certain specified proportions, whereof the quota or proportion of this state is required to be two hundred and sixty. And whereas the legislature of this commonwealth in compliance with the said requisition of congress is desirous to facilitate the measures of the United States in the most speedy and effectual manner. [Section I.] (Section II, P. L.) Be it 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 there be forthwith raised and levied by voluntary enlistment in this state two hundred and sixty able bodied men to be arranged as non-commissioned officers and privates in the service of the United States to continue for and during the term of three years unless sooner discharged. [Section II.] (Section III, P. L.) And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the supreme executive council be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to appoint and commissionate the proportion of officers to be furnished by this state according to the seventh article of the confederation and perpetual union, and agreeably to the establishment mentioned in the resolutions of Congress herein in part recited. [Section III.] (Section IV, P. L.) And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said officers and men shall severally and respectively when embodied be and they are hereby declared to be liable and subject to such rules and regulations as Congress or a committee of the states have formed or hereafter shall form for the government of the troops or army of the United States and that the pay, rations and subsistence of the said officers and soldiers shall be agreeable to the act of congress of the twelfth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, provided that all such pay, rations, subsistence and other expenses of supporting said troops be furnished and provided by the United States. [Section IV.] (Section V, P. L.) And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the president and the supreme executive council be and they are hereby authorized and em powered to draw on the treasurer of this state in favor of the commanding officer of the said troops for the sum of five hundred and twenty dollars for the purpose of giving two dollars advance to each non-commissioned officer and private that shall be enlisted, which sum shall be charged to the United States and repaid to this commonwealth out of the first month's pay to be drawn for said troops, and also that the said president and supreme executive council draw in manner aforesaid for the further sum of two hundred and sixty dollars to be distributed by the said commanding officer for the expenses of the recruiting service in such manner as to him may appear reasonable and just. Passed November 10, 1787. Recorded L. B. 3, p. 333. CHAPTER MCCCXXVII. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE WAGES OF MEMBERS OF THE STATE CONVENTION, AND TO DEFRAY THE EXPENSES OF HOLDING THE SAME. (Section I, P. L.) Whereas it [is] necessary to determine the allowance to be made to the members of the state convention which is to be held for the purpose of considering the proposed federal constitution and also to provide for the same, together with the incidental expenses of the said convention. [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 same allowances be made of wages and mileage to attending members of the state convention as is now made to the members of the general assembly, and that the same together with the incidental expenses of the convention be paid by warrant on the state treasurer and drawn by the president or chairman of the convention, and countersigned by the comptroller-general. Passed November 10, 1787. Recorded L. B. No. 3, p. 333. CHAPTER MCCCXXVIII. AN ACT TO ALTER AND AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT FOR ERECTING AND OPENING A LOAN OFFICE FOR THE SUM OF FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS."1 (Section I, P. L.) Whereas the bills of credit emitted and made current by an act of assembly passed the sixteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, have suffered a considerable depreciation, and the restoration of their credit may be affected by taking out of circulation such and so many of them as shall be received by the trustees of the loan office in discharge of the mortgages to them made for sums borrowed of them, over and besides the sum of twenty-thousand pounds which by the said act is directed to be annually canceled and burned. [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 it shall and may be lawful for any mortgagor of any messuages, lands or rents, mortgaged to the trustees of the loan office in pursuance of an act of assembly passed the fourth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, entitled, "An act for erecting and opening a loan office for the sum of fifty thousand pounds," or his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns to pay the whole, or any part or parts of the moneys borrowed and due by and upon such mortgages, and for the said trustees to receive the same in part or in full of the same, at any time or times before the time specified in the said mortgage deeds, anything in the last recited act to the contrary notwithstanding. [Section II.] (Section III, P. L.) And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all the bills of credit emitted by the said first above mentioned act which shall be paid to and 1Chapter 1159. received by the said trustees in part or in full discharge of any CHAPTER MCCCXXIX. A SUPPLEMENT TO THE ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO ALTER AND AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED 'AN ACT TO REMEDY THE DEFECTS OF THE SEVERAL ACTS OF ASSEMBLY HERETOFORE MADE FOR REGU- LATING THE ELECTIONS OF JUSTICES OF PEACE THROUGHOUT THIS STATE AND TO ESTABLISH A PERMANENT MODE FOR HOLDING SUCH ELECTIONS AND TO AUTHORIZE THE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA TO HOLD THE COURTS OF RECORD OF THE SAID CITY AND TO MAKE FURTHER PROVISIONS FOR THE DUE ELECTION AND RETURN OF JUSTICES OF PEACE ELECT."1 (Section I, P. L.) Whereas it appears to this house that for the purposes of holding orphans' courts and the accelerating other public businesses falling under the jurisdiction of the county courts it will be useful and convenient to the citizens of this state that a number of justices necessary to compose a court should reside so near together that a court may be easily assembled in cases wherein their immediate intervention is [Section I.] (Section II, P. L.) Be it enacted by the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That every district in which a county town is situate within this state now erected or hereafter to be erected shall be entitled to three jus tices of the peace of the proper county upon the election of the freeholders of the respective districts in which such towns are situate as soon as the president or vice-president in council shall think proper to grant the same and the freeholders of the several districts aforesaid shall as in other cases elect and return a double number of justices of the peace elect accordingly any law heretofore made enacted to the contrary notwithstanding. CHAPTER MCCCXXX. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL TO DRAW AN ORDER ON THE TREASURER OF THIS STATE FOR THE SUM OF SEVENTY-NINE POUNDS TEN SHILLINGS IN FAVOR OF ALEXANDER MCDOWELL. Whereas by a petition presented to this house by Alexander McDowell it is therein set forth that he was appointed a surveyor of one of the districts in the late purchase, that after he had [carried] out his division line and before he had executed one warrant he received orders from the supreme executive council to desist, by means of which he has been subjected to considerable expenses and as the running of the aforesaid line is rendered useless he has prayed for relief in the premises, and it is just and reasonable that the expenses aforesaid be paid. Therefore: [Section I.] (Section II, P. L.) Be it 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 be and they are hereby authorized to draw an order on the treasurer of this state for the sum of seventy-nine pounds ten shillings being the balance due to him. Passed February 27, 1788. Recorded L. B. No. 3, p. 336. |