to the Richboro and Pineville turnpike road company, in an act approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fortyeight.

Annual meetSECTION 3. That the annual meeting and election of said company ing and election. shall be held on the fourth Monday of November in each year, at which time it shall be the duty of the president and managers to present a statement showing the condition of the company and the financial transactions of the past year, and the said president and managers shall have authority to fill all vacancies in office until the next annual election, and that every stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share he holds not amounting to more than ten, and one vote for every five shares over that number for all fractional parts of tolls not equal to any denomination of coin in circulation, the said company may take the next highest denomination, and for fractional parts of a mile the company to have the benefit of the fraction.

-Penalty for refusing to pay

tax.

Proviso.

SECTION 4. That if any person or persons traveling along said road shall pass through or by any gate without paying or offering to pay the toll authorized to be charged for traveling along the same, or shall use any fraudulent means or device whatsoever to avoid the payment of the said toll, such person or persons shall forfeit and pay to the said company the sum of five dollars, to be sued for and recovered with costs of suit before any justice of the peace, as debts of like amount are by law recoverable; and if any person or persons shall remove, injure, deface, or otherwise interfere with any improvements made and erected on said road, or the surveyed limits thereof, or shall place on any part of the same any dirt, shavings, ashes, weeds, rubbish, or any kind of material or offensive matter, or shall remove therefrom any mould, dirt, gravel, sand, stone, or other material, without first having obtained the consent of the said president and managers, such person or persons shall forfeit and pay to the said company the sum of five dollars, to be sued for and recovered in manner aforesaid, and shall also, be liable for all damages or injury caused by said act.

Supervisors and SECTION 5. That the supervisors of the township of Solebury, and chief burgess the chief burgess of the borough of New Hope are hereby respectively authorized to authorized and required to subscribe for the following amount of stock subscribe stock. in said company, to wit: The said supervisors for and on behalf of said township of Solebury, forty shares, amounting to one thousand dollars, and the said chief burgess for and on behalf of said borough of New Hope, ten shares, amounting to two hundred and fifty dollars, the same to be paid for out of the funds of the said township and borough respectively: Provided, That the said subscription shall first be approved of by a majority of the votes cast thereon at the ensuing spring elections in the said township and borough respectively, and notice shall be given that the said question will be voted on in usual manner of giving notice of said election, and it shall and may be lawful for the said supervisors and the said chief burgess respectively, at any time thereafter to sell, dispose of, and transfer the said stock at or above the par value thereof, and the amount received therefor shall be appropriated to the ordinary expenses of the said township and borough respectively.

Power to borrow money.

SECTION 6. That the said Lahaska and New Hope turnpike road company are hereby authorized to borrow for the purposes of the company any sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, and for the purpose of securing the same to the lender or lenders, may issue certificates of loan in sums not less than one hundred dollars each, and the same may from time to time renew, which certificates shall be signed by the president and treasurer, and sealed with the seal of the corporation, to be

