ACT

To provide for the ordinary expenses of the government, the repair of the canals and railroads of the commonwealth, and the payment of other claims due by the

same.

objects of.

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 following sums be and the same are hereby specifically appropriated Appropriation, to the several objects hereinafter mentioned, for the year commencing on the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: I. For the salary of the governor three thousand dollars; for the Salary of execusalary of the secretary of the commonwealth twelve hundred dollars, tive and other deand the further sum of five hundred to be paid to him as superintendent partments.