to lease a the rents in lease the said tract of land, consisting of one hundred acres or a certain such parts thereof as they shall think proper, to any person or tract of land. persons for any term not exceeding twenty years, and shall dis- And apply pose of the rents arising therefrom in the schooling of poor chil- the schooldren at any school now established in said township, or which ing of poor may hereafter be established therein, at the usual rate of tuition. children ŠECT. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, township. within Falls That the said trustees shall appoint a treasurer, who shall collect The trustees the rents of the aforesaid tract of land annually, and on the first to appoint a Friday in March in every year, make out a just, true and clear treasurer to statement of all the monies by him received, and the monies collect the paid over to the trustees or their orders, and the rents outstand- is annually to ing, which statement shall be lodged at the place where the account, &c. township business is usually done, and be open for the inspection of all such citizens of the said township as may choose to inspect the same. rents, who SECT. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said trustees shall appoint a clerk, whose duty it shall Trustees to appoint a be to keep fair records of their proceedings, which records shall lerk; his be kept at the place where the trustees usually assemble, open duties. for the inspection of such citizens residing in said township, as wish to have recourse thereto. SIMON SNYDER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven. THOMAS McKEAN. CHAPTER LXII. An ACT for the relief of Bernard Hubley, of the county of Northum W berland. HEREAS it satisfactorily appears to the legislature, that Bernard Hubley, late an officer in the army of the United States, vested his certificates of pay in the purchase of part of the confiscated estate of William Rankin, late of the county of York, an attainted traitor, and paid to the agents of the commonwealth, for a tract of one hundred and forty acres and seventy-six perches, the sum of six hundred and sixty-one pounds, but by reason of a title paramount, in one Thomas Campbell, for seventy-four acres thereof, he was not able to obtain possession thereof or derive any emolument therefrom, and upon an ejectment brought by the said Bernard Hubley, for the recovery thereof which was tried at the circuit court for the county of York, on the twenty-first day of April last, a vour of Ber nard Hubley. verdict and judgment were rendered for the defendants, and that he also paid to the said agent the sum of four hundred and fiftyfive pounds, for a certain part of another tract of land and ferry, known by the name of Noblet's ferry, but by reason of certain irregularities in the proceedings of sale by the agents, and difficulties as to the title of William Rankin thereto, the said sale was not confirmed, nor any title therefor given to the said Bernard Hubley, nor the money returned, but the same is still retained by the commonwealth, and as it is just and equitable to compensate the said Bernard Hubiey for his loss as well as to refund the money for which he has received no consideration : Therefore, SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, Grant in fa- and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the treasurer in favour of Bernard Hubley, for the sum of three thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty-eight cents, to be paid out of any unappropriated monies in the treasury, as a full compensation to him by reason of the loss of the said seventy-four acres of land, and also in full of the money paid by him for the land for which no conveyance was executed. SIMON SNYDER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven. THOMAS McKEAN. Meadville academy established. Trustees of, declared to CHAPTER LXIII. An ACT to incorporate Trustees for the Meadville Academy, and to establish the same. SECTION I. 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 there shall be established in the town of Meadville, in Crawford county, an academy or public school, for the education of youth in the useful arts, sciences and literature, by the name, style, and title of "The Meadville Academy." SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the first trustees of the Meadville academy shall consist of be a body po- the following persons: 'to wit, Roger Alden, Jesse Moore, lite, &c. John Brooks, Robert Stockdon, Joseph Hackney, James Her rington, James Burchfield, John Davis, Aaron Wright, John Limber, Joseph Andrews, James Gibson, Henry Richard, Robert Cochran, John Patterson, Henry Hurst, David Meade, Doctor Thomas R. Kennedy, and Moses Scott; which said trustees and their successors, who shall be elected as hereinafter mentioned, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, one body corporate and politic, by the name, style and title of "The Trustees of the Meadville Academy," 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 and elsewhere, and shall be competent and capable in law and in equity to take, and hold to them and their successors, for the use of said academy, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods and chattels, of what kind, nature or quality soever, real, personal or mixed, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, will, devise or bequest of any person or persons whomsoever, capable of making the same, and the same from time to time to grant, bargain, sell, demise, alien or dispose of for the use of the said academy, and generally to do all the matters and things which shall be lawful for them to do for the well-being of the said academy, and the due management and ordering the affairs thereof. SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Empowered That the said trustees