Commission contracts. hereby authorized and required to pay the above appropriation to the orders of the commissioners of the respective counties through which the said creeks pass, according to the limitations above mentioned, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury. SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, ers to make That it shall be the duty of the commissioners of the respective counties herein named, or a majority of them respectively, to make a contract or contracts with any person or persons for improving the navigation of the said creek within the limits before mentioned, or such parts thereof as they shall judge to be of the greatest public benefit: Provided always, That no contract as aforesaid shall be made directly or indirectly, with any one of the commissioners aforesaid. Proviso. Accounts to the auditors, SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the commissioners of the respective be rendered counties herein named, to render a just account of the expenby them to ditures of the appropriations made under this act to the auditors who may be appointed for settling the accounts of the commissioners and treasurers of the respective counties, who are hereby authorized to adjust and settle the same, and to allow each of said county commissioners, who may be necessarily employed in ers $1 and performing the duties required of them by this act, one dollar 33 cents per and thirty-three cents per day, to be paid out of the treasury of the respective counties, in full for their services aforesaid. Who shall allow said commssion diem. creek. SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Penalty on That every person or persons who shall after the first day of persons cut- June next, fell, or cut down any timber or trees growing on the ting timber onor injuring banks of said creeks, or shall in any manner obstruct the navithe naviga- gation of the same, shall, for any such offence be liable to pay tion of said a fine of twenty dollars, on due proof thereof being made to any justice of the peace of the proper county within which such offence shall be committed, unless such obstruction shall be removed within five days from the time any such offence shall have been committed, one moiety of which fine shall go to the use of the informer, and the other moiety to the improvement of the roads in the township in which the offence shall have been committed. How to be recovered and appro priated. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER LXV. An ACT supplementary to an act, entitled "An act relating to the association of individuals for the purpose of banking." SECTION I. BE it 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 Bank notes, &c. accommo same, That from and after the first day of May next, it shall Unincorpora be unlawful for any association of persons who now are, or here- ted Banks after may be connected for the purpose of banking, and who not to issue are not incorporated by law, to make, utter, or issue any bills or notes in the nature of bank notes payable to bearer, or order, or otherwise; to loan any sum or sums of money upon any actual Nor loan moor accommodation note or notes; to receive any sum or sums in ney upon any the nature of deposits; or to do or perform any other act which dation note. an incorporated banking company may lawfully do. And if any Nor receive person or persons, principals or agents of any such association for deposits, &c. the purposes of banking, shall do or perform any of the acts hereby prohibited, each and every person so offending shall, on conviction thereof, before any alderman or justice of the peace, forfeit and pay for every such offence, the sum of one hundred Penalty for dollars; to be recovered in like manner as debts to that amount so doing. are by law recoverable; one half thereof for the use of the in- ered, &c. former, and the other half for the use of the commonwealth: and all the real estate, within this commonwealth, of each and every stockholder of every such association for the purposes of banking, shall be bound for each and every engagement made by the said association. How recov aforesaid declared ille SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the first day of May next, it shall be unlawMaking deful for any person or persons whatever to make any deposit or posits as deposits in any such bank; or to offer at any such bank any actual or accommodation note for discount; or to take or transfer gal. any share or shares of the stock of any such association for the And also purposes of banking. And if any person or persons shall do or offering perform any of the acts hereby prohibited, he or they shall, for notes for disevery such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dolPenalty for lars; to be recovered and distributed in the same manner as is offending directed by the first section of this act. count, &c. against this act. SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the first day of May next, it shall be un- Paying or lawful for any person or persons to offer, or accept in payment receiving any note or notes issued from any unincorporated bank or banks, notes of said knowing it to be such. And all payments which may be made red unlawful. or accepted from and after that day, wherein any such note or And such notes shall be the medium, shall be, and the same are hereby payments to declared to be null and void. SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, banks decla be void. tions not to Said associa- That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to be dischargdischarge any person or persons, or any association of persons ed from any who may before the passing of this act have become engaged engagement for the payment of any sum or sums of money, from such engagement; or to prevent a recovery by them of any contract, note, or obligation, to which they may be parties, or have acquired; or to prevent a settlement between the subscribers recover any thereto, and reimbursement of the payment made. entered into heretofore. Nor to be disabled to sum due. Or to pre vent reim the stock holders. SECT. