the owner, may enter and dig, take and carry away any stone, gravel, sand or earth most conveniently situated for making and repairing said bridge.` SECTION 10. The president and directors of the said company shall keep fair and just accounts of all moneys received by Accounts to them from the said commissioners and from the stockholders, be submitted and of the amount of the profits on shares that may be forfeited annually to a general meetas aforesaid, and of all voluntary contributions, and also of all ing until said moneys by them expended in the erection of said bridge and toll bridge is houses, and shall at least once in each year submit such ac- finished and counts to a general meeting of the stockholders until the said costs, &c. p'd bridge be completed, and until all the costs, charges and expenses for effecting the same shall be fully paid and discharged, and the aggregate amount of all such expenses shall be liquidated and ascertained. SECTION 11. When a good and complete bridge is erected Property over the said river Delaware, at the place aforesaid, the proper- vested in ty of the said bridge shall be vested in the said company afore- company. said, their successors and assigns forever; and the said company their successors and assigns, may demand and receive toll from Tolls. travellers and others not to exceed the following rates: For every coach, landau, chariot, phæton or other pleasurable carriage with four wheels, drawn by four horses, the sum of sixty cents; for the same carriage with two horses, the sum of forty cents; for every wagon with four horses, the sum of fifty cents; for every carriage of the same description drawn by two horses, the sum of forty cents; for every chaise, riding chair, sulkey, cart or other two wheeled carriage, or sleigh or sled with two horses, the sum of thirty-one cents; for the same with one horse, the sum of fifteen cents; for a single horse and rider, the sum of ten cents; for every led or driven horse or mule, the sum of five cents; for every foot passenger, the sum of two cents; for every head of horned cattle, the sum of three cents; for every sheep or swine, the sum of half a cent: Provided, All persons going to and Proviso. returning from funerals, persons going to and returning from meeting or church, children going to and returning from school, and persons going to and returning from military trainings, shall pass free from toll: Provided also. That in fixing the toll of 2d Proviso. all carriages to be drawn wholly by oxen, or partly by horses and partly by oxen, two oxen shall be estimated equal to one horse; and the said company shall so erect the said bridge as in no wise to injure, stop or interrupt the navigation of the said river, or prevent boats or rafts from passing or persons from fording the said river. SECTION 12. If any person or persons shall wilfully cut, Penalty for destroy, break or remove from off the said bridge or any part wilful injury. thereof, any piece or pieces of timber, plank or planks, stone or stones, chain or chains, bolt or bolts, or any other materials whatsoever belonging to said bridge or otherwise wilfully or maliciously damage the same, he, she or they so offending, Penalty for extortion and neglect to keep bridge in repair, Proviso.. shall forfeit and pay for every such offence over and above the damages done to the said bridge, the sum of thirty dollars, to be recovered in any court having cognizance thereof. SECTION 13. If the said company their successors and assigns, and whoever shali own or possess the said bridge, shall collect or demand any greater rate or prices for the passing over the said bridge than what are herein before prescribed and specified; or shall neglect to keep the said bridge in good repair, he, she or they so offending, shall for every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of thirty dollars, one third thereof for the use of the poor of the county of Bucks, in the State of Pennsylvania, and one third thereof for the use of the poor of the township of Hopewell, county of Hunterdon, in New Jersey, and the other third for the use of the person who may sue for the same: Provided always, That no suit or action shall be brought, unless within thirty days after such offences shall be committed. Compensati'n SECTION 14. The said president and directors shall have powto owners of er to agree with any owner or owners of ferries or shad fisheries ferries and that shad fisheries be injured by the erection of the said bridge, and to may compensate them for any damages they may thereby sustain, and if they cannot agree with such owner or owners, then and in such case the said damages shall be ascertained and paid in the same manner as is provided for in the ninth section of this act: Provided, That no person shall receive any compensation for ferrying at any ferry which shall have been purchased and paid for by the said company, after the said bridge shall have been completed. Proviso. Semi annual SECTION 15. The said president, directors and company declaration of shall also keep a just and true account of all and every the modividends. neys received by their respective collectors of tolls for crossing the said bridge, and shall make and declare a dividend of the profits and income thereof among all the stockholders of the said company, deducting first therefrom all contingent costs and charges, and such proportion of said income as may be deemed necessary for a growing fund, to provide against the decay, and for the rebuilding and repairing of the said bridge, and shall on every first Monday in May and November in each and every year, publish the dividend to be made of the said clear profits thereof amongst the stockholders, and of the time and place where and when the same shall be paid, and shall cause the same to be paid accordingly. Law not to go into effect until N. Jer sey vest like power, &c. SECTION 16. This act shall not take effect or go into opera. tion until the Legislature of the Commonwealth of New Jersey shall pass a law appointing commissioners on their part, and vesting like power and authority in the subscribers to the said capital stock of erecting a bridge at the place aforesaid, and of extending the same from shore to shore with as full and ample powers, privileges, franchises and emoluments as to the said company are hereby given. allowed. SECTION 17. Nothing in this act contained shall be so con- No banking strued as to authorize the said bridge company to exercise any privileges banking privileges, or the issuing notes in the form of bank notes or to do any other thing than to erect a bridge over the river Delaware, with suitable toll houses at the place designated in the first section of this act, and the Legislature reserve the right of altering, amending or annulling this charter when they may think proper. JAMES THOMPSON, THOMAS S. CUNNINGHAM, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-five. GEO: WOLF. No. 176. A Supplement To the act to establish a General System of Education by common schools, passed the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyfour. 