No. 9. RESOLUTION Relating to turnpike stock purchased by S. Meylert, and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That th Auditor general. auditor general of the commonwealth be authorized and required, up proof of the destruction by fire of the certificates which were issued a signed by the commissioners for the sale of the stock held by the com monwealth in the Philadelphia and Great Bend turnpike road compan Issue certificates. to the said S. Meylert, to issue certificates for one hundred shares the turnpike company above stated, which certificates shall have like effect, and the owner thereof entitled to the same rights and privileges as the certificates issued by the commissioners appointed for that pur pose: Provided, That before new certificates shall be issued to the sa S. Meylert, he shall furnish to the state treasurer, to be approved of by him, a bond indemnifying the state from any loss that may accrue the commonwealth in consequence of said issue. Proviso. Sequestrators to settle arrearages. Sequestrator. filled. Resolved, That the sequestrator of the Somerset and Mount Pleasan turnpike road is hereby authorized to settle and adjust all arrearages due for repairs done on said road within one year previous to his appointment as sequestrator, and to pay the same when so settled by him out of any money in his hands arising from tolls received on said road: and for any such payment or payments, he shall be entitled to claim & credit in full on the settlement of his next or any future account. Resolved, That the sequestrator of the Lewistown and Huntingdon turnpike road company shall be appointed by the court of common pleas of Mifflin county, annually, at the April term; and in case of Vacancy, how resignation or removal of the sequestrator, the vacancy shall be filled at the first court thereafter, and no agent, or other person connected with any stage company, running stages on said road, shall be appointed sequestrator thereon; the sequestrator on said road shall pay quarterly at least fifty per cent. of the tolls received on said road, towards the liquidation of the claims of Thomas Ker, late sequestrator, and William Steely, and others, for labor on repairs of said road, agreeably to the auditor's report made to the court of common pleas of Mifflin county, and confirmed by said court. Quarterly pay ments. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 10. RESOLUTION planatory of the act of assembly approved the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Comonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That nothing Manayunk elecontained in the act approved the nineteenth day of February, A. D. tion. ae thousand eight hundred and forty-five, entitled "An Act regulating ection districts," shall be so construed as to allow the citizens of the orough of Manayunk, in the county of Philadelphia, to vote for judge nd inspectors of elections at the township election for township fficers, on the third Friday of March annually; and the judge and inpectors elected on the day aforesaid, shall hold all general, special, and ownship elections for township officers during the year for which they nay elected. APPROVED-The seventeenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 11. RESOLUTION Relative to the improvement of the Allegheny river. WHEREAS, It is the true policy of the national government to im- Preamble. prove the harbors and national rivers of our country, and thus provide for its general defence, and unite more intimately the various states of our Union; therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That our Improve navigasenators and representatives in congress be requested to support mea- tion. sures for the improvement of the steamboat navigation of the Allegheny river, from Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania, to Hamilton village, in the state of New York. Governor. Resolved, That the governor of the commonwealth be requested to forward a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions to each of our senators and representatives. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. Preamble. Warrants on state treasurer. Warrants in cer tain cases to be drawn. Proviso. No. 12. RESOLUTION Relative to certain school districts. WHEREAS, It appears that the school districts of Londonderry, in the county of Lebanon, and Logansville, in the county of Clinton, have been prevented, by peculiar circumstances, from receiving the amount of appropriations due to them as accepting districts; therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the superintendent of common schools of this commonwealth be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the state treasurer, in favor of the respective treasurers of Londonderry school district, in the county of Lebanon, and Logansville school district, in the county of Clinton, for such sums as each of the said districts would have been entitled to receive, if their certificates of assessment of school tax had been filed before the passage of the act, entitled "An Act to provide for the ordinary expenses of government, repair of the canals and railroads of the state, and other claims upon the commonwealth," approved the thirty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. SECTION 2. That the superintendent of common schools be, and is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the state treasurer in favor of the respective treasurers of the thirty-nine remaining school districts, which again accepted the common school system, in March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and did not file their certificates of assessments before the thirty-first of May last, for their respective portions of the school appropriation for one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, in the same manner as if their certificates of assessment had been filed before the thirty-first of May last: Provided, That before the superintendent of common schools shall issue a warrant in favor of the treasurer of any district, under the provisions of this act, he shall be satisfied by the affidavit of one or more school directors of such district, that they have complied with the requirements of existing ws relative to the assessment of a tax for school purposes, and have ogressed with proper diligence in the collection of the same. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight andred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 13. RESOLUTION To extend the time for completing the Danville railroad. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Comonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the me limited by the nineteenth section of the act of the sixteenth April, ne thousand eight hundred and forty, entitled "An Act to incorporate e Danville railroad company," for the completion of said road, be xtended for the period of five years from and after the expiration of the eriod mentioned in said section. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and orty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. Canal commis No. 14. RESOLUTION Relative to the claim of John S. King and Company. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Con monwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the canal commissioners be and they are hereby authorized to examine and sioners to settle. settle the claim of John S. King and Company, for a balance due for four thousand seven hundred and forty-six barrels and eighty-three pounds of water lime delivered by them on the Erie extension of the Pennsylvania canal, under their contract with Hugh Keys, the superintendent, dated the fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, according to the terms of said contract, making such deduc tion for deficiency in the quality of the lime at the time of its delivery, if any, as said canal commissioners may think would be just and proper. and allowing interest on the residue from the passage of the resolutions relative to the payment of interest to domestic creditors, approved April seventh, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and to draw their warrant on the state treasurer in favor of said John S. King and Company, for the amount so found to be due, which shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury. To draw warrant on state treasurer. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. |