Allentown iron company.

First school district, to elect additional directors.

Wiconisco tp., elections.

plank road company, approved March twenty-fifth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

SECTION 3. That it shall be lawful for the Allentown Iron company to subscribe stock to said turnpike or plank road.

SECTION 4. That on the third Friday of March next, the qualified voters of that part of the eleventh section of the first school district of Pennsylvania, composing the districts of Richmond, Bridesburg, Ar mingo, and the township of the unincorporated. Northern Liberties, in the county of Philadelphia, shall elect three additional school directors, and to serve as follows: One for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and annually thereafter the qualified voters of the districts and township aforesaid shall elect two school directors to serve for the term of three years.

SECTION 5. That hereafter the general and township elections in Wiconisco township, Dauphin county, shall be held at school house number three in said township.

W. P. SCHELL,

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight han

dred and fifty-three.

No. 312.

WM. BIGLER

AN ACT

Regulating Elections in the borough of Connellsville, Fayette county; and incorporate the Mount Pleasant Railroad company; relative to Supervisors and Road Tax in Dunbar township, Fayette county; and relative to the Elec tion Committees in School Sub-districts in Fayette county; and relative to Tavern License in the vicinity of Union Furnace, in Fayette county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represe tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Borough of Con- the qualified voters of the borough of Connellsville shall at their nest nellsville, to elect coun

cilmen.

Burgess to give notice of elections.

Commissioners.

annual borough eiection elect six persons to serve as councilmen, a5 follows: two for three years, two for two years, and two for one year, and two annually thereafter.

SECTION 2. That the fourth division of section third of an act passed! regulating boroughs, approved April third, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, shall not apply to the borough of Con nellsville, 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 up in at least five public places in said borough, of said election.

SECTION 3. That John Lloyd, Daniel Shupe. Stinson H. Johnson, Matthew C. M'Millen, William C. Reiter, John Zandle, A. B. Hitchman,

man, Samuel Kelley, Samuel Miller, senior, Joseph Lippencott, A. Shellenberger, Henry Eicher, Benjamin Kempf, Robert Hitchman, Jacob S. Overholt, Robert Warden, Ephraim Lloyd, James Neal, Stewart Strickler, James Wade, Abraham Pershing, or any five 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 Mount Style. Pleasant Railroad company," with all the powers and subject to all the Subject to proprovisions and restrictions prescribed by an act entitled "An Act regu- visions and refating Railroad companies," approved the nineteenth day of February, strictions of cerone thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

tain act.

SECTION 4. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. three thousand shares, of fifty dollars each: Provided, That said com- Proviso. pany may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion be necessary to complete said road, and to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act.

roads.

SECTION 5. That the said company shall have the right to construct Right to connect a railroad from the borough of Mount Pleasant, in Westmoreland with other county, to a point on the Pittsburg and Connellsville road, in said county of Westmoreland, or in Fayette county, by such practicable route and moderate grade as may be deemed most expedient and proper by the said commissioners; and further, the said company shall have the privilege of forming a connection with said Pittsburg and Connellsville road, or the Uniontown branch of the Pennsylvania railroad, on such terms and conditions as the respective companies may agree upon.

SECTION 6. That the said company shall commence the said road When to be within three years, and complete it within ten years from the date of f commenced and the passage of this act: Provided, The Legislature reserves the right proviso. to repeal or alter the charter hereby granted.

completed.

SECTION 7. That the borough of Mount Pleasant, in said county of Borough of Mt. Westmoreland, through the burgess of said borough, may subscribe to Pleasant, may the capital stock of said road any amount not exceeding one hundred subscribe to shares, for which they may issue bonds, not of a less denomination than one hundred dollars.

stock.

SECTION 8. That hereafter the qualified voters of Dunbar township, Dunbar tp.,FayFayette county, shall elect three supervisors at their annual election, ette county to one in the side of the township north of the White House State road, elect superand two in the north side; said township to be districted by them suit property holders in said township.

visors.

