SECTION 3. That no streets or roads shall hereafter be opened through No streets, &c. the lands of the said cemetery company, occupied as a burial ground, to be opened. except by and with the consent of the managers thereof. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. WILLIAMSON, APPROVED-The fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 287. AN ACT To validate and confirm the acknowledgment of deeds taken and certified by David Crow, esquire, a justice of the peace of M'Kean county, and relative to the time of holding courts in Blair county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representalives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That. the several acknowledgments heretofore taken and certified by David Acts of David Crow, esquine, late a justice of the peace in the township of Shippen, Crow, Esq., conand county of M'Kean, shall be held, and hereby declared to be as valid and binding, and as effectual in law as if the said David Crow, esquire, had been in the district for which he was commissioned at the time the said acknowledgments were thus taken and certified. SECTION 2. That from and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, the terms of the several courts in and for the county of Blair, shall commence on the third Mondays of June, September, December and March, in each year; and the judges of the said courts of said county shall, at their discretion, order and direct at what hour of said days the court shall be opened and commenced: Provided, The same be not earlier than eleven of the clock, A. M., on said Mondays. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. WILLIAMSON, APPROVED-The fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred firmed. Time of holding courts in Blair county fixed. and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. preme court for review. Proviso. No. 288. A SUPPLEMENT To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Liberty fire company of Holmesburg, in the county of Philadelphia," approved the twenty-sixth day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and to authorize the commissioners of Penn district, to change the lines of Girard avenue to meet Franklin avenue. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the sume, That Judgments ren- it shall and may be lawful hereafter to carry by certificate, judgments dered in the court rendered in the court of nisi prius, for the city and county of Philaof nisi prius may delphia, to the supreme court for review, notwithstanding that the party be carried to su- obtaining such certificate shall not have given absolute security, with two sufficient sureties, by recognizance, for the payment of all damages and costs, in case the proceedings shall be affirmed; and notwithstanding that such party shall not carry the said judgment to the supreme court for hearing, at the next term thereof; and such certificate shall be a supersedeas of execution, issued out and executed in those cases, and in those only where the certificate shall have been required and obtained, and security entered, within three weeks from the day on which judgment shall have been rendered: Provided always, That the said certificate be required and obtained, within seven years after the judgment shall be rendered against the party requiring and obtaining the said certificate, unless the party entitled to the said certificate shall, at the time such title accrued, be within the age of twenty-one years, covert, non compos mentis, in prison, or out of the limits of the United States of America, in which case such person, his or her heirs, execu tors or administrators, (notwithstanding the said seven years be expired shall and may carry such judgment, by certificate, to the supreme court for review, so as the same be done within five years after his or her full age, discoverture, coming to sound mind, enlargement, out of prison or return into some one of the United States of America, but not afterwards nor otherwise: And provided also, That the same tax shall be paid to the commonwealth, in those cases as are now paid in cases of removals on writs of error. Proviso. Commissioners of Penn district to change the line of Girard avenue. SECTION 2. That the commissioners of Penn district, county of Phila. delphia, be and are hereby authorized and empowered to change the lines of Girard avenue to meet Franklin avenue, in said district. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CH. GIBBONS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED―The fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 289. AN ACT For the relief of the devisees in the will of George Pepper. 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 Henry Pepper and William Platt, the guardians of the minor children Guardians auof David Pepper, one of the children of George Pepper, late of the thorized to sell city of Philadelphia, deceased, and devisees in the will of the said and convey real George, be and they, and the survivor of them, are and is hereby au- estate. thorized to sell and convey, in fee simple, any vacant or unimproved lots or property contained in the share of the said minors, allotted to them under the will of the said George Pepper, either for cash at such price, or upon a perpetual ground rent, irredeemable or redeemable, at such rate and upon such terms of extinguishment as they or the survivor of them shall think expedient; and in case of redemption, to execute such deeds as may be necessary to release the property so conveyed from the charge of such rent, and also with the personal estate of the said minors, or with the surplus income of all their estates, after paying the expenses of their maintenance and education; and with the purchase money of any of the said unimproved lots, sold by them or the survivor, to build and erect such improvements on any of the unimproved lots, or repair or rebuild houses or buildings that may be decayed, on any of their improved property, or as in their opinion will be made more profitable by such expenditures as they, or the survivor may think expedient, in all which cases of conveyances, for cash or on ground rent, the purchaser shall be exempt from liability for the application of the purchase or redemption money; but the said conveyances on ground rent shall reserve the said ground rents, to be payable to the said H. Pepper and W. Platt, and the survivor of them, and their heirs, in trust, for the use of the said minors and their heirs, as tenants in common. SECTION 2. That it shall and may be lawful