Duty of Secretary of Internal Affairs, when boundary lines cannot be ascertained

Act 77 of 1889, § 2, under PENNSYLVANIA BOUNDARY LINE MARKER - RELATING TO.

Act 77 of 1889, § 2

Section 2. Duty of Secretary of Internal Affairs, when boundary lines cannot be ascertained

Whenever it shall appear from the reports of the county commissioners on boundary line monuments, that any of said monuments have been mutilated, destroyed or displaced or carried away from their proper location, or whenever it shall appear on satisfactory proof that the location of any of the boundary lines cannot be ascertained by reason of the destruction or misplacement of the monuments which mark the same, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of Internal Affairs to correspond with the proper authorities of other States interested, and he is hereby authorized to act with such parties and represent this Commonwealth in the re-establishment, by survey or otherwise, of said boundary lines, the erection of new monuments, the repairing, resetting or renewing of old ones when found necessary.

That an annual appropriation of fifteen hundred dollars shall be made for the purpose of defraying the expenses of surveying and locating said boundary lines, and for the repairing, resetting and renewing of the monuments that mark the same, which appropriation shall be disbursed, or so much thereof as may be necessary to make effectual the provision of this section, under the supervision of the Secretary of Internal Affairs, who shall in all cases require the presentation of properly verified vouchers and shall cause the same to be filed in the office of the Auditor General: Provided, That the said annual appropriation of fifteen hundred dollars shall cease and terminate on the first day of June, 1891. 1889, May 4, P.L. 81, Sec. 2.