No. 419. AN ACT Reinstating Andrew Shawberger and Jeremiah C. Newman to the right of citi- WHEREAS, On the fifteenth day of October, one thousand eight hun- Preamble. dred and forty-seven, a certain Andrew Shawberger, of Economy township, Beaver county, was convicted of the crime of larceny, and by the court sentenced to undergo an imprisonment of eighteen months: And whereas, The sentence was carried into effect, and the said Preamble. Shawberger served in the Western Penitentiary the time for which he was sentenced, and it appearing from proper testimony, that the said Shawberger is a reformed man, and is desirous of being reinstated as a citizen of this Commonwealth : And whereas, Jeremiah C. Newman, of the county of Warren, was Preamble. convicted of the crime of assault and battery with intent to kill, in the State of New York, and has suffered the penalty of the law and returned to his former residence in said Warren, and it also appearing that said Newman is an industrious, peaceable man, faithfully performing all the duties incumbent on him as a citizen; Therefore, 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 said Andrew Shawberger and Jeremiah C. Newman, are hereby A. Shawberger reinvested with all the rights, privileges and immunities of citizens of & J. C. Newman this Commonwealth, as fully, effectually and absolutely, as if such con- restored to citiviction had not taken place. zenship. SECTION 2. That all part of Washington township, Berks county, Shultssville lying within the following bounds, to wit: Beginning at the southern school district, corner of the Catholic church land at the Montgomery county line; Berks co., how thence along the line between said county and Washington township, bounded. Berks, to the southern corner of Joel Schultz's farm, including the same; thence to the farm of Daniel Kauffman; thence to the farm of C. R. Shultz; thence to the farm of Isaac Barto, the farm of the said Isaac Barto not to be included in this act, but to remain as hereto. fore in the district of Washington; thence to the farm of John H. Frick; thence to the farm of Reuben D. Thomas, including all the said farm; thence to the farm of Aaron Butz; thence along the north eastern boundaries of the farms of Aaron Butz, Henry L. Esbach, Ephraim Hunsberger, and Henry Landis, including all said farms, except only the farm of Isaac Barto before mentioned, and also that part of Amos Schultz's situate in the township of Washington, to the place of beginning, be and the same is hereby erected into a separate and independent school district, to be called Schultzville district, to enjoy all the rights and privileges, and be subject to all the restrictions contained in the school laws of this Commonwealth. Directors of said how to be elected. SECTION 3. That the qualified voters of said district shall be school district, entitled to elect six school directors, in the manner and form prescribed by law, to act as school directors, on the second Tuesday in June, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and at the usual time and manner every year thereafter, their first election, and all elections thereafter for school directors, shall be held in the school house of said district: Reuben D. Thomas shall act as judge, assisted by two com petent citizens to be by him appointed, to hold the first election. Provisions of SECTION 4. That the provisions of the nineteenth section of the act certain act, how entitled "An Act relative to the Schuylkill county prison, and for other to apply. purposes," approved April first, one thousand eight hundred and fiftytwo, shall apply in all respects to the supervisor, or supervisors now elected in the townships of Fraily and Tremont, in Schuylkill county. rized to borrow money. Philadelphia & SECTION 5. That the Philadelphia and Sunbury Railroad company Sunbury rail- be authorized to borrow the additional sum of eight hundred thousand road co., autho- dollars, under the provisions of the third section of the act of Apri second, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, relative to the Danville and Pottsville Railroad company, and to secure the loans made by them by a mortgage of the railroad, with its appurtenances, and the corporate rights and privileges of the company, together with such other property as may be conveyed to them in trust for the security of the said loan. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight bundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. Provisions of act extended. No. 420. A SUPPLEMENT To the act of sixteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, incorporating companies to manufacture Iron with mineral coal and coke. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the provisions of the act of the sixteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, entitled, "An Act to encourage the manufac ture of Iron with coke or mineral coal, and for other purposes," be extended to the purpose of making and manufacturing iron from the raw material with charcoal, and all companies organized under the provisions of said act to inanufacture iron with charcoal, as aforesaid, may hold timber lands, not exceeding the quantity that will be requi red to furnish wood for charcoal for the purposes of the business of such companies, and said land may be located in not exceeding four contiguous counties, and such companies shall have authority to increase their capital to an amount not exceeding what shall be necessary for the legitimate business of the same. JOHN S. RHEY, APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of June, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. [1851] WM. BIGLER. No. 421. AN ACT To incorporate the Short Mountain Coal 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 Job R. Tyson, John Edgar Thompson, J. Washington Tyson, and their Corporators. associates, successors and assigns, be and they are hereby created and constituted for the period of twenty years a body politic and corporate in law, with all the powers and privileges incident thereto, and by law appertaining to a body politic, under the style or title of "The Style. Short Mountain Coal company," with the right to hold and own land, not exceeding two thousand acres, on Bear or Short Mountain, near to and west of Bear Gap, and in Lykens' Williams and Bear Valleys, in the county of Dauphin, in this State, and by their agents and