No. 60. A SUPPLEMENT To an act, entitled "An Act relating to roads, highways and bridges in the counties of Warren, Venango and M'Kean, and for other purposes," passed ninth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and forty-four. 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 act to which this is a supplement shall not be construed in such a manner as to except the county of Warren out of its provisions, any exceptions in the sixth section of the said act to the contrary notwithstanding; and the exceptions in the said sixth section of said act shall be construed to mean, that the county bridges in the counties of Venango and M'Kean are excepted out of the operations of the said act. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 61. AN ACT Authorizing the commissioners of M'Kean county to appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of making a certain road. 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 commissioners of M'Kean county are hereby authorized to expend a sum of money, to be drawn from the funds of said county, not exceeding the sum of two thousand dollars, in making a certain road, beginning at or near the mouth of Sugar Creek run, thence to the state road leading from Smethport, in the county of M'Kean, to Warren, in the county of Warren, and intersecting said state road about one mile west of the residence of Jonathan Marsh; and that the said money shall be expended on said road by and under the direction of the commissioners of roads and highways in the township or townhsips through which said road passes, in the same manner, and subject to the same regula tions as other moneys are laid out which are raised in said township or townships for road purposes. SECTION 2. The work on said road shall commence as soon as may Commencement. be after the first day of May next, and all the moneys appropriated by virtue of this act shall be faithfully expended on said road before the first day of September of the present year. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 62. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the American Insurance company of WHEREAS, The American insurance company are desirous of extin- Preamble. 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 board of directors of the said company shall have power, in addition to subjects in which investments may now be made, as mentioned in the fifteenth section of the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Delaware county insurance company," to invest, from time to time, the surplus profits of the American mutual insurance company, or the accumulations of such profits, in the purchase of the stock of the said company, at the current market rates, to be held and represented by the company, as to all matters pertaining to dividends and interest in the Dividends, &c. property and profits of the company, in the same manner as if it had continued to be held by others than the company. SECTION 2. That the board of directors of said company shall have power, from time to time, and whenever they shall deem it expedient, to &c. sell at public or private sale, all or any part of the real estate, stocks, pro- Sale of stocks, perty and securities in which the assets of the company represented by the stock of the company are invested, and to divide the proceeds among the holders of said stock, pro rata, until the whole of said assets are exhausted; and upon ten days notice, published daily in two newspapers of the city of Philadelphia, of the declaration of a final dividend, the holders of said stock shall cease to be members of the said corporation, and whenever dividends shall have been declared and published as Approval of stockholders. aforesaid, equal to fifty per centum of that valuation of the said stock, which occurred last before the commencement of such distribution of the said assets, the ratio of voting on such stock shall from thenceforth be but one vote to two shares of such stock, at which ratio it shall continue until finally extinguished as aforesaid. SECTION 3. That the provisions of the second section of this act shall not go into effect until the written approval, acceptance and consent of stockholders holding a majority of the whole number of shares, in writing, to the same, shall have been had and obtained, and that such written approval, acceptance and consent shall be recorded in the office for recording deeds in and for the city and county of Philadelphia, and that a certified copy of such record, under the seal of said office, shall be evidence of such written approval, acceptance and consent, in all the courts of this commonwealth and elsewhere. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. Corporators. No. 63. AN ACT To incorporate the Presbyterian congregation of Middle Smithfield township, in the county of Monroe. 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 members of the Presbyterian congregation of the township of Middle Smithfield, in the county of Monroe, be and they are hereby created into one body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style, and title of the members of the Presbyterian church and congregation of Middle Smithfield, in the county of Monroe. SECTION 2. By the same name said corporation shall have perpetual Powers and privi- succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in leges. all courts of law and elsewhere, to take and to hold to them and to their successors, for the use of said church and congregation, lands and tenements, goods and chattels, of whatsoever kind, nature or quality, real or personal, which is now or hereby shall become the property of said church or congregation by gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, will, devise, or bequest, from any person or persons whomso ever capable of making the same, and the same to grant, bargain, sell, mortgage or dispose of, for the use of said church and congregation; and to erect, if necessary, or enlarge any building for the purpose of worship, as the same may be directed by a majority of the congregation, that may be present at a meeting to be held for that purpose, of which said meeting at least two weeks notice shall be given from the pulpit, or in any way a majority of the trustees shall direct, and generally to adopt all such measures as may lawfully be done for the well being and due management of the affairs of said church and congregation: Provided, The clear yearly value or income of said estate shall not, for any year, exceed one thousand dollars. SECTION 3. The trustees of said church and congregation shall be Trustees. five in number, and, until others shall be appointed, shall consist of Jacob Shoemaker, Peter Jayne, George Peters, John Fruchey, and Findlay Bush, who shall continue in office until the first Monday of January next, and on the same day annually thereafter, the members of the said church and congregation may, at any general meeting thereof, by a majority of the persons present at said meeting, elect five persons to serve as trustees for the ensuing year; and if vacancies, by death or Vacancies. otherwise, shall happen in the board of trustees, the remaining trustees may appoint others to supply such vacancy or vacancies until the next annual election of said trustees. SECTION 4. The said trustees and their successors shall have full power to enact and enforce such by-laws and ordinances as they shall By-laws. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. B No. 64. AN ACT Authorizing William Mills to collect certain outstanding taxes in the borough of 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 chief burgess of the borough of Chambersburg, in the county of Franklin, be and he is hereby authorized and required to issue new warrants to William Mills, collector of borough taxes for the said borough, for the years one thousand eight hundred and forty, and one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, empowering him to collect certain outstanding taxes on his duplicates for said years, and the said warrants when so issued shall be sufficient in law to enable him to collect said outstanding taxes, and he shall have the same powers under them as were granted to him by the warrants originally issued on said duplicates. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. Preamble. No. 65. A SUPPLEMENT To "An Act relative to certain parts of the estate of Elizabeth Powel, deceased." WHEREAS, Elizabeth Powel, by her last will and testament, proved in the register's office of the city and county of Philadelphia, on the twentyfifth day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty, did devise a certain lot of ground and buildings on the north side of Chesnut street, between Sixth and Seventh streets, where she then resided, with the appurtenances, to her nephew John Hare Powel, for life, without impeachment of waste, with full power to lease the whole or any part thereof, upon irredeemable ground rents for ever, and to lay out and open alleys through the same; and did further devise that so far as the same should not be let out on ground rent as aforesaid, the said lot and buildings together with any ground rents thereout created during the life |