county, or to their respective orders, forty dollars immediately, as a gratuity and in full for their revolutionary services. SECTION 4. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay to Catharine Frey of Lancaster county, and to William Cox, Esq. of Juniata county, in trust for the exclusive use and benefit of Jane Dawson, wife of Peter P. Dawson of Juniata county, or to their respective orders, forty dollars each immediately, as a gratuity in full for services rendered by their" husbands in the revolutionary war. C Frey. J Dawson. M Black. SECTION 5. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and N Long, required to pay to Nicholas Long of Northuinberland county, J Blair, James Blair of Westmoreland county, David Harbison, Wil. D Harbison, mington, State of Delaware, John Gross and Matthew Black of Gross, Adams county, or to their respective orders, forty dollars each immediately and an annuity of forty dollars each during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. SECTION 6. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and s Black, required to pay to Sarah Black of Adams county, and to Phoebe P Righter. Righter of Philadelphia county, or to their respective orders, forty dollars each immediately and an annuity of forty dollars each during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. SECTION 7. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and J Hollmant, required to pay to John Hollman of Montgomery county, and W Keller. William Keller of Northampton county, or to their orders, forty dollars immediately, in full for their revolutionary services. SECTION 8. The annuity granted to Robert McGlaughlin z Herbert, of Adams county, by an act entitled "An act for the relief of for use of R. sundry soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary M'Glaughlin. war," passed the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, shall hereafter be paid to Zephaniah Herbert of Adams county, for the use and benefit of the said Robert McGlaughlin. SECTION 9.. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and B Shaffer, required to pay to Barbara Shaffer of York county, and Mary M M'Ilwains McIlwaine of Adams county, widows of revolutionary soldiers, or to their respective orders, forty dollars each immediately and an annuity of forty dollars to each during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. WM. PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB KERN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. GEO: WOLF. No. 237. AN ACT To revive an act authorising the Governor to incorporate the Susquehanna and Lehigh Canal Company. 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 act entitled "An act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Susquehanna and Lehigh Canal Company," approved the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, is hereby revived, and that the time allowed by law for the commissioners to open books to receive subsriptions to the Susquehanna and Lehigh Canal, be and the same is hereby extended until the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, WM. PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB KERN, Speaker of the Senate. GEO: WOLF. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. SECTION 9. Provides for the distribution of the county stan. dards. 10. Provides for the verification of the county stan dards. 11. Positive standards to be referred to natural invariable standards. Fixes the denominations of linear measure. 12. To fix the Standards and Denominations of Measures and Weights in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 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 standard unit of all measures of length, shall be the "yard," to conform to that in use in this Commonwealth at the date of the declaration of independence: the positive standard to be obtained as hereinafter described, and that one third of said yard shall be one foot, and that one twelfth of said foot shall be one inch. SECTION 2. The standard of liquid measure shall be the gallon, to contain two hundred and thirty-one cubic inches, of the standard aforesaid, and no more; and that the standard of dry measure shall be the bushel, to contain two thousand one hundred and fifty cubic inches and forty-two hundredths of a cubic inch, of the standard aforesaid, and no more. SECTION 3. The standard of weight shall be a pound, to be computed upon the Troy pound of the mint of the United States, referred to in the act of Congress of the nineteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to wit: the Troy pound of this Commonwealth, shall be equal to the Troy pound of the mint aforesaid, and the avoirdupois pound of this Commonwealth shall be greater than the Troy pound aforesaid, in the proportion of seven thousand to five thousand seven hundred and sixty. SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of the Governor of this Commonwealth to procure, within three years from the date of the passage of this act, a standard yard, to constitute the posi tive standard of length in this Commonwealth, said standard to be equal in length, at the temperature of melting ice, to the distance between the eleventh and forty-seventh inches on a certain brass scale of eighty-two inches in length, procured for the survey of the coast of the United States and now deposited in the War Department: the material of said standard to be brass, and the divisions upon it to be inches and parts of an inch of the brass scale aforesaid. SECTION 5. It shall be the duty of the Governor to procure, within three years after the passage of this act, for the use of this Commonwealth, a standard gallon and bushel, to conform to the provision of section second of this act, the material of said standard to be of cast brass. SECTION 6. It shall be the duty of the Governor of this Commonwealth to procure, within three years after the passage of this act, a duly authenticated copy of the Troy pound of the mint of the United States, to constitute the positive standard of weight of this Commonwealth, the material of said standard to be brass. SECTION. It shall be the duty of the Governor of this Commonwealth, to have the positive standards of measures, of length and capacity, and of weight, provided by the foregoing sections, inclosed in suitable cases and deposited in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, to be by him there carefully preserved. SECTION 8. It shall be lawful for the Governor of this Commonwealth, when he shall deem it expedient to have tested the conformity of said positive standards of measure and weight. to the foregoing provisions of this act, or to the natural invariable standards hereinafter provided, and if Congress shall at any time hereafter, establish standards of weight and measure, the standards aforesaid shall be made to conform thereto. SECTION 9. It shall be the duty of the Governor, to provide within three years after the passage of this act, for each of the counties of this Commonwealth, at the charge of the counties respectively, positive standards of measures of length of capaci ty, and of weight of the several denominations in common use or such of them as may be necessary for the accurate and con. venient adjustment of weights and measures, said standards to be of approved construction carefully compared with the state standards aforesaid, and made of the same material, and having caused the same to be duly stamped, to have them delivered to the commissioners of the counties respectively, to be used as standards for the adjusting of weights and measures, and for no other purpose. SECTION 10. It shall be the duty of the commissioners e the respective counties, at least once in every ten years and oftener if they have reason to believe it necessary, to cause the standards of the respective county to be examined and tried. and if necessary, to be corrected or renewed according to the standards of the Commonwealth heretofore referred to. SECTION 11. It shall be the duty of the Governor, within ten years after the passage of this act to cause the positive standards herein described, to be referred to natural invariable standards and to deposit in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, the authentic certificates of such reference with the apparatus by which it was made, the length of the standard yard to be compared with that of the pendulum vibrating seconds, at a certain and defined spot in the Independence square, in the city of Philadelphia, or in some unalienable public property at an ascertained and convenient temperature and pressure, all the circumstances of the comparison to be stated, the standard of weight to be compared with that of one hundred standard cubic inches of water at its maximum density, and at a convenient atmospheric pressure. SECTION 12. The denominations of linear measure of this Commonwealth, whereof the yard as heretofore provided is the standard unit, with the relations thereof, shall be as follows: Twelve inches make one foot. Three feet make one yard. Five and a half yards make one rod, pole or perch. Eight furlongs make one mile. SECTION 13. The denominations of superficial measure of this Commonwealth, whereof the square of the linear yard as heretofore provided is the standard unit, with the relations to said standard and to each other, shall be: Thirty and one-fourth square yards make one pole or perch. Four square roods make one acre. Six hundred and forty acres make one square mile. SECTION 14. The denominations of liquid measure of this Commonwealth, whereof the gallon as heretofore provided is the standard unit, with the relations to said unit and to each other, shall be: Four gills make one pint. Two pints make one quart. Four quarts make one gallon. Thirty-one and a half gallons make one barrel. Two barrels make one hogshead. Two hogsheads make one pipe. Two pipes make one tun. SECTION 15. The denominations of dry measure of this Commonwealth, whereof the bushel as heretofore provided is the standard unit, with the relations to said standard and to each other, shall be: Four pecks make one bushel. And the minor divisions of the peck shall be its aliquot parts: Provided, That the form of the dry measure shall be conical; |