or railroads from their said lands, as the said person or persons, company or companies, may conceive necessary for the purpose of transporting their coal or produce upon said railroad or railroads.

POWELTON COAL AND IRON COMPANY.

LAWS 1862, P. 574. (APPENDIX).

MAY 1, 1861.

AN ACT to incorporate the Powelton Coal and Iron Company. SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That (certain named persons), be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name, style and title of the Powelton Coal and Iron Company, by which name said corporators, and their successors, shall have perpetual succession and enjoy all the privileges and franchises incident to a corporation.

SEC. 4. That said corporation shall be able and capable in law, to take, receive and hold, in fee simple, or for any less estate, lands and mineral rights, with their appurtenances, in Huntingdon and Bedford Counties, not exceeding in the whole, five thousand acres at any one time, with power to mortgage, sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the same, or any part thereof; and the said company shall have the right to prove and open mines, to mine and prepare, for market, coal, iron ore, limestone, fire clay, and other minerals, or to use and consume the same, and to manufacture iron, and to transport said articles, or any of them, to market, and dispose of the same, and to do all such other acts and things as may be necessary, in the prosecution of said business, and also to make all such improvements and erections as a successful prosecution of said business may require.

SEC. 5. That it shall be lawful for said company to construct and operate a railroad or railroads, with branches, from any part of their lands to connect with the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad or its branches, or with any other railroad, now or hereafter to be built: Provided, That in the construction of the same, the said company shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the limitations and restrictions, of an act regulating railroad companies, approved February 19, 1849, and the supplements thereto.

QUINN RUN RAILROAD AND COAL COMPANY.

LAWS 1835-36, P. 658.

AN ACT to incorporate the Quinn's Run Railroad and Coal Company

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

other purposes.

JUNE 15, 1836.

and for

That (certain named persons), and their associates, successors and assigns, be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and title of the Quinn's Run Railroad and Coal Company, for the more convenient ownership and mining of coal in the Counties of Lycoming and Center, and the transacting of the usual business of companies engaged in the mining, transporting and selling of coals, and the other products of the coal mines, and likewise the privilege of constructing necessary railroads.

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SEC. 2. The said corporation shall have the right to hold, possess, and enjoy, not exceeding five thousand acres of land, not to consist of more than five

separate and distinct bodies in Lycoming and Center (now owned by sald company), and also, to purchase and hold, not exceeding five acres, in any other parts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where they may deem it useful, either for landing places, of deposit, or other purposes connected with the prosecution of their business, and that the whole amount of their capital stock, shall not exceed in value three hundred thousand dollars, and shall be divided into three thousand shares, which capital shall be employed in purchasing and holding the lands aforesaid, and in constructing buildings, vessels, boats, arks, and such other improvements and machinery as may be necessary or useful for the mining and transporting of coal and for the general purposes of said company;

SEC. 11. On the completion of a section of two miles or more of the railroad, all transportation on the same, of whatsoever nature or kind, or by whomsoever, shall be carried on and conducted under the superintendence and direction of said company, and it shall and may be lawful for the said company, to charge and receive for freight on, and for the transportation of coal, goods, wares and merchandise, at a rate not exceeding one and a half cents per mile, for each and every ton weight thereof.

RED RUN COAL COMPANY.

See Lycoming Navigation, Railroad & Coal Company, page 520.

SAINT MARY'S COAL COMPANY.

LAWS 1864, P. 933.

MAY 27, 1864.

