Area History: 1840-49: Acts of the General Assy pertaining to Lebanon Co, PA

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"Laws of the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania, 
Passed at the Session of 1841, in the Sixty-Fifth Year of Independence."
Published by Authority. Harrisburg: Peacock & M'Kinley - Printers. 1841. 


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Page 136. No 69.
An Act to encourage the destruction of Wolves, Panthers and other wild animals
in Franklin, Cumberland, Bedford and Indiana counties, and for other purposes.

SECTION 6. That the second section of the act entitled an act to extend the
charter of the Lebanon Bank, passed the twenty-fifth day of May, A.D. eighteen
hundred and forty, be and the same is repealed.

WM. A. CRABB, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
JN. H. EWING, Speaker of the Senate,
APPROVED - The thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-one.
DAVID R. PORTER

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Page 146. No. 75.
An act for the relief of John Woodcock and others, soldiers and widows of
soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian wars.

SECTION 2. That the state treasurer be and he is hereby authorized and required
to pay unto.....Jacob Heim, of Lebanon county, or to their respective orders,
forty dollars each, immediately, as a gratuity in full for military
services, rendered by them during the Revolutionary and Indian wars.

SECTION 3. That the state treasurer be and he is hereby authorized and required
to pay unto Jacob Roland, of Lebanon county.....soldiers of the Revolutionary
and Indian wars, or to their respective orders, forty dollars each,
immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars each, during life, payable half
yearly, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-one.

WM. A. CRABB, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
JN. H. EWING, Speaker of the Senate,
APPROVED - The thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-one.
DAVID R. PORTER

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Page 184. No. 86.
An act for the relief of James Warren and others, soldiers and widows of
soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian wars.

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 state treasurer be and he is hereby
authorized and directed, to pay to......Ann Maria Weber, of Lebanon
county....widows of soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian wars, or to their
respective orders, forty dollars each immediately, as a gratuity, and an
annuity of forty dollars to each during life, payable half yearly, to commence
on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and forty-one.

WM. A. CRABB, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
JN. H. EWING, Speaker of the Senate,
APPROVED - The thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-one.
DAVID R. PORTER

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"Laws of the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania, Passed at the
Sesson of 1842, in the Sixty-Sixth Year of Independence." Published by
Authority. Harrisburg: Printed by M'Kinley & Lescure. 1842.
 
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Page 79. No. 44.
An act for the relief of David Gring and others, soldiers and widows of
soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian wars.

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 state treasurer be and he is hereby
authorized and directed, to pay to......Ann Catharine Wann, of Lebanon
county.....soldiers and widows of soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian
wars, or to their respective orders, forty dollars each, immediately, as a
gratuity, and an annuity of forty dollars each during life, payable half
yearly, to commence on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and forty-two.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
JOHN STROHIM, Speaker of the Senate,
APPROVED - The fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-two.
DAVID R. PORTER

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Page 82. No. 46.
An act to enable the Governor to incorporate a company for making an artificial
road from the city of Pittsburg, by way of Braddocks field to Turtle creek, at
or near the farm of Allen Brown, and for other purposes.

SECTION 28. That the directors of the poor and the house of employment, in the
county of Lebanon, shall from time to time secure, provide for, and employ, all
such poor and indigent persons as shall be entitled to relief, or shall have
gained a legal settlement in said county of Lebanon, and any such poor and
indigent persons as aforesaid, shall be admitted into the house of employment,
on an order for that purpose, granted by any one of the said directors, or by
any one justice of the peace of said county, or upon a legal order of removal
from any other county within this commonwealth, for which services no justice
of the peace shall be entitled to fees or reward, and the board of directors
shall have authority to grant such other relief, as they may judge right, and
to discharge from said house of employment of the said county of Lebanon, every
pauper whom they shall deem to possess suffcient mental and bodily ability, to
take care of him or herself, and to provide for his or her mantenance and
support, but such pauper so discharged, may at any time thereafter be
re-admitted in the manner aforesaid.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
JOHN STROHIM, Speaker of the Senate,
APPROVED - The fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-two.
DAVID R. PORTER

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Page 125. No. 57.
An act to authorize the citizens of Little Beaver township, in the county of
Beaver, to elect two additional Supervisors of the highways, and for other
purposes.

SECTION 11. That on the third Tuesday in March, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-two and annually thereafter, the election for chief burgess, assistant
burgess, high constable and members of the council of the borough of Lebanon,
shall be held during the same hours, and by the persons appointed to hold the
election for inspectors and assessors under the act, entitled "An act relating
to the elections of this Commonwealth," passed the second day of July, Anno
Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and that so much of the act
to which this is a supplement, as is hereby altered or supplied, be and the
same is hereby repealed.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
JOHN STROHIM, Speaker of the Senate,
APPROVED - The eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-two.
DAVID R. PORTER

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Page 215. No. 77.
An Act repealing an act entitled, "An act granting jurisdiction to the Court of
Common Pleas, of Adams county, in certain cases," and the first section of an
act supplementary to the act aforesaid, and for other purposes.

SECTION 6. The first section of the act of assembly, entitled an act
supplementary to the varous acts relating to tavern licenses, passed the
twenty-ninth day of March eighteen hundred and forty-one, be and the same is
hereby repealed, so far as relates to the counties of Bucks, Northampton,
Monroe, York, Bedford, Lehigh, Pike, Bucks, Montgomery, Wayne, Luzerne,
Somerset, Lebanon, Schuylkill, Columbia, Clinton, Lycoming, Westmoreland,
Cambria, Clearfeld and Franklin.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
JOHN STROHIM, Speaker of the Senate,
APPROVED - The first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
DAVID R. PORTER

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Page 228. No. 80.
An Act for the relief of John Gordon, and others, soldiers, and widows of
soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian wars.

