ton, known as the West Pike Run meeting house lot, with the appurtenances appertaining or belonging thereto. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 214. An Act Relative to the Roxborough Lyceum. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assemoly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same That the property of the Roxborough Lyceum, situate in the Twenty-first ward of the city of Philadelphia, be and the same is hereby exempted from the payment of all municipal taxes. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 215. A Further Supplement To the acts of assembly relating to auctions in the city of Lancaster, and other towns in this Commonwealth. 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 provisions of the act of assembly of the seventh of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled "An Act regulating auctions in the city of Lancaster, and other towns in this commonwealth," and the provisions of the act of assembly of the sixth of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, entitled "A supplement to the act regulating auctions in the city of Lancaster, and other towns of this commonwealth," passed on the seventh day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be and the same are hereby extended to the borough of Strasburg, in the county of Lancaster. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 216. An Act Relative to the Columbia school district, in Lancaster county. WHEREAS, Samuel Shoch, of Columbia, has proposed to donate Preamble. to the directors of the Columbia school district the sum of five hundred dollars, for the purchase of books suitable for a library for the common schools of said district, on condition that the said directors will appropriate, for the use of the library, one of the apartments in the new school house, now being erected for the accommodation of the common schools of that district, and that the said directors would also raise, or annually appropriate out of their common school fund, not less than fifty dollars, for the purchase of additional books, and in addition thereto defray the expenses of a librarian, necessary light and fuel; therefore, "terms of a cer SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenlatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, Directors to That whenever said donation shall be paid to the said directors, comply with the they are hereby authorized and required to comply with the tain donation. terms of this proposition, and on failure so to do, the money In case of failthus donated shall be forfeited and paid to the directors of the ure, money to poor of Lancaster county, who are hereby authorized and be appropriated empowered to sue for and recover the same, as debts of like to the poor. amount are, or may be, by law recoverable, from the said Columbia school district, and appropriate the same to the use and Other donations benefit of the poor of the county, as money drawn therefrom is required to be appropriated. SECTION 2. That it shall be lawful for the school directors may be accepted of said district to receive any other and all donations for the benefit of said library, which shall be applied only to the necessary expenses of said library, and the enlargement of its collection of books: And provided further, That the said school directors may establish rules and regulations, extending the use of said library to all such persons as will comply with their said rules and regulations, and pay such annual subscription as shall be fixed by said school directors or their suc Proviso. Directors au row money. cessors. SECTION 3. That the school directors of the borough of Cothorized to bor- lumbia, in the county of Lancaster, and their successors, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow any sum, or sums, of money, for school purposes, not exceeding, in the aggregate, the sum of ten thousand dollars, at any rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, and payable in ten years, or sooner, as the said directors shall deterBonds and mort- mine; and to execute boad, or bonds, in the name of the Columbia school district, under the hand and seal of the president of the board of directors, attested by the secretary thereof, and to secure the same by mortgage, or mortgages, executed as aforesaid, upon any real estate now belonging to, or that may hereafter be acquired by said district; and said bonds shall be exempt from taxation, except for state purposes: Provided, That no bond shall be issued for a less sum than one hundred dollars. gages. Proviso. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 217. An Act To authorize the Commissioners of Indiana county to sell and convey certain real estate. WHEREAS, By indenture, dated the twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, Conrad Rice, in pursuance of an act of assembly, approved the third day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twelve, sold and conveyed to the com missioners of Indiana county, certain lots of ground, for the use of the inhabitants of the town of Indiana, as a burial ground: And whereas, That part of said land, that was designed and intended for the Lutheran congregation, has been divided by a public road passing over and through the same, leaving a small part of said ground on the west side of said road, which is not enclosed as part of the burial ground of said Lutheran congregation; 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 commissioners of Indiana county be and are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey, for a fair price, that part of said lot designed and intended for said Lutheran congregation, lying and being on the west side of the public road leading from Indiana to Blairsville, and the purchaser, or purchasers, of said ground, shall have the same interest and title to said ground that the said Conrad Rice had in said premises: Provided, That the money arising from said sale, after deducting expenses of sale and conveyance, shall be paid over to the trustees of the Lutheran congregation, at Indiana, to be expended in repairing, and keeping in repair, said burial ground. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 218. An Act Relative to the perpetuation of testimony in cases of lost records. 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 orphans' courts of the several counties of this commonwealth shall have the jurisdiction and powers of a court of chancery, so far as relates to the perpetuation of testimony in cases of lost or destroyed records of the orphans' court of any county in this commonwealth, whether such records were lost or destroyed before or after the passage of this act, and the same proceedings, orders, decrees and judgments shall be had therein, mutatis mutandis, as in cases now authorized by law, and with the like effect; and when proved, such record shall have the same legal operation as the original record would have had: Provided, That in all cases the application to perpetuate testimony shall be made in the same court in which the record may be lost, or destroyed: Provided also, Where minors are interested, that notice of said proceeding shall be served upon said minors, and their guardian. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 219. 3 Further Supplement To the act incorporating the Duncannon, Landisburg, and Broad Top 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 from and after the passage of this act, all acts, or parts of acts, changing the name of the Duncannon, Landisburg, and Broad Top Railroad Company, incorporated by the act to which this act is a supplement, be in respect of such change of name, and they are hereby repealed. SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act, the name of the said corporation shall be the South Pennsylvania Railroad Company, under which name, style and title the said corporation shall retain all its franchises, immunities and liabilities heretofore conferred, or imposed, by law. SECTION 3. That the president and directors of the South Pennsylvania Railroad Company may, for the purpose of completing their road, and its extensions, increase the capital stock of the said company in a further amount, not exceeding one hundred thousand shares. APPROVED-The first day of April, Anno Domini one thou sand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. |