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No. 560.

An Act

To authorize certain military officers to take affidavits, testimony, and acknowledgments of the execution of deeds, and other instruments of writing, of persons in the military service of this state, or the United States.

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, Certain military That any person, holding the rank of major, or any higher rank, officers autho- in the military service of the United States, under a commission from the governor of this state, may administer, and certify, any oath, or affirmation, or acknowledgment of any deed, or other instrument of writing, which any person, actually in such service, may wish to take, or make, whenever such officer, and person, shall be out of this state.

rized to take affidavits, &c., out of the state.

To have like

SECTION 2. Any oath, affirmation, or acknowledgment, speeffect as if taken cified in the first section of this act, when taken, and certified, before any civil according to this act, may be read, and used, in any place, or

officer in the

state.

Affidavits and

proof of military claims, re

lative to.

Proviso.

before any court, officer, or tribunal, in this state, for any purpose, with like force, and effect, as if administered, taken, had, made, or done, before any civil officer in this state, authorized to take, or administer, the same.

SECTION 3. That the affidavits, and proof of claims, required by the act for adjudicating military claims, approved the sixteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, when made by any person in the military ser vice of the United States, or where a civil officer, authorized to take such affidavit, and proof, cannot be had with reasonable convenience, may be made before any commissioned officer in such military service, with the same effect as if made before a civil officer: Provided, That the making of such affidavit, and proof, that the same could not be made, with reasonable convenience, before a civil officer, shall be certified by the offi cer, before whom the same shall be made, and the place where such affidavit-proof shall be made, together with the rank, company, and regiment, or other military division, to which, the officer, taking such affidavit, or proof, shall belong, shall appear in, or to, the said certificate.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini

one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 561.

An Act

To re-adjust, and settle, the assessed valuation of the county of Clarion.

WHEREAS, In consequence of the death of Myron Park, member of the board of revenue commissioners, from the Eighteenth judicial district, whilst on his way to attend the meeting of said revenue commissioners, the said district was deprived of proper representation thereat:

And whereas, Great injustice has been done to the county of Clarion, in said district, in largely increasing her assessed valuation, at a period when general depression has overtaken. her industrial pursuits; therefore,

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 auditor general, surveyor general, and state treasurer, be and are hereby authorized to re-adjust the assessed valuation of the county of Clarion, and that, until said adjustment is made, the assessments therein made, for state purposes, shall be in accordance with the valuation made, prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini

one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 562.

An Act

Supplementary to an act, passed January twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, authorizing the commissioners and controller of Allegheny county to compromise with the holders of the bonds of said 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, Annual revenue That so much of the annual revenue, provided to be raised for raised for payment of interest the payment of interest, on bonds, to be issued in compromise, on bonds issued as may not, at the time, be required for the payment of interin compromise, est on the said bonds, shall go into, and become a part of, the sinking fund, provided for in the act to which this is a supplement, there to remain, until, by reason of the acceptance of the offer of compromise, by other holders of county railroad bonds, the same shall be required for the payment of interest on the new bonds, accepted by them, from the date of said new bonds; and shall, in no event, be used for, or appropriated to, any other purpose whatever.

and not required, shall

become part of sinking fund.

When and how to be used.

Commissioners of sinking fund may borrow

money.

Proviso.

How money

borrowed to be applied. Authorized to

apply an equal

amount from the sinking fund for payment of loan. Sinking fund to continue until bonds are liqui

dated.

SECTION 2. That the commissioners of the sinking fund, provided for in said act, are hereby authorized, and empowered, to borrow money, to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars, in anticipation of the receipt of said amount, by the county treasurer: Provided, They shall find it expedient.

SECTION 3. That said money, so borrowed, shall be applied, solely, to the liquidation of the bonds, issued in compromise of railroad indebtedness, under the penalties prescribed by section six, of the act to which this is a supplement; and the said commissioners are hereby empowered to apply an equal amount, from the sinking fund, to the payment of any loan, so made, by them.

SECTION 4. That the sinking fund, created by act of assembly, January twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, and the supplement, shall continue to be annually provided for, until the bonds, issued in compromise, shall be ultimately liquidated, and shall be exempt from attachment, or other legal process, to divert it from the purpose, for which it Bonds issued in is established; and the bonds, issued by the county and cities compromise ex- of Allegheny and Pittsburg, in compromise of their railroad empt from taxa- indebtedness, and the interest thereon, are hereby exempted from taxation.