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 state treasurer be and he is hereby
authorized and directed, to pay to......Christina Rowland, of Lebanon
county.....widows of soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian wars, or to their
respective orders, forty dollars each immediately as a gratuity, and an annuity
of forty dollars to each during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the
first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and forty-two.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
JOHN STROHIM, Speaker of the Senate,
APPROVED - The fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
DAVID R. PORTER

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Page 250. No 87.
An act for the relief of the Reading Artillerists, of Berks county, and certain
other Volunteer companies, of Lebanon county.

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 Reading Artllerists, of Berks county,
the Jonestown Guards and the Washington Rifle Company, of the borough of
Lebanon, in Lebanon county, shall, after the passage of this act, be exempt
from training with any regiment or battalion of Militia, except at their
discretion: Provded, That the above named companies shall meet the proper
number of days annually required by law in their company capacity.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
JOHN STROHIM, Speaker of the Senate,
APPROVED - The seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
DAVID R. PORTER
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Page 256. No. 90.
A Further Supplement to the several acts relating to auctions and auctioneers,
and for other purposes.

SECTION 18. That the treasurer of the county of Lebanon, shall be and is hereby
authorized and directed to commence on the second Monday in August, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and at the expiraton of every two
years thereafter, and adjourn from day to day, if it shall be found necessary
so to do, and make public sale of the whole, or any part of such tract or
tracts of unseated lands stuate in the said county of Lebanon, as wll pay the
arrearages of the taxes, any part of which shall then have remained due and
unpaid for the space of one year before, together with all costs necessarily
accruing by reason of such delinquency; and so much of the act of the third
April, one thousand eight hundred and four, entitled "An Act directing the mode
of selling unseated lands for the taxes," and supplements thereto passed, as
hereby altered, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as respects the said
county of Lebanon.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
JOHN STROHIM, Speaker of the Senate,
APPROVED - The eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
DAVID R. PORTER

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Page 321. No 110.
An Act regulating election districts and for other purposes.

SECTION 19. That so much of the township of East Hanover, in the county of
Lebanon, as is included in the followng boundares, shall form a separate
election district, beginning on the north side of Swatara creek, opposite
Mishes mill, in the road leading from said mill, to Yerger's tavern, thence
adopting said road as the line of division, until it intersects the public road
leading from Jonestown to Harrisburg, thence a straight line to the
Indiantown gap, at or near the house of Frederick Trout, there to intersect the
Cold Spring road, thence adopting the Cold Sprng road, as the line to the top
of the second Blue mountain, and thence due north, until it intersects the
Dauphin, and Lebanon county line, on the top of the fourth mountain, and the
eastern part be called Union township, and that the general and township
elections to be held at the house now occupied by Jacob Titler and Henry
Gilbert, in the district of Union township. And it shall be the duty of the
constable of the township of East Hanover, to hold an election at the house of
Henry Gilbert, on the Friday next preceding the second Tuesday of October next,
between the hours of two and six o'clock, P.M. at which time and place the
citizen of that part of said township, hereby erected into a separate
election district, shall elect one judge and two inspectors, in the manner
prescirbed by the provisions of the act, entitled "An act relating to elections
of this Commonwealth," passed the second of July, one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-nine, and the said judge and inspectors so elected, shall hold the next
general election for said district.

SECTION 53. That the election for borough officers, held in the borough of
Lebanon, on the third Frday in March, eighteen hundred and forty-two be and
the same is hereby legalized and made valid, and that the elections for borough
officers hereafter to be held in said borough, as provded for in the eleventh
section of the act, passed the eighteenth day of March, eight hundred and
forty-two, entitled, "An act to authorize the citizen of Little Beaver
township, in the county of Beaver, to elect two additional Supervisors of the
highways, and for other purposes," shall be held on the third Friday,
instead of the third Tuesday in March, as therein contained.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
JOHN STROHIM, Speaker of the Senate,
APPROVED - The eleventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
DAVID R. PORTER

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Page 374. No. 116.
An Act concerning the trust estate of Hugh Roberts, deceased, and for other
purposes.

SECTION 54. That the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth
sections of the act entitled, "An act to appoint commissioners to re-survey and
mark that porton of the county line, which divides the township of Bristol, in
the county of Philadelphia, from the township of Cheltenham, in the county of
Montgomery, and for other purposes," passed the twenty-fifth day of March,
eighteen hundred and forty-two, be and the same are hereby extended to the
county of Lebanon, to take effect on the first day of January, eighteen hundred
and forty-three.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
JOHN STROHIM, Speaker of the Senate,
APPROVED - The sixteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
DAVID R. PORTER

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"Laws of the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania, Passed at the
Session of 1843, in the Sixty-Seventh Year of Independence." Published by
authority. Harrisburg: Printed by M'Kinley & Lescure. 1843. 
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Page 48. No.22.
An act regulating election district.

SECTION 52. That so much of the township of East Hanover, in the county of
Lebanon, included in the election district erected by the nineteenth section of
the act, entitled "An act regulating election districts, and for other
purposes," passed the eleventh day of July, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and
forty-two, shall hereafter form a separate township, and shall be called
Union township; and the lines as surveyed by the commissioners appointed by the
court of quarter sessions of the peace of Lebanon county, and filed in the
office of the clerk of said court, together with the draft, shall be the
boundary lines of said Union township; and the electors of said township, shall
hold their township elections at the house they now hold their general election,
notice of the election to be held in said township on the third Frday in March
next, shall be given by the present constable of East Hanover township, in the
manner directed by law for township elections.

HENDRICK B. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
B. CRISPIN, Speaker of the Senate,
APPROVED - The seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
DAVID R. PORTER

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Page 115. No. 57.
An act to divide the state into Congressonal districts, for the election of
Representatives in the Congress of the United States.

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 for the purpose of electng Representatives
of the people of Pennsylvania, to serve in the house of Representatives in the
congress of the Unted States, this state shall be divided into twenty-four
districts as follows:
Fourteenth - The counties of Dauphin, Lebanon and Schuylkill shall be the
fourteenth district, and elect one member.

