CHAPTER MCCCXXXIV. A SUPPLEMENT TO AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT FOR RAISING BY WAY OF LOTTERY THE SUM OF FORTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR IMPROVING THE PULIC ROADS LEADING FROM THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA TO THE WESTERN PARTS OF THIS STATE AND TOWARDS THE IMPROVING THE NAVIGATION OF THE RIVER SCHUYLKILL." (Section I, P. L.) Whereas the net produce of the lottery directed to be drawn by an act of general assembly of this commonwealth passed on the fifteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four doth not amount to a sum sufficient to answer very extensively the good purposes intended thereby, so that it is conceived by this house that the conduct of the business in the hands of commissioners would create an unnecessary expense and it is considered that the moneys will be more economically expended if the supreme executive council shall be invested with a power to direct the mode of applying the said moneys by contract or otherwise as they shall deem proper: And whereas the moneys so to be raised by the lottery before mentioned were directed by the said recited act to be appropriated agreeably to the laws then existing or which might thereafter be enacted for that purpose and it is thought most conducive to the end [proposed] that the application should be made to such parts of the roads and river as can be effectually benefited by the sum now raised, leaving the further improvement thereof to future exertions. [Section I.] (Section II, P. L.) Be it therefore enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the Representatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met and by the authority of the same, That the supreme executive council of this state be and they are hereby vested with full powers and authorities to direct the application of the produce of the lottery aforesaid in manner following, that is to say, one full and equal moiety or half part thereof heretofore appropriated to the repairing the western roads shall be expended and laid out on the road leading from the middle bridge on Schuylkill to Lancaster, beginning at the western side of the said river and extending so far as can with the sum hereby alloted therefor be effectually repaired and rendered permanently passable, but if the said sum shall not be sufficient in the opinion of the said council according to the best information they can obtain to extend to the repairs of a certain part of the said road called Jones' lane, which has heretofore been in the winter season for the most part impassable, then and in such case the said council shall and they are hereby directed to cause that part of the said road to be in the first instance effectually repaired and amended and if it shall be thought proper, altered so as to be rendered shorter and to run over better ground, and apply the residue of the said moiety so far as the same will go in manner hereinbefore directed, And the said supreme executive council are hereby farther authorized and empowered to direct the other moiety or half part of the said moneys to be applied by contract or otherwise to the improving the navigation of the river Schuylkill in such way and manner as to them shall seem expedient, having regard to the principles on which the application of the other moiety is directed to be made so that what shall be laid out shall effectually improve the part to which it is applied, lest by extending the object too far the design may be defeated. And the said supreme executive council are hereby authorized and empowered to draw orders on the state treasurer to whom the managers of the said lottery are hereby directed to pay over the sum produced by the same for such sums not exceeding the amount of the sum so produced as the said supreme executive council shall from time to time deem necessary. Passed March 3, 1788. Recorded L. B. No. 3, p. 339. CHAPTER MCCCXXXV. AN ACT FOR ERECTING A CERTAIN DISTRICT OF COUNTRY IN WHICH THE COURT HOUSE IN CHESTER COUNTY STANDS INTO A COUNTY TOWN. (Section I, P. L.) Whereas a number of the inhabitants of Chester county have petitioned this house that a certain district of country in the which the court house of the said county stands may be erected into a county town and that the inhabitants of the said town may be entitled to a like number of justices of the peace with other county towns and it appearing that the public convenience will thereby be promoted: [Section I.] (Section II, P. L.) Be it therefore enacted and it is hereby enacted by the Representatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met and by the authority of the same, That a certain district of country within the county aforesaid, bounded as follows, viz, beginning at the line which divides the townships of East Bradford and Goshen at the corner of the lands of Charles Ryan and John Darlington, thence along the lines of the said Charles Ryan and the lands late of Thomas Williamson, of Gideon Williamson and of Thomas Darlington, Junior, to lands of George Matlack, thence along the lines of the lands of George Matlack, William Sharpless, Jonothan Matlock and John Patton to a line of the land of Doctor Joseph Moore, thence to the line of the land of Isaiah Matlack, thence along the lines of the said Isaiah Matlack's land and of the lands of Doctor Joseph Moore and Thomas Hoops to the road called the Goshen street, thence along the said street to the land of Benaniel Ogden, being the line which divides the township of East Bradford from the township of Goshen, and from thence to the place of beginning, be and hereby is erected into and constituted the county town of and for the said county of Chester, by the name and title of "West Chester," and is hereby invested with and entitled to all the rights, privileges, immunities and advantages of a county town within this commonwealth. Passed March 3, 1788. Recorded L. B. No. 3, p. 338. CHAPTER MCCCXXXVI. AN ACT TO ENABLE THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF CHESTER TO SELL AND CONVEY A CERTAIN LOT OF LAND IN THE TOWNSHIP OF EAST CALN AND COUNTY AFORESAID FOR THE USE OF THE SAID COUNTY. (Section I, P. L.) Whereas in and by an act of assembly passed the twentieth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty certain commissioners therein named were empowered to purchase and take assurance of a lot of land in some convenient part of the county of Chester and thereon to erect a court-house and prison, in consequence of which powers and for said uses the said commissioners purchased a lot of land in the township of East Caln. And whereas in and by one other act passed the twentysecond day of March one thousand seven hundred and eightyfour other commissioners were appointed for the purposes mentioned in the above recited act with a proviso, confining said commissioners to certain limits upon which the buildings were to be erected. And whereas the commissioners appointed by the act last recited have executed their trust by erecting a court-house and prison in the township of Goshen by which the lot of land in East Caln is rendered of no use: And whereas the commissioners of said county have by petition prayed that a law may be passed enabling them to sell and convey the said lot. [Section I.] (Section II, P. L.) Be it therefore enacted and it is hereby enacted by the Representatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met and by the authority of the same, That the commissioners in and for the county of Chester or any two of them be and they are hereby empowered and directed to expose to sale by public vendue to the highest bidder a certain lot of land lying and being in the township of East Caln, purchased from Rosanna Sheward for the use of said county by William Clingan, Thomas Bull, John Kinkead, Roger Kirk, John Sellers, John Wilson, and Joseph Davis, commissioners under the act first recited, bounded as follows, viz, beginning at a marked hickory sapling, standing on the north side of the Conestogo road, thence by said road north seventy degrees and an half east, ten perches to a post, thence by lands of said Rosanna Sheward north eighteen degrees west sixteen perches to a post, thence by said Rosanna Sheward's land south seventy-one degrees and a half west ten perches to a post thence south eighteen degrees and a half east sixteen perches to the place of beginning, containing one acre be the same more or less. [Section II.] (Section III, P. L.) And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners of the county aforesaid, be and they hereby are authorized and empowered to give assurances in the law to the purchaser or purchasers, his, her or their heirs and assigns forever and the moneys arising therefrom shall be appropriated to the use of the county in the same manner that county rates and levies are appropriated. Passed March 3, 1788. Recorded L. B. No. 3, p. 338. CHAPTER MCCCXXXVII. AN ACT TO ENABLE THE OWNERS AND POSSESSORS OF A CERTAIN |