Seal. Duties of trustees. Proviso. Committee of examination. Reservation. SECTION 7. 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 exereise, all the rights, privileges, and immunities necessary for the purpose of the corporation hereby constituted, and as herein expressed. SECTION 8. That the trustees for the time being, or a majority of them, shall have power to carry out the objects of the association, as herein before expressed, to elect a president from their own body, to elect a treasurer and secretary, and to appoint such other officers and agents as they may deem necessary to carry out the objects aforesaid, conduct and execute the business and affairs of said association, to fix their compensation and in their discretion to dismiss them, to provide for the investment of the funds of the association in a manner they shall deem most safe and beneficial, to provide for paying all the neces sary expenses of conducting the affairs of the association, and generally to pass all such by-laws as shall be necessary to the exercise of said powers, and of other powers vested in said association, and the said bylaws from time to time alter, amend and repeal: Provided, That such by-laws shall not be contrary to the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth or the United States. SECTION 9. That it shall be the duty of the trustees, at least once in every year, to appoint from the members of the said association three competent persons, as a committee of examination, whose duty it shall be to investigate the affairs of said association, and to make report thereof; and it shall also be the duty of the trustees, at such times as they may designate, in each and every year, to make and declare a dividend of the interest and profits of said association, after paying the expenses, and the same to pay over to the stockholders or their legal representatives, within thirty days thereafter. SECTION 10. That the Legislature hereby reserves the right to alter or amend the charter hereby granted, whenever in their opinion it may be injurious to the citizens of the Commonwealth, in such manner, however, that no injustice shall be done to the corporators. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The second day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 168. AN ACT To provide for the immediate completion of the North Branch extension of the 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 faith of the the Governor of the Commonwealth be, and he is hereby authorized to Governor auborrow, on the faith of the Commonwealth, and of the revenue hereinafter thorized to bormentioned, and which is hereby specifically pledged for the payment of row money on the interest and re-payment of the principal, the sum of eight hundred Common. and fifty thousand dollars, and issue certificates of loan therefor, redeemable wealth. in thirty years from date, to be paid into the internal improvement fund and appropriated to the expenditures under this act; the said loan to bear interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent. per annum, payable half yearly, in specie, on the first day of January and July, to be termed the North Branch Canal Loan. ment fund. SECTION 2. That there shall be, annually, set apart by the commis- Duty of com-. sioners of the internal improvement fund, the revenue accruing on the missioners of internal improvesaid canal from and after the passage of this act, for the payment of the interest and final liquidation of the debt hereby authorized; and it shall be the duty of said commissioners, after paying the interest, annually, to invest the surplus, together with its accumulation of interest in the said loan, or in any other loan of the Commonwealth, if said loan cannot be purchased at its par value, the said investment to form a sinking fund for the redemption of the principal at maturity. SECTION 3. That the money authorized to be borrowed by this act How money to shall be applied to the immediate completion of the North Branch be applied." extension of the Pennsylvania canal, and the Canal Commissioners are hereby directed to complete said canal in the shortest time practicable. APPROVED The second day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. River school Co., erected. No. 169. AN ACT Relating to certain school districts; to incorporate the Mill Grove and Madison plank road company, in Westmoreland county; relative to the Lewistown Academy; to streets in the borough of Mauch Chunk; to the collection of school tax in Baldwin township, Allegheny county; to the borough of Shirleysburg; to the publication of Sheriff's sales in Carbon county; to certain election districts; to roads in Huntingdon and Mifflin counties; to the sale of certain real estate; to the appointment of deputy coroners in Lancaster county. 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 all that part of Oliver township, Mifflin county, lying within the foldistrict, Mifflin lowing bounds, to wit: from the lower line of the farm of George Oliver's heirs on the east, to the upper line of Augustine Wakefield on the west, and from the Juniata river on the south, to the top of the second ridge on the north, embracing the farms of Augustine Wakefield, William Wakefield, James Burns, George Oliver's heirs, George Suttle's heirs, John Cutman, the land late of D. W. Hulings, on the south of the ridge, be, and the same is hereby erected into a separate and independent school district, to be called "River District," and the same to be entitled to all the rights, privileges, and subject to all the restrictions of the general school laws of the Commonwealth: Provided, however, That said district shall elect two directors and no more, and that William Wakefield and James Burns be, and are hereby appointed school directors to serve until the first election for directors in April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, or until others are elected. Proviso. Removal of present school house. SECTION 2. That the said school directors are hereby authorized to remove the present school house from the lands of Augustine Wakefield to, at or near the centre of the said district, and to receive their share of the public money from the Commonwealth, and to assess and collect their own taxes; the said directors are also authorized and empowered to sell and convey the present school house lot, and to purchase and take deed for another suitable lot for that purpose. SECTION 3. That Shepherd B. Markle, William Bell, Alexander Plumer, James Gardner, James Dick, James P. Carothers, Peter S. Pool, James McTeal, and Jacob Bauchman, or any five of them, be, Commissioners, and the same are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, re Style. Location. Subject to provisions of cer tain act. Capital stock. Provise. ceive subscriptions of stock, and organize a company by the name and title of the Mill Grove and Madison plank road company, to locate and construct a plank road from the Wellersburg and West Newton plank road, east of West Newton, on the bed of the present State road, leading from Robbstown and Mount Pleasant turnpike, by the way of Mill Grove, to the town of Madison, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenth-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fortynine, and the supplements thereto, as far as the same are not inconsistent with this and the following sections. SECTION 4. