side of Twelfth street and the south side of Vine street; West North Mulberry, bounded by the west side of Twelfth street, the north side of Sassafras street, the river Schuylkill and the south side of Vine street; East Upper Delaware, bounded by the east side of Delaware Third street, the south side of Vine street, the river Delaware and the north side of Sassafras street; West Upper Delaware, bounded by the west side of Delaware Third street, the south side of Vine street, the east side of Delaware Seventh street and the north side of Sassafras street; East Lower Delaware, bounded by the east side of Delaware Fourth street, the south side of Sassafras street, the river Delaware and the north side of Mulberry street; West Lower Delaware, bounded by the west side of Delaware Fourth street, the south side of Sassafras street, the east side of Delaware Seventh street and the north side of Mulberry street; and the qualified electors residing within such precincts, shall, at all such general and special elections, vote at windows To vote at court in the state house, and on the east, south and north sides of the county house. court house, in the city of Philadelphia, to be provided by the county commissioners, according to existing laws, each window to be designated with the name of the ward and precinct aforesaid; and said qualified electors residing within such precincts, shall, at all such ward elections, vote at separate windows, at the places now or hereafter to be provided or fixed by law for holding such elections, each window to be designated with the name of the ward and precinct. How elections are SECTION 2. That the inspectors and judges who were elected on the third Friday of March, eighteen hundred and forty-six, or those legally to be conducted. appointed to supply the place of any of them, and those who shall be elected in every year thereafter, to conduct the general and special elections in said Locust, South, Middle, North, South Mulberry, North Mulberry, Upper Delaware and Lower Delaware wards, shall, as soon as conveniently may be, appoint additional inspectors and judges, as follows: each inspector shall appoint an additional inspector, and each judge an additional judge, to act as judge and inspectors in the precinct for which he shall be appointed; each additional inspector and judge to be a resident and qualified elector of the precinct for which he shall be appointed. SECTION 3. No inspector, in either of said precincts, shall receive any ticket from any person other than an elector residing within the said precinct; and the additional inspectors, to be appointed under the provisions of this act, shall have the power to appoint clerks; and the said additional inspectors, judges and clerks, shall, within their respective precincts, take the same oaths or affirmations, and perform the same duties as are now by law imposed on and taken by inspectors, judges and clerks; and in case of a vacancy in the place of such additional inspector or judge, the same shall be filled by the inspector or judge who made the original appointment. SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of the commissioners of the county of Philadelphia, to furnish to the additional inspectors and judges to be appointed under the provisions of this act, the same ballot boxes, blank forms, lists of taxables, and all other matters which are now by law furnished to judges and inspectors of elections within the said city: Provided, That for the year eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and thereafter, the lists of taxable inhabitants shall conform with the precincts of the respective wards. Duties and qualifications of election officers. Duty of county commissioners. SECTION 5. That on the closing of the polls in the said precincts, Duty of judges. and the counting of the votes, the judges of the precincts hereby erected in each of the said wards, shall add together the number of votes received in the said precincts, so as to make a single return for the said to vote. ward; and in the choice of a return judge for the said city, the said additional judge shall not vote, but the return judge shall be elected as heretofore provided for by law. SECTION 6. That the electors residing within East North Mulberry, Electors, where West North Mulberry. East Middle, West Middle, East Lower Delaware, West Lower Delaware, East Upper Delaware and West Upper Delaware, shall vote at windows, to be provided on the north side of the state house; and the electors of New Market, Spruce, Lombard, Cedar, Dock, West Locust, East Locust and Pine wards, shall vote at windows, to be provided on the south side of the state house; and the electors of Chesnut, East South Mulberry, West South Mulberry, East North, West North and Walnut wards, shall vote at windows, to be provided on the east and south sides of the south room of the county court house; and the electors of West South, East South and High Street wards, shall vote at windows, to be provided on the north and east sides of the north room of the county court house, at the corner of Sixth and Chesnut streets, in the city of Philadelphia. Not to interfere with present wards. SECTION 7. That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to affect or interfere with the present division of the wards of the city of Philadelphia, or the officers thereof, except as hereinbefore specified. SECTION 8. That the additional inspectors, judges and clerks herein election officers. appointed, shall be entitled to the same compensation, as is now by law allowed. Compensation of JAMES COOPER, CH. GIBBONS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK Trustees incorporated. Name. Privileges. No. 175. A SUPPLEMENT To an act to incorporate the Mount Union cemetery, passed April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. 