of locomotive and other engines on any rail-road within the To regulate limits of said district; for the safety of the inhabitants thereof, the use of enand for directing the conduct of all persons concerned in buying, gines on railselling or acting, on any part of the estate belonging to the said district, &c. corporation.

roads in the

to be a lien on

SECTION 3. The assessment and charges of the commission- Assessm'ts of ers of the said district, for street and foot paving, curbing and the com'rs for laying iron pipes, shall be prima facia evidence of the amount improvem'ts thereof, and the same, together with the interest and commis- the real sions for collection, shall be a lien on the real estate in front of estate before which such improvement shall have been made, whether the which they owner thereof shall have been ascertained or not; and when. may be made. ever the owner or owners shall reside out of the county of When the Philadelphia, or cannot be found therein, and affidavit of such owners reside fact made by a superintendent or police officer of the district, it out of the co. shall be lawful to give the notice required by law of any such notice to be given in a improvement, by publication in a newspaper in the said district, newspaper. or in the city of Philadelphia, twice a week for four weeks; and any inhabitant of the said district, if otherwise qualified, may be competent be a witness in all controversies arising under any of the sup- witnesses. plements to the original act incorporating said district, which have been or may be hereafter passed, or under such other acts of Assembly as relate to the said district of Spring Garden.

Inhabitants to

pavements,

SECTION 4. If any person shall hereafter wilfully, and without leave from the superintendent, or other proper officer of Penalty on the said district, tear up, remove or displace the pavement or persons imcurb stone of any of the public highways or streets, in the pairing the district of Spring Garden, except the footways for the purpose streets or of the immediate repair thereof, or any culvert or stone set to highways, of mark the lines or corners of any street, or shall obstruct any the district. highway in said district, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than five dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, for every such offence, to be recovered as debts of equal amount are recovered, before any justice or alderman in the city or county of Philadelphia, one half thereof to the use of the prosecutor, and the other half to the use of said district.

APPROVED-The fifteenth day of February, one thousand

eight hundred and thirty-four.

GEO: WOLF.

cover fines & forfeitures.

No. 38.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

To the act entitled, " An act to incorporate the city of Lancaster."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re presentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the Councils may same, That the select and common councils of the city of Langive the al- caster may, whenever they deem it necessary, confer upon the dermer. juris- aldermen of said city, the jurisdiction, power and authority, to diction to re- recover summarily, or by penal action, as the case may be, any fines and forfeitures inflicted for the violation of the provisions of any ordinances hereafter enacted and ordained by said councils, for the government of said city: Provided, said fines and forfeitures do not exceed one hundred dollars: And 2d proviso. provided further, That in all summary convictions under ordinances, where fines, forfeitures or imprisonment are inflicted, the person or persons convicted may appeal to the next term of the Mayor's Court of said city, within ten days after conviction, on entering security approved by the alderman or justice."

Proviso.

Certain acts

SECTION 2. The act of the twelfth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and of the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, the first entitled "An act for the better regulation of the city of Lanof Assembly caster, and relative to the repair of public bridges in Lancaster repealed. county," and the second entitled "An act for the better regulation of the city of Lancaster, and relative to the repair of the public bridges in Lancaster county," passed the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, be and the same are hereby repealed, so far as the same relates to laying out roads, and assessing the damages occasioned by laying out the same, in the city of Lancaster: Provided, That all damages which have been sustained by the laying out of any streets, lanes, alleys or roads, under the provision of the above mentioned acts, and remain unpaid, shall be paid agreeably to the provisions of said acts.

Proviso.

WM. PATTERSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

APPROVED-The fifteenth day of February, one thousand

eight hundred and thirty-four.

GEO: WOLF.

No. 39

AN ACT

For the relief of George Hess, Robert Peling, and Nicholas Neyfang, soldiers of the revolutionary war.

