Ferries and Shad fishries compensated Owners of and directors shall have power to agree with any owner or owners of ferries, or shad fisheries, that may be injured by the erection of said bridge, and to compensate them for any damage they may thereby sustain, and if they cannot agree with such owner or owners, then and in such case the said damages shall be ascertained and paid in the same manner as is provided for in the ninth section of this act: Provided, That no person shall receive any compensation for ferrying at any ferry which shall have been purchased and paid for by the said company, after the said bridge shall have been completed. Proviso Dividends Repair fund Oath When act shall take effect SECTION 15. And be it enacted, That the said president and directors shall also keep a just and true account of all and every the moneys received by their respective collectors of tolls for crossing the said bridge, and shall make and declare a dividend of the profits and income thereof, if any, among all the stockholders of the said company, deducting first therefrom all contingent costs and charges, and such proportion of said income as may be deemed necessary for a growing fund. to provide against the decay and for the rebuilding and repairing of said bridge, and shall on every first Monday in January and July, in each and every year, publish the dividend, if any to be made, of the said clear profits thereof, among the stockholders, and of the time and place, when and where the same shall be paid, and shall cause the same to be paid accordingly. SECTION 16. And be it enacted, That the president and all such officers as the managers shall direct, shall before he or they act as such take, an oath or affirmation for the due and faithful execution of the duties of his or their office. SECTION 17. And be it enacted, That this act shall not take effect or go into operation until the legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, shall pass a law appointing commissioners on their part, and vesting like power and authority in the subscribers to the said capital stock, of erecting a bridge at the place aforesaid, and of extending the same from shore to shore, with as full and ample powers, privileges, franchises and emoluments, as to the said company are hereby given, and subject to the same restrictions, limitations, provisos, and conditions as are herein contained. SECTION 18. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act Banking pro- contained shall be so construed as to authorize the said bridge company to exercise any banking privileges whatsoever, or to issue any notes in the nature of bank notes. hibited SECTION 19. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the company authorized to be created by this act, to contract debts or issue notes or other obligations for the payment of money, to an amount exceeding at any one time certain cases the amount of its capital actually paid in, and for any viola Directors, &c accountable for debts in tion of this section the persons who acted as president and directors at the time when such excess of debts was contracted, or such excess of notes or other obligations was issued, shall severally and jointly be responsible for all the debts and contracts of the said company. SECTION 20. And be it enacted, That if the said bridge Commenceshall not be commenced within five years, and completed ment and within ten years from the passing of this act, the charter here- completion by granted shall be void. SECTION 21. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the legislature at any time hereafter, to amend, alter, Legislative or modify this act whenever in their opinion the public good reservation shall require it. This re-engrossed bill having been three times read and compared in the House of Assembly, Resolved, That the same do pass. JOHN EMLEY, Speaker. This re-engrossed bill having been three times read in Council, Resolved, That the same do pass. JOSEPH PORTER, Vice President. STATE OF NEW JERSEY. *************** I, CHARLES G. McCHESNEY, secretary of state of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of an act passed March fifth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, by the legislature of this State, entitled "An act to incorporate the Alexandria Delaware bridge company," as taken from and compared with Seal OF THE the original, now on file in my office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and CHARLES G. McCHESNEY, insectiverous STATE OF NEW JERSEY. ***** THE Great Seal OF THE STATE OF *** I, WIMLIAM PENNINGTON, Governor of the State of New ****** Jersey, do hereby certify that Charles G. McChesney, Esquire, who hath signed the preceding certificate, and whose official seal is thereto annexed, is secretary of state of the State of New Jersey, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations; that the said signature is in the proper handwriting of the said Charles G. McChesney, and the seal his seal of office, and that the said certificate is in due form of law. