Year: 1861

tural mineral and industrial products an


other property passing over aud rsilroa


canal or slackuater navigation in tbi


CommoDwealtb from the payment of ton


mage tax or duty to the State.


Therefore


SECTION l. BE 1t enacted by the Senat


and House Of Representatives Of the Com


naonweaM Of Pennsylvania IN Genera


assembly met and it as hereby enactd b.


the authority Of the same Thatif major


ity of the directors of the Psnnsylvapii


railroad company who for the purpose


Of this act are hereby vested with al


needful authority shall at a meeting call


ed for that purpose resolve to accept the


provisions of this act and shall authorize


the execution OF written contract under
its corporate seal with the Com monwealtt
of Pennsylvania to pay into the State
Treasury on account Of its indebtedness.
TO the Commonwealth by reason of the
purchase Of the main line of the public
works on the thirty first days of January
aud July in every year until the thirty
first of july eighteen hundred and Dipe-
ty inclusive such sum in addition to the
interest on its bonds owned by the State
aud in addition to its annual liability to
the State on account Of purchase money
for said line of Improvements as will iu-
crease each semi payment on &C.
count Of said debt and interest to the sun
of two hundred and thirty thousand dol
lars (Sk30. .0o0) and the aggregate of all
such payments to the sum of thirteen mil
lions five hundred and seventy thousand
dollars (si3.570.0o0) and shall sgree to
pay on the said thirty first day of July
one thousand eight hundred aud ninety
into the Treasury the balance then unpaid
Of the principal and intere-t of said bonds
and shall further agree to reduce its To-
cal charges for the tramp portation OF grain
-four cattle iron minerals and other prop
erty as hereinafter provided and if the
ssid company shall in the manner afore:
said or or before the first day OF July
next make aud euter into With the Com
nonweaitb of Pennsy ylEania a written con
.rsct to that effect and shall on or before
laid day deliver up the same to the
Commonwealth by depositine the same


o the Office of the Auditor General then
aud iu such case aud in consideration


hereof the Commonwealth oil PeDnsylva
1ia shall not at any tine hereafter lay


npose levy or collect any tax or duty
lpon or iD respect to freight or tonnage
passing over the said Pennsylvania rail
-oad or the Harrisburg Portsmouth
Mount Joy and Lancaster railroad or
,Dy psrt Of them or either of them unless
/ like tax shall at the same time be i'm
,osed laid or levied upon all other rail
'oads or railroad companies OF this Com
nonwealth and all Laws imposing tax or
iuties opon freight or tonnage upon the
-ailroads canals or slack water navigation
for the use of the Common
wealth be and they are hereby repealed
ind DO further or other proceedings shall
De bad or taken on the part of the Com
DoDweath to enforce the collection of
my tax or duty or obi cation given there
or or judgment recovered or obtained in
pursuance of any existing laws on ton
lage carried or conveyed on the railroad
4 said Penn ylvsnia railroad company
'r on that OF any other company incorpo


sted by tbi- State and the said comps
lies shall be by the proper officers of the
exonerated released and
elieved from every lien and liability to
be State on account thereof.


SECTION That from and. after the
,ssssse Of this act all railroad canal and
lack water navigation companies incoE-
,orated By this State and liable for the
of taxes or duties on tonnage
imposed by any laws heretofore enacted


ball make a reduction of their charges
or transportation on their local freight
rs fixed by their respective toll sheet- on


be 6r.t day of February one thousand
light hundred and sixty one equal to the
uIl amount of the tax or duty chargeable
lpou such freight or tonnage by the laws
Iioressid the present winter rates be-
ween the frst day of December and the
iret day of May shall be considered as
ixed ct Dincty cents per one hundred
sounds for fret class seventy FIVE cents
,er one hundred pounds for second class
ixty ceDts per one hundred pounds for
bird class and forty cents per one bun
Ired pounds for fourth class Summer


ates between the first DAY of May and
irst day of December in each year shall
,e seVenty-6ve cents per one hundred
pounds for frst class sixty cents per one
,undred pounds for second class fifty cents
yer one hundred pounds for third class


nd forty cents per one hundred pounds
or fourth class on all trade carried be-
ween Philadelphia and Pittsburg and
allure on the part Of either of said CON-
,anies to make such reduction shall rem


Ter the company SO neglected liable to
be Commonwealth for double the amount


# the Tonnage tax heretofore cbargeable


gain.t them upon such trade and every
ucb cowpsny shall within thirty days sf-
er the passage of this act under like
,enalty file 10 the ofise of the Auditor
,aoor.I under the oath of the president