Corle. SECTION 10. That the Canal Commissioners be, and they are hereby Claim of required to examine the claim of Benjamin Corle, of Lycoming county, Benjamin for damages sustained on the West Branch division of the Pennsylvania canal, by reason of a breach in the same, and assess the amount of damages, if any, according to equity and justice, and make report thereof to the Legislature, as soon as practicable. SECTION 11. That all the right, title, claim, and interest of the Com- Estate of Louisa monwealth in and to the estate of Louisa Peneau, late of the borough Peneau vested in Augustus of Easton, in the county of Northampton, who died intestate, leaving Patier. no husband, issue, or known heirs, is hereby released to and vested in her son-in-law, Augustus Patier, of the said borough: Provided, That before the provisions of this act shall go into effect, all the costs, if any, attending this escheat, which may have been paid out of the treasury, shall be repaid and refunded to the State Treasurer, and also that the said Augustus Patier shall first pay to the Episcopal church of the said borough two hundred dollars, and to the new Lutheran church (called Christ's church) of said borough, the like sum of two hundred dollars, as intended by the said Louisa Peneau, in the directions given for her last will and testament, which she was prevented from executing by her sudden death. SECTION 12. That Andrew Jackson McBurney, and Margery McBur- Andrew Jackney, children of Mary McBurney, of Uniontown, Fayette county, State son McBurney of Pennsylvania, shall have and enjoy all the rights, benefits and advan- and Margaret tages of children born in lawful wedlock, and shall be able and capable McBurney legitimated. in law to inherit and transmit any estate whatsoever, as fully and completely to all intents and purposes as if he and she had been born in lawful wedlock, and shall be also capable to inherit any estate, right, or interest, which heretofore may have become vested or hereafter in their mother by virtue of any last will and testament or otherwise whatso ever. Greene co. SECTION 13. That so much of the township of Morgan, in the Independent county of Greene, as lies within the following boundaries, to wit: be- school district in ginning at Nathan Baker's; thence to George Baker's; thence to James Cower's; thence to Hiram Bane's; thence to John Lewis', Esq.; thence to Moses Jewell's; thence to Benjamin Bennett's; thence to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby erected into a new and separate common school district, and as such shall be entitled to all offices, rights, powers, and privileges, allowed by law, to other common school districts, and the elections thereof shall be held at the same place with the township in which the said district is included, and shall be conducted by the same officers who conduct the township elections, and in the same manner that other elections are conducted for school purposes, and the electors of the said district shall, at their next election, elect three persons as directors of said district, one to serve one year, one to serve two years, and one to serve three years, and successors of the said directors shall be elected annually and serve annually. WHEREAS, The Lewisburg and Jersey Shore turnpike road and bridge Preamble. company was incorporated for the purpose of making a turnpike from Lewisburg, in the county of Union, to a point on the Susquehanna river, opposite or nearly opposite Jersey Shore, in Lycoming county, and for erecting a bridge over the said river, at or near the town of Jersey Shore aforesaid: And whereas, The third section of said act provided that when the said bridge and road or either of them, is completed, the property thereof shall be vested in the said company, their successors and assigns forever, and the seventh section provides that if the said company Lewisburg and Jersey Shore turnpike and bridge co., refuse or neglect to commence the work on said road within five years after passing this act, or shall not within ten years thereafter complete the same according to the true intent and meaning of this act, then the privileges and franchises hereby granted, shall revert to the Commonwealth: And whereas, The said company constructed bridges over both branches of the Susquehanna river, opposite Jersey Shore, and constructed a turnpike road across the island, between said bridges, within the time specified in said act, and have been occupying and enjoying the same ever since; but failed to complete the balance of said turnpike road within the specified time as aforesaid; therefore, SECTION 14. That the name, style, and title of the said company shall hereafter be the Jersey Shore bridge company, and as such shall have perpetual succession and all the privileges and franchises incident to a corporation, as fully to all intents and purposes as the same are change of name. conferred by the act to which this is a supplement, and that the said bridges and turnpike road between the same shall be, and the same is hereby vested in the Jersey Shore bridge company, their successors and assigns forever: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall in any wise alter, change or effect any existing contracts, liabilities, rights or credits of said company, nor shall any suits pending abate or be abated by reason thereof. Ratio of votes. SECTION 15. That each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share not exceeding ten, and one vote for every five shares exceeding that number, and the said stockholders may at any annual election hereafter determine, by a majority of the votes cast, to reduce the num ber of managers to five, three of whom, with the president, or the whole number without the president, shall form a quorum for the transaction of business. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representative. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. No. 391. WM. F. JOHNSTON. Corporation. AN ACT To incorporate the Susquehanna Fire Engine Company, of the borough of Columbia, in the county of Lancaster; and to amend the charter of the Pennsyl vania Fire Company. 