AN ACT to incorporate the Saint Mary's Coal Company.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That (certain named persons), shall be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name, style and title, of the Saint Mary's Coal Company, for the mining of coal at, or near, Saint Mary's, in the county of Elk, in the State of Pennsylvania; and by said name, style and title, shall have succession, and a common seal, with power to alter the same at pleasure; and shall have power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of this Commonwealth, or elsewhere; and to appoint all necessary agents and assistants, and may have all the rights and powers necessary to carry on, manage and develop their business, as a coal company, in the mining and preparing of coal, and fitting it for and transporting it to market, in all the various ways they may deem desirable, and to open mines, sink shafts, erect machinery, and to make and maintain roads and drains, for carrying off water from the mines, and also lateral railroads, not exceeding five miles in length, to connect with any other railroads, and generally to mine, make, vend, transport, sell and dispose of, all such coal, lumber, materials and articles, as they may deem proper, or necessary, in the prosecution of their business; and, for that purpose, shall have power to purchase and hold, in fee simple, or under lease, or otherwise, not exceeding three thousand acres of land, and to purchase and hold all such personal and other property, as may be necessary, or convenient, for the prosecution of their business; and may carry on their business, or so much thereof as may be convenient, beyond the limits of this Commonwealth, and may there hold any real, or personal, estate, necessary, or convenient, for conducting the same; and to sell and dispose of property, real, or personal, or

any part thereof, of said company, in fee simple, or lease the same for a term of years.

SALEM COAL COMPANY.

LAWS 1865, P. 829.

APRIL 18, 1865.

AN ACT to incorporate the Salem Coal Company.

WHEREAS, The Salem Coal Company, a corporation organized under the act of the general assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, approved April 21, 1854, entitled "An act to enable joint tenants, tenants in common and adjoining owners of mineral lands, in the Commonwealth, to manage and develop the same," and the several supplements thereto, has applied for a special act of incorporation; therefore, SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That (certain named persons) be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name, style and title of the Salem Coal Company, and as such * * have power to take, and to hold, and to convey, land, in fee simple, in this Commonwealth, to an amount not exceeding three thousand acres, and also, to acquire rights to mine coal, and take, or lease, such lands, or coal, as they may deem necessary; and to mine, manufacture, prepare for market, sell and dispose of, the coal and other products of their mines, or lands, and to convey the said minerals, or other products, to market, and generally to have and enjoy all the rights, privileges and powers, conferred on incorporated companies, for the mining, or manufacturing, or conveying to market, and sale of coal, or other products of their lands, by an act, or acts, of assembly, heretofore passed; and to construct such lateral and branch railroads, not exceeding ten miles long, as may be necessary to connect any of their lands, or works, with any railroad, or railroads, within this Commonwealth.

SAUCON RAILROAD AND MINING COMPANY.

LAWS 1862, P. 599. (APPENDIX).

MAY 1, 1861.

AN ACT to incorporate the Saucon Railroad and Mining Company. SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That (certain named persons) be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name, style and title of the Saucon Railroad and Mining Company, with a capital of fifty thousand dollars, with power to increase the same to one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of fifty dollars each.

SEC. 4. That the said corporation shall be able and capable, in law to take, receive and hold, in fee simple, or to lease lands in Northampton and Lehigh Counties, or either of them, not exceeding one thousand acres at one time, with power to mortgage, sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the same, or any part thereof; and the capital of the company may be employed in mining ores, quarrying limestone, and transporting and vending the same, and for such other objects as may be necessary in the prosecution of said business.

SEC. 7. That the said company be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to construct a railroad, from their ore beds and mines and quarries, in the township of Upper Saucon, in the county of Lehigh, and Lower Saucon, in the county of Northampton, to connect with the North Pennsylvania Railroad, at

such point in the county of Northampton or Lehigh, as may be deemed most convenient and expedient by the said directors; and, also, to construct a railroad from their said ore beds, and mines and quarries, to connect with the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at such point in the said county of Northampton or Lehigh, as may be deemed most convenient and expedient to said directors, with power to use any railroad or railroads, now built by any other company, association or individuals, as part thereof.

SEC. 13. That (certain persons named) and their associates, successors, and assigns, be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The Shamokin Coal Company," for the purpose of mining coal, and for the transacting the usual business of companies engaged in the mining, transporting to market, and selling of coal, and the other products of coal mines.

