No. 375. AN ACT To incorporate the Woodbury and Broad Top Turnpike or Plank Road company; relative to sale of a school house in Fulton county; extending the provi sions of the second section of the act regulating Boroughs to the borough of Pine Grove, Schuylkill county; extending the provisions of the act to encour age Manufacturing Operations to the manufacture of flour and meal, in the counties of Philadelphia and Beaver; to the will of Jacob Moyer, deceased, of Bedford county; to prohibit the keeping of Bagatelle Rooms in Allegheny county; relative to the mill dam of M. M'Cullough, of Allegheny county; authorizing the Pennsylvania Railroad company to construct a line of Telegraph along their road; and refunding certain money to Wunderlich and Nead, of Franklin county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen 'atives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Commissioners. Henry Fluck, George Potter, Jacob A. Nicdemas, George Roads, Style. Location. Subject to pro visions of cer tain act. Capital stock. When may take tolls. Commencement Jacob Snider, Joseph Crisman, Henry Kelly, Michael L. Putt, John Long, C. W. Ashcom, and Jacob Brenamen, or any five of them, be appointed commissioners, to open books, receive subscriptions and organize a company, by the name, style and title of "The Woodbury and Broad Top Turnpike or Plank Road company," with power to construct a turnpike or plank road, commencing at Woodbury, in the county of Bedford, and from thence the nearest and best route through Rarer's Gap, to the proposed railroad at or near Stonerstown, in said county, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty nine. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of four hundred and eighty shares, at twenty five dollars each: Provided, That the said company may, from time to time, by a vote of the stock holders, at a meeting called for the purpose, increase their capital stock if it shall be deemed necessary to carry out the intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That whenever said company shall have finished two miles or more of said road, they shall have power to erect gates and receive tolls, agreeable to the conditions and restrictions of sections twelve and thirteen of an act approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred forty-nine. SECTION 4. That if said company shall not commence the construc and completion tion of said road within four years, and complete the same within ten years from and after the passage of this act, this act shall be null and void except so far as may be necessary to wind up the affairs of said of road. Sale of a school company. SECTION 5. That the sale of school house number five, situated in house in Licking Licking Creek township, Fulton county, Pennsylvania, made by the Creek tp., Ful- school directors of the township, county and State aforesaid, together ton county con- with one acre of land, being part of a tract of land formerly owned by firmed. James Austin, deceased, to Rowland and James C. Austin, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, be and the same is hereby confirmed, and the said directors are hereby authorized to make, exe cute and deliver a deed therefor to the said Rowland and James C. Austin. SECTION 6. That the second section of the act regulating boroughs, Borough of Pine passed April third, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, is hereby Grove, Schuylextended to the borough of Pine Grove, in the county of Schuylkill. kill county. SECTION 7. That the provisions of an act entitled "An Act to en- Manufacturing courage Manufacturing operations in this Commonwealth," approved law extended. the seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, be and the same is hereby extended to the manufacture of flour and meal from wheat, rye, corn or other grain, in the counties of Philadelphia and Beaver. be entered on SECTION 8. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be Decree &c. in the duty of the Prothonotary of the court of common pleas of Bedford certain case in county, to enter upon the proper docket of the said court at length, the Bedford co., to proceedings, evidence, depositions, and decree of the said court, in the docket, and be matter of the paper purporting to be the last will and testament of evidence. Jacob Moyer, late of Hopewell township, in said county, deceased, number sixteen, of August term, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, wherein Ira D. Piper and Jacob Griffith, executors named in the said paper purporting to be the last will and testament of the said Jacob Moyer, deceased, were plaintiffs, and Jacob Moyer, Jr., were defendants, and that hereafter any action or actions in relation to the land or any part thereof of the said Jacob Moyer, deceased, the said record or a certified copy thereof shall be evidence in any of the courts of this Commonwealth. SECTION 9. That hereafter no person shall keep a bagatelle room in Bagatelle rooms the county of Allegheny, without first taking from the treasurer of the in Allegheny said county a license, for which he or she shall pay as follows: for co., liceuse of. every such license granted by the treasurer of the county, the sum of five dollars for each bagatelle table, together with the sum of fifty cents to the treasurer as a fee for his certificate of license, and the further sum of thirty-seven and a half cents as a fee to the mercantile appraiser for bis return, as hereinafter provided, and no such license shall be granted for a longer period than one year, and any person keeping such bigtelle rooms or tables, for purpose of play, without a license, shall on conviction thereof in the court of quarter sessions of the proper county, be punished by a fine not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars: Frovided, That this section shall not be con- Proviso. strued to prohibit the use of such tables in hospitals, asylums, or other institutions, for the insane and diseased. SECTION 10. That the mercantile appraiser shall make return to the Mercantile apcounty treasurer of all persons keeping such tables at the time of mak- praiser to make ing his annual returns, as provided for by law, except the present year, returns of such which return of the keepers of such tables shall be made on the first Monday of June. tables. SECTION 11. All monies due or becoming due to the Commonwealth Returns of state for taxes or licenscs, shall be made to the treasurer of the proper coun taxes, how to be ty, who shall make return to the State Treasurer, as heretofore provided made. for by law. SECTION 12. That from and after the passage of this act, M. M'Cul- M. McCullough lough be and is hereby empowered to reconstruct his mill dam, situate authorized to in the borough of Lawrenceville, Allegheny county, by elevating the raise mill dam. same three feet. SECTION 13. That the Pennsylvania Railroad company be and