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SECTION 19. If any owner or driver of any car, carriage or conveyance whatsoever, upon the said rail road, shall pass by any place appointed for receiving tolls, without making payment, with intent to defraud the said company, he, she or they so offending shall forfeit and pay for the use of the said company the sum of twenty dollars, to be sued for and recovered by action of debt before any justice of the peace, in like manner and subject to the same rules and regulations as debts under one hundred dollars may be sued for and recovered, together with costs of suit.

SECTION 20. If any person or persons shall wilfully and knowingly break, injure or destroy the rail road or any part thereof, or any work, edifice or device, or any part thereof, to be erected by the said company, in pursuance of this act, he, she or they shall forfeit and pay to the said company three times the actual damages so sustained, to be sued for and recovered with cost of suit, in any court having cognizance thereof, by action of debt, in the name and for the use of said company, and shall also be subject to indictment in the court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware county, and upon conviction of such offence, shall be punished by fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.

SECTION 21. If the president, managers and company shall commence in not proceed to carry on said work within three years from the 3 years, to passage of this act, and shall not complete four miles of the complete 4 same as aforesaid, in five years thereafter, according to the miles in 5 ys. true intent and meaning of this act; or if after the completion of the said rail road as aforesaid, the said corporation shall suffer the same to go to decay, and be impassible for the term of three years, then this charter shall become null and void, except so far as compels said company to make reparation for damages.

and keep road in repair.

may be

increased to

2000 shares.

SECTION 22. If any increase of the capital stock be deemed Capital stock necessary by the stockholders to complete the said rail road, it may be lawful for the said president, managers and company at a stated or special meeting convened for the purpose, to increase the number of shares, so that they shall not exceed in the whole two thousand; and to receive and demand the moneys for shares so subscribed, in like manner and under like penalties, as is hereinbefore provided for the original subscription, or as shall be provided for by their by-laws.

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APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, Anno Domini, eigh-`

teen hundred and thirty-five.

GEO: WOLF.

No. 114.

An Act

To authorize Elizabeth R. Olden, guardian of Joseph Olden, a lunatic, and
Mary Hoffmaster, to sell and convey certain real estate.

sell real est.

of Jos. Olden.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly mt, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Elizabeth R. Olden, guardian or trustee of Joseph E. R. Older Olden, who was declared to be a lunatic by the court of chan- authorized to cery of the State of New Jersey, is hereby authorized and empowered, under the direction or order of the court of Common Pleas of the county of Philadelphia, to sell and convey, in fee simple, all or any part of the estate, right, title or interest of the said Joseph Olden, of and in the following described real estate, situate in the city of Philadelphia, to wit: all that certain three Description story brick messuage and tenement and lot or piece of ground of property. thereto belonging, situate on the east side of Delaware Sixth street, between Prune and Spruce streets, beginning at the distance of ninety-six feet three inches southward from the south side of the said Prune street, in the said city of Philadelphia, containing in breadth nineteen feet three inches, and in length eastward, one hundred feet, to a twelve feet three inches wide alley, which leads northward into Prune street aforesaid, bounded on the west by the said Sixth street, on the north by ground granted or intended to have been granted to John Warder on ground rent, on the east by the said alley, and on the south by ground now or late of Elisha Gordon. All that three story brick messuage or tenement and lot or piece of ground thereunto belonging, situate on the south side of Pine street, between Delaware Sixth and Seventh streets, and at the distance of one hundred and eight feet eastward from the east side of the said Seventh street, in the said city of Philadelphia, containing in breadth on the said Pine street, eighteen feet, and in length or depth one hundred and forty-one feet; bounded northward by Pine street aforesaid, eastward by ground granted by Nathaniel Richardson to John Burk on ground rent, southward by a twenty-one feet wide court, communicating with Sixth street aforesaid, by a twenty feet alley, and westward by ground granted to Isaac Watson and Josiah Bunting. All that three story brick messuage or tenement and lot or piece of ground thereunto belonging, situate on the north side of Walnut street, in the said city of Philadelphia, beginning on the north side of the said Walnut street, at the distance of one hundred and thirty-eight feet eastward from the east side of Delaware Eighth street, at a corner of a lot of ground late of Lawrence Harmstad, now of Rebecca Robbins, thence eastward along the north line of the said Wal

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Proviso.

