To provide for the collection of additional Taxes in the townships of He. bron, Roulette and Harrison, in Potter county. JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The twenty-seventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 300. AN ACT Corporators. To incorporate the Macungie Institute and High School for Males and Females. Stgle. Powers. court of law or equity, and to take and hold to them and their successors, either by grant, gift, or devise or lease, any lands or real estate, for the purpose of erecting thereon all suitable buildings for the use of said association, any goods or chattels, sum or sums of money, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, will or bequest from any person or persons whomsoever, capable of making the same, and to have the power to borrow money in sums not ex- May borrow ceeding one thousand dollars, and to issue their notes or bonds money. for the same; said notes or bonds to be signed by the president and treasurer of the said association, payable at a fixed term or time, and the legal rate of interest; said notes or bonds so issued shall be and remain a lien on the real estate of the said association until paid; and also to have power to sell and dispose of all real and personal estate, at public vendue or outcry, to pay and satisfy the debts of said association, now or hereafter contracted, should it become necessary: Provided, That no note or Proviso. bond shall be issued for a less sum than one hundred dollars. Section 2. That each share of stock shall be valued at twen- Stock. five dollars, and shall entitle the holder to one vote for every share of stock held by him, her or them, in person or by proxy. Section 3. That the election of said officers above named in Election of offisection first, held on the twelfth day of March last past, in pur- cers. suance of a notice of said association, is hereby legalized and confirmed; and the said officers shall hold their offices for the terms for which they were respectively elected, and until their successors are regularly elected or appointed. Section 4. That the stockholders shall hereafter annually Meeting of stockmeet on the fourth Saturday of May in each and every year, in holders. the building of the association, ten days' notice having been given, for the purpose of electing, by ballot, one president, Officers and elecsecretary and treasurer, who shall hold their offices for the term tion of. of two years, and four trustees, who shall divide themselves into two classes; the seats of the first class shall be vacant at the end of one year, the second or last class at the end of two years, so that the one-half of the trustees shall be chosen an. nually hereafter. Section 5. That the trustees shall have power to fill vacancies Vacancies. created by death or otherwise, until the next annual election. SECTION 6. That the said association shall have power to By-laws. JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The twenty-seventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. Lackawanna township made part of the district for the support of the poor, &c. Conditions. Terms and expi directors. No. 301. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act, entitled " An Act to authorize the erection of a Poor House by the township of Jenkins, borough of Pittston, and township of Pittston, in the county of Luzerne," approved May eighth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. 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 township of Lackawanna, in the county of Luzerne, be and is hereby annexed to and made a part of the district for the support of the poor named in the act to which this is a supplement; but before the said township of Lackawanna shall be entitled to the privileges of the said act, the overseers of the poor therein shall secure, to the satisfaction of the directors of the poor of Jenkins township, Pittston borough and Pittston township, such sum of money as would be the proportionate share of the said township of Lackawanna of the money already expended by the said directors in the purchase of land, and other improvements n.ade thereon, as well as for money expended in finishing their poor house, and for stock on their farm; such proportionate share shall be ascertained upon the basis of the assessed valuation of property made taxable by law in each district, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine; when such sum, so to be paid by the said township of Lackawanna, shall be ascertained and satisfactorily secured, the said township shall be entitled to all the immunities and privileges enjoyed by the present corporation, as named in the said recited act; but no part of the present poor funds of the said township of Lackawanna shall be paid over to the said corporation, that being expressly reserved to the said township of Lackawanna; and for the purpose of raising money to enable the said township of Lackawanna to pay the sum ascertained to be her share of the expenditures aforesaid, the overseers of the poor thereof are hereby authorized and empowered to assess, levy and collect a tax for that purpose. SECTION 2. That the term of office of Joseph P. Schooley, one ration of office of of the present directors, is hereby extended two years from the annual March election in one thousand eight hundred and sixtyone; the term of office of M. L. Everitt, also a director, shall be extended one year from the annual March election in one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one; that John Stewart, of the township of Lackawanna, is hereby constituted a director, to take effect from the annual March election in