1st of June next. sions to lay before them reports, &c. on or before the jointly, and a majority of each of them respectively, are hereby required and enjoined to meet together in the office of the clerk of the quarter sessions of the peace aforesaid, on or before the Clerk of the ses- first day of June next, and cause the said clerk to lay before them all reports and surveys of roads, township lines and other documents remaining in his office and not heretofore recorded; and it shall be the duty of the said justices and county commisdirect whar pa- sioners aforesaid, jointly, carefully to examine and certify to the clerk aforesaid, what reports of roads and surveys thereof, lines of townships and other papers as shall appear to them to require recording, and to direct him to make such arrangement of the papers in said office as to them shall appear proper to be done at the public expense. Justices, &c. to pers are to be recorded, &c. Clerk to be furnished with ne Duties of the glerk. Justices to ex SECT II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, cessary books. That it shall be the duty of the county commissioners aforesaid, and they are hereby authorized and required at the expense of said county, to furnish the clerk of the quarter sessions of the peace aforesaid, with one or more blank books of good strong paper, in which it shall be the duty of the said clerk to record or cause to be recorded the certificate of the justices and county commissioners aforesaid, together with all such reports of roads and surveys thereof, township lines and other documents as shall be required of him by the certificate aforesaid, and to index said book or books in a plain, intelligible manner, and to make such arrangement of the papers in said office as shall be directed by the certificate aforesaid, and the said justices or a majority of amine whether them shall, on notification from said clerk that he has performed formed his duty, the duties required of him by this act, proceed with all convenient despatch to examine whether the duties aforesaid have been carefully performed by said clerk, and on ascertaining the fact shall give a certificate thereof, which said certificate shall for his services, also be recorded by the said clerk, and for which said services he shall receive out of the county stock, by a warrant drawn by the county commissioners aforesaid, on the treasurer of said county, the sum of one cent for each twelve words, and two cents for each course of the survey of roads and township lines aforesaid, and such further sum for arranging said papers as shall appear just and reasonable to said commissioners, clear of taxation, and no more. or not he has per Compensation and how to be paid. Exemplification SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, of a record, &c. That all reports and surveys of roads and township lines as shall be recorded by the clerk of the quarter sessions of the peace aforesaid, in pursuance of the powers by this act vested in the justices of the quarter sessions of the peace, and county commissioners aforesaid, and which shall appear by the certificate aforesaid to have been directed to have been recorded, the re cord thereof or an exemplification therefrom duly certified under the seal of office shall be given in evidence at all times when the original is lost, worn out, or defaced, and have the same force and effect as if it had been recorded at the time to which it relates. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER XXX. SUPPLEMENT to an act, entitled " An act to enable the governor to incorporate a company to make an artificial road from the town of Hanover in the county of York to the borough of Carlisle." or more shall have subscribed 500 shares. corporate them &c. 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 When 50 persons when fifty persons or more shall have subscribed five hundred shares of the stock authorized to be subscribed for by the act The governor to which this is a supplement, the commissioners or a majority authorized to inof them shall certify under their hands and seals the names of into a company, the subscribers and the number of shares subscribed by each, to the governor, whereupon he shall, under his hand and seal of the state, create and erect the subscribers, and if the said subscriptions be not full at the time, then also those who shall afterwards subscribe, into one body corporate, in deed and in law, under the title and with like powers as are given by the act to which this is a supplement, and the company are hereby empow- Empowered to ered to lay out the road from the town of Hanover to the bridge lay out a road, over Bermudian creek near the Sulphur Spring, in the direction to Carlisle, and that the stock of the company for the said Stock of the comdistance shall be seven hundred and fifty shares with power to shares. increase the number if they shall find it necessary. &c. pany to be 750 missioners au this act into ef SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Six of the comThat any six of the commissioners named in the act to which thorized to carry this is a supplement, are hereby authorized to carry this act in- fect, &c. to effect, and that they be allowed three years from the date of this act, to commence the road herein before mentioned, also three years from the time the part aforesaid is completed, to the Part of former commencement of the remaining part of the road; and so much act repealed. 1 of the act to which this is a supplement as is hereby altered or supplied, be, and the same is hereby repealed. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the sixth day of February, one thousand eight hun dred and eleven. