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said college, of agrong with them for their salaries and stip aus, and moving them for breach of the laws; or for La pody of apporrang committees of their own body, to carry info efed 'all and every the resolutions of the board. Tap som ing resident, secretary, treasurer, and Whatever officers may be thought necessary for managing the concans of the co ration: Provided always, That no ordance of law, be of force, which shail be repugnant to 19% charter, or contrary to the laws of the United States or of dis auf.

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selection for trustees to said college. niidee ei, tạo Thursday after the first Tuesday of year of our Lord, one thousand eight ysis, at deven o'clock in the forenoon.

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Thavif the annual election shall not day, it shall and may be lawful on so as may be, to hold an election of said ras may be directed by the by-laws

7. Tax rond e. chief master of said college. sad oled the president; and the masters ciced professors and tutors, but neither přesarrot, prode is wor furters, while they remain such, shall ever le capaza es the orice of trustee.

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Fecesident, professors and tutors, or a be called the faculty of the college. Ill save power of enforcing the rules and Ly the trustees for the government of er censuring them, and finally by as after repeated admonitions shall and refractory, until a determination

ulty, by and with the approbation of & de fruses, signified by their mandamus, shal! over to grant such degrees in the liberal arts and ps of the institution, or others, who by

ning, or other meritorious distinction ried to them, as are usually granted and stores, and to grant to such graduates diploder their common seal, and signed by to ang en cate and perpetuate such graduation. àng 1 gislatur, reserves the right to revoke,

alter or amend the charter hereby granted, at any time they Legislative

may think proper.

NER MIDDLESWARTH,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THOMAS S. CUNNINGHAM,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The thirty-first day of March, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.

power to revoke.

JOS: RITNER.

No. 89.

An act

Supplementary to "An act relating to county rates and levies, and township rates and levies," passed the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

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 it shall be the duty of the com- When lists of missioners of the county of Philadelphia, immediately after taxables and the passage of this act, and within thirty days after the property to general election in each and every year thereafter, in each be made. of the two years succeeding the triennial assessment, hereafter to issue their precept to the assessors of the respective townships, wards and districts within the said county, requiring them to make out and return, within sixty days thereafter, a just and perfect list, in such form as the commissioners shall direct, of the names of all the taxable persons residing within the said townships, wards and districts, respectively, and of all property taxable by law, together with a just valuation of the same, to be made in the manner provided for in the act to which this act is a supplement: Provided also, That if the said commissioners shall have issued their precept to the said assessors before the passage of this act, requiring them to perform the duties enjoined by the eleventh section of the act to which this is supplementary, Time of rethe time required for the performance of said duties shall be turn extendextended to the first Monday in March next, and the returns ed this year.

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of said assessors made before that day, shall be as valid as if the same had been made within thirty days from the date of such precept.

SECTION 2. For every day on which the said assessors shall respectively be engaged in making the said assessment and returns, they shall be entitled to receive as a compensation for their services, one dollar and seventy-five cents.

SECTION 3. So much of the act to which this is a supplement, and of all other acts relating to county rates and levies in the county of Philadelphia, shall be null and void, so far as the same shall be inconsistent with, or is supplied by this

act.

Limited to SECTION 4. No part of this act shall in anywise affect or Philadelphia. impair the provisions of any other act heretofore passed, excepting, as aforesaid, in the county of Philadelphia.

pointed.

Defaulting collectors not SECTION 5. No person shall be appointed collector of to be re-ap County rates and levies within the city and county of Philadelphia, who shall not have paid over the whole amount of his former duplicates; and so much of the act to which this is a supplement, and of the act passed the twenty-eighth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, entitled "A sup plement to the act relating to county rates and levies, and to the act relating to counties and townships, and county and township officers," as is inconsistent with the provision of this section, is hereby repealed.

Commissioners, to per

SECTION 6. That John M. Ogden, Frederick Vogel, and Thomas Roach, shall be commissioners to exercise and carry form certain into effect all the authority conferred on certain commissionacts, appointers named in the fifteenth section of an act passed the third

od.

