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respects have the same privilege, and be under the same restrictions, as if they had been originally organized an infantry company.

SECTION 2. That the name of the Williamsburg Infantry, in Hunting-Williamsburg Indon county, be changed to that of the Williamsburg Blues: Provided, fantry changed. That said company shall preserve all its rights, privileges and immu

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SECTION 3. That the name of the Plum Creek Independent Rifle Plum Creek InBlues, in Allegheny county, be changed to that of Marion Greens.

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APPROVED-The first day of February, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.

dependent Rifle Blues changed.

No. 17.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

To the act, entitled "An Act erecting parts of Northampton and Monroe counties into a separate county, to be called Carbon," passed the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, 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 all

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suits, actions and cases, now pending and undetermined in the several Suits and actions courts of Northampton county and Monroe county, where both parties in Northampton in such suit or suits are now resident in the county of Carbon, shall be and Monroe countransferred to the respective courts of Carbon county, and shall be considered as pending in said county, and shall be proceeded in like manner as if the same had been originally commenced in said county of Carbon, except that the fees on the same, due to the officers of Northampton and Monroe counties, shall be paid to them respectively, when recovered by the prothonotary, clerk or sheriff, of Carbon county; and the prothonotary of Northampton county and the prothonotary of Monroe county, shall, on or before the twentieth day of February next, respectively, procure dockets and copy therein all the docket entries respecting said suits, actions and cases, to be transferred as aforesaid; and shall on or before the said twentieth day of February, have the said dockets, together with the records, declarations and papers on file, respecting said suits, actions and cases, ready to be delivered to the prothonotary of Carbon county; the expenses of said dockets and copying, to be paid by the said county of Carbon, on warrants to be drawn by the commissioners of said county, on the treasurer thereof: Provided however; That the parties to any such suit, action or case, may have the same tried in the county where it may be now pending, by filing an agreement to that effect, in the proper office in said county.

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Prothonotary of SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of the prothonotary of the Northampton co. county of Northampton, to transcribe, or cause to be transcribed, on or before the twentieth day of February next, the docket entries of all judgments in the common pleas of said county, and transcripts of judgments of justices of the peace, filed in said court, where the parties to said judgments are now resident in the county of Carbon, and at the request of the plaintiffs, any judgments which are now a lien on any lands in said county of Carbon, and certify the same to the court of common pleas of Carbon county; and it shall be the duty of the prothonotary of Carbon county, on the receipt of the same, to file such transcripts and certificate in his office, and to enter such. judgments in the judgment docket of Carbon county; and said judgments shall have the same force and effect, and be proceeded in like manner as if the same had been originally rendered in Carbon county: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to impair the lien of any such judgment in Northampton county, or prevent the plaintiff from proceeding on it to collect his money, out of any property of the defendant in Northampton county, in the same manner that he could have done had this act not been passed: Provided, That all expenses incurred under this section, shall be paid by the county of Carbon, in the manner provided in the first section of this act.

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SECTION 3. That the register for the probate of wills and granting letters of administration of the county of Carbon, and the register's and orphans' court of said county, shall have and exercise exclusively, the same power and jurisdiction over the legal representatives, and the estates of decedents in all cases, when such decedents resided at and immediately before their death, within the bounds of the territory now comprising Carbon county, and whose estates are unsettled, as the said register and the said courts respectively would have had and exercised, had such decedents died within its limits since the erection of said territory into a separate county: Provided, That all original papers relating to such estates, shall remain in the offices in Northampton, where now filed, certified copies of which shall be granted at the request and expense of the person applying for them, which copies shall be received and acted on as original, in the courts of Carbon.

SECTION 4. All writs of execution or other process upon judgments, in the district courts of the counties of Erie, Crawford, Venango and Mercer, shall be returnable to the next term of the court of common pleas, to be holden for said counties respectively, in all cases where no term of said district courts intervened between the issuing of said process, and the time when the said district courts expire by law.

SECTION 5. That so much of any act or acts heretofore passed, as are hereby altered or amended, or are inconsistent herewith, shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WILLIAM BIGLER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The first day of February, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.