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of one hundred shares, the shares being of the sum of fifteen dollars each: Provided, That said company may, from time to time, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock to such an amount as in their opinion may be required to complete the same, according to the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 5. That said road shall be commenced within two years af- Commencement ter the passage of this act, and completed within four years after, and and completion that the western section, adjoining the West Newton and Wellersburg of said road. plank road company, be put under contract within the first mentioned time, and so soon as it is completed to the Sewickly creek, the same will be subject to tolls per mile at the same rate as if the whole road was completed from point to point. SECTION 6. That the house and lot of ground of John Robison, Certain proadjoining the borough of McVeytown, Mifflin county; the farm of perty attached to the borough Peter Beatty, adjoining the said borough of McVeytown, and the ten- of M'Veytown, ant house on the farm of John Ross, adjoining the borough aforesaid, Mifflin co. be hereafter attached to the borough of McVeytown, Mifflin county, for all school purposes. Lewistown academy SECTION 7. That from and after the first Monday of April, one Trustees of the thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, the number of trustees of the Lewistown academy shall be seven and no more, any five of whom limited. shall constitute a quorum; said trustees to be elected by the subscribers to the stock of said academy, who shall vote in person and by ballot. in Mauch SECTION 8. That the several streets, lanes, and alleys, within the Certain streets, borough of Mauch Chunk, laid out by the Lehigh coal and navigation lanes, and alleys company, and dedicated to public use, shall be deemed and taken to be Chunk, public public highways, and shall be opened, repaired, and kept in order as highways. such. SECTION 9. That the farms of James R. Henry, Elijah H. Lee, Certain farms William Henry, James Hart, and Joseph Patton, of West Fallowfield, attached to in the county of Crawford, be, and are hereby attached to the borough of Hartford, in said county, for school purposes. SECTION 10. That so much of the act, approved the seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, as relates to the collection of school tax in the township of Baldwin, in the county of Allegheny, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and that the collector. of county rates and levies in the township aforesaid, be, and is hereby authorized and required to collect said tax at a rate per cent. as he and the school directors of said district may agree upon. arched borough,Crawford county. Repeal. SECTION 11. That so much of the ninth section of an act of Assembly, approved April eighth, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty, by which the real estate of William B. Leas was included within the limits Repeal. of the borough of Shirleysburg, be, and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 12. That so much of the third section of an act of Assembly, approved the twenty-ninth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, by which the property of Henry Brewster, containing twelve acres of land, and improvements, were included within the limits of the borough of Shirleysburg, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Repeal. SECTION 13. That the second section of an act entitled "An Act in Construction of regard to certain entries in ledgers in the city of Pittsburg, and relating 2d section of act of 22d April, to the publishing of sheriff's sale, and for other purposes," approved 1846. the twenty-second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fortysix, shall not, hereafter, be so construed as to apply to newspapers published in the county of Carbon. Uniontown SECTION 14. That the place of holding general, township, and special township, Jefelections in Union township, Jefferson county, is hereby changed from ferson co. Boundaries of county. the house of Robert Barr to the public house of William Love, in the village of Corsica, in said township. SECTION 15. That the boundaries of the township of Beaver, Jefferson county, are hereby extended to the Little Sandy creek, and that ship, Jefferson the place of holding general, township, and special elections in said township, is changed to the house of Michael Brocius in said township. SECTION 16. That the western terminus of a State road laid out between Brown's Mills, in Mifflin county, to Petersburg, Huntingdon county, be changed from the town of Petersburg to the line between Jackson and Barree townships, where the present road between the points first mentioned now crosses the line between the above mentioned townships. Location of a Henry Miller authorized to real estate. SECTION 17. That Henry Miller, of Lancaster county, be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey the same in fee convey certain simple to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, a certain house and lot of ground situate, lying, and being in Williamsburg, Blair county, and late the estate of his father, Samuel Miller, of Lancaster county, deceased: Provided, That before so doing, he shall give bond, to be approved of by the judges of the Orphans' Court of Lancaster county, for the faithful appropriation of the purchase money to and among the heirs of said Samuel Miller, deceased. Farm of Chris SECTION 18. That the farm and premises of Christopher Fogel, lying topher Fogel at- in Rose township, Jefferson county, is hereby attached to the borough of Brookville, for school purposes, subject to the same taxation for said Brookville for purposes as other taxable property in said borough. tached to the borough of attached to Union town school purposes. SECTION 19. That from and after the passage of this act, the inhab West's addition itants residing within the bounds of what is known by West's addition to the borough of Uniontown, and now situated in and attached to the Union township school district, in the county of Fayette, are hereby attached for all common school purposes to the Union borough school district, in said county of Fayette, and all the school tax for which the said inhabitants are annually liable, shall be assessed and paid in the Union borough district aforesaid. ship school district, Fayette county. Coroner of Lan caster co. to ap point deputies. SECTION 20. That the coroner of the county of Lancaster is hereby fully authorized and empowered to appoint any number of deputies he may deem proper to act for him within said county. APPROVED-The third day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. |