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tees.

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SECTION 5. That the government of the said Odd Fellows' Hall As sociation, and the management and disposition of its affairs and property, shall be vested in a board of trustees, consisting of five members of the said lodge, who shall be elected annually, on the third meeting nights in the month of March in every year: the officers of the said association shall be a president, secretary and treasurer, who shall be elected at the annual elections of trustees, by the trustees, except the secretary, who shall be elected by the members of the lodge; all the officers shall be trustees: that it shall be the dutyf the president and secretary to sign all writings obligatory on the par of the association.

SECTION 6. That the corporation shall have power and authority make by-laws conformable to this charter, and not in violation of the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth or of the United States. SECTION 7. That the Legislature hereby reserves the right to alte? revoke or annul the charter of the said Odd Fellows' Hall Associati of Coopersburg, Lehigh county, whenever in their opinion it my te injurious to the citizens of this Commonwealth, in such a mann however, that no injustice shall be done to the corporators thereof.

SECTION 8. The road known as the Lower road, in Upper Parts Dauphin co., a township, Dauphin county, on the Wiconisco road, running from the road in vacated. borough of Millersburg through the farm known as the Musser farm is hereby declared to be vacated, or so much of said road as lies on the west side of the small Wiconisco creek, in said Upper Paxton townshi Dauphin county.

JOHN S. RHEY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives

JNO. H. WALKER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twentieth day of March, one thousand eight h

dred and fifty-two.

No. 410.

WM. BIGLER.

Preamble.

AN ACT

Authorizing Charles Bensinger, Guardian, to sell a certain lot of ground stat in the town of Middleport, Schuylkill county; authorizing certain trust under the will of Joseph Parker Norris to let on ground rent certain par his real estate; and relating to the Nanticoke and Hughesville Turnpike ú

company.

WHEREAS, John C. Dacosta and others, on the thirteenth day, July, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty, executed deed of conveyance to Mary Schuler, Silvester Schuler, and Frane: R. Schuler, conveying to them as tenants in common, all that certs lot of ground in the town of Middleport, in the county of Schuylki being lot No. 7 in the general plan of the said town, as in the st deed described:

And Whereas, The consideration money on the part of the said Sil- Preamble. vester and Francis R. Schuler, was paid by Charles Bensinger, their legally constituted guardian, out of the funds of the said minors:

And whereas, The said minors being still under the age of fourteen Preamble. years, and it not being known that said minors will accept of the said purchase until they arrive at the age of twenty one years, and there being a difficulty in relation to the necessary improvements upon the said lot, and Mary Schuler, the co-tenant and mother of the said minors, being willing to take the title to the said lot and pay the amount of the purchase money and interest due thereon: Therefore,

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

Charles Bensinger, the guardian aforesaid, be authorized to convey to the C. Bensinger to said Mary Schuler and to her heirs and assigns in fee, all the interest convey interest of the said minors in the said lot of ground, and all resulting interest in a certain lot. which he may have therein, on the payment by her of the cost of the

said lot and interest and expenses thereon.

chase real es

SECTION 2. That the trustees under the last will of Joseph Parker Trustees under Norris, late of the city of Philadelphia, deceased, of the Fair Hill will of Jos. P. estate, in the county of Philadelphia, and such as may lawfully Norris to pur succeed them in their respective trusts, whether by appointment tate. of a court of this Commonwealth or otherwise, are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase at any sheriff's sale, or at any other public or private sale, any real estate upon which the said trustees now have, or upon which the said trustees or their successors in the trust may hereafter have or hold any mortgage, judgment, or other lien or incumbrance, or out of which any ground rent held by the said trustees or their successors has been or may be hereafter reserved or required.

manner.

SECTION 3. That all the real estate that may be hereafter purchased Real estate puror acquired by the said trustees or their successors, under the authority chased to be of this act, shall be held by them upon the uses and trusts, and for the held in a certain sane purposes, and with the same and like powers and authorities, in all respects, as are mentioned, declared, given and conferred, in and by the said last will and testament of the said Joseph Parker Norris, and in and by any act or acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania passed relative to said estate.

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SECTION 4. That the president and managers of the Nanticoke and Nanticoke and Hughesville Turnpike Road company shall have power, if they deem Hughesville it expedient, to change part of their turnpike, or any part of the turnpike comp., line of said turnpike, into a plank road, subject, so far as the same ers granted. may be changed to a plank road instead of a turnpike, to all the rules, regulations and restrictions prescribed in the act of the twenty-sixth of January, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, regulating turnpikes and plank road companies, and supplements thereto.

JOHN S. RHEY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JOHN H. WALKER,
Speaker of the Senate.

We do certify, that the bill entitled "An Act authorizing Charles Bensinger, guardian, to sell a certain lot of ground situate in the town of Middleport, Schuylkill county; authorizing certain trustees under the will of Joseph Parker Norris, to let on ground rent certain parts of his real estate; and relating to the Nanticoke and Hughesville Turnpike Road company;" was presented to the Governor on the

sixth day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and was not returned within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it had been presented to him, has become a law in like manner as if he had signed it.

WM. JACK,

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

JOHN M. SULLIVAN,

HARRISBURG, March 26, 1852.

Clerk of the Senate

411.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Mercer and New Castle Railroad company.

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. William M. Stephenson, Samuel Kerr, William F. Clark, William

Name and style.

Subject to the provisions and

restrictions of

certain act.

Capital stock.
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Location.

Branch railroad.