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER XXXI. An ACT to confer on Armantine Monges and Arman Monges the right and benefits of children born in lawful wedlock. WHEREAS John Armantaire Monges, of the city of Philadelphia, a naturalized citizen of the United States, hath represented to the legislature, that previously to his marriage with Janne Barbe Garnier, widow Breban, he had by her two children, to wit, a daughter named Armantine and a son named Arman, and subsequently to their marriage several other children, two of whom are now living, and that his said wife is deceased, and he hath prayed the legislature to confer on the said children born before his said marriage the rights and benefits belonging to legitimate issue; And whereas, it appears proper by legislative interposition to introduce equality and promote harmony among the children of the same family: 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, Armantine, and That the said Armantine Monges and Arman Monges, the chil Arman Monges legitimated. dren of the said John Armantaire Monges and Janne Barbe Garnier, widow Breban, shall respectively have and enjoy all the rights, benefits and advantages of children 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 they had respectively been born subsequently to the intermarriage of their aforesaid parents. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the sixth day of February, one thousand eight hun dred and eleven. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER XXXII. An ACT authorizing Lewis Overdeer, acting executor of the estate of Philip Bottenfeld, deceased, to sell a certain tract of land therein described. WHEREAS by the settlement of the administration account of Lewis Overdeer, acting executor of the last will and testament of Philip Bottenfeld, late of York county it appeared that a balance of one hundred and twenty-one dollars and fortyeight and an half cents was found due from the estate of said Philip Bottenfeld to the said Lewis Overdeer, for monies laid out and expended by him in execution of the provisions of the said will, beyond the amount of the personal assets that had come to the hands of the said executor; And whereas, There is no provision in the said will enabling the executors thereof or either of them to sell any part of the real estate of the testator for payment of debts or legacies, or to enable the said executors to carry into effect the bequests and provisions of the same until after the death of the widow of the testator; And whereas, it is just and reasonable that some fund should be provided out of which the said executor might be reimbursed for the above mentioned expenditures; Therefore, SECT. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly authorized to &c. met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it Lewis Overdeer shall be lawful for the said Lewis Overdeer to sell by public sell certain lands, vendue, giving at least three weeks previous notice in two of the public newspapers printed in the borough of York, a tract of land containing ten acres and fifty-five perches, adjoining lands of Daniel Barnitz and George Ross, situate in Manheim township, and York county, and granted by patent to the said Lewis Överdeer, in trust for the heirs of the said Philip Bottenfeld, and retain so much of the proceeds of the sale of the said tract of land as will reimburse him for the monies expended by him in execution of the provisions of the last will and testament of said Philip Bottenfeld. applied agreeaof Philip Bot tenfeld, deceased. SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Overplus to be That in case there shall be any surplus arising from the said sale bly to the will remaining in the hands of the said Lewis Overdeer, after retaining the monies above mentioned, the said Lewis Overdeer shall apply the same agreeably to the general directions of the will of the said Philip Bottenfeld, or in case no provision is made in the said will regulating the same, the said surplus shall be equally divided between the right heirs of the said Philip Bottenfeld. SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, To give bond to That before the said Lewis Overdeer shall make the sale afore the register for said he shall give bond to the register of wills of York county, trust. the faithful performance of his conditioned for the faithful performance of the several trusts confided to him by this act, which bond may be sued for the use of any person having an interest in the estate of the said Philip Bottenfeld. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. SIMON SNYDER. 1 Commissioners county authoriz. ed to collect certain taxes, &c. CHAPTER XXXIII. An ACT to enable the commissioners of Huntingdon county to collect certain taxes in the counties of Clearfield and Cumbria. WHEREAS the law passed the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, entitled " An act to erect part of Lycoming, Huntingdon and Somerset counties into se parate county districts," made no provision to enable the commissioners of the county of Huntingdon to collect the arrears of taxes due on unseated lands, or the taxes levied and assessed the same year in those parts of Huntingdon county that were included in the counties of Clearfield and Cambria by the said act; Therefore, 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 of Huntingdon commissioners of Huntingdon county be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to collect and enforce the payment of all taxes on unseated lands that were assessed on or before the year one thousand eight hundred and four, in those parts of Allegheny township, Huntingdon county, which were included in the counties of Clearfield and Cambria, and all sales of unseated lands for taxes assessed as aforesaid within the said parts of the counties of Clearfield and Cambria, agreeably to the di. rections of the act, entitled " An act directing the mode of selling unseated lands for taxes," shall be in law and equity valid and effectual, and shall vest in the purchaser or purchasers of any lands sold as aforesaid all the estate, right and title to the said lands as if the said lands were now in the county of Huntingdon. Directed to issue lectors, &c. SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, warrants to col That the present commissioners of Huntingdon county shall issue their warrants with a duplicate of the taxes assessed in the year one thousand eight hundred and four, by the assessors of Allegheny township, Huntingdon county, in that part of Cam |