Accounts.

Apprentices.

Admission of paupers.

and cause to be collected, the amount of said estimate, which shall be paid to said directors, by the county treasurer, on warrants drawn in their favor by the county commissioners, as the same may be found necessary; and the said directors shall, at least once in every year, render an account of all moneys by them received and expended, to the auditors appointed to audit and settle the county accounts, subject to the same penalties, rules and regulations, as are by law directed, respecting the accounts of the county commissioners; and shall, at least once in every year, lay before the court of quarter sessions and grand jury of said county, a list of the number, ages and sex, of the persons maintained and employed in the house of employment, or supported or assisted by them elsewhere, and of the children by them bound out to apprenticeship, as aforesaid, with the names of their masters or mistresses, and their trade, occupation or calling; and shall, at all times, when thereunto required, submit to the inspection and free examination of such visiters as shall, from time to time, be appointed by the court of quarter sessions of the said county, all their books and accounts, together with the rents, interests and moneys, payable and receivable by the said corporation, and also an account of all sales, purchases, donations, devises and bequests, as shall have been made by or to them.

SECTION 6. As soon as the said buildings shall have been erected or purchased, and all necessary accommodations provided therein, notices shall be sent, signed by any two of the said directors, to the overseers of the several townships of the said county of Juniata, requiring them forthwith to bring the poor of their respective townships to said house of employment; which order the overseers are hereby enjoined and required to comply with, or otherwise to forfeit the costs of all future maintenance, except in cases when by sickness, or any other sufficient cause, any poor person cannot be removed, in which case the said overseers shall represent the same to the nearest justice of the peace, who being satisfied of the truth thereof, shall certify the same to the said directors, and at the said time issue an order under his hand and seal, to the said overseers, directing them to maintain such poor until such time as he or she may be in a situation to be removed, and then convey the said pauper, and deliver him or her to the steward or keeper of the said house of employment, together with the said order; and the charge and expense of such temporary relief, and of such removal, shall be paid by the said directors at a reasonable allowance.

SECTION 7. The said directors shall, from time to time receive, proProvide for poor. vide for and employ according to the true intent and meaning of this

act, all such poor and indigent persons as shall be entitled to relief, or shall have gained a legal settlement in said county of Juniata, and shall be sent there by an order or warrant for that purpose, under the hands and scals of any two justices of the peace, directed to any constable of the said county of Juniata, or to the overseers of the proper township in any other county of this commonwealth; and the said directors are hereby authorized, when they shall deem it proper and convenient to do so, to permit any poor person or persons to be maintained elsewhere : Out-door main- Provided, The expense of their maintenance does not in any case exceed that for which they could be maintained at the poor house of the said county of Juniata.

tenance.

Quorum.
Rules.

SECTION 8. The said directors, or any two of them, who shall be a quorum in all cases to do business, shall have full power to make and ordain such ordinances, rules and regulations as they shall think proper, convenient and necessary for the direction, government and support of the poor, and house of employment aforesaid, and of the revenues

thereunto belonging, and of all such persons as shall come under their
cognizance: Provided, The same be not repugnant to this law, or any
of the laws of this state, or of the United States: And provided, also, Proviso.
That the same shall not have any force or effect until they shall have
been submitted to the court of common pleas for the time being, of the
county of Juniata, and shall have received the approbation of the same.

SECTION 9. The said directors, or a majority of them, shall have full Legal settlement. power and authority to administer oaths or affirmations, to all persons residing in the said house of employment, or becoming chargeable to the said county, touching their place of legal settlement; and in case such poor person or persons shall refuse to take the said oath or affirmation, or shall refuse to answer such questions as shall be asked by the said directors, touching and relating to the said settlement, the said directors may withhold all further relief from such poor person or persons, until he, she or they shall consent to take such oath or affirmation, and answer all such questions as aforesaid; and the said board of directors, or a majority of them, in addition to the power hereinbefore granted, are authorized and empowered to administer oaths and affirmations, in all cases whatever, relating to their official duties.

