SOUTH CAROLINA.-A resolution was passed, disapproving of the or dinance, &c. of the state of South Carolina, approving the principles contained in the proclamation of the president, &c. STATE TAX.-An act was passed to raise, by a state tax, the sum of $40,000, for the year 1833. EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT. The appropriation bill gives to the governor, for the current year, a salary of $2,000; the chief justice $1,200; the two associate justices, each $1,100; the state treasurer $1000; the law reporter and chancery reporter, each $200; the attorney-general $80; the quartermaster general $100; the adjutantgeneral $100; the vice-president of council, and the speaker of the house are each allowed $350; and the members of either house $3 a day during the sitting of the legis lature, and $3 for every twenty miles travel in going to and returning from the seat of government. The clerks of the two houses are also each allowed $3 a day, 8 cents for writing every 100 words in the records, and for copies to the printThe sergeant-at-arms and the ers. door keepers, are each allowed $2 a day. It is proper to add that the governor receives, being ex-officio chancellor, fees for his chancery duties, and that there are perquisites, though inconsiderable in amount, attached to the duties of the justices of the supreme court. The attorneygeneral also receives fees in all cases of criminal conviction. The legis lature, at the late session, authorized the governor to borrow ten thousand dollars, at 5 per cent. for building a new penitentiary. The following resolution also was passed in the house of assembly, by a vote of thirty-one to fourteen. Be it resolved by the council and general assembly of the state of NewJersey, That our senators be instructed, and our representatives in congress be requested, to use their best endeavours to maintain the present judiciary system of the United States inviolate, to give adequate protection to American industry, to foster and uphold internal improvements, and to vote for and advocate the renewal of the charter of the bank of the United States, with such modifications as may be deemed necessary. Increase of county rates and Premiums on loans Premiums on bank charters Balance in treasury, Nov. 1, 1832 Expenditures-- Internal improvements Expenses of government Militia expenses Pensions and gratuities House of refuge Interest on loans Internal improvement fund 185,177 32 43,685 37 1,746 99 151,419 69 2,539,987 00 335,651 72 102,297 90 5,119 74 4,047,050 62 $2,588,879 13 Conveying fugitives Miscellaneous Defence of the state 3,796,794 48 367,423 30 $4,164,217 78 $151,419 69 ELECTIONS, 1832.-For Governor. 91,235 88,186 PHILADELPHIA. Deaths for 1833- Adults Children Births Males 2341 of certain public lands shall be set This appropriation, however, is but ideal, the whole fund having been expended in internal improve. ment, and the state of education in Pennsylvania is probably far behind that of any of the middle or northern states. 4440 time. Several years ago, it was ascer15 tained that more than half of the 13 children between the ages of five and fifteen, were not in the habit of attending any school; and, according 2099 to the report, the situation of things is not much better at the present A plan is therefore proposed of establishing the several counties as divisions, which are to be subdivided into school districts, under general regulations. Among these, the income of the state school fund is to be divided, on condition that an additional sum shall be raised by assessment within the districts. 3840 7642 COMMON SCHOOLS.-By an act passed by the legislature, and approved by the governor, in April, 1831, it is provided that the proceeds 1832. Dec.The message of Governor Wolf to the legislature, is occupied almost exclusively with the domestic affairs and internal improvements of the state. The loans authorized by the last legislature to be effected in hehalf of the state, for the several sums of $2,348,680, and $300,000 to be applied to the public improvements, were both taken the former at $114 08, and the latter $115 09, for $100 of stock, bearing five per cent. interest, and redeemable after July, 1860. With these funds, twenty-two miles of the Philadelphia and Columbia rail-road were completed with a single track, and a continuous navigation of 171 miles by canal and slack wa ter navigation was opened from Columbia to Hollidaysburg, in Huntingdon county, on the eastern division of the Pennsylvania canal. Seventyone miles of canal, rail-road, and slack water navigation, was the whole amount of work executed during the year, and they make the total extent of internal communication within the state, open and ready for active operations, more than five hundred miles-all made within six years. Such further progress the governor observes has been made, that if the legislature provide the necessary means, 112 miles more of canal and slack water navigation, and 96 miles of rail-road, will be completed within the next session. A single rack upon the Philadelphia and Columbia rail-road, from its present termination to the borough of Columbia-distance 59 miles--may also be finished at the pleasure of the legislature. When those works shall have been completed, Pennsylvania will, and by her own means, have constructed, within seven years, 593 miles of canal and slack water navigation, and 118 miles of rail-road-making an aggregate of 711 miles of internal improvement. LEGISLATION.-At the session of the legislature of Pennsylvania in 1832-33, one hundred and seventyfive acts, and twenty-four resolutions, were passed. APPEALS.-An act was passed to facilitate appeals by guardians from the judgments of justices of the peace, and from the awards of arbitrators. ANNUITIES.-Twenty-two acts were passed granting annuities and gratuities to a number of soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war. BANK.-The Merchants and Manufacturers Bank of Pittsburg was incorporated, with a capital stock of $600,000. BRIDGES.-Six acts were passed in relation to different bridges; six bridge companies were incorporated. BOROUGHS.-Thirteen boroughs were incorporated. CEMETERY. The Philadelphia Cemetery Company was incorporated. CORPORATIONS.