to J. Bastian, thorized and required to pay to Jacob Bastian, of Lycoming $40 gratuiCounty, Robert Sheppard, of Schuylkill county, Dewalt ties & annui Robinson, of York county, Matthew George, Christopher ties granted Sheffy and Jacob Johnson, of Montgomery county, Peter R.Sheppard, Berry, of Lebanon county, Daniel Strohl, of Northampton D. Robinson, county, and Balzer Martin, of Lancaster county, soldiers of M. George, the revolutionary war, or to their respective orders, forty C. Sheffy, J. dollars each immediately, and to each of them an annuity of Johnson, P. Berry, D. forty dollars during life, payable half yearly, to commence Strohl, and on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. B. Martin. ers and E. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the State Treasurer be and he is hereby $40 gratui authorized and required to pay to Ebenezer Byers, of Mer- ties to E. Bycer county, and Edward Hector, of Montgomery county, Hector. soldiers of the revolutionary war, or to their respective or ders, each forty dollars immediately, in full for their revolutionary services. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. No. 18. AN ACT Changing the organization and extending the jurisdiction of the court of SEOT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act it shall Governor to be the duty of the Governor to appoint a competent person, appoint an learned in the law, to be an associate judge of the court of additional Common Pleas of the county of Philadelphia, who shall re-law judge. ceive the same compensation as is now received by the president of that court. Permanent SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on the death, resignation or removal from office arrangement of either of the present associate judges of the said court, no of judges. appointment shall be made to fill such vacancy, but thereaf ter the said court shall consist of the president, one associate learned in the law, and one associate appointed under the existing laws of the commonwealth. of 26th SECT. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority afore2d sect. of act said, That from and after the first Monday of March next ensuing the second section of an act entitled "An act to March last to establish the district court for the city and county of Philabe repealed. delphia, and for other purposes," passed the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, be and the saine is hereby repealed, and all appeals from the judgment of any alderman or justice of the peace of the city or county of Philadelphia depending in said district court, shall be transferred, together with all the papers and dockets relating thereto, to the court of Common Pleas, there to be heard, tried and determined, and from thenceforth the jurisdiction of the said district court in all cases of appeals aforesaid, shall cease and determine. Certain appeals, &c. to be transfer red to court of Common Pleas. courts. SECT. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the president or legal assoJudges may ciate judge of the said court, from time to time, as may be hold separate found requisite, to hold a court of Common Pleas for the trial of civil issues pending in said court, although at the same time two of the judges of said court may be holding the usual courts of Common Pleas, Quarter Sessions or Orphans' courts, according to the existing laws of the commonwealth, and for the summoning of the proper number of jurors for the trial of such issues, a separate venire facias Of the jurors. shall issue, the jurors to be drawn in the manner now prescribed by law, and to be paid the same compensation, and in the same manner as other jurors in said court. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives: JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. No. 19. AN ACT To incorporate the Belvidere Delaware bridge company. day of WHEREAS the legislature of the state of New Jersey, by Preamble: an act passed the in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirtyentitled "An act to incorporate the Belvidere Delaware bridge company," have appointed and authorized three commissioners therein named, who with commissioners to be appointed by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, shall be authorized to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said company at such times and places, in such manner and for such purposes as are set forth in the said act; and whereas the said act provides for the incorporating of the persons holding shares into a company, with certain powers, privileges and franchises in the said act particularly set forth, to which act the concurrence of the legislature of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania is requested, in order that the same may be carried into effect: Therefore, missioners 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 Anthony McCoy, Abraham Depue, Jacob Baker Joint com and Robert Simonton, all of the county of Northampton appointed to and commonwealth of Pennsylvania, be and they are hereby receive subappointed commissioners, together with the commissioners scriptions of appointed by the legislature of the state of New Jersey, as stock. aforesaid, to receive subscriptions to the said capital stock, and that all the power and authority given by the above recited act of the legislature of the state of New Jersey to the commissioners therein named, be and the same are hereby given to the commissioners appointed by this act. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and singular the power and authority, privileges, franchises and emoluments, given by the said recited act of Provisions of the legislature of New Jersey to the justices of the supreme the New Jercourt of said state and the company to be incorporated by sey law adopvirtue of the said act respectively, be and the same are here- ted by Pa. by given, in like manner, to the court of Common Pleas of the county of Northampton, and the said subscribers and the company to be incorporated by virtue of this act, and that the assent of this commonwealth be and the same is here. by given to the said recited act of the legislature of the state of New Jersey, and the same is hereby adopted, ratified and confirmed by this commonwealth, as fully and amply as if With the ex the same had been re-enacted at large, section by section, and the provisions thereof shall be of full force and effect within this commonwealth, and the same shall be annexed to and printed with the laws of this state; except that instead of the tolls which by the tenth section of the said act the said company is entitled to demand and receive, the amount to be by them demanded and taken on the following subjects, shall not exceed the following rates, viz: for every coach, ception of landau, chariot, phaeton or other pleasure carriage with four certain stipu fated rates of wheels, drawn by four horses, the sum of fifty cents; and for the like carriages with two horses the sum of thirty-seven and a half cents; for every wagon with four horses, the sum of fifty cents; and for every carriage of the same description drawn by two horses, the sum of thirty one and a fourth cents; for every chaise, riding chair, sulkey, cart, or other two wheeled carriage, or a sleigh or sled with two horses, the sum of thirty-one and a fourth cents; and for the same with one horse the sum of eighteen and three fourth cents. toll. The act of the state of New Jersey rccited. STATE OF NEW JERSEY. To incorporate the Belvidere Delaware bridge company. WHEREAS it is represented to the legislature by the petition of a number of the inhabitants of the county of Warren that the erection of a bridge over the Delaware river at Belvidere, near the mouth of the Pequest river, would be a great convenience and accommodation to the public: Therefore, SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and General Assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the capital stock of the Belvidere Delaware bridge company shall amount to twenty-thousand dollars, and that the same shall be divided into shares of fifty dollars each, and the subscribers to the said capital stock shall pay the sum or sums of money for the share or shares by them respectively subscribed, at such periods and in such proportions as the directors of said company may deterInine. SECT. 2. And be it enacted, That Garret D. Wall, of the city of Burlington, and John Kinney, Esquire, Jeremy Mackey and George Green, of the county of Warren, New Jersey, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners on the part of this state, who, with the commissioners to be appointed by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, shall be authorized to receive subscriptions to the said capital stock, at such times and places as they or a majority of them may direct, giving notice thereof in a newspaper published in the county of Warren in this state, and in two of the newspa pers published in the county of Northampton, in the state of Pennsylvania, for at least twenty days of the times and places when and where the said subscriptions shall be received; and at the time of subscribing for the said stock five dollars shall be paid on each share subscribed for to the commissioners, or some of them, which money shall be paid over to the treasurer of the company as soon as one shall be appointed, and that the residue of the subscriptions shall be paid in such instalments, and at such times and places, and to such persons as the president and directors of the compa ny shall from time to time direct and give public notice of, and upon failure of payment thereof as so directed, for thirty days thereafter, the said president and directors shall have power to forfeit the shares of each and every person so failing to pay the said instalments or any of them, to and for the use of said company: Provided, That if the number of shares subscribed for shall exceed the amount or number of shares authorized by this act to be subscribed for, that then the said commissioners shall apportion the said stock among such subscribers in proportion to the amount or number of shares by them subscribed as aforesaid. SECT. 3. And be it enacted, That when three hundred shares are subscribed for, the persons holding the same shall be and they are hereby incorporated into a company, by the name of "the Belvidere Delaware bridge company," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and all the privi leges and franchises incident to a corporation, and shall be capable of taking and holding their said capital stock, and the increase and profits thereof, and of enlarging the same from time to time, by new subscriptions, in such manner and form as they shall think proper, if such enlargement should be found necessary to fulfil the intent of this act, and of purchasing, taking and holding, to them and their successors and assigns, in fee simple or for any less estate, all such lands, tenements, hereditaments and estates, real and per sonal, as may be necessary and convenient to them in the prosecution of their works, and the same to sell and dispose of at their pleasure, and of suing and being sued, and of doing all and every other matter and thing which a corpora. tion or body politic may lawfully do. SECT. 4. And be it enacted, That as soon as three hundred shares of the said capital stock shall be subscribed as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to give notice in a newspaper printed in the county of Warren, in the state of New Jersey, and in two or more newspapers printed in the county of Northampton, in the state of Pennsylvania, of the time of a meeting of said stockholders at Belvidere, in the county of Warren aforesaid, not less than thirty days from the time of issuing said notice, at which time and place the said stockholders shall proceed to organ |