SECTION 19. A quorum of said directors shall and they are hereby Monthly meetenjoined and required to meet at the said house of employment at least ings. once in every month, and visit the apartments, and see that the poor are comfortably supported, and hear all complaints, and redress or cause to be redressed all grievances that may happen by the neglect or misconduct of any person or persons in their employment or otherwise.

SECTION 11. The said directors shall, each of them, receive for their Pay. services, annually, the sum of twenty dollars to defray the expenses of the necessary attendance on the duties of their office.

SECTION 12. In case of any vacancy, by death, resignation or other- Vacancy. wise, of any of the said directors, the remaining directors shall fill such vacancy by the appointment of a citizen of their county, under the same penalty as is provided by the third section of this act, to serve until the next general election, when another director shall be elected to serve as if no such vacancy had happened.

SECTION 13. All claims and demands existing at the time of this act Claims. being carried into effect, shall have full force and effect as if this act had not passed, and when the same may have been duly adjusted and settled, all moneys remaining in the hands of the overseers, as well as the uncollected taxes levied for the support of the poor in the several townships in the county of Juniata, shall be paid over to the treasurer of the poor house, to be applied to the maintenance and support of the poor.

SECTION 14. As soon as the poor of the county of Juniata shall have Overseer's office been removed to the house of employment of the said county, and the abolished, outstanding taxes collected and paid over, the office of overseer of the poor within the said county shall from thenceforth be abolished.

SECTION 15. The powers conferred and the duties imposed on the Powers and duoverseers of the poor, in and by "An Act to empower the overseers and ties conferred on guardians of the poor in the several townships within this common- supervisors. wealth, to recover certain fines, penalties and forfeitures, and for other purposes," are hereby conferred and imposed on the supervisors of the highways in said county of Juniata; and that the justices of the peace, and sheriff within the said county, are hereby required and enjoined to pay to the said supervisors, to be by them applied to the repair of the highways, the aforesaid fines, forfeitures and penalties within the time, and in the manner prescribed by the said act, for the payment thereof

County commissioners.

Repeal.

Sheriff to notify
commissioners.

Citizens to vote for or against a poor house.

Sheriff's duty.

Mifflin county,

mortgages, re

in other counties to the overseer of the poor, and to give notice of the
receipt thereof to the said supervisors, within the time, and in the man-
ner aforesaid; and that for any neglect or refusal to perform any of the
duties enjoined on them by the said act, the said justices of the peace
and sheriff in the said county shall be subject to all fines, penalties
and forfeitures to which the justices and sheriffs in other counties by
the said act are subject or liable.

SECTION 16. The commissioners of said county are hereby authorized
and empowered to pay to the directors a reasonable compensation for their
services during the term they are employed in erecting any building or
buildings aforesaid: Provided, The same shall not, including the annual
sum allowed them by this act, exceed fifty dollars for any one year.

SECTION 17. So much of the laws of this commonwealth relating to the poor, as are by this act altered or supplied, be and the same are hereby repealed, so far as they affect the county of Juniata.

SECTION 18. That the sheriff of the said county shall in due time
notify the said commissioners of their appointment, and when and
where they shall meet for entering upon the duties assigned them by
this act, which place of meeting shall be as near the centre of the county
as possible.

SECTION 19. For the purpose of ascertaining the sense of the citizens
of Juniata county, as to the expediency of erecting a poor house, it shall
be the duty of each of the inspectors for the several townships and
boroughs at the next general election, to receive tickets either written or
printed, from the qualified voters thereof, labelled on the outside" poor
house." and in the inside "for a poor house," or "against a poor house,"
and if it shall appear, on casting up the votes of the different districts,
at the court house, on the same day that the other returns are made out.
that a majority of those who voted are for a poor house, then the fore-
going act to take effect; but if a majority of the votes are found to be
against a poor house, the foregoing act be and the same is hereby
null and void.

SECTION 20. That the sheriff of Juniata county, shall cause this act
to be published in all the newspapers printed in said county, at least six
weeks previous to the next general election, the expenses of which to be
paid out of the county treasury.