SECTION 2. That the election of Representatives, to serve in the house of
Representatives in the congress of the United States, agreeably to the
constitution of the United States and the direction of this act, shall be held
by the citizens of this state, qualified to vote for members of the state
legislature, on the second Tuesday of October next, for the twenty-eghth
congress, and on the second Tuesday of October, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-four, for the twenty-ninth congress, and in every second year
thereafter, until an enumeration of the inhabtants of the United States shall
be taken agreeably to the constitution and laws of the United States, at the
same places, respectively, under the care and direction of the same officers,
and subject to all the laws, penalties, rules and regulations now in force for
the conducting and governing elections within this commonwealth.

SECTION 3. The returns of the election held under this act, shall be made at
the times and manner prescribe for making returns of elections for the
seventy-sixth, seventy-seventh, seventy-eghth, seventy-ninth, eighteth,
eighty-frst,  eighty-second, eighty-third, eighty-fourth, eighty-fifth and 
eighty-sixth sections of the consolidated acts regulating elections wthin this
commonwealth, passed the second day of July, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-nine.

SECTION 4......
The judges of the fourteenth district shall meet at the court house, in the
borough of Lebanon.

HENDRICK B. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
B. CRISPIN, Speaker of the Senate,
APPROVED - The twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-three.
DAVID R. PORTER

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Page 204. No. 103.
An act authorzing the conveyance of certain real estate.

SECTION 5. That the administrators of Christian Ley, late of Myerstown, Lebanon
county, deceased, be and they are hereby authorized to grant and convey, and to
unite with William Hoch, or any person duly authorized by him in granting and
conveying to the administrator or administrators of Daniel Drinkle, late of
Reading, Berks county, deceased, in trust for the persons legally entitled to
the same, one undivided Sixth part of all the lands and tenements not
heretofore sold, stuate in the counties of Schuylkll and Dauphin, mentioned
and referred to in a certain article of agreement between the said Christian
Ley, and the said William Hoch, the said Daniel Drinkle and Daniel D.B. Keim,
dated September eleventh, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and
thirty, recorded in Schuylkill county, on the fifteenth day of September, one
thousand eight hundred and thirty; and also to grant and convey, and unite with
the said William Hoch, or any person duly authorized by him in granting and
conveying to the administrator or administrators of the said Daniel D.B. Keim,
deceased in trust for the persons legally entitled to the same, one undivided
Sixth part of the said lands and tenements, and to execute and deliver good and
sufficient deeds for conveyance for the same; the said administrators of the
said Daniel Drinkle, and the said Daniel D.B. Keim, deceased, paying or
securing to be paid by mortgage of the lands so conveyed, all balances and sums
of money due from them respectively, or from their respective intestates to the
estate of the said Christian Ley, deceased, according to the provisions of the
said article of agreement: Provided, That the said administrators of the
said Christian Ley, deceased, before the execution and delivery of any such
deeds of conveyance, shall give such suffcient security for the faithful and
proper appropriation of the moneys to be so paid, or secured to them, at the
orphans' court of Lebanon county shall direct; and in default of such security,
the said moneys shall be paid into the said orphans' court, to be by them
distributed according to law, the said administrators of the said Christian
Ley, deceased, having nevertheless, the same right to enforce the payment of
the said mortgages, by process, execution and sale, as if, having given such
security as aforesaid, the sums of money due thereon were payable to them.

SECTION 6. That the administrators of the said Daniel Drinkle, deceased, and
the said Daniel D.B. Keim, deceased, be and they are hereby authorized to unite
n granting and conveying to the administrator of the said Christian Ley,
deceased, in trust for the persons legally entitled to the same, one
undivided third part of all such lands and tenements, mentioned and referred to
in the said articles of agreement, whereof the titles were granted to, or vested
in, the said Daniel Drinkle, and the said Daniel D.B. Keim, or either of them,
at the date of the said articles of agreement, or afterwards; and also to grant
and convey to the said William Hoch, or to his assigns, one other undivided
third part of all such lands and tenements, and to execute and deliver good and
sufficient deeds of conveyance for the same.

HENDRICK B. WRGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
B. CRISPIN, Speaker of the Senate,
APPROVED - The twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
DAVID R. PORTER

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Page 247. No 117.
An Act to fix the number of Senators and Representatives, and form the State
into districts, in pursuance of the provisions of the Constitution.

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 until the next enumeration of the taxable
inhabtants, and an apportonment thereon, the senate at a ratio of eleven
thousand seven hundred and forty-six, shall consist of thirty-three members,
and be apportioned as follows, viz:
Seventh. The counties of Lancaster and Lebanon shall compose the seventh
district, and elect two members.

SECTION 3. That until the next enumeration of the taxable inhabtants, and an
apportonment thereon made, the house of Representatives, at a rato of three
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, shall consist of one hundred members,
vz: The county of Lebanon to one.

HENDRICK B. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
B. CRISPIN, Speaker of the Senate,
APPROVED - The fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-three.
DAVID R. PORTER

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"Laws of the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania, Passed at the
Sesson of 1844, in the Sixty-Eighth Year of Independence." Published by
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Page 14. No. 7.
An Act regulating election districts.

