pers, and documents, pertaining to their office, as overseers; and shall, also, pay to the said directors, or to the treasurer appointed by them, all the moneys unexpended in their hands, belonging to the said township; and the said directors shall, forthwith, issue their warrant to the collector, for the collection Collection of unfor all such unpaid poor taxes; which shall be collected in the paid taxes. same manner, as is provided for the collection of taxes, assessed by said directors. SECTION 12. That if, upon a final settlement, by said over- Balance due seers, of the said township, aforesaid, of their account, as over- overseers, relaseers, any balance shall be found due them, or either of them, tive to. the said balance shall be certified by the auditors making such settlement, and, thereupon, the said directors are required to issue their order, upon the treasurer, in favor of such overseer, or overseers, for the amount, or amounts, so certified to be due. income, expen ditures, &c. SECTION 13. That the said directors are hereby required, Directors to yearly, on the first Monday of January, in each year, to make, make annual and prepare, a statement, or to cause the same to be done, show-statements of ing the income of said real estate, for the preceding year, as nearly as the same can be done; also, the excess of the expenditures, over, and above, said income, during the said preceding year; the amount, and kind, of personal property, then on hand, including grain, stock, and all farming implements and conveniences; the number of persons admitted from the township aforesaid; and also, the number discharged, and belonging to the said township; the length of time each of the said persons remained, and the age, sex, and nativity, of each; as just and correct account of the receipts, and disbursements, for the said township, during the preceding year; which statement the said directors shall, annually, in the month of March, in each year, publish, in a weekly newspaper, in said township, in Publication of. three successive issues of the same, together with a statement of the aggregate amount of the receipts, disbursements, and expenditures, of said corporation, during the preceding year, from any source whatever, or for any cause, or purpose, what ever. SECTION 14. That the auditors of the township of Coal, shall Auditors. constitute a board of auditors, who shall meet on the first Mon day of March, in each year, and shall receive, for their services, each, one dollar and fifty cents per day, for every day necessa- Compensation rily employed, which shall be paid out of the funds belonging of. to the corporation. SECTION 15. That the said directors are hereby authorized to Apprentices. bind out poor children, under their care, whose parents are dead, or unable to support them, as apprentices, in the same manner, and under the same restrictions, as the overseers of the poor may now, by law, put out such children; and the said directors shall exercise the same power and authority, over all Property of poor real and personal estate of any poor person under their care, as persons, relais now by law vested in the overseers of the poor. tive to. officers. SECTION 16. That the compensation of the treasurer, col- Compensation lector, steward or superintendent, matron, physician and other of directors and officers or assistants, shall be fixed by the directors; and the compensation of the directors shall be fixed by the board of auditors, at each yearly settlement, for the next succeeding year: Proviso. Appeals from settlements of auditors. Orders upon treasurer. Vote to be taken upon the adoption, or rejection, of this act. Constable to give notice. Provided, That the compensation of said directors, from the passage of this act, until the first settlement, shall be fixed by the board of auditors, at the first yearly settlement; the said directors to furnish the said auditors, with a correct account of the time and expense, lost and incurred by them, in attending to their duties, from which account, the said compensation shall be fixed and adjusted. SECTION 17. That the said directors, or treasurer, or any one or more of the tax-payers of said township, may, within thirty days from the yearly settlement, by the auditors as aforesaid, appeal from such settlement, to the court of common pleas of Northumberland county, in the same manner, and under the same provisions and regulations, that appeals from township auditors are now made and allowed. SECTION 18. That no moneys shall be paid by the treasurer, except by orders drawn by the directors, and signed by at least a majority of said directors. SECTION 19. That the constable, of said township, is hereby authorized and required, as soon as practicable, after the passage of this act, to make proclamation, in the same manner, and for the same length of time, as is provided, by law, in cases of county and township elections, for a special election, to be held at the usual place of holding the township elections, for said township; said special election to be held by the board of township election officers; at which time and place, the legal How election to voters, of said township, shall vote for the adoption or rejection be conducted. of this act, by voting printed or written tickets, having on the outside, the words, "poor house," and on the inside, "for a poor house," or "against a poor house;" a majority of the legal votes, so cast, for or against a poor house, shall decide Expense of, how for or against said act; the expense of said election to be paid to be paid. out of the poor fund of said township. Repeal. SECTION 20. That all acts of assembly, or parts of acts, hereby supplied, or inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. 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. Extending to Allegheny county the provisions of an act to give jurisdiction, in equity, to the Supreme Court, and the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Philadelphia, in cases of disputed boundaries. 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 provisions of the act, approved the fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fiftyeight, entitled "An Act to give jurisdiction, in equity, to the supreme court for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania, and the court of common pleas for the county of Philadelphia, in cases of disputed boundaries," be, and the same is hereby, extended to the supreme court for the Western district of Pennsylvania, and the court of common pleas, and district court of the county of Allegheny, within the said county of Allegheny. 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. 497. A Supplement To an act to incorporate the town of New Castle, in the county of Mercer, and the town of Blairsville, in the county of Indiana, and for other purposes, passed the thirty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. 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 provisions contained in the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh sections of the act to which this is a sup of Northampton. plement, be and the same are hereby extended to the county JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one housand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 498. An Act To restore the farm of Augustine Byrne, or so much thereof as is included in Chest Springs borough, to Allegheny township, in the 'county of Cambria. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen atives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the farm of Augustine Byrne, or so much thereof as is now included within the limits of the borough of Chest Springs, in the county of Cambria, be and the same is hereby restored to, and made part of, the township of Allegheny, in said county of Cambria, to which it belonged, before the incorporation of said borough of Chest Springs. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 499. An Act To prevent cattle, horses, sheep and swine from running at large in the county of Susquehanna. 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 first day of July next, all horses, cattle, sheep and swine, belonging to farmers, or other persons, found running at large, or upon the public roads or highways, in the county of Susquehanna, shall be considered, in character of strays, and may be taken up as such, by any person, and shall and may be disposed of, under the existing laws of this commonwealth, relating to strays, if such person shall see proper to prosecute the same: Provided, That this act shall not apply to any of said animals, that may have accidentally escaped from their enclosures. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The fifteenth day of April, Anno Dmoini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 500. An Act Authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Coopertown Turnpike Road 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 James J. Brooke, Jesse Brooke, Jackson Lyons, Charles Commissioners. Johnson, Wm. Hawkins, Bartine Smith, Augustus B. Leedom, |