Managers to supply vacan cies. How process may be served on Arbon coal company. SECTION 2. That it shall be lawful for the board of managers of said company to fill all vacancies occurring in said board by death or resignation, until the next succeeding annual election. SECTION 3. That the eighth section of an act entitled "An Act to authorize John Prall to sell and convey certain real estate in Bucks county," passed the twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, is hereby extended to the service of process on the Arbon Coal Company, in the county of Tioga. APPROVED-The twenty-fourth day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 10. A SUPPLEMENT To the act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Equitable Life Insurance Company," passed the twenty-eighth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said the Equitable Life Insurance Company, in addition to the Additional pow- privileges heretofore granted, shall have and enjoy all the powers coners granted to ferred on or exercised by the Delaware Mutual Safety Insurance Comthe Equitable pany and the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, Life Insurance and to make, execute, and perfect such and so many contracts, barcompany. gains, agreements, policies, and other instruments as may be necessary in the prosecution of the business of the said corporation, and as the nature of the case may require; and every such contract, bargain, agreement, and policy, to be made by said corporation, shall be in writing or in print, and shall be under the seal of the said corporation, attested and countersigned by the Secretary, or other officers who may have been appointed by the president and trustees for that purpose; that the name of the said the Equitable Life Insurance Company, in the said title mentioned, be, and is hereby changed to that of the Equitable Mutual Insurance Company, and the said company shall be hereafter known by the latter name as effectually for all purposes as if so named in the original act of incorporation. Change of name. Duty of President or Secretary to call a meeting of stockholders and those holding policies. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the president or secretary, within thirty days after the passage of this act, to call a meeting of the stockholders and those holding policies of said company, giving at least ten days' notice by advertisement in two daily newspapers of the city of Philadelphia, and at such meeting to submit to them the provisions of. this act, and if a majority of those present (voting as in elections, as provided for by the charter of the said company) shall assent to the provisions of this act, they shall sign a certificate thereof, and send it to be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and the provisions of this act shall then become a part of the charter of the company, the name of which shall thereafter be the Equitable Mutual 'Insurance Company. SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the trustees, at all times, to keep Duty of Trusinvested separate and apart so much of the present capital stock and tees in relation assets of the said company as shall be sufficient to pay and fully satisfy to claims against all claims now outstanding against said company, whether by policy or the company. otherwise. SECTION 4. That so much of any act or acts of Assembly as are Repeal. hereby altered or supplied, be, and the same are hereby repealed. JOHN S. RHEY, APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 11. AN ACT To authorize the commissioners of the county of Clarion to settle the account of Richard Wilson, deceased, for the erection of a bridge over the river Clarion, near the mouth of Little Toby Creek, in the county of Clarion, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the commissioners of Clarion county be, and they are hereby authorized Commissioners and required to settle the account of Richard Wilson, deceased, within of Clarion counsixty days after the passage of this act, for erecting a bridge over the ty authorized to Clarion river, near the mouth of Little Toby's creek, in Clarion county, settle the acand to draw their orders on the treasurer of said county in favor of Elizabeth Wilson, the wife, or widow, of said Wilson, deceased, for the ceased. balance due the estate of said Wilson, deceased: Provided, The same does not exceed the sum of two hundred dollars. count of Richard Wilson, de commissioners SECTION 2. That Wilson S. Packer, Isaac Jones, Hugh Maguire, Accounts of Isaac Clover, and J. W. Guthrie, appointed commissioners to erect aand contractors bridge over the Clarion river, in Clarion county, near the mouth of for the erection Mill creek, by an act of Assembly, dated March eighteenth, one thou- of a bridge over sand eight hundred and forty-eight, be, and they are hereby required Clarion river to be settled by (or a majority of them) to submit their accounts with Thomas Hall and John Fitzimmons, contractors for the erection and completion of sioners. county, commis Accounts of Thomas Hall and John Fitz immons with said bridge, to the commissioners of Clarion, county, within twenty days after the passage of this act. SECTION 3. That the commissioners of Clarion county aforesaid, are hereby authorized and required to settle the accounts of Thomas