SECTION 21. That the execution of all process for the recovery of any moneys now due, or that shall hereafter become due, the payment cognizances, &c. of which is secured by a mortgage or mortgages, recognizance or recog nizances, duly entered of record in the courts of Mifflin county, previously to the passage of the act erecting certain parts of Mifflin county into a new county to be called Juniata, passed the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and binding lands lying in that part of Mifflin county, erected into a new county by the aforesaid act, may be proceeded in and carried into complete execution in the same manner as if the said act had not been passed.

Philadelphia guardians of the

poor, to admit

poor of Moyamensing, &c.

SECTION 22. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be
the duty of the board of guardians of the poor, under the act, entitled
delphia, the district of Southwark, and the townships of the Northern
"An Act for the relief and employment of the poor of the city of Phila-
Liberties and Penn," passed the fifth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and twenty-eight, to receive into the Blockley alms-house all
the poor of the township of Moyamensing, in the county of Philadel-
phia, and treat the same in the same manner as the poor of the city of
Philadelphia are now or may hereafter be treated; and the said board of

guardians are hereby fully empowered to levy, assess and collect taxes
from the said township, in like amount and in like manner as they now
collect the taxes laid and assessed for the support of the poor in the city
of Philadelphia, and incorporated districts in the county of Philadelphia;
and the said board of guardians of the poor shall appoint one citizen of
said township to be a visiter of the poor, with like authority and duties,
now imposed or that may hereafter be imposed on the visiters of the
poor appointed by said board, and with such compensation for his
services as the board may deem just and proper.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WILLIAM P. WILCOX,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hun

dred and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.

No. 338.

AN ACT

Authorizing the supreme court to take cognizance of certain proceedings in the court of common pleas of Cumberland county.

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 supreme court of this commonwealth is hereby authorized and required to take jurisdiction of a certain record and proceedings in the court of common pleas of the county of Cumberland, and state of Pennsylvania, number one hundred and eighty-nine, of January term, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, whereby the name of Peter F. Ege, Esquire, was, on Tuesday, the thirteenth day Peter F. Ege. of February, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, stricken from the list of attorneys of said court, and that the said supreme court shall, with as little delay as possible, and during their session, commencing at the borough of Harrisburg, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of May, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, proceed to hear and determine the questions arising upon the said record and proceedings, in any shape which may be approved or prescribed by the said supreme court, and shall cause the decision of the said court to be duly certified to the court of common pleas of the county of Cumberland, and make all orders, and direct all measures which may be necessary and proper, and which shall be effectual in the premises.

SECTION 2. That the said Peter F. Ege, Esquire, be and he is here- Depositions adby authorized to take the depositions of witnesses, on five days notice mitted. to the Honorable Samuel Hepburn, president judge of the court of

common pleas of Cumberland county, before any justice of the peace residing in said county, which the supreme court are hereby required to hear, on the argument of all questions arising on the record and proceedings aforesaid.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hun

dred and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.

Fine.

No. 339.

AN ACT

Supplementary to an act passed the ninth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and sixty, relative to the hunting of deer.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives 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, if any person or persons, in the counties of Schuylkill, Lebanon and Dauphin, shall hunt, chase or follow, with a design to kill or destroy, any buck, doe or fawn, within said counties, at any other time or season, excepting only between the first day of the month of September and the first day of the month of December in each year, and shall be lawfully convicted thereof by the oaths or affirmations of one or more credible witnesses, before any alderman or justice of the peace, in the name of the commonwealth, he or they, on being convicted thereof, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be sued for and recoverable, with costs of suit, before any alderman or justice of the peace, in the name of the commonwealth, at the instance of any person who will suc therefor, as debts of like amount are now recoverable by law; one-half of said fine or penalty shall be paid to the person or persons sueing for the same, and the other half to the treasurer of the county where such fine or penalty shall be recovered: Provided, That so much of the act of the ninth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and sixty, that is inconsistent with this act, be and the same is hereby repealed.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hun

dred and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.