No. 466. An Act To incorporate the Lewisburg and Chillisquaque Turnpike 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 William Cameron, Henry Frick, John Walls, Joseph Nes- Commissioners. bitt, Hugh Martin, John Deffendaffer, Eli Slifer, George F. Miller, Isaac Frederick and George Frederick, or any six of them, be and are hereby appointed commissioners, to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, by the name, style and title of the Lewisburg and Chillisquaque Turnpike Name. Company, with power to construct a turnpike, from the east end of the Lewisburg bridge, in the county of Northumberland, Route. to the Philadelphia and Erie railroad, in the same county, sub ject to all the provisions, end restrictions, of an act, entitled Subject to. "An Act regulating turnpike and plank road companies," approved the twenty-sixth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto, except so far as they are hereby altered and supplied. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of the said company shall Capital stock. consist of four hundred and eighty shares, of twenty-five dollars each share: Provided, That said company may, from time to Proviso. lic road. SECTION 3. That it shall be lawful for the said company to Authorized to make use of any county bridge, on the line of the route of their use any county road, and also use the whole, or any part, of any public road, bridge or pub and locate their road upon the ground occupied by any public road; and the court of quarter sessions of the county, through which the road of the said company passes, shall appoint view- Court to appoint ers to view, and vacate, such parts of any public road as shall viewers to vabe used, or rendered unnecessary, by the construction of the cate parts of said company's road, as is provided by the general road laws road rendered of this commonwealth, in the cases of roads which have become useless. useless. SECTION 4. That the president and managers shall have power Rates of toll. to regulate, and establish, rates of toll, not exceeding double the rates established by the act heretofore mentioned, and the several supplements thereto, and to erect toll gates, and collect tolls, whenever one mile of their road shall have been completed: Provided however, That no toll shall be collected from persons Toll not to be merely traveling over that portion of said turnpike, lying along collected on the river, to wit: from the point where said turnpike strikes part of road. the river road, and the end of the Lewisburg bridge. May borrow SECTION 5. That the said company shall have power to money and issue borrow money, at any rate of interest, not exceeding six per bonds therefor. centum per annum, for the purpose of completing their road, and issue bonds therefor, and secure the same by mortgage of their road and franchises. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 467. An Act To authorize the auditor general to settle the claim of John Kennedy, de ceased, late of Mifflin county, for damages sustained by him as a transporter, by reason of the sale of the main line of the Pennsylvania canal. WHEREAS, By virtue, and under the authority, of an act, entitled "An Act to authorize the appointment of appraisers, to assess, and report, the damages sustained by transporters, and others, by reason of the sale of the main line of the Pennsylvania canal," approved the nineteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, appraisers were appointed to ascertain, and assess, the amount of damages sustained by individual transporters, and make report thereof to the same session of the legislature: And whereas, At the time of the sale of said main line of the Pennsylvania canal, John Kennedy, deceased, late of Mifflin county, was one of the individual transporters thereon, and was then, and previous thereto, the owner of one boat, known and denominated a section boat, of the value of which was not appraised, or returned, by said appraisers; therefore, 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 auditor general is hereby authorized, and required, to examine the claim of the legal representatives of said John Kennedy, of Mifflin county, for damages sustained by him as a transporter, by reason of the sale of the main line of the Pennsylvania canal; and if he shall be of opinion that any amount is due the estate of the said John Kennedy, deceased. for damages sustained as aforesaid, then to determine the amount so due, and draw his warrant for the same, in favor of said Kennedy's executor, administrator, or legal representatives, as the case may be, on the state treasurer, who is hereby authorized, and required, to pay the same, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 468. An Act Relating to the publication of legal advertisements in the county of Franklin. 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 all legal advertisements, required to be published under the existing laws of this commonwealth, in the county of Franklin, all notices in cases pending in, or under process issuing out of, the courts of said county; auditors' notices, estate notices, notices of assignment for the benefit of creditors, notices of the filing of assignees', trustees', executors', administrators', and guardians' accounts; sheriffs', executors', administrators', assignees', or other judicial sales; and all and every other notice of whatsoever nature, or kind, required to be published, by direction of the court, or by the provisions of any act of assembly, shall hereafter be published in two weekly newspapers, having the largest circulation, in said county. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 469. An Act For the relief of Henry Welsh. WHEREAS, Henry Welsh, a corporal in the company of Captain J. E. Simpson, in the First artillery regiment, of the Reserve volunteer corps, of Pennsylvania, was disabled, while engaged, under orders, in firing a salute, on Capitol Hill, Harrisburg, on the morning of the fourth of July last, by the premature discharge of a six pounder, both of his arms having been so much injured as to require amputation: And whereas, The said Henry Welsh can receive nothing from the general government, having only been sworn into the service of this state, and has received a certificate from J. P. Wilson, surgeon general of Camp Curtin, declaring him entirely disabled from obtaining his subsistence; therefore, 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 governor and surgeon general of this state be and they are hereby authorized to procure, for the said Henry Welsh, a disabled corporal in the company of Capt. J. G. Simpson, in the First artillery regiment, of the Reserve volunteer corps, two artificial hands; and the governor shall draw his warrant on the state treasurer, for the expense in procuring the same, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, The cost of the same shall not exceed the sum of three hundred dollars. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 470. An Act Authorizing the Norris City Cemetery Company, of Norriton township, Montgomery county, and the trustees of the First M. E. Church of Norristown, to remove the dead in the Suplee burial ground. 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 managers of the Norris City Cemetery Company, of Removal of the may desire: Provided, That the grave-stones, and monuments, Proviso. SECTION 2. That before any bodies shall be removed, as pro- Notices of the vided in the preceding section, the cemetery company, and the intended retrustees of said church, shall publish notices, in two of the moval to be published. principal newspapers of the county, of such intended removal; and that the expenses of said removal be borne, either by the Payment of exM. E. church, or the said cemetery company, or jointly. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundrded an sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. penses. No. 471. A Supplement To an act to erect the town of Montrose, in the county of Susquehanna, into a borough, approved March twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four. 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, |