Birth-place. Date of registration. Health officer to Section 13. That the health officer shall keep on hand, at all keep blank: for times, a supply of blanks, for gratuitous distribution to all per: gratuitous distri bution. sons whose duty it shall be to make returns under this act. The said blanks shall be prepared in the form of books, and the mar. gin shall correspond with the printed titles in the books of the health officer, as required by the twelfth section of this act: Proviso. Provided, That all books, blanks and stationery necessary to be used in carrying out the intent and meaning of this act, shall be furnished, upon an order from the board of health, by the city commissioners, and shall be paid for by councils; and that the health officer, in consideration of such additional services, shall receive the sum of two hundred dollars besides his present sal ary, to be paid to him in the manner now directed by law. Repeal. Section 14. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith, or supplied by this act, are hereby repealed. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-- The eighth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 147. AN ACT Relative to Roads in certain townships in Chester county. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen. tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the provisions of an act, entitled “An Act relative to the opening and making of new roads and building of bridges in the township of West Marlborough, in the county of Chester, and relative to repairing the roads in the said township," approved the twelfth of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, be extended to the townships of Pend, Newlin, West Bradford and London Britain, in said county of JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The eighth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 148. AN ACT To incorporate the Fox Chase and Frankford Railroad 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 Stephen Crawford, Joseph W. Ryens, Edward S. Handy, Charles Commissioners Newbold, Robert R. Levick, William C. Keemhle, Henry C. Pratt, Charles Robbins, George W. Rhawn, Peter Castor, Charles L. Bute, John Haines, George S. Adler, Myers Livzley, Jacob Blake, Edward Thesing, A. G. Rowland, Joseph Deal, John Foulkrod, E. V. Machette and George A. Lewis, of Philadelphia county, and Benjamin Rowland, Newberry A. Smith, John Smith, B. C. Snowden, John Walton, Reuben Myers, George R. Heller, William Morrison and Thomas Rowland, junior, of Montgomery county, or any three of them, be and are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style and title of the Fox Style. Chase and Frankford railroad company, with power and authority to construct a railroad from Frankford to the Fox Chase, in Route. Philadelphia county aforesaid, with the privilege of extending the same to the village of Huntington, Montgomery county, when public convenience or the interests of the company may require, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act subject to. regulating railroad companies, approved the nineteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fortynine, (1849,) and the several supplements thereto, so far as the same are not altered or supplied by this act. Section 2. That the capital stock of the said company shall Capital stock. consist of four thousand shares, of fifty dollars each: Provided, Proviso. That the said company may, from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for the purpose, increase the capital stock, if it should be deemed necessary, to an amount not exceeding six thousand shares. For the purpose of com pleting and equipping the road, the said company shall have the May borrow mo. power to borrow any sum of money not exceeding in amount ney and issue the one-half of their capital stock, at a rate of interest not ex• bonds. ceeding seven per centum per annum, and to secure the payment of the same by the issue of a bond and mortgage of the said railroad, together with the corporate rights and franchises granted by this act, and to annex to the said bond and mortgage the privilege of converting the same into the capital stock of said company at par, at the option of the holders, if they shall signify their election one year before their maturity. May lease cer. Section 3. That the said company shall have power and autain turnpike thority to lease, for a year or term of years, such portions of roads. the road beds of the Oxford and Kensington and Oxford turnpike companies as shall be deemed advantageous to said company; and said lease or purchase to be by the stockholders representing a majority of the stock, called for the purpose by said Oxford and Kensington and Oxford turnpike companies, Proviso. shall be valid and of full force: Provided, That the said Frank: ford and Fox Chase Passenger railroad company shall not occupy, with their road, the macadamized portion of the Oxford turnpike road, except so far as may be required for such sidelings and crossings, which may be necessary in the construction of the same. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The ninth day of March, Anno Domini one thogsand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 149. AN ACT To change the place of holding the Elections in Now Berlin, Union county WHEREAS, The building in which the elections are now held in the borough of New Berlin, in the county of Union, has been sold, and the purchaser refuses to allow it to be used hereafter for such purpose : And whereas, The court of quarter sessions of said county of Union will not hold a session until after the time for holding the spring elections will have passed; 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 general, special and borough elections in the borough of New JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M, FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The ninth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 150. SUPPLEMENT To the act to incorporate the Pittsburg and East Liberty Passenger Rail way Company. 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 the Pittsburg and East Liberty Passenger railway company is Authorized to hereby authorized to lay out and construct a railway, with single extend road, de. track, from the intersection of Third and Market street, in the city of Pittsburg, along Third to Ferry street, thence along Ferry to Fourth street, and thence along Fourth street to Ross street'; Rondo. and also from the intersection of Third and Ross streets, with single or double track, along Ross street to the intersection of Fifth street and Pennsylvania avenue, and thence by said avenue as provided in the act to which this is a supplement; and until said avenue shall be opened into Fifth, the said company may lay out and construct a single or double track from Ross street, by way of Diamond street, to Pennsylvania avenue, and thence by said avenue as aforesaid : Provided, That so much of the act Proviso. to which this is a supplement, as authorizes or requires said company to lay out and construct a railway on Second street or Market street, in said city, be and the same is hereby repealed : Repeal. And provided also, That the said company shall not have the right to use or occupy any of the streets hereinbefore mentioned, for the the purpose of their railway, until the councils of the city of Pittsburg, by ordinance duly passed, shall grant their consent thereto. а Power to con Section 2. The said company shall have the further right to struct a branch construct a branch railway, with single or double track, from railway. Pennsylvania avenue, along Atwood and Boquet streets, to Frazier street, or by way of Ward street, Semple street and Boquet street, to Frazier street, as aforesaid. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 151. AN ACT To authorize the erection of a Poor House by the city of Carbondale, in the county of Luzerne. 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 Commissioners. John S. Law, James Clarkson, R. E. Marvin, Patrick Moffitt and James Stott, of the city of Carbondale, in the county of Luzerne, be and are hereby appointed commissioners, whose duty it shall be, as soon after the passage of this act as is practicable, Duty of to determine upon, and with the assent of the mayor's court of the city of Carbondale, to purchase or rent such real estate, within ten miles of the city hall in said city, as may be neces sary and proper for the accommodation of the poor of the city of Carbondale; and it shall be lawful for said commissioners to take and receive proper conveyances therefor, in the name and for the use of the corporation mentioned in the second section of this act; and upon the receipt of such conveyance, to execute to the vendee or lessee, vendees or lessees, bonds or mortgages upon said real estate or other security in payment therefor, or for so much of the purchase money as remains unpaid, and also to erect thereon suitable buildings for the accommodation and keeping of the poor of said city, and they are also empowered to borrow such sum or sums of money as may in their opinion be necessary, not exceeding five thousand dollars, to be used in carrying out the purposes of this act. Directors. Section 2. That the said John S. Law, James Clarkson, Pat rick Moffitt, R. E. Marvin and James Stott are hereby constituted directors of the poor in the city aforesaid, until successors are appointed and qualified, as hereinafter provided ; and they |