justices of the peace at their borough election, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and in accordance with the provisions of said fiftieth section. APPROVED-The thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 9. AN ACT Appropriating money to the payment of the interest on the public debt of Pennsylvania falling due on the first of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatires of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That the sum of eight hundred and seventy-three thousand five hundred and six- $573,516 06, FINDLEY PATTERSON, WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. Commonwealth vs. W. H. Win der and John Rice, removed from Lehigh to Lancaster county Winder, remo county. Trial, &c. No. 10. AN ACT To change the venue of certain cases. SECTION 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 a certain indictment now pending in the court of quarter sessions of Lehigh county, against William H. Winder and John Rice, for a conspiracy, be and the same is hereby removed to the court of quarter sessions of Lancaster county; and that three actions brought to December term of eighteen hundred and forty-four, numbers fifteen, sixteen and seventeen, in the court of common pleas of Lehigh county, against said William H. Winder, in which the Northampton Bank is plaintiff, be Northampton Bank vs. W. H. and the same are also removed to the common pleas of Lancaster county for trial by juries of Lancaster county aforesaid; and that the ved to Lancaster president judge of the second judicial district be and he is authorized to proceed to trial, verdict and judgment, in the said indictment and actions before the said president, and one or more of the associate judges of the said Lancaster county, as the said courts in Lehigh county in which the same are now pending, could or might do; and that the said president judge of the said second judicial district may make all necessary orders and appointments for further proceedings in and trying the same, and that no further proceedings be had in any of the said cases by arbitration or otherwise in Lehigh county, and the costs heretofore incurred, shall abide the event of the said suits. And the record in said indictment and actions, shall be duly certified by the prothonotary and clerk of the quarter sessions of the county of Lehigh, to the said court of common pleas and of quarter sessions of the said county of Lancaster: Provided, That the county of Lancaster shall not be subjected to any costs or expense in consequence of or by reason of the transfer and removal of the aforesaid indictment and actions; but the same or any part thereof, which would otherwise fall on the county of Lancaster, shall be paid by the commissioners of Lehigh county, on the orders of the commissioners of the said county of Lancaster: And provided also, That the said final judgments shall be subject to writs of error, as in other cases, to the supreme court; and in case the same or any of them shall be reversed, and a venire facias de novo awarded, the same shall again be transferred and re-tried in Lancaster county, in the same manner as is hereinbefore provided: Provided. That the costs which the said county of Lancaster shall be legally subjected to, in consequence of the removal of said causes, shall be refunded by the county of Lehigh as aforesaid, and the party or parties requesting the removal of the said causes shall, before removing the same, give security in such sum or sums, as the court of Lehigh county may direct, conditioned for the payment of all costs of suit, in case of conviction and judgment against the party applying for the removal of such suit or suits. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Record. Costs and expenses. Writ of error. Proviso. Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, FRS. R. SHUNK. APPROVED-The third day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. No. 11. AN ACT To provide for the redemption of the over-issue of relief notes by the Berks County SECTION 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 the state treasurer be and is hereby authorized and directed to charge Elijah Certain securities Dechert, president of the Berks County Bank, with twenty-eight thou- transferred to the sand five hundred and one dollars, the residue of the over-issue of said state. bank, and to receive from Elijah Dechert for the use of the commonwealth, all the securities of every kind particularly mentioned and set forth in his memorial to the legislature, amounting together to the sum of twenty-seven thousand and six hundred and twenty-five dollars, exclusive of a certificate of state stock already transferred by said bank to the state treasurer for the use of the commonwealth, amounting to sixteen hundred and seventy-five dollars, and of eight hundred and twentyfour dollars of relief bills, heretofore redeemed by said bank at the state treasury, and destroyed by the treasurer; and the state treasurer on the Duty of state transfer to him of the securities aforesaid, for the use aforesaid, shall treasurer. collect or cause to be collected at the expense of the said Elijah Dechert, the amount due on such securities, or so much thereof as can be recovered, and convert the money arising from the same into five per cent. state stock, and apply the stock so purchased, at the par value thereof, to the credit of the said Elijah Dechert, and the said treasurer shall receive said residue of over-issues in payment of all moneys due the commonwealth, and shall keep an accurate account of the amount thereof so received, and shall not re-issue, but shall retain the same until said residue of said over-issue shall have been redeemed, when it shall be the duty of the state treasurer and auditor general to cancel and Cancellation. destroy the same, and make a record thereof in the manner directed by law for the cancellation of other relief notes. SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of the state treasurer, and he is hereby required to take from Elijah Dechert his bond, which the said Bond. Elijah Dechert proposes to give in a sufficient sum, payable in five years from the passage of this act, conditioned to pay to the commonwealth such sum as shall be necessary for the redemption of such relief notes issued by the Berks County Bank, as shall not be paid out of the securities transferred to the state treasurer for that purpose, in pursuance of the first section of this act. I do certify that the bill, entitled "An Act to provide for the redemption of the over-issue of relief notes by the Berks County Bank," which has been disapproved by the governor, and returned with his objections to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, was passed by two-thirds of the House of Representatives, on the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and that the foregoing is the act so passed by the said House. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Clerk of the House of Representatives. I do certify that the bill, entitled "An Act to provide for the redemption of the over-issue of relief notes by the Berks County Bank," which has been disapproved by the governor, and returned with his objections to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, was approved by two-thirds of the Senate, on the twenty-ninth day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-five, and that the foregoing is the act so approved by the said Senate. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. E. S. GOODRICH. Clerk of the Senate. No. 12. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Insurance company of North America." SECTION 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 the insurance company of North America be and they are hereby authorized to increase the number of directors of the said company to twenty. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 13. AN ACT To change the time fixed for holding the November, December and March courts, in the seventeenth district. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatires of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That in lieu of the times now fixed by law for holding the courts in Beaver. Courts in Beaver, Butler and Mercer, for the November, December, and March terms, Butler and Merthe term at Beaver shall commence on the third Monday of November cer. and continue two weeks, if necessary, and on the third Monday of March; in Butler, on the first Monday in December and on the fourth Monday in March; and in Mercer the second Monday of December and the first Monday of April; and all writs, rules, recognizances, orders and decrees made returnable in said courts to the terms as heretofore fixed by law shall be considered as extended, continued and returnable to the terms as fixed by this act. SECTION 2. That the words "in the same manner as provided by Special courts. law in case of special courts," as contained in the fourth section of an act for the removal of causes from the district court of the counties of Erie, Crawford. Mercer, Venango and Warren, to the courts of common pleas, passed twenty-fifth of April, eighteen hundred and fortyfour, shall not be so construed as to require sixty days notice of the time of trial, nor to require the assistance of an associate judge in the trial of any of the cases contemplated in said section; and the verdict of any jury sworn in the cause before the expiration of the existence of said court, and the judgment thereon, shall be valid, although the same may be rendered after the expiration of the time limited for the exist ence of said court. SECTION 3. That in lieu of the time now fixed by law for holding Courts in Washthe August term of the several courts in Washington county, the time ington county. of commencing the courts in Washington hereafter, shall be on the fourth Monday of August in each and every year, and continue for one week only. APPROVED The eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. |