SECTION 57. That so much of the townships of Heidelberg and Jackson, in the
county of Lebanon, lying east of a line to be run, beginning at the Lancaster
and Lebanon county line, at the forks of a public road, adjoining lands of
Michael Sharp, in the township of Heidelberg, thence through said township of
Heidelberg, to a post on the Jackson township line near the house of Catharine
Miller, thence through said Jackson township to a post on the Berks county
line, in the public road leading from Kapp's mill, in Berks county, to the Mill
Creek church, in Lebanon county, be and the same is hereby erected into a
separate election district; and the qualified voters of said district shall
hold their general elections at the public house of David Matthew, in
Newmanstown; and it shall be the duty of the present constable of Heidelberg
township, to hold an election at the public house of the said David Matthew, on
the first Friday preceeding the second Tuesday of October next, between the
hours of two and six o'clock, P.M., of said day; at which time and place, the
citizen of said district shall elect one judge and two inspectors, in the
manner prescribe by the provisions of the act, entitled "An act relating to
elections of this commonwealth," passed second of July, eighteen hundred and
thirty-nine; and the said judge and inspectors, so elected, shall hold the next
general election for said district. E. Cherington, Esq., Samuel Becker and
George Pfleger, are hereby appointed commissoners to run the boundary lines of
said district, and to file in the office of the clerk of the court of quarter
sessions of Lebanon county, the survey and draft thereof; and the said district
is hereby erected into a separate township, to be called Mill Creek; and the
electors of said township shall hold their township elections at the same place
they are directed by this act to hold their general elections; notice of the
election to be held in said township on the third Frday in March next, shall
be given by the constable or Supervisors of Heidelberg township, in the manner
directed by law for township elections.

HENDRICK B. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
WILLIAM BIGLER, Speaker of the Senate,
 do certify the bill, entitled "An Act regulating election districts," which
has been disapproved by the governor, and returned with his objectons to the
House of Representatives, in which it originated, was passed by two-thirds of
the House of Representatives, on the nineteenth day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-four, and that the foregong is the act so passed by
the said House.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
WILLIAM JACK, Clerk of the House of Representatives.
 do certify that the bill entitled, " An Act regulating election districts,"
which has been disapproved by the Governor, and returned with his objections to
the House of Representatives, in which it originated, was approved by two-thirds
of the Senate, on the twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred
and forty-four, and that the foregoing is the act so approved by the said
Senate.
WILLIAM BIGLER, Speaker of the Senate,
JOHN J. M'CAHEN, Clerk of the Senate.

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Page 106. No. 72.
An Act to incorporate the Evangelical Lutheran congregation of the borough of
Lebanon and its vicinity.

WHEREAS, Dvers members of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation, of the
borough of Lebanon and its vicinity, have prayed for an act of incorporaton
for the better management of their affairs; 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 Jacob B. Wedman, George W. Klein, John
Wedman, Edward A. Uhler, Anthony S. Ely, Henry Derr, Andrew Renoehl, Lev
Uhler, William Ritscher, George Waltz, Henry Zimmerman, John Seagrist, John H.
Snavely, Abraham Shenk, Jacob Swartz, Jonas Mohr, John Lowry, David Fox, John
Renoehl, Abraham Hostetter, Mchael Lauser, Joseph Zmmerman, junior, Andrew
Fasnacht, Charles Fox, Levi Schools, Henry S. Zimmerman, Henry Rohland, William
Derr, Leonard Zimmerman, George Derr, John Fox, senior, Orth Light, George
Smith, junior, Cyrus Zimmerman, Henry Karmony, Cyrus Doebler, John Ditz, John
Artz, William Smith, Henry Lowry, George Brooks, Henry Emrick, Charles
Brotherline, John Stans, Edward L. Shulze, George Shott, G.S., Frederick
Embrich, Frederick Beckley, Joseph Daley, Jonathan Walter, Cornwall, Joseph
Weaver, William Coleman, John P. Sanderson, Christian Henry, Jonathan
Rathrauff, Christian Snavely, John Uhler, Cyrus K. Snavely, Levi Kline, John
Fees, Jacob Readel, Henry Hixenheiser, John Heim, Joseph Zimmerman, Israel
Karch, Henry Rise, Peter Zimmerman, Emanuel Bentz, Jacob Mohr, George Fauber,
Jacob Garde, Peter Shott, Peter Fauber, Henry Fauber, Henry B. Oves, Lantz
Hitz, Benjamn Moore, John H. Fox, Charles Renoehl, Peter Strickler, Augustus
Renoehl, John George, Jacob Stoever, Henry Hauser, Joseph Stoever, Conrad
Keim, John McCloud, Michael Wagner, Michael Hoffman, Davd Karmany, Adam Rise,
junior, William Renoehl, Michael Zimmerman, Samuel Lutz, John Phraner, Jacob
Miller, Simon U. George, George Frysinger, John H. Elliotden, John Shott,
Gottlieb Kreider, Joseph H. Uhler, and George Snavely, Conrad R. Shindle, Peter
Hess, members of the said congregation, and their successors, be and they are
hereby created one corporation and body poltic in law, by the name and style
of "the Evangelical Lutheran congregation of the borough of Lebanon and its
vicinity."

SECTION 2.  That the said corporation, by the same name and style, shall
have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded, in all courts of law and elsewhere; and shall be able and capable in
law and in equity, to take, purchase, hold and receive, to them and their
successors, in trust for and in use of the said congregation, lands tenements,
goods and chattels, of whatsoever kind, nature or quality, real, personal or
mixed, which is now or shall or may at any time hereafter become the
property of the said congregation, or be held for the use of the said
congregation, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, devise, bequest or
otherwise, from any person or persons whomsoever, capable of making the same;
and the same to grant, bargain, sell, mortgage, improve or dsipose of for the
use of the said congregation, if necessary, to erect or enlarge any building or
buildings, for the purpose of worship, residence of the pastor or other purpose,
consistent with the advancement of religon, as may be directed and a
majority of such persons as are qualified to vote by the fourth section of this
act, that may be present at a meetng to be held for that purpose; of which said
meeting, at least two weeks notice shall be given from the pulpit, or in any
other public manner the trustees, of a majority of them, shall direct; and
generally adopt all such measures, and do all and singular, such matters and
things as may be lawful to be done for the well being and due management of the
said church and congregation: Provided  That the yearly value or income of the
said estates shall not at any time exceed three thousand dollars.