SECTION 9. That persons owning lands in two or more of the dis- Road tax may be triets, shall work out all their road tax in the district in which they worked out. may reside, and the supervisors shall credit them accordingly; any

act not consistent with the provisions of this and the preceding sections Repeal. is hereby so far repealed.

school com

SECTION 10. That in case the qualified voters of any sub-district in Sub school disFayette county, in this Commonwealth, have heretofore or may here- tricts, Fayette after neglect to elect on the second Tuesday in June, a committee to co., to elect regulate the schools in said sub-district, as directed by the eighteenth mittees. section of the act of the seventh of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, that it shall be lawful for the said qualified voters to proceed to hold an election and choose said committee as directed by said act, at any time, upon giving five days public notice thereof, signed by any three of said voters.

SECTION 11. That the second, third and fourth sections of an act en- Union Furnace titled "An Act to authorize the voters of Mifflin county to decide the to probibit sale question of tavern license therein, and to prohibit the sale of intoxi- of liquor at. cating drinks within specified limits in certain counties," approved the

twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, be and the same are hereby extended and made applicable to Union Furnace, in Dunbar township, Fayette county, and the same shall be in full force and effect.

APPROVED The eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

No. 313.

WM. BIGLER.

AN ACT

To appoint commissioners to run and mark the County Lines between York, Cumberland and Adams counties; to an Election District in Jefferson county; to the Shrewsbury and Hopewell Plank Road company; to the Union Charch of Warrington, York county; laying out a State Road from the Brookville and Tionesta State road to George Catz's lane; to Railroads and Plank Roads in Clarion county; to the Division Line between Lycoming and Tioga counties; to the Tioga Improven ent company; to Auctions in Fayette county; to the Tioga and Elmira Plank Road company; to a State Road in Westmoreland county; authorizing Franklin Stewart to sell certain Real Estate; to the Accounts of Samuel J. Rankin, of Indiana county; to an Election District in Tioga county; to the Estate of John Knox, deceased; and relative to the Claim of David and Andrew Clark, of Columbia 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 Commissioners. William B. Wilson, of the county of Adams, George F. Carl, of the

Duties.

To survey and mark line.

county of York, and William Moore, of the county of Cumberland, are hereby appointed commissioners, with authority to survey, ascertain and mark the dividing line between the counties of Adams, Cumberland and York.

SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners, after having first taken and subscribed an oath or affirmation before a justice of the peace to perform the duties enjoined on them by this act with impartiality and fidelity, to go upon the ground and carefully survey, ascertain and mark the dividing line between the counties of Adams Cumberland and York, from the mouth of Dogwood run, to the point where said line strikes the Franklin county line, and that the said commissioners shall run and mark the said line as the same was originally run and marked, which said line, when so marked, shall be the boundary line dividing the said counties.

SECTION 3. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners, or any two of them, on or before the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to survey and mark said line upon the ground by distinct and permanent marks, wherever and as often as the said divi

sion line crosses any public road or highway, and at other convenient distances on the aforesaid line, and to make three drafts of the same, certified under their hands, with courses and distances plainly laid down, with references to the improvements through which said line may pass, one of which they shall deposit in each of the prothonotary's offices of the aforesaid counties as soon thereafter as practicable, which shall be considered as a public record.

SECTION 4. That the said commissioners shall receive as a compen: Compensation. sation for their services the sum of two dollars per day each for and during the time they shall be actually engaged in the discharge of their duties, and William S. Picking is hereby appointed surveyor, and for Surveyor and his services as such shall receive a per diem allowance of two dollars, assistants. and the commissioners shall have authority to appoint any other neces sary assistance, and to incur any other expenses that may be necessary to carry out the intentions of this act; said assistants shall receive for their services the sum of one dollar per day each, while actually engaged on said survey, and all the aforesaid expenses shall be paid in equal proportions by the said counties, by the commissioners of said counties, by warrant drawn on the treasurers of their respective counties.

Compensation.

SECTION 5. That in case any of the above named commissioners Vacancies how should refuse to serve, or in the event of his sickness or death, the re- supplied. maining five shall select a suitable person, a resident of the same county in which the person resided who caused the vacancy, as commissioner, and if two or more vacancies shall occur from the same cause, the Governor is hereby authorized to appoint commissioners to discharge the duties prescribed in this act.

elections.

SECTION 6. That hereafter the qualified electors of Perry township, Perry township, in the county of Jefferson, shall hold their township elections on the Jefferson co., first Monday of February, and the act requiring them to elect on the fourth Monday of February, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SECTION 7. That the Shrewsbury and Hopewell Plank Road com- Shrewsbury and pany shall have power, and they are hereby authorized, in the location Hopewell plank road company, of their road, in order that they may be enabled to construct the same by the nearest and most practicable route, to occupy such parts of any er roads. may occupy othpublic road as may be found necessary.

