to have and to hold the same to him and his heirs forever, as fully, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. Corporation. Style. Privileges. Proviso. Membership. No. 257. AN ACT To incorporate the Lebanon county Horse company for the detection of horse thieves and the recovery of stolen horses; relative to the Treverton, Mahonov, and Susquehanna railroad company; to the destruction of Woodcock in the county of Lebanon; authorizing the school directors of the borough of Lebanon to borrow money, and to occupy the buildings used by the female seminary in said borough for common school purposes; to certain election districts; amending the general Manufacturing law, so far as it relates to the counties of Dauphin, York and Adams; confirming the title to certain property in Philadelphia city; and authorizing the sale of the Baptist church in Mill Creek, Huntingdon 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 the Lebanon county horse company for the detection of horse thieves and the recovery of stolen horses, is hereby erected into a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of "The Lebanon county horse company for the detection of horse theives and the recovery of stolen horses," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, in all the courts of Pennsylvania and elsewhere, and shall be able to purchase, receive, have, hold and enjoy, to them and to their successors, lands, tenements, hereditaments, rents, annuities, franchises, goods and chattels, of what nature, quality, or kind soever, real, personal or mixed, or choses in action, and shall have power the same from time to time to sell, grant, alien and dispose of: Provided, That the clear yearly income of the lands and tenements, goods and chattels, shall not exceed three thousand dollars; and also to ordain, establish and put in execution such subordinate laws and regulations as shall appear necessary and convenient for the government of said corporation, not being contrary to the Constitution of the United States or of this Commonwealth, and generally to do all and singular such matters and things which to them it shall lawfully appertain to do, for the well-being of the said corporation and the proper management of its affairs. SECTION 2. That this company shall consist of all such persons as are now members, or shall hereafter be admitted as such agreeably to the by-laws of said society. SECTION 3. That the officers of the company shall consist of a Officers. president, secretary, and treasurer, and such others as the company may think proper to elect; the duties of said officers shall be particu larly set forth in the by-laws of said company. SECTION 4. That the officers shall be chosen by ballot, at a general Officers, how meeting of the said company, on the first Saturday of September an- chosen. nually, to continue in office for one year or until their successors be elected. SECTION 5. That the funds of this company shall be raised from Appropriation the payment for membership, fines, and other lawful means, and shall of funds. be exclusively appropriated to the payment of rewards offered for and expense incurred in detecting horse thieves and recovery of stolen horses, and defraying the necessary costs attending the meetings of the company. levied. SECTION 6. That if at any time the funds of this company should Deficiency, how be inadequate to its emergencies, such deficiencies shall be levied by an equal assessment upon every member of the company. SECTION 7. That until the election of officers aforesaid, pursuant to Present officers this act, the present officers of the company shall be and they are continued. hereby continued and confirmed. SECTION 8 That the Legislature reserves the right to alter, amend Reservation. or annul the charter at any time hereafter. SECTION 9. That the Treverton, Mahonoy and Susquehanna rail- Treverton, Maroad company, may establish its principal office for the transaction of honoy, and Susthe corporate business of said company, either in the town of Trever- quehanna Railroad Company. ton, or in the city of Philadelphia or the city of New York, and may elect any of its stockholders as managers of said company who are residents and citizens of the United States. SECTION 10. That from and after the passage of this act, no person shall shoot, kill, or otherwise destroy any woodcock, in the county of Lebanon, between the first days of January and July in each and every year. SECTION 11. That any person or persons offending against any of Penalty. the provisions of the preceding section, on conviction thereof before a justice of the peace, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a fine of five dollars, and all costs and charges, one-half of the fine to the use of the informer, who is hereby made a competent witness, and the other half to the directors of the poor of said county, for the use of the said poor. SECTION 12. That the school directors of the borough of Lebanon School Directors school district, in the county of Lebanon, be and they are hereby au- of Lebanon thorized to