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this act shall extend to any partnership in trade bursement to or business in such manner, and for such purpose as hath been hitherto usual, and may be legally done; but only to the busiThis act only ness of banking, or making, issuing, or uttering of bills or notes to affect as payable to bearer, order, or otherwise; to receive deposits; and loaning monies on discount, in the manner herein referred to. JOHN WEBER, Speaker sociations for the purpose of ban king. of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED---the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER LXVI. An ACT to enable Catharine Shaeffer, administratrix of John Shaeffer, late of the county of Berks, deceased, to convey a lot of ground to Philip Weaver. WHERE WHEREAS it appears to the legislature that John Shaeffer did in his lifetime sell, by parole, unto Philip Weaver, a lot of ground near the town of Womelsdorff, in the county of Berks, for the sum of sixty pounds; and that he did in his lifetime receive a moiety of the said purchase money from the aforesaid Philip Weaver; but that he, the said John Shaeffer, died without having made a deed to the said Philip Weaver for the lot aforesaid. And whereas it also appears that the said Philip Weaver is willing to pay the residue of the said purchase money, on receiving a deed, and that the administratrix of the said Jolan Shaeffer is also willing to complete the title for the said lot of ground to the said Philip Weaver, but cannot legally do it, inasmuch as there is no written evidence of contract: Therefore, to enable the said administratrix to make a conveyance, SECTION I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Catharine Shaeffer, administratrix of John Shaeffer, deShaeffer au- ceased, be, and she is hereby authorized to make a deed to the Catharine thorized to aforesaid Philip Weaver, for the lot of ground aforesaid; to hold the same to the said Philip Weaver, and to his heirs or assigns. forever. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER LXVII. An ACT dissolving the marriage of Isaac Peck, and Susannah, his WHE wife. THEREAS it hath been represented by the memorial and petition of Susannah Peck, late of White Marsh township, Montgomery county, that she contracted marriage with Isaac Peck in the month of April, one thousand eight hundred and five, that shortly after their intermarriage, her said husband, regardless of his matrimonial vows, commenced a series of abusive conduct towards her, which he hath unrelentingly pursued until his abandonment of her in the month of October, one thousand eight hundred and nine, and whereas the barbarous, cruel and unjust conduct of the said Isaac Peck, to his wife Susannah, is satisfactorily proven to the legislature by sundry documents accompanying her petition, and as it satisfactorily appears that the said Susannah hath always maintained the character of an honest, inoffensive woman, and faithful wife: Therefore, contract of 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, That Marriage the marriage contract entered into by the said Isaac and Susan- Isaac and nah Peck, be, and the same is hereby declared to be null and Susannah void, and the parties respectively set free, and discharged from Peck disthe marriage contract, and all the rights and duties arising under solved. the same, as fully and absolutely as if they had never been join- the legitimaed in marriage, but nothing herein contained shall be construed cy of chilto affect or render illegitimate, any child or children born of the dren born du ring the cov body of the said Susannah during the coverture. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight Not to affect erture. hundred and ten. M SIMON SNYDER, to run at CHAPTER LXVIII. An ACT to prevent Swine running at large within the township of WHER HEREAS the owners of lands in the township of Kingston, in the county of Luzerne, have heretofore sustained great damage and spoil in their meadows and cornfields, by swine running at large: And whereas the extension of the laws of this commonwealth, made to prevent the running of swine at large to the county aforesaid, has been found inadequate to a redress of the grievance by reason of the impracticability of keeping and supporting a sufficient fence or fences to prevent the trespassing of swine in that part of the aforesaid township, bounded by the west bank of the Susquehanna river, in consequence of the frequent inundations of the same: For remedy whereof, SECTION I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is bereby enacted by the authority of the same, No hogs, &c. That from and after the first day of April next, it shall not be lawful for any swine, hogs, shoats or pigs, to go at large in the township of Kingston, in the county of Luzerne, whether yoked and ringed, or not; therefore, if any person shall find tresHogs tres passing on his, her or their lands, within the limits of the townpassing may ship aforesaid, any swine, hog or hogs, shoat or shoats, or pigs, it shall and may be lawful for him, her or them, all such swine, Proceeding hogs, shoats or pigs, to take, drive and carry away, or cause to thereupon: be taken, driven or carried away, and being so taken or carried away, the said takers shall forthwith acquaint the nearest justice of the peace thereof, and being by him legally attested that the said swine were taken trespassing as aforesaid, the said justice shall immediately appoint and order two disinterested persons of the neighbourhood, to make a just and reasonable appraisement of the damage done by the trespassing of the said swine, and the same being so made, to return to the said justice as soon as conveniently may be thereafter. Large in Kingston township. be taken up. to be had manner. SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Justice to That it shall be the duty of such justice of the peace within give notice of the ap. three days, next following the return of such appraisement to him praisement. made, to give public notice by three or more written or printed advertisements set up in three of the most public places in said And in what township, designating particularly the number, marks, color and appraisement of all such swine, and by whom taken up, to the end, that the owner or owners may have notice thereof, and within what if the said owner or owners shall apply to the said justice within five days thereafter, and pay into his office the amount at which recover his the damages were estimated by the said appraisers, together with hogs. the sum of fifty cents, to be paid to each of the appraisers, and And an what condi. the sum of twenty-five cents to the said justice, as a fee for his tions trouble therein, and also a reasonable compensation to the per How and time the owner may |