That it shall be lawful for the commissioners of Potter county, and they are hereby required, to receive, at any time, for sixty days after the passage of this act, from any collector of taxes, in said county, or the proper officer of any school district, who has omitted to make return of unseated lands, or lots, as now required by law, such lists of unseated lands, or lots, in their respective townships, upon which either the state, county, school, or school building, or road, taxes, for the years one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and sixty-two, remain due and unpaid, to be received in like manner, and with the same force and effect, as if the same had been returned, in pursuance of existing laws; and sales, by the the treasurer of said Potter county, if any, of such lands, or lots, for said taxes, which shall hereafter be made, in all other particulars, in conformity with the laws of this commonwealth, shall be as valid and effectual as if the said list of unseated lands, or lots, had been made within the time, and in the ordinary manner: Provided however, That no sale shall be made of any such lands, or lots, so returned, as aforesaid, in pursuance of the provisions of this act, before the expiration of one year from the passage of the same. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 528. An Act To encourage the extension of lateral railroads. 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 any railroad company heretofore, or hereafter, authorized to build any branch, lateral, or diverging line of, railroad, or extension of such railroad, may, to encourage the construction thereof, specially mortgage any such branch, lateral, or diverging line, the road bed, and other real estate, acquired, or to be acquired, therefor, the income thereof, and the franchise, so far as they are specially applicable thereto, and may issue, plain or coupon, bonds, secured by such mortgage, and may negotiate them on such terms, as to rate of interest and price, and place of payment, as they may deem advisable: Provided, That such mortgage shall not exceed fifteen thou sand dollars for each mile of road it covers, and that no bond, for a less amount than one hundred dollars, shall be issued under this aet: And provided further, That every such mortgage shall be recorded in the county, or counties, in or though which such branch, diverging, or lateral, line, is, or shall, be constructed: And provided, Such mortgage shall not operate against the lien of laborers, and material-men, on work, and labor done, and materials furnished in the construction of said road. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 529. An Act Tovalidate certain conveyances made by married women, since the eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. 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 where any estate, in lands, tenements, hereditaments, or any property, real, or personal, has been heretofore, by any will, or other instrument, taking effect subsequent to the eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, devised, conveyed, given to, or in any way acquired by, any married woman, to, and for, the separate use, or as her separate estate, without the intervention of a trustee, and the same shall heretofore have been conveyed, or mortgaged, by her, by any deed, or instrument, duly acknowledged by her, before any officer having authority to take acknowledgments of deeds and mortgages, and in which her husband has joined as a party, the said conveyance, or mortgage, and the estates, and interests, thereby created, shall be, and be taken to be, of like force and effect, in all respects, as if the same had been given, and exeeuted, under, and in the due exercise of, a power authorizing such conveyance, or mortgage, contained in the instrument by which the said separate estate, of the said married woman, was created: Provided, That this act shall not affect any case, heretofore finally adjudicated by the supreme court. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 530. An Act To regulate railroad gauges. 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 gauge of all railroads, heretofore, or hereafter, authorized to connect with the Philadelphia and Erie railroad, and on which the track is not now, wholly, or partly, laid, shall conform to, and be, the same as the gauge of said Philadelphia and Erie railroad. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 531. An Act Regulating licenses to eating houses in Warren borough. 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 all licenses for the keeping of eating houses, which shall authorize the sale of domestic wines, and malt, and brewed, liquors, within the borough of Warren, Warren county, shall hereafter be granted only by the court of quarter sessions of said county, in the same manner, and subject to the same restrictions, as licenses to hotels, inns and taverns, are now granted, except that said eating houses shall be classified, and rated, as provided by existing laws. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 532. An Act Relative to borough elections in the county of Carbon. 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 election for borough officers, in the several boroughs of Carbon county, shall be opened at the hour now prescribed by law, and shall continue, without interruption, or adjournment, until seven o'clock in the evening, when the polls shall be closed. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate.. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. To repeal an act, approved the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "An Act to secure a stricter accountability of certain public officers in Schuylkill county. " 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 of assembly, approved the seventeenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fiftynine, entitled "An Act to secure a stricter accountability of certain public officers in Schuylkill county," be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same relates to the townships of Wayne and Schuylkill, in said county of Schuylkill; and that the law as existing, prior to the passage of the act, hereby repealed, as aforesaid, be and the same is hereby revived in said townships. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. Preamble. No. 534. An Act To enable the commissioners of Clinton county to borrow money, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, TWO successive grand juries, of the county of Clinton, in the state of Pennsylvania, at September and December terms, of the court of quarter sessions of the said county, for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, in and by their several written reports, presented to the said court, approved and filed of record, did recommend the erection of a new court house, upon such suitable lot of ground, situate on Main or Water street, in the borough of Lock Haven, east of Mill street, |