No. 53. AN ACT Relative to Dog Tax in Thornbury township, Delaware county. 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 all dog tax hereafter assessed and collected in Thornbury township, Delaware county, shall be paid to the county treasurer, and all outstanding claims for damages done by dog or dogs shall be paid by the treasurer of said county, and all orders for damages in future shall be drawn on the treasurer of said county; and all laws or parts of law inconsistent herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED- The eighth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 54. AN ACT To change the place of holding Elections in Forks township, Sullivan county. WHEREAS, The house designated by law for holding the elections in Forks township, Sullivan county, is unoccupied, has become decayed, and is entirely unsafe and unfit to be occupied : And whereas, A new house has been built upon the same farm, and within a few rods of the old one: And whereas, No court will be held in said county of Sullivan in time to fix a place for holding the election; therefore, 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 general, special and township elections in the township of Forks, Sullivan county, shall hereafter be held at the private house of John G. Wright, in Forks township, Sullivan county. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The eighth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 55. AN ACT To attach Montour county to the Eighth Division of the Militia of this Com. monwealth. WHEREAS, By the act of April twenty-first, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, entitled “An Act for the regulation of the militia of this commonwealth," and the are rangement of the counties in twenty separate divisions, by some oversight or mistake the county of Montour was not by the act included in any division; 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 hereafter the county of Montour shall be attached to and form a part of the eighth division of the militia of this common. Fealth, and be subject to the same rules and regulations as other counties composing a part of said division. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The eighth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 56. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT to. To the act incorporating the Delaware Mutual Safety Insurance Company. 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 Profits and divi- whenever the profits of the company shall in any one year ex. dends, relative ceed the sum necessary to enable the directors to make a cash dividend of eight per cent. on the capital stock, to pay six per cent. interest on the outstanding scrip, and to make a scrip divi. dend of twenty-five per cent. on the earned premiums of the company, it may be lawful for the board of directors to increase the dividend on the capital stock authorized to be created under the act approved April thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, to ten per cent. out of any such excess of profits. Rodemption of Section 2. That when the scrip fund of the company shall scrip. exceed the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, the directors may at any time pay off or redeem such portion of the scrip of the company outstanding as they may deem expedient and proProviso. per: Provided, That the certificates of the issue of a subsequent year shall not, in any case, be paid off or redeemed till all those of the preceding year or years have been paid off, or provision Proviso. made therefor: Provided also, That in no case shall the scrip be paid off to such an extent as to reduce the aggregate amount of ihe capital stock, and the scrip fund of the company below the sum of five hundred thousand dollars. Voting for direc- Section 3. That the stockholders of the capital stock author. tors by certain ized to be created under the supplement to the charter, approved class of stock holders. April thirieenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, shall, for the election of directors, entitled to vote in the following ratio, to wit: For each and every share of such stock up to fifty shares, one vote; for every five shares beyond fifty, and up to one hundred shares, two votes; for every five shares beyond one hundred, one vote; nor shall any stockholder vote at any election for directors, unless the share or shares on which he or she may claim to vote shall have been standing in his or her name, on the books of said corporation, for at least three months previous to said election; nor shall any stockholder or insured member vote by proxy. Redomption of Section 4. That it may be lawful for the board of directors original capital to redeem the original capital stock of the company at the rate stock. of eight dollars per share, or to change the same into the new stock authorized to be created under the supplement to the charter, approved April thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, at the rate of ten dollars per share for said original stock. Repeal. Section 5. That the act to which this is a supplement, and the several other supplements thereto, so far as they are not repealed hereby, shall be and continue in force; and that so much a of the said act, and of the several acts supplementary thereto, W. C. A. LAWRENCE, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED- The ninth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 57. AN ACT Attborizing the qualified Electors of the county of Delaware, at the Ger. eral Election in October, Anno Domini one thousand eight bundred and sixty-two, to elect one person to fill the offices of Prothonotary, Clerk of tbe Courts of General Quarter Sessions, Oyer and Terminer, and Orphans' Court, and also one other person to fill the offices of Register of Wills and Recorder of Deeds. tion 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 qualified electors of the county of Delaware, at the general County oficers, election to be holden in October, Anno Domini one thousand relative to eleeeight hundred and sixty-two, and thereafter triennially, shall elect one person to fill the offices of prothonotary, clerk of the courts of general quarter sessions, oyer and terminer, and orphans' court, and also to elect one other person to fill the offices of the register of wills and recorder of deeds. SECTION 2. That so much of the act of assembly of July sec. Repeal. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-— The ninth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 58. AN ACT To validate the acts of William Root, an Alderman of the city of Carbon dale. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, ană it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all the acts of William Root, alderman of the city of Carbondale, that were done and performed by him in the capacity of alderm aforesaid, in the spring of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, after his commission for such office had expired, and before the receipt of his present commission for such office, be good and valid, and to have the same force and effect as if he had been duly commissioned and sworn, excepting therefrom any judgments he might have entered within such time. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The ninth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 59. AN ACT To legalize the erection of the township of Yoder, in the county of Cam. bria, and for other purposes. Prenmble. WHEREAS, Proceedings have been had in the court of quarter sessions of Cambria county, erecting a new township, called Yoder, out of a portion of the township of Conemaugh, in said county : And whereas, The said court omitted to order a vote of the qualified electors of the said township of Conemaugh, to be taken on the question of a division thereof for the purpose aforesaid : And whereas, The inhabitants of the said township of Cone. maugh are well satisfied with such division, and approve the erection of the said township of Yoder; therefore, |