Contract and bond.

Remedies.

Vacancy.

hundred and forty-three: And provided, further, That if two or more persons shall bid to do the public printing and binding at the same price, they being the lowest bidders, the said speakers shall proceed forthwith to choose between the said lowest bidders; and if said speakers cannot agree as to whom the said printing and binding shall be allotted, they shall, in that case, forthwith refer the matter to the convention for decision.

SECTION 2. That the form of the contract and bond to be entered into, shall be as follows, viz:

We,
are jointly and severally held,
and firmly bound unto the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the sum
of ten thousand dollars. Witness our hands and seals, this day
one thousand eight hundred and

of
dition of this bond is such, that if the above bounden

The con

to whom the and binding are allotted, well and faithfully in all respects, do and perform the same for the commonwealth, according to the manner required to be done and performed by the act to provide for the election of state printer, passed the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and do faithfully perform and execute the same, at the rate per centum below the rates of compensation specified in said act, according to the allotment this day made for the period of then this obligation to be void,

otherwise valid.

SECTION 3. In addition to the legal remedies in said contracts and bonds, all the powers, contained in said act respecting state printers, and in relation to the removal of the state printers, and in relation to a failure in the performance of the work, are hereby made applicable to the printers to whom the allotments shall be made under this act; and all vacancies which may happen by death during the session of the legislature, shall be filled by the legislature in the manner directed in this act, as soon as possible after any vacancy may occur. by the allotment of the public printing and binding for the residue of the term to the lowest bid ler, according to the intention of this act; and in case of the decease during the recess of the legislature of any person to whom public printing and binding may be allotted, or if the legislature shall adjourn without filling said vacancy, and where the legal representatives or the securities of such decedent shall give notice to the governor that it is their desire to proceed no further in the performance of the contract of said Powers of gover- decedent, it shall be the duty of the governor, after ten days public notice in two newspapers in Harrisburg, to receive proposals according to the forms prescribed in this act for doing the printing and binding, and between the hours of ten and twelve o'clock of the day, and at the place to be named in said notice, shall publicly open all proposals so received, and shall forthwith allot the said printing and binding to the lowest bidder, subject to all the provisions of this act, as to securities and legal liabilities, except that the said sureties shall be approved by the state treasurer; and the person to whom such allotment shall be made, shall do and perform said printing and binding until the expiration of the term of allotment of such decedent, unless removed in the manner herein before referred to.

nor.

State treasurer.

Blanks, circulars, &c.

SECTION 4. That the person to whom the English printing and binding shall be allotted under the provisions of this act, shall do the printing of all the blanks and circulars required in the different departments of the government, at the rate of one dollar per quire thereof, including the paper for that purpose, and to be executed on paper of the same quality now used for such blanks and circulars, according to the order,

from time to time, of the heads of the respective departments, and the accounts therefor shall be settled and paid as other accounts for public printing under this act; and the provisions of this section shall in all cases be considered as a part of the allotment at the rate herein stated: Provided, No more blanks or circulars shall be printed in one year Proviso. than shall be necessary for the service of that year.

SECTION 5. That so much of any law as is hereby altered, the same

is hereby repealed.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WILLIAM BIGLER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.

No. 99.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Mutual insurance company of Lancaster and York counties.

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 Evan Green, Peter Haldeman, Jonathan Pusey, Abraham Bruner, Corporators. William Atkins, Dr. J. S. Clarkson, Henry B. Eagle, John Barber, Jacob Livergood, John S. Futhey, Andrew J. Kauffman, Jacob B. Garber, and John Auxer, Esq., and all other persons who may hereafter associate with them in the manner hereinafter prescribed, shall be, and are hereby constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name, style and title of the Lancaster and York counties mutual Name. insurance company, and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of record, or elsewhere; and also to make and have one common seal, and the same to alter and renew at pleasure; and also to ordain, Powers, &c. establish and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances and regulations, as shall appear necessary and convenient for the government of the said corporation, not being contrary to this charter, or the laws of the United States, or of this commonwealth; and generally to do and transact all such matters and things as shall to them lawfully appertain.

