No. 375. An Act Relating to the Monumental Building and Loan Association. 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 rights, privileges and franchises, conferred upon the Monumental Building, Loan and Saving Association, by their charter, from the court of common pleas of Philadelphia county, are hereby ratified and confirmed, and, in addition thereto, the said association shall have perpetual succession, and the right to issue stock, to the number of twenty-five hundred shares, and the authority to receive money, on deposit, from others than stockholders; said deposits not to exceed, in the aggregate, the actual amount of cash capital paid on said shares; and all stock heretofore issued, by said association, and all loans made on the same, and all securities taken to secure the payment of said loans on said stock, are hereby ratified, confirmed and legalized, and to have, and be received and taken with, the same force and legal effect as if the said association had the legal right, and authority, to issue the said stock, make the said loans, and take the said securities, when the same were issued, made and taken. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. We do hereby certify, that the bill, entitled "An Act relating to the Monumental Building and Loan Association," was presented to the governor on the nineteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and was not returned within ten days; wherefore, it has, agreeably to the constitution of this commonwealth, become a law, in like manner as if it had been signed. J. ZIEGLER, Clerk of the House of Representatives. GEO. W. HAMERSLY, Clerk of the Senate. HARRISBURG, April 11, 1863. No. 376. An Act In relation to Road Taxes, in Coganhouse township, in the county of Lycoming. 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 tenth section of the act of assembly, entitled An Act Repeal of acts regulating certain election districts; relating to Saint Andrew's relative to road church, in the city of Pittsburg; to certain bridges in Lebanon taxes on unseatcounty, and to road taxes in Lycoming county," passed April ed lands. second, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and an act of assembly, entitled "A supplement to the act incorporating the Larry's Creek Plank Road Company; authorizing the commissioners of Lycoming county to settle with A. H. M'Henry and Robert Farris, for certain services; supplement to an act to quiet the title to certain lands granted for the use of William Smith, in tail general, and relative to the Bear Creek and Lehigh Plank Road Company," passed the nineteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, be and the same are hereby repealed, so far as the said acts relate to road taxes on unseated lands in Coganhouse township, in the county of Lycoming. sors such taxes SECTION 2. That the treasurer of the county of Lycoming is County treahereby authorized, and required, to pay over, to the supervisors surer to pay of the said township of Coganhouse, all the money, heretofore, over to supervipaid into the treasury of Lycoming county, for road taxes on not already apthe unseated lands in said township, except so much thereof as propriated. has been, heretofore, paid over, and appropriated, by the commissioners of said county, under the provisions of the acts of assembly, referred to in the first section of this act; and the commissioners of said county are hereby required to transfer, Commissioners to the supervisors of the said township of Coganhouse, their to transfer to just proportion of any stock in the Larry's Creek Plank Road supervisors Company, for which they may have, heretofore, subscribed, their proportion and paid for, out of the road taxes of said township: Provided ry's Creek however, That before the payment of the money aforesaid to plank road. the supervisors of the said township of Coganhouse, they shall Supervisors to give a bond, to the township of Coganhouse, for the amount so give bond. to be drawn, by them, with surety, to be approved by a judge of the court of common pleas of said county, conditioned for the faithful appropriation of the money aforesaid, for road purposes, in said township, and for the payment of any balance in their hands, at the expiration of their term of office, to their successors in office; which bond shall be filed with the trea of stock in Lar surer of said county, for the use of the said township of Coganhouse. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 377. An Act To pay for auditing the accounts of John M. Coleman, County Treasurer of the city of Philadelphia, for the years one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four and fifty-five. WHEREAS, During the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, John N. Henderson did, by, and under, the authority of the auditor general, audit the state accounts of John M. Coleman, then county treasurer of the county of Philadelphia, for the years one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four and one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and the said John N. Henderson has never received any compensation; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the state treasurer be and he is hereby directed to pay, to the said John N. Henderson, the sum of eight hundred dollars, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the said claim has not been already paid. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 378. An Act To continue in force the warrants to Irvin Rutledge, a collector of taxes for the several wards of the borough of Johnstown, Cambria county. 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 warrants issued to Irvin Rutledge, of the borough of Johnstown, in the county of Cambria, for the collection of the county, poor, state and military taxes for the several wards of the said borough of Johnstown, dated the eleventh day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, be and the same are hereby continued in full force and virtue for the space of one year from, and after, the passage of this act. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 379.. An Act To extend the time for the payment of the enrolment tax on an act to incorporate the Girard Cemetery, in the county of Erie, approved March twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and to legalize the acts of the managers of said company. 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 time for the payment of the enrolment tax on an act to incorporate the Girard cemetery, in the county of Erie, ap proved March twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and" sixty-one, be and the same is hereby extended until July first, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three; and all the contracts, acts and proceedings of the persons heretofore elected, and now, or heretofore, acting as managers of said company, are hereby legalized and made valid, with like force and effect, as is the enrolment tax had been paid on said act within the time prescribed by law. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 380. An Act For the protection of a certain side walk in the township of Maxatawny, in the county of Berks. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen atives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assemply met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be a misdemeanor for any person, or persons, to ride, drive, or haul, on, or along, a certain side walk, beginning at the limit of the borough of Kutztown, in Maxatawny township, Berks county, to Fairview cemetery, and terminating at Fairview seminary, ten feet wide, made along the side, or on the bounds, of a certain public road, in said township, where it is evident such side, or foot, walk, by being laid off, graded, or otherwise improved, is intended only for foot passengers, except riding, driving, or hauling, across said foot walk, going on, to, or off from, adjoin. ing property; and upon the oath, or affirmation, of any landholder of said township, or borough, before any justice of the peace in said county, that such misdemeanor has, by any person, or persons, been committed, he shall issue a warrant for such person, or persons, committing such misdemeanor, and the justice of the peace is hereby empowered to impose a fine, not less than five, nor more than ten, dollars, and costs of suit, for each and every such offender, for each and every such offence, or misdemeanor, committed; which fine the justice of the peace shall pay over to the supervisors of said township, to be used towards the improvement of the public roads; and such offender |