Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1852-04-17
PENNsYLyASIA LEGISLATURE


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PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE
HARRrspuRc, April 10.
SENATE The following bills were sever
ally considered and passed:
To authorize the Pennsylvania Rail Road
Company TO hold the Poweton estate.
To incorporate the Odd Fellows Widows
and Orphans Asylum.
To incorporate the Westminster Collegiate
Institute.
Mr.. McCaslin read in place further sup
plement TO the act Incorporating the Penn.
sylvania and Ohio Rail Road Company.
The bin 10 incorporate the Broad Noun
tain and Mahonoy Rail Road Company was
taken up and passed finally.
The bill TO incorporate the Cornwall and
PhGnixvie Rail Road Company was also
taken up and passed.
The Senate then took up and non-con-
cured in the amendment Of the House TO
the Senate bill, authorizing the employment
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alleged free negro girl, recently abducted
from Chester county.
The amendment gave the Governor power
TO pay the expenses of counsel, which were
not limited.
The Senate adjourned.
HousE.-The joint resolution in favor of a
Grant of tho ruht;c l,pl, he tho Cnyaruna IN ,
10 aid in the construction of the Erie an d
Sunbury Rail Road, was taken up and pas
sed
The bill ahorizng the publication of the
laws of the State in the newspapers, after be-
| ing debated al some length, on second read
ing was negatived.
The supplement 10 the act Incorporating
the Susquehauua Rail Road was considered
and passed.
Mr.. Rhoads introduced a bill authorizing
the lease Of the public works of the State
to John Snodgrass of Weslmoreand county,
and John w. Geary, of California, for a Pc
riod of fifteen years.
The House then adjourned.
HARRIsBURG, April 10.
! SENATE Mr.. Robertson introduced re-
solution providing for a final ad djounment OF
the Legislature on the 9Th of April.
The bill from the House, appouionng the
State for the election Of members of Con.
gress, was then taken up, and passing Com
mtiee OF the Whole, was reported 10 the
Senate, and then postponed until to-mor-
row.
The bill for the relief Of the heirs of
James Rankin, who was arragned for high
treason on March 9th, 1873, and his proper
ly confscatcd was then taken up on second
reading. The heirs claims $780, as res
tiuiion.
The bill was discussed at much length,
and then postponed.
The bill closing the Trusts created BY the
Bank Of the United States, was then taken
up in order, when the Senate resolved itself
into Committee of the Whole upon il, for the
purpose of general amendment.
Subsequently the bill came up again on
second reading, aud after being discussed
at some length, the Senate adjourned,
HOUSE The general Appropriation Bill
was taken up, being the special order Of
the day.
The claims of Judge Jones and George
M. Strond, for extra pay, were defeated
The salary Of the Judge of the Lancas-
ter District was increased 10 two thousand
dollars.
Two hundred thousand dollars were adj
ded TO The bill, for relaying The North track
of the Columbia Rail Road The bill was
then postponed FOR the present.
A supplement- 10 the act incorporating the
FaImers' Hay and Straw Market Association
passed finally.
WHEN The will becomes duly resigned 10
God, in malthings as well as great ones, all