SECTION 2. The affairs of the said company shall be managed by a board of directors, consisting of thirteen members, to be elected as hereinafter provided; which board shall appoint from their own number one person as president, and they shall also appoint a secretary and treasurer, of whom they shall require such securities as they may provide for by their by-laws, and shall have authority to appoint other officers and employ such agents and attorneys, as may be found necessary for the

Directors.

Officers.

Quorum.
Object.

Members.

First election.

transaction of their business; and shall also determine the rates of insurance, the sum to be insured, and the sums to be deposited for any insurance; and five members shall constitute a quorum to do business.

SECTION 3. The object and business of the said company shall, and is hereby prescribed to be the insurance of their respective dwelling houses, stores, shops and other buildings, household furniture, goods and chattels, and other property against loss or damage by fire.

SECTION 4. All persons who shall hereafter insure with the said corporation, and also their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, continuing to be insured in the said corporation, as is hereinafter provided, shall thereby become members thereof during the period they shall remain insured by said corporation, and no longer.

SECTION 5. The members of the corporation shall, upon ten days notice in one newspaper published in the borough of Columbia, (and in handbills if deemed necessary,) meet at their office in the borough of Columbia, on the first Monday in January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and hold their first election of directors; and such election shall be held under the inspection of three members, to be chosen by the members, who may attend at the time and place of holding the election; such election of directors shall be by ballot, and a plurality of the votes given shall be deemed a majority to Annual election. elect; and the directors so elected, shall continue in office until the first Monday in January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, or until others are elected; and in case of the death, resignation or otherwise, of any member in the board, the members of the board shall have power to fill such vacancy or vacancies, until the next annual election, on which day, and annually thereafter, an election shall be held for directors, as is provided in the first part of this section; and each member shall be allowed one vote for any amount he may have insured under one thousand dollars, and an additional vote for every additional thousand dollars he may have insured; but no amount insured shall entitle any member to more than ten votes, and no proxy votes shall be given.

Vacancy.

Votes.

Promisory note.

How paid.

Loans.

Suits for loss, &c.

SECTION 6. Every person who shall become a member of this corporation, by effecting insurance therein, shall, before he receives his policy, deposite his promisory note for such sum of money as shall be determined by the directors; a part, not exceeding five per cent. of said note, shall be immediately paid in, and the remainder of said deposite note shall be payable in part or the whole, at any time when the directors shall deem the same requisite for the payment of loss by fire, and such incidental charges as shall be necessary for transacting the business of said company; and at the expiration of the time of insurance, the said note, or such part of the same as shall remain unpaid, after deducting all losses and expenses accruing during said time, shall be relinquished and given up to the maker thereof; and that it shall be lawful for said corporation to loan such portions of money on hand as may not be immediately wanted for the purpose of said corporation, to be secured by mortgage or judgment, creating a lien for the same upon real estate of sufficient value, beyond other incumbrances, to render the same perfectly secure, or upon other good and sufficient securities.

SECTION 7. Suits at law may be maintained by said corporation, against any of its members, for the collection of said notes, or any assignment thereon, or for any cause relating to the business of said corporation; also all suits may be prosecuted and maintained by any member against said corporation, for losses and damages by fire, if pay

ment be withheld or refused more than three months, after the company are duly notified of such losses; no member of the company, not being in his individual capacity a party to the suit or suits, shall be incompetent as a witness, on account of his being a member of the company.

SECTION 8. If the whole amount of the deposite note shall not be Assessments to sufficient to pay the loss occasioned by any fire or fires, in such case pay losses and the sufferers, insured by said company, shall receive, towards making damages. good their respective losses, a proportionate dividend of the whole amount of said notes, according to the sums by them respectively insured; and in addition thereto, a sum to be assessed on all the members of said company, on the same principles as regulated their deposite notes, but not exceeding one per cent. on the amount by them insured; and no member shall ever be required to pay for any loss occasioned by fire, at any one time, more than one per cent. on the amount by them insured; and no member shall ever be required to pay for any loss occasioned by fire, at any one time, more than one per cent. on the amount he has insured in said company, in addition to the amount of his deposite note, nor more than that amount for any such loss which may accrue after his note shall have been paid in and expended; but any member, upon the payment of the whole of his deposite note, and surrender of his policy, before any subsequent loss or expense has accrued, may be discharged from said company.