Defaulting tax payers.

day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to continue the surveys of the districts of Spring Garden, Northern Liberties and Kensington, northwardly, to the extent of the limits of unincorporated Penn township, and unincorporated Northern Liberties, who shall serve without any compensation; and all persons in possession of any papers, drafts, surveys, or other statements, relative to the surveys hereto fore made, under said act, or under the eleventh section of an act passed the tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, shall deliver over the same to said above named commissioners, or to the surveyors by them to be appointed, to enable them to carry on and complete the said surveys.

SECTION 7. That it shall be the duty of the collectors of taxes within the city and county of Philadelphia, to return to the treasurer of said county the names of all persons who shall not have paid their taxes within said city and county, or before the first day of September in each and every year hereafter, and upon the return of said delinquents, the county treasurer shall issue a notice to said delinquents, stating that unless the said taxes standing charged against

them are paid on or before the first day of December, that suit will be instituted for the same.

SECTION 8. And the treasurer of the said county is hereby To be sued. authorized to institute writs, agreeable to the above provision, in the name of the county, before any alderman or justice of the peace, or sheriff, as the case may be, and upon recovery of the same, the treasurer shall be allowed the same commission as the collectors would have received.

NER MIDDLESWARTH,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS S. CUNNINGHAM,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The thirty-first day of March, A. D., eighteen

hundred and thirty-six.

JOS: RITNER.

No. 90.

An Act

For the relief of Thomas Russel, and other soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war, and an act supplementary to an act regulating tin and clock pedlars.

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 is hereby authorized and required to pay Thomas Russel of Venango T. Russell. County, James Black of Dauphin county, George Swager of and others. Beaver county, Frederick Glaze of Berks county, Catharine Organ of Westmoreland county, Christina Lebold and Elizabeth Feather of Montgomery county, soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war, or to their respective orders, forty dollars to each immediately, as a gratuity, and an annuity of forty dollars to each during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six,

SECTION 2. The State Treasurer be and is hereby author- R. Criswell, ized and required to pay to Robert Criswell of York county, and others.

J. Ralston, and others,

David Griffith of Indiana county, Samuel Harper of Greene county, George Youngman of Union county, a gratuity of forty dollars to each immediately, in full for their revolutionary services.

SECTION 3. That the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay John Ralston, Peter Mattocks, and Jacob Peters of Crawford county, Isaiah Mann and John Harding of Fayette county, Jacob Graul of Berks county, Archibald Laudon of Cumberland county, James Ross of Washington county, Josiah Heidler of Adams county, George Grove of Huntingdon county, Mary Crutchlow of Butler county, Barbara M'Dowell of Bucks county. Elizabeth Smick of Northumberland county, Peter Brunner and John Patterson of Lancaster county, Elizabeth Taylor of the state of New York, soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war, or to their respective orders, forty dollars to each, immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars to each during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.

SECTION 4. That the State Treasurer is hereby authorized J. Karmony and required to pay John Karmony of Lebanon county, or order, an annuity of forty dollars, annually, to commence or the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, payable half yearly.

P. Lucas,

SECTION 5. That the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and others. and required to pay to Philip Lucas of Schuylkill county, John Lose of Northumberland county, Joanna Larison of Lycoming county, forty dollars to each immediately, as a gratuity, in full for their revolutionary services, and the services performed by Jacob Larison, late husband of Joanne Larison, in the revolutionary war; the foregoing gratuities and pension to be paid in conformity with the existing

J. Smith.

Tin pedlars' licenses, in Susquehanna county, reg

ulated.

laws.

SECTION 6. That the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay James Smith of Columbiana county, state of Ohio, forty dollars immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; this annuity to be paid in conformity to the exist ing laws, by the treasurer of Beaver county.

SECTION 7. That from and after the passage of this act it shall be lawful for any manufacturer of tin or japanne ware, in the county of Susquehanna, to apply to the clerk the court of Quarter Sessions of said county, for so many separate licenses for one year, in his own name, as shall equal to the number of venders or pedlars that he may wish to employ, paying for each license the sum mentioned in the act to which this is a supplement, and the said clerks a

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