pointing and removing at pleasure, the visitor of the poor, physicians, and apothecaries for the out door poor for their respective districts. SECTION 8. That the portion of Marion avenue running from Story son avenue va- to Haverford street, in the district of West Philadelphia, be, and i Portion of Mar cated. hereby vacated. JOHN 8. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, APPROVED-The third day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hur dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER No. 319. AN ACT Appointing commissioners to examine the transactions and conduct of the Nor thampton Bank of Lehigh county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That Commissioners. George H. Hart, of the city of Philadelphia, C. R. Buckalew, of Duties of Com. missioners. Columbia county, and G. H. Gundie, of the county of Northampton, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to do and perform the several acts and things hereinafter mentioned, to wit, the said commis sioners, or a majority of them, shall give notice in one or more newspapers printed in Lehigh county, for two successive weeks, that they or a majority of them will meet at a certain time and place to be desig nated by them, in the borough of Allentown, in the county of Lehigh, for the purpose of examining into and investigating the concerns of the Northampton bank. SECTION 2. That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority to call upon every person or per sons whomsoever, having charge of the books, journals, records, and documents, of the said bank, or the notes, bonds, judgments, mort gages, and accounts, and every other evidence of debt or demand whatsoever, as well those due to as those owing by the said bank, and compel the production thereof, either by attachment or otherwise, and to examine into and copy the same, or any part thereof, to the time of taking the said examination; the said commissioners shall have full power and authority to call before them as witnesses the directors or officers of said bank or any of them, or any person who at any time may have been an officer or director of said bank, or any other person or persons, and examine them or any of them, on oath or affirmation touching their knowledge of the transactions of the said bank, or of the directors or officers thereof, or of any other person or persons for them, as well in regard to the manner of subscribing for and the payment of the capital stock of said bank, as the subsequent disposal of the same, or whether the whole of said stock was paid in agreeable to the act of incorporation, and generally to examine the said witnesses as aforesaid, in regard to any other matter or thing whatsoever, which the said commissioners or a majority of them may deem necessary and proper, to a full exposition of the conduct of said bank, or the directors and officers, or trustee or trustees thereof, or any other person or persons for them, from the time of its incorporation to the time of taking such examination and the reasons of the failure of said bank. mit for oontempt. SECTION 3. That the said commissioners or a majority of them shall Power to comhave full power and authority to commit for contempt, in like manner as the Courts of Common Pleas of this Commonwealth have in similar cases, any person refusing to testify as a witness or make answer to such interrogatories as the said commissioners, or a majority of them, may deem proper. SECTION 4. That the said commissioners shall have power to com- To compel atpel the attendance of witnesses before them, by subpoena, attachment, tendance of witor otherwise, in like manner as the Courts of Common Pleas of this nesses. Commonwealth. Power to ad SECTION 5. That the said commissioners or a majority of them shall have power to adjourn from time to time, as they may deem pro- journ. per, until they shall have finished such examination, and shall make report of their proceedings, together with the testimony or such part thereof, as they may deem proper, to the next Legislature, on or before the third Monday of January next. SECTION 6. That the said commissioners shall be allowed each three Compensation dollars per day, for every day necessarily spent by them in the said examination, and each witness shall be entitled to the same daily pay and mileage as is allowed in the Court of Common Pleas, the same to be paid, together with the expense of clerk hire, serving process, and advertising, by the parties in interest: Provided, That the said com- Proviso. missioners shall not perform the duties hereby enjoined, until the parties in interest shall have executed to the Commonwealth a bond, with sufficient securities, to be approved by the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh county, conditioned to defray all the expenses of the said investigation. APPROVED The third day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two WM. BIGLER. Preamble. Corporators. Style. Privileges. Trustees. To hold lands. Duties of trussees. No. 320. AN ACT To incorporate the Greenwood Cemetery Company, of New Castle, Lawrenet county; and exempting certain moneys at interest from taxation in sil county. WHEREAS, Several citizens of this Commonwealth, hereinafter named, have associated for the purpose of establishing a cemetery in the neigh borhood of New Castle, in the county of Lawrence, intending that about ten acres of a certain tract of land, in Neshannock township, in said county, bounding by lands of Alexander Crawford, John N. Ewer, Jobn Moorehead, Samuel Sippy, and others, shall be used for the purpose of interment, and they have desired that they, and their successors, may be incorporated for establishing and perpetuating such cemetery; there fore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represes tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That James D. Clark, William McClymonds, Jacob S. Quest, Joseph Kissick, and E. Sankey, be, and they are hereby made a body politic and cor porate in law, under the name, and style, and title of "The Greenwood Cemetery Company," and by that name shall be able and capable in law to have and use a common seal, to sue and to be sued, to plead and to be impleaded, and so to do all such other things as are incident to a similar corporation. SECTION 2. That any three of the above named shall be trustees of said cemetery company, and whenever a vacancy shall occur in the board of trustees, the Court of Common