-The service of any civil process upon the tollgatherer of any corporation, in the proper county, and next to the place where the damage or damages shall have been committed, shall be as good and valid in law, as if served on the president, or other principal officer of any corporation; but where a suit shall be commenced, and the process served on the toll-gatherer, it shall be the duty of the plaintiff to cause reasonable notice to be given to some one of the officers of the company aforesaid, of the commencement of any such suit, before trial and final judgment. When information shall be given to the auditor-general, that any lands in this state have been purcha sed by any incorporated company, in its corporate capacity, or in the name of trustees or feotees, for its use, without the license of this commonwealth, or have come into their possession by any manner or device whatever, he shall proceed to appoint a deputy escheator, who shall forthwith hold an inquest, in the manner prescribed by existing laws relative to escheats, and the deputy escheator and all other officers and persons concerned shall have like powers, be entitled to like fees, and be subject to the same restrictions and liabilities, as is provided in the case of the escheat of the lands of an individual, for the want of heirs or known kindred. If any such associations, now engaged in mining, shall discontinue all their operations, under their several acts of incorporation, within one year, then and in that case, the commonwealth does hereby release to the individuals composing said associations, according to their respective interests, all the right, title, and interest which the commonwealth has acquired to the real estate of said associations, respectively, in pursuance of the laws and statutes relative to mortmain. The Delaware Coal Company, and the North American Coal Company were authorized to continue their operations, with the powers, and subject to the liabilities of corporations created in this state, on the lands now held by them, under their respective charters, for a period of three years, before or at the end of which period they shall dispose of their lands. COAL COMPANIES.-An act was passed to incorporate the Lycoming Coal Company; the capital is not to exceed $500,000. The Delaware Coal Company, and the North American Coal Company, are vested with the same corporate powers and privileges as those granted to the Lycoming Coal Company, for five years; and they are authorized respectively to create a capital stock not exceeding $300,000; but these powers are to cease unless they relinquish the charters obtained from other states. COURTS.-In all cases where letters rogatory shall be issued out of any court of any territory or state of the Union, requesting any court of common pleas in this state to afford its aid in the examination of any witnesses within the limits of its jurisdiction, such court of common pleas may issue subpoenas to such witnesses, requiring their attendance either before such court of common pleas, or before commissioners, under a penalty not exceeding $100; in case of the non-attendance of any such witness, process of attachment may be issued; and any party injured by such non-attendance, shall be entitled to the same remedies at law against the person subpœnaed, as are provided where a subpoena is issued from a court of record of this state in a case pending therein; if any person subpoenaed refuse to testify, he shall be liable to the same proceedings on the part of such court of common pleas, as if he had refused to testify in a case pending in any court of record of this state. DEBT, IMPRISONMENT FOR.-No person shall be imprisoned for any debt or sum of money due on contract, contracted from and after the 4th of July, 18:33, where the debt demanded, or judgment obtained, is less than $5,34 cents, exclusive of taining numerous provisions as to the descent and distribution of the estates of intestates. FIRE AND HOSE COMPANIES.Eleven fire and hose companies were incorporated. HOSPITALS.-The Philadelphia hospital was incorporated. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT.-The following appropriations were made for the purpose of continuing the improvement of the state by railroads and canals: for the Philadel. phia and Columbia rail-road $1,111,958; for the Allegany Portage rail-road, $414,793; for the Columbia line of the eastern division of the Pennsylvania canal, $35,835; for the Frankstown line, $32,712; for the Wyoming line of the north branch division, $115,202; for the Lycoming line of the west branch division, including the Lewisburg cross cut, $47,007; for the French Creck division, $162,491; and for the Beaver division, $197,159. The governor was authorized to borrow, on the credit of the state, and at a rate of interest not exceeding five per cent. per annum, the sum of $2,540,661, to be applied to the payment of the contracts necessary to be made to complete the works directed to be completed. The sum of $100,000 is appropriated to the construction of feeders, towing paths, guard locks, weigh locks, bridges, &c., and other necessary works on old lines of canal; the sum of $100,000 to the payment of claims for damages against the state, arising out of the construction of canals and rail-roads; the sum of $300,000 to the pay. ment of the expenses of repairs on canals and rail-roads; and the sum of $30,000 to the construction of certain works on the river Susquehanna. The governor was authori zed to borrow the sum of $530,000 for these purposes. The governor was authorized, for the purpose of aiding the Union Canal Company, to subscribe on behalf of the state, for 1000 shares of the stock of the company; for the payment of which subscription, he is to issue to the company a certificate of loan for $200,000, bearing an interest of four and a half per cent.; the principal redeemable after April 10, 1863. The following rail-road companies were incorporated: The Wyoming and Lehigh Railroad Company; capital not to exceed $600,000. The Philadelphia and Reading Rail-road Company. The Morristown and Mount Carbon Rail-road Company; capital not to exceed $2,000,000. The Susquehanna Rail-road Company; capital not to exceed $2,000,000. A large number of acts were passed in relation to the construction and alteration of state roads, &c. Acts were also passed for the incorporation of fourteen turnpike road companies. Two free road companies were incorporated. INSURANCE COMPANIES. -The Chambersburg Insurance Company was incorporated, with a capital of $50,000. By the same act the trus tees of the Fire Association of Philadelphia were incorporated. LANDS. A resolution was passed, declaring that the proceeds of the public lands of the United States, when no longer required for the payment of the public debt, ought to be distributed among the several states of the Union, in just and equitable proportions. LOTTERIES. -From and after Dec. 1, 1833, all and every lottery |