lessees Privileges. to mine, transport to market, and sell coal and other minerals, the products of their mines, and make leases thereof, and also to hold or own the necessary quantity of land elsewhere for the deposit and sale of the same, and to construct a lateral railway or railways to the Lykens' Valley railroad, and to occupy and use or own a basin or landing on or near the Wiconisco canal, with a lateral railway leading thereto, and to have a capital stock not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars in value, for the purchase of the said land and making the necessary improvements, and that the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and Provisions of eighth sections of an act passed on the third day of June, one thou- certain act made sand eight hundred and thirty-six, entitled "An Act to incorporate the applicable to Lykens' Valley Coal company, in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, and this act. to authorize the opening of a road in Honesdale, Wayne county," be and they are hereby re-enacted and made applicable to the corporation hereby created, as fully as if the same were herein expressed and set forth; except so far as the provisions herein expressed and set forth alter, supply, or are repugnant to any provisions in either of the said sections of the said recited act: Provided, That the public notice re- Proviso.. quired in the said fourth section of the herein recited act, shall be given by three stockholders in this corporation, at any time when they Tax. may desire to organize the company, at least twenty days before an election of directors shall take place. SECTION 2. That the said company shall be required to pay to the State Treasurer, for the use of the Commonwealth, a tax of one per centum on the capital stock paid in, to be paid in four installments, the first on the first Monday of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and the remaining installments at intervals of twelve months each thereafter. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. BENJ'N. MATTHIAS, APPROVED-The twentieth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 422. AN ACT To incorporate the Gettysburg Rail.oad 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. Robert M'Curdy, Josiah Benner, Henry Myers, John Pfoutz, Samuel Deerboraw, William M'Sherry, George Basehoar, John Busby, Joseph Kessner, Jacob Diehl, Bernard Hildebrand, Charles Blesh, William B. Wilson, John Mussleman, Senior, Abraham Krist, John Mussleman, Junior, William R. Sadler, George Deardorf, Jacob Y. Busby, Joseph Hill, Jacob Fieser, Tempest Wilson, Samuel Fahnestock, George Shryock, David Horner, Andrew Heintzleman, Samuel Miller, Alexander R. Stevenson, David Gilbert, Moses M'Lean, Daniel M. Smyser, S. S. Schmucker, David M'Conaughy, William W. Hamersly James D. Paxton, of the county of Adams; Abner H. Bender, Daniel Raffensberger, Daniel Kudler, of the county of York; George W. Hamersly, Ellis Lewis, of the county of Lancaster; John Thomason, of Philadelphia; John M. Stevenson, of the city of Baltimore; 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 "Gettysburg Railroad company," with Subject to pro- all the powers, and subject to all the provisions and restrictions prescribed by an act regulating railroad companies, approved the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. Name & style. visions and restrictions of certain act. Capital stock. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall be three hundred thousand dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each: Provided, Said company may from time to time, by vote of the stockholders, at s meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion may be necessary to complete said road, and to carry out the true meaning and intent of this act. SECTION 3. That said company shall have the right to build or con- Location of struct a railroad, beginning at the borough of Gettysburg, in the coun- road. ty of Adams, and thence by such practicable route, with moderate grades, as will in the opinion of the president and directors of said company most conduce to the public interest, and terminating at the borough of York, in the county of York, and in such manner as to connect with the Baltimore and Susquehanna railroad, or the Wrights- Connections. ville, York and Gettysburg railroad, said road to be completed within ten years from the passage of this act. SECTION 4. That said company is hereby authorized and empowered, Terminus. under the provisions, conditions and restrictions of this act, to terminate such railroad at the town of Hanover, in the county of York, so as to connect with the Hanover Branch railroad, if the said company should find it inexpedient to terminate it at the borough of York, as provided in section third of this act: Provided, That such terminus Proviso. in York county shall be definitely selected within the period of three years from the passing of this act. SECTION 5. That if a sufficient amount of the capital stock shall not May borrow have been subscribed or paid in at any time during the progress of money. construction of said road, to complete said road, the president and directors may borrow any sum which may be necessary for the purpose, (not exceeding the whole amount of the stock of the company,) and may pledge the fee simple of all their property, rights and privileges, as well as the tolls of the road, for the security and repayment thereof. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. BENJ'N. MATTHIAS, APPROVED-The twenty-fourth day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 423. AN ACT To incorporate the Pickering Mining 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 Dendy Sharwood, J. W. Bacon, and Frederick Graff, and their associ- Corporators. ates, successors and assigns, are hereby created and constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name, style and title of "The Pickering Name & style. Mining company," the capital stock of which company shall not ex- Capital stook. ceed one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into such number of shares as said company shall find most expedient, and the said company may hold not exceeding five hundred acres of land, in the county of Chester, at any one time, and the said company shall have the same Powers and powers, liberties, franchises and immunities, and be subject to the privileges. |