on which any purchase money is due to the Commonwealth, if desired so to do by the owner or owners thereof, a majority of the board to view the ground; the expense of such view and appraisement to be paid by the owner of the land. SECTION 2. The board, or a majority of them, shall appraise such land or lands for its cash value, and shall make a table of rates, numbers one, two, three, four: all land valued at ten dollars per acre and upwards, shall be rated number one; all land valued at more than seven and less than ten dollars per acre, shall be rated number two; all land valued at more than four dollars and not more than seven dollars per acre, shall be rated number three; all lands valued at four dollars or less per acre, shall be rated number four: Provided, That in making the valuation of lands, the value of the buildings thereon erected shall be deducted. Lands rated. SECTION 3. All land rated number one shall pay the amount Lands rated of the purchase money, with six per cent. per annum interest according to thereon; number two shall pay such purchase money, and four number to and one half per cent. per annum interest thereon; number pay purchase three shall pay such purchase money, and three per cent. per interest. annum and interest thereon; number four shall pay the original purchase money, without interest. money, with SECTION 4. The board of appraisers shall keep a record of Duties of their valuations in a book to be kept for that purpose; and a board of certified copy thereof, under scal, shall be good evidence on an appraisers. application to procure patents and pay the purchase money due the Commonwealth. Appraisers to be sworn or SECTION 5. The appraisers, before entering on the duties enjoined on them by this act, shall be sworn or affirmed that they will justly and impartially appraise the land, in all cases affirmed. where called to act; and shall be allowed one dollar and fifty cents per day for each day spent, and four cents for each mile circular travelled, 'by them in discharging the duties enjoined by this act. SECTION 6. This act shall continue in force three years, and Act to conno longer. tinue 3 years. SECTION 7. pealed so far as All laws of this Commonwealth are hereby re- Laws altered they are altered by this act, and no further. JAMES THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS S. CUNNINGHAM, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The tenth day of April, one thousand eight to be repeal'd hundred and thirty-five. GEO: WOLF. Proviso. No. 95. An Act To alter the time of holding the courts in Beaver and Montgomery counties. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen'atives 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 act of the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, as requires the courts in Beaver county to commence on the first Monday of December in each year, and continue one week, be and the same is hereby repealed; and in hieu thereof, the said courts. shall hereafter commence on the last Monday in November of each year, and continue two weeks: Provided, That the judges may at the preceding September term make and order that such November term shall continue one week only. SECTION 2. From and after the first day of June next, the courts of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions, in the county of Montgomery, shall commence on the third Mondays of August, November, February and May, in each and every year. JAMES THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS S. CUNNINGHAM, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The tenth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-five. GEO: WOLF. Preamble. No 96. An Act For the relief of Charles Nice. WHEREAS, Charles Nice has represented to the Legislature, that by deed poll, dated the thirteenth day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, he granted and conveyed certain estates, real and personal, to trustees in trust, to apply the income thereof to his use during his life, and after his death to the use of his relations and next of kin; and that the income arising therefrom not being sufficient for his support, the trustees were under the necessity of selling part of the land and applying the whole proceeds thereof directly to his use,in stead of investing the same and so applying the income thereof only; and further, that the income of the residue of the said estates is insufficient for his maintenance, and that he is desirous that an act should be passed directing that the said residue shall be sold, and the proceeds thereof invested in the purchase of a life annuity for him the said Charles Nice ;-Now, 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 it shall and may be lawful for the said Charles Trustees of Nice to apply, by petition, to the Court of Common Pleas for C. Nice authe city and county of Philadelphia, praying the said court to thorized to order and decree that the trustees under the deed poll of the said invest in an Charles Nice, dated the thirteenth day of April, in the year of a our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and recorded in the office for recording deeds for the city and county of Philadelphia, in deed book J. C., number eighteen, page five hundred and forty-seven, or any trustees to be appointed by the said court in place of the present trustees, shall expose to public sale, on the terms and conditions to be prescribed by the said court, the whole unsold residue of