SECTION 3. The busness of the said corporation shall be conducted by nine
trustees, of whom five shall be a quorum, who shall choose from among their
member a president and secretary, and appoint a treasurer, who shall receive
and account for all moneys coming into his hands belonging to the corporation;
shall give ample security, on his accepting the office, and shall have his
accounts annually settled by the trustees, to be laid before and approved
of by the congregation, at their annual elections of trustees; and may appoint
such other officers as the said trustees, or a majority of them, may from time
to time deem necessary, for the better government of the secular affairs of the
said congregation.

SECTION 4. The followng named persons shall be trustees until others are or
shall be elected as hereinafter provded, vz: Joseph Zmmerman, Jacob B.
Wedman, George W. Kline, John George, Jacob Readel, Jacob Stoever, Leonard
Zimmerman, Henry Derr and Peter Shott, to contnue in office until the last
Saturday in December, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and forty-four, on which
day the male members of the said congregation, qualified to vote by the fourth
section of this act, shall elect nine persons to serve as trustees, three of
whom shall serve three years, three two years, and three one year, the term of
service to be designated by the electors on their ballots, and their places
respectively shall be supplied at the annual election to be held for that
purpose on that day in every year thereafter, by the election of three persons
to serve for three years: Provided  That in case of vacancy by death or
otherwise, the remaining trustees shall appoint a person or persons to supply
the same until the next election: And provded, further, That no person shall
be eligible as a trustee unless he is a citizen of this commonwealth, and has
particpated in the Lord's Supper, according to the formula for the government
and discipline of the Evangelical Lutheran church, within one year, unless
prevented by sickness or absence, or is an original member of this
congregation, or a male child of such original member of full age, the ancestor
being deceased, and professing the tenets and doctrines of the Evangelical
Lutheran church, and shall have paid his contribution toward the discharge of
the annual expenses of the congregation, according to his ability within one
year: And provided, further, if the congregation neglect on the day of the
annual election to hold their election as is herein directed, the said
corporation shall not be dissolved; but a majority of the trustees remaining in
office may appoint any subsequent time not exceeding one month, at which the
election may be held to supply vacancies, of which time and place at least two
weeks notice to the congregation shall be given by announcement from the
pulpit, or in any other public manner a majority of the remaining trustees may
direct.

SECTION 5. Any male member of the said congregation who shall have
particpated in the Lord's supper, according to the formula for the government
and discplne of the Evangelical Lutheran church within two years, unless
prevented by sickness or absence, or who shall be an original member of the
corporation, or the male chld of such orginal member of full age, the
ancestor beng deceased, and professing the tenets and doctrines of the
Evangelical Lutheran church, and shall have paid contribution toward the
discharge of the yearly expenses of the congregation, according to his
ability, within one year, and no others shall be entitled to vote at the
elections of the said congregation, of all which elections, at least two weeks
notice shall be given, by announcement from the pulpit, or in any other public
manner a majority of the trustees may direct.

SECTION 6. The church council shall consist of the pastor, for the time being,
six elders and six deacons, who shall be elected at the annual election to be
held by the corporation on the last Saturday in December, in every year; three
elders and three deacons to serve for two years, and three elders and three
deacons to serve for one year, the term of service to be desgnated by the
electors on their ballots, and their places respectively shall be supplied by
the election of the requsted number of elders and deacons, at the annual
election happening at the time of the expiration of their respective terms of
service to serve for two years: Provided,  That in case of vacancy by death
or otherwise, the remaining members of the church council, or a majority of
them, shall appoint a person or persons to supply the same until the next
election.

SECTION 7. The pastor of the congregation shall be invited by the church
council or a majority of them, an being approved by them, or a majority of
them, shall be elected by ballot by a majority of such persons as are qualified
to vote by the fourth section of this act, that may be present at a meeting to
be held for that purpose, after two weeks notice given as directed in the
fourth section of this act.

SECTION 8. The pastor of the congregation may be discharged from his office by
a majority of such persons as are qualified to vote by the fourth section of
this act, who may be present at a meetng to be held for that purpose, and to
be called by the church council upon the written request, statng the object
and design to be for that purpose, of thirty persons qualified to vote as
aforesaid, at which meetng the vote shall be taken by ballot by the
president and secretary of the board of trustees, and two weeks notice of the
time and place of said meeting shall be given as directed in the fourth section
of this act.

SECTION 9. That the pews which may be put up in the church about to be erected
by the said congregation, shall be annually drawn for by each of the male and
female members of the congregation, and all persons qualified to vote by the
fourth section of this act, as may desire to do so on the day of the annual
election for trustees, by placing a sufficient number of tickets, each having
the number of a pew inscrbed thereon, in a box or other convenent receptacle,
from whence they shall be drawn by the said members and voters, and the full and
entire property of the pew numbered with the number which shall be drawn by a
member, shall be in him or her until the next annual drawing: Provded,  That
the trustees may at any time propose a plan for dsposing of the pews in a
different manner, which shall have the same force and effect as if herein
enacted, if approved by two-thirds of such persons as are qualified to vote by
the fourth section of this act, who may be present at an election, by ballot,
to be held for that purpose, of which election two weeks notice shall be given,
as provided in the fourth section of this act.

SECTION 10. The said corporation and its successors shall have power at all
times to adopt, alter, amend, and enforce such rules for the discipline of its
members as shall be sanctioned by two-thirds of the members thereof, at an
election to be held by ballot, of which election two weeks notice shall be
given, according to the provisions of the fourth section of this act; but such
rules for the discipline of its members shall not in any manner interfere with,
alter, or affect the rights of any one qualified to vote by the fourth section
of this act, nor of any one qualified to be elected a trustee by the third
section of this act, nor contain any thing repugnant to the provisions of this
charter, the constitution and laws of the United States, or of this
commonwealth: Provided, that nothing in this act contained shall be so
construed as to prevent the said corporation or its successors from expelling
any member thereof, according to its rules for the discipline of the members
thereof, and by expulsion depriving him or her of all rights and privleges
hereby granted.

