corporation to which all members of the congregations shall have free access. SECTION 8. That the trustees shall, annually, on the day of electing Statement of their successors, make, or cause to be made, a true, just, and full state- accounts. ment of all accounts, receipts, and expenditures of said corporation and congregations, and cause the same to be entered at large in record book mentioned in section seventh. SECTION 9. That the property, real and personal, held in common Property. by said congregations, shall remain so in perpetuity unless one of said congregations should by a vote of two-thirds thereof agree to sell out to the other, and at said election none shall vote except the members of the congregation whose interest is to be disposed of, but in no case shall either of said congregations interfere with the ecclesiastical orga nization or peculiar tenets of the other. SECTION 10. That all elections shall be held in the church, of which Elections. two weeks' notice shall be given in all cases. sors. SECTION 11. That hereafter it shall be the duty of the assessors of Duties of asberCarroll township, in the county of York, and it is hereby enjoined upon them in making their assessments in every instance in which a farm is situated partly in said township and partly in the borough of Dillsburg, to assess and value each part separately and in such manner as show the distinct valuation of that part situated within the limits of said borough. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourth day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 346. AN ACT To incorporate the Resolution Hose Company of Philadelphia. 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 and every the persons who shall at the time of the passing of this Corporation. act, or shall at any time hereafter be elected members of the association called the Resolution hose company of Philadelphia, shall be, and they are hereby created and declared to be one body politic and corporate, by the name, style, and title, of "The Resolution Hose Company of Phi- Style. ladelphia," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in all courts of record or elsewhere, and to take, receive, and hold, all and all Privileges. Proviso Quoram. Certain rights not to be affected. manner of lands, tenements, rents, annuities, liberties, franchises, and all other hereditaments which at any time or times heretofore have been granted, bargained, sold, enfeoffed, devised, or otherwise conveyed to the said the Resolution hose company of Philadelphia, or to any person or persons for their use in trust for them, and the same lands, rents, annuities, liberties, franchises, and other hereditaments are hereby vested and established in the said corporation and their successors forever, and the said corporation and their successors are hereby declared to be seized and possessed of such estate or estates therein, as in and by the respective grants, bargains, sales, enfeoffients, releases, devises, or other conveyances thereof, is or are declared limited and expressed, and also that the said corporation and their successors at all times hereafter shall be able to purchase, receive, have, hold, and enjoy to them and their successors, all, and all manner of lands, tenements, rents, annuities, liberties, franchises, and other hereditaments, goods, and chattels, of what nature, kind or quality soever, real, personal, or mixed, or choses in action, and the same from time to time to sell, grant, devise, alien or dispose of: Provided, That the clear yearly value or income of the messuages, houses, lands, and tenements, rents, annuities, or other hereditaments, and the real estate of the said corporation, and the interest of money by them lent shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars, and also to make and have a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew at pleasure, and also to ordain, establish, and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations as shall ap pear necessary and convenient for the government of the said corporation, not being contrary to this charter or the Constitution and laws of the United States or of this Commonwealth, and generally to do for the well-being of the said corporation and the due management and ordering of the affairs thereof. SECTION 2. That no business of this corporation shall be transacted at any meeting unless a quorum of not less than seven members shall be present. SECTION 3. That nothing contained in this act shall in any wise affect, alter, or diminish the rights and interest of the said the Resolution hose company in the fire association of Philadelphia, but the said Resolution hose company shall have, hold, possess, and enjoy the same under the name of "The Resolution Hose Company of Philadelphia." Banking privil. SECTION 4. That nothing in this act contained shall be deemed to eges prohibited. authorize the said company to engage either directly or indirectly in any banking, commercial or manufacturing concern, but the object of this corporation shall be for the public good in time of fire. Reservation. SETCION 5. That the Legislature reserves the right to alter, revoke, or annul the privileges and charter hereby granted, whenever in their opinion the same may be injurious to the citizens of this Commonwealth in such manner that no injustice shall be done to the said corporators. JOHN S. RIEY, APPROVED-The fourth day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER No. 347. AN ACT Authorizing the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county to appoint 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 the authority of the same, That the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county be, and are Accounts to be authorized and empowered to appoint three auditors to open, re-audit, examined. settle, and adjust the accounts of William Gulick, Jesse M. Simpson, and George B. Youngman, former treasurers of said county. SECTION 2. That the said auditors shall, before entering upon their Auditors to be duties, take and subscribe the oath prescribed for county auditors, in sworn. the forty-sixth section of the act of the fifteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, entitled "An Act relating to counties, townships, and county and township officers, and the auditors, any two of whom when duly convened, shall be a quorum, shall have the same powers as are given county auditors in the said act, and make report of the accounts audited and adjusted to the said court, together with a statement of the balance due from or to the said treasurers, and the report shall be filed of record in the said court, and have the same effect and be subject to the same appeal as is given to reports of county auditors in the act above mentioned with the supplements thereto. SECTION 3. The said auditors shall be allowed out of the county Compensation. stock of said county the sum of two dollars for each day's necessary attendance on the duties of their office, and the amount payable to the auditors for their services and incidental expenses, and the costs of the attendance of witnesses before them, shall be paid out of the county stock, by an order drawn on the county treasurer by the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county aforesaid. APPROVED The fourth day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. Liens in new counties. Provisions of tended. No. 348. AN ACT Relating to judgments; relative to writs of estrepment; and the fees of sheriffs, and constables, and partitions. 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 in all cases of the erection of a new county out of part or parts of one or more other counties, where judgments were originally entered in the old county or counties, and have been or shall be transferred into the new, and therein shall be or shall have been proceeded in by scire facias within five years from the last rendition of judgment in the old county or counties, the lien thereof shall be continued and preserved as to real estate in the new county, although the same shall not have been revived in the old county: Provided, That this act shall not affect any case where the money has been distributed. SECTION 2. That the second section of the act entitled "An Act to certain act ex- prevent waste in certain cases within this Commonwealth," passed the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twentytwo, is hereby extended so as to apply to all cases where the writ of estrepment has issued or may hereafter issue, and the several Courts of Common Pleas in this Commonwealth, shall in all cases of estrepment, have power to hear the parties in a summary manner, and dissolve said writ or make such further order therein as may seem just and right. Additional Sheriff's fees. Fees of constable. Repeal. Repeal. SECTION 3. That the sheriff of each county, in addition to his other fees, shall be allowed the sum of two dollars for the appraisement and return of property, retained by any debtor under the provisions of the act of ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An Act to exempt property to the value of three hundred dollars from levy and sale on execution and distress for rent." SECTION 4. That the fees of each constable for the same service as that mentioned in the preceding, shall be one dollar. SECTION 5. That the proviso to the fourth section of the act of the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An Act relating to habitual drunkards," et cetera, which enacts "That no bona fide judgment or lien acquired against the property of any debtor, or any sale, or transfer of the property of such debtor, unless the same shall have been obtained, acquired or made with intent to evade the provisions of the said act, shall be avoided or defeated by the subsequent discovery that such debtor was insolvent at the time such judgment was obtained, lien acquired, or transfer made,” be, and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 6. That so much of the act of the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An Act relating to the commencement of actions, et cetera," as takes from the holder or holders of the titles to the land or parts thereof in partition, the right to take the same or parts thereof consecutively, according to the dates of their respective titles given by the act of the fifth of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, be, and the same is hereby repealed. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourth day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 349. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled "An Act to authorize the Governor to incorporate a company to make a lock navigation on the Youghiogheny river." 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 1 the act entitled "An Act to authorize the Governor to incorporate a Provisions of company to make a lock navigation on the Youghiogheny river," ap- certain act exproved the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-tended. four, be, and the same, with the supplements thereto extended, and the times mentioned by the fifth section of said act, for the taking stock and the commencement and completion of said improvement, be, and the same are hereby extended for another period of five and ten years, respectively, from and after the passage of this act. SECTION 2. That any defect or irregularity in the proceedings of Proceedings the commissioners appointed by the original act in taking subscription made valid. to and organizing the said company, and any defect or irregularity in the proceedings of the board of managers of said company in organizing and conducting the affairs of the same, so far as the said defects or irregularity may have proceeded from the neglect or omission of the said commissioners and board of managers fully to comply with the requisitions of any section of said act in regard to the opening of the books for the subscription of stock, or with the requisition of the proviso of said act, shall be, and the same are hereby remedied and supplied, and the acts and proceedings of the said commissioners and board of managers which were in contravention of the act, supplements, and provisos thereto, shall be, and are hereby declared valid and legal as if the same had been fully complied with. JOHN S. RHEY, APPROVED. The fourth day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. |