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 persons who constitute the Susquehanna fire engine company, of Style. Privileges. the borough of Columbia, in the county of Lancaster, or who shall SECTION 2. That the present officers of the company shall continue Present office:s in their respective stations until an election shall be made under this to continue in act, and the rules, by-laws, and ordinances now in force, not inconsis-office. tent with the laws of this State or of the United States, shall be valid until altered, amended or abrogated by the corporation. SECTION 3. That nothing contained in this act shall be deemed to Banking priviauthorize the said company to engage, either directly or indirectly, in leges prohibited. any banking, moneyed, commercial or manufacturing concern, or to act in any other way than a fire company. SECTION 4. That the Legislature reserves the power to alter, revoke Reservation. or annul the privileges and charter hereby granted, whenever in their opinion the same may be injurious to the citizens of the Commonwealth, in such manner however that no injustice shall be done to the corpo rators. SECTION 5. That so much of the third article of the second section Repeal. of an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Pennsylvania fire company and the Diligent fire engine company of Philadelphia," approved April first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, as provides that ten members shall constitute a quorum, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and that hereafter five members shall constitute a quorum. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. BENJAMIN MATTHIAS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight 4 hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 396. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled "An Act for the incorporation of the Pittsburg, Kittanning, and Warren Railroad Company," approved the fourth day of April, one thous eight hundred and thirty-seven. 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, Th Further powers. the said "The Pittsburg, Kittanning, and Warren Railroad Company" shall have full power and authority to locate, make, and construct a a railroad with as many tracks as they may deem expedient, with all the fixtures necessary for the regulation, management, and well-being e the same from the city of Pittsburg to Kittanning, and thence by the most direct and eligible route to the New York State line, with all the rights, privileges, and immunities, and subject to all the provisions and penalties provided for and enjoined by the said act to which this is a supplement. Time for commencing road extended. SECTION 2. That the time for commencing the construction of said railroad shall be, and is hereby extended to the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and for completing the same unt] the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and that the twenty-first section of the said act to which this is a supplement, be, and the same is hereby repealed. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eigh: hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 401. AN ACT To incorporate the Susquehanna and Erie railroad company. 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, Tuat Commissioners. Charles M. Reed, William Kelly, John A. Tracy, Milton Cortright, A. W. Brewster, Wilson King, Smith Jackson, Thomas Moorehead, Junior, A. Scott, Miles M. Caughey, John H. Walker, John Galbraith, and Prescott Metcalf, of the county of Erie, G. A. Nicolls and Henry A. Muhlenberg, of the county of Berks, William F. Packer, John Smith, Thomas Bennett, Robert Faries, John A. Gamble, and Elias S. Lowe, of the county of Lycoming, William Bigler, and Benjamin Hartshorne, of the county of Clearfield, Timothy Ives, of the county of Potter, William L. Dewart, of the county of Northumberland, Burd Patterson, of the county of Schuylkill, and John Tucker, Andrew M. Jones, Joseph R. Chandler, John Yarrow, James Traquair, Joseph M. Thomas, Henry Horn. Charles Henry Fisher, Henry M. Philips, John T. Smith, William F. Hughes, John Ridgway, Thomas P. Cope, Samuel V. Merrick, Alexander Cummings, Gideon Scull, John M. Ogden, George Williams, Benjamin Baker, John M. Kennedy, Charles Brown, Samuel H. Gillingham, Paul Thurlow, John J. M'Cahen, John H. Wallace, Josiah Randall, John C. Montgomery, Joseph B. Myers, and Peleg B. Savery, of the city or county of Philadelphia, or any five of them, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, to receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style, and title of "The Style. Susquehanna and Erie Railroad Company," with all the powers and subject to all the provisions and restrictions prescribed by an act regSubject to provisions of oerulating railroad companies, approved the nineteenth day of February, tain act. one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall be three Capital stock. million dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each, but the said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders at a meeting called for the purpose, increase the capital stock so much as in their opinion may be necessary to complete said road, and to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That the said company shall have the right to build and Powers of comconstruct a railroad from Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming, to pany. the city of Erie, said road to be commenced within two years from the passage of this act, and completed in seven years; the said road shall be constructed in like, good and substantial manner, and with a weight of rail at least equal to that of the Pennsylvania Central railroad, and of a gauge of four feet eight and one half inches, to correspond with the width of track of the Pennsylvania railroads. SECTION 4. That when forty miles of said road from Erie, eastward- Authority to ly, and forty miles from Williamsport, or from the end of the West construct a Branch canal, as the company may decide, westwardly, is fully com- branch road. pleted, the said company shall have the privilege of constructing a branch or lateral road from Erie to the Ohio State line, to connect with any railroad in the State of Ohio that may terminate at the Ohio State line; at that point the said branch or lateral road shall be of the gauge or width of track of four feet and ten inches, corresponding with the width of track of railroads in the State of Ohio. SECTION 5. That if a sufficient amount of the capital stock shall not Borrow money. have been subscribed, or paid in at any time during the progress of construction of said road to complete the same, the president and directors may borrow any sum that may be necessary for the purpose of completing said railroad, not exceeding the whole amount of the stock of the company, and may pledge the fee simple of all their property, rights, and privileges, as well as the tolls of said road, for the security and re-payment thereof. SECTION 6. That as soon as said company shall put under contract a branch road from Erie to the Ohio State line, said company shall put under contract, and proceed to construct eighty miles more of their main Further duties. |