purchasers thereof, their heirs or assigns, good and sufficient title, clear of all encumbrance, and that the proceeds of said sale be appropriated to the use of the fire companies in Hummelstown aforesaid. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twelfth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 243. AN ACT Authorizing the Canal Commissioners to examine the claim of Archibald Galbraith, for damages sustained on the Allegheny Portage railroad. 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 the Canal Commissioners be and they are hereby required to examine the claim of Archibald Galbraith, of Blair county, for damages for two horses killed at the head of plane number seven on the Allegheny Portage railroad, on the night of the eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and if the said commissioners shall find on such examination that the said horses were killed in consequence of the negligence or misconduct of the officers or agents of the Commonwealth, they shall assess the amount of damages, and report the same, with a statement of the facts, to the next Legislature: Provided, That no allowance shall be made except for the actual injury sustained, which shall be established by affidavit. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, APPROVED-The twelfth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. Speaker of the Senate. WM. BIGLER. 244. AN ACT To incorporate the Greencastle and Chambersburg Turnpike road company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Commissioners. Daniel Snively, George W. Zeigler, Archibald Fleming, James Davidson, James M. Brown, Abraham Hollinger, Samuel Frederick, Frederick Walk, Peter Brough, William B. Gabby, William Heyser, William Wallace, George J. Eyster, Martin Newcomer, James J. Kennedy, James C. McLanahan, of Franklin county, or any three of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, by the name, style and title of "The Greencastle and Chambersburg Turnpike Road company," with power to construct a turnpike road from the borough of Greencastle to the borough of Chambersburg, in said county of Franklin, on the bed of the present public road between said points, or so much therecf, and by such route as the said company shall deem most advantageous and useful, and subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto, so far as they are not inconsistent with this act. Style. Subject to provisions and re strictions of certain act. Capital stock. road. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of five hundred shares, at fifty dollars per share: Provided, That said company may, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as may be deemed necessary to complete said road and carry out the true intent of this act. Commissioners. SECTION 3. That if the said company shall not commence the conCompletion of struction of said road within five years after the passage of this act, and complete the same within ten years thereafter, this 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. W. P. SCHELL, APPROVED-The twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER No. 245. AN ACT To incorporate the Allegheny and Buffalo Run Plank Road 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 James Irvin, Moses Thompson, William Underwood, J. M. M'- Commissioners. Coy, William Hecklin, John Adams, John M. M'Minn, John B. Meek, P. B. Waddle, James Burnside, and James Antis, be, and they or any two of them are hereby appointed commissioners, to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, by the name, style and Style. title of "The Allegheny and Buffalo Run Plank Road company," with power to construct a plank or other artificial road, commencing at a point on the Bellefonte and Philipsburg turnpike, at or near James Antes', and thence on the most eligible ground to the Beaver mills; thence to Juliann; thence over the ridge to Philip B. Waddle's; thence to Centre Furnace and Boalsburg; subject to all the provisions and re- Subject to prostrictions 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, and the supplements thereto. visions and restrictions of certain act. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. one thousand shares, of twenty-five dollars each: Provided, That said Proviso. company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, have at a meeting called for the purpose, increase their capital stock, if it shall be deemed necessary to carry, out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That if said company shall not commence the construc- Commencement tion of said road in one year, and complete the same in three years and completion from the passage of this act, then this act shall be null and void, ex- of road. cept so far as the same may be necessary to wind up and settle the af fairs and pay the debts of the company. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twelfth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. Style. No. 246. AN ACT To incorporate a plank road company from Willow Grove, Montgomery county, to Germantown, Philadelphia county; to lay out and vacate certain streets in the borough of Bridgport, Montgomery county; correcting a clerical error in the act of April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, entitled "A supplement to the act incorporating White Hall, Philadelphia county," &c. 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 Commissioners. Jonathan Lukens, J. P. Tyson, William P. Heston, Abner Bradfield, Elias Kirk, Joseph C. Tyson, John Shaw, B. T. Hallowell, William Phipps, Samuel Wigfall, Nicholas Lavzeleu, Henry Morris, Joseph Lukens, Isaac Rittenhouse, George Rex, George Hamil, J. E Buck, Benjamin Morgan, Charles Hallowell, Garrett S. Hallowell, Jarrett Parson, Hallowell Twining, Ellwood Tyson, S. K. Tyson, Edward Unruh, Doctor Bolton, and John Michener, of Montgomery county, Gerwis Picking, Thomas Ray, George Carpenter, Samuel Unruh, Charles Gorgas, and Andrew M'Cullum, of Philadelphia county, or any five of them, are hereby appointed commissioners, to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, to be called "The Willow Grove and Germantown Plank Road company," with power to construct a plank road from Willow Grove in Montgomery county, to such point on the Germantown turnpike road in Philadelphia county, between James Gowen's, near Montarie and Broad street, as shall be Subject to pro- determined upon by the managers of said company, subject to all the strictions of cer- provisions and restrictions of "An Act regulating turnpike and plank road companies," approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto, except that portion of the eleventh section which reads " if a plank road, the same shall be opened of any width not exceeding forty-feet," shall apply to this company thus-" of any width not exceeding fifty feet," and that portion of the twelfth section which reads "whenever such company shall have finished five miles or more,' "shall apply to this company when two miles or more shall be finished, and that portion of the thirteenth section which discriminates in favor of wheels of four inches in width and upwards, shall not apply to this company: Provided, That the consent of the council of the borough of Germantown shall be obtained before said company shall occupy any street, or any portion of any street, now open to public use in said borough. visions and re tain act. Proviso. Capital stock. Rights of com pany. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of fifteen hundred shares, of twenty-five dollars each: Provided, That said company may from time to time by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase the capital stock, if it shall be deemed necessary to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That the company shall have the right to construct the road upon the bed of roads already open, or open a new road for that purpose, or partly upon the bed of roads now open and partly on a road to be opened for that purpose, and if said road shall cross any turnpike or railroad, the said plank road company shall have the right to keep the said crossings in good repair. SECTION 4. That if said company shall not commence the construc- Commencement tion of the said road within three years from the date of the passage and completion of this act, and complete the same within five years, thereafter, this act of road. shall be null and void, except so far as may be necessary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of said company. SECTION 5. That all the streets, roads, lanes and alleys, laid out on Streets in the the south-east side of Ford street, in the borough of Bridgeport, by borough of the commissioners named in the twenty-second section of the act of Bridgeport. the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand, eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An Act to incorporate the village of Bridgeport, in the county of Montgomery, into a borough," excepting thereout Coates street, be and the same are hereby vacated, and the report of the said commissioners so far as it relates thereto, except as before excepted, set aside, and the said commissioners, or any three of them, are hereby authorized and required to lay out Ford street at the width of eighty feet, and to straighten the same so as to make it parallel with said Coates street, and to lay out streets south-east of said Ford street, parallel with said Coates street; and they are further authorized and required to straighten Fourth street, and to lay out the same so as to strike a point at or near the barn of Samuel Coates, and thence to run the same at right angles with said Coates street, and to lay out streets south of Fourth street, at right angles with said Coates street, and between Fourth street and the river Schuylkill, as shall be most convenient to the public; and they are further authorized to vacate Spring street, or a part thereof, aud to lessen the width of Second street west of De Kalb street; the said commissioners shall, within the space of one year from the passage of this act, make report of their proceedings to the court of quarter sessions of said county of Montgomery, which report shall be accompanied with a plan or plot of all the streets, lanes and alleys laid out by them in pursuance of this act, upon which they shall specify the names which they have adopted for said streets, lanes and alleys, with such other matters as may be necessary to form a complete plot of the same, and the said report shall be recorded in the recorder's office of said county, and a certified copy thereof shall be evidence in all matters in which such record is pertinent, and the streets, lanes and alleys so laid out, shall from thenceforth be opened for public use, in the same manner as if they had been laid out by the order of the court in the usual way, and each of said commissioners shall receive the sum of one dollar and fifty cents for every day they shall be employed in their duties aforesaid, which shall be paid by the corporation of said borough of Bridgport; and if any person shall sustain any damage by reason of the laying out or widening of any of the streets, lanes or alleys, in pursuance of this act, he, she or they, shall be entitled to recover the same, in the same manner as if such streets, lanes and alleys had been laid out in pursuance of law by the court of quarter sessions of said county. SECTION 6. That the word "June," in the sixth section of the Sixth section of act of April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, pamph- 1850, changed. act of April 9th, let laws one thousand eight hundred and fifty, page four hundred and nineteen, entitled "A supplement to the act incorporating White Hall, in the county of Philadelphia, and relating to Delaware avenue,” &c., be altered to "January," (it being a clerical error,) and that any all proceedings had under said sixth section and the act to which this... |