by the said treasurer of Lycoming county, to the treasurer Sullivan of county for the use of the said township. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. WILLIAMSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 366. SUPPLEMENT To an act passed the twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, entitled "An Act for the erection of a poor house in the county of Mifflin," and for other purposes. WHEREAS, This act has not been carried into effect agrecable to the provisions, and is thereby inoperative; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly mel, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so much of said act as relates to Armagh, Brown, Union and Meno Part of act retownships, be and is hereby repealed; the act to which this is a sup- vived. plement be and is hereby revived, and remain in full force in the remaining townships and boroughs in said county. Electors of re SECTION 2. That the electors of the remaining townships and boroughs shall decide, by ballot, on the third Saturday of May, the propriety of maining township carrying the act to which this is a supplement into effect, the tickets to to decide by balbe written or printed, for or against a poor house; if a majority voting lot on the accep should be in favor of a poor house, then shall proceed to carry the law tance of law. into effect, as directed by the law to which this is a supplement. SECTION 3. That the said Armagh, Brown, Union and Meno town- Separate district ships, be erected into a district to support the poor in said townships; for the support of that the qualified electors of the said townships shall, at a special elec- the poor erected. tion to be held at the place of holding general and township elections To decide by balin the respective townships, the third Saturday of May, one thousand lot on the ereceight hundred and forty seven, decide by ballot, whether they will erect tion of a poor house. a poor house for the said district; the election to be held by the officers who held the last constable elections. When the direc tors of the poor SECTION 4. That if a majority of those voting shall be in favor of a poor house, then the said directors of the poor, hereinafter described, shall forever be a body politic and corporate, in law, whatsoever, rela- shall become a ive to the poor of said district; and shall have perpetual succession, corporate body. and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, by the name, style Name. and title of the directors of the poor and house of employment of the Privileges. valley; and by that name, shall and may receive, take and hold, any ands, tenements, hereditaments, not exceeding the yearly value of two Proviso. the legal a dollars; and any goods and chattels whatsoever, of the gift, prison kee or bequest of any person or persons whatsoever; to purchase, keep and hold, any lands and tenements within the bounds of their dis to them bee simple, or otherwise; and erect suitable buildings for the for thon, use, and accommodation of the poor of said district; to provide all things necessary for the lodging, maintenance, and employment of said poor; to appoint a treasurer, annually, who shall give bond, with approved security, for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office; and at the expiration thereof, for the payment of all moneys, notes, bonds, book accounts, and other papers, to the said corporation belonging, which shall then be in his hands, custody and possession; and said directors shall have power to employ, and at pleasure remove a stewart or matron, physician, and all other attendants that may be necessary for the said poor, respectively; to bind out apprentices, so that such apprentinceship may expire, if males, at or before the age of twenty-one; if females, at or before the age of eighteen years: Provided, That no child shall be bound out for a longer time than he arrives at the age of eighteen years, unless he be bound to a trade other than a farmer: And provided, In all cases the person to whom they are bound, be required to give them at least three months' schooling in each year: Provided also, That no child shall be bound at a greater distance than thirty miles from the poor house; and the said directors shall exercise and enjoy all such other powers, not vested in the overseers of the poor, as are herein granted or supplied; and the said directors are hereby empowered to use one common seal, in all business relating to the said corporation, and the same at their pleasure to alter and renew. as directors of the poor. SECTION 4. That if a majority decide in favor of a poor house, then Overseers to act the overseers of the poor of the said townships shall act as directors of the poor, for the time being, and shall classify themselves by lot, so that all but two shall go out of office first of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and one of the remaining two shall go out of office first of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the remaining one first of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty; that the voters of said district shall, at the township election in March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, elect one director of the