Exempt from attachment.

tion.

Mode of cancelling bonds.

SECTION 5. That the cancellation of all bonds, purchased for said sinking fund, and of all coupons received by the treasurer, shall be effected, by writing, in red ink, across the face of each cancelled bond, the fact of such cancellation, and the date thereof; the seal shall be crossed with black ink, and the sig natures, with red ink; and each coupon shall be punched with two, or more, holes.

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SECTION 6. That the commissioners of the sinking fund, in Commissioners case no bonds should be offered, or obtained, at rates below par, to pay off new shall pay off the outstanding, new, bonds, at par, in rotation bonds, in rotaof numbers, beginning at the lowest number outstanding; and tion, at par, in in the event of such bond, or bonds, not being surrendered, offered below after six weeks' advertising, of the number, or numbers, to be par. paid, then the commissioners shall deposit the money therefor, In the event of in a bank, in the county of Allegheny; and the bond, or bonds, none being surso advertised for, shall cease to draw interest thereon; and the rendered, after holders of such bond, or bonds, shall look only to the deposit advertising, the for payment of his, her, or their bond, or bonds; said adver- money therefor may be depotising to be made in two newspapers, published in the city of sited in bank, Pittsburg, one in Philadelphia, and one in New York city. and interest JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

A. G. CURTIN.

thereon cease.

No. 563.

An Act

To authorize William H. Schall, guardian of John Hubley Schall, to sell and convey certain real estate.

WHEREAS, John Hubley Schall, a minor child of George Schall, of Schuylkill county, owns several undivided interests, as tenant in common, in certain real estate, in the city of Philadelphia, and in the counties of Schuylkill and Berks, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to wit: the undivided one fifteenth part of certain houses, and lots of ground, in the city of Philadelphia, conveyed to him by Edward B. Hubley, and others, by deed, dated sixteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, recorded in the recorder's office, in, and for, the city of Philadelphia, in deed book, A W M, number eighty-eight, page two hundred and twenty-two, et cetera; also, the undivided one-ninth part of a tract of land, in Rush township, Schuylkill county, known as the M'Pherson tract; also, the undivided one-ninetieth part of another tract of land, in said Rush township, Schuylkill county, known as the Walter Beatty tract; also, the undivided one-third part of a house, and lot, on Fifth street, in the city of Reading, in the county of Berks, containing thirty feet, in front, and one hun

dred and thirty feet, in depth, devised to the said minor, by the will of the said Edward B. Hubley, deceased:

And whereas, The other owners of the above described real estate, competent to sell, are willing, and anxious, to dispose of their respective estates, as they deem advantageous; therefore,

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 William H. Schall, of the borough of Orwigsburg, in the county of Schuylkill, aforesaid, guardian of the estate of the said John Hubley Schall, a minor, be and he is hereby authorized, and empowered, to sell, and dispose of, from time to time, at public sale, all the estate, right, title, and interest, of, in, and to, all, or any part, of the real estate, aforesaid, of the said minor, for such price, or prices, as the other owner, or owners, of the aforesaid property, shall sell at; and also, to sign, seal, and deliver, to the purchaser, or purchasers, thereof, in fee simple, good and sufficient deed, or deeds, of conveyances, jointly, with the other owner, or owners, for the respective estates of the said minor, in the aforesaid property, or any part thereof, discharged of all incumbrances whatsoever; and all such deed, or deeds, of conveyances, shall be good, and effectual, to pass the respective estate, or any part thereof, of the said minor, to the purchaser, or purchasers, in law, equity, or otherwise, as fully, and completely, and with the same effect, as if the said sale, or sales, and conveyances, had been made, under orders of the orphans' court, of the proper counties, respectively, made agreeably to the laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, providing for the sale of the real estate of minors: Provided, That the said guardian shall, before receiving the proceeds of any such sale, give bond to the commonwealth, with such security, and in such an amount, as the orphans' court of Schuylkill county shall approve, conditioned for the faithful appropriation of the proceeds of all such sales, according to law.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini

one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

A. G. CURTIN.

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