per cent per annum on the amount actually paid upon a transfer to the corporation of the borough of Harrisburg, as provided in the eighteenth section of this act, shall be paid into the state treasury, to be added to the fund for a general system of education. have prefer SECT. 21. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That it shall be the duty of the said company, at all Supply of watimes, to afford a full supply of water to all the citizens of ter to citizens the borough of Harrisburg and Maclaysburg, for culinary and In case of other domestic purposes, who shall apply for the same and scarcity to agree to pay therefor, and for the extinguishment of fires, at the usual rates, and in case of any scarcity of water, the said citizens shall always be supplied in manner aforesaid, in preference to any person or persons who may purchase the use of the water for manufacturing purposes. ence. SECT. 22. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the legislature reserve the right in the event of Reservation the said canal company violating any of the provisions of this of right to act, or of the privileges hereby granted to the said company being found injurious to the public, to revoke, alter or amend the charter hereby granted. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty three. repeal, &c. GEO. WOLF. No. 21. AN ACT For the relief of Benjamin Jones and George Eyster, soldiers, and Catharine Weikle and Magdalena Kunkle, widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war. SECT 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 State Treasurer be and he is hereby authorized and required to pay Benjamin Jones, of York $40 grat. & ann. granted county, and George Eyster, of Adams county, soldiers of to B. Jones the revolution, or to their respective orders, forty dollars & G. Eyster Same to.C. immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars, payable half yearly during life, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty three. SEOT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the State Treasurer be and he is hereby authorized and required to pay Catharine Weikle, of Berks county, M. Kunkle. and Magdalena Kunkle, of York county, widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war, or to their respective orders, forty dollars immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of February, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty three. GEO. WOLF. ed. No. 22. AN ACT To continue the improvements of the state by rail-roads and canals.. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall be and hereby is made the duty of the Completion canal commissioners to complete, as soon as practicable, the of public hereinafter enumerated public works, according to the routes works direct--heretofore determined upon and approved, to wit: The Philadelphia and Columbia rail-road, with a double track, sta-tionary engines, and all other things and means to make it Portage rail. useful for transportation, with the least possible delay; the Allegheny portage rail road, with a single track of iron rails, and all the means to make it useful for transportation; the Columbia line of the Eastern division of the Pennsylvania Frankstown, canal; the Frankstown line of the Juniata division of the Wyoming, Pennsylvania canal; the Wyoming line of the North Branch Lycoming, division of the Pennsylvania canal; the Lycoming line of the Columbia and roads. Eastern divisions of 958 78. West Branch division of the Pennsylvania canal, including the Lewisburg cross cut; the French creek division of the French creek Pennsylvania canal; the Beaver division of the Pennsylva. and Beaver nia canal; and for the expenditures thereof the sums here canal. inafter mentioned are severally and specifically appropriated: Appropriafor the Philadelphia and Columbia rail-road, one million tions to Coone hundred and eleven thousand, nine hundred and fifty- lumbia raileight dollars and seventy-eight cents; for the Allegheny road $1,111,portage rail road, four hundred fourteen thousand, seven To Portage hundred ninety-three dollars and six cents; for the Columbia rail-road line of the Eastern division of the Pennsylvania canal, thirty- $414,793 06. five thousand eight hundred thirty five dollars and twenty- Columbia five cents; for the Frankstown line, thirty-two thousand seven line of canal, hundred twelve dollars and four cents; for the Wyoming $35,835 25. Frankstown, line of the North Branch division, one hundred and fifteen thousand, two hundred and two dollars and forty-six cents; Wyoming for the Lycoming line of the West Branch division, inclu- 9115,202 46. ding the Lewisburg cross cut, four hundred and seventy Lycoming, thousand and seven dollars and ninety cents; for the French &c. $470,007. ereek division, one hundred and sixty-two thousand, nine French creek hundred and ninety-one dollars and ninety eight cents; and $162,991 98. Jor the Beaver division, one hundred and ninety-seven thou- Beaver, sand, one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and ninety-seven $197,159 97. cents. $32,712 04. 90. Governor SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the Governor of this commonwealth be and he is hereby authorized to borrow on the credit of this common authorized to wealth, and such fund or funds as have been or shall be borrow 82,created for securing the punctual payment of the interest 540,661 44. and the re-imbursement of the principal, the sum of two millions, five hundred and forty thousand, six hundred sixty-one dollars and forty-four cents, payable in instalments, in such manner as he may designate in proposals for said toan, which sum shall be paid to and vest in the commissioners of the internal improvement fund, and shall be applied to the payment of the contracts necessary to be made to complete the works directed to be completed by this act specifically as aforesaid: Provided, That no engagement or contract shall be entered into which shall preclude the com. re-imbursable monwealth from re-imbursing the said loan at any time after 25 y'rs. after the expiration of twenty-five years from the first day 2d proviso. of July next: And provided further, That no rate of interest Rate of interbeyond five per cent per annum shall be allowed or paid for said loan. Proviso. est. Restrictions SEOT. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the said canal commissioners shall not be authorized to incur any debt on the faith of the common- upon canal wealth in any way or manner beyond the appropriation commissionaforesaid: And provided, That no part of the said loan ere. shall be applied to any other than the several specific 46 Appropria tions con fined to specific lines, &c. purposes to which it is appropriated by this act, nor shail any contracts be entered into for any new line of canal or rail road, not mentioned in this act, or for any extension of the lines herein named beyond their present limits, as designated in the report of the canal commissioners of the first of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of February, A. D. thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. one GEO. WOLF. No. 23. AN ACT To preserve the evidence of title to the donation and other lands in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. SECT. 1. 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 Surveyor Ge. same, That the Surveyor General be and he is hereby neral's office. authorized and required to make fair and accurate copies from general drafts of the several districts of donation lands now in his office, and that official copies taken from the said copies of the general drafts as aforesaid, shall be evidence, and have the same force and effect as copies taken from the original official drafts, agreeably to the provisions of an act passed the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen entitled "A supplement to an act for directing the mode of distributing the donation lands pro. mised the troops of this commonwealth." Copies certi fied from transcripts declared evi dence. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore· said, That in all cases where patents for donation lands have been or may hereafter be recorded in the several counties wherein such lands lie, the record of said patents shall be received in evidence in the several courts of this common. wealth. made, &c. SEOT. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when the Surveyor General shall find any old Transcripts returns of surveys or other ancient official papers important of old and to be preserved in his office, becoming too much worn and de- defaced pafaced, he shall or may cause accurate copies of all such, from pers to be time to time, to be made out for the files of his office, as far as can be done when discovered, and official certified copies taken from such copies as aforesaid shall be equally valid in evidence and have the same force and effect as those of the originals. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. No. 24. AN ACT Altering the time of holding the courts in the eighth and fourteenth judicial districts, and for other purposes. ties of North SECT. 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 from and after the holding of the several courts at the next April term in the counties of Northumberland In the counand Columbia, in the eighth judicial district of this common- umberland & wealth, the said courts shall, instead of the times when the Columbia. courts are now held in said counties respectively, commence and be held as follows, to wit, in and for the county of Northumberland on the first Mondays of January, April, August and November, respectively, in each and every year, and in and for the county of Columbia on the second Mondays after the commencement of the courts in Northumberland. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the present clerk of the Orphans court of the |