The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30
COVERS THE SCALP LEVEL CASE.
Boroughs From Several Counties.


ough when the territory 10 be included
in the same is Situated In two or more
counties, passed both House of the State
Legislature Thursday and viii probably
become law. II is as follows:
Section l. BE il enacted by the Senate
aud House of Representatives OF the
Comm onwealth of Pennsylvania i'm GEN
cral Assembly met. aud il is hereby en-
acted by the authority of the same, That
upon the petition of a majority of the tax
able inhabitants Of any described terri
tory embracing any town or towns, VIII
lage or villages. borough or boroughs, or
any or all OF them, situate in two or more
counties in this Commonwealth, to the
Courts of Quarter Sessions of the Peace
of each II the counties in which said
described territory may be situate, ex-
pressing desire to have said territory
incorporated into a borough. it shall be
the duty cf each of the said courts TO ap-
point one Commissioner, who, when ap-
pointed, shall select another person, who
shall be a surveyor. to view the territory
sought TO be so erected into borough or
consolidated into single borough, and
the said Commissioners are hereby an-
thorized and empowered to hold an cleo
tion for the purpose of aseertaining aud
determining whether a IN ijOrity of the
qualified electors residing within the
limits OF the proposed borough desire:
First, the incorporation thereof; second,
to which of the respective counties the
borough shall be annexed in case ii be
finally determined TO incorporate the
same.
Sec. , The Commissioners aforesaid,
within thirty days after their appoint
ment and selection, and after being
sworn or affirmed, ha, ing given at least
ten days notice by means of ten written
or printed notices of the time and place OF
meeting, shall view the territory COM
Prised within the limits of the proposed
borough, and shall also give at least ten
days notice by ten written or printed
notices designating the time and place
within the said territory OF the purpose
of holding said election, which election
shall be held between the hours of |
- NAbNh BO,t " CAbtk Bo>l
meridian of said day. IT. receiving and
counting and in making returns Of the
votes east at said election the said Com
missioners shall be governed by
the laws of this Commonwealth regulat-
ing municipal elections, and it shall lie
the duty of the said Commissioners to re-
ceive and count all tickets. either written
or printed, from electors qualified under
the Constitution of this State 10 vote, re-
siding within the limits of said territory,
labeled on the outside, Incorporation"
and containing on the inside either the
neNed TO - county," the voter
writing therein the name of the county to
which he prefers having the proposed
borough annexed, or the words, Against
incorporation"
All the penalties for the violations of
the aforesaid laws regulating municipal
elections of this CoinmOnwe ealih are here
by extended to all elections held under
the provisions of this Act. and the said
Commissioners shall at the next term of
the respective courts make reports, and
the said reports shall state partictl-
iarly: First, that they were all
present at the view: second, that they
were severally sworn or affirmed; third,
the result of the election held by them in
pursuance Of the prov isions Of this Act.
They shall also annex and return with
their reports to each of the courts a plot
or draft of the territory embraced within
the limits nf the proposed borough, stat
ing the courses and distances and the
quantity of land therein contained, and
also showing the proportion OF the guam
tity of land included from each county.
Sec. 3. If the courts shall find that the
provisions of this Act have been COM
piled with, and it appears that the ma
Jority of the qualified electors residing
within the limits of the proposed bor-
ough are in favor of the incorporation
thereof, and have indicated the paI ticu-
lar county to which the same shall he
annexed, the said courts shall each ap-
prove the report of the Commissioners,
and the whole proceedings shall be en-
tered on record in each county, aud the
court of the county to which said bor-
ough is annexed shall enter decree in
the form and in the manner now prescrib-
ed by law in relation To the erection of
bOrOughs, aud the same shall thenceforth
and thereafter be a borough, subject to
the laws now in force regulating the
same.
Sec. 4. The Commissioners aforesaid
shall each receive s. per day for each and
every day necessarily employed in the
discharge of their duties, to be paid by
said borough in case the same is
incorporated; but in case the
report should be against Incorporation of
the said borough, or should not be ap-
proved 10y the courts, then the costs to be
na,l bY the nefifioners