Pleas of Lawrence county, shall appoint other trustee or trustees, so that the ground selected for cemetery may be preserved for the purpose intended, and those who bury there may be assured of continued protection to the remains of relatives and friends who have been committed to the earth. SECTION 3. That the said cemetery company shall be able and ca pable in law to purchase and hold for the purpose of a cemetery, said tract of land, not to exceed in extent twenty-five acres, also to hold so much personal property as may be necessary for the purpose of said corporation, and assume the management, direction, and disposal of the same. SECTION 4. That the trustees aforesaid shall have power to lay out and ornament the grounds purchased by said cemetery company for the purpose of this corporation, to erect suitable buildings thereon and keep the buildings and premises in decent repairs, to arrange burial lots and sell and dispose of the same for burial places, under such rules as may be proper and necessary, to make by-laws and regulations from time to time relative to the appointment of suitable officers and agents and their duties and compensation, and relative to the duties of trustees, and from time to time to make such other rules and regulations for the government of lot holders and visitors as they may deem necessary. SECTION 5. That no road or street shall be opened through the lands opened through of said corporation, occupied as a burial ground, except by and with the consent of the said corporation. No road or street to be grounds. to grant relief. SECTION 6. That the Court of Common Pleas of Lawrence county Court of Common Pleas shall have full power at all times upon the application of any trustee to grant relief in equity so far as regards the removal of any trustee or trustees who may be unable to fulfill his or their duties, or who neglects or refuse to carry out the object and intention of this charter, and from time to time to appoint a trustee or trustees to fill all such vacancies is may occur by death or resignation, or removal. SECTION 7. That any person who shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, Penalty for inju leface, injure, or abuse any tomb, monument, grave-stone, or other ries. structure placed in the cemetery aforesaid, or any fence, railing, or other work for the protection or ornament of said cemetery or of any tomb, monument, grave-stone, or other structure placed therein as aforesaid, or shall wilfully destroy, cut, break, or remove any tree, shrub or plant within the limits of said cemetery, or shall shoot or discharge any gun or other fire-arms within said limits shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of the county of Lawrence, be punished by a fine, at the discretion of the justice, according to the aggravation of the offence, of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, or shall on conviction thereof in the Court of Quarter Sessions of said county, be punished by fine as aforesaid, and by imprisonment according to the aggravation of the offence at the discretion of the court. SECTION 8. That every lot conveyed in such cemetery shall be held Lots to be held by the proprietor for the purpose of sepulture alone, transferable with for the purpose of sepulture. consent of trustees in trust, and their successors in office, as aforesaid, and shall not be subject to attachment or execution, and that the said cemetery shall be hereafter forever exempted from taxation. SECTION 9. That it shall be lawful for the commissioners of Law- Exempt from rence county to exempt from tax for county purposes, any moneys that taxation. they may have borrowed from citizens of the said county of Lawrence. APPROVED. The third day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. No. 321. WM. BIGLER. AN ACT To appoint three commissioners to review, and if they think proper, to alter the location of part of the State road leading from Downingtown, in Chester county, to a point on the Conestoga turnpike, near David Masts', lately deceased, in 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 Jacob M'Connel, of Honeybrook township, James K. Greer, of West Commissioners. Brandywine township, and Jesse Evans, of East Nantmeal township, Duties of commissioners. Proviso. Repeal. Meeting of commissioners. all of Chester county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to view, and if they think proper, alter the location of that part of the State road which passes through the farm of John M'Clure, and around or over the hill known as Gogler's hill, within the county of Chester, which was enacted by the act of the fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, to which this is s supplement, which State road begins at or near the junction of the State road leading from Downingtown to Wilmington with the Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike road, at Downingtown, and extending to a point on the Conestoga turnpike road, at or near the house of David Mast, lately deceased, in Berks county. SECTION 2. That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall proceed according to the terms and conditions of the said act to which this is a supplement, to the discharge of their duties, and the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by the said act of the fourteenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, upon the commissioners then appointed are hereby conferred on the aforesaid com. missioners: Provided, The said commissioners shall have no power to act out of the county of Chester: And provided, also, That all expenses incurred by the said commissioners shall be paid by the commissioners of the county of Chester, by their order drawn on the treasurer of said county. SECTION 3. That the act of the fourteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, so far as it is inconsistent with this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 4. That the said commissioners after taking the necessary qualifications as prescribed by the act to which this is a supplement, shall meet on or before the first Monday in May next, or as soon thereafter as they, or a majority of them shall agree, and proceed to perform the duties of their appointment, and make an accurate report of their proceedings within sixty days after the first Monday aforesaid. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate.. APPROVED-The third day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. |