be paid by warrants drawn by thecommissioners on the treasurer of Beaver county.

JOHN WEBER, Speaker

P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.

SIMON SNYDER,

825,000 dollars appropriated.

appointed, &c.

Time and place of meeting.

To view two cer

Harrisburg to

Pittsburg.

CHAPTER CXLVIII.

An ACT to encourage the constructing of certain great and leading roads, within this commonwealth, and the erection of bridges over the Susquehanna, at Harrisburg, Northumberland, Columbia and McCall's ferry.

SECT. I. 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 sum of eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, be, and the same hereby is appropriated for the purposes, and to be applied as hereinafter directed.

SECT. I. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid Commissioners That Nathan Beach of the city of Philadelphia, and Robert Harris and John Schoch, of the town of Harrisburg; William McCandless and Adamson Tannehill, of the town of Pittsburg, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, viz. They shall meet on the first Monday of May next, at the town of Harrisburg, and shall proceed to view the different routes for which laws have been pastain routes from sed for making turnpike roads from Harrisburg to Pittsburg, commonly denominated the northern and southern routes; and having taken into view the shortness of distance, together with the cheapness and practicability of making a turnpike road, shall report to the which of the routes aforesaid shall governor, be established, as the one to which the appropriation made by this act shall be applied; which report being signed by a majority of the said commissioners, and filed in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth, shall be final and conclusive; and the said commissioners shall receive the sum of three dolthree dollars per lars each, for every day they shall necessarily be employed in performing the duties enjoined on them by this act; to be paid to them, by the state treasurer, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

And report to the governor.

Shall receive

diem.

When the stockholders shall have paid

130,000 dollarsy

SECT III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That as soon as the company shall become incorporated, on the route which may be determined on by the aforesaid commission

subscribe

&c.

what manner to

ers, and whose capital, actually paid by the stockholders, shall the governor to amount to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the govern- 350,000 dollars, or be and he is hereby authorized and directed to subscribe, to the stock of the aforesaid company, the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the sum which the governor is hereby directed to subscribe, to the stock aforesaid, shall be paid on warrants drawn by the auditor-general on the state treasurer, in the following manner; that is to say; one hundred When and in thousand dollars immediately after it shall have been ascertain- be paid. ed, that the real capital of such company amounts to the said sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and a further sum of one hundred thousand dollars on the completion of the first fifty miles of the said road, beginning at the edge of the river Susquehanna, opposite Harrisburg, or at the borough of Harrisburg, as the case may be, and proceeding in a continued direction towards Pittsburg; and the further sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be paid on the completion of the second fifty miles; and the remaining sum of fifty thousand dollars shall be paid on the completion of the third distance of fifty miles in continuation of said road in the direction aforesaid.

paid to the Nor

Waterford turn

pike road.

SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- 200,000 dollars to said, That the governor be and he hereby is authorized and di- be subscribed and rected to subscribe a sum, not exceeding two hundred thousand thumberland and dollars, out of the sum herein appropriated, to the stock of any company who may hereafter be incorporated, for the purpose of making a turnpike road from Northumberland to the town of Waterford, in the county of Erie, whose shares of capital stock, subscribed, shall amount to two hundred thousand dollars; and the sum which the governor is hereby directed to subscribe, in the stock aforesaid, shall be paid on warrants drawn by the auditorgeneral on the state treasurer, in the following manner, to wit, How and when one hundred thousand dollars immediately after it shall have been ascertained, that the real capital of such company amounts to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars; and the further sum of one hundred thousand dollars on the completion of the first fifty miles of the said road, beginning at Northumberland, and proceeding in a continued direction towards the town of Waterford aforesaid.

to be paid.

Downingstown,

for by the gover

nor,

SECT. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 150 shares of the That the governor be and he is hereby authorized and directed stock of the to subscribe for one hundred and fifty shares in the stock of the Ephrata, and Harrisburg road Downingstown, Ephrata, and Harrisburg turnpike road; to be to be subscribed paid out of the monies hereby appropriated, in the following manner, to wit; the amount of eighty shares, when the said road shall have been completed six miles in continuation from the place to which it is at this time completed; and the remaining seventy shares, when the whole road shall have been completed.

K k

How and when

to be paid.

400 shares of stock of the Mil

SECT. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, ford and Uwago That the governor be and he is hereby authorized to subscribe road to be su for four hundred shares of the stock of the Milford and Owago When to be paid, turnpike road; to be paid when twenty miles of said road shall be finished and completed.

scribed for, &c.

building a bridge

land.

90,000 dollars to SECT. VII And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, be subscribed for That the governor be and he is hereby authorized and directat Harrisburg. ed to subscribe a sum, not exceeding ninety thousand dollars, to the stock of the company which may hereafter be incorporated for building a bridge over the Susquehanna at HarrisWhen to be paid burg; one half to be paid when the piers and abutments, shall have been constructed, and the other half, when the superstructure shall have been raised; and to subscribe a sum, not 50,000 dollars to exceeding fifty thousand dollars, on the same conditions, in the be subscribed for stock of the company which may hereafter be incorporated, for building a bridge at Northumber building a bridge across the east branch of the Susquehanna, opposite Shamoken Island and the town of Northumberland; and to subscribe a sum on the same conditions, not exceeding 90,000 dollars for ninety thousand dollars to the stock of the company which one at Columbia. may hereafter be incorporated, for the purpose of building a bridge over the river Susquehanna, at or near Columbia; and to subscribe a sum on the same conditions, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, to the stock of the company, which may hereafter be incorporated, for the purpose of building a bridge over the river Susquehanna, at or near McCall's ferry; under the several laws passed for those purposes; and, in either and all the above cases, the payments shall be made out of the monies by this act appropriated, in manner aforesaid.

