act to amend the act entitled 'An act directing the mode of sell ing unseated lands for taxes, and for other purposes," passed the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. JOSEPH LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives WILLIAM MARKS, Junr. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED December the twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two. JOSEPH HIESTER. CHAPTER II. AN ACT For the relief of Casper Leob, a soldier of the revolutionary war. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of l'ennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the State Treasurer be, and he is hereby authorised and required to pay to Casper Leob, of Lebanon county, or order, forty dollars immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars, payable half yearly, during life; to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. JOSEPH LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM MARKS, Junr. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-January the fourth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. JOSEPH HIESTER. CHAPTER III. AN ACT Eor the relief of Margaret Patterson, widow of Alexander Patterson, a captain of the revolutionary war. SECT. 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 authorised and required, to pay to Margaret Patterson, of Easton, in Northampton county, widow of Alexander Patterson, a captain of the revolutionary war, or order, forty dollars immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars, payable half yearly, during life; to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. JOSEPH LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM MARKS, Junr. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED January the fourth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. JOSEPH HIESTER. CHAPTER IV. AN ACT Authorising the Secretary of the Land Office to grant a patent for a cer tain lot of land, in the township of Huntingdon, in Luzerne county. SECT. 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 if Simon Tubbs shall make it appear to the board of property, that he is fully, fairly and exclusively, entitled to two undivided third parts of lot number thirty-eight, in the third division of lands in the township of Huntingdon, one of the seventeen townships in the county of Luzerne; containing in the whole, one hundred and thirty-five acres, and one hundred and twenty-eight perches, and shall pay into the treasury the purchase money due the commonwealth, with the interest thereon accrued at the time of payment, on the whole of said lot of land, together with the usual fees of office, the Secretary of the LandOffice is hereby authorised and required to grant a patent to the said Simon Tubbs, for the whole of said lot of land: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to lessen or impair the claim or title of any person or persons whatever. JOSEPH LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM MARKS, Junr. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-January the fourth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. JOSEPH HIESTER. CHAPTER V. AN ACT For the relief of Henry Stouffer, a revolutionary soldier. SECT. 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 authorised and required, to pay to Henry Stouffer, of Somerset county, a revolutionary soldier, or order, forty dollars immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars, payable half yearly, during life; to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. JOSEPH LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM MARKS. Junr. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-January the fourth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. JOSEPH HIESTER. CHAPTER VI. AN ACT For the relief of Peter Allen, a revolutionary soldier. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives 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 authorised and required, to pay to Peter Allen, as a gratuity, forty dollars, immediately after the passage of this act. JOSEPH LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM MARKS, Junr. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-January the tenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. CHAPTER VII. AN ACT For the relief of the contractors for building the Conemaugh bridge, and the bridge over the west branch of Susquehanna, at or near the mouth of Anderson's creek. SECT. 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 Governor be, and he is hereby authorised and required state sub. to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer, for the amount of scription to the subscription of the state, to the stock of the company for the Coneerecting a bridge over the Conemaugh river, where the northern maugh turnpike crosses the same, in favor of the president and mana bridge comgers of the Conemaugh bridge company: and the State Treasu- pany to be paid. rer is hereby authorised and required to pay the amount of the said warrant, out of the funds appropriated for this purpose, bythe act entitled, "An act for the improvement of the state," passed March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised and required, Contractor to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer, in favor of the confor building a tractor or contractors for building a bridge over the Susquehanna bridge over river, at or near the mouth of Anderson's creek, where the turnSusquehanna pike road crosses the same, for half of the amount of the sum for which the said bridge was contracted to be built. And the State Treasurer is hereby authorised and required to pay the amount of the said warrant, out of the three per centum which was reserved out of the whole amount of the appropriation of public money, for making a road from Northumberland to Waterford, by the act of March twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. at or near the mouth of Anderson's creek, to be paid the amount of his contract. JOSEPH LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM MARKS, Junr. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-January the fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. JOSEPH HIESTER. Former officers of the tinued until next annual election. CHAPTER VIII. A Supplement To the act entitled, "An act to authorise the Governor of this Commonwealth, to incorporate a company for erecting a permanent bridge over the river Susquehanna, at or near M'Call's ferry, in the county of Lancaster." SECT. 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, directors and treasurer, who were elected on the third Monday in May, in the year of our Lord one thousand company con- eight hundred and eighteen, by the stockholders of the company for erecting a permanent bridge over the river Susquehanna, at or near M.Call's ferry, in the several offices to which they have been elected and appointed, shall continue to hold and exercise all the powers, and to perform all the duties by them heretofore held, agreeably to the provisions of the act aforesaid, until the next annual term for electing said officers. And it shall be the duty of the treasurer of said corporation, to give at least three weeks public notice, in three or more newspapers, one printed in West Chester, one in Lancaster, and one in York, of the time election to be and place of holding said election; and the officers then chosen Notice of given. |