Excerpt from Laws of General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Passed at the Session of 1845, in the Sixty-Ninth Year of Independence A supplement to the act, entitled An Act laying a tax on dogs in the borough of West Chester, and certain townships in the county of Chester, and for other purposes, passed April fourteenth, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-six, An Act declaring the West Branch of Clarion river, in the county of Elk, a public highway, An Act for the relief of certain devisees under the will of George Pepper, deceased, An Act relative to the estate of Thomas B. Coleman, deceased, An Act to alter the times for holding the criminal court in the city and county of Philadelphia, and for regulating the proceedings of said court, and for other purposes, An Act to enable the executors and administrators of decedents to perfect title to real estate in certain cases, An Act to provide for extraordinary repairs upon the canals and railroads of this commonwealth, and to place the same in order for navigation and transportation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.