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 tax authorized to be assessed and levied by Tax, how the several school divisions and districts by the act entitled "An levied, act to establish a general system of education by common. schools," passed the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, (to which this is a supplement,) shall be assessed and levied on the same articles as the State tax is now assessed and levied on, and on all pests of profit, professions, trades, occupations or callings, not exceeding one and a half times the amount assessed on the same for county purposes, and if the taxes so assessed on unseated land, and not otherwise collected, the collection thereof may be enforced in the same manner as the collection of taxes on unseated lands is enforced when assessed for county purposes. SECTION 2. Where any township or district in any school district voti'g division, votes in the negative, on the question of accepting the in the nega law to which this is a supplement, said township or district shall compelled to not be compelled to accept the same, although a majority of the accept. Township or tive, not Office of inspector abolished. Affirmative delegates to the joint meeting of said division, vote in the affirmative; but said township or district shall in like condition with regard to said law, as if a majority of said joint delegate meeting had voted in the negative. SECTION 3. The office of inspector is hereby abolished, and all the duties of the said inspectors are transferred to the directors of the several districts. SECTION 4. When the affirmative votes on the acceptance of votes in the the law to which this is a supplement, are a minority of the joint minority on meeting of the delegates of any division, the tax voted to be joint meeting, raised by said affirmative delegates, shall be levied, assessed, tax how col- and collected, in the same manner as if a majority of said joint lected, &c. meeting had voted in the affirmative: and said minority shall have the same power to call meetings of the people within their several districts, as the joint meeting would have had, had a majority thereof voted in the affirmative, and this is declared to be the meaning of the law to which this is a supplement. Where a majority de cide against accepting, & no tax to be to continue in force. for SECTION 5. In any case where a majority of the qualified citizens of any school district, assembled agreeably to the provisions of this act, and the act to which this is a supplement, shall decide against accepting the law, and that no tax shall be levied common schools, the acts of assembly to provide for the edulevied, act cation of the poor gratis, shall be continued in force in said disproviding for trict, for the current year, and every such district, for that year, education of shall be entitled to no part of the State appropriation; but the poor gratis, amount which such district would have been entitled to had it determined to levy a tax for common schools, shall remain and accumulate in the county treasury for two years, for the use of such district: Provided, That if within that time, such district shall not levy a tax as aforesaid, then the proportion to which such district would have been entitled, shall be distributed among the other districts in each county, which shall have levied a tax: And provided, That such accumulation for any district shall not a second time be allowed, but the money shall be distributed among the districts, as provided by the sixth section of the act to which this is a supplement, until such district shall accept the law and levy a tax as aforesaid. Proviso. 2d Proviso. Persons enti. tled to vote. SECTION 6. In all meetings of the people in the several districts, directed by the act to which this is a supplement, no persons shall be entitled to vote except those who are entitled to vote for members of the Legislature. SECTION 7. Immediately after the passage of this suppleCircular let. ment, the Secretary of this Commonwealth shall cause circular ters to be sent letters, with the said supplement attached thereto, to be addressto commiss's ed to the county commissioners of each county; and it shall be by Sect'y of Commonw❜th the duty of the commissioners aforesaid, to publish the same in one, and not more than two newspapers, in the county, if there be one or more published therein, for three, successive weeks, in such manner as shall secure the timely organization under this supplement, according to the provisions thereof, the expense to be defrayed out of the county treasury. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini, eigh teen hundred and thirty-five. GEO: WOLF. No. 177. An Act To incorporate the Methodist Episcopal church at Tunkhannock, in the county of Luzerne, 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 Zelia Smith, John Phillips, Thomas H. Muzzy, Samuel Sturk, Henry G. Hammond, Asher M. Smith, Charles Hadsall, Thomas P. Meekee, John Montayne, John Phelps, William T. Rislu, Cyrus Phelps, Homes S. Jerry, John Milroy, William Garret, John K. Clefton, Morris Roberts, J. E. Heiss, Bishop Phelps, John V. Smith and Washington Stanbury, are hereby erected into a corporation, with the style and title of Corporation. "The Methodist Episcopal church at Tunkhannock," and as Style and such shall have the power to admit members, and shall have title. and exercise all the powers and privileges granted by law to the Presbyterian congregation of Athens, and be subject to all the limitations and restrictions imposed by law on the last mentioned corporation. SECTION 2. The trustees of the Presbyterian congregaPresbyterian tion at Johnstown, in the county of Cambria, shall be and they congregation are hereby created into one body politic and corporate, in deed at Jobstown. and in law, by the name, style and title of "The trustees of the Presbyterian congregation at Johnstown;" and by the same title. name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and Style and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts of law and else. Privileges & where, and shall be able and capable in law and equity, to take liabilities. and h |