No. 18.

AN ACT

Relative to the claim of Joseph Morrison, of Crawford county.

WHEREAS, By an act of assembly passed April eighth, one thousand eight hundred and forty three, entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of the domestic creditors of this commonwealth, sale of state stocks, and for other purposes," it is among other provisions enacted, that no claim from and after the first day of December then next, shall be entered on the books of the auditor general:

And whereas, The claim of Joseph Morrison has been duly settled, and the amount ascertained by the board of appraisers and canal commissioners, but the same was neglected to be entered at the time above stated, on the books of the auditor general; 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 the state treasurer be authorized and required to pay such sum of money as has been ascertained to be due as aforesaid, out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WILLIAM BIGLER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred

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and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.

No. 19.

AN ACT

To continue the act to graduate lands on which purchase money is due and unpaid to the commonwealth.

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 provisions of the act, entitled "An Act to graduate lands on which the money is due and unpaid to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania," passed the tenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirtyfive, shall be and the same is hereby continued in force until the tenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.

Patenting in-lots SECTION 2. The time for patenting the in-lots and out-lots, in the in Erie, Water- towns of Erie, Waterford, Beaver, Franklin and Warren, authorized to ford, Beaver, be appraised by the fifth section of the act, entitled "An Act empowerFranklin & War- ing the burgess and town council of the borough of Erie, to borrow

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money and supply the said borough with water," passed the 13th day of April, A. D. 1838, be extended to the 10th day of March, A. D. 1846.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WILLIAM BIGLER,

Speaker of the Senate.

We do certify that the bill, entitled "An Act to continue the act to graduate lands on which purchase money is due and unpaid to the commonwealth," was presented to the governor on the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and was not returned within ten days, (Sundays' excepted,) after it had been presented to him; wherefore, it has, agreeably to the constitution of this commonwealth, become a law in like manner as if he had signed it.

JOHN J. M'CAHEN,

Clerk of the Senate.

WILLIAM JACK,

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

HARRISBURG, February 7, 1844.

No. 20.

AN ACT

Supplementary to an 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.

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 in default of the payment of the rates mentioned and prescribed by the sixth section of the act to which this is a supplement, it shall and may be lawful, to and for the president and managers of the said company, to proceed and collect the same, in like manner as common debts are now by law 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 said company, and shall. notwithstanding, be liable to said rates, pursuant to his, her, or their covenants and agreements.

SECTION 2. That the seventh section of the act to which this is a

supplement, and so much of the sixth section of said act as is hereby
altered or supplied, be and the same is hereby repealed.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WILLIAM BIGLER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twelfth day of February, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.

No. 21.

AN ACT

To change the Franklin Blues, an infantry company of Chambersburg, into a rifle company, to be called the Franklin Riflemen, and the Franklin Guards, of Venango county, to that of Franklin Artillery.

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 from and after the passage of this act, the infantry company of the borough of Chambersburg, in the county of Franklin, called the Franklin Blues, shall be, and it is hereby changed into a rifle corps, to be called the Franklin Rifleman, and that the seven years service of each individual member thereof, shall be calculated from the respective date of his enrollment as a member; and it shall be the duty of the adjutant general to furnish, upon the order of the proper brigade inspector, out of any of the arsenals of this commonwealth, where a sufficient number of unappropriated arms and accoutrements may be had, the usual stand of rifles and accoutrements for the use of the said company, under the restrictions, provisions and securities as are now provided by law; and the election which was held by the said company for officers on the seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fortythree, is hereby legalized, and commissions directed to be issued to the said officers elect, by the proper authority: Provided, That before the said company shall receive any of the arms and accoutrements, as provided for in this act, the arms and accoutrements heretofore received by said company, shall first be returned, if not already returned, to the proper person, duly authorized to receive the same.

SECTION 2. That the volunteer infantry company, the Franklin Guards, in the county of Venango, shall be changed into an artillery company, called the Franklin Artillery, subject to same regulations and provisions of the foregoing section.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WILLIAM BIGLER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twelfth day of February, Anno Domini, one thou

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sand eight hundred and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.

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