Courts may be continued by judges. Attendance of jurors. Proviso. Repeal. 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 addition to the time now fixed, by law, for the holding of the several courts in said county, the judges of said courts in said county shall have power to continue the same as long as may be necessary, according to their discretion, for the disposal of all cases depending therein. SECTION 2. The panel of petit jurors, summoned and appearing on the first day of each term of the several courts of said county, shall be and remain in attendance as long as may be necessary for the disposal of all causes depending therein: Provided, That said attendance shall not be required for a longer period of time than four weeks. SECTION 3. All usages and. laws to the contrary are hereby repealed. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 156. An Act To authorize the Western Pennsylvania Hospital to receive a certain be quest. 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 managers of the Western Pennsylvania hospital shall be and they are hereby authorized to accept and receive, from the executors of the last will and testament of Charles Brewer, late of Allegheny county, deceased, the sum of ten thousand dollars, bequeathed to said executors, in trust, to be handed over to said hospital, and hold the same; and they are hereby further authorized to do any and every thing which it may be necessary for them to do, in regard to the disposal of said bequest, so as to carry into full force and effect the purpose and design of said testator, in making the same. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN No. 157. An Act Entitled "An Act to incorporate the Mount Clare and Perkiomen Turnpike Road Company, of Upper Providence township, Montgomery 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 George W. Pomeroy, Martin Hunsicker, John Ashenfel- Commissioners. ter, David Rosenberry, Philip Shinkle, Elisha Bard, Henry Loucks, Abraham Johnson, Joshua Zimmerman, James Robinson, Jonas Miller, James Riehl, Christian B. Heebner, Henry Longenecker, and such others as may hereafter become associated with them, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of the Mount Name. Clare and Perkiomen Turnpike Road Company, and by that name shall have have perpetual succession, and enjoy all the Privileges. privileges of a corporation, and capable of holding their capital stock, and enlarging the same as they may think proper, and buying and holding such real estate as may be necessary, to erect toll-houses thereon, and capable of suing and being sued, and all other matters and things which a corporation may lawfully do. SECTION 2. That whenever one hundred shares shall be sub- When officers scribed, of twenty-five dollars each share, and an instalment to be elected. of five dollars on each share actually paid in, a meeting may be called by any two stockholders of said company, by a notice published in any two newspapers in said county, for the election of one person as president, one person as treasurer, and five persons as directors, who shall hold their office for one year, or until their successors shall be elected. SECTION 3. That the Mount Clare and Perkiomen turnpike Route. shall commence at Mount Clare, in Upper Providence township, Montgomery county, at or near where the bridge crosses To occupy bed of old road. When tolls may be collected. the Schuylkill river to Phoenixville, and terminate at the Perkiomen and Reading turnpike, in said township, a short distance above the Perkiomen bridge, above Henry Longenecker's hotel. SECTION 4. That said company shall be required to confine their turnpike road to the bed of the old road now laid out, leading from said bridge, opposite Phoenixville, to the turnpike at the point named in section three of this act, and to be authorized to grade and to fill up said road as may be necessary to bring it to the proper grade, by the act approved January twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, regulating turnpike and plank road companies. SECTION 5. That when two miles, or more, of the said Mount Clare and Perkiomen turnpike shall be finished, the said company shall have power to erect gates and collect tolls, and shall be subject to all the provisions of the act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved January twentysix, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, so far as is not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. CYRUS L. PERSHING, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 158. An Act Legalizing the election of certain officers in the borough of Freeport, WHEREAS, By an act of assembly, approved the tenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixtytwo, entitled "A supplement to an act incorporating the borough of Freeport," a change was made in the number and manner of the election of the corporate officers of said borough: And whereas, The qualified electors of said borough did, on the last Friday of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, proceed to the election of officers of said borough, under the provisions of said supplement to said charter, believing that the said supplement had been signed by the governor, and become a law: And whereas, Said supplement had not been signed by the governor, and did not become a law, until the tenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixtytwo; 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 the election aforesaid, held on the last Friday of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, is hereby declared legal and good, in law, and the officers so elected shall have all powers conferred upon them by the provisions of said supplement, as if the same had been approved by the governor before said election. CYRUS L. PERSHING, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 159. An Act To lay out the balance of a State Road in Westmoreland county. WHEREAS, By an act of the general assembly, approved the twenty-seventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, the supervisors of Derry township, Westmoreland county, were authorized to lay out and make a township road from the Broad Fording to Bairdstown, in said county: And whereas, Said road has not yet been completed, in consequence of which a number of citizens labor under great inconvenience; 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 James M'Gough, William Donnelly and Christopher Libengood, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out said balance of road, being about one mile in length, and that the supervisors of said township be and they are hereby authorized and required to carry out the provisions of said act. CYRUS L. PERSHING, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of March, Anno Domini on thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 160. An Act To divide the borough of Pittston, in the county of Luzerne, into three election districts. 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 borough of Pittston, in the county of Luzerne, is hereby divided into three election districts, to be known and designated as the North ward, the Middle ward, and the South ward, bounded as follows: the North ward to include all the inhabitants residing north of Parsonage street, in said borough; the Middle ward to include all the inhabitants south of Parsonage street, to the north side of the ravine, close by the Pennsylvania Coal Company's office, following said stream, or ravine, to the borough line, in said borough; and the South ward to include all the inhabitants south of Broad street, in said borough; that all borough, general and special elections, in and for the North ward, shall be held at the brick school house, in said North ward, in said borough; and until the regu lar election for judges and inspectors of elections, as now fixed by law, that George Damon shall be judge, and Lawrence Donahue and James Freeland, inspectors of election in said. North ward; that all elections as aforesaid, in and for the Middle ward, shall be held at the public school house, on the common, near Saint James church, in said borough; and that Benjamin D. Beyed shall be judge, and Abel C. Thompson and William O'Meally, shall be inspectors for said Middle ward, until another board of election shall be duly elected, as now provided by law; that all elections as aforesaid, in and for the South ward, shall be held at the house of John Shalk, in said borough, and that Patrick Battle shall be judge, and David Blanchard and James E. Clark shall be inspectors of election, for said South ward, until another board of election shall be duly elected, as now provided by law; that nothing contained in this act shall be construed to impair, alter, or affect, in any manner, the existing government of said borough, its laws, ordinances, by-laws and regulations, nor for the increase of officers of said borough, only as herein provided for election purposes. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. |