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by extended, and shall continue in full force and operation for the term of one year from and after the eighth day of April, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-three. SAM'L. ANDERSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JESSE R. BURDEN,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-fifth day of March, Anno Domi

ni, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.

GEO. WOLF.

No. 57.

AN ACT

For the relief of Robert Campbell, Frederick Baum, James M'Dowell,
Michael Rager, Job Helms, and Samuel Shaw, soldiers, and Justina
Weiser, and Margaret Dentsler, the widows of soldiers of the revolu-
tionary war.

SECT 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 the State Treasurer be and he is hereby $40 grat, and authorized and required to pay to Robert Campbell, of Per- ann. to R. ry county; Frederick Baum and James M'Dowell, of Mifflin Campbell, F. Baum,and county, soldiers of the revolution, or to their respective orders, forty dollars to each immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars each during life, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

J. M'Dowell.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore. said, That the State Treasurer be and he is hereby author- $40 grat. to ized and required to pay Job Helms and Samuel Shaw, of J. Helms and the county of Delaware, a gratuity of forty dollars to each S. Shaw. for their revolutionary services.

Weiser.

SECT. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the State Treasurer be and he is hereby author- $40 grat. an ized and required to pay to Justina Weiser, of Dauphin ann. to J. county, the widow of a revolutionary soldier, or to her order, forty dollars immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars during life, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

Same to M.
Rager and
M. Dentzler.

SECT. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the State Treasurer be and he is hereby authorized and required to pay Michael Rager, of Cambria county, a soldier, and Margaret Dentzler, of the county of Lebanon, the widow of a soldier of the revolutionary war, or to their respective orders, forty dollars immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars to each, payable half yearly during life, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

SAM'L. ANDERSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JESSE R. BURDEN,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-fifth day of March, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.

GEO. WOLF.

road.

Commission.

No. 58.

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act entitled "An act for laying out a state road from the bridge over the river Delaware at New Hope, through Doylestown, over the new bridge at Norristown, Montgomery county, through West Chester, to the state line, in a direction to Baltimore, in the state of Maryland, and from York, through Lewisberry, to the Harrisburg bridge, and for other purposes."

SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Mordecai Davis, Thomas Jones, Joseph Roberts, New Hope & William Conrad, William Walley and Isaiah Heston, are Maryland hereby appointed commissioners to review that part of a state road laid out from New Hope to the Maryland state line.. ers appointed in a direction to Baltimore, commencing where the said road to review cer- strikes William Hicks and Joseph Garrett's land, thence tain sections. through the said Garrett's land south thirty-three degrees, west twenty chains and twenty-five links, to a stone at Hoopes' and Garrett's corner; and again commencing in the Courses and Sweedsford road where the present route of said state road enters the land of Joseph B. Walker, thence through lands

distances.

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of the said Joseph B. Walker, George Beaver, senior, William C. Thompson, Daniel Abrum, James Jones, and others, the following courses and distances, to wit, south forty-five and one half degrees, west ninety-three chains and eightyeight links; thence south twenty-two degrees and one quarter, west two chains and sixty links; thence south three degrees, west eleven chains and thirty links; thence south twenty-five and one quarter degrees, west three chains and twenty-seven links; thence south forty-seven degrees, west eight chains and twenty links; thence south twenty-eight and three quarters degrees, west four chains and thirty-three links; thence south six degrees and one quarter, east eight chains; thence south twenty-five degrees, east eight chains and fifty links; thence south seventeen degrees, east seven chains and twenty-five links; thence south thirty-two and one half degrees, west twenty-two chains and ten links, to the old Lancaster road; thence south fifty-five and one quar. ter degrees, west nineteen chains and thirty links, to the turnpike road; thence south seventy-six degrees, west twenty chains; thence north seventy-seven degrees, west two chains and fifty links; thence south sixty-four and a half degrees, west one chain and fifty links; thence south half a degree, west one chain and ninety links; thence south sixty-four and a half degrees, west one chain and fifty links; thence north seventy-one degrees, west two chains and thirty-four links; thence south seventy-six degrees, west seventeen chains and fifty links; thence south eighty-nine and a half degrees; west eighty-two chains and fifty links, to the Paoli tavern.

Time and place of meet

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the aforesaid commissioners, agreeably to the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, to meet at the house of Joshua Evans, (Paoli tavern,) on the second Monday of July next, or as soon thereing. after as possible, to review that part of said road passing Power of comthrough Tredyffrin and East Goshen townships, described missioners to aforesaid, and alter or change said road, as they shall deem change locaexpedient; also, to vacate any part or parts of said road, that tion, &c. will be rendered useless by the aforesaid alterations, and the aforesaid road shall thenceforth become a public highway, under all the regulations, provisions, and restrictions of the act to which this is a supplement.