poor, and at each subsequent township election for other township officers, the said electors shall elect one director of the poor to serve for three years, the one elected taking the place of the one whose term expires, keeping always the board of directors three in number. To be sworn. Auditors to be a SECTION 5. Each director of the poor shall, within ten days after his election, be sworn or affirmed, to perform the duties of his appointment with fidelity, and shall enter on the duties of said office on the first day of April, in every year. SECTION 6. The auditors of the said townships, appointed to settle committee of in- the township business in their respective townships, shall be a com spection. mittee of inspection of the poor house, the government, discipline, and shall inspect the same at least once in every year, or oftener if they deem it necessary, and once in every year examine and settle the accounts of the treasurer and directors of the said poor house. taxes. SECTION 7. The directors shall levy and 'collect all taxes necessary Levy and collect for any purpose of the poor of said district, and receive for all services, in their official capacity as directors of the poor, a salary fixed by the township auditors. SECTION 8. That the citizens of Mercer county shall, at 'livan of annual election, decide by ballot, in favor of or against the e a poor house in said county. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. 467 No. 367. AN ACT Relating to the auditors of Philadelphia county; also, to Delaware Sixth street, in said county; also, to the sinking fund of the said county; also, to the disposal of certain real estate by the commissioners of said county; also, to the vacation of a certain allev in Philadelphia city, to the erection of new county buildings, to the borough of Manayunk, and to the opening of Amber street. fixed. 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 first day of July next, the auditors of the county of Compensation of Philadelphia shall receive the same compensation, and be paid in like auditors of Philamanner as the commissioners of the county; and the same shall be in delphia county full compensation for all services rendered by them in the performance of their duties now imposed by law; and it shall not be lawful hereafter for the said auditors, or any of them, to demand or receive from the guardians of the poor, the board of health, the controllers of the public schools, the inspectors of the county prison, or any other body or individual, any fec, commission, compensation or reward whatever, for any service or duty which may be performed by them in their official capacity; and any violation or evasion of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed and taken as a misdemeanor in office, and shall be punished as like offences are now by law punished. SECTION 2. That Delaware Sixth street, in the county of Philadelphia, shall be continued from Susquehanna avenue, in a straight line southwardly, until it intersects the Germantown road. To continue Delaware sixth street, Philadelphia. SECTION 3. That the jury that hereafter may be appointed by the court of quarter sessions of Philadelphia, to assess the damages, if any, Assessment of that may be sustained by the owners of property by the opening of damages susSixth street, from Susquehanna avenue northward, shall also assess the tained by the damages, if any, that may be sustained by the owner or owners of opening of said pro- street. perty from Susquehanna avenue southwardly, to its intersection with the Germantown road, as aforesaid, in the same manner as if the said Sixth street had been originally laid out by law, from the said Germantown road northward. Certificates of county loan of SECTION 4. That hereafter the certificates of county loan, together with the interest which may accrue thereon, held by the commissioners Philadelphia, ex- of the sinking fund of Philadelphia county, for the purpose of gradually empt from taxa- and ultimately extinguishing the debt of said county, be and the same is hereby exempted from taxation. tion. SECTION 5. That the county commissioners of the county of PhilaCommissioners of delphia be and they are hereby authorized to advertise and sell, either Philadelphia at public sale or out-cry, or by private sale, to the highest and best bidcounty to sell certain real estate der, all that tavern house, stables and two lots or pieces of ground, situate in and near Bridesburg, in the county of Philadelphia; one of the said lots situate, lying and being on the Frankford creek, in the township of the Northern Liberties, beginning at the low water of Frankford creek, at the distance of two feet from the easterly side of the said bridge; thence by lot three of a division made between the heirs of Joseph Kirkbride, deceased, south fifteen degrees, east four perches and forty-eight hundredths of a perch, to a stone; thence crossing Bridge street, south seventy-five degrees west forty-five feet; thence by the said Bridge street south eighteen degrees east fourteen perches and nine six hundredths of a perch, to a stone; thence along a street or road, south thirty-nine degrees west seventeen perches and sixty-four hundredths, more or less, to the