and their successors, shall have full power to make one to make one common seal with such devices and inscriptions as common they shall think proper, under and by which all their deeds, di- seal, &c. plomas and certificates shall be authenticated, and the same break, alter and renew at pleasure. SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said trustees shall hold their first meeting in the aca- The first and general demy in the town of Meadville, on the first Monday in the meetings of month of June next, and at least once annually thenceforth at the trustees. such time or times as the said trustees, or a quorum of them, shall appoint, of which notice shall be given, either by public advertisements in a news-paper published in the said town, at least four weeks before such meeting, or by notice in writing, signed by the secretary, or other officer, whom the said trustees for that purpose may appoint, and to be left at the dwellinghouse, or place of residence of each trustee, at least ten days before such intended meeting; and if at such meeting fifteen of the said trustees shall not be present, those present shall have power to adjourn the meeting to any other day or hour, as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if the whole num- of a quorum ber of trustees for the time being were present: but if fifteen or to do busimore of the said trustees shall meet at the said appointed times, ness. or any other time of adjournment, then such number so met, shall be a board or quorum, and a majority of them shall be capable of doing and transacting all the business and concerns of trustees to Of electing the said academy, and particularly of electing trustees in th supply vacan- stead of those occasioned by death, resignation or otherwise, c cies, appoint electing and appointing a principal, and assistant teacher or teach ing teachers, ers for the said academy, and of fixing the amount of their sa laries: and the powers in this section given and contained, shal be exercised by the said trustees only or a quorum of them a aforesaid. - &c. Further teachers. To enact bylaws. SECT. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid powers of the trustees. That the said trustees and their successors in office, or a quorun To remove of them as aforesaid, shall have the power of removing the prin cipal and assistant teacher or teachers, for a breach of the laws o the institution, for misconduct, incompetency, or for any other To appoint cause which they shall deem expedient, and of enacting ordi committees nances and by-laws for the government of the said academy, and of their own of appointing committees of their own body to carry into execu body for carrying into ef. tion all and every the resolutions of the board, of appointing a fect the re treasurer, secretary, managers and other customary officers for solutions of taking care of the estate, and managing the concerns of the corappoint a poration, and a majority of the board of trustees or a quorum treasurer,se of them at any annual meeting or meetings which they may cretary, man- deem expedient to appoint, shall determine all matters and things the board to agers, &c. corporation which may occasionally arise, and be incidentally necessary to be determined and transacted for the well-being of the said academy, although the same be not herein particularly mentioned; the said trustees and their successors in office, or a quorum of them, shall have full power to elect and appoint annually, or as often as they may deem necessary, a committee to consist of seven members of their own body, any five of whom shall constitute a number competent to do, perform and execute all and every duty or duties which the said trustees or their successors in office could or should do, perform or execute, under the powers given by this act: Excepting nevertheless, the powers given in the third section of this act which are reserved, to be exercised by the board of trustees only. SECT. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, The proceed. That all by-laws, ordinances and proceedings of the said corporaing of the tion, shall be fairly and regularly entered in a book or books to to be record. be kept for that purpose, and no misnomer of the said corporation shall defeat or annul any gift, grant, devise or bequest to the said academy. ed, &c. SECT. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Qualification That the trustees herein-before appointed and their successors in of the trus. office shall, before they enter on the duties of their trust, before any justice of the peace of this state, take an oath or affir tees. mation, for the diligent and faithful discharge of the duties en joined on them by this act. 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 LXIV. A SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled "An act to erect the Town of Canonsburgh in the County of Washington, into a Borough." SECTION I. 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 from and after the passing of this act, the time for The time for electing holding the election of borough officers, as directed by the act borough offiof incorporation of said borough, be changed from the first cers changMonday of May to the third Saturday of March, in each and ed. every year hereafter. The law proSECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, hibiting hogs That the law of the borough aforesaid, which prohibits hogs run- from running ning at large, be, and the same is hereby confirmed, any law to at large conthe contrary notwithstanding. 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. firmed. THOMAS McKEAN. CHAPTER LXV. A further SUPPLEMENT to the act, entitled, " Act to provide for ᏴᎬ E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- neral Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, ors of the |