No. 459. AN ACT Relative to the Claim of Bergaus and Grim. 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 auditor general be and he is hereby authorized and required to examine the claim of Bergaus and Grim, of Huntingdon county, for blacksmithing done and materials furnished for the Upper Juniata division of the Pennsylvania canal, during the years one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five and one thou. sand eight hundred and fifty-six; and after such examination, shall report the amount he finds to be due said parties to the legislature, at the next session thereof. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED— The second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 459. AN ACT To fix the place of holding Elections in Guelieh township, Clearfield 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 the place of holding the general, special and township elections in Guelich township, Clearfield county, shall be at the Janesville school house, in said township, until the same shall be changed, in accordance with the act of assembly in such cases made and provided. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 460. AN ACT Authorizing President Judges to hold Courts out of their several Districts in certain cases. a 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 case of the sickness of a president judge in any judicial district in Pennsylvania, or of the sickness of his family, or of his inability to hold the regular term of courts in any county, from any cause whatever, it shall be lawful for him to call upon any other president judge in the commonwealth, who may not himfelf be engaged, to hold said regular term of courts; and said president judge, so called upon, is hereby authorized and empowered to discharge the duties appertaining to said office, as fully as the regularly commissioned president judge of said district could do is present, and shall be entitled to the same compensation allowed by law for holding special courts. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED— The second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 461. AN ACT To prevent the killing of Squirrels out of season in the counties of Adams and Dauphin. 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 it shall not be lawful for any person within the counties of Adams and Dauphin, to shoot, kill, or in any way destroy any grey, black or fox squirrel, from the first day of January until the first day of September in the present year, and in each and every year hereafter, under the penalty of five dollars for each and every offence, to be recovered, et cetera, agreeably to the sixth JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-. The second day of April, Anno Domini one thou sand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 462. AN ACT and M'Kean counties. Relating to the Road La of M’K and Tioga 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 the act passed fourteenth April, one thousand eight hundred and Repeal. fifty-five, entitled “An Act to consolidate and amend the road laws of the counties of Tioga, Potter, M'Kean and Elk," be and the same is hereby repealed as far as relates to the counties of Tioga and M'Kean. Section 2. That the provisions of the sixteenth, seventeenth, Certain act exeighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second, tended to Tioga twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth sections of an act authorizing the laying out and locating a state road from the borough of Elizabethtown, Allegheny county, to the borough of Brownsville, in Fayette county, and for other purposes, be and the same are hereby extended to the counties of Tioga and M'Kean. Section 3. That at the next township elections in said coun- Commissioners of tics of Tioga and M’Kean, the qualified citizens of the different roads, election of. townships of said counties, shall elect three persons who shall be styled commissioners of roads and highways. JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 463. AN ACT To authorize the Pennsylvania Farina Company to wind up and settle their Affairs, and distribute their Assets among the Stockholders. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Authorized to whenever the stockholders of the Pennsylvania farina company, settle up affairs at a corporate meeting duly convened, shall duly authorize and of the company. instruct the board of directors of said company, it shall be law ful for the said board of directors to proceed, with all convenient speed, to close the business, and to liquidate, settle and wind up all the concerns of the said company. May sell and con- Section 2. That whenever the authority aforesaid shall be vey at public or given, it shall be lawful for the said board of directors to collect private sale. all the debts and other assets of the said company, and to sell and convert into money all the property belonging to the same, not so converted, or any part thereof, at public or private sale, for such price as they shall deem reasonable; and to make and execute all deeds and other writings necessary thereto. Proceeds to be SECTION 3. That whenever all the said debts and other assets divided among shall be collected, and property sold, and the money therefor received, all the expenses and all the debts of the said company shall be first paid, and the balance be divided among the stock. holders, and paid to them, or their legal representatives, in pro portion to the amount of stock they respectively hold. When charter to Section 4. That the charter of the said company shall con. be deemed ex tinue, and the direction be kept up according thereto, until a tinct. final dividend of the assets shall be made as aforesaid, and then the charter and the said company shall be deemed and taken to be extinct. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED- The second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 464. AN ACT To legitimate Kate Gilmer. 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 Kate Gilmer, an illegitimate child of James Gilmer, of Lawrence county, shall have and enjoy all the rights and privileges of a child born in lawful wedlock. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 465. AN ACT Relating to certain Ground Rents. 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 two certain deeds of conveyance executed to the Mutual Benefit life insurance company of Newark, New Jersey, one of them by Joseph L. Lord and Fanny, his wife, bearing date November twenty-first, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfour, and recorded in the office for recording deeds, et cetera, in and for the county of Philadelphia, in deed book S H, number one hundred and seventy-six, page three hundred and seventy: six, et cetera ; and the other of them by William F. Emlen and J. Dickinson Sergeant, trustees of the Sepviva estate, dated the fifteenth January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, be and the same are hereby declared to be valid and effectual conveyances in the law, for the purpose of vesting in the said life insurance company, the grantee in them named, the estate by the said deeds conveyed, notwithstanding the fact that the said grantee is a corporation foreign to the state of |