borrow any sum of money not exceeding the sum of five borough to borthousand dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent. row money. per annum, for the purpose of building, enlarging and repairing the school houses in said district. SECTION 13. That the buildings and lot of ground on the south- Certain build. east corner of Walnut and Water streets, heretofore occupied, owned and ing declared to used by the Lebanon female seminary, be and the same is hereby de- be a common clared to be a common school house, and to be used and taken into school house. possession by the school directors of said borough of Lebanon, upon condition that the said board of school directors pay a debt of four hundred and fifty dollars owing by said seminary to the Lebanon academy. SECTION 14. That if at any time hereafter the present trustees of Right to rethe said female seminary shall find it to be to the interest of the cause sume. of education, they shall have the right to resume the said property for South Lebanon eloction dis tricts. the purpose of re-establishing the said female seminary in the said building, but for no other use or purpose whatever, and especially not to be used as a dwelling for the family of the teacher or any other person. SECTION 15. That for all election purposes hereafter, the township divided into two of South Lebanon, in Lebanon county, shall be divided into two dis tricts, in the following manner, viz: by a line beginning at the middle of Market street, at the southern side of Lebanon borough, following the old Lancaster road to the Lebanon and Manheim plank road; thence following the said plank road to the bridge on the southern end of Joseph G. Bowman's land; thence from said bridge in as direct and near a line as possible, to a point midway between the house occupied by David S. Hammond and the big Mine Hill; and from said point in a straight line to the Lancaster county line, at or near the house occupied by Samuel Cox; and the qualified voters residing in the eastern district, shall hold their general and township elections as heretofore, in the borough of Lebanon, and the qualified voters of the western district shall hold their general and township elections at the public house of Isaac Beckley, and that the present election officers of said township shall appoint officers to conduct the election in the addi tional district hereby created, in the following manner, viz: the judge shall appoint an additional judge, and each inspector an additional inspector, who shall be voters of the district for which they are ap pointed. 1 Athens town SECTION 16. That the qualified voters of the township of Athens, ship, Bradford in the county of Bradford, shall hereafter hold their general, special and township elections at the school house near William Scott's in said township. county. act relative to SECTION 17. That the first section of the act to encourage manuConstruction of facturing operations in this Commonwealth, approved the seventh day of April, one thousand eight huudred and forty-nine, shall be so altered so far as relates to the counties of Dauphin, York, and Adams, as to permit companies established under the same to issue shares of stock of the value of ten dollars and upwards. manufacturing operations. Title to certain SECTION 18. That the title of the present owners of three certain lots confirmed. lots of ground situate on the west side of Ashton street, between Walnut and Locust streets, in the city of Philadelphia, and lying contigu ous to each other, containing in front fifty-seven feet, and in depth one hundred and ten feet, which lots were conveyed by the executors of the will of John J. Borie, deceased, to Oliver Evans and James G. Caldwell, by deed dated the thirtieth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, recorded in deed book S. H. F. number one, page four hundred and twenty-three, &c., be and the same is hereby confirmed and established, so far as the same might be defeasi ble by reason of the premises having been at one time held in trust for the New York and Schuylkill coal company. Baptist meeting bouse of Mill SECTION 19. That James Sloan, Samuel Grove, and John C. Watson, of Huntingdon county, be and they are hereby authorized to sell creek to be sold. and convey the Baptist meeting house of Mill Creek, in Huntingdon county, and the proceeds arising from such sale shall be for the use of said Mill Creek Baptist congregation: Provided, That said trus tees shall give security, to be approved by the orphans' court of Huntingdon county, for the faithful application of the proceeds of said sale. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 258. AN ACT To incorporate the Passyunk and Kingsessing Plank Road company; to the Waterford and Marion Mills Plank Road company; aut horizing the guardian of Mary Jane Swords, of Allegheny county, to sell certain bituminous coal lands; to the sale of a school house in Edinboro', Erie county; to coal dealers in Allegheny county; to the erection of a lock-up house and the collection of taxes in the borough of Manheim, Lancaster county; repealing the act declaring Choke creek a public highway; to the executors of Rudolph Herr, deceased; to the erection of a bridge over Blacklegs creek, in Indiana County; authorizing the Canal Commissioners to lease a certain water power in the borough of Tarentum; relative to a public highway in McKean county; and to the borough of Blairsville. 