payable at such times and upon such terms as may be agreed upon
between the parties; and in order to secure to the lenders, their execu-
tors, administrators, or assigns, the amount of said certificates as they
shall become due and payable, the said company are hereby authorized
to make and execute to a trustee or trustees to be appointed by the
president and managers, a mortgage in the manner hereinafter provided,
for the whole of the said turnpike road as the same shall be at the time
of the execution of said mortgage, or at any time thereafter, and of all
the stock, rights, and privileges of the said company, and of all and
each of the stockholders thereof; and in case it shall happen that any
certificate of loan aforesaid shall remain unpaid for thirty days after
the time appointed for the payment of the same, then it shall be lawful
for the holder of such certificate to sue out a scire facias on the mort-
gage aforesaid, and proceed to obtain judgment thereon, and the
judgment so obtained shall stand as a security for all such certificates
then remaining unpaid, and the holder of any certificate then due may
proceed and issue a levari facias and sell the said road, and all the
stock, rights, and privileges of the said company and of the stockholders
in the said road, shall by such sale be vested absolutely in the pur-
chaser or purchasers thereof as effectually as real estate is vested in a
purchaser when sold on a mortgage, and the said sale shall wholly di-
vest he said company and each and every stockholder of all corporate
powers, rights, title, interest, estate, privilege, or stock, and the same
shall be fully vested in the purchaser or purchasers thereof, and from:
thenceforth all the provisions of the act of incorporation of said com-
pany and its supplements, with the corporate powers conferred, and of
the several laws of this Commonwealth in relation to turnpike roads
shall be for the benefit and government of the said purchaser or purch-
asers, in like manner as if they were the original corporators; and if
at any time the interest agreed to be paid shall remain unpaid for thirty
days after the time appointed for the payment thereof, the court of
common pleas of Bucks county, shall, on the application of the holder
of any certificate to whom interest is due, decree that the tolls collected
upon said road be paid to a receiver appointed by the said court until
a sufficient sum is collected to pay all interest due, and shall enforce
such order if necessary, by attachment, and shall direct the interest
aforesaid to be paid by such receiver to the persons to whom it may
be due, and all the proceedings to effect this purpose shall be in such
form as the court may direct: Provided, That before procceding to Proviso.
obtain the loan aforesaid, the president and managers shall, by resolu-

tion of the board, determine precisely the amount of the loan to be
made, which shall not be exceeded, and thereupon they shall execute
the mortgage aforesaid, conditioned as aforesaid, and then the said pre-
sident and managers may, from time to time, as they deem best, borrow
any portion of said amount, for which they shall issue certificates of
loan as aforesaid, and the same from time to time renew as occasions
may require.

SECTION 7. That the Doylestown and Willow Grove turnpike road Certain comcompany, and the Buckingham and Doylestown turnpike road com- panies autho pany are hereby authorized to charge and receive the same rate of tolls rized to charge as are authorized by this act, and all provisions and restrictions interfering with the same, and contained in the acts incorporating the said

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same tolls.

Doylestown and Willow Grove turnpike road company, and the Buckingham and Doylestown turnpike road company are hereby repealed. W. P SCHELL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-sixth day of February, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER

Westmoreland

pervisors.

No. 94.

AN ACT

Authorizing the election of four supervisors in Hempfield township, in the county of Westmoreland ; relative to election districts, in said county; and extending the corporate powers of the Farmers' and Mechanics' mutual insur. ance association, of Bucks county; to roads in Kennett township, Chester county; and to elections in Sadsbury township, in said county.

SECTION 1. 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 the Certain election citizens of that portion of Hempfield township, in the county of Westdistricts in moreland, composing the New Stanton election district, be, and are hereby authorized to elect one supervisor; the citizens of that portion co., to elect su- of said township, composing the Adamsburg election district shall elect one supervisor, and the citizens of the residue of said township shall elect two supervisors, one of whom, at the time of his election, shall reside north and the other south of the Stoystown and Greensburg, and Greensburg and Pittsburg turnpike roads in said township, each of whom shall serve as supervisors of the public highways, for that portion of said township, for which he has respectively been elected, during the year ensuing his election.

Repeal.

SECTION 2. That all laws heretofore enacted which are incompatible with the first section of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. Allegheny tp.y SECTION 3. That the qualified electors of Allegheny township, in Westmoreland the county of Westmoreland, shall hereafter hold their general and township elections at the house of John Shearer in the village of Shearersburg, in said township.

Barrell tp., SECTION 4. That the general and township elections in Burrell Westmoreland township, Westmoreland county, shall be held at the house of Robert S. Reed, in said township; that John S. M'Kean is hereby appointed judge, and Charles Wallace and Joseph Skillen inspectors, to hold the township elections, in said township, on the third Friday of March next, in accordance with existing laws regulating the conducting of township elections.

Repeal.

