Preamble. Escheated estate of Robert Chadwick, de No 251. AN ACT Relative to the escheated estate of Robert Chadwick. WHEREAS, Robert Chadwick, late of the township of Springfield, and county of Delaware, died about the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, leaving a widow, and, as was supposed, without heirs or known kindred: And whereas, After the administrator paid the widow one-half part of the property left, and after the death of the widow the estate remaining was declared, by a jury of twenty-four men, on the twentyeighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, to have escheated to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : And whereas, On the order of the order of the Auditor General, the money remaining was paid by the administrator into the State Treasury: And whereas, The said inquisition of escheat was traversed and set aside on the twenty-sixth of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, on the petition of Thomas Chadwick, Isaac Chadwick, and Samuel Chadwick, who claimed to be the brothers of the said Robert Chadwick: And whereas, As there were two claimants to the estate, it was agreed that a feigned issue should be formed to determine to whom this estate belonged, and on the trial of this issue, it was found that Thomas Chadwick, Isaac Chadwick, and Samuel Chadwick, were the brothers of the said Robert Chadwick, and judgment thereupon was entered in their favor on the thirtieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, as a reference to a certified copy of the record of the court of Delaware county will more fully and at large appear; 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 all the right, title, and claim which this Commonwealth may have acquired, or now has, by reason of any escheat or supposed escheat from ceased, vested the want of heirs, or any known kindred of a certain Robert Chadwick, in his brothers. late of the county of Delaware, manufacturer, deceased, in and to the personal estate of which he died possessed, or to which he was entitled, be, and the same is hereby granted to, and vested in his brothers Thomas, Isaac, and Samuel Chadwick, and that the money be paid to Ezra Levis, administrator of Robert Chadwick for their use, deducting first sixty-eight dollars and seventy-one cents costs paid by the State Treasurer: Provided, That nothing under this act shall affect the right of this Commonwealth under the laws relative to collateral inheritances. APPROVED The twenty-first day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 252. AN ACT To authorize the supervisors of Springfield township to subscribe to the capital stock of the Wissahickon turnpike road company; to incorporate the Odd Fellows' Hall Association of Centre Square; and to authorize the Auditor General to settle the accounts of the witnesses in the case of the Montgomery County Bank investigation. subscribe stock 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 the supervisors of public highways for the township of Springfield, in Supervisors of the county of Montgomery, be, and they are hereby authorized and di- Springfield rected to subscribe for, and in the name and behalf, and for the use of township, Montthe inhabitants of the said township, forty shares in the capital stock gomery co., to of the Wissahickon turnpike road company; and the said supervisors to a certain are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money to the amount road. of one thousand dollars to meet the instalments on the stock so subscribed as the same may become due, and to issue certificates of indebtedness in the name of the inhabitants of the township of Springfield for the amount of such money so borrowed, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent. per annum, and payable at any time not exceeding ten years from the date thereof, which said certificate shall be binding on the said township and the inhabitants thereof; the amount or amounts to be recovered in actions of debts to be instituted in any court of record in the county of Montgomery against the said township: Provided, That no one of said certificates shall be for a less sum than Proviso. one hundred dollars: And provided nevertheless, That the question Proviso. whether the above subscription shall be made, shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the said township of Springfield at their Spring elections next after the passage of this act. SECTION 2. That it shall and may be lawful for the Wissahickon turnpike road company as soon as one mile of their road shall be completed, to erect and cause to be erected a toll gate or toll gates, and Toll gates. to demand and receive toll from all persons passing over the said road. SECTION 3. That it shall and may be lawful for the managers of the Wissahickon turnpike road company to prohibit the passage over their road of wagons, carts, and other vehicles, which with their loads may Weight of wag respectively weigh more than six tons, or at their option to charge ons, &c. whatever rates of toll they may deem proper on such wagons, carts, and vehicles, notwithstanding any act of the General Assembly regulating the rates of toll to be charged on their road. SECTION 4. That George F. Sheaff, David Dehaven, Daniel L. Heist, Levi Nidler, John H. Dettra, William Zimmerman, Wells Tomlinson, Corporators. Thomas H. Wentz, Adam Hurst, Charles Hurst, George Sheaff, Samuel Young, Washington Sheaff, 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 Odd Fellows' Hall Association of Cen- Style. tre Square," in the county of 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 Privileges. Proviso. Ciject. By-laws. Seal. Government courts of law or equity within this Commonwealth and elsewhere, and also to be able to take and hold, to 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 the use of said association any goods and chattels, sum or sums of money by gift, grant, bargain, and sale, will, devise, or be quest, from any person or persons whatsoever capable of making the same, and the same at their pleasure to grant 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 estate of which the said incorporation shall at any one time be possessed, shall not exceed the clear yearly income of three thousand dollars. SECTION 5. That the object of said association shall be to provide, erect, and furnish a hall or suitable building or buildings, at or near Centre Square, in Whitpain township, in the county of Montgomery, for the accommodation of various lodges and encampments of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and for other purposes. SECTION 6. 