same to pay over to the treasurer; and the said burgess is here. by empowered to carry into effect all by-laws enacted by the council, and whatever else shall be enjoined on him for the well ordering and governing said borough.

SECTION 11. The burgess, president of the council pro tempore, the treasurer, and town clerk, or any two of them, shall Court of ap peal institu constitute a court of appeal; and, prior to the collection of any ted. borough tax, they shall appoint a day of appeal, of which, and the amount of his or her tax, and the place where the appeal will be held, the collector shall notify each resident taxable, by a written notice, at least ten days before the day of appeal; and when the said tax shall have been properly adjusted, it shall be the duty of the burgess, or, in his absence or inability to act, of the treasurer, and he is hereby authorized to issue his precept to the collector, commanding him to collect the same, with the like powers and authorities given to the collectors of county rates and levies by the laws of this Commonwealth, and the amount so collected shall be forthwith paid into the treasury for the use of the corporation.

SECTION 12. It shall be the duty of the town clerk to attend all meetings of the town council, when assembled on business of the corporation, and perform the duty of clerk thereto, keep and preserve the common seal and records of the corporation, and be answerable for the same, and also for the faithful discharge of all duties which may be enjoined on him by virtue of this act, or the acts of the corporation, and his attestation, with the seal of the corporation, shall be good evidence of the things or act certified in all cases.

Duty of the

town clerk.

other duties and powers.

SECTION 13. The constable shall give notice of the annual election, in the same way as is prescribed in regard to township Constable to elections, and shall have the same powers as other constables give notice of of this Commonwealth for keeping the peace; he shall execute election, and all process or precepts directed to him by the burgess, and shall be liable to a fine of twenty dollars for neglect of duty, and shall have the compensation that is allowed to other constables for the same or similar services, and shall, at the next Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county after his election, deliver to the clerk of said court a certificate of his election, certified by the judge, inspector and clerk of the election, and shall give bond and security for the faithful performance of his duty, as other constables are by law required to do, which bond shall be for the same uses and interests, and in all things as available, as the bonds of other constables in this Commonwealth; and he shall have similar powers with other constables to execute process, civil and criminal, issued by justices of the peace of the county of Allegheny, and directed to him as constable of the borough of Lawrenceville.

Duties of the

treasurer, &

SECTION 14. The treasurer shall give security for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, and for the safe delivery of other into the hands of his successor of all moneys, books, and ac- officers.

Dogs and

bitches may be taxed. Proviso

counts pertaining thereto, upon demand being made by the bur gess or council; that the treasurer, constable, or collector, as well as all other officers who may be appointed by the council, shall render their accounts whenever so required to do, which accounts, being adjusted and settled, shall be published once in each year, in some newspaper printed in the borough, or by advertisements set up at four of the most public places in said borough, particularly showing the amount of taxes laid and collected, and the expenditures.

SECTION 15. It shall and may be lawful for the burgess and town council, at any time to levy and collect taxes on the owners of dogs and bitches, not exceeding one dollar for each dog, nor two dollars for each bitch, in any one year: Provided, That these animals shall not be taxable until they are three months old.

SECTION 16. The said borough of Lawrenceville is hereby erected into a separate election district, and the electors thereof Borough to be shall hereafter hold their elections at the town house in the said an election

district.

borough; and that an inspector of the general election, assessor and assistant assessors, shall be elected by the inhabitants, at the same time, and under the same regulations, and subject to similar duties and liabilities as the inspectors and assessors who are now by law authorized to be elected by the several townships, and that the judges and clerks shall be appointed to superintend and assist at the general elections, as those officers are now appointed in the several townships.

WM. PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO'S. RINGLAND,

Speaker of the Senate,

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of February, one thousand

eight hundred and thirty-four.

GEO: WOLF.

No. 45.

AN ACT

To recharter the Kensington Bank, in the county of Philadelphia.

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 to recharter certain tended 15 yrs. banks," approved the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand from 1st Nov. eight hundred and twenty-four, be and the same is hereby extended to the Kensington bank, in the county of Philadelphia,

Charter ex

1836.

for fifteen years from the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.

SECTION 2. The stockholders of the Kensington bank of May elect 7 the county of Philadelphia, may hereafter elect seven directors, directors, who shall be residents of the incorporated district of Kensing their resi ton, and shall have resided in said district at least one year, dence, &c. any thing in their act of incorporation to the contrary notwith

standing.

