No. 270. AN ACT To incorporate the Hinkletown and Soudersburg Turnpike Road company; authorizing the German Reformed congregation of Lancaster city to borrow money and sell real estate; authorizing the Pleasant Grove Division of Sons of Temperance to wind up its affairs; relative to the Mercer and Shenango Plank Road company; and relating to elections in the borough of Connells ville. 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 Ephraim Carpenter, John Vogan, Marks S. Groff, E. G. Groff, Jacob Commissioners. F. Herr, Martin Beck, and Allen Summy, 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 Style. "The Hinkletown and Soudersburg turnpike road company," with power to construct a turnpike road from the village of Hinkletown, in the county of Lancaster, by way of Vogansville, Bareville, and Fairview, to the Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike, near Souders- Location. burg, in said county, subject to the provisions and restrictions of an Subject to proact regulating turnpike and plank road companies, passed the twenty- visions of cersixth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and tain act. forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto, and with power to construct a branch or branches from any point on the main stem of said road to the Philadelphia and Columbia railroad: Provided, That such branch or branches shall not be of a greater length than five miles. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. four hundred shares, at fifty dollars each, and by a vote of the stockholders, called for the purpose, to increase the same to eight hundred shares, if the same shall be deemed necessary to carry into effect the true intent and meaning of this act. Proviso. SECTION 3. That if the said corporation shall not commence the When to be construction of said road within two years from the passage of this act, commenced and and complete the same within ten years from the passage of the same, completed. this act shall be null and void, except so far as the same shall be necessary to close and settle the affairs of said company: Provided, That Proviso. when two or more miles of said road shall be completed and approved of, as provided by the general act and the supplement thereto, the said corporation shall be authorized to receive toll therefor. to sell real es SECTION 4. That the ministers, trustees, elders and deacons of the German ReGerman Reformed congregation of Lancaster city, be and they are formed congrehereby authorized and empowered to grant, bargain and sell, any part gation, Lancasof the real estate of said corporation, as they may deem right and ter, authorized proper, and to borrow money, and secure the same by executing bonds tate. and mortgages, or confessing judgments, on the real estate of said corporation: Provided, That the proceeds of such sale or sales, loan or Proviso. loans, shall be applied to the finishing of the new church edifice now being erected by said corporation, or the payment of the debts due on said new building, and to no other purpose whatever. SECTION 5. That Jacob Fite, Thomas S. Hoopes, and William M. Way, trustees of Pleasant Grove Division of the Sons of Temperance Trustees Pleas- number three hundred and eighty-six, be and they are hereby authoant Grove divis-rized to sell at public sale, all the real estate of said division, and after perance, author-paying the expenses incident to the sale, to apply the proceeds thereof, ized to sell real to the payment of the debts due by the division, and after such pay ion Sons of Tem estate. Proviso. Mercer and She ment to distribute the remaining proceeds pro rata among the subscribers who have paid their subscriptions: Provided, That before such sale, the said trustees shall give security, to be approved by the court of common pleas of Lancaster county, for the faithful application of the proceeds thereof. SECTION 6. That the Mercer and Shenango plank road company nango R.R. Co., may occupy the bed of the public road leading from the borough of Mercer to the head of Shenango, or any part thereof, if the same is deemed advantageous in the construction of their road, and may locate their road on and along the same. may occupy other road. Voters of Con SECTION 7. That the qualified voters of the borough of Connellsnellsville may ville, shall at their next annual borough election, elect six persons to serve as councilmen, as follows: two for three years, two for two years, and two for one year, and two annually thereafter. elect council men. Provisions of SECTION 8. That the fourth article of section third of an act passed certain act not regulating boroughs, approved April third, Anno Domini, one thouto apply to bor., sand eight hundred and fifty-one, shall not apply to the borough of of Connellsville. Connellsville, in Fayette county, but in lieu thereof it shall be the duty of the burgess of said borough to give at least ten days' notice, by written or printed notices, to be by him put in at least five public places in said borough, of said election. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 271. A SUPPLEMENT To an act authorizing the borough of Bolivar, in Westmoreland county, to dig a well; in relation to State and Turnpike roads, et cetera, .passed the filteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty to extend the time for construction of a bridge over the Allegheny river opposite Sharps burg, Allegheny county; elative to the Monongahela mining company; to the Darlington Cannel Coal Railroad company; and to authorize James Smith to establish a ferry on the Youghiogheny riyer. 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, Joel Ketchum, James Scott, and Joseph Taylor, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to review and lay out a State road e road. from Elizabethtown, in Allegheny county, by the way of Andrew SECTION 2. That the said commissioners, after taking and subscri bing an oath or affirmation to perform the duties enjoined on them by this act with fidelity and impartiality, shall proceed to view the ground, and lay out the road, as near a straight line between Elizabeth. Location of town, Allegheny county, to the point determined upon on the Youghio- read. gheny river, at or near to opposite Alexander Guffy's salt works, by the way of Andrew Fife's steam mill, as the nature of the ground will permit, so that the vertical departure from a horizontal line shall at no point exceed five degrees, except at crossing ravines and streams, when by a moderate excavation, filling or bridging, the declination of said road may be preserved within that limit, and said commissioners shall have power to vacate such portions of any county roads as may May vacate and be rendered in their opinion unnecessary, and to include in the line of appropriate survey any portions of such roads as may be advantageous in locating other roads. Baid road. SECTION 3. That the said commissioners shall meet on or before the May employ first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and surveyor, &c. proceed to complete the view of said road, and they are hereby authorized