middle of a thirty-three feet wide street or road; thence north fifteen (51) and fifty-one (one) minutes west along the line dividing this lot from that sold to Egbert Sommerdike, twentynine perches and eleven hundredths, to a stake placed at high water mark on the bank of the aforesaid creek; thence south six degrees west four perches, to low water mark of the said creek; thence down the same, the several courses thereof, to the place of beginning, containing about two acres and one-half of land, be the same more or less; and also all that certain strip or triangular piece of land, situate in Oxford township, in the county of Philadelphia, on the westerly side of a road leading from the Frankford and Bristol turnpike road to the bridge over Frankford creek, (commonly called Kirkbride's bridge,) containing in breadth, on the bank, at the distance of about thirty-seven feet from low water mark of the said creek, four feet three inches, and extending in length or depth northwardly, measured from low water mark of the said creek, two hundred and forty nine feet, to a point on the said road, together with all and singular the respective appurtenances, and to convey the same, in fee simple, or otherwise, to the purchaser or purchasers thereof; the net proceeds of the said sale to be paid by the said county commissioners into the public treasury of the county of Philadelphia. Commissioners and sell them. SECTION 6. That the commissioners of the county of Philadelphia shall be authorized and empowered, and are hereby authorized and emmay lay out said powered, if they shall deem it more advantageous to the county of premises into lots Philadelphia, instead of selling the said two lots together or separately, as above described, to lay out the whole in lots of such sizes and dimensions as in their opinion will best suit purchasers, and to sell and convey the same to the respective purchasers thereof, saving and reserving, nevertheless, all the bridge over the Frankford creek, formerly called Kirkbride's bridge, together with all and singular the land upon which the same is erected. SECTION 7. That from and after the passage of this act, a certain An alley in Phila- eight feet wide alley, extending from Locust street southward one hundelphia city vadred and thirty feet to Latimer street, between Schuylkill Sixth and cated. Seventh streets, in the city of Philadelphia, (which said alley is inentioned in a certain deed of partition, dated March second, eighteen hundred and ten, made between Samuel Boggs and others, and recorded in the office for recording deeds in the city of Philadelphia, in deed book JC, number six, page two hundred and eighty-five, et cetera,) shall be and the same is hereby vacated. SECTION 8. That the commissioners of the county of Philadelphia, Commissioners by and with the consent of the select and common councils of the city with consent of of Philadelphia, are hereby authorized to erect a new court house for councils may the accommodation of the courts and county officers, on part of the erect a new state house square in the said city; and the said select and common court house. councils are hereby authorized to cause a new city hall to be erected on any other part of the said square; the location and erection of said buildings to be first approved by the county board of said Philadelphia county. purchase and SECTION 9. That nothing in the act, entitled "A further supplement to an act to incorporate the borough of Manayunk, and to separate the Borough of Manayunk may township of Roxborough therefrom," approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, shall be construed to prevent the borough of hold poor house. Manayunk from bidding for and purchasing the poor house estate, and holding or conveying the same at the pleasure of said borough corporation. Commissioners SECTION 10. The commissioners of the county of Philadelphia are to provide a room hereby required to provide a suitable room for the appraisers of mer- for mercantile apcantile taxes of Philadelphia city and county, in which to transact their praisers to transbusiness. act business therein. SECTION 11. That the commissioners and inhabitants of the district of Southwark, in the county of Philadelphia, be and they are hereby Relative to liens authorized and empowered to file, in the proper office, an additional or in the district of amended description of all or any lots of ground and premises, against Southwark. which they claim sums of money due them for curbing foot ways, water pipes or taxes, as aforesaid; and said amended description shall be taken and deemed, in all respects, as if it had been filed with the original claim, and that all process issued on such claim shall take therefrom and pursue the description thus filed; and the sheriff, in cases of sales under process for the recovery of money due for liens, shall sell and convey the premises set forth in the amended description aforesaid : Provided, That this law shall extend only to such claims as were filed prior to the first day of November, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-five. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. WILLIAMSON, APPROVED-The sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. |