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lian M Clay, adjoining to the four acre lot formerly appropriated by John Harris, for the use of the state, and to pay for the same, and receive sufficient conveyances and assurances in fee simple, therefor, to be recorded in the office for recording of deeds in the county of Dauphin aforesaid.

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SECT. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the 3000 dollars hereby is appropriated for the purpose of making the aforesaid appro priated. purchase, and discharging the expences of the removal, to be And for paid in advance, two thousand dollars to the said commission- what purers, and one thousand dollars for the said purchase, on warrants pose. How apporsigned by the governor, out of any unappropriated monies in tioned. the treasury, the said commissioners to be accountable for the Commissionsum by them received in settlement of their accounts.

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countable.

&c.

SECT. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 30,000 dolThat the further sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and the lars approsame is hereby appropriated for the purpose of erecting the of- priated for fices which are to be kept at the seat of government: to quit, the erection of offices, One office for the secretary of the commonwealth, one for the secretary of the land-office, one for the surveyor-general, one Number of for the auditor general, one for the treasurer, and one office for offices to be any purpose to which it may hereafter be applied; each of which erected. offices shall be fire-proof, for the safe keeping of all the records fire proof. and papers belonging to said offices respectively.

And to be

Their duties.

SECT. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, The govern That the governor is hereby authorized and required immedi- or to keep ately after the passing of this act, to appoint, and by supplying va- three comcancies happening from refusals to act, or other causes, to keep, missioners in in appointment as long as may be necessary, three commission-office, &c. ers whose duty it shall be, immediately after their appointment, to fix on a site either on the four acre lot mentioned in the fourth section of this act, or on the ten acres to be purchased from William McClay, and procure one or more plan or plans on which the said offices are to be built, and after a place shall be agreed on according to the provisions which hereinafter follow, it shall be their duty to contract for, direct and superintend the building and completing of the said offices: And it shall also be the duty of the said commissioners as soon as they shall have ascertained the site for the said offices, and procured one or more plans, to lay the said plan or plans before the governor, secretary of the land-office, surveyor-general, auditor-general, and the treasurer of the commonwealth; who, together with the three commissioners aforesaid, shall each have one vote, in order to decide on a plan for the offices aforesaid; and such plan as shall have a majority of the votes aforesaid, shall, by the commissioners aforesaid, be carried into execution.

SECT. VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That as soon as a plan shall, as aforesaid, be decided on; it shall Further du

ties of.

Monies to be paid by the treasurer on warrants

be the duty of said commissioners to give notice in two newspapers of Philadelphia, Lancaster, York, Carlisle, Reading, Pittsburgh and Harrisbugh; each for four weeks successively, that proposals will be received by them until a day certain, by them to be fixed, from any person or persons who shall be willing to undertake the building of the offices aforesaid, and shall thereupon contract with any such as have made proposals, or with others, as to them shall appear to be most advantageous to the commonwealth: Provided, That every contract which shall be made by the said commissioners under this act shall be in writing: And provided also, That in every case the parties contracting with the said commissioners, give bond to the commissioners for the use of the commonwealth, with sufficient surety or sureties for the performance of their contracts.

SECT. IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the money hereby appropriated, or so much as shall be necessary, shall be paid by the treasurer of this commonwealth, drawn by on the order of any two of the said commissioners, who are hereby required to keep strict accounts of their transactions, and to transmit an abstract thereof to the governor once in every three

the commis

sioners.

Who shall

exhibit the months after their appointment.

accounts to

an oath.

SECT. X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, the governor quarterly. That the commissioners aforesaid shall, before they enter on the Commission- duties hereby enjoined on them, take the following oath or affirers to take mation: I, A. B. do swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully perform the duties enjoined on me by the act, entitled "An act esstablishing the seat of government of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at Harrisburgh, in the county of Dauphin:" and Compensa-, each of the said commissioners shall receive for every day's attention allowed dance the duties herein enjoined on them, the sum of two upon Any two of dollars and fifty cents, and any two of them may do and perform any act or duty herein enjoined on the said commissioners.

to.

them may

act.

JOHN WEBER, Speaker

of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-the twenty-first day of February, one thousand eight

hundred and ten.

SIMON SNYDER.

CHAPTER XXX.

An ACT to erect parts of Luzerne and Lycoming counties, into separate county districts.

SECT. I. 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

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me, That parts of the counties of Luzerne and Lycoming, Parts of Lu which are included within the following lines: to wit, Begin- zerne & Ly ning at the fortieth mile stone, standing on the north line of coming coun the state, and running south to a point due east of the head of into separate Wyalusing falls, in the river Susquehanna; thence southwester- county disly to the nearest point of Lycoming county line; thence in a di- tricts. rect line to the south-east corner of Tioga county, at the Beaver Limits of the dam on Towanda creek; thence northerly along the east line of county disTioga county, to the eightieth mile stone standing on the trict of Onta north line of the state; thence east along said line to the fortieth mile stene, the place of beginning, be, and is hereby erected into a separate county, to be henceforth called Ontario county; and the place of holding courts of justice in and for said Place for the county, shail be fixed by three commissioners, to be appointed seat of justice to be by the governor, at any place, at a distance not exceeding seven fixed by commiles, from the centre of the county, which may be most bene- missioners, ficial and convenient for the same.

