SECTION 37. That the third section of the act, entitled "An Act to Blair county. attach part of Blair township, in Blair county, to the Hollidaysburg Blair township borough common school district, and for other purposes," approved the school district. third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 38. That the qualified voters of the township of Broad Top, Bedford. in the county of Bedford, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at Gibson's school house, in said county. SECTION 39. That the qualified voters of Penn Forest township, in Carbon. Carbon county, shall hereafter hold their township and general elections at the Hickory Run school house, in said township. SECTION 40. That the qualified electors residing within the limits of that portion of Asylum township, Bradford county, recently set off by authority of the court of quarter sessions in and for said county to the township of Durell, shall vote at the general and township elections at the place for holding elections in said Durell township. SECTION 41. That the qualified electors of the township of Licking creek, in the county of Bedford, shall hereafter hold their township and general elections at school house number three, in said township. Bradford. Bedford. SECTION 42. That from and after the passage of this act, the borough Montgomery, of Pottstown, in the county of Montgomery, shall be and is hereby Pottstown boro' livided into two wards, in the manner following, to wit: all that part divided into two of said borough lying east of a line running from the Schuylkill along wards. he middle of Hanover street to Beach street, shall constitute one ward, o be called East ward; and all that part of said borough lying west of he line aforesaid, shall constitute another ward, to be called West ward. SECTION 43. That at each and every yearly election for school diectors in the township of Elizabeth, county of Allegheny, the voters Allegheny, Eliza hereof shall have power to vote tickets thus: on the outside labelled beth township to vote on levying 'schools," and on the inside either "tax" or "no tax," and if it be ound on counting said tickets that a majority of said votes have voted school tax. 'tax," then the school directors of said township shall proceed to asess, and cause to be collected, an additional tax of one dollar on each axable inhabitant of said township, which shall be used for common chool purposes; and if a majority of said tickets be no tax," then he directors aforesaid shall have power to assess and collect only such axes as are now by law allowed. an additional Additional school tax in Elizabeth SECTION 44. That the fourth section of an act, approved twenty-first epealed. SECTION 45. That hereafter the south half of the township of Clar repeatont lection shall be held at the school house near the dwelling of $4. ish, in said township. SECTION 46. That hereafter the qualified voters of the lush, in the county of Northumberland, shall hold thei >wnship elections at the Liberty Pool house, in SECTION 47. That hereafter the luncy creek, in the county of nd general elections at the sto Muncy mills, in said townsh SECTION 48. T orter, in the al elections at SECTION ille, in the reafter Ters R. voters of the .t rks. Berks. 3. Montgomery. mantown. SECTION 67. That the qualified voters of Franconia township, in the county of Montgomery, shali hereafter hold their general and township elections at the store house of Daniel L. Moyer, in said township. SECTION 68. That hereafter the borough of Germantown, PhiladelPhiladelphia co. phia county, shall be a separate and distinct election district, for all Borough of Ger- election purposes whatsoever; and that the legally qualified voters of said borough shall elect, at the election to be held on the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and annually thereafter, one assessor and two assistant assessors, whenever required by existing laws, one ward or township constable, one town clerk, four managers of the poor, four auditors and two school directors; and at the expiration of every third year thereafter, two school directors shell be elected; and the polls in said election district shall be kept open until ten o'clock, P. M.; and that the seventy-seventh section of the act, entitled "An Act regulating election districts," approved seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, and all acts and supplements conflicting with the provisions of this section, be and the same are hereby repealed. Schuylkill. SECTION 69. That the qualified voters of the township of Upper Mahantongo, in the county of Schuylkill, shall hereafter hold their gen eral and township elections at the house of John W. Hepler, in said township. SECTION 70. That the qualified voters of Upper Mahanoy township Northumberland. in the county of Northumberland, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the house of Peter Beisel, in said township. York. SECTION 71. That the qualified voters of Monaghan township, in the county of York, shall hold their township and general elections at the house of George Pollinger. SECTION 72. That the general elections in Lower Delaware ward, in Philadelphia city, the city of Philadelphia, shall be held at one window in front of the state house, in said city; and that part of any act heretofore passed, dividing said ward into precincts, for general election purposes, be and the same is hereby repealed. Lower Delaware ward. Streets, lanes, &c. in Donaldson, Schuylkill county. SECTION 73. That so much of the act, approved the third day April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, as relates to the streets, lanes and alleys in the town of Donaldson, in the county of Schuyl kill, be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 74. That in case four or more vacancies shall, by death, Vacancies in the resignation or otherwise, occur in the board of commissioners of the board of commis- district of Spring Garden, in the county of Philadelphia, such vacansioners of Spring Garden, to be cies shall be supplied by a special election, to be called by the said supplied by speboard of commissioners, by giving fifteen days' notice, by