under the direction of the superintendent, the accounts to be settled by the auditor general.

Twenty-second. For payment of the necessary expenses of the Commissioners of commissioners, and for the expenses of advertising and printing, and all Delaware canal other expenses incurred under the act of fourteenth of April, Anno company. Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, entitled "An Act to authorize the governor to incorporate the Delaware canal company, and for other purposes," a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars, the accounts to be first settled and allowed by the auditor general; that the auditor general is hereby authorized and required to settle the claim of Swain, Abel and Simmons, for publishing the sale of the state stocks, and draw his warrant for the amount which may be found due, upon the state treasurer.

Twenty-third. To the Eastern penitentiary, eight thousand dollars. Eastern peniten

tiary.

Twenty fourth. To the Western penitentiary, five thousand dollars; Western peniten

tiary.

and hereafter the wardens of the Eastern and Western penitentiaries shall
each receive a compensation not exceeding twelve hundred dollars; the
moral instructors not more than five hundred dollars each; the principal
overseers not more than six hundred dollars each, and each of the other
male overseers not more than five hundred dollars per annnm, to be
fixed by the inspectors of the said penitentiaries; the said sums hereby
appropriated to the Eastern and Western penitentiaries, shall be applied
towards the payment of the salaries of the officers of said institutions,
the accounts to be settled in the usual manner; and the annual reports
now required by law from the inspectors of said penitentiaries, shall
hereafter embrace a detailed statement of the manner in which the sums
annually appropriated are expended, together with an accurate account
of the amount paid for materials and for subsistence of prisoners, and
the amount received from the profits of labor, so as to show distinctly
the balance of expenditures over the receipts from labor: Provided,
That the wardens of the Eastern and Western penitentiaries shall furnish
to the several counties a separate account of the expense of and labor
performed by the prisoners from each county, before any county shall
be required to pay any excess for keeping its prisoners, and the said
wardens shall furnish, under oath or affirmation, a similar account to
the legislature annually; and any excess that shall remain after paying Excess.
the expense of maintaining said prisons, shall be paid annually into the
state treasury; and the provisions of the thirteenth division of the first
section of the act of the twenty-ninth of September, one thousand eight
hundred and forty-three, entitled "An Act to provide for the ordinary
expenses of government, and for other purposes," be and the same is
hereby repealed.

Twenty-fifth. For the repair and keeping in order of the public Public grounds. buildings and grounds at the seat of government, the sum of two hundred dollars.

Twenty-sixth. For the payment of the interest on the funded debt of Interest on fundthis commonwealth, which became due on the first day of February, ed debt. Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and to pro

vide for the payment of the interest which will become due on the first day of August next, the governor is hereby authorized and directed to

cause certificates of stock, transferable on the books of the auditor Certificates transgeneral, or at the Bank of Pennsylvania, to be issued to the persons ferable. respectively to whom the interest on the state debt became due, on the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four; and also, on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty.. four, to the persons respectively to whom interest shall then become

Proviso.

Oath.

due, which certificates shall be signed by the auditor general and countersigned by the state treasurer, and bear an interest of five per centum per annum, payable yearly, at such place as may be by the state treasurer designated, and redeemable on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six: Provided, That in all cases when the amount of interest claimed does not exceed twenty dollars, the same shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, if the certificate upon which such interest be demanded shall have been issued prior to the first of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four: And provided further, That before any payment shall be made under the foregoing proviso, the owner of the said stock, or the person legally authorized to receive the sum to be paid, shall make oath or affirmation before the state treasurer, or other person authorized by him to pay the same, or before any justice of the peace or alderman of this commonwealth, who are hereby authorized to administer such oath or affirmation, that the said stock is the bona fide property of the person in whose name it stands, and that he is not the owner of other certificates, and has not divided his stock for the purpose of receiving such payment, and a sum not exceeding fourteen thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated for the cash payments of interest to be made as hereinbefore directed; that the state treasurer is herely authoJerome K. Boyer. rized to pay to Jerome K. Boyer, the sum of twenty-five dollars, in full for his services in examining and comparing the proof sheets of the several reports of the committee on printing, and in full for all services, as one of the secretaries of said committee.

Office of secretary

Twenty-seventh. That the clerk hire of the office of secretary of the of the land office, land office, from the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, to the tenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, shall be the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, notwithstanding the words "per annum" in the clause of the act continuing said office until the tenth day of May next.

Incidental expenses.

Presidential elec

tors.

Moneys, how paid.

Repeal.

Twenty-eighth. To pay incidental expenses arising under a resolution, entitled Resolution relative to the prosecution of certain persons, passed January sixth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, eight hundred dollars: Provided, That the account shall embrace only the legal fees for procuring evidence and witnesses in the state, and the reasonable expenses of procuring evidence, witnesses and other persons from other states, and shall be settled by the auditor general in the usual manner; and the counsel, or either of them, shall have full power to sign bills of indictment, and conduct the same in all respects in the performance of the duty assigned them, in the same manner as is lawful for the attorney general to do.

Twenty-ninth. For compensation and contingent expenses of electors of president and vice president, the sum of eight hundred dollars.

