the material facts and points made in each case, endorsed of sufficient importance for publication, and such of the others as he shall deem necessary and important for publication, so that the same shall be annually contained in two volumes, if so many shall be necessary, and in number not less than five hundred copies of each volume, which shall not be sold by said reporter or his vendee, or any other person, at a rate higher than four dollars per volume; and if any reporter, or any Price of reports. vendee of such reporter, or any other person, shall sell any volume of said reports in yiolation of the provisions of this section, he shall, on conviction thereof, in any court of quarter sessions of the peace, pay a fine of two hundred dollars, one-half thereof to go to the commonwealth, and the other half to the person who prosecutes. SECTION 4. That said reporter shall publish said reports with type, Execution of and on paper as good as those of the reports of the decisions of said work. court, last heretofore published, and shall furnish the same to the public, well bound in law calf binding, and each volume is to contain not less than five hundred and fifty pages. SECTION 5. That the said reporter shall be entitled to receive and Copy right. enjoy the copy right of said reports, in the same manner as if the same were his own entire original production. SECTION 6. The governor may at any time remove said reporter for Removal. incompetency, or a failure to discharge his official duties, on the address of the judges of said court, made to him in writing, and shall have power to fill any vacancy which may occur by death, by an appointment of a reporter to continue for the unexpired term of office, and subject to all the provisions of this act. SECTION 7. The title of the reports, published under the provisions Title. of this act, shall be "Pennsylvania State Reports." APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 251. AN ACT. To annul the marriage contract of Michael Hart and Sarah his wife. 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 marriage contract intered into between Michael Hart and Sarah, his wife, late Sarah Grisinger, both late of the county of York, be and the same is hereby annulled and made void, and the parties released and discharged from said contract, and from all duties and obligations arising therefrom, as fully, effectually and absolutely, as if they never had been joined in marriage. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. Preamble. No. 252. AN ACT Authorizing the trustees of the German Lutheran congregation of South Whitehall, in Lehigh county, to sell and convey certain real estate. WHEREAS, The German Lutheran congregation of South Whitehall, in Lehigh county, by virtue of a patent dated June seventh, one thousand eight hundred and ten, and entered in patent book H, volume three, page five hundred and eighty-six, holds a certain tract of land in the said township of Whitehall, in the county aforesaid, adjoining lands of Philip Koch, Adam Good, Adam Heberly, and others, containing fifty-two acres or thereabouts, with the usual allowance: And whereas, The said congregation is desirous to dispose of a certain portion of said tract of land, in order to defray the heavy expenses recently incurred in the erection of a house of public worship, and the present trustees of said congregation do not possess any power to sell and convey any portion of said tract of land; therefore,. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-, tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Henry Schantz and Jacob Litzenberger, the present trustees of said congregation, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK.* No. 253. A SUPPLEMENT To an act to authorize the trustees of the Reading academy, to transfer the said academy to the school directors of the borough of Reading. 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 Majority of trusthe trustees of the Reading academy, in the county of Berks, be and tees authorized to they are hereby authorized, with the assent and approbation of a major- transfer. ity of the actual members of the said board, to transfer the academy, buildings and lot of ground thereto, belonging in the said borough of Reading heretofore, and now held by the said trustees, conformably with the provisions of the act of assembly incorporating the said academy, passed the tenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eightyeight, to the directors of the common schools of the several wards of the said borough of Reading, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining therein (in lieu of, and instead of the academy as at present established by law) a high school, for tuition in classical literature, and Liens and incumbrances, how paid. the higher branches of education, according to a plan to be adopted by the said directors of the common schools of Reading, not inconsistent with the provisions of the act of the general assembly, for establishing a general system of education by common schools, passed the thirteenth day of June, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and the supplements thereto. SECTION 2. That the real estate transferred, as aforesaid, shall be held by the said directors of the common schools of the several wards of Reading, subject to the payment of all liens and incumbrances thereon, and all debts due and owing by the Reading academy, or the trustees, on account of, and