Hall and John Fitzimmons, contractors as aforesaid with the bridge commissioners aforesaid, and to ascertain the amount due the said Hall and bridge commis- Fitzimmons, after deducting what has been received by subscription settled by com- on their contract, and to settle and adjust the same within thirty days missioners of after the passage of this act; and the said county commissioners are Clarion county. hereby authorized and required to draw their orders for the balance due sioners to be (provided the same does not exceed eleven hundred dollars) on the treasurer of Clarion county, in favor of Hugh Maguire, treasurer of said bridge commissioners, in such sums as the said bridge commissioners may direct; and the treasurer of Clarion county aforesaid is hereby authorized and required to pay the amount of said orders out of any money in his hands of said county. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. Preamble. No. 12. AN ACT Confirming a certain power of attorney to George Morris Kne vitt. WHEREAS, a power of attorney was given by John Munton, Thomas Draper, and John North Wilkins, trustees under the wills and codicils of Thomas Cobb and Timothy Cobb, formerly of England, to George Morris Knevitt, to sell and convey certain real estate within this Commonwealth, which was sealed and signed partly in the presence of Edward Cobb, mayor of Banbury, and partly in the presence of Thomas Rolls, mayor of Chipping Norton, and the official character of said mayors were certified by the consul of the United States at London, under the hand of the said consul, and the official seal of the consulate, and which said power of attorney is dated the ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly Power of attor. met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the ney and the re- said power of attorney, and the recitals therein, shall be deemed and citals therein, adjudged good and sufficient evidence in any court of this Commonconstituted evi- wealth, and shall in like manner be entitled to be recorded as if the Court of this same had been acknowledged by the parties thereto before some judge Commonwealth. of a court or justice of the peace within this Commonwealth, and that dence in any extracts from the registry of the prerogative court of Canterbury of the wills and codicils in the said power of attorney recited, signed by the deputy registers, and certified by the consul at London, under the seal of the said consulate, shall be entitled to be read in evidence in any court of this Commonwealth, and be recorded in the proper recorder's office as evidence of title. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The twenty-seventh day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 13. AN ACT Relative to certain real estate in Locust street, Philadelphia, formerly the property of Job Bacon. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so much of the statutes of mortmain, and of any other disabling laws as Property formight render voidable or invalidate the title to a lot of ground situate merly of Job on the south side of Locust street, at the distance of sixty-six feet west Bacon, exempof Schuylkill Seventh street, containing in front, on said Locust street, operation of one hundred and thirty-two feet, and in depth one hundred and thirty the statutes of feet, to Latimer street, be, and the same are hereby waived and dis- mortmain. pensed with, so far as this waiver or dispensation by the Commonwealth be requisite, in order to confirm or establish any conveyance or assurance thereof to or by the American fire insurance company. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of January, A. D., one thousand ted from the eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. 16 No. 14. AN ACT To revive and extend the act entitled "An Act to graduate lands on which money is due and unpaid to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," passed the tenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Act of April all the provisions of the act entitled "An Act to graduate lands on which 1835 estended. the money is due and unpaid to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," passed the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyfive, shall be, and the same are hereby revived and continued until the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and no longer. Time for patenting lots in SECTION 2. That the time for patenting the in-lots and out-lots in the towns of Erie, Waterford, Beaver, Franklin, and Warren, authorized to be appraised by the fifth section of the act entitled "An Act empowering the Burgess and Town Council of the borough of Erie to Erie &c. exten- borrow money and to supply the said borough with water, and for other purposes," passed the thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight be, and the same is hereby revived and extended until the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fiftythree, and no longer. ded JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. Corporators. No. 15. AN ACT To incorporate the Saint Joseph's College, in the city of Philadelphia. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That James Ryder, Felix J. Barbelin, Augustus Bally, John Keating, James M. Smith, William E. Horner, and Mark A. Frenaye, and their successors, |