SECTION 11. The said trustees, and their successors, or a majority of them,
shall have full power to enact and enforce such by-laws and ordinances as they
shall think proper, for their own government, and for the regulation and
transaction of the secular business of the said corporation; and to make, use,
and have a common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew at their
pleasure; and shall have power, also, to change the time of holding the general
election, if the same should be deemed advisable: Provided,  That the same
by-laws and ordnances, and all the acts of the said trustees, framed, enacted
and promulgated, shall not be contrary to this charter, nor to the
constitution of the general synod of the Evangelical Lutheran church in the
United States of North America; nor to the formula for government and
discipline of the Evangelical Lutheran church; nor to the constitution and laws
of the United States, or of this commonwealth.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
WILLIAM BIGLER, Speaker of the Senate.
APPROVED-The fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
DAVID R. PORTER.

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Page 113. No. 75.
An act to incorporate the "Union mutual fire Insurance company," of Myerstown,
Lebanon county.

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 John Bassler, Daniel Meyers, Daniel Stine,
John Breitenbach, George Pflegar, John Meyers, John Kretzar, Samuel Morret,
John Ramler, George Lindemuth, Benjamin Mengal, Leonard Immel, George
Dinges, and all other persons who may hereafter be associated with them in the
manner hereinafter prescribed, and their successors, shall be, and they are
hereby constituted and declaired to be a body poltic and corporate by the name,
style and title of the "Union mutual fire Insurance company of Myerstown,
Lebanon county," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and
shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of
record, or elsewhere, and to purchase, receive, have, hold and enjoy to them
and their successors, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, franchises and
heredtaments, goods and chattels of what kind soever, and chooses in action,
and the same to sell and dispose of from time to time; and also, to make and
have one common seal, and the same to alter and renew at pleasure; and also, to
ordain, establsh and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances and regulations
as shall appear necessary and convenient for the government of said
corporation, not beng contrary to this charter, or the laws of the United
States, or of this commonwealth; and generally to do and transact all such
matters and thngs as shall to them lawfully appertain to do and transact all
such matters and things as shall to them lawfully appertain to do and transact
for the well-being of the said corporation, and the due management and well
ordering of the affairs thereof; Provided,  That the clear yearly value or
income of the necessary houses, lands, tenements, rents and annuities, or other
heredtaments and real estate of the said corporation, and the interest of money
loaned by it, shall not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars.

SECTION 2. The object and business of the said company shall, and is hereby
prescribe to be the insurance of their respective dwellng houses, stores,
shops and other buildngs, household furniture, goods and chattels, and other
property against loss or damage by fire, by engaging to pay such a proportion
of the actual loss as shall be determned on by the by-laws.

SECTION 3. All persons who shall hereafter insure with the said corporation,
and also their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, continuing to be
insured in the said corporation, as is hereinafter provided, shall thereby
become members thereof during the perod they shall remain insured by the said
corporation, and no longer.

SECTION 4. The affairs of the said company shall be managed by a board of
directors, consisting of seven members, to be elected and chosen as hereinafter
provided; which board shall elect from their own number one person as president,
they shall also elect or appoint one person as secretary of the board, and one
person as treasurer, of whom they shall require such security as they may
provide by their by-laws, and may employ such other officers, clerks, agents
and attorneys, as may be found necessary for the transaction of the busness of
the institution; and shall also determine the rates of insurance and the sum to
be insured; a majority of said board shall constitute a quorum to do business.

SECTION 5. The members of the company shall, upon ten days notice in one
newspaper published in the county of Lebanon, meet at their office on the last
Saturday in December, in each year, for the purpose of holding an election for
directors, and such election shall be held under the inspecton of three
members, to be chosen by the members who may attend at the time and place of
holding the election; such election of directors shall be by ballot, and a
majority of the votes given to elect; and the directors so elected shall
continue in office until the last Saturday in December, in the succeeding year,
or until others are elected, on which day, and annually thereafter, an election
shall be held for directors as provded in the first part of this section, and
each member shall be allowed one vote, and no more. in case of the death,
resignation or removal from the county of any one of the board of directors,
the board shall have power to fill such vacancy until the ensuing annual
election.

SECTION 6. Every person who shall become a member of this company by effecting
insurance theren shall, before he receves his policy, deposit with the
treasurer the sum of Fifty cents for every thousand dollars worth of property
he shall have insured, for the purpose of defraying such incidental charges as
shall be necessary for transacting the busness of said company; and it shall
be lawful for the said company to loan such portion of the said money on hand
as may not be immediately wanted for the purpose of said company, to be secured
by mortgage or judgment upon real estate of sufficient value, beyond other
incumbrances to render the same perfectly secure.

SECTION 7. When any property insured with this company shall be aliened by sale
or otherwise, the policy shall therefore be void, and shall be surrendered to
the directors to be canceled.

SECTION 8. Every member of said company shall be bound to pay for losses, and
such necessary expenses aforesaid, accruing in said company, in proportion
to the amount of property insured by him or her.

SECTION 9. Suits at law may be prosecuted and mantained by any member against
the said company for losses and damages by fire, if payment be withheld or
refused for more than three months after the company are notified of such
losses; no member of the company not being in his individual capacity a party
to the suit or suits, shall be incompetent as a witness on account of his being
a member of the company.

SECTION 10. The directors after ascertaining the amount of loss or damage, by
fire, sustained by any of its members in such manner as they, by their by-laws
shall prescribe, shall settle and determine the amount to be paid by each
member, as their respective shares of such loss or damage, and publish the same
in such manner as they by their by-laws may prescrbe; and the members shall pay
the same to the treasurer of the company within thirty days after the
publication of said notice; on neglect or refusal to pay the sum assessed upon
him as a proportion of any loss as aforesaid, in such case said company may
sue for and recover the said amount with costs of suit.

