Proviso. shall always be opened for the free admittance of citizens of this Commonwealth desiring to inspect the same: And provided further, That they shall be returned to the Commonwealth when desired. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. New Bedford erected into a borough. Elections. No. 387. AN ACT To incorporate the town of New Bedford, Lawrence county, into a borough. 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 town of New Bedford, in the county of Lawrence, be, and the same is hereby erected into a borough to be called the borough of New Bedford, under and subject to all the provisions not herein named of an act entitled "An Act regulating boroughs," approved the third day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, bounded as follows: beginning on the Ohio State line, the south-west corner of a farm owned by the heirs of James McCaughy, deceased; thence east eighty-five chains and sixty-six links to a white oak tree, south-east corner of John H. Anderson's farm; thence north ninety-five chains and forty-five links to a swamp oak; thence north twenty-two chains to a post: thence west eighty-one chains and twenty-one links to a post on said State line, the north-west corner of a farm owned by heirs of Robert Steen, deceased; thence south along said State line to the place of beginning. SECTION 2. That the citizens of said borough entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, having resided one calendar month preceding the election, shall on the third Friday in May next hold their first election, and annually thereafter on the third Friday of March, and said borough shall be a separate election district for school purposes, and for the levy and collection of county rates and taxes. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, APPROVED-The twenty-third day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 388. AN ACT Authorizing the incorporation of the Lawrenceville and Oswaya Railroad Com pany. 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 John Ryon, James Lowrey, Peter B. Guernsey, A. C. Bush, Levi Bige- Commissioners. low, H. W. Bostwick, A. B. Dickison, be, and the same are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style, and title, of "The Lawrenceville and Style. Oswaya Railroad Company," with all the powers and subject to all the subject to proprovisions and restrictions prescribed by an act entitled "An Act regu- visions of cerlating railroad companies," approved the nineteenth day of February, tain act. one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, except so far as they are hereby altered and supplied. Capital stock. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of eight hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That said company may, Proviso. from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion may be necessary to complete the said road and to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That said company shall have the right to build or con- Further powers. struct a railroad with a single or double track, beginning at Lawrenceville or some other point on the Tioga railroad, near the State line in Tioga county; thence by the best and most practicable route through the county of Potter to Smethport or Ceres, in the county of M'Kean, or any point on the Allegheny river in said county. SECTION 4. That whenever the parties cannot agree upon the dam- Damages. ages claimed either for lands or materials taken by said company in the prosecution of their work, the mode of proceeding in regard thereto shall be the same in all respects as is provided for in section second of the act passed the sixth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, regulating the course of proceedings in the case of the Legget's Gap railroad company. SECTION 5. That if said company shall not commence the construc- Commencement tion of said road within three years, and complete and open the same and completion for use with at least one track within ten years, then this charter shall of road. be null and void. APPROVED-The first day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. Preamble. to refund to No. 389. AN ACT For the relief of James and William Patten, and William Wharton, of Turbett township, Juniata county; incorporating the Building Association Fire Insarance Company of Philadelphia, to authorize Job Mann, and Josiah E. Barclay to make and execute a deed; relative to Fire Insurance company of Northampton; and to the supervisors of Jackson township, Huntingdon county; to fill vacancies in the convention, at Philadelphia, on fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WHEREAS, The commissioners of Juniata county did on the twentyfirst day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, proceed to appraise and classify the lands of James and William Patten, and William Wharton, of Turbett township, Juniata county, according to the provisions of the act of Assembly, passed April tenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and did rate the same at number four, and so returned it to their clerk : And whereas, The said clerk in making out the necessary certificates did through a clerical error classify said lands as number three, which said error was not perceived until after said parties had paid into the State Treasurer's hands the whole of the purchase money and interest accruing on said lands by virtue of said erroneous classification: And whereas, The aforesaid commissioners of Juniata county, have under their hand and seal of office set forth said error and prayed that it be corrected; 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 State Treasurer the State Treasurer of this Commonwealth is hereby authorized to refund to the said James and William Patten, the sum of thirty-eight dollars and fifty-six cents, and to the said William Wharton, the sum William Patten of seventy-nine dollars and forty-six cents, out of moneys in his hands not otherwise appropriated, said sums of money, being the amounts erroneously