the effects, rents and estates, real and personal, which passed and were conveyed by the said deed, and invest the whole proceeds thereof in the purchase of a life annuity, or make such other investments as may be deemed advisable, the interest thereon to be paid to the said Charles Nice, during his natural life, on such terms as shall be approved by the said court; whereupon the said court shall have full power and authority to make and enforce such order and decree, and it shall be the duty of such trustee to obey and comply with the same, and on compliance therewith the trustees named in the said deed, and their representatives, and all others upon whom, either by inheritance, or the appointment of the court, the said trusts shall have devolved, shall be and are hereby declared to be fully and absolutely exonerated and discharged from all responsibility and accountability to any person or persons whatsoever, for or by reason of the trusts or any of them created by the said deed, in regard to the estates and effects so ordered to be sold, and also in regard to the estates and effects whatsoever heretofore sold or disposed of by the said trustees or any of them. APPROVED-The tenth day of April, Anno Domini eighteen sell estate & annuity. hundred and thirty-five. GEO: WOLF No. 97. An Act For the relief of Benjamin Spayd and Isaac Beck, late overseers of the poor of the borough of Pottsville, and for other purposes. 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 Benjamin Spayd and Isaac Beck, of the borough B. Spayd and of Pottsville, in the county of Schuylkill, late overseers of the poor of said borough, are hereby authorized to collect such taxes as have heretofore been levied by them for the support of of the poor in said borough, and in addition thereto, levy upon, as 1. Beck au thorized to collect taxes for support poor. Penalties and liabilities. Acts valid as sess and collect, from the taxable inhabitants of said borough, a sum sufficient to pay all legal demands against the said borough, for expenses had, and for maintaining the poor of said borough until the paupers were removed to the house of employment of said county; and the said Benjamin Spayd and Isaac Beck, are hereby vested with the same powers and authority, and be subject to the same penalties and liabilities, and render their accounts to the town council of said borough, within one year after the passage of this act, in the same manner as other overseers of the poor of the said borough were bound to do, prior to the removal of the poor to the house of employment of said county. SECTION 2. That all the acts done by the said Benjamin if done within Spayd and Isaac Beck, as overseers of the poor of said borough, the year. and which may be done by the authority given in the first section of this act, shall be as valid as if it had been done and performed within the year for which they were elected overseers of the poor for said borough. Germantown SECTION 3. The overseers of the poor of the townships of Overseers of Germantown and Roxborough, in the county of Philadelphia, the poor of shall issue proposals for contracts to supply said townships, at and Roxboro' least once in every year, which said contract or contracts shall authorized to be given to the lowest and best bidder; and the said overseer or issue propos's overseers shall not directly or indirectly supply, by contract or Penalty. otherwise, the poor of the respective township for which he or they may be elected, under a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every offence so committed, one half of said fine to be applied to the use of the poor of the township for which said contract was made, and the other half to the use of the informer, and to be recoverable before any justice of the peace or alderman of the county of Philadelphia. JAMES THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS S. CUNNINGHAM. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED--The tenth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-five. GEO: WOLF. No. 98. An Act Authorizing a subscription of stock to the Waynesburg, Green Castle and Mercersburg turnpike road company. 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 Governor is hereby authorized and required to subscribe for one hundred shares of the stock of said company, in addition to that already subscribed, and to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for one-fourth of said additional stock, one year after the passage of this act, and when two and a half miles of the unfinished part of the said road is completed, and one-fourth of said stock, when two and a half miles more are completed, and the balance when the whole of said road is completed: Provided, That before any money shall be drawn from the Treasury, the said company shall give security to the Commonwealth, to be approved by the Governor, for completing the whole of the unfinished part of said road. APPROVED-The tenth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-five. GEO: WOLF. No. 99. An Act To annul the marriage contracts of Israel Steel and Mary his wife, Jacob SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the marriage contract entered into by and between Is- Marriage rael Steel and Mary his wife, late Mary Geiger, both of the coun- contract be ty of Dauphin, be and the same is hereby annulled and made void and Mary his and the parties released and discharged from the said contract, wife, annull'd tween I. Steel |