Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-03-23

Union county, shall be, and the same i.
hereby erected into new county to be
called Snyder, on the conditions hereinaf-
ter expressed.
SEC. 2. That William G. Herrold,
James Madden, Thomas Bower, James Nc
Creight and Isaac d. Boyer are hereby
appointed commissioner, who, or a major
ity Of whom, shall, before the fourth day
of July next, properly ascertain and mark
the division line between the counties Of
Union and Snyder, and also between the
election districts Of Penns, Middlecreek,
Union and Jackson Townships as expressed
in this act, and also to make three plots
or drafts of said division lines, one copy
of which they shall forward to the Secre-
tary of the Commonwealth, and one to
the register and recorder of Union and
Snyder counties respectively and the said
commissioners shall receive the sum Of one
dollar and fifty cents for every day neces-
sarily engaged in running said division
line and in making cut the drafts Of the
same, and for their compensation and for
all necessary aid employed by them in
running said line the commissioners Of
Union county shall forthwith pay by or
1ers on the county treasury.
SEC. 3. That suitable grounds and
buildings, and Jail for county purposes
for said county Of Snyder, and also suita-
BILE grounds, buildings and a Jail for said
county of Union, to be approved by a ma
jority Of the court and grand jurors Of the
respective counties, when prepared, shall
be secured to the said counties without any
cost or tax whatever being imposed upon
the taxablcs of said counties for such ex-
penditures.
SEC. 4. That to secure the conditions
expressed in the third section Of this act,
there be pledged in trust to the judges Of
the courts of Union county on or before
the first day of May next, one or more re-
sponsible bona fde subscriptions of not
less than ten thousand dollars from within
the limits of each county respectively for
the purchase Of grounds and the erection
of buildings as aforesaid fox the counties
of Union and Snyder, said buildings to
be of stone or brick with fire proof roof
and fire proof rooms for records, and that
said subscriptions SO pledged shall be ap-
proved by said judges, and published un-
der their directions in the second week IN
May next, with the names of the sites for
which they are pledged in one newspaper
in Union county and one newspaper in
Snyder county, the second week in the
month Of May next, and that upon such
notice being given, the subscriptions afore-
said shall be transferred to the building
committees provided for such subscriptions
respectively, aud the grounds necessary
with the proper county buildings shall be
proper authorities Of the re- respective G couR: Il
ties on or before the first day Of January,
one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven.
SECTION 5. That upon the completion
of the said pledges in trust for the erection
Of buildings, the subscribers to such
pledges respectively on due notice given
shall elect three persons in each Of the
counties Of Union and Snyder respectively,
who shall constitute the building commit
tees as provided for in the fourth section
Of this act, each subscriber being entitled
to one vote for every ten dollars subscri
bed by him or them towards the said bull
ding fund.
SECTION g. That the subscribers tow
ards the said building fund shall in the
manner prescribed in the foregoing section
cleo. three persons whose duty it shall be
to establish the site for the public build
iugs to be erected in the said counties OF
Union aud Snyder respectively, subject to
the provisions Of the ninth section OF this
bill
SECTION I. That upon securing the
subscriptions specified in the fourth section
of this act, the inhabitants of the said
county of Snyder shall after the first day
of December, one thousand eight hundred
and ffty-6ve, be entitled to and at all
times thereafter have all and singular the
courts, Jurisdictions, offices, rights and prl-
vileges to which the inhabitants OF the
county of Union are now entitled by the
constitution and laws of this Common
wealth, and that the offices hereby provi-
ded for said county shall be filled by the
qualified voters at the general election in
October next.
SECTION 8. That the County Commits
sioners to be elected under the provisions
of this act for the said county OF Snyder,
shall at their FIRST meeting decide by lot
the time each to serve, viz. one for one
year, and the others for two and three
years respectively, and should more than
one Commissioner be elected for the county
of Union their terms shall be decided as
hereinbefore provided for the SAID county
Of Snyder; and the terms Of tic Couniy
Auditors in the said counties respectively
shall be decided in the same manner as
herein before provided for in the case OF
County Commissioners.
SECTION 8. That the persons holding
Offices in the county of Union as heretofore
organized whose residence may fall within
the limits Of the said county OF Union shall
continue to hold their respective offices until
the terms for which they were elected shall
have expired, aud all the vacancies in said
county offices in the county of union,w
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