to employ one surveyor, at a per diem not exceeding two dollars, two chain-bearers and one axeman, at a per diem of one dollar each, and the said commissioners shall each receive a per diem of not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents for each day necessarily spent in the discharge of the duties enjoined by this act, and the accounts of said commissioners for their own pay and the pay of surveyor, chain-bear ers and axeman, shall be paid by the commissioners of Allegheny How to be paid. county, by warrants drawn on the county treasurer. SECTION 4. That it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to Duty of commake out a fair and accurate draft of the location of said road, noting missioners. courses and location, distances, improvements, waters and roads, one copy whereof shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, on or before the first day of August next after the said survey is completed, and one copy in the office of the court of Allegheny county, and from thenceforth the said road shall be a public highway, and shall be opened and repaired in all respects as roads are opened and repaired which are laid out and opened by order of the said court of quarter sessions of said county: Provided, That said Proviso. road shall not be opened to a greater width than thirty feet, only at the Youghiogheny river, where it shall be at least fifty feet. SECTION 5. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners to en- Damages. deavor to procure from all persons through whose lands said road may be located, a release for all claims of damage which might arise from opening said road, and in every case where they cannot obtain such release, it shall be their duty to assess the damages and make report thereof, signed by a majority of them, and return, together with the releases, to the said court of quarter sessions. SECTION 6. That so much of the act to which this is a supplement Repeal. as is hereby altered or supplied, be and the same is hereby repealed. Bridge at time to erect 11th section of strued. SECTION 7. That all the provisions of "An Act to extend and continue in force an act entitled 'An act to authorize the Governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the Allegheny river, at or near Sharpsburg, in Allegheny county; and continuing in force an act passed the seventeenth of March one thousand eight hundred and forty three,' ," be and the same is hereby continued in force, and the time for the construction of said bridge extended for a period of three years from and after the passage of this act. SECTION 8. That the provisions of the eleventh section of an act to a certain act, incorporate the Chartiers' Coal company, in the county of Allegheny, how to be con- passed March third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, incorporated into and made part of an act to incorporate the Monongahela Mining company, passed March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, so far as relates to the river connection therein authorized to be made, shall be construed to apply to the Monongahela river: Provided, That the said Monongahela Mining company may, if they deem it expedient, connect at three several points with the said river. Proviso. Darlington coal railroad co., authority to SECTION 9. That the Darlington Cannel Coal railroad company, be and they are hereby authorized to borrow the money, or any part thereof, as provided for in the twenty-first section of the act incorpoborrow money. rating said company, at any rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent. per annum. Jas. Smith, auSECTION 10. That James Smith, of the township of Perry, in the thorized to erect county of Fayette, his heirs and assigns, shall have the right and privia ferry. lege, at his own expense, to make good and convenient landings on either side of the Youghiogheny river, at or near the mill of the said James Smith, in said county, and to use said river between the said landings as a public ferry, and shall receive such tolls for carrying persons, teams, carriages, horses, freight, and other animals, as may be prescribed by the court of quarter sessions of Fayette county: Provided, The navigation of said river shall not be obstructed. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 272. AN ACT To incorporate the Hamburg Council number seventy-four, order of United Corporators. 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 James S. Leed, Reuben Lins, W. E. Shollenberger, P. C. Baum, S. S. Fister, E. M. Miller, B. E. Shollenberger, W. P. Leib, J. E. Shollenberger, F. A. Wagner, George K. Seaman, Valentine E. Shollenberger, George S. Adams, W. D. Shamo, Benjamin Kline, and their successors, and all persons who may hereafter be 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 Hamburg Style. Council number seventy-four, Order of United American Mechanics," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue Powers. and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, or elsewhere, and shall be able and capable in law and in equity to take and to hold, to them and their successors, either by grant, gift, devise or lease, any buidings, lands, or real estate, for use or the purpose of erecting thereon a suitable building or buildings for the accommodation of said body politic, and also to take and hold, for the use of said body politic, any goods and chattles, sum or sums of money, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, will, devise, or bequest, from any person or persons whatsoever capable of making the same, and the same at their pleasure to grant, bargain and sell, lease or mortgage, for the use or benefit of the said body politic; and also all contracts or trusts heretofore made or held for the benefit and use of Hamburg Council number seventy-four, order of United American Mechanics, at Hamburg, in the county of Berks, be and the same shall hereby be as valid, and enure to the benfit of said Hamburg Council number seventy-four, Order of United American Mechanics, as if made in pursuance of this act of incorporation; and further to do all and singular the matters and things which shall be lawful for them to do for the well being and due management of the affairs of the aforesaid body politic: Provided, That the real estate of which the said corporation shall at any time be possessed of, shall not exceed the clear yearly value of three thousand dollars. SECTION 2. That it shall and may be lawful for the said incorporation to have a common seal, and the same at their will and pleasure to change, alter and renew, as they shall deem proper, and shall have and exercise all the rights and privileges and immunities necessary for the purposes of the incorporation hereby constituted, and as herein expressed. SECTION 3. That the Government of Hamburg Council number seventy-four, order of United American Mechanics, and the management and disposition of its affairs and property, shall be vested in a board of trustees, who shall be elected annually, at such time and in such manner as the said body politic shall. by its by-laws provide; at Proviso. Seal. |