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ty shall remain liable to pay to the holder thereof the amount due upon any such certificate which shall not be paid or redeemed, cancelled and renewed by the said directors, when the same is due and presented for payment.

Section 5. That the treasurer of the said directors shall have Treasurer of dian office for the receipt of taxes, settlement with collectors and rectors, duty of, transaction of business within the poor house district; shall attend the monthly meetings of the directors for the purpose of paying such orders of the directors as may be there presented for payment; shall annually, during the month of January, submit to the directors and the county auditors an account of his receipts and expenditures for the preceding year, and as soon as his accounts are audited, shall pay to his successor in office all moneys of the said directors remaining in his hands; and shall receive for his services out of the said poor taxes, such compensation as the directors shall direct, not exceeding two per centum on the whole amount of moneys received and disbursed by him : Provided, That the bond to be given by the said treasurer, under Proviso. the provisions of the third section of the act to which this is a supplement, shall be in double the amount of moneys which will probably pass through his hands during his term of office.

Section 6. That the next and all subsequent annual accounts or Annual accounts statements of receipts and expenditures of the said directors of of statements,

relative to. the poor and house of employment of Carbon county, shall be settled and adjusted to and including the thirty-first day of December the current year, and the same shall be submitted to the county auditors during the month of January following.

Section 7. That the provisions of the act to which this is a Repeal.
further supplement, which authorize the commissioners of Car-
bon county to levy and cause to be collected the taxes for the sup-
port of the poor and house of employment of said county; and so
much of the same act as is hereby altered and supplied, or as is
inconsistent with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed :
Provided further, That the said directors shall repay to the coun. Proviso.
ty treasury all sums heretofore paid or advanced by the county
to the said directors, and all debts contracted by the county for
and on behalf of the said directors.

JOHN M. THOMPSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

WM. M. FRANCIS,

Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

WM. F. PACKER.

No. 540.

A SUPPLEMENT

To the act consolidating the city of Philadelphia. Whereas, The Sixth ward of the city of Philadelphia is como posed of part of the late city proper:

And whereas, The plans and surveys of said ward are properly connected with the plans and surveys of the present third survey district :

And whereas, The present arrangement and survey divisions has led to difficulty and confusion; 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 Sixth ward of the city of Philadelphia, from and after the passage of this act, shall form part of, and be included in, the third survey district of the said city, any law or part of laws to the contrary notwithstanding.

JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

WM. M. FRANCIS,

Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The third day of April, Anno Domini one thor sand eight hundred and sixty.

WM. F. PACKER.

No. 511.

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act to incorporate and endow the Pennsylvania Institution for the

Instruction of the Blind.

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 governor is authorized and required to draw his warrant on the state treasurer in favor of the president and directors of the Pennsylvania institution for the instruction of the blind, for the sum of two hundred and twenty-five dollars for every indigent pupil of this commonwealth taught in the school of said insti. tution, to be paid quarterly, from and after the passage of this

act: Provided, That the sum so paid, in any one year, shall not exceed twenty-four thousand seven hundred dollars: Provided further, That in the applications for instruction in said institution, preference shall always be given to indigent pupils of this commonwealth.

JOHN M. THOMPSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

WM. M. FRANCIS,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

WM. F. PACKER.

Certain act reenacted with modifications.

Commissioners.

Duties.

When to be per

formed.

Election for di

rectors.

Manner of voting

erection of a poor house.

No. 543.

AN ACT

Authorizing the people of Tioga county to vote for or against a County
Poor House at their next General Election.

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 provisions of an act of the general assembly of this commonwealth, passed the fourteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty, entitled "An Act to provide for the erection of a poor house for the employment and support of the poor in the county of Tioga," be re-enacted with the following modifications:

SECTION 2. That in lieu of the commissioners named in said act, the following named persons be substituted as commissioners: William Baeles, James Laury, Thomas L. Baldwin, David L. Acken, Calvin Hammend, Rensselear Toles, Buel Baldwin, G. T. Bentley and David A. Clark; that said commissioners shall perform the duties required of them in the first section of said act, on or before the first day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty one; and that the election of directors under said section shall take place at the next general election thereafter; and the directors elected shall meet at the place designated in said section, on the first Monday in November next ensuing their election.

SECTION 3. For the purpose of ascertaining the sense of the for or against the citizens of Tioga county, as to the expediency of erecting a poor house in said county, it shall be the duty of each of the inspectors of the several townships and boroughs, at the general election on the second Tuesday in October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, to receive tickets, written or printed, from the qualified voters thereof, labelled on the outside, poor house, and on the inside, for a poor house, or, against a poor house; and if it shall appear, upon casting up the votes of the different districts, at the time and place, when and where the other election returns are made out, that a majority of those who voted are for a poor house, then the said act to take effect; but if a majority of said voters are against a poor house, then said act to be of no effect.

JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

APPROVED-The third day of April, Anno Domini one thou

sand eight hundred and sixty.

WM. F. PACKER.

No. 514.

SUPPLEMENT

To the act to incorporate the Citizens' Passenger Railway Company of the

city of Pittsburg, approved the twenty-second day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

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 Citizens' Passenger railway company may at any time hereaster make application, by petition to the court of quarter sessions of Allegheny county, to fix and adjudge the compensation to be made to the Lawrenceville and Sharpsburg plank road company, for the use and occupancy of said plank road, from the present terminus of said railway, at or near the Allegheny cemetery, to the Sharpsburg bridge, in the manner prescribed in the tenth section of the act, approved the twenty-second day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, entitled “An Act to incorporate the Citizens' Passenger railway company of the city of Pittsburg,” notwithstanding the proceedings already had for this purpose; and the said court is hereby invested with all the power, authority and jurisdiction conferred by the tenth section aforesaid, in the same manner as if the said court had never exercised any jurisdiction in the premises.

JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

WM. M. FRANCIS,

Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

WM. F. PACKER.

No. 515.

SUPPLEMENT

To an act incorporating the Tacony and Poquessin Plank Road Company,

approved the third day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

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