conveyances, shall vest a perfect, and indefeasible, title to the real estate so sold, and conveyed, in the purchaser, or purchasers thereof. SECTION 2. That the proceeds arising from any sale, or sales, How proceeds to made in pursuance of the provisions of this act, shall be divided be divided. to, and among, the stockholders in said institute, in proportion to the stock held by them, severally; and upon the proper payment thereof, the said trustees shall be released, and discharged, from any liability therefor. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 477. An Act Relating to the payment of stamp duties. 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 from and after the passage of this act, all stamp duties Stamp duties to required to be paid, in any judicial proceeding whatever, shall, be taxed as costs in judicial prowhen paid, be taxed as part of the costs in the proceeding, and ceedings. paid by the party required to pay the other costs thereof. taxes, stamp SECTION 2. That in all cases of judicial sales, made by any In all cases of sheriff, coroner, executor, administrator, guardian, or other judical sales, trustee, under any order, or process, issued out of any court of and sales for this commonwealth, the stamp duties, required to be paid on duties to be the deed, when executed, shall be taxed with the other costs paid as costs. of the proceeding, and paid out of the proceeds of sale; and the same rule shall prevail, in sales for taxes, by the county treasurer, or other officers: Provided, That the provisions of Proviso. this section shall only apply to sales made after the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. docket of the stamp upon re SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of every officer, authorized An entry to be to enter, or record, any instrument required, by the laws of the made on the United States, to be stamped, to enter on the docket, or record, that the same was duly stamped, as required by law, which corded instrushall be prima facie evidence thereof, and in certifying a copy ments. Effect of. of such record, or instrument, to certify such entry, which shall have the same force and effect as the original entry. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. The supervisors of certain townships to view he making and repairing of roads, twice Relating to supervisors, in certain townships in Schuylkill county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem oly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That the supervisors of the townships of Reilly, Cass, Foster, Butler, Norwegian, New Castle, Mahanoy, Rush, Blythe and East Norwegian, respectively, in the county of Schuylkill, are hereby required to view, and inspect, the making and repairing of the public roads in their respective townships, at least twice in each month, and be fully satisfied, before payment be made, that the contractors have fully complied with their contracts; for which services, so rendered, each of said supervisors shall Compensation receive a compensation, not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, to be determined by the auditors of said townships, respectively. each month. therefor. Repeal. SECTION 2. So much of the second section of an act, appro ved the nineteenth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty, as conflicts with this act, be and the same is hereby repealed. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 479. A Supplement To an act to incorporate the Roxborough and Manayunk Water Company, approved one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine. 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 and may be lawful for the Roxborough and Manayunk Water Company to extend their mains, for conveying water, to the Twenty-Second ward of Philadelphia, and are hereby authorized to make a contract with the Germantown Water Company, to supply the said company with water from the river Schuylkill. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 480. An Act To repeal an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the North-Western Navigation Company." WHEREAS, The aforesaid act was passed, without proper notice to the persons, whose rights and property are to be affected thereby : And whereas, The said act will operate oppressively upon the persons owning timbered lands upon, and in the vicinity of, the Little Moshannon creek, in said act named; therefore, 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 incorporate the North-Western Navigation Company," approved the twenty-seventh day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, be and the same is hereby repealed: Provided, That this act shall not take effect, until the parties, asking the same, shall pay to the corporation the full amount of money they have expended in improving the navigation of the stream aforesaid; which amount shall be fixed by three disinterested persons, to be appointed by the judges of the court of Centre county. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 481. An Act Relating to the inspection of domestic distilled spirits. 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 passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the state inspectors for the inspection of domestic distilled spirits, to use the same instruments for gauging and proving distilled spririts, as the United States inspectors are now required to use, under the provisions of the forty-second section of the United States excise law, approved July first, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 482. An Act To appoint commissioners to lay out a State Road, in the county of Delaware and city of Philadelphia. 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 Spencer M'Ilvain, John O. Deshong, John H. Baker, Jo- Commissioners. seph E. Hinkson, Joseph Taylor, surveyor of Delaware county, and Samuel Gibson, Robert E. Jones, John Dick, Paschall Lloyd and Paschall J. Hoopes, of the city of Philadelphia, are hereby appointed commissioners, to view and lay out a state road, from a point on a public road, called Hook road, in the Route. township of Darby, and county of Delaware, at, or near, land of Jonathan Heacock, deceased, John P. Heacock and William D. H. Serrill; thence to, and over, Darby creek, to the most suitable point on the Island road, in the Twenty-Fourth ward of the city of Philadelphia. SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners, Duties of comor a majority of them, after taking oath, or affirmation, before missioners. a justice of the peace, to perform the duties enjoined upon them, by this act, with fidelity and impartiality, to carefully view the ground on which the said road may pass, and lay out, and mark, the same, upon the ground, on the route agreed upon by them for the road aforesaid, in such manner as to enable the supervisors readily to find the same; and for the purpose of fulfilling the duties enjoined in this act, the said commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby enjoined to employ a surveyor, at a per diem allowance of not more than three dollars, Compensation and two chain carriers, at a per diem allowance, not exceeding of surveyor, &c. one dollar and fifty cents each, and one axeman, at a per diem allowance, not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents; and the said commissioners shall receive a per diem allowance, not exceeding two dollars, for each day necessarily employed in the discharge of their duties, enjoined by this act, which shall be paid, one-half by the treasurer of the county of Delaware, and the other half by the city of Philadelphia. SECTION 3. That it shall be the duty of the commissioners, as Drafts. aforesaid, to make out two separate and accurate drafts of the location of said road, respectively noting the courses and distances as they occur, with such other matters as may serve for explanation; one copy to be deposited in the office of the clerk of the court of quarter sessions, in the respective counties through which the road may pass, and from thenceforth the said road shall be a public highway. SECTION 4. That when the said road shall have been laid out, Bridge to be and located, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the commis- erected over sioners of the county of Delaware, and the city commissioners Darby creek. of the city of Philadelphia, to cause to be erected upon the line |