Pennsylvania Act 1860-370 — NAVIGATION OF PERSONS ON WESTERN RIVERS - PROTECTION OF

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NAVIGATION OF PERSONS ON WESTERN RIVERS - PROTECTION OF
                 Act of Mar. 30, 1860, P.L. 378, No. 370              Cl. 74
                                  AN ACT

     For the protection of persons navigating the Allegheny and
        Monogahela rivers.

        Section 1.  Lights to be kept burning on bridges over the
     Allegheny, at all hours of the night
        It shall be the duty of all persons, corporations, companies,
     or any other person or persons whatever, having or owning, or
     who may hereafter have or own any bridge, or aqueduct, or any
     other structure spanning the Allegheny river, and resting upon
     piers or other support in said river, at any point or place
     thereon between its confluence with the Monongahela river and
     Warren, Warren County, Pennsylvania, to keep a light or lights
     burning on each pier, at all hours of the night, when the said
     river is in navigable stage for boats or rafts, so that said
     light or lights may be readily seen by persons descending said
     river, at all hours between dark in the evening and daylight in
     the morning.  1860, March 30, P.L. 378, Sec. 1.
        Section 2.  Lights to be kept burning on all bridges over
     Monongahela
        All companies or corporations having or owning, or which may
     hereafter have or own any bridge or other structure spanning the
     Monongahela river, between its confluence with the Allegheny
     river and the Borough of Elizabethtown, in the County of
     Fayette, are hereby required to keep a light or lights burning
     from dark till daylight, throughout the night, on each pier of
     each bridge or structure, so that said light or lights may be
     readily seen at all hours of the night by persons navigating
     said river.  1860, March 30, P.L. 378, Sec. 2.
        Section 3.  Penalty for neglect
        Any person or persons, corporations or company whatever, as
     aforesaid, who shall neglect or refuse to conform to the spirit
     and intent of this act, as contained in the first section,
     shall, for every such omission, neglect or refusal, become
     liable to pay any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars and pay
     all damages that may happen from said refusal or neglect; one-
     half of said fine shall go to the person that shall sue
     therefor, and the other half shall be paid into the school fund
     of this Commonwealth; which suits may be brought in the name of
     the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in any county in which either
     or both ends of such bridge, aqueduct or structure as aforesaid
     may be: Provided, That no suit shall be brought under the
     provisions of this act, after ninety days after the cause of
     action may accrue; and provided further, That nothing contained
     herein shall be so construed as to affect the liabilities of any
     such companies, corporations, person or persons as aforesaid, to
     the owner or owners of said craft, boat or raft, for injuries
     sustained by them, by reason of such bridge, aqueduct, or
     structure as aforesaid under existing law.  1860, March 30, P.L.
     378, Sec. 3.