SECTION 6. That whenever said company shall have finished two Gates and toli. miles or more of said road, they shall have power to erect gates and receive tolls agreeably to conditions and restrictions of sections twelve and thirteen of an act, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. SECTION 7. That if said company shall not commence said road Commencement within three years, and complete three miles of the same from the and completion eastern end thereof, within five years after the passage of this act, this of read. act shall be null and void except so far as the same may be necessary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of said company. SECION 8. That the qualified voters of the township of Roxborough, Roxborough tp., in the county of Philadelphia, shall at the time and place of holding Philadelphia co. the township election on the third Friday of March next, and annually thereafter, elect one citizen supervisor of the roads, whose duties shall be to open, repair, and keep in good order all the roads within the said township of Roxborough, and he shall be entitled to one dollar and fifty cents per day, for each and every day that he shall be engaged in the duties of his office, any act to the contrary is hereby repealed. SECTION 9. That all the requirements and provisions contained in Fees for beam the third section of the act of the eleventh day of March, eighteen and patent balhundred and forty, fixing the fees for adjusting and sealing platform ances. scales be, and the same is hereby extended and applied to all beam or patent balances in the city and county of Philadelphia. SECTION 10. That from and after the passage of this act, the polls Close of polls. of Tuscarora election district, Bradford county, shall be closed at five o'clock, P. M. SECTION 11. That hereafter the qualified voters of Shamokin town- Shamokin tp., ship, Northumberland county, shall elect at their usual place of hold- Northumbering the spring elections, in the spring of eighteen hundred and fifty- land co. three, two supervisors in and for said township, and all acts passed heretofore in relation to the supervisors in said township, be, and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 12. That hereafter the general, special, and township elec- Washington tp., tions in the township of Washington, in the county of Wyoming, shall Wyoming eo. be held at the Baptist church on Russel Hill, in said township. estate. SECTION 13. That Alexander W. Blaine, guardian of the estates Alex. W. Blain respectively of James Crawford, B. F. Crawford, Josephine Crawford, authorized to and Edwin Crawford, minors and heirs of William Crawford, late of sell certain real the township of North East, in the county of Erie, deceased, be, and he is hereby authorized to sell, convey, and dispose of at public or private sale, in fee simple, all the share or shares, estate and interest of his said wards, or any of them, in any lands, tenements or hereditaments, situate in the township of North East aforesaid, to receive the purchase money therefor, to acquit, and forever discharge the purchaser or purchasers, and to make, execute, and deliver in due form of law, all necessary, and proper deeds, acquittances and other assurances to the said purcha ser or purchasers, for the lands, tenements, or hereditaments, so sold and conveyed. SECTION 14. That the provisions of the tenth section of an act of Chancery the General Assembly of the Commonwealth, entitled "An Act ex- powers extentending the chancery powers of, and to the jurisdiction and proceedings ded to Erie co. in certain courts, passed April tenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, be, and the same are hereby extended to the county of Erie, to have the same force and effect as if the county of Erie had been originally named in said section. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.. WM. BIGLER. No. 125. AN ACT To incorporate the Shrewsbury and Hopewell plank road company, of York county; to authorize the school directors of Clarksville, Mercer county, to sell a certain school house and lot; and relative to the salary of the port physician 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 Corporators. Joel Mitzel, Henry Latimer, Edie Patterson, Robert Richey, James Style. Location. Subject to provisions of cer tain act. Provise. Commissioners Capital stock. Gerry, Simon Klinefelter, William Mitzell, Isaac Koller, George Hammond, George Brasser, Cornelius Collins, Isaac Beck, John Leib, A. H. Brown, Samuel Grove, Jonathan Ruhl, Thomas Jordan, and Archibald Thompson, and all and every other person or persons becoming members of the company to be styled and titled by the name of the Shrewsbury and Hopewell plank road company, with power to construct a plank road commencing at the crossing of the Baltimore and Susquehanna railroad, at or near Klinefelter's switch at said railroad, in Shrewsbury township, York county, thence through the borough of Shrewsbury to the old Baltimore road, on lands of Edie Patterson, thence through the borough of Mechanicsburg to the Hopewell mills, in Hopewell township, York county, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, excepting so much of the eleventh section of said act limiting the raise or fall to an angle of three degrees with a horizontal line: Provided, That it shall not exceed an angle of five degrees with a horizontal line. SECTION 2. That the first five persons named in this act, or any three of them shall be, and they are herby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize said company by the name, style, and title aforesaid. SECTION 3. That the stock of said company shall consist of one thousand shares, of twenty-five dollars each: Provided, That said company may at any time by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their judgment may be necessary to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. house. SECTION 4. That the school directors of Clarksville school district, School directors in the county of Mercer, are hereby authorized and empowered to sell of Clarksville to at public or private sale, for such price as they deem fair, the school sell school house and lot of ground lying at the junction of Orchard street with South street in said borough of Clarksville, and to make and execute a deed therefor to the purchaser on the payment of the purchase money, and the proceeds of such sale shall be expended in the purchase of another lot and the erection of a new building for school purposes, and this section shall not be subject to any enrolment tax. SECTION 5. That from and after the passage of this act, the salary Salary of port of the port physician of the port of Philadelphia shall be eight hun- physician. dred dollars, payable in equal quarterly payments. W. P. SCHELL, THO. CARSON, APPROVED-The eleventh day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 126. AN ACT To legitimate John James M'Kee; erecting a separate election district in the borough of York; relative to the Odd Fellows' hall association, of the borough of Norristown; to the borough of Lawrenceville, in Allegheny county; to the borough of Chambersburg, Franklin county; to the destruction of deer in the county of Tioga; to the settlement of accounts of township officers in the county of Pike; to incorporate the Union hall association of Unionville, in Chester county; to reduce the capital stock of the Columbia bank; and for the relief of William Duchman. 