be subject to the same liabilities and penalties as are enjoined and imposed by existing laws: Provided, That no compensation shall be allowed said supervisors for any services other than labor actually performed on the roads, for which they shall be allowed for each day they shall actually work upon the roads, the same compensation per day as shall be allowed other hands.

SECTION 38. That hereafter the qualified voters of Tyrone township, Fayette. in Fayette county, shall hold their elections at Cochran's school house, in said township.

SECTION 39. That that part of the township of Manheim, in the Schuylkill. county of Schuylkill, lying north of the summit of the second mountain, and east of the river Schuylkill, be and the same is hereby erected into a separate election district, and the qualified voters residing within the bounds thereof, shall hereafter hold their general elections at the Mount Carbon hotel.

SECTION 40. The qualified electors of the township of Springfield, Mercer. in the county of Mercer, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the house now occupied and owned by Daniel Acker, in said township.

SECTION 41. That hereafter the qualified electors of the township of York. Monaghan, in the county of York, shall hold their general and township elections at the public house of George Burns, in said township.

SECTION 42. That after the present year, the qualified electors of the Butler. borough of Butler, in the county of Butler, shall hold their elections for borough officers, at the court house in said borough, on the second Friday of April, in each year.

SECTION 43. That the qualified voters of the borough of South Easton, Northampton. in the county of Northampton, shall hereafter hold their general and borough elections at the house of Philip H. Depue, in said borough.

SECTION 44. That the whole of West Donegal township, Lancaster Lancaster. county, shall hereafter be attached to the third election district of said county; and the qualified electors of said township shall hereafter hold their general elections at the public house now or lately occupied by Christian Hoffman, in the borough of Elizabethtown, in said county. JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WILLIAM BIGLER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.

Proviso.

Bond.

No. 170.

AN ACT

To enable Shubael Dimock, executor of the estate of Simon Marcy, deceased, to sell and convey certain real estate.

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 Shubael Dimock, the acting executor named in the last will and testament of Simon Marcy, late of the county of Susquehanna, deceased, (under the instructions and directions of the orphans' court of Luzerne county,) is hereby empowered to sell, either at public or private sale, all that certain piece or parcel of land situate in the township of Benton, in the county of Luzerne, bounded northerly by lands of Ira Lewis; easterly by lands of Ira Lewis; southerly by lands of Ackus Card, and westerly by lands of Asahel Gardner, containing about fifty acres of land, be the same more or less, with the appurtenances; and to make deed or deeds to the purchaser or purchasers, in fee simple, and apply the proceeds for the benefit of the estate of said deceased, the same as if the property above described had belonged to the said deceased at the time of his death, and application were duly made to sell the same under the existing laws of this commonwealth: Provided, That before an order for the sale of said property is granted to the said Shubael Dimock, he be required to give bond in the name of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the use of the parties interested, with security to be approved by said court, for the faithful discharge of his duty, and the distribution of the proceeds of said sale according to law.

APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.

No. 171.

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Doylestown and Danborough turnpike road 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 when any vacancy shall happen in the presidency, board of managers, Vacancy. secretary or treasurer of the Doylestown and Danborough turnpike road company, by death, resignation, or otherwise, that it shall and may be lawful for the president and managers, or a majority of them, to fill the vacancy by appointment, in such manner as any other business of the company may lawfully be done, such appointment to continue till the next election of officers by the stockholders; that the annual meeting of the stockholders of said company for the election of president, managers, and other officers of the said company, be changed from the first Monday of November, in every year, to the first Saturday of November, in every year hereafter; and that the said company be authorized to charge the same rates of toll as are now authorized to be charged by Toll. the Doylestown and Willow Grove. turnpike road company, by act of fourteenth February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and the supplement thereto, passed the twelfth of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WILLIAM BIGLER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.

Repeal.

No. 172.

SUPPLEMENT

To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Farmers' mutual fire insurance society of Warminster, in Bucks county, passed the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.

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 seventh section of the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Independent mutual fire insurance company of Bucks, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties," passed the tenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, so far as it relates to and effects the Farmers' mutual fire insurance society of Warminster, in Bucks county, passed the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. In lieu of the mode provided by the sixth and other sections of the said act, passed the tenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, providing for the recovery of the rates or Insurance rates. proportionable parts of rates of insurance, so far as relates to the said Farmers' mutual fire insurance society of Warminster, it is hereby enacted that in default of payment thereof it shall and may be lawful for the president and managers to proceed and collect the same in like manner as common debts are now collected; and any person or persons refusing to pay his, her or their proportionable parts of such rates may, by the managers for the time being, be excluded and debarred from any benefit or advantage from his, her or their insurances, respectively, and all right to the stock of this company; and shall, notwithstanding, be liable to said rates pursuant to his, her or their covenants and require

ments.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WILLIAM BIGLER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.

No. 173.

AN ACT

Relative to the claim of Hathorn Freeland, and for other purposes.

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 to examine the claim of Hathorn Freeland, for damages alleged to have been sustained by reason of a section boat, while upon the state trucks and in charge of a state agent, running against and breaking three of his cars standing at the head of the Schuylkill inclined plane; and if they shall ascertain that the damages were sustained in consequence of inattention or neglect of any state agent or agents, they shall assess the same, not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars, and draw their warrant for the amount upon the state treasurer, who is authorized to pay the same out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and they shall forthwith discharge the agent or agents, who may thus be found culpable, from the employment of the commonwealth.

SECTION 2. That hereafter when any damages are sustained upon Responsibility, any of the canals or railroads of the commonwealth, by reason of and discharge of neglect or misconduct on the part of any agent or officer in the employ- future state agents ment of the state, he shall be held liable for the amount of such damages; and it shall be the duty of the canal commissioners to discharge such agent or officer from all further employment, and retain any balance which may be due him for salary or wages, until the amount of his liability for such damages shall be fully ascertained and paid.

APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.