PRINTER'S NO. 1907
No. 1625 Session of 1991
INTRODUCED BY HAYES, OLIVER, R. C. WRIGHT, DONATUCCI, WAMBACH,
STUBAN, DALEY, ARGALL, REINARD, VROON, M. N. WRIGHT, GEORGE,
ANDERSON, LAWLESS, GEIST, CORRIGAN, DEMPSEY, CARLSON, FOSTER,
HALUSKA, CLARK, BLACK, CHADWICK, BELARDI, COY, SALOOM,
ULIANA, NICKOL, SAURMAN, NAILOR, LEE, HERMAN, JOHNSON,
FAIRCHILD, WILSON, NYCE, ALLEN, DENT, McCALL, COLAIZZO,
F. TAYLOR, BELFANTI, STRITTMATTER, KASUNIC, FREIND, HASAY,
JAROLIN, CESSAR, TELEK, HESS, HERSHEY, GLADECK, KING,
S. H. SMITH, MERRY, VANCE, BUNT, TULLI, D. R. WRIGHT, MUNDY,
HANNA, CARONE, CAWLEY, GALLEN, RUDY, LAUGHLIN, FLICK, FEE,
HAGARTY, GRUPPO, SEMMEL, MARSICO, FARMER, ADOLPH, NAHILL,
E. Z. TAYLOR, STAIRS, B. SMITH, TIGUE, MICOZZIE, BROWN,
ROBINSON, COHEN AND STABACK, JUNE 10, 1991
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JUNE 10, 1991
AN ACT
1 Repealing certain obsolete laws relating to rivers.
2 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
3 hereby enacts as follows:
4 Section 1. The following acts and parts of acts are
5 repealed:
6 Act of March 20, 1812 (P.L.136, No.91), entitled "An act to
7 regulate the taking up lumber, in the rivers Susquehanna and
8 Lehigh, and their branches."
9 Act of April 30, 1844 (P.L.551, No.364), entitled "An act to
10 secure the safe navigation of the river Delaware."
11 Act of February 4, 1846 (P.L.30, No.27), entitled "Supplement
12 to an act passed March twenty-ninth, Anno Domini one thousand
1 eight hundred and three, to establish a board of wardens of the
2 port of Philadelphia, and for other purposes."
3 Section 8 of the act of April 20, 1853 (P.L.645, No.361),
4 entitled "An act to incorporate the Washington and Manor
5 Turnpike Road company; legitimating Frank Jones of the city of
6 Philadelphia; relative to the election of Directors of the Poor
7 in Allegheny county; to the Warren County Mutual Insurance
8 company; to the Lackawanna and Susquehanna Railroad; to
9 advertising Lumber drifting upon islands in the Susquehanna
10 river; and relative to Lanes and Alleys in the city of
11 Pittsburg."
12 Act of May 8, 1855 (P.L.529, No.548), entitled "A supplement
13 to an act to regulate the taking up of Lumber, passed March
14 twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and twelve."
15 Act of April 9, 1856 (P.L.292, No.306), entitled "An act
16 relating to Wharves upon the Canals of the Commonwealth."
17 Act of April 14, 1863 (P.L.388, No.383), entitled "An act
18 extending the provisions of the act of March sixth, Anno Domini
19 one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, in regard to floating
20 lumber, to oil and oil barrels, upon the Allegheny, Monongahela
21 and Ohio rivers."
22 Act of April 19, 1864 (P.L.480, No.414), entitled "An act to
23 secure to the owners their lumber, when lost in the Delaware
24 river."
25 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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