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 decree of the said court, together with all other proceedings Decree of court touching the erection and organization of the said township of validated. Yoder, be deemed and held valid and effectual, to all intents and purposes; and the said township of Yoder is hereby declared established according to the boundaries returned therefor to the said court, as fully and effectually as if the said decree and proceedings had been regular in every particular. Section 2. That the election held in the said township of Certain election Yoder, on the eighteenth day of February, Anno Domini one made legal and Valid. JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The tenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 60. AN ACT To lay out a State road in Beaver and Butler counties. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represencatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That John Levis, Henry Goehring and Alexander Gillespie, be and Commissioners. are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a state road, commencing at or near Captain Steinback's, in the county of Route. Beaver, to a point of intersection with the Perrysville and Zeljenople turnpike or plank road, at or near George Hartman's farm, on the Perrysville and Zelienople turnpike or plank road, in the county of Butler, who, or any two of whom, after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace to perform the duties of this aet with fidelity, shall meet at some time agreed Duty of commisupon by the aforesaid commissioners, and carefully view the sioners. ground over which said road is to pass, and lay out and locate i road between said points, at the same grade and width as is by law provided in case of roads laid out by directions of the courts, and shall clearly and distinctly mark the same; after which, Maps, where de- they shall make out two correct maps or drafts thereof, and posited. file one of the same in the office of the clerk of the court of quarter sessions of each of said counties, whereupon said road shall become a public highway; and it shall be the duty of the Supervisors, respective supervisors to open said road so marked as aforesaid, duty of. and keep the same in repairs as other highways in the said counties. Compensation. Section 2. That the said commissioners shall receive the sum of two dollars for every day they shall necessarily be engaged in the performance of their duties, and such assistants as they may employ, not exceeding three, shall receive one dollar per How paid. day, to be paid from the treasuries of the respective counties, in proportion to the length of the road in each county respectively, on orders of the respective county commissioners, who shall adjust their account. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED- The fourteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 61. AN ACT Desoription of animals. To encourage the destruction of Noxious Animals in certain counties. 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 from and after the passage of this act, any person or persons who may kill any red or gray fox or foxes, wild cat or wild cats, skunk or skunks, mink or minks, within the counties of Clinton and Lycoming, in this commonwealth, and who shall produce the scalp of such fox or foxes, wild cat or wild cats, skunk or skunks, mink or minks, having the ears thereon, before any justice of the peace in and for the county in which the same has been taken and killed, it shall be the duty of such justice to examine such person or persons on oath or affirmation, touching the place where and the time when such fox or foxes, wild cat or wild cats, skunk or skunks, inink or minks, was or were taken and killed ; and if the place or places of such taking and killing shall be found to be within the bounds of the proper county, it shall be the duty of such justice to give the person or persons a Justice of the peace, duty of. certificate of the facts to the commissioners of the county, together with the scalps as aforesaid ; and the said commissioners, upon the receipt thereof, shall immediately have such scalp or scalps destroyed, and thereupon draw their warrant on the county treasurer of the proper county, as follows: For the scalp of a full grown red or gray fox, two dollars; and if for the scalp Premiums. of a full grown wild cat, two dollars; and if for the scalp of a full grown skunk, one dollar; and if for the scalp of a full grown mink, fifty cents; and for the scalp or scalps of any of the before named animals, which are not more than half grown, onehalf of the sums before named, respectively, for each and every scalp; and it shall be the duty of such treasurer, and he is hereby directed, to pay the amount of said order to the holder thereof. Section 2. That so much of any former act or acts as are Repeal. hereby altered and supplied, be and they are hereby repealed. JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED— The fourteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 62. AN ACT Relating to the borough of Clearfield. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen. catives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the borough council of the borough of Clearfield shall consist of six members, who shall be elected at the spring election for officers of said borough, as follows: Two to serve three years, two to serve two years, and two to serve one year, and annually thereafter two shall be elected to serve three years; and so much of any other act or acts as is inconsistent herewith, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as it relates to the said borough of Clearfield. JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED— The fourteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 63. SUPPLEMENT To an act relating to the election of Borough Auditors in the borough of Brookville, Jefferson county. Preamble. WHEREAS, By an act of the Legislature, passed at the session of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, regulating the time of holding borough and township elections in Jefferson county, the elections in Brookville were changed from the first Monday in March to the first Monday in February, in each year ; 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 Certain act alter so much of the act passed the twenty-fourth day of March, one ed and amended. thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, relating to the election and duties of borough auditors in said borough, as requires the said auditors to meet on the first Monday in May in each year, be so altered and amended as to require them to meet on the third Monday in February; and that they shall make publication, as now required to be made in the months of May and June, in the month of February and March. When borough Section 2. That the burgess and town council, school direcofficers to enter tors, overseers of the poor, and all other officers of said borough, apon their duties shall enter upon the duties of their respective offices on the third Monday in February in each year. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 64. AN ACT Relative to Road and Bridge Viewers in the county of Armstrong. 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 number of road and bridge viewers hereafter to be appointed Number of viewby the court of quarter sessions of Armstrong county shall be ors. three, one of whom shall be a practical surveyor; and every one to be a pracview, review and re-review shall be made by the whole number tical surveyor. of persons so appointed, a majority of whom shall concur in their report in order to its confirmation by the court. Section 2. That the said court, in appointing viewers as afore- Public notice, said, shall name one of the viewers so appointed, whose duty it relative to. shall be to give public notice, by written or printed advertise. ment, of the time and place when and where said viewers shall meet for the purpose of locating the said road or bridge, at least ten days before such meeting. SECTION 3. That the second and third sections of the act, ap- Certain act ex proved the sixth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight tended to. . JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The fifteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER, No. 65. A SUPPLEMENT To an act to incorporate the Allegheny Gas Company. JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The fifteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. |