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bounded by lands of Charles Ramsey, Rebecca Miller, and the river Delaware, containing one acre, more or less, to be held by the said Benjamin Rue, his heirs and assigns, in trust for William Roberts, a minor, and an illegitimate grand child of the said John Taylor, deceased, his heirs and assigns for ever, as soon as he shall attain the age of twenty-one years: That the said William Roberts hath since died unmarried, and without heirs, or any known kindred, whereby all the estate of the said William Roberts, in the aforesaid piece of land hath escheated to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Therefore,

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SECT. 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 all the The interest right, title, interest, property, claim and demand whatsoever, monwealth which the commonwealth has, into, and out of the said piece or in a certain parcel of land, and every part thereof shall be, and the same is piece of land hereby granted to and vested in the legal representatives of the vested in the legal represaid John Taylor, deceased, in the same manner and in such sentatives of proportion as they would be entitled to if the said John Taylor John Taylor. had died seized thereof intestate: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed in any way to effect the right of individuals in the said piece or parcel of land.

JOHN WEBER, Speaker

of the House of Representatives:

P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senates

APPROVED the seventh day of March, one thousand eight

hundred and ten.

SIMON SNYDER

SL

CHAPTER XLIII.

A SUPPLEMENT to an act, entitled "An act to enable the Gov ernor of this commonwealth to incorporate a company for the purpose of improving the navigation of the river Lehigh."

vacancies in

SECTION I. 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 rhe governsame, That the governor be, and he is hereby authorized to sup- or to supply ply any vacancies that have occurred, or which may hereafter oc- the number cur, by reason of the unwillingness or inability of those who of commishave been or may be appointed to perform the duties enjoined by sioners apthe law to which this is a supplement: Provided, That the per- pointed by sons who may be appointed under the direction of this act, shall the original

act

be subject to all the regulations and restrictions specified in the act to which this is a supplement.

JOHN WEBER, Speaker

of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED the seventh day of March, one thousand eight

hundred and ten.

SIMON SNYDER.

CHAPTER XLIV.

An ACT to establish an academy in the borough of Greensburg, in the county of Westmoreland, and to grant a sum of money thereto. SECT. 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, An academy That there shall be, and hereby is established in the borough of Greensburg, in the county of Westmoreland, an academy or public school for the education of youth in useful arts, sciences and literature, by the name and style of "The Greensburg Academy."

established in Greens

burg.

Trustees

named.

Style of the

Powers and privileges of.

SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the first trustees of the Greensburg academy shall consist of the following persons: to wit, John Young, John Morrison, John M. Snowden, William Spear, Thomas M'Guire, James Postlethwait, David Merchant, and Thomas Hoge, which said trustees, and their successors, to be elected as is hereinafter directed, shall be, and hereby are declared to be one body politic, by the name, style and title of, "The Trustees of the Greensburg Academy;" Sorporation. and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and shall b 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 equity, to take and to hold to them and their successors, for the use of said academy, lands, tenements, herereditaments, goods and chattels of whatsoever kind, nature or quality, real, personal or mixed, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, will, devise or bequest, from 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 said academy, and to erect such buildings as may be necessary and generally to do all and singular 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: Provided always, That the yearly value of the estates, monies and other property held by the said corporation, shall in no wise exceed four thousand dollars.

Proviso.

SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Shall have a That the said trustees and their successors, shall have full pow-seal,&c. er and authority to use one common seal, and the same to alter

and renew at their pleasure.

whom shall

be a quorum.

SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Number of That the number of trustees shall be eight, as aforesaid, and trustees to shall be so changed as that none of them shall continue in office be eight. How chang for a longer term than four years, without being re-elected by ed, &c. the people of said county, and for that purpose it shall be the duty of the said trustees at their first meeting, which shall be on the first Tuesday in May next after the passing of this act, When to when not less than five of them shall be present, which number meet, five of shall be a board or quorum, to do business, and they are hereby authorized and required to cast lots for ascertaining the members to be changed each year, until the whole number shall be changed, and in order annually to supply the vacancy as the same may take place, the citizens of the said county of Westmoreland, on the second Tuesday of October next after the passing of this act, Annual elecand annually thereafter for ever, at the same places, in the same manner, and under the same laws, rules and regulations, as members of the state legislature shall be chosen, shall elect two trustees, to supply the place of the trustees so going out of office: Provided always, That in case a vacancy or vacancies shall hapmay supply pen by the death, resignation or otherwise, of any of the trus- a vacancy in tees appointed or elected as aforesaid, the remaining trustees, or a their own majority of them, who having met for that purpose, due notice body. thereof being first given, shall appoint a trustee or trustees to supply such vacancy or vacancies, as the case may be.

tions to be

held.

