No. 439. An Act Authorizing and requiring the supervisors of North Annville township, Lebanon county, to assess a tax sufficient to macadamize a certain road in said township. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That the supervisors of North Annville township, in the county of Lebanon, are hereby authorized, and required, to assess, and collect, sufficient tax, the present year, to macadamize the public road, in said township, leading from the Berks and Dauphin turnpike road to the station of the Lebanon Valley railroad, in a width of eighteen feet and a depth of twelve inches. 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.' 440. An Act For the relief of the Westmoreland Coal Company. 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 auditor general and state treasurer are hereby authorized to allow the Westmoreland Coal Company credit, in the next settlement of their accounts for taxes, for such sum of money as said company may have, after examination by them, paid into the state treasury, by mistake, in excess of their indebtedness to the commonwealth, notwithstanding a judgment may have been obtained against the said company, by the commonwealth, and been paid, in which was included the said sum so overcharged and paid by mistake: Provided, That the audi tor general and state treasurer shall be satisfied that such mistake, in paying, has been made. 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. 441. An Act Relating to the payment of bounties to volunteers. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all bonds, warrants, or certificates of indebtedness, issued All warrants isby the commissioner or commissioners and controller of any sued by county county, or the proper corporate authorities of any township, commissioners, city or borough of this commonwealth, for the payment of boun- or authorities of townships, boties to persons volunteering to enter the military service of the roughs or cities, United States, under any requisition heretofore made by the for payment of President, be and the same are hereby legalized and made valid bounties, legaland binding upon such counties, townships, cities or boroughs, ized. in the same manner, and with like effect, as if full legal authority had existed for the issuing and making of the same, when they were issued and made. SECTION 2. That all payments of bounties to volunteers en Loans made for tering the service of the United States as aforesaid, by the cor- such payments porate authorities of any county, township, city or borough of legalized. this commonwealth, and all loans made by said authorities for the purpose of making such payments, be and the same are hereby legalized and made valid. Money may be borrowed and bonds issued, to execute agree SECTION 3. That the corporate authorities aforesaid are hereby authorized and required to execute and complete all agree ments and contracts heretofore made by such counties, townships, cities or boroughs, for the payment of bounties as afore- ments or consaid, or for refunding advancements made for that purpose, on tracts, heretocondition that they should be refunded, according to the true fore made. intent and meaning of such agreements and contracts, and for that purpose, the said authorities are hereby authorized to borrow money and issue bonds in the name of such corporations, with or without interest coupons attached, payable at such times, and in such manner as may be agreed upon, and to levy such Taxes to be taxes as may be necessary to meet the payment of the principal levied therefor. and interest of said bonds, as the same shall become due, which taxes and levies shall be assessed and collected as other county or township taxes are levied and collected. Assessments of taxes made valid. Exemptions. SECTION 4. That all assessments heretofore made of taxes, for the purpose of paying bounties as aforesaid, be and the same are hereby legalized and made valid: Provided, That no private volunteer soldier, or non-commissioned officer, nor drafted militiaman, actually mustered into the service of the United States from this commonwealth, or were in service, have died in service, or have been honorably discharged therefrom, shall be required to pay any taxes now assessed, or hereafter to be assessed and levied, pursuant to the provisions of this act. SECTION 5. That all advancements made, or indebtedness inAdvancements made, or excurred by the commissioners of any county of this commonpenses incurred wealth, for boarding or provisions furnished to volunteers or in furnishing militia, when called into the service of the United States, and provisions, re- all expenses incurred in the relief of the families of such vollief of families, unteers or militia, when in service aforesaid, and all contribuassociations, or tions made by said commissioners to any benevolent associaaid to sick and tions, to aid them in furnishing with necessary clothing and wounded, legal- equipments, an all the expenses incurred in providing for the contributions to ized. Certain ex penses, incur wants of the sick and wounded, are hereby fully legalized and confirmed; the said commissioners are hereby fully authorized to borrow money for the payment of the same, and to issue bonds as herebefore provided: Provided, That all expenses incurred by the commissioners of Lancaster county, in furnishing red by commis- volunteers or militia with suitable rooms for drill and disci sioners of Lan- pline, and for the payment of the persons who had the care and charge of said rooms, are