dred dollars on that part of said road that lies between said river and Joseph Barnet's mill, and five hundred dollars to the commissioners of the counties of Venango, Crawford and Erie, which sum shall be apportioned to the use of the said counties, in proportion to the length of the road that passes through said counties respectively, to be laid out and expended in improving so much of that part of said road as lies between the river Allegheny at Holmans ferry, and Waterford in Erie county. SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be lawful for the commissioners of Centre county, Commissionand for the commissioners of the counties of Venango, Crawford ers of Erie and Erie, or a majority of them respectively, to contract with county, scc. any person or persons for improving said road, or any part or for improvparts thereof, within the limits assigned to them respectively, ing the road. and to take such surety or sureties for the faithful performance of such contract or contracts as they or a majority of them may think necessary. SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, to contract That it shall be the duty of the commissioners of Centre, Ve- Said comnango, Crawford and Erie counties, to render an account of the missioners to monies and expenditures aforesaid, to the auditors for settling account. the accounts of the commissioners and treasurers of their respective counties, who are hereby authorized to adjust and settle the same, and to allow said commissioners one dollar and thirty- Their comthree cents for every day they shall be necessarily employed in pensation. the performance of the duties required of them by this act, to be paid out of their respective counties. SIMON SNYDER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven. THOMAS McKEAN. CHAPTER LXX. A SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled, an Act authorizing the Governor to incorporate a company for making an artificial Road from the bank of the river Susquehanna opposite the borough of Harrisburgh to Pittsburg. SECTION I. BE E 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 for the purpose of making an artificial or turnpike road from Harrisburgh to Pittsburgh, it shall and may be lawful for Companies the Governor, and he is hereby authorized and required to in to be formed in each coun which the road passes, &c. ty through corporate six companies on the terms and conditions in this a provided: viz.one company for making so much of sai road as may lie in the county of Cumberland, one for makin so much of said road as may lie in the county of Frankii one for making so much of said road as may die in the county Bedford, one for making so much of said road as may lie in th county of Somerset, one for making so much of said road= may lie in the county of Westmoreland, and one for making s much of said road, as may lie in the county of Allegheny; an said companies when incorporated as hereinafter provided fo shall, in conjunction by delegation or otherwise, view and la down the route by which'said road shall pass, combining shor ness of distance with suitable ground and other convenience from the river Susquehanna opposite Harrisburg, through Car lisle, Shippensburg, Chambersburg, M Connelstown, Bedford Somerset, and Greensburg, to Pittsburg, but in all other case said companies shall be considered separate and independent o each other to all intents and purposes. SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid Commission That John Wormley, James Duncan, John Bowman, John Ca ed to receive rothers, Samuel Weekley, Alexander Sharp, John McKee, Ja subscripti- cob Raum and John Simpson, for Cumberland county; Andrew ers appoint ons. Dunlap, Jacob Heiser, Thomas Greer, Jacob Snyder, John R Campbell, and Patrick McDowell for Franklin county; Johr Davis, Benjamin Martin, John Anderson, and Henry Wertz jun. for Bedford county; Adam Miller, Ludwick Baker, Michael Rheem, John Kimmel, John Shull, Peter Kimmel, Frederick Neff, Alexander Ogle, and John Campbell, for Somerset county; Thomas Jones, William Jack, John Irwin, Hugh Martin, and John M. Snowden, John Edgar, Joshua Budd, John Daley, and John Lobengier, for Westmoreland county; Nathaniel Irish, Thomas Beard, James O'Hara, Adamson Tannehill, John Woods, and George Robeson, for Allegheny county; be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to do and perform the several duties hereinafter mentioned: that is to say, each board of commissioners shall procure two books, and in Form of sub- each of them enter as follows, "We whose names are hereunscription. to subscribed, do promise to pay to the president and managers of the Harrisburg and Pittsburg turnpike road company, within county the sum of fifty dollars for every share set opposite to our respective names, in such manner and proportions and at such times and places as shall be determined by the said president and managers, in pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of this Commonwealth, entitled " A supplement to an act entitled, an act authorizing the Governor to incorporate a company for making an artificial road from the bank of the river Susquehanna opposite the borough of Harrisburg to Pittsburg." Witness our hands the day of in the year of our to receive Who may subscribe. Lord, one thousand eight hundred and notice in at least one of the public papers printed in Philadelphia, given when Lancaster, Harrisburg, Carlisle, Chambersburg, Bedford, Some the books erset, Greensburg and Pittsburg, for one calendar month, of the will be open times and places, when and where the said books will be open to subscriptireceive subscriptions of stock for the proper company, at which ons. respective times and places some three of the commissioners shall attend, and shall permit and suffer all persons of lawful age who shall offer to subscribe in the said books, which shall be kept open for the purpose aforesaid at least six hours in each ju dical day for the space of six days, or until the said books for Cumberland county company, shall have subscribed in them nine hundred shares, those for Franklin county company eight hun- of shares dred shares, those for Bedford county company eight hundred that may be shares, those for Somerset county company four hundred subscribed shares, those for Westmoreland county company seven hundred The number in each book. shares, and those for Allegheny county company nine hundred In case the shares; and if at the expiration of the said six days the books books are not aforesaid, or any of them, shall not have the respective num- filled in six ber of shares as aforesaid therein subscribed, the said commis- days the soners respectively may adjourn from time to time, and trans- commissioners may adfer the said books from place to place, until the whole numjourn from ber of shares for such company as aforesaid shall be subscribed, time to time. of which adjournments and transfers the commissioners aforesaid Giving pubshall give such public notice as the occasion may require, and lic notice every person offering to subscribe in any of the aforesaid books, thereof. in his or her own or any other name, shall previously pay to the Payment on attending commissioners three dollars for every share to be so each share subscribed, out of which shall be defrayed