SECTION 5. That so much of the fifteenth or any other section of an act or its supplements, passed the twenty-fourth day of March, one

thousand eight hundred and forty-three, incorporating the Farmers' and
Mechanics' Mutual Insurance Association, of Bucks county, as limits
the exercise of the corporate powers, privileges and franchises of said
company to twenty years, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
SECTION 6. That so much of an act to repeal an act entitled "An
Act relative to the expenditure of the road taxes in Fayette county,
and for other purposes," approved the eleventh day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and forty-five, as relates to the election of
supervisors, and the mode and manner of repairing the public high-
ways in the townships of New Garden and Pennsbury, in the county
of Chester, be, and the same is hereby extended to the township of
Kennitt, in said county, except so much thereof, in the fourth section.
of said act, as prohibits the making of cross-ways or drains on the
slopes or sides of hills of a less grade than five degrees, and that which
requires strong embankments of one foot in height along the sides of
the roads at the foot of the hills.

Extension of

certain act to the township of Kennett, Ches

ter co.

SECTION 7. That the qualified electors of the township of Sads- Sadsbury tp., bury, in Chester county, may decide by ballot on the seventeenth Chester co. day of March next, whether the township and general elections shall hereafter be held at the Parkesburg hotel, in said township, or at the public house of Margaret Kendig, in Sadsburyville, where they are now held.

W. P. SCHELL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO. CARSON,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-sixth day of February, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 95.

AN ACT

To authorize the widening of Jarvis street in the district of Southwark, county of Philadelphia.

SECTION 1. 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 same, That Jarvis street, between Front and Second street, in the district of Southwark, county of Philadelphia, is hereby increased to the width of thirty feet from the north line of said street, and that the damages sceraing from such widening shall be paid as is now provided by law in the case of other streets in said county: Provided, That the expense shall not exceed five hundred dollars.

W. P. SCHELL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO. CARSON,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-sixth day of February, A. D., one thousand

eght bundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER

No. 96.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Sharon and Mercer turnpike and plank road company; to enable the executor of David B. Hays to sell certain assets; the school directors of French Creek, Mercer county, to sell certain school houses; the Auditor General to re-settle the accounts of David T. Porter; and to authorize George Means to make a title to Jacob Himes.

SECTION 1. 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 same, That Commissioners. Thomas J. Porter, Daniel Stambaugh, Thomas Hazelton, junior, Charles

Style.

Location of road.

Subject to the provisions of

certain act.

Continuation of road.

Notice to Gov

ernor.

C. Curtis, John Titus, David T. Porter and James Hazelton of the borough of Sharon, and R. C. Rankin, Thompson Graham, James Sloss, William S. Garvin, of the borough of Mercer, in the county of Mercer, are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions and organize a company, by the name, style and title of the "Sharon and Mercer turnpike and plank road company," with power to construct a turnpike or plank road from the borough of Sharon to the borough of Mercer, in said county, by such route as may be agreed upon by a majority of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, with the privilege of occupying such part or parts of any State, county or township road as may be deemed expedient and necessary for the purpose aforesaid, subject to all the provisions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twentysixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine (except as hereinafter provided), and the supplements thereto.

SECTION 2. That the president and managers of said company shall have power to construct said road in such manner as will admit of an even surface, and so nearly level in its progress that it shall in no place rise or fall more than will form an angle of five degrees from a hori

zontal line.

SECTION 3. That whenever said company shall have finished three miles or more of said road, the president thereof shall give notice to the Governor who shall appoint forthwith three skilful, judicious and disinterested persons to view the same, and report on oath or affimation to him whether said road is so far executed in competent and workmanlike manner, according to the true intent and meaning of the act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, and if their report shall be License to take in the affirmative then the Governor shall, by license, under his hand and the seal of the State, permit and suffer said company to erect and fix such, and so many gates upon and across the said road as will be necessary and sufficient to collect such toll or tolls as are authorized by the general laws aforementioned and the supplement thereto, except so much of the eleventh and twelfth sections of said act as are hereby altered or supplied.

toll.

Commencement

SECTION 4. That if said company shall not commence their road and completion within two years and complete the same within seven years from the passage of this act, the same shall be void.

of read.

Capital stock.
Proviso.

SECTION 5. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of seven thousand shares.of fifty dollars each: Provided, That said company shall from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders had at a