SECT. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That James Patterson of Hopewell township, John Ramsey's Boyd, and Stephen Woods, be, and are hereby appointed ford and Vir. commissioners to review that part of the state road leading state road. ginia line from the Washington and Pittsburg turnpike road, at or near CommissionRamsey's ford, in Allegheny county, to the Virginia state ers appointed line, in a direction to Wheeling, which lies between the bo- to review and rough of Westmiddletown, and the Virginia state line, with revise.

State road in

power to alter the location of the same wherever it may be necessary, and vacate such part or parts between the said points of the said road as they shall alter or supply by the new location, and the inclination of the said re-location shall not exceed an angle of five degrees with the plane of the horizon. SECT. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority Washington aforesaid, That William V. Leet and William Wilson, of and Alleghe- Washington county, and William Lea, of Allegheny county, ny counties. are hereby appointed commissioners to review a certain state Commission road, beginning at or near the house of Robert Love, on the ers appointed Williamsport and Washington turnpike, in Washington county, to James Conner's, on the read leading to Pittsburg, in Allegheny county, laid out under authority of a law passed the third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo, with full power either to confirm the present location, or to re locate or vacate the same, as in their judgments may seem most advisable.

with similar powers.

ers to be

subject to provisions of

SECT. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority afore Commission said, That the commissioners, in the exercise of their duty, shall be regulated by the act under which the said road was laid out; and the number of persons to be employed by them, original law. and the per diem wages of the commissioners, and the persons so employed by them, in performing their duty, shall be the same, and be paid in the same manner as authorized by said act.

SECT. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority afore Commission said, That Joseph Schall, John Emey and John Strickler, ers appointed be commissioners to lay out that part of the state road au for certain thorized by the second section of the act of the nineteenth road in York of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine,

county.

entitled "An act authorizing the laying out of certain state roads in Greene, York, Cumberland and Schuylkill counties," and the seventh section of the act of the first of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, entitled "An act relating to certain state roads," between the first mile stone from the borough of York, on the York and Conewago Canal turnpike, and the intersection of the nearest practica ble point of the road laid out by the second section of the act first aforesaid mentioned, agreeably to the last view or review made in pursuance of either of said acts.

SECT 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said commissioners shall make a draft of that Draughts of part of the road directed to be laid out by the section

location.

Where depo

sited, &c.

of this act, together with a draft of that part of the road lying between the point of intersection therein mentioned, and the point whence the review commenced, on the south side of Conewago hill, on the road leading from York to Lewisberry, and deposit the same in the office of the Secreta ry of the Commonwealth, and the office of the clerk of the Quarter Sessions of the peace, as is directed by the eighth

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section of the said act, of the nineteenth of March, one thou-
sand eight hundred and twenty-nine, which shall be a record
thereof; and the said commissioners shall have the same com.
pensation, and all other expenses, and shall be paid in the
same manner as is provided for by said act, and their proceed.
ings shall be final.

and Coal Hill

SECT. 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the time for completing the three and threefourth miles of clay turnpike road of the Monongahela and Time for Coal hill road company, shall be, and the same is hereby ex. completion of tended for the term of ten years, from the tenth day of April Monongahela next, or until it shall be the interest of said company, and of the township through which said road passeth, to make tended 10 clay road exand complete the same. reserving to the said company all and years. singular their privileges, liberties, and franchises, and all their rights and powers, in as complete a manner, and to all intents and purposes, as they now are, or have been.

SECT. 9. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the ascent up Coal hill, the nature of the ground is such, in many places, that it is deemed unnecessa

road.

ry and unsafe to continue the said turnpike road the full Permission to
breadth as required by law, (on account of heavy slips of vary width of
earth from the hill above,) but the said company shall be
permitted to continue the same a reasonable breadth, and
which shall be deemed sufficient.

SECT. 10. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That Thomas Coulson, James M'Cracken, and Adam CommissionCarnahan, of Mercer county, be, and they are hereby appointed ers appointed commissioners to review that part of the state road from to review and Greenville to Franklin, which lies between the ten mile post, state road revise part of near to Georgetown and Holloway's mill, with power to alter from Greenthe location of the same, so that the said road shall pass ville toFrankthrough Georgetown, in Mercer county, and vacate such lin. parts of the said road as shall be altered by the new location; and the said commissioners shall be entitled to receive the sum of one dollar and fifty cents each, per day, as a compensation for their services, to be paid by the treasurer of Mercer county, on the order of the commissioners of said county, drawn in their favor for that purpose.

sions of an act

SECT. 11. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Certain provi That so much of the act entitled "An act authorizing compen sation for damages done by certain state roads," passed the relative to datwentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and mages in thirty-two, as relates to the citizens of the county of Chester, is ty, continued hereby revived and continued in force for the space of one year in force 1 year from the passage of this act. SAM'L. ANDERSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-fifth day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF.

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