No. 387. An Act Repealing a supplement to an act relating to roads and highways in West WHEREAS, A large majority of the voters of West Lampeter township, Lancaster county, have petitioned for the repeal of a supplement to an act relating to roads and highways in West Lampeter township, Lancaster county, and are desirous that the general road laws of the commonwealth shall be in operation in their township, instead of the special law aforesaid; therefore, 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 act, entitled "A supplement to an act relating to roads and highways in West Lampeter township, Lancaster county, passed the fifth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, be and the same is hereby repealed.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. Preamble. No. 388. An Act Providing for the levying and collecting a tax, in several townships in Northampton county, for the relief of subscribers, and others, to the volunteer bounty fund. WHEREAS, The taxable inhabitants of the townships of Allen, East Allen, Lehigh, Moore, Lower Mount Bethel, Bethlehem, Upper Nazareth, and the boroughs of Bath and Nazareth, in the county of Northampton, have expended certain sums of money, in raising their quota of volunteers to serve in the army of the United States, under the call of the president for three hundred thousand militia: And whereas, Justice requires that the burden of paying the same should be borne by all the taxable inhabitants alike: therefore, tax. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly mel, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the boards of supervisors of the herein before named town- Supervisors and ships, and the councils of the herein before named boroughs, are councils authohereby authorized to impose a tax upon all the taxable inhabi- rized to levy tants of the said hereinbefore mentioned townships and boroughs, and levy, and raise, the same, in the same manner, and upon the same basis of taxation, as the school tax is, by law, levied and raised, sufficient to raise a sum, in each before-named township and borough, not to exceed the sum subscribed, loaned, and otherwise expended, by the inhabitants of such townships and boroughs, for bounties to volunteers, to avoid, in part, or altogether, the recent draft of the militia in said several townships and boroughs; the cost of collecting, and disbursing to Collection of. said volunteers, and the cost of assessing and collecting said tax, with such additional sum for abatements and exonerations, as near as the same can be ascertained; that the said tax shall be levied and collected during the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three; and that the board of supervisors, and town councils, shall have power to appoint a collector, in their several townships and boroughs, who shall receive, for his, or Compensation their, services, a sum not exceeding three per centum upon the and powers of whole amount collected, and who shall have all the authority to enforce the said collection, which, by law, is conferred upon the collectors of the state and county tax. power and collector. SECTION 2. That in levying the said tax, the sum of one dol- One dollar to be lar shall, first, be imposed upon every taxable inhabitant in the first imposed said townships and boroughs, excepting widows, and persons upon taxables. who shall have been, or are now, in actual service of the United Exceptions. States army. bonds. SECTION 3. That the boards of supervisors of the herein be- Supervisors and fore named townships, and the town councils of the hereinbefore councils to give named boroughs, shall carry into effect the provisions of this act, and give, to the treasurers of the respective townships and boroughs, for which they act, bonds, in amounts equal to twice the sum proposed to be raised, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties; and should there remain a balance of money Balance to be in their hands, after the purpose, herein provided for, shall have paid over to been fully carried out, they shall pay the same over to the trea- school boards. surer of the school boards of their respective townships and boroughs, and settle their accounts with the township, or borough, auditors: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not apply This act not to to the townships of Moore and Lehigh, and Lower Mount Bethel, apply to certain until ratified by a majority of the qualified voters of said townships, townships until ratified by a at an election, to be held on the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, at the usual places of holding the elections in said townships; said elections 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, "volunteer bounty tax," and on the inside, "for volunteer bounty tax," and, "against volunteer bounty tax," so as to afford the majority of voters. Constable to give notice of election. qualified voters of said township an opportunity to express their desire on this question: Provided, That the constables of the townships, named in the third section of this act, shall give ten days' previous notice of this election, by ten, or more, printed, or written, handbills, put up at the most public places in said township. 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. No. 389. An Act Authorizing the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of New Cumberland, Cumberland county, to execute and deliver a deed for a house and lot of ground unto one Valentine Feeman, and ratifying and confirming the title thereto in him. WHEREAS, The title to a certain lot of ground in the borough of New Cumberland, Cumberland county, marked, on the general plan of said town, fifty-eight, bounded by Market street, by lot number fifty-seven, and by two alleys, and on which was, subsequently, erected a house of worship, because legally vested in the original trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church of said place, and their successors forever, in trust, for the uses of said society; and the said trustees, in contemplation of the erection of a new church edifice in some other part of the town, some time in the year one thousand eight hundred and fiftynine, sold said lot and building, at public sale, to Valentine Feeman, for the sum of one hundred and seventy-one dollars: And whereas, A part only of said purchase money has been paid, the purchaser withholding the residue until said sale shall be confirmed by a special act of the legislature; therefore, 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 Owen James, Henry R. Mosser, Washington Kirk, Henry Bachman, Joseph Young, Rudolph Martin and John Balsey, the present trustees, be and they are hereby authorized to execute, and deliver, a deed, for the said house and lot of ground, unto the said Valentine Feeman, conveying the same to him in fee simple, clear and discharged from the trusts mentioned in any deeds relative thereto; and that said balance of the purchase money, when paid, be applied, by the trustees, toward the liquidation of debts contracted in the erection of said new church. 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. No. 390. An Act To attach certain properties in Rose and Pine Creek townships, in Jefferson county, to the borough of Brookville, for school purposes. school purposes 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 lot of M. A. Calvin, containing about two and-a-half Certain properacres, the property of Jacob Hoffman, in the new survey of ties attached to John Gallagher, as surveyed by J. J. Y. Thompson, and the Brookville for lot known in plan of said survey as number thirty-three, containing about two-fifths of an acre, all in Rose township; as also, the lot of Mary A. Hastings, containing five and a quarter acres, in Pine Creek township, near to, or adjoining, the borough of Brookville, be and the same are hereby attached to the borough of Brookville, for school purposes. SECTION 2. That all taxes now, or hereafter to be, assessed School taxes to for school purposes, on the above named premises, shall be be paid to bopaid over to the treasurer of the school district of the borough rough treasurer of Brookville, for the use of the schools of said district. 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. Act of incorporation and supplement thereto re-enacted. Letters patent revived. No. 391. An Act To revive and extend the charter of the Skippack and Salfordville Turnpike Road Company, in Montgomery county. 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 act incorporating the Skippack and Salfordville Turnpike Road Company, approved the twenty-third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, be and the same is hereby re-enacted; and that the said act, and the supplement thereto, approved the eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, be in as full force, and virtue, as they were at the time of the original passage of the same; and that the said company shall have five years time, from the passage of this act, to complete their road. SECTION 2. That the letters patent, or charter, granted by the governor of this commonwealth, dated the twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, by virtue of said act of incorporation, and by virtue of act of assembly, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An Act regulating turnpike and plank road companies," and all authorized actions, and proceedings, had by the said company, by virtue, and in pursuance, of the same, are hereby declared to be revived, valid and in full force and virtue. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. |