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SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so much of the county of Luzerne, as is included in the following lines: to wit, Beginning at the fortieth mile stone county standing on the north line of the state, and running south along trict of Sus the east line of Ontario county, to a point due east of the head quehanna. of Wyalusing falls in the river Susquehanna; thence due east to the western line of Wayne county; thence northerly along the said western line of Wayne county, to the aforesaid north line of the state; and thence west along the said state line to the fortieth mile stone, the place of beginning; be, and the same is hereby erected into a separate county, to be henceforth called Susquehanna county; and the place of holding the courts Seat of jusof justice in and for said county, shall be fixed by the same tice in to be commissioners who shall be appointed by the governor, in pursu- aforesaid fixed by the ance of the first section of this act, at any place at a distance commissionnot exceeding seven miles from the centre of the county, ers. which may be most beneficial and convenient for the same. SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the present convenience of the inhabitants of the said Said county counties of Ontario and Susquehanna, and until an enumera- be subject to tion of the taxable inhabitants of the said counties shall be the jurisdica made; and it shall be otherwise directed by law, the said coun- tion of Lu ties of Ontario and Susquehanna, shall be, and the same are zerne and hereby annexed to the counties of Luzerne and Lycoming, in Lycoming like manner as before the passage of this act, and the jurisdic- formerly. tion of the several courts of the counties of Luzerne and Lycoming, and the authority of the judges thereof shall extend over, and shall operate and be effectual within the said counties of Ontario and Susquehanna, and that the electors within the said counties shall continue to elect at the same places, and with the counties of Luzerne and Lycoming as heretofore,

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The Governor to ap

Who shall

receive proposals, &c.

SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the governor of this commonwealth be, and he is hereby authorized and required to appoint three suitable persons for point three trustees, in each of the said counties, who shall receive protrustees, &c. posals in writing from any person or persons, or any body or bodies corporate or politic, for the grant or conveyance of any lands within the said counties respectively, and within the limits prescribed by this act for fixing the place of holding courts of justice in said counties respectively, or the transfer of any other property or payment of money, for the use of said counties, and lay before the commissioners appointed in and by the first and second sections of this act, from time to time a copy of the proposals so received under their hands, and when the place of holding courts of justice in the said counties respectively, shall be fixed by the said commissioners, to take assurances and conveyances in the law, for the lands and other property or money contained in any such proposals, which shall or may be accepted of, to and for the use of the said counties respectively.

ty to mark

the boundary line.

SECT. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Trustees of That it shall be the duty of the said trustees of Ontario county, Ontario coun or any two of them, to survey and mark, or cause to be survey. ed and marked, the boundary lines between the said county, and the counties of Susquehanna, Luzerne and Lycoming, and it shall be the duty of the said trustees, to be appointed for the county of Susquehanna, to survey and mark, or cause to be surveyed and marked, the boundary line between said county, and the county of Luzerne, as is directed in the first and second sections of this act, and the said trustees for ascertaining and marking said boundaries, shall receive two dollars and fifty cents for every mile of the lines so ascertained and marked, which shall be paid by the treasurer of Luzerne county, on orders drawn by the commissioners of said county.

SECT. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Commission. That each of the said commissioners to be appointed in pursuers to receive ance of the first and second sections of this act, shall have and 3 dollars per receive the sum of three dollars for each day they may necessariday. How paid. ly be employed in the duties enjoined by this act, which shall be paid by the treasurer of Luzerne county, on orders drawn by the commissioners of said county.

JOHN WEBER, Speaker

of the House of Representatives.

P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-the twenty-first day of February, one thousand eight

hundred and ten.

SIMON SNYDER.

CHAPTER XXXI.

An ACT to declare Green creek and its branches, in the county of
Northumberland, public highways.

SECT. I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in Gen-

moved.

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eral Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, Green creek Parts Green in the county of Northumberland, from the mouth up to the creek declared a public main fork thereof, and from thence up the north and northwest highway. branches thereof unto the saw mill, now or formerly owned by John Lemon, on the north branch, and unto the saw-mill now or formerly owned by Samuel Watt, on the north-west branch, shall be, and the same are hereby declared to be public highways for the passage of boats and other vessels, and it shall be lawful for the inhabitants and others desirous of using the navigation Obstructions of the said creek, to remove all natural and artificial obstructions in the same which may be in the same, excepting bridges and dams for mills, may be and other water works, and also to erect such slopes at the mill- Excepting dams now built in the said creek, as may be necessary for the bridges &c. passage of rafts, boats or other vessels: Provided, Such slopes Slopes may be so constructed as not to injure the works of said dams: at mill dams, And provided also, That any person or persons owning or possess- &c. ing lands on said creek, shall have liberty to construct any dam Proviso, or dams across the same, agreeably and subject to all the restric- siding on its tions and provisions of an act of the general assembly of this com- banks to monwealth, passed the twenty-third day of March, one thousand have the eight hundred and three, entitled "An act to authorize any per- privileges granted by sun or persons owning lands adjoining navigable streams of water, the act of declared public highways, to erect dams upon such streams for March 23d, mills and other water works."

JOHN WEBER, Speaker

of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate..

APPROVED the twenty-first day of February, one thousand eight

be erected

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1803.

hundred and ten.

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SIMON SNYDER.

CHAPTER XXXII.

A SUPPLEMENT to an Act, entitled "An act to erect the town of Beaver, in the county of Beaver, into a borough, and for other purposes."

SECT. I. 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, Mode of taxThat all town and out lots in the borough of Beaver, held by ng lots in

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