Shriner, Chambers Yundt and Moses Steffy, in Ephrata town-
ship, Lancaster county, be and the same is hereby annexed to
Earl township, said county of Lancaster, for school purposes;
and that the persons aforesaid, and all others who may here-
after occupy said real estate, shall have the privilege to send
their children to the public school which shall or may be kept
in the village of Hinkletown, in Earl township, in said county
of Lancaster, the same as though they were residents of said
township; and that the said township of Earl shall be enti-
tled to receive the proportion of the state appropriation which
would otherwise belong to said Ephrata township, by reason
of the residence of the persons aforesaid, and their families,
therein; and it shall be the duty of the school directors of
Ephrata township to pay, or cause to be paid, to the school
directors of Earl township, all taxes raised for school purposes,
of and from the property and persons so as aforesaid annexed
to said Earl township, for school purposes; and also its pro-
portion of the state appropriation, if the same shall have at
any time been paid to said Ephrata township; and in case of
a refusal to pay the same, or in case of a dissatisfaction be-
tween the directors of said townships, as to the amount of
said indebtedness, the said township of Earl is hereby author-
ized to recover the amount thereof by action of assumpsit, or
other proper action, against the said township of Ephrata, in
the court of common pleas of Lancaster county, which is
hereby authorized and requested to adjudicate the same, and
give judgment, and award execution, in the same manner as
provided for in other cases of indebtedness by school directors.
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. 89.

An Act

Supplementary to an act passed April eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Home for Friendless Children for the borough of Wilkesbarre, and county of Luzerne."

WHEREAS, In the steps taken to organize the Home for Preamble. Friendless Children for the borough of Wilkesbarre, and county

elections con

firmed.

of Luzerne, under the act to which this is a supplement, it is supposed that certain irregularities, as to notice and otherwise, may have occurred in the election of trustees and managers, which have hitherto limited their efforts to carry into full effect the laudable and benevolent purpose of their association; 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, Certain acts and That the measures, heretofore taken to organize and establish the said institution, be hereby declared valid and effectual, and that the election of trustees and managers, now claiming to be such officers, be and hereby is fully confirmed for the terms for which they were severally appointed or elected; all acts heretofore done by them, under their charter, being confirmed, and full power being given to them to carry into effect all the purposes of said charter, in the same manner as if every step heretofore taken in their organization and election had been entirely regular.

By-laws and

tive to.

SECTION 2. That it shall and may be lawful for the trustees meetings, rela- and managers, at a joint meeting composed of a quorum of each of said bodies, to declare, by by-laws and regulations, the duties under the charter requiring the joint actions of both boards; and also those which may be done by the separate action of either board; and also to make arrangements for joint or separate meetings, as may be required, and to give full power to them to act by committees, or in a full meeting of the respective boards, as the true purpose of their association may require: Provided always, That such by-laws shall not in any way conflict with the provisions of the original charter

Proviso.

Committal of

children and indenture of apprentices, how to be made.

SECTION 3. That the surrender or committal of children to the said institution, under the provisions of the fourth section of the charter, shall be in writing, under the hand of the proper parent or guardian, or when by a judge, under the proper seal of such judge; and all the indentures of apprenticeship, or other instruments of writing, given by said institution, shall be in the respective name thereof, and be sealed by their common seal, and attested by the president and secretary.

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.

For the relief of Franklin H. Lane, late treasurer of Huntingdon county.

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 and state treasurer be and they are hereby authorized to open and re-settle the accounts of Franklin H. Lane, late treasurer of Huntingdon county, with the commonwealth, and to allow to said Franklin H. Lane, in said settlement, such credits as in their judgment he may be entitled to.

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. 91.

An Act

To change the mode of selecting Field and Company Officers in the Reserve Volunteer Corps.

Vacancies to be

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 from and after the passage of this act, all vacancies of commissioned officers, in the regiments of the Reserve Volun- filled by apteer Corps, shall be filled in the same manner as like vacan- pointment of cies are now filled in other volunteer regiments, from the Governor. state, and the governor shall commission and designate the date of rank of all such officers, for present and future vacancies, in like manner as he now does for other Pennsylvania volunteer regiments, now in the field: Provided, That all appointments therein be made from members of said corps.

Proviso.

Repeal.

SECTION 2. That so much of the act, approved the fifteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, entitled "An Act to create a loan, and to provide for arming the state," as conflicts with this act, be and the same is hereby rapealed.

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. 92.

A Supplement

To the act of April fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, relating to the Fire Insurance Company of the county of Philadelphia.

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 so much of the fifteenth section of the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Erie Fire Insurance Company of Erie county," approved the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, as requires that the location of the Fire Insurance Company of the county of Philadelphia shall be north of Vine street, in the county of Philadelphia, be and the same is hereby repealed; and that the directors of the said the Fire Insurance Company of the county of Philadelphia may, if they see proper, at the time of choosing their president, or at any other time, choose one of their number as vice president.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

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

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 93.

A Supplement

To an act, entitled "An Act to create a loan, and to provide for arming the State," approved the fifteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

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 tax authorized by act of assembly, approved the fifteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, entitled "An Act to create a loan, and to provide for arming the state," be and is hereby increased to one-half of one per centum: Provided, So much shall be necessary to carry out the true meaning and intent of said act: Provided, The provisions of this act shall extend to Venango county only.

JOHN CESSNA,

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

Speaker of the Senate.

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

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 94.

An Act

Authorizing the assessment of a tax in Meshoppen township, Wyoming county, for the payment of bounty to certain volunteers from said township.

WHEREAS, The citizens and tax-payers of Meshoppen town- Preamble. ship, in the county of Wyoming, on the thirteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, at a public meeting, undertook that such persons as should volunteer as soldiers, in the service of the United States, to fill up the quota of said township, and thus avoid the draft which had been ordered, should be paid the sum of seventy dollars each :

And whereas, Divers persons, to the number of sixteen, in pursuance of, and relying upon said undertaking, volunteered