firmed. each mile circular necessarily travelled in the execution of the duties of their office. Title to land NER MIDDLESWARTH, THOMAS S. CUNNINGHAM, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirty-first day of March, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six. JOS: RITNER. NO. 93. An Act Relative to the appointment of High constable in the borough of Lewistown, Mifflin county, and taxing Dogs in said borough, 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 from and after the passing of this act, the court of Quarter Sessions of Mifflin county, upon petition of the town council, is hereby authorized and required to fill any vacancy which may hereafter occur in the office of high constable of the borough of Lewistown, High Constain said county, by death, resignation, refusal to serve, or ble of Lewisotherwise, by the appointment of some suitable person, who, town. if not a freeholder, shall give bond, in the usual manner, and be entitled to the same privileges and emoluments, and he subject to the same penalties for neglect or refusal to perform the duties, as is provided for in the act incorporating said borough. SECTION 2. The town council of the said borough of Lewistown are hereby authorized to tax, by such ordinance as they may pass for the purpose, all dogs or bitches within the Tax on dogs, said borough, of the age of six months and upwards, and enforce the collection of the said tax, as other taxes in and for said borough are collected, and to be applied, when collected, to such uses and purposes in the said borough as the said council may direct: Provided, The said tax shall not Proviso. exceed the sum of one dollar for the first dog or bitch, and fifty cents for every additional dog or bitch owned by the same person. York. SECTION 3. That it shall hereafter be lawful for the corpo- Tax on dogs rate authorities of the borough York, to lay a tax on dogs in in the bosaid borough, the same to be levied, assessed, collected and rough of appropriated, at such times and in such manner as the said burgesses may direct: Provided, the tax shall not exceed Proviso. fifty cents on the first dog, and one dollar for every additional dog owned or kept by the same person. SECTION 4. That the high constable of the borough of High ConstaBerwick in the county of Adams, and of the borough of ble of BerYork in the county of York, shall have like jurisdiction, and wick. in all things be invested with like powers, and subject to the same liabilities with constables of townships within said county. SECTION 5. That from and after the passage of this act, Relative to any person or persons who may kill any fox or foxes, wild cat foxes & wild or wild cats, within the counties of Mifflin, Columbia, North- cats, in the counties of ampton, in this commonwealth, and who shall produce the Mifflin, Coscalp of said fox or foxes, wild cat or wild cats, having the lumbia and ears thereof, before any justice of the peace in and for the North'ton. said counties of Mifflin, Columbia and Northampton, it Shall be the duty of such justice to examine such person or persons, on oath or affirmation, touching the place where and the time when such fox or foxes, wild cat or wild cats, was or were taken and killed; and if the place or places of uch taking and killing, shall be found to be within the bounds of the proper county, it shall be the duty of such Justice to give the person or persons a certificate of the fact the commissioners of the county, together with the scalps, او Premium for as aforesaid, and the said coinmissioners upon the receipts scalps. thereof, shall immediately have such scalp or scalps destroyed, and thereupon draw their warrant on the county treasurer of the proper county; for the scalp of a full grown fox, fifty cents, and if for the scalp of a full grown wild cat, two dollars, and for those that are not full grown, for half the amount for each and every scalp so produced, as aforesaid, and it shall be the duty of such treasurer, and he is hereby directed to pay the amount of said order: Provided however, that the premium to be paid on fox scalps, shall be limited to red foxes only, so far as regards Mifflin county; and that part of the act of the fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, relating to the premium on fox scalps in the county of York, which was repealed at the last session, is hereby reenacted. Proviso. Southern SECTION 6. The southern boundary of the borough of boundary of Mifflintown in the county of Juniata, shall hereafter extend Mifflintown. in a straight line from the Sunbury road to the towing-path of the Pennsylvania canal, thence up said canal to the northwestern corner of said borough. Town con flintown. SECTION 7. In case of any vacancy hereafter occurring in stable in Mif- the office of town constable of the said borough of Mifflintown, by death, resignation, refusal to give necessary security, or otherwise, the court of Quarter Sessions of the county of Juniata are hereby authorized and required, upon the petition of the town council of said borough, to appoint some suitable person, who shall have the same powers and emoluments, and be subject to the same penalties for neglect or refusal to perform his duties, as is prescribed in the eleventh section of the act incorporating said borough. vending mer Prohibiting SECTION 8. No hawker or pedlar shall hereafter be perhawkers and mitted to sell, vend, or expose any foreign goods, wares or pedlars from merchandise, clocks, tin, or japan ware, within the limits of chandise in said borough of Mifflintown, or Lewistown, under