Authorized to receive tolls. May receive real estate in payment of subscriptions. No. 357. An Act Relating to Belmont Avenue and Plank Road Company, in the county of 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 it shall and may be lawful for the said Belmont Avenue and Plank Road Company, henceforth, to collect and receive, from all and every person using the said road, tolls at the same rates as are now authorized, by law, to be charged and collected by the Perkiomen and Sumneytown Turnpike Company. SECTION 2. That the said company shall be empowered to receive real estate in payment of subscriptions to its stock, and is hereby authorized to hold, sell and convey real estate not exceeding ten acres, at any one time. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. Authorized to No. 358. A Further Supplement To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Philadelphia and Crescent 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 capital stock of the California, Philadelphia and Euroincrease capital pean Steamship Company be and the same is hereby enlarged stock and build from five hundred thousand to two millions of dollars, and that four steamers. the said company shall be authorized to build four steamers, which shall be of such tonnage and construction as the directors of said company may hereafter determine. SECTION 2. That any railway, or other corporation, of the Other corporastate of Pennsylvania, be and the same is hereby authorized to tions may subsubscribe to the capital stock of said steamship company, and seribe, &c. also to guarantee either the dividends or the stock, or a portion of the same, which may be subscribed by others, on such terms, and in such manner, as they may deem proper. SECTION 3. That any thing in the charter of the said steam- Repeal. ship company, or that of other corporations, inconsistent with this act, is hereby repealed. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 359. Supplement To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Lombard and South Street 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 Lombard and South Street Passenger Railway Com- May increase pany shall have authority to increase the number of shares of duce par value their capital stock to ten thousand, and to reduce the par value of shares of of such shares to twenty-five dollars each. number and re stock. SECTION 2. That the said company shall have authority to Certain extenextend their railway, either by a double or a single track, with sion of road ausidings, from the intersection of Front and Lombard streets, thorized. along said Front street to Dock street, and along said Dock street to Delaware avenue. SECTION 3. That the said railway company are hereby au- Consent of thorized and empowered to construct, and lay, the said railway councils not newithout obtaining the consent of the city councils, of said city, cessary. thereto, anything in the act to which this is a supplement, to the contrary thereto notwithstanding. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 360. A Supplement To the act for the regulation of the Militia of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representalives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the duly qualified and elected assessors of the respective wards of the city of Philadelphia, who shall have made such military enrolment as is required to be made by them, under the act of assembly, approved April twenty-first, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, entitled "An Act for the regulation of the militia of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania," for the year Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and who shall have returned, or shall return the same, with an affidavit thereto attached, in the form required by the sixth section of said act of April twenty-first, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, to the county commissioners of said city, shall be paid and receive for such services, rendered in making the said military enrolment, the sum of two hundred dollars each, out of the city treasury, upon warrants to be drawn upon the city treasury by the county commissioners of the city of Philadelphia. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. To repeal an act relative to the Woodlands Cemetery, approved the thir teenth February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. three. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen atives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the act relative to the Woodlands cemetery, approved the thirteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, be and the same is hereby repealed. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 362. An Act To authorize the supervisors of the township of Upper Mount Bethel, in the county of Northampton, to levy and collect, by tax, sufficient to pay certain soldiers of said township. WHEREAS, Certain citizens of the township of Upper Mount Preamble. Bethel, in the county of Northampton, in this commonwealth, in order to secure the proper quota of volunteers for said township, to avoid, as far as practicable, the draft ordered, contributed the sum of six thousand dollars, or thereabouts, which was paid out to volunteers and drafted men from said township, who entered the service of the United States under the requisition of August fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixtytwo, as bounties upon their enlistment therein : And whereas, It was the understanding, that the amount so contributed should be re-paid to those who would advance the same, by a tax to be levied and collected from citizens of the said township generally: Provided, The legislature would authorize and legalize the same: And whereas, It is right and proper that the expenditure, so made for bounties as above stated, should be divided equally among all the citizens of the said township; therefore, sess a tax for payment of SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assemly met, and i is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the supervisors of said township be and the same are Supervisors anhereby authorized to forthwith divide the said sum of six thou- thorized to as sand dollars between, and among, all the citizens of the said township, now subject to the payment of county tax therein, in bounties adthe same proportion, and upon the same valuation, as the said vanced by cercounty tax is now levied in the said township, and assess upon tain citizens. each citizen, so subject to county tax as aforesaid, his, or her, share of said six thousand dollars, pro rata, according to the Notice to be given. Appointment of collectors. Bond and compensation of. Delinquents, relative to. Supervisors, within a certain time, to repay contributors to bounty fund. Statement to be prepared and submitted to auditors. amount of county tax now assessed to such; and thereupon, after two weeks' notice, published by ten, or more, handbills put up in the most public places in said township, fixing a time and place therein where they will attend, and shall there receive the amounts, so assessed, from all who shall there attend and pay their assessments. SECTION 2. That the said supervisors shall, immediately after the said day of meeting to receive payment as above stated, appoint a discreet and proper person as collector, who shall, before entering upon the duties of his appointment, give bond, with two sufficient securities, to be approved of by the said supervisors, to the commonwealth, for the use of all interested, in double the amount of the assessments remaining unpaid, to be delivered to the said supervisors; and thereafter, the said collector shall have authority to levy and collect the assessments remaining unpaid, with five per centum additional added, to defray the expenses of such collector, from all who shall not have paid their assessment to the said supervisors; and if any person shall neglect, or refuse, to make payment of the sum assessed to him, as above provided for, it shall be lawful for the said collector, having first obtained a warrant under the hand and seal of any justice of the peace in said township, to levy the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such delinquent. SECTION 3. That the said collector shall, within six weeks from the date of his appointment, pay over, to the said supervisors, the amounts by him collected; and the said supervisors shall thereupon, within ten days thereafter, refund and re-pay, with the moneys received by them, to the citizens who contributed to the said bounty fund, the amount of their said contributions, taking receipt therefor. SECTION 4. That upon completure of the said payment, the said supervisors shall prepare a detailed statement of their receipts and payments, and submit the same to the township auditors, whose duty it shall be to examine and audit the same, and permit the same to be inspected by whomsoever may desire to examine it. SECTION 5. That the volunteers and drafted men from said Volunteers and drafted men ex- township, now in the service of the United States, or who, empt from taxa- having been in, and are honorably discharged, shall be free and exempt from the taxation above provided for. tion. Compensation SECTION 6. That the compensation of supervisors shall be of supervisors, two per centum on the amount of taxes collected by them, and &c. the compensation of the collector, appointed by said supervisors, shall be five per centum on the amount so collected by him: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not be carried Vote to be taken into effect until ratified by a majority of the qualified voters of upon the accep- said township, at an election to be held on the twenty-eighth tance of this act. day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, at be conducted. the usual place of holding the elections in and for said townHow election to ship; said election to be held by the regular election officers; and the tickets, or ballots, to be cast at that time, shall be printed, or written, on the outside, for "volunteer bounty tax," and on inside, "for volunteer bounty tax," and "against volunteer bounty tax," so as to afford the qualified voters, of said town |