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Compensation.

Vacancies.

SECTION 3. That said commissioners shall each receive the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per diem for the services, with the right to employ such assistants as may be necessary, at a sum not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per diem, the expenses of which shall be paid by the counties of Forest and Clarion, conjointly: Provided, That should any vacancy occur in the commission, the remaining member, or members, thereof may fill the same by appointment.

CYRUS L. PERSHING,

Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

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. 165.

An Act

Supplementary to an act to incorporate the village of Bridgeport, in the county of Montgomery, into a borough.

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 at the next annual election to be held in the borough of Bridgeport, in the county of Montgomery, for the election of borough officers, it shall be lawful for the qualified electors of said borough, to elect six persons to be members of the town council of said borough, two for one year, two for two years, and two for three years; and to elect, annually thereafter, two persons for three years; and also, at said next annual election, to elect three borough auditors, to audit and adjust the accounts of the town council, school directors, and all other accounts and claims relative to the affairs of the said borough; one of said auditors to be elected for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and to elect one, annually thereafter, for three years; and that at all borough elections, the candidates for the several offices shall be voted for on slips of paper, headed with the words, "borough officers;" no voter to hand in more than one such ticket, or slip of paper; and that the ninety days' notice to owners of ground respecting the curbing, paving, and repairing of the foot ways, or side walks, opposite to their respective lands, prescribed in the eighteenth

section of the act to which this is a supplement, shall be reduced and limited to twenty days.

CYRUS L. PERSHING,

Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

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. 166.

An Act

To repeal the law and vacate a certain State Road in Fayette and Greene counties.

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 act, entitled "An Act to view and lay out a state road from Carmichaelstown, in Greene county, to M'Clellandtown, in Fayette county," passed the ninth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that the road laid out under said act, be and the same is hereby annulled and vacated: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to vacate any road heretofore laid out, and in actual use by the public, on the same ground.

CYRUS L. PERSHING,

Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

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.

Written notice in any case, fifteen cents.
Execution, twenty cents.

Entering return of execution, ten cents.

Scire facias, in any case, twenty-five cents.
Opening judgment for re-hearing, fifteen cents.

Transcript of judgment and certificate, fifty cents.

Return of proceedings on certiorari or appeal, including recognizance, fifty cents.

Receiving the amount of a judgment, and paying the same over, if not exceeding ten dollars, fifteen cents.

If exceeding ten, and not exceeding thirty, twenty-five

cents.

If exceeding thirty dollars, fifty cents.

Every search service, to which no fees are attached, fifteen

cents.

Affidavit in case of attachment, twenty-five cents.
Entering action in case of attachment, fifteen cents.
Attachment, in any case, twenty-five cents.

Recognizance, fifty cents.

Interrogatories, twenty-five cents.

Rule on garnishee, fifteen cents.

Return of rule on garnishee, ten cents.

Bond, in case of attachment, twenty-five cents.
Entering return and appointing freeholders, fifteen cents.
Advertisements, (each,) twenty cents.

Order to sell goods, twenty-five cents.

Entering transcript of judgment from another justice, twentyfive ceats.

Order for the removal of a pauper, (each justice,) fifty cents. Order to seize goods for maintenance of wife and children, twenty-five cents.

Order for premium for wolf, fox or other scalps, to be paid by the county, fifteen cents.

Every acknowledgment, or probate of deed, or other instrument of writing, twenty-five cents.

Taking and signing acknowledgment of indenture of an apprentice, twenty-five cents.

Assignment and making record of indenture, twenty-five

cents.

Cancelling indenture, fifteen cents.

Comparing and signing tax duplicates, (each justice,) fifty

cents.

For marrying each couple, making record thereof, and certificate to the parties, two dollars.

Certificate of approbation of two justices, to the binding as apprentice of a person by the directors of the poor, (each justice,) twenty-five cents.

Certificate to obtain land warrant, fifty cents.

Swearing or affirming county commissioner, assessor, director of the poor, or other township or county officer, and certificate, to be paid by the county, twenty-five cents.

For administering oaths, or affirmations, in any case not herein provided for, twenty cents.

For issuing process to lessee, in landlord and tenant proceedings, each justice, twenty cents.

Hearing and determining complaint, fifty cents.

Recording proceedings therein, issuing and receiving returns of writ of restitution, fifty cents.

SECTION 2. (The same as heretofore, to wit :)

The fees for services under the laws of the United States

shall be as follows, namely:

For certificate of protection, fifty cents.

For certificate of lost protection, twenty-five cents.

For warrant, twenty-five cents

For commitment, twenty-five cents.

Summons for seamen, in admiralty case, twenty-five cents.
Hearing thereon, with docket entry, fifty cents.

Certificate to clerk of district court to issue admiralty process, twenty-five cents.

CYRUS L. PERSHING,

Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

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. 164.

An Act

To view and lay out a State Road in the counties of Clarion and Forest.

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 Samuel Conner and Porter Haskell, of Clarion county, Commissioners and James Painter, of Forest county, be and are hereby ap

pointed commissioners to lay out a state road, commencing at

or near the mouth of Coleman's run, adjoining the Jefferson Route. county line, thence through the counties of Clarion and Forest,

to the intersection with the Warren state road, at or near

Bernard M'Cluskey's.

SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners, Duties of comas soon as practicable after the passage of this act, having missioners. first been duly sworn, or affirmed, before a justice of the peace, or other proper officer, carefully to view the ground and lay out said road, in accordance with the general road laws of this Commonwealth, and they shall make a fair and accurate draft of the location of said road, and file a copy of the same, severally, in the clerk's office of the court of quarter sessions of the counties of Clarion and Forest.

Compensation.

Vacancies.

SECTION 3. That said commissioners shall each receive the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per diem for the services, with the right to employ such assistants as may be necessary, at a sum not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per diem, the expenses of which shall be paid by the counties of Forest and Clarion, conjointly: Provided, That should any vacancy occur in the commission, the remaining member, or members, thereof may fill the same by appointment.

CYRUS L. PERSHING,

Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.
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. 165.

An Act

Supplementary to an act to incorporate the village of Bridgeport, in the county of Montgomery, into a borough.

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 at the next annual election to be held in the borough of Bridgeport, in the county of Montgomery, for the election of borough officers, it shall be lawful for the qualified electors of said borough, to elect six persons to be members of the town council of said borough, two for one year, two for two years, and two for three years; and to elect, annually thereafter, two persons for three years; and also, at said next annual election, to elect three borough auditors, to audit and adjust the accounts of the town council, school directors, and all other accounts and claims relative to the affairs of the said borough; one of said auditors to be elected for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and to elect one, annually thereafter, for three years; and that at all borough elections, the candidates for the several offices shall be voted for on slips of paper, headed with the words, "borough officers;" no voter to hand in more than one such ticket, or slip of paper; and that the ninety days' notice to owners of ground respecting the curbing, paving, and repairing of the foot ways, or side walks, opposite to their respective lands, prescribed in the eighteenth

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