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be, and they are hereby created and erected into a body politic and cor-
porate, in deed and in law, by the name, style, and title of "The Saint
Joseph's College, in the city of Philadelphia," and by that name and Style.
title shall have perpetual succession, shall be able to sue and be sued,
to plead and be impleaded, and shall be able and capable in law and
in equity to receive, take, and hold, for the use of the said college, lands,
tenements, hereditaments, and estate, real and personal, whatsoever, and
the same to grant, bargain, sell, transfer, assign, mortgage, and convey,
in such manner as the said corporation shall deem proper, and to receive
and make all deeds, transfers, contracts, conveyances, covenants, and
assurances whatsoever, and to make, have, and use, a common seal,
under, and by which all deeds, assurances, diplomas, and acts of the
said college or corporation shall pass and be authenticated, and the same
seal to change and renew at pleasure, and generally to do every other
act or thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and
to promote the objects and designs of the said corporation.

SECTION 2. That the object and design of the said corporation shall be, Object.
the establishment of a college, within the limits of the city and county
of Philadelphia, in which are to be taught the elementary branches of
education, together with the sciences and modern and ancient languages,
in the manner that may be determined, from time to time, by the proper
officers of the said corporation, and as the same may be set forth in
their by-laws and regulations: Provided, Such by-laws and regulations
are not inconsistent with this charter, or with the constitution of the Proviso.
United States, or the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth.

SECTION 3. That the said corporation shall have power to adopt a con- By-laws. stitution and make by-laws, and the same to amend, alter, or repeal, at

pleasure.

SECTION 4. That the said corporation shall not, at any time, have, hold,

or receive a clear yearly income exceeding ten thousand dollars, without Yearly income first obtaining authority from the Legislature of this Commonwealth.

SECTION 5. That no misnomer of the said corporation shall defeat any Misnomer. intended gift, grant, conveyance, devise, or bequest thereto, nor any act or deed intended to be done or made thereby.

JOHN S. RHEY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JOHN H. WALKER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED This twenty-ninth day of January, A. D., one thousand

ight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 16.

AN ACT

To reduce the width of the State road leading from Harrisburg to Gettysburg.

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 State road leading from the west end of the Harrisburg bridge to Gettysburg shall be reduced to the width of thirty-six feet, so far as it passes through the county of Cumberland.

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 eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

Authority to collect tolls.

No. 17.

A SUPPLEMENT

To "An Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Allegheny and Butler Plank Road Company," approved the fifth day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

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 it shall be lawful for the said company to erect and set up a gate or gates, and to levy and collect tolls from persons travelling along or otherwise using said road, at the rates prescribed in an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto, except so much thereof relating to the imposition of tolls as discriminates in favor of vehicles having wheels of the breadth of four inches and upwards, and without further license, as soon as they shall have completed the first three miles and one-half, or more, of said road leading from the city of Allegheny.

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

eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 18.

AN ACT

Appointing officers to hold an election in Porter township, Pike county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly net, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Jeffry Wells shall be judge, and William Smith and William Rake, Officers of elecinspectors of the township election to be held at the house now occupied tion. by Ambrose Kitchen, in Porter township, Pike county, on the third Friday of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the election of township officers of the said township, and that the said township shall hereafter constitute a separate election district, and the general elections shall be held therein at the house aforesaid.

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 eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 19.

AN ACT

Granting certain powers to a surviving trustee and to authorize the Presbytery of Philadelphia to fill vacancies in the Board of Trustees of the Presbyterian Institute.

WHEREAS, By a certain indenture, or post nuptial settlement, execated by Thos. J. Miles, M. A. E. Miles, Geo. Sharswood, and F. A. Paybold, on the second day of October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, recorded in the office for recording of deeds, in the city of Philadelphia, in deed book R. L. L., No. fifteen, page thirty-three, property of the said M. A. E. Miles was conveyed to the said SharsFood and Raybold, in trust for certain uses therein specified:

the

And whereas, It was provided by the said deed that the "said Thomas sad Mary Anna, by and with the consent of the said Geo. Sharswood and Frederick A. Raybold, by any deed or instruments under their bands and seals, should at any time revoke the trust:"

And whereas, It may be important to the interests of said trust that the powers of revocation shall continue to exist therein, and as doubts

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have arisen, in consequence of the death of the said Fredk. A. Raybold, as to the power of the surviving trustee to revoke the same; now,

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 power of revocation, and all other powers and rights whatsoever mentioned and contained in the said deed of trust, dated the second day of October, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and rights contained recorded in the office for recording deeds in the city of Philadelphia, in in deed of trust deed book R. L. L., No. fifteen, page thirty-three, and vested in the to be exercised said Geo. Sharswood and F. A. Ray bold, shall vest in and be exercised by surviving

Powers and

trustee.

Presbytery of Philadelphia to supply vacan

by the said Geo. Sharswood, surviving trustee, with like effect, in all respects, as if the said Geo. Sharswood and Fredk. A. Raybold had been both living and, at the time of any exercise thereof, had united in exercising the same.

SECTION 2. That the Presbytery of Philadelphia shall have power at all times to fill vacancies in the Board of Trustees of the Presbyterian Institute, incorporated by act passed the twelfth day of April, eighteen cies in Board of hundred and fifty-one, which may occur by death, resignation, or otherwise, and anything in said act of incorporation which is inconsistent with this section is hereby repealed.

Trustees.

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 eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

Market street vacated.

Portion of Armtrong and Clearfield turnpike

rond vacated.

No. 20.

AN ACT

To vacate a portion of Market street, in the borough of Kittanning, in the county of Armstrong; and also to vacate a portion of the Armstrong and Clearfield turnpike road.

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 all that part of Market street, in said borough, emmencing at a point on said street, three hundred and six feet eight inches from the intersection of said street with Back street, in said borough, and extending towards the borough line, a distance of one hundred and ninety-eight feet be, and the same is hereby vacated.

SECTION 2. That so much of the Armstrong and Clearfield turnpike road as is located and passes through the ground recently purchased by the county commissioners of the said county of Armstrong, and set

apart by them for the purpose of erecting new public buildings thereon for the use of said county be, and the same is hereby vacated.

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APPROVED The twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER..

No. 21.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the subscribers to the articles of association for the purpose of establishing a House of Refuge," passed March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and twenty-six.

WHEREAS, Owing to the increased population of the Commonwealth, the accommodations in the House of Refuge have become inadequate, and the erection of larger and more suitable buildings, in which a more perfect classification of the inmates may be made, has become necesSary:

And whereas, The board of managers of the said House of Refuge, have memorialized the Legislature, praying that the sum of sixty thousand dollars may be appropriated for the purpose of enabling the said board to accomplish this desirable object; therefore,

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tion.

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 sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appro- State appropriapriated towards the erection of new buildings for the accommodation of white juvenile delinquents, which said sum of fifteen thousand dollars shall be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, to the treasurer of the said House of Refuge, in manner following, to wit: five thousand dollars thereof on or before the first day of September next; five thousand dollars thereof on or before the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and the remaining five thousand dollars thereof on or before the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

SECTION 2. That for the purposes aforesaid, the commissioners of the county of Philadelphia shall draw their order on the treasurer of the said county, on or before the first day of May next, in favor of the treasurer of the House of Refuge for the sum of fifteen thousand dol- Amount to be lars; and shall on or before the first day of May, one thousand eight paid by the hundred and fifty-three, draw a like order for the further sum of fifteen county of Phila thousand dollars; and shall on or before the first day of May, one thou- delphia. and eight hundred and fifty-four, draw a like order for the further sum of fifteen thousand dollars, and the whole of said sum of sixty thou

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