The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-07

SECTION 1. BE IL enacted by Lhe Senate
and House Of Representatives of the
Commonwealth Of Pennsylpania IN oen.
erdt Assembly met, and Il is hereby en-.
acted BY The authority of The same, That
any application for the incorporation of
borough under tho general borough
acts OF first OF April, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty.four, and third of
April, one thousand eight hundred and
hfty.one, shall be laid before the grand
jury at the same term of court when
presented, whenever the same can be
conveniently done, and in no case later
tnan the next subsequent term of the
court, and shall be signed by the pc.
titioners whose names are attached
thereto within the three months imme-
dtately preceding its presentation to
the court, and public notice of the in.
tended application for borough charter
shall be given In at least one newspaper
OF the proper county, for q period of not
less than thirty days, Immediately
before the petition shall be presented.
The foregoing regulations shall also
apply to any appllcatiin to a court OF
competent Jurisdiction under the said
acts, or either OF them, for a change of
borough limits, or to annul or alter a
borough charter, or to bring borough
created or regulated by special laws
under the operation of the afore-
said act of third of April, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty.one.
SEC. 2 The number of members of
any town council of borough, where
be hereafter six, and in boroughs here
after incorporated under general laws
the number of such councilmen shall be
six, but the several courts of the Com.
monwealth having Jurisdiction to in
corporate boroughs, may, In granting
an incorporation, or upon application
made to them for the purpose, fix or
change the charter of any borough, so
as to authorize the burgess or chief ex.
ecutive officer thereof to serve as mem
ber of the town council, with full pow
ers as such, and to preside at the meet
ings thereof.
SEC. 8. In elections for members for
town councils each voter may at his
option bestow his votes singly upon six
candidates, or ctmulate them upon any
less number in the manner authorized
by the fourth section of the act to de-
fine the limits and to organize the town
OF Bloomsburg, approved March fourth,
one thousand eight hundred and seven :
ty, and vacancies in any such council
shall be filed in the manner provided
In the fifth section of the same act, but
nothing herein contained shall be held
to regulate or affect the manner of
choosing the burgess or other principal
executive officer of borough, even
when he shall be authorized to serve as
a member of the town council.
SEC. Whenever the borough au-
thorities shall extend the limits of such
borough under this act, they shall file
plan or plot of such extension in the
office of the court of quarter sessions of
the proper county, and notice thereof
shall be published in at least two of the
newspapers published in the county,
and any citizen of the borough or ofthe
territory annexed shall have the right
to appeal from the ordinance of the
town council annexing such territory,
to the court of quarter sessions of said
county, within thirty days of the filing
of such plan or plot.