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the great seal of the State of New Jersey to be hereunto affixed, at the city of Trenton in said State, this twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. By the Governor. WM. PENNINGTON. CHARLES McCHESNEY, Secretary of State. SECTION 3. WHEREAS, It is the opinion of farmers and others, acquaintnd with the habits of birds, that the great inProtection of crease of cut worms, other grubs and insects which infest birds in Berks gardens, orchards, fields, and forests, is chiefly owing to the decrease of insectiverous birds. And whereas, The severity county of the winters for the last few years, seems to call for some regulations for the protection of game during certain seasons of the year; Therefore, Protection of 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 from and after the time when this act will take effect, it shall not be lawful for any person within the county of Berks to shoot, kill, or destroy during the months of March, April, May, June and July, in each and every year thereafter, any robin, flicker, bluebird, woodpecker, thrush, or other insectiverous bird, blackbird only excepted, under a penalty of two dollars for each and every offence, to be sued for and recovered before any justice of the peace with all costs and charges, one-half of the said penalty for the use of the informer, and the other half for the use of the county. SECTION 4. That from and after the passage of this act no Pheasants, &c person shall shoot or otherwise kill, in the county of Berks, in Berks co any pheasant or patridge, between the first day of January and the fifteenth day of October, nor any woodcock between the first day of December and the fourth day of July, in any year hereafter. SECTION 5. No person shall, at any time, wilfully destroy the eggs or nests of any pheasant, patridge or woodcock within the said county. Eggs, &c SECTION 6. No carrier, huckster, victualler, inkeeper or Hucksters and any other person, shall have in his or her possession, or buy others prohior cause to be bought, or carry out of the said county for the bited vending purpose of supplying any market, any pheasant, patridge, game out of woodcock or squirrel, unless they shall have been shot or taken in the proper season. SECTION 7. Any person or persons offending against the provisions of the second, fifth and sixth sections of this act, on conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, shall forfeit and pay, for every such offence, a fine of ten dollars and all costs and charges, one half of the fine for the use of the informer, and the other half for the use of the county. season Penalty for violating law SECTION 8. That this act shall not prevent any person or Owners of persons from shooting or otherwise killing game or insec- lands priviletiverous birds on his, her or their own property, at any season ged of the year. SECTION 9. That this act shall not interfere with any existing law or laws to prevent trespass or the firing of guns near public highways. Not to prevent action of trespass SECTION 10. That this act shall take effect on the first day When to take of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and effect forty-two, and not before. SECTION 11. That from and after the passage of this act, Protection of no person shall kill, in the county of Lancaster, any woodcock game in Lanbetween the first of November and the first of July. caster co SECTION 12. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to fish with any Clinton co seine or nett in the waters of Fishing creek, in the county fishing with of Clinton, and any person so offending, upon conviction seins in Fishthereof before any justice of the peace in said county, shall ing creek proforfeit and pay a fine of not less than five dollars or more than t venty dollars, one half for the use of the informer, and the other half for the use of the poor of the township in which such offence shall be committed. WM. A. CRABB, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JN. H. EWING, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighth day of May, one thousand eight hibited hundred and forty-one. DAVID R. PORTER. Part of former law repealed [No. 138.] AN ACT Relative to the Union Academy of Doylestown, in the county of Bucks. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the seventh and eighth sections of the act of assembly, passed the sixteenth April, one thousand eight hundred and forty, entitled "A supplement to an act entitled an act for the organization of a new county, from parts of Venango and Armstrong to be called Clarion, passed the eleventh day of March, one thousand eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and for other purposes" be and the same are hereby repealed. SECTION 2. That the title to the lot of land and appurte Certain pro nances conveyed by Charles Meredith, in the year one thouperty vested sand eight hundred and thirty-four, to certain trustees, to be in trustees of held in trust for the use of the "Union Academy of Doyles. Doylestown town," in the county of Bucks, be and the same is hereby academy transfered to and vested in the trustees of said academy, and their successors in office elected in pursuance of the provisions contained in the act incorporating said academy, passed fifteenth April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, to have and to hold the same for the uses, trusts and purposes mentioned in the deed of trust above mentioned. WM. A. CRABB, Speaker of the House Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-This fifteenth day of May, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty-one. DAVID R. PORTER. |