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part for any loss which may be occasioned by any depreciation in the value of the said stock or the non-payment of any dividend by the said companies.

AN ACT TO ENABLE CITIZENS TO HOLD TITLE WHICH HAD BEEN HELD BY ALIENS AND CORPORATIONS..

Approved 9th January, 1861. (P. L., 1861, pages 2 and 3.)

SECTION 1. That whensoever any alien, or any foreign corporation, or corporations of another or of this State, shall have held title to real estate within this State, which he or they were not by the laws of this Commonwealth authorized to hold, and shall have heretofore conveyed such title to any citizen of the United States, before any inquisition shall have been taken against the real estate so held to escheat the same, such citizen shall hold, and may convey such title and real estate indefeasibly, as to any right of escheat in this Commonwealth, by reason of such real estate having been held by an alien, or corporation not authorized to hold the same, or to the extent in which it had been held.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE SALE OF RAILROADS, CANALS, TURNPIKES, BRIDGES, AND PLANK ROADS.

Approved 8th April, 1861. (P. L., 1861, pages 259 and 260.)

SECTION I. That whenever any railroad, canal, turnpike, bridge, or plank road of any corporation created by or under any law of this State, shall be sold and conveyed under and by virtue of any process or decree of any court of this State, or of the circuit court of the United States, the person or persons for, or on whose account such railroad, canal, turnpike, or plank road may be purchased, shall be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, and shall be vested with all the right, title, interest, property, possession, claim, and demand in law and equity, of, in, and to such railroad, canal, turnpike, bridge, or plank road, with its appurtenances, and with all the rights, powers, immunities, privileges, and franchises of

the corporation as whose the same may have been so sold, and which may have been granted to or conferred thereupon by any act or acts of assembly whatsoever, in force at the time. of such sale and conveyance, and subject to all the restrictions imposed upon such corporation by any such act or acts, except so far as the same are modified hereby; and the person for or on whose account any such railroad, canal, turnpike, bridge, or plank road may have been purchased, shall meet within thirty days after the conveyance thereof shall be delivered,— public notice of the time and place of such meeting having been given at least once a week for two weeks, in at least one newspaper published in the city or county in which such sale may have been held,-and organize said new corporation, by electing a president and board of six directors, (to continue in office until the first Monday of May succeeding such meeting, when, and annually thereafter, on the said day, a like election for a president and six directors shall be held, to serve for one year,) and shall adopt a corporate name and common seal, determine the amount of capital stock thereof, and shall have power and authority to make and issue certificates therefor to the purchaser or purchasers aforesaid, to the amount of their respective interests therein, in shares of fifty dollars each, and may then, or at any time thereafter, create and issue preferred stock to such an amount and on such terms as they may deem necessary, and from time to time to issue bonds, at a rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent., to any amount not exceeding their capital stock, and to secure the same by one or more mortgages upon the real and personal property and corporate rights and franchises, or either or any part or parts thereof.

SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of such new corporation, within one calendar month after its organization, to make a certificate thereof, under its common seal, attested by the signature of its president, specifying the date of such organization, the name so adopted, the amount of capital stock, and the names of its president and directors, and transmit the said certificate to the secretary of State at Harrisburg, to be filed in his office, and there remain of record; and a certified copy of such certificate so filed shall be evidence of the corporate existence of said new corporation.

A SUPPLEMENT TO AN ACT DIRECTING THE MANNER OF SERVING WRITS OF SUMMONS IN. CERTAIN CASES IN THE COUNTY OF MERCER, APPROVED THE TENTH DAY OF APRIL, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTYNINE.

Approved 17th April, 1861. (P. L., 1861, page 329.)

SECTION I. That all and singular the provisions of an act directing the manner of serving writs of summons, in certain cases, in the county of Mercer, approved the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, be and the same are hereby extended to railroad and canal companies doing business in the said county; and that the service of any writ of summons upon any clerk, agent, superintendent, or manager of any of the said railroad or canal companies, in the manner provided for in the said act, shall be held and deemed a good and valid service upon the said company.