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 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 exercise all the rights, privileges and immunities necessary for the purpose of the corporation hereby constituted and herein expressed. SECTION 8. That the government of the said association, and the management and disposition of its affairs and property, shall be vested ment of affairs. in a board of trustees, who shall be elected annually, at such time and and manage Reservation. 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. SECTION 9. That the Legislature 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 shall be done to the corporators. SECTION 10. That the Auditor General is hereby required to audit and settle the accounts of the witnesses who were summoned and ap Pay of witneses peared before the Committee on Banks, of the session of one thousand in case of Mont-eight hundred and fifty-one of the Legislature, in the investigation into gomery bank. the affairs of the Montgomery Bank, and to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the amount due them respectively. APPROVED. The twenty-first day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 253. AN ACT To incorporate the Cornwall and Phoenixville railroad company: Commissioners. 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 G. Dawson Coleman, Allen P. Hibshman, Robert W. Coleman, Charles B. Forney, of Lebanon county; Clement B. Grubb, Edward Davies Coleman, J. Bull, Cyrus H. Jacobs, Joseph Konigmacher, David Mast, James McCaa, Martin Bickham, William B. Jacobs, John Haldeman, Amos S. Kinzer, Simon N. Klauser, William Konigmacher, Jacob L. Gross, Allen Yundt, Isaac Winters, Alexander Galt, of Lancaster county; James Everhart, Levi B. Smith, John C. Evans, Paul Geiger, of Berks county; David Potts, Junior, Robert S. Buck, William Brown, J. A. Whitaker, William Rogers, Mordeica Evans, Thomas K. Bull, and James Penrose, of Chester county; David Reeves, Samuel J. Reeves, Robert Coleman, Robert Kelton, and John Price Wetherill, of Philadelphia, or any five of them, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions and organize a company by the name, style and title of "The Cornwall and Phoenixville railroad Style. company," with all the powers and subject to all the provisions and re- Subject to prostrictions prescribed by an act entitled "An Act regulating railroad visions of cercompanies," approved the nineteenth day of February, one thousand tain act. eight hundred and forty-nine. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. sixteen thousand shares of fifty dollars each: Provided, That the said Proviso. company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders at a meeting called for the purpose, increase the capital stock if it shall be deemed necessary, to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand shares. SECTION 3. That the said company shall have the right to build and Location. construct a railroad from Cornwall ore banks, in Lebanon county, to Phoenixville, in Chester county, by such practicable route and moderate grades as will, in the opinion of the president and directors of said company be most conducive to the public interest, and to connect the said road with the Philadelphia and Reading railroad, at or near Phonixville, in Chester county. SECTION 4. That whenever any section or sections of five miles of Completion of said road shall be completed, the said company may use, employ and five miles. enjoy the same in the same manner as when the entire length thereof shall be constructed. SECTION 5. That if said company shall not commence the construc- Commencement tion of said road within three years from the passage of this act, and and completion complete the same within eight years thereafter, this act shall be null of said road. and void, except so far as it may be necessary to wind up the affairs of said company and pay the debts of the same. SECTION 6. That the president and managers of the said railroad company, be, and they are hereby authorized to pay to the shareholders entitled to receive the same, in the months of January and July, in each year, interest at the rate of six per centum per annum on all the instalments paid by them after the passege of this act, and continue to pay the Interest on in- same until the road shall be completed, and the profits or earnings of the said railroad within the same time shall be credited to the cost of construction, and all interest paid shall be charged to the cost of construe tion: Provided, That the interest shall not be paid upon any share of stock upon which any instalment, which has been called for, remains unpaid: Provided further, That the stock of said company shall not be subject to any tax, in consequence of the payment of interest hereby authorized, nor until the nett earnings shall realize at least six per centum per annum upon the capital invested. SECTION 7. That this act shall not be so construed as to authorize said company to connect their road with the Columbia railroad, the Lancaster, Harrisburg and Mount Joy railroad, the Pennsylvania railroad, or the Lebanon Valley railroad. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. Pennsylvania railroad co. to No. 254. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To the act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Pennsylvania Railroad 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 to enable the Pennsylvania railroad company to complete, stock, and equip their railroad with its appurtenances, and from time to time to issue additional lay down a double track therefor by means of subscription to the capital stock, it shall be lawful for the said company, in addition to the said capital stock authorized by the twentieth section of the act incorporating said company, passed on the thirteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to issue certificates for any additional sum not exceeding sixty thousand shares, and to demand and receive moneys for the same for said additional shares when subscribed for, in certificates of stock. Proviso. To hold certain real estate. like manner, and upon the same conditions as to instalments and other- |