which the said directors shall pay and discharge. out of the common school funds, to be raised by them by taxes, to be levied for that purpose, according to law; and in the event of the repeal of the common school law, or the rejection of the common school system, by the said borough, or of the definitive failure thereof, from any cause whatever, then, and in either of those cases, the said real estate shall revert to the trustees of the Reading academy; and if there be no trustees of said academy then living, the said real estate shall vest in such person, as the legislature of this commonwealth shall, on applicaAppointment of tion, appoint to supply the places of the trustees of the said academy, upon the original trust, created by the act of incorporation, as aforesaid, freed and discharged from the liens and incumbrances, so paid by the directors of the common school of Reading, as aforesaid. Reversion. trustees. Montgomery co., Moreland township schools. Farms of J. Thompson and J. Snodgrass, in county, attached to Loyalhanna and Salem tps. Westmoreland SECTION 3. That so much of an act, approved the thirtieth day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-two, entitled "An Act to provide for the education of the poor in non-accepting school districts of this commonwealth, and for other purposes," as makes it the duty of the school directors in non-accepting districts, to issue their warrants to the township supervisors, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as relates to Moorland township, Montgomery county; and that the school directors of said township may, hereafter, issue their warrants to the collectors of county rates and levies, or to any other collector they may think proper, whose duty it shall be to collect the same, in the same manner, and for the same per centage, as taxes of a like character are collected. SECTION 4. That hereafter the farm of James Thompson, in Loyalhanna township, in the county of Westmoreland, and the farm of John Snodgrass, now in the occupancy of William Tweedy, in Salem township, in said county, shall be attached to, and compose a part of the territory of the Union school district, in said county. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 254. AN ACT To change the venue in 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 From Lehigh to four certain actions now pending in the court of common pleas of Lehigh Bucks. county, brought against William Eckert, Henry Ebner, and others, late directors of the Northampton Bank, to December term, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, number nineteen; December term, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, number twenty; April term, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, number sixty-nine; and September term, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, number ninety-one; be and the same are hereby removed and transferred to the court of common pleas of Bucks county, to be there tried at one of the regular terms of said court, in the same manner as if they had been originally instituted in the said last named court; and the record in said actions shall be certified by the said court of common pleas of Lehigh county, to the said court of common pleas of Bucks county for trial. aforesaid; and on final judgment such writs of execution shall be issued as may be necessary to carry the same into full effect: Provided, That Proviso. the county of Bucks shall not be subjected to any costs or expense in consequence of, or by reason of the transfer and removal of the above actions, but the same, or such part thereof as would otherwise fall on the said county of Bucks, shall be paid by the commissioners of Lehigh county; and that the said final judgments shall be subject to writs of error to the supreme court as in other cases, and in case of reversal and new trials awarded, they shall be re-tried in Bucks county in the same manner as is hereinbefore described. SECTION 2. That a certain action now pending in the court of com- From Lehigh to mon pleas of Lehigh county, of September term, eighteen hundred and Lancaster. forty-three, number one hundred and forty-eight, wherein the Northampton Bank, for the use of James Smoyer, is plaintiff, and William W. Selfridge, administrator of the goods and chattels, rights and credits of Mathew Selfridge, deceased, as defendant, be and the same is hereby removed and transferred to the court of common pleas of Lancaster . county, to be tried at one of the regular terms of said court; and the record in said action shall be certified by the said court of common pleas of Lehigh county, to the said court of common pleas of Lancaster county for trial as aforesaid; and on final judgment such writs of execution shall be issued, as may be necessary to carry the same into full effect: Provided, That the county of Lancaster shall not be subjected to any cost Proviso. or expense in consequence of, or by reason of the transfer or removal of the above action, but the same, or such part thereof as would otherwise fall on the said county of Lancaster, shall be paid by the commissioners of Lehigh county: And provided, That the said final judgment shall be subject to a writ of error to the supreme court as in other cases, and in case the same should be reversed and a venire facias de novo awarded, the same shall be again returned in Lancaster county in the same manner as is hereinbefore provided: And provided, further, |