No. 5. AN ACT Anthorizing the Auditor General to open and re-settle the account of Wil liam S. Calohan, late Superintendent on Portage Railroad. 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 auditor general be authorized to open and re-settle the account of William S. Calohan, late superintendent of motive power and supervisor of repairs, &c., on Allegheny Portage railroad, and to allow such credits as equity and justice in the case indicate. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senat e. APPROVED—The eighteenth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 6. AN ACT Relating to the selling of the repairing of the Public Roads in certain town. ships iu Schuylkill county. 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 Certain town. hereafter the qualified electors of each of the townships of ships to elect but Reilly, Cass, Foster, Butler, Norwegian, New Castle, Mahanoy, one supervisor. Rush, 'Blythe, Schuylkill and East Norwegian respectively, in the county of Schuylkill, shall elect but one supervisor instead of two; and each of the supervisors so elected as aforesaid shall To give bond. give bond, with security, as provided for in first section of the act of the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "An act to secure a stricter ae tive to. to. countability of certain public officers in Schuylkill county," for the faithful performance of their duties, respectively; and said supervisors shall, after having given at least two weeks' notice of the time and place by advertisement in one English and one to advertise tho German newspaper published in the borough of Pottsville, in selling of the resaid county, and by putting up at least six written or printed pairing of publie notices in as many of the most public places in different parts of their respective townships, within the month of March of each and every year, give out by public outcry, to the lowest and Lowest bidder to best bidder, the making and repairing of all the then existing have contract. public roads in their respective townships for the ensuing year; in one lot, where there are not more than twenty miles of road in a township, and in two divisions, where there are more than twenty miles. All new roads required to be made from time to New roads, relatime in said township shall be let in the same manner. SECTION 2. The payments under the contracts provided for in Payments to conthe first section of this act to be made to the contractor or con- tractors, relative tractors monthly, by the supervisors drawing orders, countersigned and registered in the manner now provided by law, in favor of the contractors, on the township treasurer, for the estimated amount of work done in the previous month: Provided, Proviso. That the said supervisors are hereby required to view and inspect the making and repairing of the public roads in said townships respectively, at least once during every month, and be fully satisfied, before payment be made, that the contractors have fully complied with their contracts; for which services so rendered, each of said supervisors shall receive a compensation not exceeding seventy-five dollars a year, to be determined by the auditors of the said township respectively. SECTION 3. Each purchaser or contractor of roads shall, before Contractors to entering upon his contract or contracts, file with the supervisor give bond. a bond, approved of by the auditors of each township respectively, with sufficient security to the amount of his or their contract or contracts, for the faithful performance of his or their duties, to keep the roads in good repair, and save and keep the townships harmless from damages in consequence of accident from neglect in keeping the roads in good condition. Sectio.x 4. If the lowest bidder at a supervisor's sale or letting should fail to comply with the conditions of such sale or letting, then the next lowest bidder, who shall have signed the conditions thereof, shall be entitled to receive the contract; or if the second lowest bidder should not comply with the terms, and if any other bidder shall comply and take the contract, then the lowest bidder shall be liable for the difference between his bid and the sum which has actually to be paid for the contract: Provided, That no township officer'shall be entitled to be a con- Proviso. tractor of roads in any of the said townships, or be interested in any contract whatever. Section 5. Any violation of any of the provisions of this act Penalty for vio. by any contractor, supervisor or other township officer, shall be lating provisions deemed a misdemeanor, and may be prosecuted by indictment, and punished by fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court. SECTION 6. That all acts and parts of acts of the general as- Repeal. sembly inconsistent herewith, be and the same are hereby re of this act. pealed, so far as the same relates to the townships named in the first section of this act. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The nineteenth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 7. AN ACT To enable the Executor of the will of Susan Cochran, deceased, to transfer certain stock. 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 executor of the last will and testament of Susan Cochran, late of the borough of Beaver, in the county of Beaver, deceased, (or in case of his death or discharge, the administrator de bonis non with the will annexed,) shall have power, and he is hereby authorized to transfer to Zadock Cramer Cochran, James S. Cochran and Mary E. Cochran, only children, and sole legatees of the said Susan Cochran, deceased, all the remaining unsold stock in the Bank of Pittsburg, bequeathed by the said Susan Cochran, in her said will, to her children, the said Zadock Cramer Cochran, James S. Cochran and Mary E. Cochran, in the same manner and proportions of shares as by the said will the said stock is bequeathed to them ; to have and to hold the said stock in the several proportions bequeathed to them absolutely, in their own right, and with power to sell and transfer the same at their pleasure, absolutely, and freed and discharged from any right of survivorship among each other, and from any limitation to their issue unborn at the time of the said transfer to them: Provided, That at the time of the said transfer to them, they shall deliver to the said Bank of Pittsburg their written consent to the terms and purposes of this act. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speuker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The nineteenth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 8. AN ACT To anthorize the appointment of an additional Notary Public in Cumber land 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 from and after the passage of this act, the governor be and he is hereby authorized to appoint one additional notary public for the county of Cumberland, who shall reside in the town of Meehanicsburg, in said county. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The twenty-fourth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 9. SUPPLEMENT To the act incorporating the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Sinking Springs, Berks 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 proviso to the first section of the act, entitled “A supplement to the act incorporating the Mutual fire insurance company of Sinking Springs, Berks county,” approved the thirteenth day of April, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fiftynine, be and the same is hereby repealed. W. C. A. LAW.RENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The twenty-fourth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 10. A SUPPLEMENT To an act to incorporate the Howard Fire and Marine Insurance Company, passed the twenty-sixth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. 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 it shall and may be lawful for the directors of the Howard fire and marine insurance company to reduce the capital stock of said company from six hundred thousand dollars to two hundred thousand dollars, to be composed of six thousand shares of thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents and a third each: Provided, That before any such reduction shall be made, the written consent thereto of stockholders owning a majority of the stock of said company, shall be filed in the office of said company W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The twenty-fourth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 11. AN ACT To change the time of holding the Annual Meeting and Election of the Hartsville and Centreville Turnpike Road Company. 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 annual meeting and election of the Hartsville and Centreville turnpike road company be hereafter held on the second Monday of November in each year; and that so much of the act of assembly, approved January twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An act regulating turnpike and plank road companies," as is hereby altered or sup |