they are hereby authorized to make and construct a line of telegraph wires along and adjacent to the line of their railroad, from the city of Pittsburg Penna. railroad to Harrisburg, and from Harrisburg connecting with the former, to company autho- the city of Philadelphia, along and adjacent to the line of the Harris struct a line of burg and Lancaster, and Philadelphia and Columbia railroads; and rized to ron telegraph. Proviso. Proviso, lujuries to line, penalty for. State Treasurer go for the purpose of making, erecting and constructing the same, the said company or their agents are hereby authorized to enter and upon the premises of any person or persons, and erect posts, and use any tree for the purpose of suspending their wires, and eonstruct the same: Provided, The said company shall not erect posts for the reception of said wires more than five feet from the tracks of said railroads, without the consent of owner or owners of the land through which said railroads pass, nor shall they cut down or destroy trees or other property, without tendering full compensation therefor, and to make and use branches from the main line to any of their stations, and to use the same for telegraphic communication, for themselves and the use of the company, and to enter at any time upon the property on which their said line is constructed for general or special repair of any part or all of their said line, and to suspend their wires on any part of the public improvements along said line; and in case of damage done to any individual, they may be sued for the same in any of the courts of this Commonwealth, for the damage actually sustained; Provided, That the consent of the Canal Commissioners be first had. SECTION 14. That any person or persons who shall wilfully ent, break, injure, destroy or disturb any of the wires, posts or fixtures of the said telegraph line, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction of such offence in any of the courts of the Commonwealth, shall be sentenced to pay the costs of prosecution and pay a fine, not exceeding one hundred dollars. SECTION 15 That the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and reto refund certain quired to refund to Wunderlich and Nead, of Franklin county, the money to Wun- sum of one hundred dollars, the same being the sum imposed as a fine derlich and on said parties by the agents of the canal board: Provided, Said Canal Commissions agree to the same. Nead. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of May, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty three. WM. BIGLER Corporators. No. 376. AN ACT To incorporate the Mount Joy Savings Institution. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Coremonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Abraham Shelly, Henry Eberly, Emanuel Cassel, Dr. Andrew Gerber, Dr. J. L. Zeigler, N. Dodge, Jacob Uhrich, Henry Kurtz, Jacob E. Cas sel, Henry S. Myers, Henry Shaffner, Jacob R. Long, Samuel P. to secure debts due to said corporation: And provided further, That Proviso. SECTION 2. That the object of this corporation shall be to receive Object. SECTION 3. That the capital of said corporation shall consist of one Capital. thousand shares, at fifty dollars each, and the corporation is hereby authorized to invest its funds in discounting notes ou personal securities, or one-half thereof in public stocks of this State or of the United States, or in real securities. SECTION 4. That there shall be a meeting of the members of said Meeting for Mount Joy Savings Institution, on such day in the month of June next, election of diat such place, as the five persons first named in this act, or any three rectors, notice of to be given. of them, shall appoint, giving at least ten days' notice of such meeting, in two or more papers printed in the county of Lancaster, and on such day in the month of June annually thereafter, as the by-laws of said institution shall provide, for the purpose of choosing from among the members thirteen directors to manage the affairs of the said institution for twelve months thereafter, and until a new election shall take place, and the five first named persons shall be judges of the first election of directors, and the judges of all future elections shall be appointed by the directors for the time being, and notice of such elections shall be given in such manner as the by-laws shall provide. Directors to elect officers, &c. Proviso. Proviso. Committee of examination. Dividends. Extent of charter. Reservation. SECTION 5. The directors for the time being, or a majority of them, shall have power to elect a president from their own body, to select such other officers and agents as they shall deem necessary to conduct or execute the affairs of the institution, to fix their compensation, and in their discretion to dismiss them, to provide for taking bonds to the corporation from all or any of the officers or agents by them se appointed, with security, conditioned in such forms as they shall prescribe for the faithful execution of their several duties, and securing the corporation in such manner as they shall deem most safe and beneficial, to provide for paying all the necessary expenses of the corpora tion, and generally to pass all such by-laws as may be necessary to the exercise of such powers, and of the other powers vested in said corpo ration by this charter, and the said by-laws from time to time to alter and repeal: Provided, That all such by-laws as may be made by the direc tors may be altered and repealed by two-thirds of the members at any annual meeting, or at any general meeting called in pursuance of any by-law made for that purpose, and the majority of the members may at any annual or general meeting pass by-laws, which shall be binding upon the directors: Provided also, That such by-laws shall not be contrary to the laws of this State or of the United States. SECTION 6. That it shall be the duty of the directors at least once in six months, to appoint from the members of the said corporation five competent persons as a committee of examination, whose duty it shall be to investigate the affairs of said corporation, and to make a report thereof; and it shall also be the duty of the directors, on the first Mondays of March and September in each and every year, to make and declare a dividend of the interest and profits of the said corporation, after paying its expenses, and the same to pay over to the stockholders or their legal representatives within ten days thereafter. SECTION 7. That the corporate privileges hereby granted shall continue for fifteen years and no longer, except so far as may be necessary to close the business of the institution, and the Legislature may at any time alter or annul the same, provided that no injustice be done the corporation. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. C. KUNKEL, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER |