Style.

Object.

Proviso.

Dividends.

Additional shares.

Lehigh Crane iron co. to sub

scribe stock.

law, by the name, style and title of the "Catasaqua and Folesville Plank Road company," with all the franchises, immunities, rights, powers and privileges granted, and subject to all the rules, regulations and restrictions, not inconsistent with this act, imposed by the said act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, and the said commissioners, or such of them as may have acted, shall then appoint a day and place for the subscribers to meet and organize the company. SECTION 3. That the said company when organized, may proceed to the construction of a plank road, with one or more tracks, from Catasaqua to Foglesville, in Lehigh county, by such route as the directors may deem most advisable: Provided, That if the said company do not commence the said plank road within three years from the passage of this act, and do not complete and open the same for use with at least one track, within three years thereafter, or if after completion the said plank road shall be suffered to go into decay and be impassable for the term of two years, then this charter, so far as regards any of the work not completed or suffered to go into decay, shall be null and void.

SECTION 4. That the said company at its annual meetings may fix upon days for declaring dividends and holding its annual meetings and elections, and also the number of directors to be chosen and to constitute a quorum to transact business.

SECTION 5. That in case one thousand shares of capital stock shall not be sufficient to complete the work, additional shares may be created for that purpoce by new subscription, sale, or otherwise.

SECTION 6. That it shall be lawful for the Lehigh Crane Iron Company to subscribe to and become a stockholder to the Catasaqua and Foglesville plauk road company.

W. P. SCHELL,

APPROVED-The fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred

and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 203.

AN ACT

To extend the limits of the borough of Frankford, in the county of Philadel phia, and to review a certain part of a state road in Chester and Berks counties.

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, That from and after the passage of this act the southern and eastern bouneastern bound- daries of the borough of Frankfort, in the county of Philadelphia,

Southern and

ford extended.

shall be so extended as to include all the lands within the following aries of Frankmetes and bounds, courses and distances, to wit: Beginning at a corner in the middle of Little Tacony creek, the present easterly line of said borough, it being a corner of lands of James D. Pratt and Joseph Deal; thence extending by the line of lands between James D. Pratt on the one side, and Joseph Deal, Anthony Wenzell, and Benjamin Stiles on the other side, south twenty-seven degrees fifteen minutes east two hundred and thirty-three perches, or thereabout, to the middle of Frankford creek; thence up the middle of said Frankford creek the several courses thereof to a point intersecting the centre of said Little Tacony creek, at its mouth, and that the various provisions now in force of the act entitled "An Act to incorporate the town of Frankford, in the county of Philadelphia," approved March seventh, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred, and its several supplements, and the various provisions of law now enforced in said borough, shall be extended and enforced in the said borough with its enlarged boundaries.

rated in the

SECTION 2. That so much of the said territory included by the pre- Part of the boceding section as has heretofore been incorporated in the borough of rough of WhiteWhitehall, shall become and be a part of the aforesaid borough of hall incorpoFrankford, for all intents and purposes, in fact and in law, as if said borough of portion had never been included within the bounds of said borough of Frankford. Whitehall, and from and after the passage of this act, all authority and jurisdiction whatever shall cease and determine to be exercised by the authorities of said borough of Whitehall over that portion of territory' hereby included in the preceding section.

SECTION 3. That all authority of levying, assessing and collecting Taxes in the taxes, or of whatsoever kind otherwise now exercised by the township of township of Oxford over that portion of territory included in the limits named in Oxford. the first section of this act, shall cease and determine from and after the passage of this act.

road.

SECTION 4. That Charles Downing, Richard Pimm, and William Commissioners Torbert, of East Caln township, in the county of Chester, be and they to locate a State are hereby appointed commissioners, to view, and if they think proper, alter the location of that part of the state road which passes through the lands of Thomas Matlock, James Batton and Ann Nichols, in said county of Chester, which was enacted by the act of the fourteenth of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, to which this is a supplement, which state road begins at or near the junction of the state road leading from Downingtown to Wilmington with the Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike at Downingtown, and extending to a point on the Conestoga turnpike, near David Masts', deceased, in Berks county.

SECTION 5. That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, Powers of said shall proceed according to the terms and conditions of the said act to commissioners. which this is a supplement, to the discharge of their duties, and the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by the said act of the fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, upon the commissioners then appointed, are hereby conferred upon the aforesaid commissioners: Provided, The said commissioners Proviso. shall have no power to act out of the county of Chester: And provided also, That all the expenses incurred by the said commissioners shall be paid by the commissioners of the county of Chester, by their order, drawn on the treasurer of said county.

SECTION 6. That the act of the fourteenth of April, Anno Domini Repeal. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, so far as it is inconsistent with this act, be and the same is hereby repealed.

missioners..

Meeting of com- SECTION 7. That the said commissioners, after taking the necessary qualifications, as prescribed by the act to which this is a supplement, shall meet on or before the first Monday in May next, or as soon thereafter as they or a majority of them may agree, and proceed to perform the duties of their appointment, and make an accurate report of their proceedings, within sixty days from the first Monday aforesaid.

W. P. SCHELL,

APPROVED-The fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred

and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

Guardians of

minor children of S. Thomp son, dec'd, to

sell real estate.

No. 204.

AN ACT

Relative to the sale of the real estate of Samuel Thompson, late of the borough of Pottsville, deceased; incorporating the Polytechnic college of the State of Pennsylvania; increasing the pay of the engineers on the Columbia and Philadelphia railroad, and Allegheny Portage railroad; and relative to the erection of a bridge across the Aramingo canal in Philadelphia county.

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, That Elizabeth C. Thompson, guardian of Emily and Heber Thompson, and Elijah Hammer, guardian of William and Lewis Thompson, the minor children of Samuel Thompson, late of the borough of Pottsville, deceased, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey, by sufficient deeds, either at public or private sale, which to the said guardians may seem best and most expedient, all the undivided interest of the said minor children in and to all or any tract of land situate in the townships of Coal or Shamokin in Northumberland county; also to sell at public sale and convey a certain messuage, tenement and tract of land situate in Walker township, Juniata county, containing two hundred and seventy acres, more or less, bounded by the Juniata river, lands of Adam Johnston, Isaac Shively's heirs, and late Kyle's heirs, and others; also a certain other messuage and tract of land situate in the said township of Walker, in Juniata county, bounded by lands of late James and Samuel Thompson, and now or late John Kingry, and others, containing seventeen acres and sixty perches, or thereabouts: Provided, however, That before any deed or deeds of conveyance shall be executed for either of the above described tracts of land, the sale or sales hereby authorized shall have been reported to and approved by the orphans' court of the counties where such lands are located, and the said guardians shall give bond, in such sum and with such sureties as the court of the county in which the

property sold is situated shall order and direct, for the faithful application of the proceeds of the real estate hereby authorized to be

sold.

SECTION 2. That Peter A. Browne, George H. Burgen, Garrick Corporators. Mallory, Morton M'Michael, John M'Intyre, John Agnew, John Tucker, Samuel Jones, and Matthew Newkirk, of the city of Philadelphia, John P. Verree, D. Francis Condie, Joseph S. Silver, Furman Sheppard, and Alfred L. Kennedy, of the county of Philadelphia, Henry A. Muhlenburg, of Berks county, David Landreth and Daniel M. Keim, of Bucks county, Francis W. Hughes, of Schuylkill county, Thomas H. Burrowes, of Lancaster county, Luther Kidder and John N. Conyngham, of Luzerne county, William Jessup, of Susquehanna county, George Smith, of Delaware county, Joseph Bailey of Perry county, James Hamilton, of Cumberland county, Joseph Henderson, of Washington county, and Daniel Agnew, of Beaver county, all in the State of Pennsylvania, and their successors, shall be and the same are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, under the name, style and title of "The trustees of the Polytechnic college of the State Style. of Pennsylvania," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts of record and elsewhere, and shall be competent and capable in law and in equity to take and to hold, to them and their successors, for. the use of the said college, lands, tenements, hereditaments, monies, Privileges. goods and chattels, of whatever kind, nature or quality soever, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, assurance, will, devise or bequest, from any person or persons capable of making the same: Provided, The same do not exceed the yearly value of ten thousand dollars, and the same to grant, bargain, sell, devise, alter, lease or dispose of, for the use of said college, and to erect such buildings as may be necessary, and generally to do all and singular the matters and things which it shall be lawful for them to do for the well-being of said college and the due managing and ordering the affairs thereof.

SECTION 3. That the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania for the Governor to be time being shall be ex-officio a member and the president of the said a member. board of trustees.

SECTION 4. That the trustees of said college shall have full power Seal.

to make and use a common seal, and the same to alter at their plea

Bure.

SECTION 5. That the said trustees shall hold their first meeting in Trustee meetthe city of Philadelphia, on the first Monday in May after the passage ing to be held in of this act; five of them shall constitute a quorum, who shall have Philadelphia. the power of transacting the business of the college, particularly of making by-laws and ordinances for the government thereof, of electing trustees in the place of those who may be removed by death, resig nation, or otherwise, of electing, appointing and removing the president, professors, and tutors of said college, and of contracting with them for their salaries, of appointing committees of their own body to carry into effect all and every the resolutions of the board, of appointing a president, secretary, treasurer, and whatever officers may be thought necessary for managing the concerns of the corporation: Provided always, That no ordinance or law shall be of force which shall be repugnant to this charter or contrary to the laws of the United States or of this State,

SECTION 6. That the object of said college shall be the education of Object. youth in the arts, sciences, languages, and literature, particularly mining, engineering, and the natural sciences, in their applications to the arts and manufactures, and the president and professors, or a majority

of them, shall constitute the faculty of the college, which faculty shall have the power of enforcing the rules and regulations adopted by the trustees for the government of the students, by rewarding or censuring them, and finally by suspending such of them as after due admonition shall continue disobedient and refractory, until a determination of the trustees can be had.

SECTION 7. That the faculty, by and with the approbation of the Faculty to grant board of trustees, or a quorum thereof, signified by their mandamus,

degrees.

Reservation.

Commissioners

shall have full power to grant degrees in the liberal arts and sciences to such students of the institution, and others, as by their proficiency in learning, or other meritorious distinction, they shall think entitled to them, and to grant to such graduates diplomas or certificates, under the common seal, and signed by the faculty, to authenticate and perpetuate such graduation.

SECTION 8. That the Legislature reserves the right to revoke, alter or amend the charter hereby granted, at any time they may think

proper.

SECTION 9. That from and after the passage of this act, the engineers on the Columbia and Philadelphia railroad and Allegheny Portage railroad shall receive fifty cents per day additional pay for their services.

SECTION 10. That the commissioners of the county of Philadelphia of Phila. co., to be and they are hereby authorized and required to erect a bridge over ereet a bridge the Aramingo canal, at Norris street, in the district of Kensington: over Aramingo Provided, That the estimated cost, plans, specifications, and so forth, of said bridge, shall be first approved by the county board.

canal.

APPROVED-The fifth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hun

dred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

Corporators.

No. 205.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Lackawanna Iron and Coal 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 George W. Scranton, Joseph H. Scranton, Selden J. Scranton, and Joseph C. Platt, of the county of Luzerne, and such other persons as shall be associated with them and their successors, be and the same are hereby erected into a body corporate and politic, by the name, style and title of "The Lackawanna Iron and coal company," with a capital