AN ACT SUPPLEMENTARY TO AN ACT, PASSED 14th APRIL, 1834, ENTITLED “AN ACT RELATIVE TO SUITS BROUGHT BY AND AGAINST CANAL AND RAILROAD COMPANIES."

Approved 17th April, 1861. (P. L., 1861, page 385.)

SECTION 1. That the act to which this is a supplement shall be and hereby is extended to all suits, actions, and proceedings instituted against any canal or railroad company, as well for the assessment of damages occasioned by construction of such canals or railroads as for any other cause.

AN ACT RELATING TO CERTAIN CORPORATIONS.

Approved 23d April, 1861. (P. L., 1861, pages 410 and 411.)

SECTION 1. That it shall and may be lawful for any railroad company created by and existing under the laws of this Commonwealth, from time to time to purchase and hold the stock and bonds, or either, of any other railroad company or companies chartered by or of which the road or roads is or are authorized to extend into this Commonwealth; and it shall be

lawful for any railroad companies to enter into contracts for the use or lease of any other railroads, upon such terms as may be agreed upon with the company or companies owning the same, and to run, use, and operate such road or roads in accordance with such contract or lease: Provided, That the roads of the companies so contracting or leasing shall be directly, or by means of intervening railroads, connected with each other.

AN ACT SUPPLEMENTARY TO AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE, REVISE, AND AMEND THE PENAL LAWS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH, PASSED THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, ANNO DOMINI ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY.

Approved 1st May, 1861. (P. L., 1861, page 465.)

SECTION 1. That whenever any person in the employ of any railroad company, whether such company is incorporated by this or any other State, shall fraudulently neglect to cancel or return to the proper officer, company, or agent, any coupon or other railroad ticket, with the intent to permit the same to be used in fraud or injury of any such company; or if any person shall steal or embezzle any such coupon or other railroad ticket, or shall fraudulently stamp or print or sign any such ticket, or shall fraudulently sell or put in circulation any such ticket, any person so offending, shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment, by separate or solitary confinement, at labor, not exceeding five years.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT TO AN ACT IN REFERENCE TO RUNNING OF LOCOMOTIVE-ENGINES AND CARS ON CONNECTING RAILROADS, APPROVED 13th MARCH, 1847.

Approved 1st May, 1861. (P. L., 1861, page 485.)

SECTION I. That where any railroad company, incorporated under the provisions of the act of February 19th, 1849, entitled "An act regulating railroad companies," shall have leased

their road to another company owning a connecting railroad in this State, as authorized by the supplement of March 29th, 1859, to the act to which this is a further supplement, and when the terms of such lease shall specify that the road is to be kept in repair by the lessees, the said lessees shall enjoy the same rights and privileges, in regard to the repairs and maintenance of said road, as are conferred upon the company owning the same, by the tenth and eleventh sections of the said act of February 19th, 1849; and the said lessees shall also be entitled to the benefit of the penalties provided in the fifteenth section of said act, and may sue for and recover the same for their own use and advantage.

AN ACT RELATING TO RAILROAD COMPANIES.

Approved 16th May, 1861. (P. L., 1861, pages 702 to 704.)

SECTION I. That it shall be lawful for any railroad company chartered by this Commonwealth to merge its corporate rights, powers, and privileges into any other railroad company, so chartered, connecting therewith, so that by virtue of this act such companies may be consolidated, and so that all the property, rights, franchises, and privileges then by law vested in such company so merged, may be transferred to and vested in the company into which such merger shall be made.

SEC. 2. That such consolidation and merger shall be made under the following conditions and restrictions, to wit:

I. The directors or managers of each corporation may enter into a joint agreement, under the corporate seal of each company, for the consolidation of the said companies and of such merge, (merger), prescribing the terms and conditions thereof, and the manner of converting the capital stock of the said company so to be merged into the stock of the company into which such merger shall be made, and all other such provisions as they shall deem necessary to perfect the said consolidation and merger.

II. Said agreement shall be submitted to the stockholders of each of such companies, at a meeting thereof, called separately; of the time, place, and object of which meeting due notice

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