need of assistance, and to determine the amount of relief Duties and required by each of said families, per week, during the term powers of. of said service, and to pay the same to said families, weekly, as hereinafter provided; and the said commissioners, and the burgess and councils of said boroughs, are hereby authorized to pay out of any funds in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, or to borrow, in such form and manner as they may deem expedient, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, the amount of money necessary to pay said weekly allowance to said families, and also to pay any sums heretofore paid out for such purpose; and they are also authorized to levy a tax for the payment of the money so May levy tax. borrowed, or paid out, on the real and personal property in said townships and boroughs, subject to county rates and levies, and to collect the same as county rates and levies are now, by law, collected. SECTION 2. That any money, so borrowed as aforesaid, shall How money be paid into the treasury of the townships and boroughs, borrowed to be respectively, and shall be drawn out on the orders of the road drawn, &c. commissioners of the township, and of the burgess, in each borough, for the purpose mentioned in section first, and for no other purpose whatever; and the said tax, when collected, shall be paid into the treasury, as aforesaid, and shall be used for the payment of the money so borrowed, and for no other purpose. SECTION 3. That where such tax shall be levied, the said Mode of collectcommissioners and councils shall cause a duplicate, or dupli- ing tax. cates, for each township and borough in said county, respectively, to be made out, as they may deem advisable, and one or more suitable persons to collect the tax, so levied, taking bond, or bonds, with approved surety, from said collector or collectors, conditioned for faithful performance of his or their duties; and the road commissioners of said townships and the burgess of said boroughs, shall issue a warrant or warrants, to said collector or collectors, authorizing and commanding him or them to collect, and pay over to the township or borough treasurer, respectively, the amount of his or their respective duplicates, as is directed by law: Pro- Proviso.' vided, That no fee shall be paid to any person or persons, for the collection or disbursement of any said tax: And provided Proviso. further, That said commissioners and councils, respectively, shall have power to exonerate the collector or collectors, from the collection of said tax, so levied as aforesaid, as they may think just and equitable. and SECTION 4. That a true account of the money expended for Accounts to be the support of the families of volunteers, from the townships kept by treaand boroughs, as provided by this act, shall be kept by the surers, treasurer of each of them, and presented, verified by the oath money refunded by county of the treasurer, to the commissioners of the county, on or commissioners. before the first day of November, in each year, during the time such relief shall be granted; and the amount so paid, as aforesaid, with interest thereon, shall be refunded by the said county commissioners, to the treasurer of each of said townships and boroughs, within six months thereafter; and the relief fund of said county, as now provided by law, is hereby appropriated to the payment of said money, so expended as aforesaid. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 78. A Supplement To an act authorizing the erection of a bridge over the Kiskiminetas river, in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. 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 an act of the general assembly of this commonwealth, entitled "An Act to authorize the governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the Kiskiminetas river, below the big dam, at the town of Leechburg, in Armstrong county," passed the seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and the several supplements thereto, shall not be so construed as to prohibit said company, or its successors, from erecting and placing necessary embankments and tollhouse upon Canal street, in the borough of Leechburg: Provided, That the said street be and remain sufficiently wide to allow the passing and re-passing of wagons, and other vehicles, thereon. SECTION 2. That the said company are hereby authorized and empowered to erect and place their toll-house and embankments upon said Canal street, so as not unnecessarily to obstruct the same. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty three. A. G. CURTIN, No. 79. An Act For the protection of Sheep and the taxing of Dogs in the township of 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 assessors of Delaware township, of the county of Assessors to furPike, shall annually, when taking the names of the taxable nish auditors inhabitants of said township, take an accurate account of all with account of dogs. dogs, upwards of one month of age, owned and possessed, or kept by any person or persons in said township, noting the number owned or possessed by each person, and kept about any one house, and shall furnish said account to the auditors of said township; whereupon, the auditors shall levy and cause Tax to be levied to be collected, annually, by the collector of the county and state tax, who are hereby invested with like authority and power to collect said tax on dogs, as are the collectors of township rates and levies, from every person owning, possessing, or keeping, one dog, the sum of one dollar; and from every person owning, possessing, or keeping, two or more dogs, the sum of one dollar on one dog, two dollars on the second dog, three dollars on the third dog, continuing to increase in like ratio; which tax shall be paid to the town How to be paid clerk of the township, who is hereby constituted the treasurer and disbursed. of the sheep fund thereof; and when any inhabitant of said. township shall sustain damage, by having sheep injured or destroyed within the same, by a dog or dogs, he or she may apply to the auditors of said township, who are hereby appointed appraisers of the damage done by dogs to sheep; and they, or any two of them, are hereby authorized and required to ascertain the amount of damage sustained by the owner of such sheep, injured or destroyed, as aforesaid, and certify the same. SECTION 2. That the treasurer of the sheep fund shall, if Mode of paying sufficient funds remain in his possession for that purpose, pay orders for damall orders for damage done to sheep, in said township, drawn ages. on him by the appraisers thereof; which orders shall take precedence according to their respective dates; his accounts shabe audited and adjusted as the accounts of township officers are directed, by law, to be; and if, at the expiration of any fiscal year, there shall remain in the possession of the treasurer, a greater sum than fifty dollars, after paying all orders then due, it shall be the duty of said treasurer to pay the surplus to the treasurer of the school fund of said township, Surplus to be to be applied to common school purposes therein, under the appropriated to direction of the proper school directors. school fund. SECTION 3. That the said appraisers shall severally receive Compensation the sum of fifty cents per day, for their services, rendered in of appraisers appraising damages done by dogs to sheep, to be paid by the and collector. vidence of ownership. person applying; which sum or sums shall be added to the amount of damages appraised; the collector aforesaid shall be allowed five per centum out of the money collected, and shall, if required by the auditors, give satisfactory security for the faithful performance of the duty assigned him by this act. SECTION 4. That every dog kept, or staying about any house, shall be deemed sufficient evidence of ownership, to authorize the person appointed for that purpose, to return the person inhabiting said house, as the owner or possessor of such dog; and any person sending his dog from house to house, or place to place, in order to avoid said tax, shall be liable to pay double tax therefor. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 80. An Act Relative to election of Constables in the borough of Lebanon, Pennsylvania. 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 on the third Friday of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and annually thereafter, the qualified voters of the East ward of the borough of Lebanon, shall elect one person to serve as constable, and the qualified voters of the West ward of the borough of Lebanon, one person to serve as constable. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of February, Anne Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 81. An Act Relating to the licensing of billiard rooms, bowling saloons, and nine or ten pin alleys, at Cresson Springs, in the county of Cambria. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represencatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same That the license on each billia d room, bowling saloon, and nine or ten pin alley, at Cresson Springs in the county of Cambria, shall be at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents for every month the same may be used. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The twenty-seventh day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. To lay out a State Road in Chester and Montgomery counties. 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 Doctor Joshua B. Jones and Charles P. Shannon, of Commissioners Montgomery county, and Owen Stover, of Chester county, be and they are hereby appointed to view and lay out, by courses and distances, a state road, leading from the borough of Pho- Route. |