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No. 264.

An Act

Relative to floating timber in Tuscarora creek, Juniata 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, it shall be lawful for any person, or persons, to float logs or lumber on the Tuscarora creek, and its tributaries, in the county of Juniata, and remove any obstructions that would prevent the floating of logs, or lumber, on said creek: Provided, That all damages done to fences crossing said creek, or its tributaries, or to other private property along the same, by reason of said rafting or floating of logs, ties or lumber, shall be repaired by the parties owning, or rafting, or floating, such logs, ties or lumber, &c.; if the said damages be not repaired, or amends for the same made to the party injured, within a reasonable time, the party so injured shall have his right of action to recover such damage against the party, or parties, owning said logs, ties or lumber, or rafting, or floating, the same, jointly and severally, as debts of like amount are now by law recoverable.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

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To change the par value of the stock of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad 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 board of managers of the Philadelphia and Erie Rail

road Company are hereby authorized and empowered to divide the capital stock of said company, by making the par value of each share fifty dollars, and to cancel the old certificates, and issue new ones, at the rate of two certificates, of fifty dollars each, for each old certificate of one hundred dollars: Provided, That the vote, to which stockholders shall be entitled, shall remain as heretofore, one vote for each hundred dollars of stock: And provided further, That this act shall not be so construed as to change the vote of any corporation holding stock in said Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company, where, by existing laws, or contracts, the vote of such corporation is limited, or excluded.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

A. G. CURTIN

No. 266.

An Act

Authorizing the school directors of the borough of Kutztown, Berks county, to borrow money; transferring farms of Thomas Slater and Samuel D. M'Cloy from Cecil to Chartiers township, Washington county, for school purposes, and attaching certain farms to the township of Frankstown, in Blair county, for school purposes, and relative to the farm of Samuel Vaneman, in Washington county.

WHEREAS, By an act of May eighth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, authorizing the school directors to borrow money, the per-centage is not large enough to meet the wants of the borough of Kutztown, Berks 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 the school directors of the borough of Kutztown, Berks School directors county, and their successors in office, be and they are hereby of Kutztown auauthorized and empowered to borrow, upon the credit of said thorized to borschool district, a sum of money, not exceeding two thousand and six hundred dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, the same to be applied to the payment of the debt, incurred in the erection of a school house

row money.

Bonds.

Certain farms

transferred to

and purchase of a lot of ground, and to issue a bond, or bonds, or execute a promissory note, or notes, therefor, of not less than one hundred dollars each; said bonds, or notes, to be executed by the president, and attested by the secretary, of the board, in such manner as may be directed by the said board of directors.

SECTION 2. Be it further enacted, That the farms of Thos. Slater and Samuel D. M'Cloy, of Cecil township, Washington Chartiers town- county, be and are hereby transferred to Chartiers township, ship, Washing for school purposes; and that the school tax, hereafter assessed on the said Thomas Slater and Samuel D. M'Cloy, shall be paid to the school directors of said township of Chartiers.

ton county.

Certain farms attached to Frankstown township, Blair county.

Farm of Samuel
Vaneman an-

SECTION 3. Be it further enacted, That the farms or lands of John Wentz, Christian Plowman and Engleberth Young, in Logan township, Blair county; and also, the farms, or lands, of Nicholas Hewit, Mrs. M'Glue, the heirs of Daniel Luster, deceased, Michael Hite and Charles Hughes, in Allegheny township, Blair county, be and the same are hereby attached to the township of Frankstown, in said county, for all school purposes.

SECTION 4. That the farm of Samuel Vaneman, on which he now resides, in the township of North Strabane, in the county nexed to Peters of Washington, be and the same is hereby annexed to the towntownship, ship of Peters, for school purposes: Provided, That the tax Washington co. on said land, being for school purposes, be paid into the Peters

school district.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED The third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 267.

An Act

To change the place of holding elections in the borough of Scranton.

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 hereafter the general, special and borough elections for the North ward of the borough of Scranton, in Luzerne county,

shall be held on the premises of Joseph Godfrey, at the corner of Wyoming avenue and Spruce street, in said ward.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED The third day of April, Anno. Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 268.

3 Supplement

To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the village of Dunmore, in the county of Luzerne, into a borough," approved the tenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assemsly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same,

That the first election, provided for by the third section of the When first elec act to which this is a supplement, shall be held on the second tion to be held. Tuesday of May next, in the same manner, and with the same

effect, as though an election had been held on the second Tues

day of May last.

SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of the proper authori- Tax to be levied. ties of the several boroughs, and the township mentioned in the ninth section of the said act, in addition to their duties already prescribed therein, as soon as they shall be notified by the said commissioners of the respective amounts, which the said boroughs and township are required to contribute towards the payment of the indebtedness in the said act referred to, forthwith to levy a tax upon the basis of the last adjusted valuation, not exceeding ten mills on the dollar during any one year, and to collect the same as a money tax, in like anner as borough and township taxes are now, by law, colcted in the said several boroughs and township; and the noce required to be published by the commissioners, according Notice required o the provisions of the said ninth section, shall be published as therein specified, at least four weeks prior to the twentieth

day of July next.

Collection of.

SECTION 3. That the seventh section of the said act relative tion relative to Repeal of secto the case of the poor in the borough of Dunmore, and also, poor.

the eleventh section of the same 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 third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

A. G. CURTIN.

Auditors to as

No. 269.

An Act

Changing the mode and time of laying the Road taxes in the township of Maxatawney, in Berks county, et cetera.

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 supervisors of sist supervisors the township of Maxatawney, in Berks county, shall, on the in making out second Monday in February, in every year, take to their assistance the auditors of said township for the time being, to aid them in making out an account of all expenses made by the supervisors on roads, et cetera, by law, chargeable to the township, during the preceding year; which account shall be verified, by the supervisors, under oath.

certain accounts

Mode of levying tax for road pur

poses.

Auditors to make dupli

SECTION 2. That the said auditors, assisted by the supervisors, shall then lay a rate, or assessment, for township purposes, the same to be levied upon the basis of the last adjusted valuation made, for the purpose of regulating county rates and levies, to pay off all such expenses taken in said account, made out as hereinbefore directed, and no more, upon all things now taxable for township rates: Provided, That such rates shall not exceed one cent on the dollar, at one time, on such valuation.

SECTION 3. That said auditors shall make out fair duplicates of such rates, or assessments, by them laid, which shall be cates and issue signed by them, and shall thereto issue their warrant to the warrants to su- supervisors therein, authorizing and requiring them to demand pervisors. and receive, from every person in such duplicate named, the sum wherewith such person stands charged, allowing him such credits as are due him in the account of the said supervisors: Provided, That the supervisors, before entering upon their duties for the settlement of their account and duplicate, they shall give sufficient security to the said auditors, in double the

Supervisors to

give security.

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