Commencement

McKean, Marmaduke Rambo, James M'Connell, Thomas Wilson. Henry Pearson, John Moore, James McKean, Samuel Griffith, James D. Moore, John Forker, John McGill, Samuel Gibner, or any two 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 Mercer and New Castle Railroad company," with all the powers, and subject to all the restrictions and provisions prescribed by an act entitled "An Act regulating Railroad companies," approved the nineteenth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of ten thousand shares, at thirty dollars each: Provided, That said company 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 may be necessary to complete the said road, and to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act.

SECTION 3. That the said company shall have the right to build and construct a railroad, beginning at a point at or near the borough of Mercer, in Mercer county, and terminating at a point at or near New Castle, in Lawrence, or terminating at Enon Valley, or at New Brigh ton, in Beaver county, or at any intermediate point of connexion with the Pennsylvania and Ohio railroad, as to the company may seem best and most advantageous.

SECTION 4. That the said company are hereby authorized to construct branch railroads from the main line of the road, to accommodate the owners of coal lands, or the points of trade, subject, however, to the restrictions and conditions hereinafter provided and imposed.

SECTION 5. That if said company shall not commence the construe and completion tion of said road within the period of two years from the passage of this act, and shall not complete the same within the period of five

of read.

years, this act 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.

JOHN S. RHEY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JNO. H. WALKER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The thirtieth day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 412.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Germantown Town Hall company; to authorize the executors of Abraham Kunzi and the executors of Tacy Fletcher, to sell and convey certain real estate; and confirm the title of William Nyce to real

estate.

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 Charles F. Ashmead, George Hergesheimer, Conyers Smith, Lewis W. Corporators. Leeds, James T. Langstroth, Wyndham H. Stokes, Francis William Bockius, Joseph King, junior, and Jacob Mehl, and all and every other person or persons hereinafter becoming members of the Germantown Town Hall company, in the manner hereinafter mentioned, and upon the conditions hereinafter named, shall be and are hereby created and made a corporation and body politic, by the name and style of German- Style. town Town Hall company, and by that name shall have succession, and be capable in law to hold and dispose of property, to sue and be sued, plead Privileges. and be impleaded, in courts of law and equity, and to receive and make all deeds, transfers, leases, contracts, covenants, and grants whatsoever, and to make and have and use a common seal, and the same to change and alter at pleasure, and generally to do and perform every other act, matter and thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and to promote the object and design of said corporation.

SECTION 2. That the object of this corporation shall be for the pur- Object. pose of erecting a building in the borough of Germantown, on such

place as the trustees may adopt, for a town hall.

SECTION 3. That the capital stock of said corporation shall not ex- Capital stock. ceed five hundred shares, of fifty dollars each, to be subscribed for and paid in at such times and in such sums as shall be decided on by a majority of the commissioners named in the first section of this act, and in case the whole number of shares be not sold at the first opening of the books, the amount so left unsold may afterwards be disposed of at such time and place, and under such circumstances as the said commissioner or a majority of them may order and direct.

Letters patent.

Meeting of stockholders.

Officers.

Proviso.

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Borough and

banks af Germantown to

SECTION 4. That whenever two hundred shares of said stock shall have been subscribed, the commissioners, or a majority of them, shall certify the same under their hands and seals to the Governor, who shall thereupon, by letters patent under his hand and seal of the State, create and erect the subscribers of said capital stock, and such as may there after subscribe, into a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of "The Germantown Town Hall company," and so many of the said commissioners herein before named as shall become stockholders, or a majority of them, shall, upes the receipt of the said letters patent from the Governor, organize themselves as a board of trustees for the management of the affairs of said company, by the election from their number of a president, a secretary, and a treasurer, who shall continue in office as trustees of said corporation until the second Monday of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and until other trustees shall be elected.

SECTION 5. That there shal! be a meeting of the stockholders of said corporation on the second Monday of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, at such place as the trustees so as aforesaid appointed shall appoint, giving at least ten days' notice in one or more of the newspapers in said borough, and on said day, and at such place annually thereafter, as by the by-laws of said corporation shall be provided, for the purpose of electing or choosing, in such mode or manner as maybe prescribed by said by-laws, from among the stockholders seven trustees, to manage the affairs of the corporation for one year and until a new election shall take place, and the judges of all elections shall be ap pointed by the trustees for the time being.

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SECTION 6. That the trustees for the time being, or a majority of them, shall have power to elect a president from their own body, to appoint such officers and agents as they shall deem necessary to can duct or execute the business and affairs of the corporation, to fix their compensation, and in their discretion to dismiss them, to provide for the taking of bonds to the corporation from all and every of the officers and agents so appointed, with security, for the faithful performance of the duties of their office and the trust reposed in them, and secure corporation from loss, to provide for paying all the necessary expenses of conducting the affairs of the corporation, and generally to pass all such by-laws as shall be necessary to the exercise of the said powers, and such other powers vested in said corporation by this act, and the said by-laws from time to time to alter and repeal: Provided, That such by-laws shall not be contrary to the laws of this State or of the United States: And provided further, That a majority of the stock holders at their annual meeting shall have power to alter, repeal or amend any of said by-laws.

SECTION 7. That the town council of the borough of Germantown, and the bank of Germantown, are hereby authorized and empowered to subscribe, if they deem it advisable, for any number of shares of steek subscribe stock. in said company not exceeding fifty shares each, for the use of said corporation Provided, That any beneficial society or building associa tion is hereby authorized and empowered to take a share or shares of said stock, if they deem it advisable.

Proviso.

Dividends.

SECTION 8. That the president and trustees shall, whenever the income of said building exceeds the expenditure of the said company, declare a dividend on the stock paid in half-yearly, on the first Mondays of May and November in each year, and shall publish the said dividend, the place where and when the same will be paid, and shall cause the same to be paid accordingly.