Trustees

the trustees:

SECT. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the said trustees and their successors, any five of whom Powers of shall constitute a quorum, may and shall transact all the business of said academy, such as making and enacting ordinances and by-laws for the government of said academy, electing and appointing masters and tutors for said academy, and at their pleasure removing the same appointing a secretary, treasurer, and other necessary officers for taking care of the funds, and managing the concerns of the corporation, and determining all matters and things necessary to the good order and well-being of Proviso. the same: Provided always, That no ordinance or by-law shall have any force or effect which shall be contrary to the constitution or laws of this commonwealth, or of the United States. SECT. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Proceeding That all by-laws, ordinances and proceedings of the corpor- poration to ation shall be fairly and regularly entered in books to be kept be entered for that purpose, and no misnomer of the said corporation shall in a book. defeat or arnul any gift, grant, devise or bequest to the same, No misnowhere the intent of the party or parties shall sufficiently appear on feat any gift, the face of the gift, grant, will, or other writing whereby any es- &c.

of the cor.

mer to de

Nonuser not

to cause a forfeiture. $2000 granted to

said academy.

How to be applied.

Proviso as to poor children.

exhibit their

accounts to

the county auditors.

tate or other interest was intended to pass to the said corporation, nor shall any nonuse of the rights, liberties, privileges, jurisdictions and authorities hereby granted to the said corporation, create, or in anywise cause a forfeiture of the same.

SECT. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby granted out of any unappropriated money which shall be in the treasury of this commonwealth, to be paid on the order or orders of the said trustees, or any five of them hereinbefore mentioned, one thousand dollars thereof, to enable them to erect suitable buildings for the said academy or public school, or to be otherwise applied under their direction, in such manner as they shall believe to be most advantageous for promoting the object of the said institution, and the remaining one thousand dollars shall be placed in some safe productive fund or funds, and the income thereof shall be for ever applied in aid of other revenues to compensate a teacher or teachers in said academy, and there shall be admitted into said academy, in consequence of the aforesaid grant, any number of poor children that may at any time be offered in order to be taught gratis: Provided, The number so admitted and taught, shall at no time be greater than four, and that none of the said children so admitted shall continue in said academy to be taught gratis, should others apply, longer than two years.

SECT. VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Trustees to That the said trustees under the penalty of twenty dollars each, to be recovered as debts to that amount are by law recoverable, one half for the use of the informer, and the other half towards defraying the expenses of teaching the poor children in said academy, shall annually exhibit all their books, accounts and vouchers of every kind to the auditors of the said county of Westmoreland, if the said auditors, or any two of them shall require the same to be settled, adjusted and published in the same manner as the accounts of the county commissioners are by law directed to be settled, adjusted and published.

JOHN WEBER, Speaker

of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate..

APPROVED the seventh day of March, one thousand eight

hundred and ten.

SIMON SNYDER.

CHAPTER XLV.

An ACT authorizing and empowering Hugh Conner to sell and convey a part of a tract of land therein mentioned.

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WHEREAS it appears to the legislature, that Elizabeth Wigton, of Wilkesbarre township, in the county of Luzerne (as a Connecticut settler) obtained from the commissioners appointed to put in execution the act of the fourth of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An act for offering compensation to Pennsylvania claimants of certain lands within the seventeen townships, in the county of Luzerne, and for other purposes therein mentioned;" and the several supplements thereto, a certificate for a certain tract of land in the said township of Wilkesbarre, containing about two hundred and nine acres : And whereas it also appears that the said Elizabeth, by reason of an epilepsy, with which she has been long afflicted, has become wholly incapable of taking any prudent care of her person or property, or of making any contract which would be valid in law: And whereas it further appears that the said Elizabeth has no personal property, and that the debt and interest due to the commonwealth for the aforesaid tract of land, agreeably to the provisions of the aforesaid act, is yet due and unpaid: Therefore,

ner autho

ton.

SECT. 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 Hugh Conner, of the borough of Wilkesbarre, in the Hugh Concounty aforesaid, be, and he is hereby authorised and empower- rized to sell ed to sell and convey for the best price he can obtain for the same, land of Eliso much of the said tract of land mentioned and described in zabeth Wigthe certificate aforesaid, as will be sufficient to discharge the debt and interest due to the commonwealth, and also to pay all charges and expenses necessarily accruing in procuring from the Approprialand-office a patent for the same: And that the deed or deeds, tion of the or other assurances to be made by him to the purchaser or perchasers, shall be as good and valed in law, to all intents and purposes as if the said Elizabeth was of sound mind and memory and a party to the same.

proceeds of.

Said Conner

SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Hugh Conner shall before he proceeds to sell any to enter into part of the said tract of land aforesaid, enter into recognizance recogni, with sufficient security, before the orphans' court of the coun- zance ty of Luzerne, conditioned for the faithful execution and performance of the duties enjoined by this act, and faithfully to account for all monies which shall come into his hands in virtue thereof. JOHN WEBER, Speaker

of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the tenth day of March, one thousand eight hun

dred and ten.

I

SIMON SNYDER,

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