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 James John James M'Kee, a child and son of Catharine Dubbs, of the bo- M'Kee legitirough of Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin, shall have all the rights mated. and privileges of a child born in lawful wedlock, so far as may be requisite to enable him to inherit and transmit any estate whatsoever of his said mother, as fully and effectually as if the said John James M'Kee had been born in lawful wedlock. York, erected. SECTION 2. That all those portions of the North and South wards West ward, in of the borough of York, lying west of the Codorus creek, are hereby the borough of constituted a separate district, to be styled the West ward, and that the elections for said district shall be held at the house of Daniel Motter, and that John W. Slosser shall be the judge, and Frederick Zorger Election of officers. and Edward C. Lauman the inspectors, to hold the first election under this act: Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to interfere with the common school districts as at present arranged in said borough of York. SECTION 3. That at the ensuing election the voters of said ward shall elect one justice of the peace, and all officers required by the other wards of said borough of York. Old Fellows' SECTION 4. That each and every share of stock held by any stockhall association holder in the Odd Fellows' hall association, of the borough of Norrisof Norristown. town and county of Montgomery, upon which any instalment remains due and unpaid, may, at the pleasure of the board of trustees, be declared forfeited to said corporation, and all moneys paid upon the shares so forfeited shall be the property of the said corporation : Provided, however, That twenty days' notice of said forfeitures hall be given to such stockholders either personally or by advertisement in one weekly newspaper published in the borough of Norristown. Proviso. Collins tp., Allegheny co. Act regulating boroughs ex tended to Chambersburg. Repeal. Settlement of SECTION 5. That the qualified voters of that portion of Collins township, Allegheny county, now included in the borough of Lawrenceville, by an extension of said borough limits, under the act of Assembly of twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, shall be entitled to vote at the next and all ensuing elections of borough officers in said borough. SECTION 6. That the provisions of the act regulating boroughs, passed the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, be, and they are hereby extended to the borough of Chambersburg, in the county of Franklin. SECTION 7. That the first section of the act of Assembly, approved the ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, entitled "An Act to prevent the hunting of deer with dogs in the counties of Tioga, Schuylkill, Potter, and Elk, in the townships of Armagh and Bratton, in the county of Mifflin, and in the townships of Blair, Frankstown, Huston, and North Woodbury, in Blair county," be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as relates to the county of Tioga. SECTION 8. That from and after the passage of this act, the settlesupervisors' ac- ment of the accounts of the supervisors and other officers of the several counts in Pike townships in Pike county, be made annually on the third Tuesday of March. co. Preamble. Corporators. Style. Privileges. WHEREAS, Certain citizens of this Commonwealth, hereinafter named, have associated together for the purposes of benevolence and charity, and have, with certain moneys, purchased a lot or piece of ground situate in the village of Unionville, Chester county, and erected on the same a large three story brick hall for the accommodation of the Order of Odd Fellows, and the citizens of the village and its vicinity generally; therefore, SECTION 9. That J. Dowdall, C. L. Seal, James Smith, W. S. Collier, J. D. Chambers, and their successors, and all persons who now are or may be hereafter associated with them, be, and they are hereby created and erected into a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name style and title of "Union hall association," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity and elsewhere, shall be able and capable in law and equity, to take and hold, to them and their successors, either by gift, grant, devise or lease, any lands or real estate for the use of the said association, and also to take and hold for the use of said association, any goods and chattels, sum or sums of money, by gift, grant, bargain, and sale, will, devise, or bequest, from any person or persons whatsoever, capable SECTION 11. That the government of the aforesaid association and Government of the management and disposition of its affairs and property, shall be corporation. vested in such officers as the constitution and by-laws of the said associa tion may direct: Provided, That a board of trustees, to consist of not Proviso. SECTION 12. That this corporation shall have power and authority By-laws. thorized to reduce capital. SECTION 13. That it shall and may be lawful for the directors of the Directors of CoColumbia bank to reduce the capital stock of the said Columbia bank, lumbia bank aufrom three hundred and seven thousand three hundred dollars to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which sum shall hereafter be held and estimated as the capital of the said bank for all banking purposes, subject to the provisions of the seventeenth and eighteenth sections of the act entitled "An Act regulating banks," approved the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. SECTION 14. That the State Treasurer be directed to pay to Wil- Wm. Duchman. liam Duchman, late recorder of Lancaster county, one hundred and twelve dollars and twenty-seven cents: Provided, Such amount shall be found to have been overpaid by him, on the final settlement of his account by the Auditor General. W. P. SCHELL, APPROVED-The eleventh day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. |