SECTION 11. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the said company at the
annual meetng provided for in the fifth section, to exhibt in detail the
condition of the finances of the said company, and the names of the person or
persons to whom the funds of the company have been loaned; and it shall also be
the duty of the treasurer and the secretary of said company, at the annual
meetng aforesaid, or whenever, at any other time, a majority of the board of
directors shall require the same, to produce all such books and papers
appertaining to the business of said company.

SECTION 12. The seven persons first named in the first section of this act,
shall constitute the board of directors of said institution, until the last
Saturday of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
forty-four, or until others are elected in their stead.

SECTION 13. No policy shall be issued by the company until application be
made for insurance to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars.

SECTION 14. This act shall take effect immediately after its passage, but the
legislature of this commonwealth may at any time alter, modify or annul its
provisions, in such manner, however, as to do no injustice to the corporators.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
WILLIAM BIGLER, Speaker of the Senate.
APPROVED-The fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
DAVID R. PORTER.

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Page 253. No. 177
An Act for the relief of John A. Smth, and others, soldiers and widows of
soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian wars.

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 state treasurer be and he is hereby
authorized and directed to pay to....Sophia Albrecht, of Lebanon
county...widows of soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian wars, or their
respective orders, forty dollars each, immediately, as a gratuity; and forty
dollars per annum, each, during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the
first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
WILLIAM BIGLER, Speaker of the Senate.
APPROVED-The eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
DAVID R. PORTER.

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Page 276. No 195.
An Act to legalize a certain deed of conveyance from the trustees of Mathias
Berndheisel, of Lebanon county.

WHEREAS, Mathias Berndheisel and Nancy, his wife, of Lebanon county, executed
and delivered a deed of conveyance in trust for their credtors, to Christopher
Baney, Eunos Berndheisel and John G. Stein, as trustees, with full power,
jontly to sell and convey any part of the real estate of said assignors:
And whereas,  John G. Stein, one of the trustees aforesaid, was, by the court
of common pleas of Lebanon county, discharged from his trusteeship, and the
remaining two trustees, to wit: Christopher Baney and Eunos Berndheisel,
executed and delivered to Daniel Stein, a deed of conveyance, (after having
received the purchase money of said Daniel Stein, and charged themselves
herewith,) for a certain tract of land containing about seven acres, lying in
Jackson township, Lebanon county, adjoining other lands of Mathias Berndheisel,
John Lehman, and Christopher Baney, 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 title or deed of conveyance executed by
the said Christopher Baney and Eunos Berndheisel, trustees as aforesaid, dated
the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two,
unto the said Daniel Stein, is hereby legalzed and made valid to all
intents and purposes, as of the same had been executed by the said Christopher
Baney, Eunos Berndheisel and John G. Stein.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
WILLIAM BIGLER, Speaker of the Senate.
APPROVED-The sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
DAVID R. PORTER.

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Page 449. No. 296.
An Act to authorize the purchase, mortgage and sale of certain real estate.

SECTION 15. That upon the petition of the administrator, with the will annexed,
of Chirstopher Rickert, late of Lebanon county, deceased, the orphans' court of
said county shall be and the same hereby is authorized to grant an order for
the sale of all the real estate of said deceased, situate in said county:
Provided,  That before an order of sale shall be granted, the administrator
shall enter into bond with such sureties, and in such sum, as shall be directed
by the court, condtioned for the faithful application of the proceeds of
sale, to the payment of the debts of the said deceased, and the distribution of
the balance of the proceeds, to and among the heirs and legal Representatives of
said deceased, according to the intestate laws of this commonwealth.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
WILLIAM BIGLER, Speaker of the Senate.
APPROVED-Twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
DAVID R. PORTER.

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Page 524. No. 339.
An Act supplementary to an act passed the ninth of April, one thousand seven
hundred and Sixty, relative to the hunting of deer.

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 from and after the passage of this act, if
any person or persons, in the counties of Schuylkill, Lebanon or Dauphin, shall
hunt chase or follow, with a design to kill or destroy, any buck, doe or
fawn, within said counties, at any other time or season, excepting only
between the first day of the month of September and the first day of the month
of December in each year, and shall be lawfully convicted thereof by the oaths
or affirmations of one or more credible witnesses, before any alderman or
justice of the peace, in the name of the commonwealth, he or they, on being
convicted thereof, shall forfeit and pay for every such offense the sum of
twenty-five dollars, to be sued for and recoverable, with costs of suit, before
any alderman or justice of the peace, in the name of the commonwealth, at the
instance of any person who will sure thereof, as debts of like amount are now
recoverable by law; one-half of said fine or penalty shall be paid to the
person or persons suing for the same, and the other half to the treasurer of
the county where such fine or penalty shall be recovered: Provided,  That so
much of the act of the ninth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and
Sixty, that is inconsistent with this act, be and the same is hereby repealed.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate.
APPROVED-Twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
DAVID R. PORTER.

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Page 546. No. 361.
An Act to authorize George Schmucker and others, trustees, to sell and convey
certain real estate.

SECTION 2. That Jacob Sherk, trustee, named in the deed of trust to him given
by Peter Sherk and wife, for seventy-three perches of land for a meeting house,
in said deed of trust mentioned, stuate in East Hanover township, Lebanon
county, commonly known as Sherk's meetng house, be and he is hereby authorized
and directed, for such consderaton as he may deem sufficient, to grant,
bargan, sell and fully and amply convey unto Jacob Albert, Henry Nedig
and George Baumgartner, and their successors forever, in trust, and for the use
of those christians worshiping there, by and under the name of "Die Vierengte
Brüder in Cristo," or "The United Brethren in Christ," all that the said
seventy-three perches of land, with the meetng house, buildings and
appurtenances thereunto belonging, to have and to hold the said seventy-three
perches of land, with the meetng house, buldings and appurtenances thereunto
belonging, unto the said Jacob Albert, Henry Nedig and George Baumgartner,
trustees aforesaid, and to their successors, to be chosen by the members of
said denomination of christians worshiping there, according to their customs
and general usages forever, excepting and reserving to those mentioned in said
deed of trust, all the irghts and privleges therein reserved unto them.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate.
APPROVED-The thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
DAVID R. PORTER.

