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, the general, special and Elections, where township elections for said township shalĩ be he!d in school to be beld. house number five, on the farm of John Hendricks, in said township of Taylor, in the county of Cambria. Section 2. That the erection of the said township of Taylor, Present boundawith its present metes and bounds, is hereby declared as good ries of Taylor and valid as though there had been no informality in the erec- clared valid. township de tion of the same; and that the election held therein upon the seventeenth day of February last past, for the various township officers, school directors, et cetera, shall be deemed good and Certain election valid; and the various township officers, school directors, et validated. cetera, elected at the above named election, are hereby author. ized and empowered to act in said offices as fully as though there had been no informality or contest as to where said election should have been held. JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—'The second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 518. A SUPPLEMENT To an act to incorporate the Strasburg and New Providence Turnpike Road Company, passed February twenty-fourth, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty. 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 company incorporated under the act to which this is a supplement, shall have power to change the southern terminus of their road, from the point named in said act, to a point at or near Bassler's mill, near Carmargo, Lancaster county. JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The second day of April, Anno Domini one thourand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 519. AN ACT Relative to surveying, laying out and establishing the Boundary Line be tween Lancaster and Berks 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 Commissioners. Allen P. Hibshman, of the county of Lancaster, and David Steach, of the county of Berks, are hereby appointed commis sioners, with authority to survey, ascertain, mark and establish the dividing line between the counties of Lancaster and Berks. Duties of SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of the said commissioners, after having first taken and subscribed an oath or affirmation, before a justice of the peace, to perform the duties enjoined on them by this act with impartiality and fidelity, to go upon the ground, and carefully survey, ascertain, mark and establish the dividing line which separates Lancaster from Berks; which said line, so run, marked and established, shall be the boundary line dividing the said counties of Lancaster and Berks. Further duties. Section 3. That it shall be the duty of the said commissioners, on or before the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, to survey, ascertain, mark and establish said line on the ground, by distinct and permanent marks, whenever and as often as the said division line crosses any public road or highway, and at such other public places and convenient distances on the aforesaid line as may be deemed proper by said commisDraw sioners; and to make two drafts of the same, certified under their hands, with courses and distances plainly laid down, with reference to the improvements through which said line may pass, one of which drafts they shall deposit in each of the offices of Where to be de- the clerks of the court of quarter sessions of the counties of Lan. posited caster and Berks, as soon thereafter as practicable; which said drafts shall be filed and recorded in the same manner as reports of public roads or highways, laid out by order of courts, are now recorded, and shall be considered as public records. Compensation Section 4. That the said commissioners shall receive, as a compensation for their services, the sum of three dollars per day each, and necessary expenses for and during the time they shall be actually engaged in the discharge of their duties; and each of the said commissioners shall have authority to appoint one chain carrier, one axeman, and such other assistants as may be necessary to carry out the intentions of this act; the said chain carriers, axemen, and other assistants, each shall receive for their services the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day, and necessary expenses, while actually engaged by said commis sioners in establishing the line aforesaid ; and all the aforesaid How esponses to expenses shall be equally paid by the counties of Lancaster and be paid Berks, by the commissioners of said counties, by warrants drawn on the treasurers of their respective counties. SBCTION 5. That in case any of the above named commissioners Vaoancies, bow JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED— The second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 520. A SUPPLEMENT tors. To an act to incorporate the Allegheny County Agricultural Society. 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 hereafter the board of managers of the Allegheny County agri. Namber of direocultural society shall consist of sixteen members. Section 2. 'That the election of managers and officers of said Annual election, JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED— The second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight bundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 521. A SUPPLEMENT To the act of eighth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "An Act relating to Road Views in Northumberland county." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Cornmonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for the court of common pleas of Northumberland county, on the petition of any individual or individuals, who may claim damages for the location of public roads on orders granted for viewing or locating the same, prior to the act of eighth day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, to appoint persons to view the road opened under such view or order, and assess the damages accruing to the landholder or landholders, through whose lands such road is located, and report the same to the court at its next sitting thereafter; and if the said court approve the same, it shall be paid as all road damages are paid under existing laws: Provided, That it shall be lawful for the court to grant a re-view and assessment of the damages, if sufficient cause, in their opinion, exists for the same. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. APPROVED-The second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 522. AN ACT Authorizing Abraham Varns, of the borough of New Buffalo, Perry county, to sell and convey certain Real Estate. WHEREAS, Abraham Varns, of the borough of New Buffalo, Perry county, is the owner of a certain house and lot situate in the said borough, which he purchased from one George Lesher, for the sum of four hundred and sixty dollars, as fully described in a certain deed of conveyance executed to him the said Abra ham Varns, dated the eighteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and recorded among the records of said county, in book Q, volume one, page three hundred and seventy-one: And whereas, The said Abraham Varns is now very aged and infirm, and incapable of supporting himself and earning a liveli. hood, and has no other means for his support than the rents derived from the said real estate, which he acquired and owned before his marriage with his present wife, Maria Varns : And whereas, Ais said wife has since their marriage, to wit: on the fourth of January, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyeight, been found and declared to be a lunatic by virtue of a commission de lunatico inquirendo, regularly issued out of the court of common pleas of the said county, and is now an inmate of the Pennsylvania State Lunatic hospital and Union asyJum for the insane, and is pronounced to be incurable : And whereas, The said Abraham Varns, for the purpose of raising means for the support of himself and family, the rents arising from the said real estate being entirely inadequate for said purpose, is desirous to sell and convey the said property and make title to the purchaser, but cannot do so by reason of the hopeless insanity of his said wife, and the courts possess no power to relieve him in this emergency; 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 said Abraham Varns shall have and possess the power to sell and convey, in fee simple, the said real estate, so that the purchaser thereof shall receive the same clear of the incumbrance and divested of all present or future claim of dower in favor of his said wife, the same title to pass to the purchaser as if she were now naturally dead: Provided, That before any such sale be made, the truth of the statements contained in the preamble of this act shall be made to appear satisfactorily to the court of common pleas of said county, by proper depositions or otherwise, who, upon being so satisfied, shall order such sale to be made, and the purchase money paid to said Abraham Varns; a record of which said order shall be regularly made on the minutes of said court, and the costs of the same be paid by the alienor. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. |
