nt Assembly met^ and it is hereby enacted by the nuthxyrily of 

 the same, That the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of 

 Agriculture, shall receive annually from the county commis- 

 sioners of Philadelphia county, out of the county tax assessed 

 on the city and county of Philadelphia, the sum of fifty dollars 

 for every member which the freemen of the said city and coun- 

 ty are or shall be respectiv^ely entitled to elect to the house of 

 i'epresentatives of this commonwealth for the purposes desig- 

 nated in the act entitled " An Act for the Promotion of Agri- 

 culture and Domestic Manufactures," and the said sums shall be 

 paid to the Treasurer of the said Philadelphia Society, and noth- 

 ing contained in the said act to which this is a supplement, shall 

 be construed to alter or abolish the organisation of the said 

 Philadelphia Society as at present incorporated, but all things 

 directed by the said act to be done and performed in relation 

 to the receipts, expenditures and application of the moneys di- 

 rected to be paid to the Treasurer thereof, or any matters or 

 things required consistently with the rules and regulations of 

 the said Society as at present incorporated, shall be so done 

 and performed by the officers, committees or persons appoint- 

 ed by the said Society, agreeably to its present organisation, 

 by-laws and rules, as fully and effectually as if done and per- 

 formed by the Directors and other officers of Societies estab- 

 lished by virtue of the act to which this is a supplement. 



Passed SQth March, 1821. 



No. 77. 



A Supplement to the Act entitled " An Act to Incorporate 

 the Middleport and Pine Creek Rail Road Company," and for 

 other purposes. 



Section 15. That the charter of the Philadelphia Society 

 for Promoting Agriculture, shall be and tlie same is herel^y ex- 

 tended and continued in force for the term of twenty years 

 from the twenty-seventh day of March, Anno Domini one thou- 

 sand eight hundred and thirty-nine. 



Approved— 77i€ IGth day of April, 1838. 



A Supplement to an act entitled " An Act for the organisa- 

 tion of a new County from parts of Venango and Armstrong, 



