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No. 26.

An Act

Relative to the Compensation of certain Officers in the county of Beaver.

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 auditors of Compensation the county of Beaver, shall each be entitled to receive from of auditors. the county treasury two dollars per day, for each day employed in the duties of their office, which per diem payment shall also be made to those who have settled, or are now settling the accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

SECTION 2. That the treasurers of the county of Beaver, Compensation hereafter elected, shall be allowed in the settlement of their of treasurers accounts, by the county auditors, for the collection of county for collection of tax, a commission not exceeding two per centum on the aggre- county tax. gate of receipts in each year, exclusive of balances on former settlements, or compensation for disbursements.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

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

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 27.

A Supplement

To an act to incorporate the Howard Sunday School Building Association.

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 trustees of the Howard Sunday School building be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to sell or mortgage the real estate they now hold, or which they may hereafter hold, for the general purposes for which the said corpo

ration was created, or for the improvement of the said real estate, or for the purchase of other real estate.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

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

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 28.

An Act

Ceding to the United States of America the right of exclusive legislation over League Island, in the Delaware river, in the county of Philadelphia.

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 consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is hereby granted to the United States of America, to purchase and acquire title to all that Island in the Delaware river, at and above the mouth of the Schuylkill river, in the city and county of Philadelphia, called and known as "League Island," together with all the marsh land east of, or in any other direction adjacent or appurtenant thereunto, containing about six hundred acres, be the same more or less, and together also with all the riparian rights and privileges thereunto belonging and appertaining to the same, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania doth hereby cede to the United States of America, for naval and other purposes, according to the terms of the constitution of the United States, the right to exercise exclusive legislation and jurisdiction over all the said Island and marsh land, with all the premises and appurtenances aforesaid, and also over all the inland channel or water way, unto low water mark, on the northerly shore thereof, which separates the said Island and premises from the main land.

SECTION 2. That this act shall take effect upon the acceptance, by the United States of America, of the title, according to the provisions of any act of Congress heretofore made, or hereafter to be made and provided, and a certificate that the same has been accepted, signed by the Secretary of the Navy of the United States, recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for the county of Philadelphia, shall be the pro

per and sufficient evidence of such acceptance of title by the United States.

WM. HOPKINS,

Speaker of the House of Representatives, pro tem.

GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

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

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 29.

A Supplement

To an act changing the time for holding the Courts of Northumberland county, approved the nineteenth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the third section of an act, entitled "An Act changing the time for holding the courts of Northumberland county," approved the nineteenth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, be amended by adding the words, "borough and," so that the same will read "the borough and township elections shall, from and after the passage of this act, be held on the third Friday of February." WM. HOPKINS,

Speaker of the House of Representatives, pro tem.

GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

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

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 30.

A Further Supplement

To an act to authorize the county of Dauphin to borrow money, approved the third day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and to a Supplement thereto, approved the twenty-ninth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

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 several payments and expenditures made, or directed to be made, by the commissioners of the county of Dauphin, for the erection and completion of the court house, and other improvements connected therewith, with the appurtenances erected and built in the city of Harrisburg, for the said county of Dauphin, during the years Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and one thousand eight hundred and sixtyone, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of seventy-four thousand four hundred and seventy-two dollars and sixty cents, be and they are hereby legalized, and the said commissioners entitled to be credited therewith, and are hereby fully discharged from all future liability for, or on account, or by reason of the said expenditures.

WM. HOPKINS,

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

Speaker of the Senate.

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

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 31.

An Act

To repeal an act, relating to the Selling of the Repairing of the Public Roads, in certain townships in Schuylkill county, to the township of Schuylkill, in said county, approved the nineteenth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

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 act of assembly, entitled "An Act to extend the provisions of an act relating to the selling of the repairing of the public roads, in certain townships in Schuylkill county, to the township of Schuylkill, in said county," approved the nineteenth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same relates to said township of Schuylkill, and that the same law as existing in said township, prior to the passage of the act hereby repealed, is hereby revived.

WM. HOPKINS,

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

Speaker of the Senate.

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

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Creating an additional Notary Public, in Luzerne 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 Governor is hereby authorized to appoint an additional Notary Public, in Luzerne county, to be located at Hazleton.

WM. HOPKINS,

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

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The eleventh day of February, Anno Domini

one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

A. G. CURTIN.

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