Pleas of said county of Allegheny, a certificate to that effect, whereupon the said certificate and all recognizances of special bail or other recognizances, together with the writs, pleadings, rules, docket entries and records in such case shall be transmitted into the said District Court, and such case shall then be tried and proceeded in as other cases in said District Court: Provided, That no cause shall be so removed within thirty days previous to the commencement of any term of said court of Common Pleas, or during the sitting of said court, at any term for which the case was not down for trial.

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

GEO: WOLF.

No. 110.

An Act

Authorizing the election of assessor and assistant assessors in the borough of Indiana, in the county of Indiana.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of l'ennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful for the qualified clectors of the borough of Indiana, in the county of Indiana, annually hereafter at the court house in the said borough, 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 one assessor and two assistant assessors for said borough, which said assessor 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: and the said borough shall hereafter be separate from the townships of Centre and Washington, in said county, so far as regards the assessment and collection of county and State taxes; and the commisioners of said county shall hereafter appoint annually a collector for

said borough, in the same manner and subject to the same rules, regulations and penalties, as are or may be by law prescribed for the regulations of collectors of county rates and levies in the several townships of this commonwealth.

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

hundred and thirty-five.

GEO: WOLF.

No. 111.

A Supplement

To the act entitled An act perpetuating and enlarging the corporate powers of the borough of Uniontown in the county of Fayette.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re presentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for the inhabitants of the borough of Uniontown, in the county of Fayette, qualified to vote for corporate officers of said borough, on the first Monday of May next, to elect nine persons, qualified as aforesaid, to serve as a town council of said borough, three to serve three years, three two years, and three one year; and annually thereafter, on the first Monday in May, to elect three persons qualified as aforesaid, to serve three years.

SECTION 2. The councilmen so elected, shall have the same powers, be subject to the same responsibilities, and their election shall be subject to the same regulations as is prescribed by the act to which this is a supplement.

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APPROVED-The tenth day of April, Anno Domini eighteen

hundred and thirty-five.

GEO: WOLF.

and Emlen

No. 112.

An Act

Relative to the Shippenville and Emlenton, the Shippenville and Foxburg, the Clifford and Wilkesbarre, and the Somerset and Conemaugh turnpike roads, and to the Conemaugh bridge at Saltsburg.

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 time for commencing the work on the ShippenShippenville ville and Emlenton turnpike road as required by the fifteenth town t. road, section of the act passed on the tenth of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty, authorizing the Governor to incorporate the said company, be extended for the term of three years from the tenth day of March next, any thing in the act to the contrary notwithstanding.

time for completion extended.

time for completion extended.

SECTION 2. The time for commencing the work on the ShipShippenville and Foxburg, penville and Foxburg turnpike road, as required by the fifteenth section of the act passed the thirteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and extended by the resolution passed the eleventh day of June, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, relative to the Shippenville and Emlenton and Shippenville and Foxburg turnpike roads be further extended for the term of three years from the passage of this act, any thing in the said act or resolution to the contrary notwithstanding.

Clifford and

SECTION 3. The time allowed in and by the act for the inWilkesbarre, corporation of the president, managers and company of the Cliftime for ford and Wilkesbarre turnpike road, for the completion of the completion said road, is hereby extended to the tenth day of January, in extended. the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty

eight, and the said corporation is hereby renewed, with all the rights and privileges conferred by the said act, as fully as if the said road had been completed within the time therein limited. SECTION 4. The company authorized to be incorporated by the act entitled An act to authorize the Governor to incorporate Bridge over the river a company for the purpose of erecting a permanent bridge over Conemaugh the river Conemaugh, at Saltsburg, in Indiana county, at or at Saltsburg, near the point at the mouth of the Loyalhanna creek, in West

moreland county, passed the fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate their funds subscribed after the passage of this act, for the purpose of erecting a bridge over the Kiskiminetas, at or near the town of Saltsburg, in the county of Indiana; and it is hereby declared, that the purposes of said act shall be deemed to be as fully answered and complied with

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