AN ACT SUPPLEMENTAL TO AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CLEVELAND AND PITTSBURG

RAILROAD COMPANY."

Approved 2d March, 1855. (P. L., 1855, page 63.)

SECTION 1. That the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad Company be and it is hereby authorized to sell any bonds held by it in payments for subscriptions made to the capital stock of said company, by the counties of Beaver and Allegheny, at such rates below par as may be agreed upon between said company and the parties purchasing the same: Provided, That no sale shall be consummated until the commissioners of the county which issued the bonds shall have by resolution, determined the lowest price at which said railroad company may sell the same, said resolution to be recorded in the minutes of their proceedings; and so much of any act or acts of assembly as is hereby altered or supplied, be and the same is hereby repealed.

AN ACT RELATING TO THE SUBSCRIPTIONS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY TO CERTAIN RAILROAD COMPANIES.

Approved 27th March, 1855. (P. L., 1855, page 129.)

SECTION 1. That the provisions of an act, entitled "An act supplemental to an act, entitled 'An act to incorporate the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad Company,'" approved the second day of March, 1855, be and the same are hereby extended to all railroad companies, to the capital stock of which companies subscription has been made by the county of Allegheny, on special contract or agreement with the county commissioners.

SUPPLEMENT TO AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF ACTIONS, APPROVED THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, 1836.

Approved 12th April, 1855. (P. L., 1855, page 213.)

SECTION I. That no person or company engaged in the business of forwarding or transporting goods, wares, and merchandise shall be made liable in any proceedings in attachments as garnishee or otherwise, when such goods, wares, or merchandise are in transitu, and at the time of service of process beyond the limits of this Commonwealth, without default, collusion, or fraud on the part of such person or company.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE ERECTION OF BRIDGES OVER CANALS AND RAILROADS.

SECTION I. That the provisions of the laws of this Commonwealth relative to the erection of bridges over rivers, creeks, or rivulets, be and the same are hereby extended to the erection of bridges over canals and railroads: Provided, That bridges erected under the provisions of this act shall not obstruct any canal or railroad over which such bridge may be erected: And provided further, That nothing in this act shall release railroad, or other companies, or the Commonwealth, from the requirements of existing laws.

A SUPPLEMENT TO THE ACT CONSOLIDATING THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.

Approved 21st April, 1855. (P. L., 1855, pages 266-267.)

SECTION 10. That hereafter no railroad company, whose road does or shall terminate within the city of Philadelphia, shall have the right or power to locate and construct that part of said road which shall extend within the limits of said

city, without first submitting the plans and surveys thereof, exhibiting the grades and routes, to the board of survey of said city, who shall have the power to conform the same as far as may be practicable, to the general plan and regulations of said city, as adopted at that time; and all charters authorizing the construction of any railroad within said city, shall be taken to be subject to the above restriction: Provided, That this shall not be construed to apply to any railroad already graded or laid with rails in said city, unless the route or grade thereof shall be altered.

AN ACT RELATING TO DAMAGES FOR INJURIES PRODUCING DEATH.

Approved 26th April, 1855. (P. L., 1855, page 309.)

SECTION 1. That the persons entitled to recover damages for any injury causing death shall be the husband, widow, children, or parents of the deceased, and no other relative; and the sum recovered shall go to them in the proportion they would take his or her personal estate in case of intestacy, and that without liability to creditors.

SEC. 2. That the declaration shall state who are the parties entitled in such action; the action shall be brought within one year after the death, and not thereafter.

AN ACT RELATING TO CORPORATIONS, AND TO ESTATES HELD FOR CORPORATE, RELIGIOUS, AND CHARITABLE USES.

Approved 26th April, 1855. (P. L., 1855, pages 328 and 329.)

SECTION I. That it shall not be lawful for any councilman, burgess, trustee, manager, or director of any corporation, municipality, or public institution to be at the same time a treasurer, secretary, or other officer, subordinate to the presi

dent and directors, who shall receive a salary therefrom, or be the surety of such officer; nor shall any member of any corporation or public institution, or any officer or agent thereof, be in anywise interested in any contract for the sale or furnishing of any supplies or materials to be furnished to or for the use of any corporation, municipality, or public institution of which he shall be a member or officer, or for which he shall be an agent, nor directly nor indirectly interested therein, nor receive any reward or gratuity from any person interested in such contract or sale; and any person violating these provisions, or either of them, shall forfeit his membership in such corporation, municipality, or institution, and his office or appointment thereunder, and shall be held guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall forfeit any sum not less than three times any advantage he may have derived by such offence, if any, and if no such advantage have been received, then any sum in the discretion of the court of quarter sessions of the proper county, not exceeding five hundred dollars for each offence: Provided, That private corporations heretofore incorporated, with any right or privilege in conflict with this section, shall not be affected thereby, until such corporation shall, by resolution, agree to adopt the provisions hereof, which it is hereby autnorized to do.

SEC. 2. That any person who shall contract for the sale or sell any supplies or materials as aforesaid, and shall cause to be interested in any such contract or sale any member, officer, or agent of any corporation, municipality, or institution, or give or offer any such person any reward or gratuity, to influence him or them in the discharge of their official duties, shall not be capable of recovering anything upon any contract or sale, in relation to which he may have so practiced or attempted to practice corruptly, but the same shall be void; and such party shall be liable to conviction for a misdemeanor in the court of quarter sessions of the proper county, and shall be fined three times the amount so given or offered corruptly, if ascertained, and if not ascertained, any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, in the discretion of said court.

(These two sections were repealed by section seventy-nine

of act March 31st, 1860, P. L., 451, and were supplied by sections sixty-six and sixty-seven of act March 31st, 1860, P. L., 400.)

SEC. 5. That no corporation other than such as shall have been incorporated under the laws of this State, nor shall any foreign government, potentate, or power, hereafter acquire and hold any real estate within this Commonwealth directly, in the corporate name, or by or through any trustee or other device whatsoever, unless specially authorized to hold such property by the laws of this Commonwealth: Provided, That the residence without the limits of this State of a portion of the members of any religious, literary, charitable, or beneficial society, or association otherwise qualified to hold real or personal estate within this State, shall not incapacitate such society or association from taking and holding such property, not exceeding the value limited by law.

AN ACT EXtending THE RIGHT OF TRIAL BY JURY TO CERTAIN CASES.

Approved 27th April, 1855. (P. L., 1855, page 365.)

SECTION I. That in all cases that may hereafter arise under the act of assembly regulating railroad companies, approved the nineteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, any party or parties who may be aggrieved by the report or award of viewers appointed under said act, may at any time, within thirty days after the confirmation of such report, appeal from the same to the court of common pleas by which said viewers were appointed.

AN ACT RELATING TO CORPORATIONS.

Approved 3d May, 1855. (P. L., 1855, pages 423 and 424.)

SECTION 1. That every charter of incorporation granted or to be granted shall be deemed and taken to be subject to the