the penalty Miflintown of ten dollars, to be recovered as debts of like amount are and Lewis- by law recoverable, one moiety thereof for the use of the informer, and the residue to be paid into the borough treasuries, for the use of the respective boroughs. town. Repeal. SECTION 9. That the second section of an act passed the twenty-fourth day of February, eighteen hundred and twenty. entitled "An act authorizing the election of additional constables in different townships in this commonwealth," be and the same is hereby repealed. Court of ap SECTION 10. That the burgess, president of the council, peal in Clays and treasurer of the borough of Claysville, in the county of ville, Wash- Washington, or any two of them, shall constitute a court of ington county, relative to appeal, and prior to the collection of any borough tax, they shall appoint a day for hearing of appeals, of which, and the amount of her or his tax, and the place where the appeal will be held, the collector shall notify each taxable by a taxation. written notice, in the usual manner, at least ten days before the day of appeal, and in all cases where the tax shall have been properly assessed and adjusted, it shall be the duty of the burgess, or in case of his absence or inability to act, of the treasurer, and he is hereby authorized to issue his precept, directed to the collector, commanding him to collect Collection of all taxes so assessed, and vesting him with like powers and the taxes. authorities given to the collectors of county rates and levies, by the laws of this commonwealth, and the amount so collected, shall be paid into the treasury, for the use of said corporation. SECTION 11. So much of the borough taxes heretofore Payment of lawfully assessed, and which shall not have been paid, it taxes to be shall and may be lawful for the burgess, or in his absence or enforced. inability, the treasurer, to issue his precept to the collector to enforce the payment of the same, in the same manner and under the restrictions, as taxes hereafter to be levied under the first section of this act. SECTION 12. So much of the act to which this is a supple- Repeal. ment, as is hereby altered or supplied, is hereby repealed. SECTION 13. That the electors of the township of Deer, in Two constaAllegheny county, shall, at the day and place now appointed bles in Deer for the election of a constable, elect, and they are hereby township, authorized to elect, two constables for said township, to Allegheny serve for the period, and with the powers now exercised by the constable of said township. county. SECTION 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the first day of May next, the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth sections of the act approved the 15th day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled "Au act relative to constables and supervisors in certain townships and boroughs," be and the same are hereby repealed, and that so much of the prior Repeal. acts of the general assembly as referred to the supervisors of the township of Mifflin, and county of Allegheny, and to contracts for the repairs of roads in said township, be from Revival. the first day of May aforesaid, revived and in full force. SECTION 15. That so much of the first, second and third Repeal as to sections of the act passed the twenty-first of March, one wine runthousand eight hundred and thirty-three, as relates to swine ning at large running at large in the county of M'Kean, be and the same county. is hereby repealed. in M'Kean SECTION 16. That so much of the act entitled "An act Repeal as to to open the streets, roads, lanes and alleys in a certain por-streets, &c. tion of the township of Moyamensing, and for fixing the in Moyamerlines and descents of the water courses of all the streets, sing. roads, lanes and alleys in said township, and for other purposes, passed the thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, as relates to the township of Moyamensing, be and the same is hereby repealed. Repeal as to swine run in Canons SECTION 17. That so much of an act in a supplement to an act incorporating the borough of Canonsburg in the county ning at large of Washington, passed the thirty-first day of March, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and seven, which prohibits hogs running at large in said borough, be and the same is hereby repealed. burg. 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. JOS: RITNER. of the five wards. No. 94. An Act For dividing the incorporated district of Southwark, in the county of Philadelphia, into five wards, 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 incorporated district of Boundaries Southwark, in the county of Philadelphia, shall be, and hereby is divided into five wards, in manner following, that is to say: so much of the said district as lies east of the centre of Third street, and north of the centre of Catharine street, shall be the first ward; so much of the said district as lies east of the centre of Third street, and south of the centre of Catharine street, to the centre of the railroad of the "Southwark railroad company," as at present located, shall be the second ward; so much of the said district as lies west of the centre of Third street, and north of the centre of Catharine street, shall be the third ward; so much of the said district as lies west of the centre of Third street, and south of the centre of Catharine street, to the centre of the railroad of the "Southwark railroad company," as at present located, shall be the fourth ward; and so much of the said |