No. 150. A further Supplement To the act incorporating the city of Philadelphia, relative to certain offices. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, Members of the not eligible to SECTION 2. No member of council of said city shall be eligible Councilmen to any office, employment or agency, directly, or indirectly, chosen by councils, or either branch of them, during the term ment by coun for which he shall have been elected to councils. cils. SECTION 3. Whenever, by the requirements of any law, a Certain offices particular residence is a necessary qualification for the election forfeited by or appointment of any officer, a removal from such residence change of resishall operate as a forfeiture of the office. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of March, Anno Domini one one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN dence. No. 151. Supplement To the act incorporating the Grandom Institution, approved April twentythird, eighteen hundred and forty-one. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That the Grandom Institution be and is hereby authorized at any time, and from time to time, in the discretion of its board of managers, to appropriate and use for the "charity fund," or the alleviation of the poor, any of the unemployed or accu mulated income, from the investments belonging to "the loan fund" of the said institution. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 152. An Act To change the time of holding the township elections and making the township settlements in the county of Clearfield. 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 time for holding the elections for township officers in the several districts, in Clearfield county, shall be and the same is hereby fixed upon the last Friday in December, in each year; and the time for making the settlements with the township officers, in said county, shall be and the same is hereby fixed upon the last Monday in January, in each year; and all laws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed: Provided, That this act shall not interfere with the election and settlement for this year, but they shall be held as though this act had not been passed. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 153. An Act Relative to tax collectors in Butler 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 commissioners of Butler county be and are hereby authorized to exonerate the several tax collectors of said county, for uncollectable tax, as fully and with the same effect as though the same had been done within the time now specified by existing law: Provided however, That the same be presented to the commissioners within sixty days after the passage of this act. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 154. An Act To incorporate the Sumneytown and Gerysville Turnpike Road Company. 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 William F. Reed, Hiram Hartrauft, Daniel Jacoby, Wil- Commissioners... liam D. Reedy, Edwin M. Benner, Dr. George A. Blank, John Kepp, Henry Jacoby, Alexander Rhoads, Charles Welker, George Schwartz, William Christman, George Rhoads, Jonathan Gerhart, Jesse Rodenberger, Jacob Hersh, Israel Kline and Samuel Troxel, of Montgomery county; and Jesse Gery and Lafayette Kline, of Bucks county, or any seven of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, by the name, style and title of the Sumneytown and Gerysville Turnpike Name. Road Company, with full power and authority to construct a Route. Subject to. Board of managers. Votes. Capital stock. Proviso. Authorized to use streets or roads and county bridges. May borrow money. Supervisors of certain town ships may sub Amount to be determined by turnpike road, from a point in the Springhouse and Sumneytown turnpike, in the village of Sumneytown, in Montgomery county, opposite the store of Jacoby and Hartrauft, upon and over the bed of a road commonly called the Millerstown road, or upon and over so much thereof as may be necessary, to Gerysville, in Bucks county; said company to be subject to all the liabilities and restrictions expressed and provided in and by an act of the general assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act regulating turnpike and plank road companies," approved the twenty-sixth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto, except so far as the same are hereby altered and supplied: Provided however, That the board of managers of said company shall consist of a president and six managers, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, who, together with a treasurer, shall be elected as provided by said act: And provided also, That each stockholder, at all elections held by said company, shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock held by him, or her, not exceeding five, and no more. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of four hundred shares, at twenty-five dollars each: Provided, That said company may, from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as, in their opinion, may be necessary to complete the said road, and carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That it shall be lawful for the said company to make use of any county bridges on the route of their road, and also to use the whole, or any part, of any public street, or road, and locate their road upon the ground occupied by any public street or road; and the court of quarter sessions of the respective counties, through which the road of said company shall pass, shall appoint viewers to view and vacate such parts of any public road as shall be rendered unnecessary by the construction of the said company's road, as is provided by the general road laws of this commonwealth, in the cases of roads which have become useless. SECTION 4. That it shall and may be lawful for the said company to borrow any sum of money, not exceeding five thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, and to issue bonds, or certificates of indebtedness, therefor, payable at such times as may be agreed upon. SECTION 5. That it shall and may be lawfui for the supervisors of the townships of Marlborough and Upper Hanover, in scribe to stock. Montgomery county, through which said turnpike road shall pass, to take and subscribe, on behalf of their respective townships, to the capital stock of said company, an amount not exceeding one thousand dollars each, the said amount to be determined by a vote of the citizens of said townships, at elections to be held for that purpose, at such times and places as shall be designated by the respective supervisors of said townships, of which notice shall be given in the same manner as is provided for township elections, of which said elections the supervisors shall be the judges, and shall hold the same open elections. When and how to be held. between the hours of ten o'clock A. M., and six o'clock P. M., of the said day, so fixed upon by them, respectively, and they shall make return thereof to the nearest justices of the peace, Returns to be of their respective townships; and the supervisors of said made. townships, for the time being, shall be entitled to vote upon the stock, so held by their respective townships, as any other stockholder; and the said townships are hereby authorized Townships auand empowered to borrow money to pay the instalments on thorized to borsaid stock, so subscribed, and to issue certificates of indebted- row money. ness therefor, bearing interest, and payable at such times as may be agreed upon, not exceeding five years. SECTION 6. The president and managers shall, in the month Dividends may of January in each and every year after the organization of be declared. said company, on a day to be named in their by-laws, proceed to examine and ascertain the income of the company, and after deducting all costs and charges incurred by the same, may, if a majority of votes are found to be in favor thereof, out of the net profits, if any there be, declare a dividend to and among the stockholders; notice of which, and of the time and place, shall be given, and the same shall be paid accordingly. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 155. An Act Relating to the several courts of the county of Butler. WHEREAS, The business, in the several courts of Butler Preamble. county, has so increased, that the time of the present sessions of said courts is too short and insufficient to dispose of the same: And whereas, An evil exists which should be remedied, to wit: that separate venires are issued for each week of said courts, and in place of one panel of jurors holding over during one entire session each week, consequently has a new panel of petit jurors, thereby subjecting the county to a large and unnecessary expense; therefore, |