SECTION 9. The hereinbefore named Evan Green, Peter Haldeman, Jonathan Pusey, Abraham Bruner, Wm. Atkins, J. S. Clarkson, Henry B. Eagle, John Barber, Jacob Livergood, John S. Futhey, Andrew J. Kauffman, Jacob B. Garber and John Auxer, shall constitute the board of directors of said institution, until the first Monday in January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, or until others are elected in their stead.

JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WILLIAM BIGLER,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hun

First board of di

rectors.

dred and forty-four.

DAVID R. PORTER.

No. 100.

AN ACT

To authorize the governor to incorporate the Little Saw Mill Run turnpike road company, in Allegheny 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 Alexander Carnahan, William Espy, William Patton, Eli Neal, John Commissioners. Brown, Robert Snodgrass, Ephraim Jones, Moses Crain, James Rich

tion.

ardson and James Carter, are hereby appointed commissioners to do and perform the several things hereinafter mentioned, that is to say— They shall on or before the first Monday in January next, procure one or more books and enter in each of them as follows: We, whose names Form of subscrip- are hereunto subscribed, do promise to pay unto the president and managers of the Little Saw Mill Run turnpike road company, the sum of fifteen dollars for every share of stock set opposite our respective names, in such manner and proportion, and at such times as shall be determined by the president and managers of the said company, in pursuance of an act of the general assembly of this commonwealth, entitled "An Act to authorize the governor to incorporate the Little Saw Mill Run turnpike road company." Witness our hands the day

Subscriptions.

Letters patent.

Name.

Privileges and franchises.

of

in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty- ; and shall thereupon give notice in one or more of the public newspapers printed in the city of Pittsburg, for one calendar month at least, of the times and places, when and where the said books shall be opened to receive subscriptions for the stock of the said company, at which respective times and places some one of the said commissioners shall attend and permit all persons of lawful age, who shall offer to subscribe in the said books in their own name, or in the name of any other person or persons, who shall duly authorize the same for any number of shares in the said stock; and the said books shall be kept open respectively for the purpose aforesaid, at least six hours in every juridical day, for the space of six days or until said books so opened, shall have four hundred shares therein subscribed; and if at the expiration of the said six days, the books aforesaid or either of them shall not have the respective number of shares aforesaid therein subscribed, the said commissioners respectively, may adjourn from time to time, and transfer the said books from place to place, until the whole number of shares shall be subscribed, of which adjournment and transfer, the commissioners aforesaid shall give such public notice as occasion may require; and when the whole number of shares subscribed in all the said books, shall amount to four hundred shares, the same shall be closed.

SECTION 2. That when twenty or more persons shall have subscribed one hundred or more shares of the said stock, and shall have paid two dollars and fifty cents on each share, the commissioners shall certify under their hands and seals, the names of the subscribers and the number of shares subscribed by each, to the governor; and thereupon, it shall and may be lawful for the governor, by letters patent under his hand and the seal of the state, to create and erect the subscribers, and if the subscription be not full at the time, then also those who shall afterwards subscribe to the number aforesaid, into one body politic and corporate, by the name, style and title of the "Little Saw Mill Run Turnpike Road company," and by the said name the subscribers shall have perpetual succession, and all the privileges and franchises incident to a corporation; and shall be capable of taking and holding their said capital stock, and the increase and profits thereof, and of enlarging the same from time to time by new subscriptions, in such manner and form as they shall think proper, if such enlargement shall be found necessary to fulfil the intent of this act; and of purchasing, taking and holding to them and their successors and assigns, and of selling, transferring and conveying in fee simple, or for any lesser estate, all such lands, tenements, hereditaments and estates, real and personal, as shall be necessary to them in the prosecution of their works; and of suing and being sued, and of doing every other matter and thing which a corporation or body politic may lawfully do.