handbills cial election. posted in the most public places within said district; and such election shall be conducted by the officers who conducted the last previous election, and the proper returns made in the manner and form as is now directed by law; and all laws inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. SECTION 75. That the qualified voters of Shrewsbury township, in Sullivan county, be and they are hereby authorized to hold their general, special and township elections at the house of George Eakins, in said township. Sullivan. Sullivan. Lycoming. SECTION 76. That the qualified voters of Plunkett's Creek township, in Sullivan county, be and are hereby authorized to hold their general, special and township elections at the house of John A. Speaker, in said township. SECTION 78. That the qualified voters of Plunkett's Creek township. in Lycoming county, be and are hereby authorized to hold their gen ral, special and township elections at the house of John Barham, in SECTION 79. That the qualified voters of Shrewsbury township, in APPROVED-The sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred id forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 347. AN ACT › enable William Kiehner, guardian of John Mannon, to sell certain real estate. WHEREAS, John Mannon, a minor, aged nine years, and only child And whereas, Some of the said real estate is unproductive, and it re, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaves of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly et. and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Villiam Kiehner, guardian of the said John Mannon, is hereby author- Guardian author ed to sell, at public or private sale, the whole or any part of the real es- ized to sell real te of the said John Mannon, situated in the said borough of Schuylkill estate. aven, for the best price that can be obtained, and to execute, acknow- JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred nd forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 348. AN ACT For the relief of certain soldiers and widows of soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian wars. 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 same, That the state treasurer be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to John Brewer, James Collins and Jacob Whollery, of Fayette county; Adam Brookhouser, of Crawford county; Ephraim Fry and Charlotte Miller, of Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and Jacob Laumon, of Montgomery county, Maryland, soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian wars, or to their respective orders, an annuity of forty dollars per annum each, during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven; and to Michael Dill, of Allegheny county, and Nathaniel Price, of Bucks county, each a gratuity of forty dollars. SECTION 2. That so much of the second section of an act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain soldiers and widows of soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian wars," approved the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, as relates to Samuel Dean, James M'Donald and Henry Semans, shall be understood as applying to persons of those names in Fayette county. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. WILLIAMSON, APPROVED-The sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 349. A SUPPLEMENT To an act, entitled "An Act to authorize the voters of Mifflin county to decide the question of tavern license therein, and to prohibit the sale of intoxicating drinks within specified limits in certain counties. 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 same, That the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act to authorize the voters of Extended to the Mitlin county to decide the question of tavern license therein, and to mines of the prohibit the sale of intoxicating drinks within specified limits in certain Buck Mountain counties," approved the twenty first day of April, Anno Domini one coal company, thousand eight hundred and forty-six, be and the same are hereby ex- in Luzerne and tended to the coal mines of the Buck Mountain coal company, either Carbon. in the counties of Luzerne and Carbon, as fully and effectually as if the said coal mines had been therein named; and that the penalties mentioned in the third section of said act shall be construed to extend to the violation of the said act within the limits mentioned in the second section of said act, in the county of Carbon. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. WILLIAMSON, APPROVED-The sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 350. AN ACT To provide for ordinary expenses of government, the repair of the canals and railroads belonging to the state, and the payment of other claims upon the commonwealth. 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 following sums be and they are hereby specifically appropriated to Appropriation, the several objects hereinafter expressed, for the year commencing on objects of. the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and ending on the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fortyeight, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated : I. For the salary of the governor, three thousand dollars; for the salary of the secretary of the commonwealth, twelve hundred dollars, Salary of execuand the further sum of five hundred dollars, as superintendent of com- tive and other demon schools; for the salary of the deputy secretary of the common- partments. wealth, one thousand dollars; for the salary of the auditor general, fourteen hundred dollars; for the salary of the surveyor general, twelve hundred dollars; for the salary of the attorney general, three hundred dollars; for the salary of the adjutant general, three hundred dollars; for the salary of the state treasurer, fourteen hundred dollars; for clerk hire in the department of state, three thousand dollars; for clerk hire Clerk hire in vain the auditor general's office, four thousand five hundred dollars; for rious departments clerk hire in the state treasurer's office, three thousand two hundred |