SECTION 3. So much of the second article of the third sec- Rotatory pro tion of the act entitled, "An act to recharter certain banks," vision of the 2d art. 3dsec. passed the twenty-fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and of the act of twenty-four, as provides that no person shall be eligible as a 25th March, director, for more than three years out of four, and not more 1824, revived than three fourths of the directors shall be eligible to be re- as to the elected for the succeeding year, except the president, be and the bank. same is hereby revived, as far as regards the rechartering of the bank by this act.

When divi

SECTION 4. Whenever the profits of the bank rechartered dend exceeds by this act shall be such, that the clear annual dividend shall 12 per ct. per ann, half of exceed the sum of twelve per cent. per annum on the amount of the surplus to the capital actually paid in, then one half of such surplus shall be paid into be paid into the State Treasury for the general purposes of edu- the S. treas'y cation; and it is hereby provided that the bank, in its annual report, shall state the amount of dividends declared.

for education purposes. Report diviSECTION 5. The privileges hereby granted to the said bank, dends ann'ly. shall be subject to such alterations, provisions and restrictions, as the Legislature may at any time hereafter think proper to Charter sub. enact, for the better regulation of the banking institutions of this ject to future Commonwealth, and shall be liable to such taxes, whether on alterations, dividends or otherwise, as the Legislature may at any time tion. bereafter impose.

WM. PATTERSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO'S. RINGLAND,

Speaker of the Senate.

GEO: WOLF.

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of February, one thousand

and to taxa

eight hundred and thirty-four.

No. 46.

AN ACT

For the relief of Martin Miller and others, soldiers of the revolutionary

war.

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 he is hereby authorized

Annuities and and required to pay to Martin Miller, of Berks county, Jacob gratuities to Krider, of Philadelphia county, John Brinkerhoof, of Adams M. Miller, J. Krider, J. County, and Philip Lenhart, of Cumberland county, or to their Brinkerhoof, respective orders, forty dollars each immediately, and an an & P. Lenhart, nuity of forty dollars, payable half yearly, during life, to com mence on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

Gratuities to
J. Clift and

Jacob Ott.

SECTION 2. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay to Jonathan Clift and Jacob Ott, of Philadelphia county, or to their respective orders, forty dollars each, as a gratuity in full for their revolutionary services.

WM. PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO'S. RINGLAND,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

GEO: WOLF.

No. 47.

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Strasburg rail road, the Williamsport and Elmira rail road, the Marietta and Columbia rail road, the Portsmouth and Lancaster rail road, and incorpo rating a company to make the Oxford rail road.

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 John Jardon, Hezekiah Buzby, Henry Witmer and Cornelius S. Smith, of Philadelphia, William Cooper, John Latshaw and William Frick, of Lancaster, Okey Hendrickson, William D. Slaymaker, James Laird, Samuel S. Patterson, Christian Hershey and Doctor Simon Meredith, of Mountjoy, pointed for George Wisler, senior, Philip Albert, senior, George Redsecker, the Portsm'th junior, Adams Campbel, Andrew Wade, esquire, and Jacob & Lancaster Gish, of Elizabethtown, Jacob M. Haldeman, Henry Walters,

Additional comm'rs ap

rail-road.

Elizabetht'n

to be a point in said rail

road.

Michael Burke and Henry Buehler, of Harrisburg, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, in addition to those already appointed, to do and perform the several duties enjoined by the act to which this is a supplement, and having relation solely to the Portsmouth and Lancaster rail road.

SECTION 2. The seventy-seventh section of the act to which this is a supplement, relating to the location of the said road, is hereby altered and supplied, so as to make the borough of Eliza

bethtown a point in said road: Provided, The same can be Provise. done, in the opinion of the engineer and managers of said com. pany, without injuring the location of said road materially.

WM. PATTERSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO'S. RINGLAND,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of February, one thousand

eight hundred and thirty-four.

GEO: WOLF.

No. 48.

AN ACT

For the relief of James Huston and others, soldiers of the revolutionary

war.

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 he is hereby authorized and required to pay to James Huston, of Washington county, or to his order, forty dollars immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.

SECTION 2. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and Gratuities to required to pay Jacob Gher, of Crawford county, and to Wil- Jacob Gher & liam Able, of Montgomery county, or to their respective orders, Wm. Able. forty dollars each, as a gratuity, and in full for their revolu

tionary services.

WM. PATTERSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO'S. RINGLAND,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-first day of February, one thousand

eight hundred and thirty-four.

GEO: WOLF.