as was supposed, in accordance with the provisions of said act, but in consequence of certain decisions made by the Supreme Court, some doubts are entertained whether said dockets have been kept in strict conformity with said act, as it is important that those holding judgments and other liens, as well as those whose titles rest upon them, should be secure in their rights, and relieved from any doubt as to their legality; therefore,

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 any and all errors and omissions heretofore made by any prothonotary Liens of judgeof the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery county, to transcribe ments not ininto or enter upon the judgment or lien docket of said court any judg. validated by neglect to be ment or judgments or other liens, or the names of the parties thereto, entered on or a note thereon, of any scire facias, or execution, or to keep the same judgment or in all respects, according to the third section of the act of twenty-ninth continuance of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, which have dockets. been entered upon the judgment or continuance dockets, shall in nowise invalidate or impair such judgment or liens, and all such judgment and liens which shall have been entered upon the judgment or continuance dockets, or certified copies thereof, entered in any other court of record, shall be deemed good and valid to all intents and purposes, as though they had been duly entered upon the judgment or lien dockets, in all respects according to the requirements of the act aforesaid: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall hereafter relieve Proviso. any prothonotary, of said court, from keeping a judgment or lien docket. according to the provisions of said act.

Privileges.

SECTION 2. That Jacob Fisher, Jesse Barnes, Isaiah Lukens, M. D., George Spencer, Jr., John Rumer, Adam F. Hoover, Jacob Hoover, Corporators. Joseph Hood, Edwin Smith, Lewis Stillfield, Henry Fleck, Benjamin Foulke, George Sperry, Jacob Lenheart, Samuel Delp, and their successors, and all persons who now are or may hereafter be associated with them, be and they are hereby created and erected into a body politic and corporate, in deed and law, by the name, style and title of "The Springhouse Odd Fellows' Hall Association," in the county of Style. Montgomery, and by that name shall have perpetual succession and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in all the courts of law or equity within this Commonwealth, and elsewhere, and also to be able to take and hold, them and their successors, either by gift, grant, devise, lease, absolute purchase, or with a reservation of rents and lands or real estate, for the purpose of erecting thereon a building or buildings for the use of said association, and also to take and hold for use of said association any goods and chattles, sum or sums of money, by gift, grant, bargain and sale, will, devise, or bequest, from any person or persons whatsoever capable of making the same, and the same at their pleasure, to grant, bargain and sell for the use of the said association, and generally to do and perform all, and singular the matters and things which may be lawful for them to do and perform for the well being and management of the affairs of the said association: Provided, That the real Proviso. estate of which the said corporation shall at any one time be possessed shall not exceed the clear yearly income of three thousand dollars.

SECTION 3. That the object of the said association shall be to pro- Object. vide, erect and furnish a hall, or suitable building or buildings at or near the village of Spring House, in the county of Montgomery, for the accommodation of various Lodges and Encampments of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and for other purposes.

By-laws.

Seal.

Board of trus

SECTION 4. That the said corporation shall have power and authority to make by-laws, conformable to this charter, and not in violation of the laws of the United States or of this Commonwealth.

SECTION 5. That it shall and may be lawful for the said corporation to have a common seal, and the same at will and pleasure to change, alter and renew as they shall think proper, and shall have and exercise all the rights, privileges and immunities necessary for the purpose of the corporation, hereby constituted and herein expressed.

SECTION 6. That the government of the said association, and the management and disposition of its affairs and property, shall be vested in a board of trustees, who shall be elected annually at such time and tion of officers. manner as the said association shall by its by-laws provide; at the first meeting of the trustees after their election, in each year they shall elect from their body a president, secretary and treasurer.

tees, and elec

Reservation.

Preamble.

Preamble.

Charles Lukens authorized to

real estate.

SECTION 7. That the Legislature hereby reserves the right to alter and amend the charter hereby granted, whenever in their opinion it may be injurious to the citizens of this Commonwealth, in such manner, however, that no injustice be done to the corporators.