York co., crea.

SECTION 8. That the members of the Union church, situated in the Union church township of Warrington, York county, Pennsylvania, the said church Warrington, being jointly and exclusively owned by the German Reformed, Old ted into a body School Presbyterian, and Evangelical Lutheran denominations, be and the same are hereby created and erected into one body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of the Union Style. church of the aforesaid denominations, in Warrington township, York county, and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall be able and Privileges, capable to take and hold lands and tenements, goods and chattles, real personal and mixed, which are now or may hereafter become the property of said congregations or body corporate, by gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise, according to the true intent of donors, grantors or devisors, and the yearly value or income of the real, personal or mixed estate of said congregations, shall not at any time exceed the sum of three thousand dollars, exclusive of annual stated contributions. SECTION 9. That the secular business of said church and congrega- Trustees,, tions shall be conducted by six trustees, two of whom are always to be of each denomination, and shall consist of the following named persons, viz:-Jonas Spangler, and Jacob March, members of the German Reformed church; William Ross, senior, and Samuel Smith, members of the Presbyterian church; Peter Benedick, and Benjamin Overdear,

members of the Evangelical Lutheran church; who shall continue in office until others are elected, which shall be on the second Monday of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and on that day annually thereafter, the properly qualified members of said congregations shall, after two weeks public notice, elect by ballot persons to serve as trustees; the trustees shall be so arranged that one of each denomination retires from office every year, and at all meetings of the trustees four of their number shall constitute a quorum; should there be a failure to hold the election on the aforesaid time of any year, the trus elect new offi- tees for the time being shall continue to serve till an election takes place.

Quorum.

On failure to

cers old to serve.

Officers.

Vacancies.

Seal.

By-laws.

Proviso.

None but male

ble to office.

SECTION 10. That the said trustees shall choose by ballot from among their number a president and secretary; also from among the members of said church a treasurer, who shall, if required by the trustees, give security for the faithful performance of the trust reposed in him, and account to them for all sums of money received by him, and in case of the removal of the president, or of any of the trustees, or of any other officer of the board of trustees, by death, resignation, neglecting to attend the meetings of said Board thrice in succession, without good cause, or otherwise, the vacancy or vacancies shall be supplied by the said board until the next annual election.

SECTION 11. That the trustees and their successors shall have full power to make and to use one common seal, and the same to alter and renew at pleasure; to enact and enforce, or repeal such by-laws andordinances as shall be sanctioned by a majority of the male members of the congregations qualified to vote for the regulation and transac tion of the proper business of the corporation: Provided, That said by-laws and ordinances shall not be in conflict with the articles of this charter, nor in violation of the constitution and laws of the United States or of this State, nor inconsistent with the doctrine, polity and discipline of the German Reformed Evangelical Lutheran and Presby. terian denominations.

SECTION 12. That no person shall be eligible to hold any office heremembers eligi in set forth; who is not a male member, over twenty-one years of age, or being a male of this age, pays a regular subscription to the support of the ministry and ordinances of the gospel, or for the use of the corporation.

None but male

at elections.

SECTION 13. That no person shall be entitled to a vote at any election for members to vote trustees, or at any election relating to the secular interests of the church, except the male members of said congregations, and those who regularly contribute their portion to the maintenance of divine wor ship, and in other respects demean themselves as church members, though they be not communicants.

Trustees to

record.

SECTION 14. That the trustees shall keep, or cause to be kept, a keep a book of book, in which the act of incorporation, by-laws and ordinances hereafter passed and approved, shall be recorded, and also keep a record of the proceedings of all meetings of said trustees, and of all business meetings and transactions of said corporation, to which all members of the congregations shall at any time have free access.

Annual statements of

SECTION 15. That the trustees shall annually, on the day of electing their successors, make or cause to be made a true, just and full statereceipts and ex- ment of all accounts, receipts and expenditures of said corporation and congregations, and cause the same to be entered at large on the record book mentioned in section seventh.

penditures required.

SECTION 16. That the property, real or personal, held in common by said congregation, shall remain so in perpetuity, unless one of said congregations should, by a vote of two-thirds thereof, agree to sell out