Repeal. SECTION 24. That so much of the laws of this commonwealth, relating to the poor, as are hereby altered or supplied, or are inconsistent with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The first day of April, Anno Domini one thou sand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 254. An Act To authorize the Commissioners of the city and county of Philadelphia to draw their warrant for certain services in the register of wills' office. 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 commissioners of the city and county of Philadelphia be and they are hereby authorized and required to draw their warrant upon the treasury of said city and county, for thirteen hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy-five cents, in favor of J. A. Irwin, and Edward Carrigan, for compiling, copying and perfecting the indices of wills and administrations in the register of wills' office, upon an order of the court of common pleas, in pursuance of an act of assembly. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The first day of April, Anno Domini one thou sand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 255. An Act To validate the act of Daniel Bixler, justice of the peace for Frailey township, Schuylkill county, and to empower the secretary of the commonwealth to issue a new commission. WHEREAS, Daniel Bixler, of Frailey township, Schuylkill county, was duly elected in February, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-two, one of the justices of the peace in and for said township, and having no information of the act passed and approved April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, relative to the commission of justice of the peace and aldermen, he, the said Daniel Bixler, did not give the required notice, in said act, to the prothonotary, in consequence of which no commission was issued to him by the secretary of the commonwealth: And whereas, The said Daniel Bixler, justice elect, has been acting as justice, by authority of his old commission, until its expiration in eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and believing that the new commission had been sent to the office of the recorder in said county; 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 all the acts of Daniel Bixler, justice of the peace, elect of the township of Frailey, county of Schuylkill, that were done and performed, by him, in that capacity of justice of the peace, after the expiration of his former commission as justice of the peace, and before the receipt of his new commission for said office, be good and valid, and to have the same force and effect as if he had been duly commissioned and sworn; and it shall be the duty of the secretary of the commonwealth to issue a new commission in favor of the said Daniel Bixler, as justice of the peace for said township, after being fully satisfied of his re-election to said office; said commission to date back from the time of his re-election to said office. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The first day of April, Anno Domini one thou sand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 256. An Act Relative to the township elections in Laporte township, Sullivan county. WHEREAS, IN Consequence of the prevalence of a contagious disease, no election for township officers, et cetera, for the present year, was held in the township of Laporte, Sullivan county, at the time fixed, by law, for holding the same; 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 qualified electors of Laporte township, Sullivan county, are hereby authorized to hold an election, for all such officers as should have been elected at the time fixed, by law, on Saturday, the fourth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three; and the officers, who should have held said election, are hereby authorized and empowered to hold said election on the day aforesaid, with the same force and effect as if the same had been held at the time fixed by law. 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. Certain draft, No. 257. A Further Supplement To an act to incorporate the city of Harrisburg, in the county of 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 the plot, or draft, made out and signed by the commissioners, designated under the thirty-third section of the act to which this is a further supplement, of the streets, lanes, alleys and avenues in the city of Harrisburg, and filed in the office of the clerk of the court of quarter sessions of the county of Dauphin, on the twenty-ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, together with the accompanying report and profiles of the streets, et cetera, and now on file therein, be and the same are hereby ratified and confirmed and made valid, in every particular, for all legal intents and purposes whatsover, except such parts thereof, which lay out Exceptions. and set apart twenty-seven acres and five perches of land for a city park, and also so much thereof, which vacates that part of the Harrisburg, Hummelstown and Ephrata turnpike road lying between Eleventh street, as laid down on said plot, and the eastern boundary line of the said city; and also, so much of aforesaid plot and report, which extends Front street to low water mark, between State street and Colder street; and also, all those streets, and parts of streets, lanes and alleys lying, or situate as designated on said plan, or profile, within the following limits, to wit: beginning at the south-eastern corner of Seventh street and Verbeke street; thence along the eastern side of Seventh street to the southern boundary of Kelker street; thence along the said boundary of said street to the eastern side of Thompson alley; thence by the eastern boundary of said alley to the southern side of Maclay street, or Hospital avenue; thence down said Maclay street to the western side of Eighth, or Canal street; thence down said street to a point opposite the southern boundary of Verbeke street; thence by a straight line to Seventh street, the place of beginning; and excepting, also, so much of said plan and report as provides for opening Beach alley, from North to Boas streets; which said excepted Excepted parts parts of said plot, or plan, of the city, are hereby vacated and vacated. rendered null and void and of no effect: Provided, That the Proviso. streets, lanes and alleys laid out over the ground designated for a park, shall remain for public highways, as located on the draft aforesaid: Provided, That the public roads, laid out and Proviso. passing over the ground designated for a park, shall remain as heretofore traveled. Repeal of cer SECTION 2. That the words, "of the said city of Harrisburg, or," where they occur before the words, "of said county," tain words. in the thirty-fifth section of the act to which this is a supplement, be and the same are hereby repealed and of no effect. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The first day of April, Anno Domini one thou sand eight hundred and and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. Corporators. Name. Capital stock. Objects. No. 258. An Act To incorporate the Altoona Hall and Market Company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assemply met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same That Enoch Lewis, Wm. H. Wilson, Wm. M. Lloyd, Lewis W. Hall, Robert Pitearn, Benjamin F. Rose, Jacob M. Gemmill, Matthew T. Dill, George W. Kessler, Charles J. Mann, Wm. C. Keller, James Kearney, and their successors, and all persons who may hereafter be associated with them, be and they are hereby created and erected into a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of the Altoona hall and market company, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, or elsewhere, and shall be able and capable, in law and equity, to take and hold, to them and their successors, either by grant or conveyance, in fee simple, gift, devise or lease, any land or real estate, for the purpose of erecting thereon a suitable builing, or buildings, for the use of said company; and also to take and hold, for the use of said company, any goods and *chattels, sum or sums of money, by grant, bargain or sale, and generally to do all, and singular, the matters and things which shall be lawful for them to do, for the well being and due management of the affairs of said company. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, divided into one thousand shares, of twenty-five dollars each. SECTION 3. The object and purpose of said company shall be to erect suitable buildings and stalls, on a suitable lot in the borough of Altoona, the same to be appropriated exclusively as a hall for public purposes, and as a market house, for the sale and vending of meats, vegetables, and all other kind of victuals and provisions whatever, and such other articles as the board of managers may deem proper; the said Renting of stalls hall and market building, the stalls, or any one or more, or all of the same, to be leased, rented or disposed of, in such manner, and upon such terms and conditions, as the managers shall determine. Authorized to therefor. SECTION 4. That the said company shall have power, and it borrow money is hereby authorized, to borrow any sum or sums of money, and issue bonds not exceeding five thousand dollars, for the purpose of said company, and in order to secure the payment of the same, shall issue their bonds therefor, bearing interest at six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, to be secured by mortgage of all, or any part of, the said real estate, together with the corporate rights and franchises granted by this act. Mortgages. |