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 Robert Fairman, A. Davidson, William Carson, James H. Smith and H. Morrison, trustees of the First Associate Reformed church of the city of Allegheny, and their successors, duly elected trustees of said church, be and are hereby created a body politic, in law, under the name and title of "The Mount Union cemetery ;" and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able and capable to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in all courts of law and equity, and to do all such other things as are incident to a corporation. SECTION 2. That the said trustees shall have power to fill all vacan- Vacancies, how cies which may occur among them, in such manner and at such times supplied. as the charter of such church at present provides; and they shall have full power to ordain, establish and put in execution all such by-laws, By-laws. rules and regulations as may be necessary for the proper government of this corporation. Hold real and SECTION 3. That the said trustees shall have power to hold so much personal property as may be necessary for the purposes of their incorpersonal estate. poration, together with the real estate now in their possession, not exceeding twelve acres, and to divide and arrange it into suitable plots and Divide into lots. burial lots, and to do all other things necessary and proper to be done to adapt the said ground to the purpose of a cemetery; and to sell and dis pose of such plots and burial lots, for the purpose of sepulture, to indi- Sell lots. viduals, societies and congregations, upon such rules and conditions as may be necessary: Provided, That the lots sold shall not be used for Proviso. any other purpose. SECTION 4. That no street, road, railroad or canal shall ever be laid No street, &c., out through the lands so occupied as a cemetery, except under the au- to be laid out thority of said trustees; and the said property, real and personal, so through said land. used, aforesaid, shall be exempt from taxation for county and municipal Exempt from purposes, and from levy and sale on attachment and execution for debt, taxation, levy or otherwise. APPROVED-The sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred or sale. and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 176. AN ACT Relative to trustees under the will of Joseph Parker Norris, deceased. Executors may renounce trust, 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 executors of the last will of Joseph Parker Norris, deceased, to resign and renounce their trust, as trustees under said last will, of one undivided seventh part of the estate called destroying the Sepviva, without in any way affecting or destroying their office or trust office as execuas executors generally, or any other trust vested in them by the said tors. will; and upon such resignation or renunciation of said executors, it shall and may be lawful for the orphans' court for the city and county of Philadelphia, upon application of any one of the cestui que trust of said one undi vided seventh part, to appoint a trustee or trustees in the place or stead of the said executors; and also a successor or successors to such trustee or trustees, from time to time, if, by death, resignation or otherwise, the same shall be necessary or expedient; in all which cases, the trustee or trustees so appointed, shall have the same estate' power and interest in the premises in trust, as the executors now have, either by the common law or by any act of assembly of this commonwealth. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R SHUNK. Poor entitled to relief, to be ad mitted. Proviso. No. 177. AN ACT Supplementary to an act incorporating the directors of the poor for the county of 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 sume, That all such poor and indigent persons as shall be entitled to relief, or shall have gained a legal settlement in the county of Erie, shall be admitted into the institution, on an order for that purpose by any one of the directors of the poor of said county, or by any one justice of the peace of said county; and the constables of said county shall be entitled to receive from said directors, for executing an order for the relief or removal of a pauper or paupers, five cents per mile circular, and no more: Provided, That in all cases in which there is more than one order executed by any constable at the same time, for the first order, five cents for each mile circular, for the second, four cents, for the third, three cents, and for any additional number of orders above three, executed at the same time, no mileage shall be allowed. SECTION 2. That the directors of the poor of said county be and they Directors to take are hereby authorized and directed to take charge of the reserved lands on the south shore of lake Erie, east of the borough of Erie, called the Garrison tract, and rent the same, and pay into the treasury of the poor of said county, the net proceeds. charge of a tract of land. APPROVED-The sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 178. AN ACT To authorize the clerk of the orphans' court of York county, to execute a deed for real estate of John Gardner, deceased, to Michael Doudel. but WHEREAS, Under an order of the orphans' court of York county, James Lewis, executor of John Gardner, deceased, sold certain real Preamble. estate of said John Gardner, designated number eighteen, to Michael Doudel, who obtained possession and paid the purchase money, said James Lewis died before making a conveyance for the same to the said purchaser; and the said purchaser, Michael Doudel, has since been appointed administrator de bonis non with the will annexed, of said John Gardner, has given security and is desirous of obtaining a lawful deed for the same; 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 clerk of the orphans' court of York county be and hereby is author. Power to execute ized to execute to the said Michael Doudel, a conveyance for said real a deed. estate, such as the said James Lewis was authorized to make for said property. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CH. GIBBONS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 179. AN ACT To authorize the court of quarter sessions of the county of Centre, to decree a portion of the stock subscribed by the township of Haines, in the Bald Eagle, Nittany, Brush and Penn's Valley turnpike road company, to the township of Penn, in said county. WHEREAS, The township of Haines, in the county of Centre, has Preamble. lately been divided by the court of quarter sessions of said county, and a portion of said township erected into a new one called Penn: And whereas, The said township of Haines, shortly before the said division, had subscribed fifty shares of stock in the Bald Eagle, Nit |