SECTION 2. From and after the first day of June next, no moneys shall be paid out of the state treasury, except as is herein specifically appropriated; and from and after the first day of June next, so much of the act, entitled "An Act to provide for the ordinary expenses of the government, and for other purposes," passed twenty-ninth September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, as makes appropriations to any purpose, and all other acts making appropriations, be and the same are hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. That in case the sum hereby appropriated for any object Appropriations, should be found more than sufficient to meet the expense thereby conhow applied. templated, the same shall not be applied to any other purpose, but shall

remain in the treasury, credited to such object of appropriation and subject to future legislation.

SECTION 4. In order to enable the legislature hereafter to make spe- Duty of heads of cific appropriations for the expenses of government, it shall be the duty department, canal of the secretary of the commonwealth, and superintendent of common commissioners, schools, auditor general, state treasurer, surveyor general and canal &c. commissioners, severally, to communicate to the legislature, on or before the third Tuesday of January, in each and every year hereafter, a detailed estimate of the contingent expenses of their several departments, for one year, from the first of June then next ensuing.

SECTION 5. That the state treasurer be and he is hereby authorized Cancellation of and directed, on the last days of June, September and December in the relief notes. year one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, to cancel and deliver to the auditor general, for destruction, fifty thousand dollars; and on the last days of March, June, September and December in every year thereafter, fifty thousand dollars of the notes issued by the banks of this commonwealth, in pursuance of the act of fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, that may then be in the treasury-and if said notes shall be depreciated, then of the most depreciated-and continue so to do until the whole amount of the notes legally issued by the banks, as aforesaid, shall have been cancelled and destroyed; and the amount deposited to the credit of the commonwealth, in banks or savings institutions, or received by collectors on the railroads and canals, or by the treasurer of the city and county of Philadelphia, shall be deemed as money in the treasury, and subject to the cancellation, as aforesaid; and it shall be the duty of the auditor general to keep and publish, quarterly, in at least one newspaper at Harrisburg, a record of the notes so cancelled and destroyed, designating the bank or banks that originally issued the same, in order that the one per centum interest thereon may cease: Provided, That it shall be the duty of the state Proviso. treasurer to retain the several amounts, respectively, out of the receipts of the quarter, so as effectually to secure the cancellation of the amounts hereinbefore provided; and the sum of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the payment of domestic creditors' certificates issued by the auditor general: Provided, That there is suffi- Proviso. cient money in the treasury after paying the several other appropriations in this act.

SECTION 6. That so much of the act, entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of the domestic creditors of this commonwealth, sale of state stocks, and for other purposes," passed eighth April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, as relates to the cancellation of the notes issued by the banks of this commonwealth, in pursuance of the act of the fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, as is hereby altered and supplied, be and the same is hereby repealed; and no cancellation of said notes shall take place in May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

Repeal.

SECTION 7. That the several superintendents of motive power, super- Canal and railvisors of repairs, collectors of tolls, and toll gatherers, weighmasters, road officers. and inspectors of cargoes, and their assistants and clerks, and all other agents upon the public improvements who have been appointed by the board of canal commissioners, and who are now in office, or who may hereafter be appointed by the same, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, before some judge, alderman or justice of the peace of this commonwealth, in the following form, to wit:

I,

-, being duly appointed

(or affirm,) as the case may be, that I will support the constitution of

Certain officers authorized to administer oaths.

the United States and of this commonwealth, and will well and truly observe and obey all the laws and regulations relative to the canals and railroads of this commonwealth, as well as all lawful instructions that may from time to time be given to me, by any competent authority, concerning the same; and that I will in all things discharge the duties pertaining to my said office or appointment, with fidelity. Which oath or affirmation, when so taken and subscribed, shall be certified by the officer before whom it was taken, and filed in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth.

SECTION 8. That the several collectors of tolls on the canals and railroads of this commonwealth, shall have authority to administer oaths or affirmations to any owner, captain, conductor or other agent of any boat or car used upon the state improvements, and to examine them on oath or affirmation, touching the weight and description of their cargoes, and in relation to all other matters and things connected with the faithful discharge of the official duties of the said collectors; and any person who shall knowingly swear falsely before any of the said collectors, shall be liable to prosecution, conviction and punishment, as in other cases of wilful perjury.

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

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The thirty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.

RESOLUTIONS

PASSED SESSION OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR.

No. 1.

RESOLUTION

Fixing the mode of paying certain officers of the legislature.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the pay of the clerks, assistant clerks and transcribing clerks, and of the sergeant-at-arms, assistant sergeant-at-arms and messengers, and of the doorkeeper and assistant doorkeepers of each branch of the legislature, under the "Act to reduce the expenses of the government," shall be settled by the auditor general, and paid by the state treasurer, out of Duty of auditor any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and each of general and state said officers shall be allowed the same mileage as is allowed to the treasurer. clerks.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WILLIAM BIGLER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED The fifth day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.

No. 2.

RESOLUTION

Relative to the prosecution of certain persons.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That William M. Meredith and George M. Dallas, of the city of Philadelphia, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to institute and conduct such proceedings on the part of the commonwealth, as will bring to