Attachment. Return of writ. goods, may, on the application of the plaintiff, and his compliance with the requisitions of the act to which this is a supplement, issue an attachment in the nature of an execution, as therein provided, to levy upon stock, debts and deposites of money belonging, or due to the defendant, in satisfaction of said judgment. SECTION 3. That the said writ of attachment may be issued, returnable not less than four nor more than eight days, and shall be served in the manner pointed out for the service of a summons upon the debtor, depository, bailee, pawnee, or other person having property of the defendant in his hands, made liable to attachment by the act to which this is a supplement; and on or before the return day of said writ, the Interrogatories to plaintiff may file with the magistrate interrogatories in writing, addressed garnishee. to the person summoned as garnishee, in regard to the property and effects of the defendant alleged to be in his hands at the time of the service of said writ; a copy of the same, with a rule to answer, shall be served upon said garnishee personally, to answer under oath or affirmation all such interrogatories as the magistrate shall deem proper and pertinent, within eight days after the same shall be served. On refusal to answer. SECTION 4. If said garnishee shall neglect or refuse to answer said interrogatories within eight days, (unless, for cause shown, the time. has been extended,) he shall be adjudged to have in his possession property of the defendant equal in value to the demand of said plaintiff; Judgment by de- and judgment may be rendered by default against said garnishee for the amount of the same, with costs. fault. SECTION 5. That if the garnishee in his answers, admit that there is in his possession or control property of the defendant liable under said Special judgment act to attachment, then said magistrate may enter judgment specially, to be levied out of the effects in the hands of the garnishee, or so much of the same as may be necessary to pay the debt and costs: Provided however, That the wages of any laborers, or the salary of any person in public or private employment, shall not be liable to attachment in the hands of the employer. Exemptions. Appeals. Fees. SECTION 6. The plaintiff, the defendant, or the garnishee in the attachment, may appeal from the judgment of the alderman or justice of the peace to the next term of the court of common pleas, on complying with the provisions of the laws regulating appeals in other cases: Provided, That the fees allowed justices, and alderman, and constables, under this act, shall be the same as allowed by the general fee bill for similar services in other cases. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. B. STERIGERE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 304. AN ACT For the benefit of Eliza Letitia Buckley, now Yeates. WHEREAS, William Harmar and Clement A. Buckley, brother and brother-in-law of Eliza Letitia Buckley, were appointed her trustees by Preamble. the voluntary agreement and consent of all parties interested, to preserve the separate estate about to be settled on the said Eliza in contemplation of marriage, which said marriage did take place, and has since been dissolved by the death of her said husband: And whereas, The said trustees, and the other parties interested therein, have assigned their interest to the said Eliza, and are willing that she should manage her own estate in person, and have signed and sealed an instrument in writing to that effect; therefore, 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 Trustees dis- FINDLEY PATTERSON, JNO. B. STERIGERE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 305. AN ACT Concerning the claim of David Cummings. 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 canal commissioners be and they are hereby authorized and required, upon the application of David Cummings, late supervisor on the Juniata division of the Pennsylvania canal, to examine his claim for money and interest on money alleged to have been advanced and expended by him for the use of the canal, in the years one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three; also, into an alleged error in the settlement of his accounts as collector of tolls at Harrisburg; and also, his claim for damage done on the enlargement of an aqueduct at Lewistown, in March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one; and certify the amount which they may find due to him, if any, to the auditor general, who shall allow the said David Cummings credit for the sum so certified in the settlement of his accounts. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. B. STERIGERE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No 306. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To the act incorporating the Columbia Bank and Bridge Company. 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 Annual election. the elections for directors of the Columbia Bank and Bridge Company shall always hereafter be held on the second Wednesday of November FINDLEY PATTERSON, JNO. B. STERIGERE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. No. 307. FRS. R. SHUNK. AN ACT Supplementary to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Allegheny county mutual insurance company," approved the fourth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. 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 Cash premiums. the Allegheny county mutual insurance company is hereby authorized to receive cash premiums for insurance at such rates and for time and period as the directors shall determine; the said cash premiums returnable to the persons insured after deducting ten per centum of such premium for expenses of the company, and also the proportion of the insured for all losses sustained by the company during the continuance of his, her or their policy; and such dividend or reimbursement shall be made to the insured at the expiration of his, her or their policy, or at such other time as the directors shall by their by-laws appoint: Provided, The insured shall not be liable for any further payment Proviso. than the premium already paid for insurance; and it may be lawful for said corporation to loan such portion of their money on hand, which may not be immediately wanted for the purposes of the corporation on such time and on such security as the directors may determine: Provided, That nothing shall be so construed as to authorize the said corporation exercising banking privileges. FINDLEY PATTERSON, JNO. B. STERIGERE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. Incorporation. Name. Privileges. Proviso. No. 308. AN ACT To incorporate the society of the Methodist Episcopal church, of the township of 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 Methodist society in the township of Susquehanna, in the county of Dauphin, in the state of Pennsylvania, be and the same is hereby created into a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title, of the "Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the township of Susquehanna," and by that name shall have perpetual succession; and the present trustees, who have been appointed agreeably to the discipline of said church, or their successors in office, shall be able to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, in all courts of law and elsewhere; and shall be able and capable in law and equity to take and to hold, to them and their successors, for the use of said church, lands, tenements, goods, chattels, of whatsoever kind, nature and quality, personal or mixed, which now is or shall hereafter become the property of said society, or be held for their use by gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, devise, bequest, or otherwise, from any person whomsoever capable of making the same; and the same to grant, bargain, sell, or otherwise dispose of, for the use of said society: Provided however, That no such sale, disposal, or alienation, shall be legally valid, without having first obtained the consent of a majority of said trustees, at a special meeting regularly called for that purpose, and afterwards approved by the members of the quarterly conference of the circuit or station, including the aforesaid society. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. B. STERIGERE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. |