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[No. 8.]

AN ACT

Supplementary to an act entitled, "An act to incorporate the President, Managers and Company, of the Bustleton and Sommerton Turnpike road company, "passed the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty.

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 president and managers of Bustleton and Sommerton turnpike road company, shall have the priv-Comp'y may ilege of extending their turnpike road to the Buck tavern, in Buck tavern the township of Southampton, in the county of Bucks, and & change lo- they are hereby authorized to alter or change the bed of said cation. road, any place between the Buck tavern and the borough of Frankford, where it shall intersect the Frankford and Bristol turnpike road, near the Rocks, by first compromising with the Owners of owners of property through which such alteration may pass, property, how or if the parties cannot agree, by paying such damages as shall compensated. be awarded by a jury appointed by the proper court.

WM. A. CRABB,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHARLES B. PENROSE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The fourth day of February, A. D. one thou

sand eight hundred and forty-one.

DAVID R. PORTER.

[No. 9.]

AN ACT

To repeal so much of the act passed the twentieth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty, entitled "An act to encourage more effectually the destruction of wolves and panthers in the counties of Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike, Jefferson, M'Kean, Tioga, Potter, Bradford, and Monroe, and for other purposes," as relates to the counties of Jefferson and M'Kean.

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, so much of the act passed the twentieth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty, entitled "An act to encourage more effect- Part of former ually the destruction of wolves and panthers, in the counties of act repealed. Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike, Jefferson, M'Kean, Tioga, Potter, Bradford and Monroe, and for other purposes, as relates to the counties of Jefferson and M'Kean, be and the same is hereby repealed.

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SECTION 2. And that the provisions of the act referred to in former act exthe title of this act, be and the same are hereby extended to the pended to county of Warren. Warren co.

WM. A. CRABB,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

CHARLES B. PENROSE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The tenth day of February, one thousand eight

hundred and forty-one.

DAVID R. PORTER

Certain com

pensation to

recorder of Pittsburg and

Philad'a repealed.

[No. 10.]

AN ACT

Supplementary to the act entitled, "A supplement to an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Pittsburg," passed the tenth day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.

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 so much of the act to which this is a supplement, as authorizes the recorder of the city of Pittsburg to receive out of the State treasury the sum of six hundred dollars per annum, as a compensation for his services, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that the act entitled, “A supplement to the act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Philadelphia," passed the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that hereafter no salary or compensation shall be allowed or paid by the Commonwealth, to the recorder of the city of Philadelphia.

WM. A. CRABB,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHARLES B. PENROSE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-This tenth day of February, A. D. eighteen

hundred and forty-one.

DAVID R. PORTER.

[No. 11.]

AN ACT

To enable the heirs and representatives of Oliver Ormsby, late of St. Clair township, Allegheny county, deceased, to make partition of their estate.

SECTION 1. Be it enected 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 orphans' court of the county of Alle

gheny, be and it is hereby empowered, to make partition Orphans' according to law, among the heirs and representatives of Oliver court empow Ormsby, late of St. Clair township, and county aforesaid, ofered to make that portion only which is clear of disbute, of the real estate partition of situate in the county aforesaid, of which said Oliver Ormsby of dispute. died seized.

that part clear

SECTION 2. That the orphans' court of the county aforesaid, Further partibe and it, is hereby empowered, to make a further partition tion. according to law, among the said heirs and representatives of Oliver Ormsby, at such time as shall be desired by the said heirs and representatives, or by any of them, of all that portion which is now in litigation of the said real estate, or any part thereof, which shall be legally adjudged to belong to the said heirs and representatives.

WM. A. CRABB,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHARLES B. PENROSE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED This tenth day of February, A. D. eighteen

hundred and forty-one.

DAVID R. PORTER.

[No. 12.]

AN ACT

For the relief of John Stewart and others, soldiers, and Sarah Sebring and others, widows of soldiers, of the revolutionary and Indian wars.

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 au thority of the same: That the state treasurer be and he is Relief of solhereby authorized and required to pay to John Stewart of Erie diers & widcounty, or to his order, forty dollars as a gratuity in full for his in Erie co. services rendered during the Indian war.

ows of soldiers

SECTION 2. That the state treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to pay to Sarah Sebring, of Luzerne Luzerne co. county, Sarah Earle of Allegheny county, and Marianna Allegheny co. Smith of Northampton county, widows of soldiers of the revo- North'ton co. lutionary war, or to their respective orders, forty dollars each immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars each during life, payable half-yearly, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.

Beaver co.

Centre co.

Montg❜ry co.

Lancaster co.
Luzerne co.

Jefferson co.

Harford co.,
Maryland.

SECTION 3. That the state treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to pay unto Alexander Long of Beaver county, or to his order, forty dollars immediately, as a gratuity and in full for military services rendered during the Indian war.

SECTION 4. That the state treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to pay to Martha Hinton and Mary Koken of Centre county, Susannah Miller of Montgomery county, Julianna Ream of Lancaster county, and to Rachel Felton of Luzerne county, widows of soldiers of the revolutionary and Indian wars, or to their respective orders, forty dollars each immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars each during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.

SECTION 5. That the state treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to pay unto David Rankin of Jefferson county, or to his order, forty dollars immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars during life, payable half-yearly, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.

SECTION 6. That the state treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to pay unto Susannah Wand of Harford county, in the State of Maryland, or to her order, forty dollars immeditely, and an aannuity of forty dollars during her life, payable half-yearly, to commence on the first day of January, onethousand eight hundred and forty-one; the foregoing gratuities and annuities to be paid in conformity to the existing laws. WM. A. CRABB,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHARLES B. PENROSE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The tenth day of February, one thousaud eight

hundred and forty-one.

DAVID R. PORTER,

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