And 20,000 dol. ars for one at M'Call's ferry.

What monies to be paid out of.

Part of the " act

ment of the

pealed.

SECT. VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, for the improve- That in case the subscription authorized, on the part of the state" to be re- state, by the third section of this act, should be made to the stock of the Harrisburg, Lewistown Huntingdon and Pittsburg turnpike company; then, in that case, so much of the act, entitled, "an act for the improvement of the state," passed the twenty-first day of March. one thousand eight hundred and eight, as authorizes the governor to subscribe for two thousand shares in the stock of said company, be and the same hereby is repealed.

The supplement

to the Harris

burg turnpike

road law to be repealed.

SECT. IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, burg and Pits. That in case the subscriptions authorized, on the part of the state, by the third section of this act, should be made to the stock of the Harrisburg and Pittsburg turnpike company; then, in that case, the act, entitled, "a supplement to an act, entitled, an act authorizing the governor to incorporate a company, for making an artificial road from the bank of the river Susquehanna, opposite the borough of Harrisburg, to Pittsburg," passed the thirty-first of March, one thousand eight hundred

and seven, be and the same is hereby repealed; and the act tỏ which said act is a supplement, shall be in full force.

And the original

law to be in force

The state, on

have the same

SECT. X And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the subscriptions and payments authorized to be subscriptions, to made, by this act, shall, for every share subscribed and paid, rights as indi vest in the commonwealth, all the rights, estates, and emoluments appertaining to a share or shares held by individual stockholders.

viduals.

SECT. XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Payments to be That so much of the unappropriated monies in the treasury made out of unat any time when payments are demanded, under this act, be nies, &c. and they are hereby appropriated to liquidate the same.

appropriated me

mencing the

Pittsburg ex

SECT. XII And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Time for cont That the time for commencing the construction of the road, un- roads from der the act, entitled, "an act authorizing the governor to in Parure to corporate a company, for making an artificial road from the tended, bank of the river Susquehanna, opposite the borough of Harrisburg, to Pittsburg," and under the act, entitled, "an act authorizing the governor to incorporate a company, for making an artificial road from Harrisburg, through Lewistown and Huntingdon, to Pittsburg" be and the same is hereby extended, for the term of three years, from the end of the present session of the general assembly

JOHN WEBER, Speaker

of the House of Representatives, P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED the second day of April, one thousand eight hun

dred and eleven.

SIMON SNYDER.

CHAPTER CXLIX.

An ACT making appropriation for certain internal improves

ments.

Somerset and

SECT. 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 1,500 dollars ap. sum of one thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is propriated for opening a road hereby appropriated for the purpose of opening a road from the in Fayette counues White horse tavern in Somerset county to the federal turnpike in Fayette county, as laid out by the commissioners appointed for that purpose by the governor, in conformity to a law passed the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and nine; one thousand dollars thereof to be paid to the commissioners of How to be ex Fayette county, and five hundred dollars thereof to be paid to John Fletcher and Samuel Wright of Somerset county; who are

pended.

Somerset and

hereby made commissioners to receive and expend the same, and to be accountable for the faithful expenditure of the same, as hereinafter mentioned; Provided, That the money hereby appropriated shall be expended exclusively in oper.ing the road aforesaid between the town of Connelsville, in Fayette county, and the town of Berlin in Somerset county.

3000 dollars apSECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, propriated for improvements in That the sum of one thousand dollars be and the same is hereby Cambria counties appropriated for improving the road in Somerset county, five hundred dollars thereof to be paid to the commissioners of said county for improving the glade road, and five hundred dollars thereof to be paid to John Statler, George Graham and John Dennison, who are hereby appointed commissioners to receive and expend the same, and to account therefor as is herein after provided, and which they are to expend in manner following; viz. four hundred and fifty dollars for improving the Pennsylvania road, and fifty dollars thereof, for improving that part of the old Pennsylvania road between Murphey's and the Westmoreland county line, in a direction to McIntire's; and five hundred and fifty dollars to be paid to the commissioners of Cambria county to be expended as follows, viz. for improving that part of the road from the Huntingdon county line, on the top of Allegheny mountain to Munster, one hundred and fifty dollars; for improving the road from Munster to Ebensburg, one hundred and fifty dollars; for improving the road from Ebensburg to Beula, fifty dollars; for improving the road from Beula to the Indiana county line, towards the western boundary of the state, one hundred dollars; for improving that part of the state road from Beula to the Cambria county line, in a direction towards Pittsburg, one hundred dollars.

Franklin county.

Road to be laid

bell's bridge in

county to Kishi

SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of six hundred dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated to be paid to the commissioners of Franklin county, three hundred dollars thereof for improving the stage road from Loudon to the Bedford county line; three hundred dollars thereof for improving the state road from Strasburg to the Bedford county line.

SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, out from Camp That James Milligan, John McDowell, and John Gillespie of the Huntingdon County of Mifflin, Isaac Campbell, Robert Leonard, and John coquillas valley. Crumb of the county of Huntingdon, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and mark a road, beginning at John Campbell's bridge in Huntingdon county, and from thence the nearest and best route over Chesnut ridge by Sinkey's gap; from thence to intersect the public road leading up the Kishicoquillas valley; and the commissioners aforesaid or any five of them shall, as soon as convenient, proceed to perform the duties enjoined on them by this act, and shall deposit a draft in the office