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tion and the due management and ordering of the affairs thereof: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be deemed to authorize the said company to engage, directly or indirectly, in any banking, monied, commercial, mining or manufacturing concerns, or to act in any other way than as a fire company: And p ovided also, That this act shall continue in force fifteen years from the passing thereof, and no longer, for the purpose aforesaid; and the Legislature reserves the right to alter, amend or annul this charter at any time hereafter.

JAMES THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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APPROVED-The ninth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen

hundred and thirty-five.

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No. 85.

An Act

To legalize a certain marriage contract between Nathaniel Bell and Margaret Bell, late Margaret Marks of Juniata county, so far as to legiti mate their offspring.

SECTION 1. Be it nacted by the Sesate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania i» General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the marriage contract entered into between Nathaniel Bell and Margaret Marks, of Juniata county, on the first Names of the day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, which, in consequence of the wiltul desertion, and long continued absence of the former wile of the said Nathaniel Bell, was at the time of its consummation by the contracting partics, erroneously supposed to be legal, be and the same is hereby de clared to be legal and valid, so far as to legitimate and remove all legal disabilities from the offspring of the said Nathaniel and Margaret, incurred in consequence of said illegal marriage, up to the time of their subsequent legal marriage on the eighteenth day of November, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four; and the children of the said Nathaniel and Margaret Marks (now Margaret Bell,) namely Mary, Ann, Elizabeth, William, Rebecca, Ephraim and Samuel Bell, shall have

and enjoy all the right, benefits and advantages of children born in lawful wedlock, and shall be able and capable in law to inherit and transmit any estate whatever, as fully and com. pletely, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been born subsequently to the legal marriage of their aforesaid parents. JAMES THOMPSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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APPROVED-The ninth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen bundred and thirty-five.

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No. 86.

An Act

To confer on Amelia Wenrick the rights and benefits of a child born in lawful wedlock.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvan a in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Amelia, the daughter of Peter Wenrick, of Dauphin county, and Catharine Wenrick, (late Catharine Dickey, of the same county,) and born some time before the marriage of the said Peter and Catharine, shall have and enjoy all the rights, benefits and advantages of a child born in lawful wedlock; and shall be able and capable in law to inherit and transmit any estate whatsoever, as fully and completely, to all intents and purposes, as if she had been born subsequently to the marriage of her aloresaid parents.

JAMES THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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APPROVED-The ninth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen

hundred and thirty-five.

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No. 87.

An Act

To authorize the increase of the annual income of the Roman Catholic Society of Saint Joseph, tor educating and maintaining poor orphan children.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Penn-ylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Roman Catholic Society of Saint Joseph for educating and maintaining poor orphan children, shall have power to increase the clear yearly value or income of the mes. suages, houses, lands and tenements, rents, annuities or other hereditaments and real estate of the corporation, to an amount not exceeding cight thousand dollars: :rovided, That the same shall be applied to the erection of suitable buildings, and to the education, comfort and maintenance of poor orphan children, and for no other purpose whatsoever, and that a separate and distinct account of such application shall be kept by said society.

SECTION 2. That if the said society shall at any time misapply the said funds, or in any other respect abuse the trust confided to them, it shall be in the power of the legislature at any time to modify or repeal this act.

JAMES THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JACOB KERN,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The ninth day of April, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-five.

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Authorizing the election of assessor and assistant assessors in the borough of Tamaqua, in the county of Schuylkill, and to erect said borough into a separate election district.

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 it shall and may be lawful for all persons entitled

by law to vote for chief burgess or other borough officers of the borough of Tamaqua, in the county of Schuylkill, annually hereafter, at the same time and under the same regulations as assessors and assistant assessors are elected in the several townships within this Commonwealth, to elect oue assessor and two a sistant assessors for the said borough; which said assessors and assistant assessors so elected shall have, use and exercise all and every the same duties, and be subject to all and every the same fines, penalties and forfeitures, within the said borough, respectively, which are or hereafter shall lawfully be used, had and exercised, or which are or shall be suffered by or imposed upon like officers of the several townships of this Commonwealth.

SECTION 2. The borough of Tamaqua, in the county of Schuylkill, shall hereafter be a separate election district; and the electors thereof shall hold their general elections at the school house in said borough.

JAMES THOMPSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JACOB KERN,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The ninth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.

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No. 89.

A Supplement

To an act entitled An act for the better regulation of the city of Philadelphia and districts adjoining, and preserving the navigation of the river Schuylkill, passed March the twenty filth, one thousand eight hundred and five.

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 all and every the provisions, fines and penalties, contained in a supplement to an act entitled An act to establish a board of wardens for the port of Philadelphia, and for the regulation of pilots and pilotages, and for other purposes therein mentioned, passed February the seventh, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, shall be and the same are hereby extended to the river Schuylkill, on either of its shores, from the lower falls thereof to its junction with the river Delaware.

SECTION 2. That so much of any act or acts as is hereby altered or supplied, be and the same are hereby repealed.

JAMES THOMPSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JACOB KERN,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The ninth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.

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To dissolve the marriage contract of Robert M. Riddle and Mary Jane his wife.

SECTION 1. Be it enac'ed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly me', and it is hereby nacted by the authority of the same, That the marriage contract entered into by Robert M. Riddle of Allegheny county, and his wife, formerly Mary Jane M'Nickle, be and the same is hereby dissolved, and the par.ies respectively set free, and discharged from all the duties and obligations arising from the said contract, as fully and effectually, as if they had never been joined in marriage.

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APPROVED-The tenth day of April, one thousand eight

hundred and thirty-five.

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