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Page 696. No. 27.
Resoluton.
To legalize the election of school directors in North Lebanon township, Lebanon
county.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania in General Assembly met,  That the election of six persons for
school directors in the township of North Lebanon, in Lebanon county, held on
the fifteenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and
forty-four, under and by virtue of this act of the thirteenth of June, one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, shall not be adjudged invald on account
of any informality in the same, by that the said election shall be and is hereby
confirmed, and held as good and valid, to all intents and purposes, under the
said act.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate.
APPROVED-Twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
DAVID R. PORTER.

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"Laws of the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania, Passed at the
Session of 1845, in the Sixty-Ninth Year of Independence." Published by
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Page 2. No 379.
An act to annul the marriage contract of Paul Christian Peiffer, and Catharine
Ritter, alias Catharne Brobson, of the county of Lebanon.

WHEREAS, Paul Christian Peiffer and Catharine Ritter were married in the county
of Lebanon on the - day of - Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-three, at which time the said Catharine was the wife of - Brobson, who is
still in full life; 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 marriage contract entered into between
Paul Christian Peiffer and Catharine Ritter, alas Catharine Brobson, be and
the same is hereby declared null and void, and the parties discharged from all
the oblgations and liabilites growing out of the same, as fully and
absolutely as if they had never been joined in marriage.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WILLIAM P. WILSOX, Speaker of the Senate.

We do certify that the bill, entitled "An Act to annul the marriage contract
of Paul Christian Peiffer and Catharine Ritter, alas Catharine Brobson, of the
county of Lebanon," was presented to the governor near the close of the session
of one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and was not returned within three
days, (Sundays excepted,) after it had been presented to him; wherefore, it
has, agreeably to the constitution of this commonwealth, become a law in like
manner as if he had signed it.

WILLIAM JACK, Clerk of the House of Representatives.
E. S. GOODRICH, Clerk of the Senate.

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Page 149. No 104.
An Act regulating election districts.

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, ...

SECTION 50. That the qualified voters of the township of North Lebanon, in the
county of Lebanon, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at
the brick school house, in the town of North Lebanon, in said township.

FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate.
APPROVED-The fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-fve.
FRS. R. SHUNK.

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Page 162. No. 109.
An Act to enable the executors of Wendel Hibschman, deceased, to sell and convey
certain real estate.

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 John Bassler and Leonard Strickler, jr.,
executors of the last will and testament of Wendel Hibshman, late of the county
of Lebanon, dec'd., be and they are hereby authorized to sell, either at public
or private sale, and to convey in fee simple, all the right, title and interest
of the said Wendel Hibshman, deceased, at the time of his death, of, in and to
any lands, tenements or heredtaments, situate within the said county of
Lebanon; and to make and execute to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, good
and sufficient conveyances and assurances in law for the same, which said
conveyances and assurances, shall vest in such purchaser or purchasers, all
the estate, right, title and interest in law and equity, which the said Wendel
Hibshman at, and immediately before his death, had, and held in the same, as
fully and completely, and with like effect, as if the said conveyances and
assurances had been made and executed by the said Wendel Hibshman, in his
lifetime: Provided,  That before any deed of conveyance shall be executed for
the same, the said executors shall report the sale to the orphans' court, of
the county of Lebanon, to be there approved by the said court, if in their
opiinon the same is benefical to the interest of the estate of the said
deceased: And provided further,  That the sale shall not be confirmed, until
the said executors shall have filed in the office of the clerk of the orphans'
court of the said county, a bond in the usual form, with sufficient security,
to be approved by the said court, for the faithful appropriation of the
proceeds of such sale, in such manner as the said court shall direct.

FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate.
APPROVED-The seventeenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-fve.
FRS. R. SHUNK.

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Page 193. No. 131.
An Act to confer on certain persons all the rights and privileges of children
born in lawful wedlock.

SECTION 4. That Sarah Ann Saylor, John Henry Saylor, illegtmate children of
Robert Saylor, of the township of Annville, in the county of Lebanon, shall
have and enjoy all the rights and privileges of children born in lawful
wedlock; and shall be able and capable in law to inhert and transmit any
estate whatsoever, as fully and completely, to all intents and purposes, as if
they had been born in lawful wedlock.

FNDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate.
APPROVED-The twenteth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-fve.
FRS. R. SHUNK.

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Page 211. No 148.
An Act conferring certain powers on the guardians of Samuel H. Keller and
Richard L. Ewalt, minors, and for other purposes.

SECTION 3. That Samuel Becker, of Mill Creek township, Lebanon county, be and
he is hereby authorized to sell, at public sale, and to convey in fee simple,
all the right, title and interest of Henry Schram, late of Heidelberg township,
in said county, deceased, at the time of his death, of, in and to any lands,
tenements or heredtaments, stuate within the said county of Lebanon; and to
make and execute to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, good and sufficient
conveyances and assurances in law for the same, which said conveyances and
assurances shall vest in such purchaser or puchasers, all the estate,
right, title and interest in law and equity, which the said Henry Schram, at,
and immediately before his death had, and held in the same, as fully and
completely, and with like effect, as if the said conveyances and assurances had
been made and executed by the said Henry Schram, in his lifetime: Provided, 
That before any deed of conveyance shall be executed for the same, the said
Samuel Becker shall file in the office of the clerk of the orphans' court of
the said county, a bond, in the usual form, with sufficient security, to be
approved by the said court, for the faithful appropriation of the proceeds of
such sale, in such manner as the said court shall direct.

FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate.
APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-fve.
FRS. R. SHUNK.
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