for the said Henry Pepper and William Platt, guardians as aforesaid, and survivor of them, when and so often as any person or persons, owners of property upon which redeemable ground rents have been reserved, belonging to the said minors, shall apply to redeem the said rents, in conformity with the stipulations, conditions and covenants in the ground rent deeds, reserving the same to execute and deliver deeds of release and extinguishment for the discharge of the said ground rents, and to receive and give acquittances for the redemption money, and all arrears of rents to the person or persons concerned, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as the said minors could have done if of full age, and without any liability of such releasee or person concerned, to see to the application of such money. To execute deeds of extinguish ment. SECTION 3. That Mary Pepper, Henry Pepper, George S. Pepper, Trustees authorWilliam Pepper, Isaac Norris and Michael Baker, trustees under the ized to receive rewill of the said George Pepper, of the respective shares of his estate, demption money. allotted in pursuance of the said will to his respective children, Mary P. Norris, Catharine Thompson, Edward Pepper, Charles Pepper and Proviso. Lawrence S. Pepper, be and they, and the survivors and survivor of them, are and is hereby authorized to receive the redemption or extinguishment money, which may be payable in redemption or extinguishment of any redeemable ground rent allotted to either of the said shares, of which they are or shall, for the time being, be trustees or trustee, and which may be offered before the time limited for the said redemption or extinguishment shall expire; and on payment of the same, and all arrears of rent then payable, to make, execute and deliver a deed or deeds, releasing and extinguishing such ground rent forever, which deed or deeds shall have the same effect to release and extinguish the said rent, as if the said testator had, by his said will, given the said trustees, and the survivors and survivor of them, express power to this effect; and the owner of the ground or premises, out of which the said rent was granted or reserved, shall not be liable for the application of the money so paid: Provided, That the proceeds of the sales of any real estate, or extinguishment of any ground rents by the said guardians or trustees, respectively, shall be invested in good real securities, or in other securities authorized by law, in trust, for the same uses and purposes as the said real estate or ground rents were held; and shall, before such investment shall be made, be first approved of by the orphans' court or court of common pleas of Philadelphia county. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. WILLIAMSON, APPROVED-The fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. Power to pur chase and place locomotives, &c. on the road. Proviso. No. 290. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Sunbury and Erie and Pittsburg and Susquehanna railroad companies," passed April third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. 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 directors of said companies shall have full power and authority to purchase and place on the said railroads, all locomotives, machines, vehicles, carriages and teams of any kind whatsoever, which they may deem proper and necessary for the purposes of transportation, and have full power to transport passengers, goods, minerals, merchandize and other articles, and to receive and collect freight and tolls therefor: Provided, That if the said engines or other vehicles be so used as to render unsafe traveling on any canal or public road now laid out, the legisla ture may enact such regulations therefor as will prevent and obviate such danger. SECTION 2. That the twenty-first section of the act to which this is Part of former a further supplement, except the proviso to said section, be and the act repealed. same in hereby repealed. SECTION 3. That the Sunbury and Erie railroad company, so soon Sunbury and Erie as ten consecutive miles or more of their said road is completed over any railroad company section of the line of said road, are hereby authorized to run cars and may run cars and locomotives, and locomotives, and collect tolls on the said road, and do all other acts and take toll when ten things as fully and effectually as if the whole road were completed. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. miles are completed. CH. GIBBONS, APPROVED-The fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 291. AN ACT Authorizing the laying out of a state road from Bakerstown, in Allegheny county, through Butler county, to the Great Western iron works, in Armstrong county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly Commissioners met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That appointed. David Dougal, of Butler county, William Duncan, of Allegheny county, To lay out state and Joseph King, of Armstrong county, be and they are hereby ap road from Bakerspointed commissioners to view and lay out a state road from Bakers- town to Great town, in Allegheny county, through Butler county, to the Great Western works. iron works, in Armstrong county. Western iron SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the said board of commissioners, Duty of commisor a majority of them, after taking and subscribing an oath or affirma- sioners. tion, before a justice of the peace, to perform the duties enjoined upon them by this act with impartiality and fidelity, to carefully view the ground over which said road may pass, and to lay out the same on the nearest and best ground, and in no place to exceed an elevation of five degrees. SECTION 3. That it shall be the duty of the said commissioners plain- Mark route. ly and distinctly to mark the ground on the routes agreed upon for the road aforesaid, in such manner as to enable the supervisors readily to find the same; and for the purpose of fulfilling the duties in this act enjoined, the said commissioners are hereby authorized to employ, at a per diem allowance not exceeding one dollar each, two chain carriers and one axeman; and the said commissioners respectively shall receive Compensation. a per diem allowance, not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents each, for each day necessarily expended in the discharge of the duties enjoined by this act; and the said commissioner performing the duties of surveyor, shall have and receive an additional compensation of one dollar per day |