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 Pearson Sevrill, William G. Alexander, William Craig, Aubrey H. Smith, Wil- Commissioners. liam Hunter, John Leech, James C. Lafferty, Edward C. Bonsell, Peter B. Holstein, and Isaac Leech, junior, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and or ganize a company by the name, style and title of "The Passyunk and Name and style. Island road, in the county of Philadelphia, upon and along the said Location. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. one thousand shares, at twenty-five dollars each, with power, however, To erect gates and to take tolls. When to be to the said company, by a vote of the stockholders had at a meeting called for the purpose, from time to increase their capital stock to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That it shall be lawful for said company to erect and set up a gate or gates, and to levy and collect tolls from persons trav elling along or otherwise using the said road, at the rates prescribed in the act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, already referred to, and without further license, as soon as they shall have completed their said road. SECTION 4. That should said company fail to commence the road commenced and within two years and complete the same within the next four years completed. after the passage of this act, the provisions herein contained shall be null and void, except so far as the same may be necessary to settle up the affairs and pay the debts of said company. Power to extend road. Guardian of Ma. authorized to sell coal in mines. SECTION 5. That the Waterford and Marion Mills Plank Road company, are hereby authorized to extend their road from its present terminus to the located line of the Sunbury and Erie railroad, at or near Samuel G. Brotherton's mills. SECTION 6. That the guardian duly appointed by the orphans' court ry Jane Swords, of Allegheny county, of Mary Jane Swords, of Shaler towship, in the said county of Allegheny, a minor child of Thomas Swords, junior, deceased, is hereby authorized and empowered to grant, bargain, sell, and convey, at public sale, all or any part of the bituminous coal underlay. ing a tract of land belonging to the said minor, in the township and county aforesaid, together with all necessary privileges for removing the same; the said coal to be sold in fee or for any less estate, either by the acre or by the bushel, as taken from the mines, as the said guardian may think most for the advantage of his said ward, and the conveyance by the said guardian to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, shall invest him or them with a complete and perfect title to the said coal, according to the terms thereof, as effectual, to all intents and purposes, as if made by the said Mary Jane Swords, after she had attained her full age of twenty-one years: Provided always, That the said guardian shall report the said sale to the orphan's court of the said county, and obtain their approval of the same before executing any deed or conveyance therefor, and shall give bond with sufficient sureties, in such sum as the said court may direct, for the faithful appropriation of the proceeds of said sale to the use and benefit of his said ward, said bond and sureties to be also approved by the said court. Proviso. School directors SECTION 7. That the school directors of the borough of Edinboro', of Edinboro, E- in the township of Washington, and county of Erie, are hereby autho rie county, auth- rized to sell their present school-house or houses and site or sites, and orized to sell purchase other site or sites, and erect other building or buildings, for the purpose of their school or schools, and they are hereby authorized to levy such additional tax upon their district as may be necessary for the purpose, and to accept such donations for the purpose as may be made by any individual or individuals for the purposes aforesaid. school house and erect others. Coal haulers, Allegheny coun brand carts. SECTION 8. That from and after the passage of this act, any coal dealer or hauler in Allegheny county, who has had his wagon or cart ty, to weigh and weighed or branded according to the provisions of the ordinance of the councils of the city of Pittsburg of eighth March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in pursuance of an act of Assembly of twelfth April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, shall not be com pelled to have his or their wagon or cart measured in pursuance of the provisions of the act of twenty-third March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, but said branding and weighing shall be deemed sufficient for all purposes. |