[No. 9.] RESOLUTION For the relief of Pennell, Lenher, and Humes, manufacturers of locomotive engines. RESOLVED, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the canal commissioners be and they are hereby authorized to pay to the firm of Pennell, Lenher, and Humes, manufacturers of locomotive engines, at the city of Lancaster, the amount due said firm for a locomotive engine, purchased by the canal commissioners, and now in use on the Philadelphia and Columbia railroad, out of the unexpended balance of an appropriation made by the act entitled "An act to provide for the repairs of the several lines of canal and railroad, and to continue the improvements of the state," passed the nineteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirtynine, to pay debts due for repairs, and for surveys which have been heretofore authorized, which debts may have been contracted prior to the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. WM. A. CRABB, Speaker of the House of Representatives: JN. H. EWING, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-This twenty-sixth day of March, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. DAVID R. PORTER. 30 [No. 10.] RESOLUTION To suspend for a limited period an act supplementary to the various acts relating to Tavern Licenses, and for other purposes. RESOLVED, By the Senate and House of Representative of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That the act entitled “An act supplementary to the vari ous acts relating to tavern licenses, passed the twenty-sevent suspended day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-one," be and the same is hereby suspended in its operation, until the first day of July, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. Former act sessions to RESOLVED, That it shall be the duty of the clerk of the Duty of clerk court of quarter sessions of the city and county of Philadel court quarter phia, immediately after any term of said court at which inn publish list of or taverns shall have been licensed, to publish once a wee licensed inn- for one month, in two daily newspapers, and also to fill an keepers keep up in his office a list of the names of all persons wh shall have been licensed by said court to keep such inns o taverns, and, far as the same can be done, designate the pa ticular place where such inns or taverns are situated, th expense of such publications not exceeding three cents pe name, to be paid out of the county treasury. WM. A. CRABB, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senat APPROVED-The eighth day of April, one thousand eig hundred and forty-one. DAVID R. PORTER. [No. 11.] RESOLUTION Relative to the Account of Joseph Mosher. 1. RESOLVED, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Genral Assembly met, That the auditor general of this Commonwealth be and he is hereby authorized and required, in the settlement of the account of Joseph Mosher, superintendent of the road to avoid the inclined plane at Columbia, to allow him a credit for interest paid by him on a contract made with A. G. Ralston and company, on the twenty-fifth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, for the purchase of railroad iron, spikes, and chairs for said road. Southern in certainpowers 2. RESOLVED, That so much of the ninth section of an act entitled "An act to prevent the destruction of small insectiverous birds during their breeding time, and for the protection of game when out of season, in the county of Chester, and the township of Hellam in the county of York, and the township of Northampton in the county of Lehigh, and for other purposes," approved the twenty-sixth day of February, one thou-surance comp sand eight hundred and forty-one, as relates to the number of extended votes each stockholder of the southern insurance company shall be entitled to for directors of said company, is hereby extended to the decision of all questions submitted for the consideration of the stockholders of said company, at their meetings of business. And the directors of said company be and they are hereby authorized, to make such by-laws as they may deem necessary for properly regulating and conducting the affairs of said company. WM. A. CRABB, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. DAVID R. PORTER. Vacancy Loan authorized Interest Mortgage [No. 12.] RESOLUTION Relative to the Monongahela Navigation Company. RESOLVED, 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 in case of a vacancy occurring in the office of president of the Monongahela Navigation company, either by death, resignation, or otherwise, the board of managers shall have power to fill the vacancy by the election of any person who may be a stockholder in said company, and the person so elected shall hold and exercise all the powers, and receive all the emoluments appertaining to the office of president, until the next annnal election of officers for said company. And it shall be lawful for the president and managers of the Monongahela Navigation company, to raise by way of loan, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent. from any individual, bodies politic or corporate, on such terms and condi tions as they may think fit, such sums of money as they may from time to time find expedient for the completion of said improvement upon the credit of the capital stock and incorporation, including the nett proceeds of the tolls and profits of the same, and for the fulfilment of the terms and conditions of any such loan, to mortgage any part or the whole of their property, tolls, profits, or estates whatever, which mortgage or mortgages shall be transferable at any time hercafter on the books of the company: Provided, That the contract for said loan or loans shall be approved by the Governor. WM. A. CRABB, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. DAVID R. PORTER. [No. 13.] RESOLUTION Relating to the Warren Bridge Company, and for other purposes. Preamble relating to WHEREAS, By the act of the sixteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, incorporating the Warren bridge company, it was provided that the subscribers to Warren the stock of said company should pay the sum of five dollars bridge comp on each share at the time of subscribing therefor; And whereas, The act of the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, provided that whenever one hundred shares should be subscribed to the said company, and one dollar on each share paid, the Governor, by letters patent, under his hand and the seal of the State, should erect the subscribers into a body corporate; And whereas, By the manner in which the business of the said Warren bridge company has been conducted, it does not appear that in all cases either the said sum of five dollars or the sum of one dollar was paid on each share at the time of subscribing for the same; And whereas, The act of the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, authorizing the Bank of the United States to subscribe stock to said company to the amount of ten thousand dollars, or four hundred shares, being the whole number of shares authorized by the original act of incorporation of the said company; And whereas, Doubts have arisen in regard to the number of shares authorized by the different acts of assembly; there fore, Stockholders to pay sub 1. RESOLVED, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That all persons who have subscribed stock to said company shall be bound thereby to pay for the same, whether suits have been commenced for the collection thereof or not, scription as fully as though the said sum required by law to be paid on each share at the time of subscribing had been so paid. ded 2. RESOLVED, That the act of the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, authorizing the Bank Stock extenof the United States to subscribe to the said Warren bridge company four hundred shares shall be construed to extend the number of shares and enlarge the capital stock of the said company to the additional amount so subscribed. 3. It shall be lawful for the said Warren bridge company to make and construct an artificial or turnpike road from the east |