The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-05-10
The General Appropriation Bill.

gislature, but its great length forbids its ap-
pearance in our columns this week. We shall
however, proceed TO Gull therefrom all the
items that may be of interest 10 our readers.
1t is very large, amounting to four millions
four hundred and seventy -one thousand seven
hundred and ninety four dollars and twenty.
four cents, and provides for most of the wants
of the State. the pay ment of the domestic cred
itors and the interest on the funded debt.
For the payment of the domestic creditors on
the Allegheny Portage R abroad forty-two
thousand two hundred and forty-f -four dollars
and fifty-eigh. cents are appropriated. To the
creditors of the Upper Juniata Division thirty
thousand nine hundred and twenty-one dolla RS
and eighty-six cents, and to the creditors on
the Upper Western Division ten thousand two
cents.
For repairs and improvements of the canals
and railroads belonging to the State, including
the amount necessary for the purchase of new
rails for the Philadelphia and Columbia and
Allegheny Portage Railroads, from the fir st of
December 1S4S TO the first Of December 1S49,
one hun cred and ninety four thousand four
hundred dollars, in addition to the sum of
twenty thousand in the Treasury on the first
December ls4s, and also in addition to the
sum Of seventy thousand appropriated in Feb
ruary last, making in all two hundred and
eighty four thousand four hundred dollars
Out of this sum thirty two thou sand two hum
dEed dollars Is given to the Portage Road;
twenty-Ihree thousand three hundred to the
Upper Junata Division, and twenty seven
thousand elk hundred and sixty.three dollars
to the Upper Western Division.
For ordinary repairs eff the canals and rail-
roads from and after the first day of December
next, one hundred and twelve thousand one
hundred dollars are appropriated.
For motive power expenses and repairs of
the Portage Road one hundred and ninety-six
thousand dollars. Included in this amount is
the sum necessary for the purchase of two new
passenger cara and two new locomotive en-
gines,
For the support of Common Schools tw o
hundred thousand dollars.
The following ctions. pointing out the du-
ty of Superintendents and Supervisors, and au-
thorizing the Canal Commissioners to increase
the bonds of these officers SO as to allow them
to draw funds in sufficient amounts to enable
them to pay off the old debts and keep pace
with inc reasing business and expenses of the
public improvements, we give entire:
Sec. 5. That from and after the pas
sage of this act, it shall be the duty of the
Supervisors of the several divisions of the
canal, to pay monthly to the lock-tenders
the amount that they, the said lock-tenders
are respectively entitled to receive, the ac-
counts for which to be settled by the Au-
ditor General and State Treasurer, as other
accounts of Supervisors for disbursements
are now settled.
Sec. 6. That it shall be the duty of the
several Superintendants and Supervisors
on the railroads and canals to pay the men
employed in their respective departments
at the end of each month, if funds can be
obtained for that purpose, and that it shall
not be lawful for any foreman on said ca
mails or railroads to procure the receipt on
any checkroll or bill by any laborer, me-
chanic or material man, or any person
having contracts in any way before such
laborer, mechanic or material man, or any
person having contracts under the Com
monwealth on said railroads or canals, is
paid on said check-rolls or bills, which
check-roiis or bills shall be made out in
full by the respective Foreman Superin-
tendants or Supervisors, and any violation
OF this section, or any part of it, shall be
deemed a misdemeanor in office by the
persons who shall be guilty of the same.
Sect. The Canal Commissioners are
hereby empowered in such cases as they
may deem necessary 10 increase the pen
atty of the bonds of Supervisors on the
canals and railroads of the Commonwealth
to ten thousand dollars: Provided, That
no Supervisor whose bonds shall be thus
increased, shall be allowed at any one
time to have more than ,en thousand dol
lars in his hands unaccounted for, find
|prouided further, That the said Canal
Commissioners shall not permit any Su-
pervisor to draw for funds unless the same
be required for the immediate use of his
line.
Provision is also made for the re- issue of
the re lief notes by the banks in denomination
and character corresponding with the original
issues, and not exceeding the amount now re-
naming uncancelled.
The cities of Piitsburg and Allegheny are
authorized to levy upon all property taxable
for city purposes, an additional tar of one
mill to the dollar, to be applied to the redemp.
tion of the city scrip now IN circulation, which
is to remain in force until all the scrip is re.
deemed ef-r ~ ftsak