WHEREAS, By indenture dated the nineteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, between Sarah Pennock and Charles Lukens, M. D., recorded in Philadelphia, in deed book A. M., number forty-nine, page six hundred and fifty-two, she conveyed to him two lots in Spring Garden district, to the uses in said deed mentioned, with power to convey the same in fee, reserving irredeemable ground rents therefrom, upon the uses in said deed specified :

And whereas, It is represented that it is not practicable to let one of the said lots now unimproved to full advantage, without it should be on a ground rent at some time redeemable, and the parties who would be entitled to the whole of said ground rent, so far as contingencies have occurred, have united with those having more remote contingent remainders in petitioning for an act to authorize the letting of the lot hereinafter described, upon a redeemable ground rent; therefore,

SECTION 8. That it shall and may be lawful for the said Charles Lukens to convey in fee simple unto any purchaser or purchasers, all convey certain that certain lot of ground situate on the south side of Green street, in said district and county of Philadelphia, at the distance of eighty-six feet eastward from Lawrence street, containing in front thirty-four feet, and in depth between lines at right angles with said street one hundred and fourteen feet, to Wistar street, reserving thereout unto the said Charles Lukens, his heirs and assigns, a ground rent of the value of said lot in trust, for the uses and purposes set forth in the said recited indenture, redeemable at any time after the passage of this act, on payment of the principal sum of said reserved ground rent, the purchaser to be in nowise liable for the application or misapplication of the yearly rents so reserved, or the principal sum thereof, when paid off and extinguished: Provided, That whenever redeemed, if the party enti tled to the redemption money shall have, by the contingencies mentioned in said deed, a fee simple therein, his receipt shall be a full discharge therefor, but if by the existing circumstances the said ground rent might go over to other parties then living, the said Charles Lukens, with the concurrence of those who might be so entitled, if of lawful age, and if minors, by consent of their guardians, shall invest the same under the directions of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, in trust to subserve the purposes of said deed upon other ground rents or upon real security, and if said Charles Lukens shall be then deceased, or incompetent to extinguish said ground rent, it shall be the

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duty of said court to appoint a trustee, on the petition of the parties interested to excute the intent of said deed and of this act.

SECTION 9. That Queen street, in the borough of Wellsboro', in the Queen street in county of Tioga, from Pearl street to Walnut street, be, and the same the borough of Weilsboro', is hereby vacated, and that Walnut street in said borough be, and the Tioga county, same is hereby extended from its present termination to the Covington vacated.

road.

SECTION 10. That the eighth and ninth sections of the act to incor- 8th and 9th secporate the Sons of Temperance Hall Association of Doylestown, in the tions of act of county of Bucks, and to erect the Point Pleasant school district, &c., 12th April,1851, repealed. passed the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyone be, and the same are hereby repealed, and that the different portions of the townships of Tinicum and Plumstead, out of which said school district was erected, shall revert to the school districts from which they were originally taken.

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 120.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Jarrettown and Horsham turnpike road company; legitimating Charles Steinmetz, Ann Matilda Nyce, Arabella Shannon, and Willametta Steinmetz; changing the time of holding the November term of the courts of Montgomery county; authorizing the appointment of an auctioneer in the county of Butler.

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 Joseph Rex, John Fitzwater, Samuel Evans, William W. Dunn, George Commissioners. W. Rogers, Jacob Fitzwater, Henry Houpt, Wilkin Hobensack, Charles R. Roberts, Edmund Stout, George Shaffer, James White, Charles Paxton, Abner Thomas, Charles Donat, William Allen, and Amos Earp, or any three of them, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions to stock, and organize a company by the name, style, and title of "The Jarrettown and Horsham Style. Turnpike Road Company," with power to locate and construct a turnpike road from the northwestern termination of the Limekiln turnpike road, at Jarrettown, in Montgomery county, to a point on the Louisville Location. and Prospectville turnpike road, at, or within a quarter of a mile of Nailor Webster's, in Horsham township, said county, to pass between

Subject to pro visions of cer

tain act.

Capital stock.
Proviso.

Commencement

of the road.

the buildings of John Scotton and Amos L. Lukins, on the best and most eligible route from point to point, as may be determined by said commissioners, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twentysixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the supplements thereto.

SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of two hundred shares at twenty dollars per share: Provided, That said company may, from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion may be deemed necessary to complete the road and carry out the true intent and meaning of this act.

SECTION 3. That if the said company shall not commence the conand completion struction of their road within two years after the passage of this act, and complete the same within five years thereafter, this act shall be null and void, except so far as may be necessary to wind up the affairs, and pay the debts of the company.

