To authorize the Directors of the Poor and House of Employment for the certain real eg. 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 directors of the poor and house of employment for the Authorized to county of Montgomery be empowered to sell and convey to the soll and convey Black Rock bridge company, any quantity of ground, not exceed- tate to Black ing two acres, for the purpose of establishing a tenement thereon Rock bridge for the toll collector of said company, and for such other neces company. sary purposes as the wants of the company may require; and that the court of said county be authorized to appoint three disinterested persons to set a valuation upon the same. Section 2. The aforesaid directors, or their successors, shall Authorized to be authorized and empowered to make and deliver a good and convey certain land to school lawful deed of conveyance for a piece of land, containing one directors of Prohundred and twenty-eight perches of land, (more or less,) as vidence towaper survey made of the same on the thirtieth day of July, Anno ship. Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, now in the occupancy of the school directors of Upper Providence town. ship, as per agreement of the aforesaid directors of the poor and of the said school district, to hold the same to them the said school directors, their successors and assigns. JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The thirtieth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. · WM. F. PACKER. No. 364. AN ACT To survey, ascertain, mark and establish that part of the dividing line be. tween Westmoreland and Fayette counties, which lies between the You. ghiogheny and Monongahela rivers. 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 Commissioners. E. F. Housman, of the county of Westmoreland, J. S. Van Voorhis and H. F. Blythe, of the county of Fayette, are hereby appointed commissioners, with authority to survey, ascertain, mark and establish that part of the dividing line between Westmoreland and Fayette counties, which lies between the You ghiogheny and Monongahela rivers. Duties of. SECTION 2. That said commissioners, after having first taken and subscribed an oath or affirmation before a justice of the peace to perform the duties enjoined on them by this act with impartiality and fidelity, shall go upon the ground and carefully survey, ascertain, mark and establish that part of the dividing line between the counties of Westmoreland and Fayette, as lies between the Youghiogheny and the Monongahela rivers. Further duties. Section 3. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners, on or before the first day of September, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty, to survey and mark said line by distinct and permanent marks, and to make two drafts of the same, certified under their hands, with courses and distances plainly laid down, one of which they shall deposit in each of the prothonotary's offices of said counties as soon thereafter as practicable, and if approved by the court of common pleas of said counties, shall be considered as a public record. Compensation. SECTION 4. That said commissioners shall receive for their services the sum of two dollars per day, and necessary expenses, for and during the time they shall be actually engaged in the discharge of their duties; and the commissioners shall have authority to appoint two assistants; said assistants each shall receive for their services the sum of two dollars per day; and also one surveyor, who shall receive for his services three dollars per day. All the aforesaid expenses shall be paid by the said counties, each county paying one-half of said expenses ; said payments to be made by warrants drawn on the treasurers Proviso. by the county commissioners of their respective counties: Pro vided, That the duties herein imposed shall be completed in five days, and no pay shall be given for a longer period. Vacancies, how Section 5. That in case either of the above named commisfilled. sioners shall refuse to serve, or in the event of sickness or death of either, the other two shall appoint a suitable person, a resident of the same county in which the person resided who caused the vacancy as commissioner. JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The thirtieth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 365. AN ACT Relating to the hunting of Deer in certain counties of this Commonwealth. 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 so much of an act, entitled “An Act to prevent the destruction of deer in certain counties of this commonwealth,” approved the thirtieth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fiftynine, and so much of another act, entitled “An Act to prevent the hunting of deer with dogs in certain counties of this commonwealth," approved the fourteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, be and the same are hereby repealed, so far as relates to Wayne county. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED— The thirtieth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER No. 366. AN ACT Extending the Terms of the Courts of the county of Lycoming. 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 several courts of common pleas, orphans' court, court of quarter sessions and oyer and terminer, shall hereafter be commenced, in the county of Lycoming, on the third Mondays of January, April, August and November, and continue three weeks, if necesary; and so much of any law as is hereby altered be and the same is hereby repealed. JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirtieth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 367. AN ACT To vacate two certain Streets in the Square bounded by Spruce, Pine, Twentieth and Twenty-first streets, in the city of Philadelphia. 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 conformity with two certain ordinances of the city councils of Philadelphia, approved respectively on the ninth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and on the fifth day of December, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, two certain fifty feet wide streets, one of them commencing on the west side of Twentieth street, at the distance of one hundred and seventy-eight feet southward from the south side of Spruce street, in the said city, and ex. tending westward of the width of fifty feet to Twenty-first street, and the other of them commencing on the west side of Twentieth street, at the distance of two hundred and seventy. three feet southward from the south side of Spruce street, in the JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The thirtieth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 368. AN ACT Appointing Commissioners to erect a Lock-up House at Summit Hill, in the township of Mauch Chunk, county of Carbon, and authorizing and directing the Supervisors of said township to levy and collect a sufficient amount of Tax to defray the expenses of erecting said Building. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly net, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That James M'Lean, junior, William Sharpe, William M'Kewer, es- Commissioners to quire, George Kline and A. J. Wintersteen, be and are hereby build lock-up. appointed commissioners to build, or cause to be built, at the town of Summit Hill, township of Mauch Chunk, Carbon county, a suitable building, or place, for the security and detention of any person or persons committed by any justice of Purposes of. the peace in the aforesaid township, for any violation of the laws of this commonwealth, for which such person or persons could be lawfully committed to the common jail of said county of Carbon, there to remain and be kept until such offender or offenders can be removed to the said common jail, if committed for an indictable offence, or until discharged according to law : Provided, That no person or persons shall be confined in said Proviso. lock-up house, at any one time, for a longer period than fortyeight hours, except such person or persons be charged with an indictable offence, and it be necessary to detain him or her or them for a legal examination. Section 2. That the legal fees for the arrests, commitments Pees. and safe keeping of any person or persons in said house, on a charge of any indictable offence, shall be taxed by the proper authority and paid by the prosecutor or defendant, or the county of Carbon, as the issue of the case may require and be determined. |