one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and to be continued three years thereafter, subject to the compliance of the said township of Election for di Lackawanna, heretofore named; that at the annual March election in one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a director of the poor shall be elected for three years, and annually thereafter rector. where to meet. one shall be elected for three years; the qualified voters of the said borough and each of the townships shall vote for directors, but the said borough, nor any one of the said townships, shall have more than one director; on Monday following the election for directors, the judge of election of the said borough and each Judges of electownship shall meet at the Eagle hotel, in the borough of Pitts- tion, when and ton, and shall sum up the votes cast for directors, and give a certificate, under their hands and seals, to the person who shall have the highest number of votes cast, and also make out a duplicate, which they shall hand over to the board of directors, and which, together with the tally papers and certificate of returns, Returns and talshall be filed among the papers of the board of directors; but if ly papers, relathe person having the highest number of votes shall reside in the said borough, or any one of the said townships which at the time may have a director in the board, in such case the certificate shall be delivered to the person having the next highest number of votes, and who is not resident in a district having a director in the board; so much of the act to which this is a supplement, providing that the township of Jenkins, and borough and township of Pittston, shall each have a director, is hereby repealed. tive to. SECTION 3. That the court of quarter sessions shall hear and Contested elecdetermine all cases of contested elections for directors under tions. this act, in the same manner as now provided by law in the case of overseers of the poor. audited. SECTION 4. That the accounts of the directors of the poor, Accounts, how under this and the act to which it is supplemental, shall be audited in the following manner, that is to say: the senior auditor of the borough of Pittston, and of each of the townships embraced in this act, as well as the act to which it is a supplement, shall meet annually at the Eagle hotel, in the borough of Pittston, on or before the first Monday of May, and audit the accounts of the directors of the poor of the district; one copy whereof, signed by the auditors, or a majority of them, shall be filed in the office of the said directors, and another in the court of quarter sessions of Luzerne county; a majority of the said auditors shall comprise a quorum for the transaction of business. SECTION 5. That all laws hereby supplied, or with which the Repeal. foregoing is inconsistent, are hereby repealed. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 302. A SUPPLEMENT ceived. To an act for the reformation and employment of Vagrants, Drunkards and other disorderly Persons in the county of Allegheny, approved the thirteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty. pine. 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 Authority to pur- the board of managers in said act mentioned, shall have power, obiase land, &c. and they are hereby authorized to purchase any quantity of land, not exceeding one hundred acres, within the county of Allegheny, on which to erect the buildings provided for in said act, and to improve and cultivate the same, in such a manner as shall best promote the interests of the institution and the welfare of its inmates; the provisions of the sixteenth section of the act to which this is a supplement, shall be applied to the purchase of the land herein provided for. The kind of per- Section 2. That the superintendent may receive, under such sons to be re. regulations as the managers may prescribe, any person or per sons of intemperate habits, who may make application for adProviso. mission: Provided, That all expenses shall be paid by the party making such application. Commitment and Section 3. That whenever any citizen of Allegheny county discharge, rela- shall hereafter, by due course of law, be found to be a habitual drunkard, it shall be lawful for the court of quarter sessions of said county to commit such person to the house of reformation and industry, for a period not less than six months, nor more than two years; but the said court shall have power to modify such commitment, or discharge such person, whenever in the exercise of a sound discretion it may be deemed advisable to do so; and if after the discharge of such person, he or she shall relapse into his or her former habits of intemperance, satisfactory proof of that fact being produced to the court, the like proceed. ings may be had as in the first instance, and so on after his or her second discharge as often as the said party shall so relapse. Expenses of Section 4. That if any person committed under this act, or keeping, relative the act to which this is a supplement, shall be of sufficient ability to pay the expenses of his keeping, without injury to his family, or if such person shall have parents or children of suffi. cient ability to pay the same without injury to them respectively, the said court is hereby authorized to make an order, directing the amount to be paid at such times and in such manner, as shall be deemed just and equitable, and such order may be entered of record in the court of common pleas, and from the date of such entry, shall have all the force and effect of a judg. ment obtained in that court, and its payment may be enforced by execution as in other cases. to. |