SECTION 1. It is enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the State Treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to George Hess, of Lebanon county, and to Robert Peling, of York county, soldiers of the revolutionary war, or to their respective orders, forty dollars to each immediately, and an annuity to each of forty dollars during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

SECTION 2. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay to Nicholas Neyfang, of Schuylkill county, a soldier of the revolution, or to his order, a gratuity of forty dollars, in full for his revolutionary services.

WM. PATTERSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO'S. RINGLAND,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The cighteenth day of February, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.

GEO: WOLF.

No. 40.

AN ACT

For the relief of Henry Cristman, George Ruckle, Nathan James, and Robert Wright, soldiers, and Agnes Beck, the widow of a revolution ary soldier.

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 State Treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to Henry Cristman and George Ruckle, of Northampton county, Nathan James, of Bucks county, and Robert Wright, of Cumberland county, soldiers of the revolu tion, or to their respective orders, forty dollars to each immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars to each during life, pay.

able half yearly, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

SECTION 2. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay to Agnes Beck, of York county, the widow of a revolutionary soldier, or to her 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 thirty-four.

WM. PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO'S. RINGLAND,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of February, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.

GEO: WOLF.

Preamble.

No. 41.

AN ACT

To authorize the Trustees of the First Presbyterian congregation in the eity of Philadelphia, to sell certain real estate.

WHEREAS, William Allison, and Grace his wife, by indenture, dated the eighteenth day of July, seventeen hundred and eighty-two, recorded at Philadelphia, in deed book number six, page one hundred and eighty-seven, &c., granted and conveyed unto John Caldwell, John Bleakley, William Ewing, Samuel Bryan, and William Allison, their heirs and assigns, a brick messuage and lot of ground, situate on the west side of Third street, from Delaware, between Spruce and Walnut streets, in the city of Philadelphia, containing in breadth, on Third street, eighteen feet, and in length or depth one hundred feet nine inches, or thereabouts, to hold the same in trust, to permit and suf fer the pastor or minister of the First Presbyterian congregation in said city, for the time being, to dwell in the said messuage, and to occupy the said lot of ground, if so inclined, free from any cost or charges of rent or taxes therefor; and in case the said pastor shall not incline to live therein, or occupy said lot, then with power to said trustees, to lease the same for a term of years not exceeding five years, and apply the rent for the support and maintenance of said pastor; which premises were paid for partly out of the proceeds of a legacy of five hundred pounds, bequeathed for the purpose of being applied, under the direction of a committee of said congregation, in buying a parsonage house for the benefit of the pastor thereof, and partly with the sum of two hundred pounds, raised by said

committee: AND WHEREAS, It is represented to the Legislature, that the said parsonage house is now and has been for many years unsuited to the residence of the pastor of said congrega. tion, in consequence of which the church has been compelled to rent another house for that purpose, and morcover to procure tenants, and pay taxes for the house in Third street; and that they have it now in their power to purchase another parsonage house in a convenient place, at a moderate price, and are desirous of disposing of the building conveyed by said deed, and investing the proceeds thereof in the parsonage house contemplated to be purchased: AND WHEREAS, It is represented that the said trustees are all deceased:

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 trustees of the First Presbyterian congregation of the city of Philadelphia, to grant, bargain, and sell the messuage, lot and premises, described in the preamble, by public or private sale, to make, execute and acknowledge a good and sufficient deed of conveyance for the same to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, his, her, or their heirs and assigns, forever, in fee simple; discharged from the trust aforesaid, and to employ the money arising from said sale in the purchase of another parsonage house for the pastor of said church.

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of February, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.

GEO: WOLF.

No. 42.

AN ACT

For the relief of sundry soldiers, and widows of soldiers of the revolu tionary war.

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 State Treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized Gratuities & and required to pay to William Wood, Abraham Sebolt and annuities to Dillman Daub, of Lebanon county, Griffith Smith, Adam Ham- Wm. Wood, sher and Frederick Bruner, of Montgomery county, John Ul- Dill'n Daub, Ab'm Sebolt,