hereby fully legalized and confirmed; and the said commissioners are hereby fully authorized, if necessary, to borrow money for the payment of the same, in the same manner as they are authorized to borrow money for payments and advancements made and expenses incurred, et cetera, according to the provisions of this act. caster county, confirmed. Provisions for relief of families extended to those of drafted men. SECTION 6. That all the provisions of the fourteenth section of "an act to create a loan and to provide for arming the state," passed the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, which authorized the associate judges and county commissioners of the several counties of this commonwealth to constitute a board of relief, for the families of such volunteers as have been enrolled and mustered into service from their several counties, are hereby extended and applied to the families of men who have been drafted and mustered into the service of the United States, and all arrangements made by the several counties of this commonwealth for the support of the families, Commissioners of volunteers, militia or drafted men, mustered into service, are authorized to hereby legalized and confirmed; the county commissioners are borrow money. hereby and fully authorized to borrow money for the payment Commissioners of such expenses, in the manner herein before provided. have not been of counties, in SECTION 7. That the commissioners of any and every county which bounties in this commonwealth, in which bounties have not been paid, are hereby authorized to borrow such sum or sums of money as may be sufficient to pay to each and every person, who vol unteered from such county, and entered the service of the Uni paid, may borrow money for that purpose. Proviso. ted States, after the twenty-sixth day of July, Anno Domini surer. SECTION 8. That the money, so borrowed, shall be paid over Money borrowto the treasurer of the proper county, who shall proceed to pay, ed to be paid to each person who volunteered from such county, the sum, to over to, and diswhich such person shall be entitled under the provisions of this bursed by, treaact: Provided, That no person shall be entitled to receive said sum, to which such person shall be entitled, under the provisions of this act, or any part thereof, who was not regularly mustered and sworn into the service of the United States, and remains in said service, or has been legally discharged therefrom. Who entitled to receive. SECTION 9. That in any case, where a part of the bounty au- In cases where thorized by this act has been paid by any county, township, part of bounty city or borough, the difference between the sum so paid, and has been paid, the full bounty, shall be collected and paid by such county, be collected. township, city or borough, in the manner herein provided. the balance to SECTION 10. That in any county, where persons have subscribed, and paid to the bounty fund of any county, township, Money to be recity or borough, said county, township, city or borough shall funded to subrefund or pay over to such persons, the amount so subscribed scribers. and paid: Provided, That such subscriptions were made with Proviso. that agreement or upon such condition. ceased soldiers. SECTION 11. That if any soldier, who would have been enti- Payment of tled to receive the said bounty, has died before having received bounty of dethe money, the proper county shall pay the same to such person or persons, as by the laws of the United States would be entitled to receive the bounty of deceased soldiers. SECTION 12. That the commissioners of the several counties Assessment and of this commonwealth, and the corporate authorities of town- collection of ships and boroughs, when the same may be necessary, are taxes. hereby authorized and required to levy, assess and collect tax, of said counties, and the corporate authorities of said townships, cities and boroughs, shall so proceed in the premises as to allow to the people of each county, as much time for the payment of said taxes, as may, in their judgment, be least oppressive to them, not exceeding, however, in any case, the period of five years, for the payment of the whole debt and the interest thereon. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 442. An Act To authorize the Harmony Fire Company, of Philadelphia, to dispose of their right, title and interest in the Fire Association of said city. 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 it shall be lawful for the Harmony Fire Company, of Philadelphia, to sell and transfer their right of membership, and interest, in the corporation known as the Fire Association of Philadelphia, to the said Fire Association, if they desire to purchase the said interest: Provided, That the price of such interest, or purchase, shall not be less than the sum, or amount, now charged by said association, for admission of companies as members: And provided further, If the said association shall refuse to purchase the same, then the said Harmony Fire Company shall have the right to sell and transfer their said interest to any other fire company, which shall desire to become a purchaser, and the said Fire Association shall accept such company, so purchasing said interest, as a member, subject to all the regulations of said association; that the fire company purchasing shall have all the necessary apparatus and property, which is required, by the association, from companies desirous of becoming members. 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. |