paid into the State treasury, in pursuance of the aforesaid erroneous classification of said clerk. James and certain moneys. Corporators. Style. Privileges. SECTION 2. That William Hart Carr, Daniel L. Miller, Charles Hollowell, John G. Brenner, Samuel E. Stokes, Hulings Cowperthwait, George Howell, Charles Megargee, James R. Ludlow, Augustus Heston, John W. Horner, Ellis S. Archer, A. W. Harker, George W. Watson, Benjamin F. Curtis, Charles J. Thomas, Edward C. Markley, James B. M'Farland, Edward Hartshorne, William G. Mentz, Frank Desilver, Marmaduke Moore, John Y. Rushton, Charles C. Dunn, Samuel W. Weer, Caleb Clothier, William D. Parrish, Thomas S. Newlin, Arthur U. Howell, Francis G. Smith, M. D., and their associates, be, and the same are hereby incorporated into a company under the name, style, and title of the "Building Association Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia," for the purpose of making fire insurances and transacting the necessary business connected therewith, subject to all the liabilities and entitled to all the privileges contained in an act to incorporate the "Philadelphia Insurance Company," approved the seventh day of February, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, excepting so far as may be altered by the subsequent section of this act. SECTION 3. That the first named twenty-seven persons in the fore- Board of direcgoing section shall constitute the first board of directors, with power to tors. ill any vacancy that may occur by death or resignation, and until a new board is chosen; the capital stock of said company shall consist of four housand shares of fifty dollars each share, payable in such sums and it such times as the board may direct; the number of the board of diectors shall be twenty-seven, to be chosen annually; said board shall have full power to make by-laws, rules, and regulations for the governnent of the institution, and to alter and amend the same at pleasure: Provided, however, That no by-law, rule, or regulation shall be repugnant to the Constitution or laws of the United States, or of this Commonwealth. conveyance. SECTION 4. That Job Mann, and Josiah E. Barclay, administrators, Administrators with the will annexed, of Samuel M. Barclay, late of the borough of Bed- of Samuel M. ford, county of Bedford, and State of Pennsylvania, deceased, or the Barclay, to exesurvivor of them, be, and are hereby authorized and empowered to make cute deeds of and execute deeds of conveyance to purchasers of real estate, in all cases where sales of real estate had been made by the testator, in his lifetime, but wherein no deeds had been executed to the purchasers; all such deeds so thereof made by said administrators, or the survivor of them, to have the same force and legal effect, and vest the same title in the vendees as could be had and obtained by proceeding in the Orphans' Court to enforce the specific execution of the contract. pany not exclu SECTION 5. That no person shall be excluded from being a witness Members of fre in any action, prosecution, or proceeding which has been or may be in- insurance comstituted, in which the Fire insurance company of Northampton county, ded from being is party, on record or in interest, by reason of such person being or witnesses. having been a member of said company, nor on account of such person or his property being subject to the payment of any assessment, or liable to the payment of any contribution, expense, or penalty under the charter, by-laws, rules, or regulations of said company. SECTION 6. That the supervisors of Jackson township, Huntingdon Supervisors to county, are hereby authorized to issue bonds on the credit of the town- issue bonds. ship in sums not less than one hundred dollars, and to an amount not exceeding two thousand dollars, payable in four equal annual payments; the amount realized from the sale of said bonds to be applied to the making of a State road through said township, and the present supervisors, and their successors, are hereby authorized and required to assess a tax, annually, sufficient to repair the roads in said township, and pay said bonds as they may fall due. SECTION 7. That in case of a vacancy occurring in the representation Vacancy in the of the State to the convention to be held on the fourth of July, in the convention of city of Philadelphia, for the purpose of considering on the expediency 4th of July. of having one or more monuments erected in Independence Square, the Governor or acting Governor shall have power to fill such vacancy. APPROVED-The first day of May, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. Corporation. Style. Privileges. Proviso. Quorum. Banking privil No. 390. AN ACT To incorporate the Ringgold Hose Company of Philadelphia. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repres tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assemb 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 act, or shall at any time hereafter be elected members of the assoc tion called the Ringgold hose company of Philadelphia, shall be, ani they are hereby created and declared to be one body politic and corporate, by the name, style, and title, of "The Ringgold Hose Company of Philadelphia," and by the same name shall have perpetual succe sion, 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 l all 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, released, devised, or otherwis conveyed to the said the Ringgold hose company of Philadelphia, or to any person or persons for their use or trust for them, and the same lands. tenements, 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, enfeoffments, 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, or renew at pleasure, and also to ordain, establish, and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations as shall appear 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 shail be present. SECTION 3. That nothing in this act contained shall be deemed to eges prevented. 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. |