Repeal. roads in Oliver and Miller townships, in Perry county, and for other purposes," approved the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 5. That the sixth section of the act entitled "A supplement to an act entitled 'An Act to incorporate the Montgomery Mining company, et cetera, and to hawkers and pedlars in Perry county, and for other purposes,' "be and the same is hereby repealed. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 277. AN ACT To incorporate the Freedom and Sarah Furnace Plank Road company; extending the act relative to the Coroners of Berks and Lancaster counties, to the county of Blair; relative to the Mountain Female Seminary; and to the nineteenth election district in the county of Huntingdon. 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 Commissioners. Peter Shoenberger, William Brooke, Edward M. Graw, Rudolph Spong, Martin Lingafelter, John Bennett, L. S. Moore, Joseph M'Cormick, Levi Leamer, John G. Lingafelter, John Ake, Gideon Trout, and Paul Mauck, or any five of them, be and they are hereby appointed com. missioners, to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a comName & style pany by the name, style and title of the "Freedom and Sarah Furnace plank road company, to locate and construct a plank road from the terminus of the Hollidaysburg plank road, near Leamer's tavern, or from a point at the terminus of the Bedford turbike road, as said company may determine, to a point opposite Sarah Furnace, in the county of Blair, subject to all the provisions and restrictions 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 the same are not inconsistent with this and the following sections in this act. Capital stock. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of five thousand shares, of twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That the said company may from time to time, at a meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose, increase the capital stock to such an amount as in their judgment may be required to complete the same according to the true intent and meaning of this act. complete. SECTION 3. That if the said company shall not commence the con- When to comstruction of said road within four years from the passage of this act, mence and and complete the same within ten years thereafter, this act shall become null and void, except so far as to wind up the affairs of said company and pay the debts of the same. SECTION 4. That the act entitled "An Act relative to the Coroners Act extended to of Berks and Lancaster counties," approved the eighth day of Febru- Blair co. ary, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, be and the same is hereby extended to the county of Blair. Secretary and treasurer. SECTION 5. That the stockholders of the Birmingham Female semi- Birmingham nary, in the county of Huntingdon, shall hold an election in said semi- Female nary on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- Seminary. three, between the hours of three o'clock and five o'clock in the afternoon of said day, which said election shall be conducted according to the directions given for such elections in the act of incorporation of said seminary, except so far as may be herein altered, and elect four additional trustees for said seminary, who shall act in conjunction with Additional the trustees now in office, and also one person to act as secretary and trustees. treasurer, who shall not be a trustee, all of whom shall be stockholders in said seminary, and who shall hold their respective offices until the second Saturday in February, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfour, and until their successors are duly elected, and on said second Saturday in February one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and on said day thereafter, the said stockholders shall, at said seminary, elect seven trustees, and one person to act as secretary and treasurer, which said elections shall be held and conducted in conformity with the directions given in the act of incorporation, excepting each ticket for trustees shall be labelled on the outside thereof "Trustees of the Mountain Female seminary," and each ticket for the person for secretary and treasurer, shall be labelled "Secretary and Treasurer of the Mountain Female seminary." SECTION 6. That the said secretary and treasurer shall at all proper Account. times, being notified in writing for said purpose by a majority of said trustees, submit his account as treasurer to an auditor appointed by said trustees, for settlement, which said settlement shall be final, and also his account as treasurer and secretary, to said trustees and stockholders, or a majority of them, when called on for said purpose. SECTION 7. That said seminary shall hereafter be known aud nized by the name and title of the "Mountain Female seminary." SECTION 8. That the tract of land now owned by George and John H. Shoenberger, known as the Porter tract, be and the same is hereby Huntingdon co., annexed to and shall form a part of the nineteenth election district in place of voting the county of Huntingdon, and that the qualified voters they are now changed. or may hereafter reside in said district, shall be entitled to vote at the general and township elections in the borough of Birmingham. recog Name. Porter tract place of SECTION 9. That the qualified voters of the nineteenth election dis- 19th district trict in the county of Huntingdon, are hereby authorized, at any gene- Huntingdon co., ral or township election held in said district, to change the place of may change holding their general, township and borough elections, from the present elections. place of holding their elections to some more convenient place in the borough of Birmingham, and also from time to time thereafter to change the same to any other place in said borough, by a majority of the votes of said qualified voters within said district, being in favor of such change at any such election, notice of such change being first made known by the constable of said borough, by at least four advertisements being put at the most public places in said district at least ten days before any such election. Repeal. SECTION 10. That so much of said act of incorporation as is hereby altered and supplied, is hereby repealed. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. Commissioners. No. 278. AN ACT To incorporate the Clarksville and Big Bend Plank Road company; relative to the Mercer and Meadville Turnpike Road company; and authorizing Geo. Bressler, guardian, to sell certain real estate. 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 Albert G., Hart, J. C. Herrington, Charles R. Bell, Joseph M'Clure, William Maskrey, Charles Koonce, Jonathan Frampton, Robert Flint, John L. King, Henry Barnhart, and James Trimble, or any five of them, are hereby appointed commissioners, to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style and title of "The Clarksville and Big Bend Plank Road company," to locate and construct a plank road from the Big Bend of the Chenango, at the termination of the Mercer and Chenango plank road, to the borough of Clarksville, in the county of Mercer, subject to all the provisions and Subject to pro- restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, strictions of cer- approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty nine, and the supplements thereto, so far as the same are not inconsistent with the following sections. Style. Location. visions and re tain act. Capital stock. Commencement and completion of road. Mercer and Meadville turn SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of one thousand shares, at twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That the said company may from time to time, at a meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose, increase the capital stock to such an amount as in their opinion may be required to complete said road according to the true intent and meaning of said act. SECTION 3. That if the said company shall not commence the contruction of said road within two years, and complete the same within five years, this act shall be null and void, except so far as may be neces sary to settle the affairs of the company. SECTION 4. That the Mercer and Meadville turnpike road company are hereby authorized to lay plank on the whole or any portion of their pike company. road, and whenever the said company shall have completed the planking of any three miles of the said road, they are authorized to erect gates and charge tolls, and such portions of the said road shall be con structed, finished and managed under the provisions, restrictions and Tolls. conditions of the 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 the same are applicable, and the said turnpike road company may, if found necessary, open books and receive subscriptions, at the time, place, and with the notice to be signed by the president and managers, for new stock in said company, to such an amount as the said president and New stock. managers may from time to time deem necessary, and the stock so taken shall be applied exclusively to planking the said road, and such new stock shall receive dividends, should such be declared, to an amount not exceeding five per cent. before any dividends shall be declared upon the old stock of said company: Provided, That nothing Proviso. herein shall authorize the said company to charge any other than the present rates of toll on such portions of their road as shall not be planked. estate. SECTION 5. That George Bressler, guardian of Huston Bressler and Geo. Bressler, Charlotte Bressler, is hereby authorized to sell and convey, by public guardian, autho sale, all the right, title and interest of his said wards, in and rized to sell real to certain town lots in and adjoining the towns of Flemington and Mill Hall, in Clinton county, and to make deeds to the purchaser or purchasers thereof in fee simple: Provided, That said guardian shall, previous to said sale or sales, file in the orphans' court of Clinton county a bond, to be approved by said court, conditioned for the faithful application of the proceeds of the sales of said lots. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 279. AN ACT Authorizing the Canal Commissioners to examine the claim of Messrs. Dentler and Piper, for damages sustained on the Susquehanna Canal; relative to the bank of Chambersburg; and to tax on beer and eating-house licences in Carbon county. 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 the Canal Commissioners are authorized to examine the claim of Messrs. Dentler and Piper, for damages done by the sinking of a boat at McKissick's lock, in the county of Dauphin, on the Pennsylvania canal, Dentler and Bank of Chambersburg, in tal. and report the same to the Legislature as soon as practicable Provided, That no damages shall be allowed except for the actual loss, deducting the value of the damaged goods, and no item of damage shall be allowed unless the same shall be clearly established by affidavit. SECTION 2. That the stockholders of the bank of Chambersburg, or those holding a majority of said stock, shall have the privilege of restocrease of capi- ring the capital to what it was prior to the reduction of the same under the provisions of the act of the twenty-sixth day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, authorizing the president and directors of said bank to reduce the capital stock. Treasurer of thorized to increase certain licenses. SECTION 3. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be Carbon co., au- lawful for the treasurer of the county of Carbon, in making out licences for all beer houses and eating houses in said county, to add to every such license the sum of thirty-seven and one-half cents to the amount of such license, and collect the same from the keepers of said beer and eating houses, as the compensation due the mercantile appraiser in each case, and so much of the twenty-third section of the act of tenth April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An Act to create a sinking fund," &c., be and the same is hereby repealed so far as relates to the county of Carbon. Repeal. W. P. SCHELL, APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER No. 280. AN ACT To incorporate the Plymouth and Upper Dublin Turnpike Road company; conferring chancery powers on the court of Montgomery county; to taxing dogs in Conshohocken; and relative to the Greenlane and Goshenhoppen Turnpike 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 Commissioners. Alan W. Carson, Daniel H. Mulvany, Charles Thomas, Doctor Edwin Style. C. Leedom, George Corson, Abraham Marple, Elias H. Corson, David |