SEC. 14. The said company shall have the right to hold, either by purchase or lease, not exceeding three thousand acres of land, at any one time, in the county of Northumberland, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and in no other county, and the same, or any part thereof, to sell or otherwise dispose of, as the interest of the company may require: Provided, That the said three thousand acres of land shall be in not more than three separate and distinct bodies: Provided however, That the company may hold as above, such lot or lots of land, not exceeding three acres in any one place, as may be found convenient as places of deposit, in the transportation and sale of the products of their mines.

SEC. 15. The capital stock of said company shall consist of three hundred thousand dollars, and shall be divided into six thousand shares, of fifty dollars each, which capital shall not only be employed in the purchasing and holding the lands aforesaid, with the improvements, if any, thereon, and constructing such other improvements, buildings, cars, boats, engines, and machinery, as may be necessary or useful for the mining, transportation and sale of coal, and in the payment of such salaries, wages, and other expenditures as shall be requisite for the aforesaid purposes of the company, and said stock shall be assignable and transferable, according to such rules as the board of directors shall establish.

SHAWMUT CANNEL COAL COMPANY.

LAWS 1861, P. 644.

MAY 1, 1861.

AN ACT to incorporate the Shawmut Cannel Coal Company.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.: That (certain named persons) be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name, style and title of the Shawmut Cannel Coal Company, and as such shall have power to take and hold land in the county of Elk, to prove and open the veins of coal and other minerals on or in their land, and work or lease the same, to construct a branch railroad and connect the same with any railroad now made or to be made within five miles of said lands. *

SOUTH PITTSBURG COAL COMPANY.

LAWS 1861, P. 837. (APPENDIX).

MARCH 31, 1860.

AN ACT to incorporate the South Pittsburg Coal Company.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That (certain named persons) be and they are hereby erected into a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of the Pittsburg Coal Company, with all the powers and privileges, rights and franchises, incident to a corporation and in law pertaining to a body politic and corporate.

SEC. 4. That the said company, by the name aforesaid, shall have the right to take, receive and hold, in fee simple or for any less estate, coal and coal lands in the townships of Baldwin, Upper and Lower Saint Clair, and Chartiers, in the county of Allegheny, not exceeding at any one time, one thousand acres, with power to sell, mortgage, lease or otherwise dispose of the same, or any part thereof, and to work, mine, transport to market, and vend the coal and other minerals contained in said lands.

SEC. 5. That said company shall have the power to construct and operate, in said county of Allegheny, railroads from any portion of their lands, and to connect with the Ohio or Monongahela Rivers at whatever points they may desire, and to make such depots, platforms, turnouts and lateral roads as they may deem necessary; and take, receive and hold such lands as may be necessary for the convenient working of the said roads: Provided, That none of said roads shall exceed ten miles in length; and that in the construction of the same, said company shall have the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the limitations and restrictions, of an act of assembly regulating railroad companies, approved the 19th day of February, A. D. 1849.

SHORT MOUNTAIN COAL COMPANY.

LAWS 1853, P. 779.

FEBRUARY 20, 1851.

AN ACT to incorporate the Short Mountain Coal Company.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That (certain named persons) and their associates, successors and assigns, be and they are hereby created and constituted for the period of twenty years a body politic and corporate in law, with all the powers and privileges incident thereto, and by law appertaining to a body politic, under the style or title of "The Short Mountain Coal company," with the right to hold and own land, not exceeding two thousand acres, on Bear or Short Mountain, near to and west of Bear Gap, and in Lykens' Williams and Bear Valleys, in the county of Dauphin, in this State, and by their agents and lessees to mine, transport to market, and sell coal and other minerals, the products of their mines, and make leases thereof, and also to hold or own the necessary quantity of land elsewhere for the deposit and sale of the same, and to construct a lateral railway or railways to the Lykens' Valley Railroad, and to occupy and use or own a basin or landing on or near the Wiconisco Canal, with a lateral railway thereto, and to have a capital stock not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars in value, for the purchase of the said land and making the necessary improvements, and that the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth sections of an act passed on

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