Liens, or sued within six months, be a lien upon the property Ninth. All the costs of the proceedings, including costs. proceedings. Tenth. Proceedings under this act shall be confined Limit of to the ascertainment, award, assessment, levy, and collection of damages, benefits, expenses, and costs of effecting improvements, in which private property has been entered upon and actually, physically appropriated to public use, or injured or destroyed, or contract made, materials furnished, and work and labor done, within five years prior to the date of approval of this act. Power is hereby given to the municipali palities. ties of the State to complete such improvements, now in course of completion; and upon such completion, as aforesaid, for the award, assessment, levy, and collection of damages and benefits caused thereby. Power of munici Recovery of dam ages less than award. Eleventh. If upon any appeal or trial, in the case of any person or persons whose property has been taken, injured, or destroyed, the result shall be, that the appellant or appellants recovers or recover less damages for property taken, injured, or destroyed than he or she, or they, was or were awarded by the viewers, from which award said appeal or appeals were taken, then the court may thereupon order and compel the municipality to repay to the several property owners, Repayment. assessed for benefits, their ratable proportion of so much of said assessment as were made by reason of said excess of damages. jury. Twelfth. This act shall, in no event, be construed as Right of trial by depriving any person of a right of trial by jury, where such a right has been conferred by the Constitution of this State; but such right shall be demanded in the time fixed by the seventh clause of section one of this act. Thirteenth. Any party interested in any assessment Superior Court, Appeals to the the of benefits or award of damages may appeal to the Superior court or the Supreme court, as the pending controversy may warrant: Provided, That such appeal be taken within one year from the date of final judg ment; but such appeal shall not be a supersedeas, unless taken within thirty days after such judgment. APPROVED The 14th day of March, A. D. 1907. EDWIN S. STUART. Allegheny county. pleas No. 4. Election of judges. Appointment of judges. Repeal. No. 15. AN ACT Increasing the number of courts of common pleas in the county of Allegheny; establishing therein a distinct and separate court of common pleas, and providing for the election and appointment of judges for said court Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That there shall be and hereby is established in the county of Allegheny a distinct and separate court of common pleas, in addition to those now established, composed of three judges, learned in the law, who shall hold office for the same term, with like powers, duties, authority and compensation, and with like constitution and equal and coordinate jurisdiction, with courts of common pleas now existing in said county, and the judges thereof, respectively. Section 2. Three judges of said court of common pleas of Allegheny county, learned in the law, in addition to those now established, shall be elected by the duly qualified electors of said county at the next general election; one of said judges, to be designated as required by the Constitution of the Commonwealth, shall be president judge of said court. Said judges shall be duly commissioned as judges aforesaid, and shall enter upon the discharge of their duties, respectively, on the first Monday of January next following their election. The successors of said judges, respectively, shall be elected or appointed as required by law. Section 3. The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint three competent persons, learned in the law, as judges of said court until the first Monday of January succeeding the next general election; one of whom shall be designated as president judge for said period. Section 4. That such court, when established by the passage of this act, shall be known and designated as court of common pleas of Allegheny county, number four. Section 5. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. APPROVED The 15th day of March, A. D. 1907. EDWIN S. STUART. No. 16. AN ACT To quiet the title of real estate; and to enable citizens of the United States, and corporations chartered under the laws of this Commonwealth and authorized to hold real estate therein, to hold and convey title to real estate which has formerly been held by corporations not authorized by law to hold real estate in Pennsylvania. Real estate. Conveyed by for Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That where any conveyances of real estate in this Commonwealth have been made by any foreign corporation or corporations not having the right to own and hold the same, to any eign corporation. citizen of the United States, or to any corporation chartered under the laws of this Commonwealth and authorized to hold real estate, such citizen or corporation, grantee as aforesaid, shall hold and may convey such title and estate, indefeasably, as to any To quiet title. APPROVED-The 21st day of March, A. D. 1907. No. 17. AN ACT " To amend the first section of an act, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Home for Disabled and Indigent Soldiers and Sailors of Pennsylvania,' approved the third day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, so as to extend the benefits of said act to soldiers and sailors or marines, who participated in the war with Spain. Home for Sol Marines. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That section one of an act, approved the third day of June, Anno Domini diers, Sailors and one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Home for Disabled and Indigent Soldiers and Sailors of Pennsylvania," which reads as follows: Section 1, act for amendments. of "Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the Governor of this Commonwealth, the State Treasurer, the Auditor June 3, 1885, cited General, and a committee of three members of the General Assembly, consisting of one Senator, and two members of the House of Representatives, who shall be appointed by the presiding officer of the Senate and House, respectively, together with a committee of five honorably discharged soldiers, who shall be selected by the Department Commander of Pennsylvania Commission. Inmates. Grand Army of the Republic, be and the same are hereby constituted and appointed a commission to locate and establish a home for the disabled and indigent soldiers, sailors or marines, who, as citizens of this Commonwealth, enlisted and participated in the war for the preservation of the Union of the United States," be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the Governor of this Commonwealth, the State Treasurer, the Auditor General, and a committee of three members of the General Assembly, consisting of one Senator and two members of the House of Representatives, who shall be appointed by the presiding officer of the Senate and House, respectively, together with a committee of five honorably discharged soldiers, who shall be selected by the Department Commander of Pennsylvania Grand Army of the Republic, be and the same are hereby constituted and appointed a commission to locate and establish a home for the disabled and indigent soldiers, sailors, or marines, who, as citizens of this Commonwealth, enlisted, and participated in the war for the preservation of the Union of the United States, and in the war with Spain. APPROVED The 21st day of March, A. D. 1907. Memorial Day Appropriation by county commissioners and town councils. Act not to apply to cities. No. 18. AN ACT Authorizing the county commissioners of the several counties, or the town councils of the several boroughs, of this Commonwealth, or both, to appropriate annually a sufficient sum of money to each Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, in their respective counties or boroughs, to aid in defraying the expenses of Memorial Day. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the county commissioners of the several counties, or the town councils of the several boroughs, of this Commonwealth, or both, be and are hereby authorized to appropriate annually, to each post in their respective counties or boroughs, a sufficient sum to aid in defraying expenses of Memorial Day. Section 2. The above act is not to apply to posts situate in cities of the first, second, and third class. APPROVED The 21st day of March, A. D. 1907. EDWIN S. STUART. No. 19. AN ACT Validating, approving, and confirming the title to certain lots of land in the borough of Warren, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, heretofore laid cut into lots by the burgess and town council of said borough, under an act, entitled "A further supplement to an act, entitled 'An act erecting the town of Warren, in the county of Warren, into a borough and township, and for other purposes,' passed the third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred thirty-two," approved the sixth day of March, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-five, and sold by said burgess and town council to various purchasers as vacant land, lying between the Conewango creek and the southerly line of Water street (now Pennsylvania avenue, west), as said line is now recognized by said borough authorities, and evidenced by the buildings erected on said lots, along said street, between the Suspension bridge (crossing the Allegheny river) and Liberty street, in said borough, and thence to a point where said line prolonged would strike the westerly side of Market street, in said borough, whenever that part of said Water street covered by said lots, so laid out and sold, shall be vacated by said borough authorities, under existing laws. Whereas, By the third section of an act of the Gen- Preamble. eral Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "A further supplement to an act, entitled ‘An act erecting the town of Warren, in the county of Warren county Warren, into a borough and township, and for other purposes,' passed the third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two," and approved the sixth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, it was enacted as follows: March 6, 1815. "Section 3. The burgess and town council of said Section 3, act of borough are hereby authorized to lay out into lots any ground, not belonging to individuals, along the banks of the Allegheny river and Conewango creek, in the bounds of said borough, and the same to sell and convey, in fee or otherwise, to purchasers in such manner as they may deem advisable, and the proceeds of said sale to be paid into the treasury of said borough, for the use of the same: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall interfere with the use of said river and creek as public highways;" and Whereas. By various resolutions of the burgess and Preamble. town council of said borough of Warren, in pursuance of said act of Assembly, the said burgess and town council of said borough of Warren laid out into lots the land on the bank of said Conewango creek, between Market street, on the east, and the Suspension bridge crossing the Allegheny river, on the west, and between the said creek, on the south, and the southerly line of Water street (now Pennsylvania avenue west), as said line of said Water street (now Pennsyl vania avenue, aforesaid) is now recognized by said borough authorities, and as evidenced by the permanent buildings erected on said lots, along said Water |