the expences attend- on subscribing; ing the taking such subscriptions, and all other incidental charges, and the remainder shall be paid over to the treasurer of the cor- expences to be paid poration, as soon as the same shall be organized and the officers chosen as hereinafter mentioned. therewith. The number of subscrib. ers necessary SECT. III And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when fifty persons or more, shall have subscribed onethird of the number of shares aforesaid to each of the aforesaid companies, the proper commissioners may, or when the whole to obtain letnumber of shares aforesaid shall be subscribed, they shall certify ters of incorunder their hands and seals the names of the subscribers and poration. the number of shares subscribed by each to the Governor; and 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 to each particular company, into one body politic and Style of the corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style, and title of corporation. "The president, managers, and company of the Harrisburg and Its powers Pittsburg turnpike road," and by the said name the said sub- ties and immuni 2 How and when the shall be organized. scribers shall have perpetual succession, and all the privileg and franchises incident to a corporation, and shall be capable o taking and holding their said capital stock, and the increase an profits thereof, and of enlarging the same from time to time b new subscriptions, in such manner and form as they shall thin proper, if such enlargement shall be found necessary to fulfil th intent of this act, and of purchasing, taking and holding to then and their successors and assigns, and of selling, transferring and conveying in fee simple, or for any less estate all such lands tenements, hereditaments and estate, real and personal, as shal be necessary to them in the prosecution of their works, and o suing and of being sued, and of doing all and every other mat ter and thing which a corporation or body politic may lawfully do. SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the commissioners of each of the companies aforesaid, shall as soon as conveniently may be, after the said letters paten corporation shall be sealed and obtained, give notice in the public papers most suitable, of a time and place by them to be appointed, not less than twenty days from the publication of the first notice, at which time and place the said subscribers shall proceed to organize the said corporation, and shall choose by a majority of votes of the said subscribers by ballot, to be delivered in person or by Officers of proxy duly authorized, one president, twelve managers, one the corpora- treasurer, and such other officers as they shall think necessary to conduct the business of the said company for one year, and until such other officers shall be chosen; and shall and may make such bye-laws, rules, orders and regula tions not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this commonwealth, as shall be necessary for the well-ordering the Limitation of affairs of the said company: Provided always, That no person the number shall have more than five votes at any election, or in determinof votes to a ing any question arising at such meeting, whatever number of subscriber. shares he may be entitled to, and that each person shall be entitled to one vote for every share by him held under the said tion. company. number. SECT. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Of stated or That the said companies respectively shall meet on the first special meet. Monday of January, in every year, at such place as shall be fixings of the ed by their bye-laws, for the purpose of choosing officers as aforesaid for the ensuing year in manner aforesaid, and at such other times as they shall be summoned by the managers in such manner and form as shall be prescribed by their bye-laws, at which annual or special meetings they shall have full power and Powers of authority to make, alter or repeal by a majority of votes, in manner aforesaid, all such bye-laws, rules, orders, and regulations as aforesaid, and to do and perform any other corporate act. such meet ings. SECT. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the president and managers of each company first to be Certificates chosen as aforesaid, shall procure certificates to be written or of stock to printed, for all the shares of the stock of their company, and be issued. shall deliver one such certificate, signed by the president and countersigned by the treasurer, and sealed with the common seal of the said corporation, to each person for every share by him subscribed and held, he paying to the treasurer in part of the sum due thereupon, the sum of ten dollars for each share, On payment which certificate shall be transferable at his pleasure, in person or of ten dollars by attorney, in the presence of the president or treasurer, subject however to all payments due and to grow due thereon, and the ferable. assignee holding any certificate, having first caused the assignment to be entered in a book of the company to be kept for the purpose, shall be a member of the corporation, and for every certificate by him held shall be entitled to one share of the capital stock, and of ail the estates and emoluments of the company, and to vote as aforesaid at the meetings thereof. for each share trans managers. such meet. ing. SECT. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the president and managers of each company shall meet at Of the meetsuch times and places, and be convened in such manner as shall ings of the be agreed on for transacting their business, at which meetings seven members shall form a quorum, who in the absence of the president may choose a chairman, and shall keep minutes of all their transactions, fairly entered in a book; and a quorum being met, they shall have full power and authority to agree with and Powers of appoint all such surveyors, superintendants, artists and officers as they shall judge necessary to carry on the intended works, and to fix their salaries or wages, to ascertain the times, manner and proportions when, and in which the stockholders shall pay the money due on their respective shares, in order to carry on the work, to draw orders on the treasurer for all monies necessary to pay the salaries or wages of persons by them employed, and for the labour done and materials provided in the prosecution of the work, which orders shall be entered or registered in their book of minutes, and shall be signed by their president, or in his absence by a majority of a quorum, and countersigned by their secretary, and generally to do all such other acts, matters and things as by the bye-laws, rules, orders, and regulations of the company shall be committed to them. ments on SECT. VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any stockholder, whether original subscriber or assignee, Forfeiture in after thirty days notice in one of the public papers printed in the case paycity of Philadelphia, and each county, as directed by the se- shares are cond section of this act, of the time and place appointed for the not made payment of any proportion or instalment of the said capital when pubstock in order to carry on the work, shall neglect to pay for. licly called Р |