Children of Wil

SECTION 4. That Charles Steinmetz, Ann Matilda Nyce, Arabella liam Steinmetz Shannon, and Williametta Steinmetz, all of the county of Montgomery, legitimated. and children of William Steinmetz, late of the township of Montgomery, in the said county of Montgomery, deceased, shall respectively have and enjoy all the rights and privileges, benefits and advantages of children born in lawful wedlock, and shall be able and capable in law to inherit and transmit any estate whatsoever, as fully and effectually as if they had respectively been born in lawful wedlock.

Courts in Mont

SECTION 5. That from and after the passage of this act, the Novemgomery county, her term of the several courts of the county of Montgomery, shall time of holding commence on the second Monday in November and continue two weeks, changed. unless otherwise ordered by the court at the preceding term.

Auctioneer in

SECTION 6. That the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and Butler county. empowered to appoint and commission, for the term of three years, one suitable person, in the county of Butler, as an auctioneer, who shall be authorized to sell at public auction, at such times and places as he may select, all kinds of goods, wares, merchandize, lands, tenements, and all other kinds of property, and the auctioneer so appointed and commissioned shall, before exercising any of the powers or enjoying any of the privileges incident to said appointment, pay into the county treas urer of Butler county, for the use of the Commonwealth, the sum of twenty-five dollars for his commission, and the said auctioneer shall also pay into the county treasurer, for the use of the Commonwealth, one per centum upon all sales exceeding in amount the sum of ten thousand dollars.

JOHN S. RHEY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JOHN H. WALKER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 121.

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act entitled "An Act to erect the town of Hamburg, in the county of Berks, into a borough"; relative to the publication of the debt of Berks and Schuylkill counties; vacating a certain lane in Reading; relative to taxes in Ruscombmanor, Long Swamp, Jefferson, Penn, Exeter, Washington, Centre, Union and Bethel townships; to the Military Institute in Reading; to the lines of the township of Amity, and to the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Berks county.

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 from and after the passage of this act, the town council of the borough Tax in the borof Hamburg, in the county of Berks, shall not assess a greater borough ough of Hamtax in any one year than three mills on each dollar of valuation, unless burg restricted the majority of the taxable inhabitants of said borough shall petition. in writing to said town council for a larger assessment of taxes.

in amount.

SECTION 2. That hereafter each lot holder in said borough shall set Lot-holders to curb-stones before his lot, within three months after the passage of an set curb-stones. ordinance requiring such improvement to be made, and if not done within the time aforesaid, it shall be done by the borough authorities,

and the cost thereof shall be a lien on said lot, and shall be recovered

as other lien debts of like amount are by law recoverable.

cers.

SECTION 3. That hereafter the inhabitants of said borough entitled Who shall be to vote for members of the General Assembly, and who have resided entitled to vote in said borough, at least six months immediately preceding such elec. for borough offition, and paid a borough tax within that time, if such tax shall have been assessed, shall elect the borough and other officers as now provided by law, on the third Friday of March, in each and every year, and such election shall be held at the same time and place and by the same persons appointed to hold the election for inspectors and judges

lice officers.

SECTION 4. That hereafter the town council of said borough shall Town council have power annually to appoint eight citizens, who shall serve for one to appoint eight year as police officers, who shall have power to arrest all drunken and persons as podisorderly persons, and bring them before one of our justices of the peace, who may impose a fine not exceeding the sum of two dollars, aud commit such persons to the lock-up house for a time not exceeding twelve hours, which fine shall be paid into the borough treasury by the said justice, after deducting his fee, which shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five cents.

SECTION 5. That so much of any act of Assembly as is hereby altered Repeal. or supplied, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Berks and

SECTION 6. That it shall be the duty of commissioners and treasurer Annual stateof Berks and Schuylkill counties, to make out and publish annually, ment of the inat the time of the publication of the account of said treasurer, a full debtedness of and detailed statement of the indebtedness of said counties, showing Schuylkill counthe amount of money borrowed, the rate of interest and the time or ties to be made times at which such loans become due, and exhibiting also the amount out and publishof floating debt not bearing interest, due by said counties at the time ed. aforesaid, as nearly as the same can be ascertained.

Mud lane in the

SECTION 7. That a certain laue in the city of Reading, known as city of Reading Mud lane, from its commencement at the intersection of Bingaman, vacated.