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No. 426.

An Act

To incorporate the York and Dover Turnpike and Plank Road Company, in
York 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 Adam Herman, Samuel D. Rupert, William S. Picking, Commissioners. William Lenhart, Charles Kling, Doctor John Ahl, Henry Wiest, John Nieman, George D. Beeler, John Myers, Peter Weist and Englehart Melchinger, or any three of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, by the name, style and title of the York and Dover Turnpike and Plank Road Style. Company, with power to construct a turnpike and plank road, or either, or partly turnpike and partly plank road, from the point where the public road, called the Carlisle road, intersects Route. the York and Gettysburg turnpike road, in Bottstown, in West Manchester township, in said county, to a point on said Carlisle road, where the same forks, about one-fourth of a mile above the town of Dover, on lands of P. Lenhart; subject to all the Subject to. provisions and restrictions, and with all the powers and privileges, contained in an act, entitled "An Act regulating turnpike and plank road companies," approved January twenty-sixth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine: Provided, That said company shall have the right to make use of May use portion so much of the said Carlisle road, (and to locate their said road tion of certain upon it,) as they may deem advantageous for that purpose; and road.

it shall be lawful for the court of quarter sessions, of said York county, to appoint viewers to view, and vacate, so much of Viewers to be said Carlisle road as shall be so used by said company, as is pro- appointed to vided by the road laws of this commonwealth, in cases of public vacate the part roads in said York county, where the same have become useless, of road used. inconvenient and burdensome.

SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall con- Capital stock. sist of four hundred and twenty-eight shares of stock, at fifty dollars per share: Provided, That the said company may, from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase the capital stock so much, and to so many shares, as, in their opinion, may be necessary to complete the road, and carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That it shall not be lawful for any person, or per- Prohibition. sons, residing at, or near, any of the toll-gates, which may be erected on said turnpike, or plank road, to enter the same on either side of such gate, and make use of the same, beyond the limits of his, her, or their, farms, without paying toll to said Tolls. company, according to the rates of toll then existing; and if the said person, or persons, or any other person, shall so enter

upon, and use, said turnpike, or plank road, or make use of any private road, or passage, to get round, or avoid, any such tollgate, such person shall be liable, to said company, for the regu. lar toll for the distance actually traveled on said road, to be recovered, as debts of like amount are recoverable, by law, Penalty for vio- and shall, also, be liable to a penalty of ten dollars for each and every such violation of this section, recoverable, with costs of suit, as penalties of like amount are now recoverable before any justice of the peace of the proper county, one-half of which shall be for the use of the informer, who is hereby declared to be a competent witness in the case, and the other half for the use of said company.

lation of this section.

When road to

SECTION 4. That if said company shall not commence their be commenced said road within three years, and complete the same within and completed. six years, from the approval of this act, the same shall be null and void, excepting so far as it may be necessary to wind up, and settle, the affairs, and pay the debts, of said company.

May borrow money and mortgage property.

Rates of toll.

SECTION 5. That the president, and managers, of the said York and Dover Turnpike and Plank Road Company, shall have power and authority to borrow any sum, or sums, of money, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, to enable them to discharge the debts incurred in the construction of their said road, and enjoy the full benefit of the privileges, conferred upon them by the act of assembly authorizing their incorporation, with power, also, to pledge and mortgage, as security for any such loan, or loans, their said road, and all, and any, of the property of their said company, real and personal, together with all their rights, powers, privileges and franchises.

SECTION 6. That the rates of toll, for any distance traveled on said York and Dover Turnpike and Plank Road, shall not be less than one cent, for one horse, ridden, or led; two cents, for one horse and wagon; three cents, for two horses and a wagon, and four cents, for four, or more, horses and a wagon; and the tolls, for other and greater distances, shall be such as are now provided by law.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

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

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 427.

An Act

Supplementary to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Clarion
Turnpike and Bridge Company."

tion of certain

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 Clarion Turnpike and Bridge Company be and hereby Authorized to are authorized to repair, and re-construct, all that part of the repair and reSusquehanna and Waterford turnpike road, in the counties of construct porClarion and Venango, lying east of the Allegheny river, and road. over that portion of said turnpike road, all, and singular, the corporate powers and privileges conferred upon, and granted Privileges. to, the said Susquehanna and Waterford Turnpike Company, by the original act of incorporation, passed the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, be and the same are hereby vested in the said Clarion Turnpike

and Bridge Company, and subject to the same restrictions, ex- Subject to. cept as hereinafter provided.

SECTION 2. That in lieu of the tolls authorized heretofore, the Rates of toll said Clarion Turnpike and Bridge Company are hereby autho- upon certain rized to erect gates, and levy tolls, on all that part of said turn- part of road. pike lying between the Allegheny river, at Franklin, and the western boundary of the borough of Brookville, not exceeding the sums specified in the following bill of rates:

For every score of sheep, per section of five miles, five cents; for every score of hogs, per section of five miles, five cents; for every score of cattle, per section of five miles, fifteen cents; for every horse, or mule, rode, or led, four cents; for every sulky, chair, chaise, or buggy, with one horse, six cents; for every coach, phæton, coachee, stage, or light wagon, the body of which rests upon springs, with two horses and four wheels, twelve and-ahalf cents; for either of the carriages last mentioned, with four horses, twenty-five cents; for every other carriage of pleasure, under whatsoever name it may be known, the like sums, according to the number of wheels and horses drawing the same; for every sled, or sleigh, for each horse, mule, or ox, drawing the same, five cents; for every cart, or wagon, of burden, for each horse, mule, or ox, drawing the same, five cents: Provided, That at least two miles of any one section of five miles Proviso. shall have been repaired, in conformity with the original charter, before the said company shall be authorized to erect gates,

or levy tolls, thereon; and that so much of the act of incorporation, and its supplements, as are inconsistent herewith, be Repeal. and the same are hereby repealed: Provided, That the court Court may reof quarter sessions of the county of Clarion shall have power, duce rates. upon petition, and upon notice to the said company, to lower

its said rates of toll, whenever, in their opinion, they shall

become oppressive, or burdensome, to persons using the said road.

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. 428.

A Supplement

To the charter of the Spring Garden Plank Road Company, in the county of York..

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 Spring Garden Plank Road Company, in the county of York, may increase the rates of toll on all wagons, et cetera, carrying over ninety hundred pounds, twenty cents per mule for every hundred pounds, so carried over the said plank road.

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. 429.

A Further Supplement

To an act supplementary to the acts relating to hawkers and pedlers, and regulating auctions in the county of Schuylkill.

Manufacturers

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 from and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful of certain artifor the manufacturers of agricultural tools and implements, cles authorized stoves, hollow-ware, and wooden-ware, to peddle their own to peddle. manufacture, or authorize agents to peddle the same for them:

certain counties

Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not extend to Not to extend to any portion of the state east of the Allegheny mountains, or to the county of Armstrong.

SECTION 2. Any act, inconsistent herewith, be and the same Repeal. 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. 430.

An Act

Supplementary to an act to authorize the governor to incorporate the Salem and Dyberry Turnpike Road Company; the Athens and Troy Turnpike Road Company; the Spring House and Sumneytown Turnpike Road Company; the Pittsburg Farmers' and Mechanics' Turnpike Road Company, and to revive the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Pittsburg and Beaver Turnpike Road Company," approved the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

WHEREAS, The Pittsburg Farmers' and Mechanics' turn- Preamble. pike road, in the county of Allegheny, has, for a number of

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