notify the contractor or contractors to put his section in good repair, and if he or they shall fail or neglect to do so for ten days after being notified, it shall be the duty of the supervisors to repair the same; the expense for so doing shall be charged to said contractor or contractors, and upon refusal by him, her or them, to pay the same, said supervisors may proceed to recover as other debts of equal amount are by law recoverable, with cost of suit. SECTION 12. That all new roads now laid out or hereafter laid out New roads to be shall be divided into sections and allotted by contract in the manner divided into secprovided in the fourth section of this act, for the repair of public roads; tions. it shall be the duty of contractors for opening new roads within ten days after signing their contracts, to commence operations on their sections, and shall complete the same without delay, and such parts of any former acts as are inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and same are hereby repealed. W. P. SCHELL, APPROVED-The sixth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-three. WILLIAM BIGLER. No. 217. AN ACT To incorporate the Pennsylvania Female College. 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 there shall be and hereby is established near Perkiomen bridge, so called, in the county of Montgomery, an institution of learning for the education of girls and young women in any and all the useful and ornamental branches of education, by the name, style and title of "The Pennsylvania Female College, under the care and direction of a board of trustees, not exceeding twenty-five in number, who, with Corporation. their successors in office, shall be and hereby are declared to be one body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, to be known by the name, style and title of "The Pennsylvania Female College," and by the same shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, in all courts of law and equity, and shall be capable in law and equity to take, hold, and purchase, for the use and benefit of said college, lands, goods, chattels and moneys, Privileges. of any kind whatever, by gift, grant, conveyance, devise, or bequest, from any person or persons whomsoever capable of making the same, and the same from time to time to sell, convey, mortgage, or dispose of, for the use and benefit of said college, and they shall have power to Style. Trustees. Trustees to fill vacancies. Faculty to confer degrees. Appropriation of moneys. Admission of pupils. Misnomer. Proviso. erect such buildings as may be necessary for the purposes of said college, and to provide libraries, apparatus, and all other needful means of imparting a full and thorough course of instruction in any or all the departments of science, literature, and the liberal arts, and to do all and singular the matters and things which may be lawful for them to do for the well-being of said college, and for the due management and ordering of the affairs thereof. SECTION 2. That for the present the trustees of the said college shall be James Warrenue Sunderland, John R. Grigg, Matthias Haldeman, William B. Hahn, and Wright Bringhurst, who, or any three of them, on and after the passage of this act, shall have power to or ganize the said board of trustees, and after the said organization, three members of the said board shall constitute a quorum to do business at any meeting called in due form, according to the by-laws established by said board. SECTION 3. That the board of trustees shall have power to fill all vacancies in their own body, to appoint such officers and agents for their own body as may be deemed expedient, and to adopt and establish their own by-laws and regulations; they shall appoint a president and faculty of instruction, who shall be charged with the direction and management of the literary affairs of the college, prescribe the course of study, text books to be used, and the discipline for the gov ernment of the pupils; the president or any members of the faculty may be removed from office whenever in the opinion of the board of trustees such removal is necessary to the interests of the institution. SECTION 4. That the faculty shall have power to confer such literary degrees and academic honors as are usually granted by colleges, upon such pupils as shall have completed in a satisfactory manner the prescribed course of study. SECTION 5. That the trustees shall faithfully appropriate all moneys and other effects that may come into their hands for the sole benefit of the said institution, nor shall any bequest or donation made to and accepted by the said board for specific educational objects, ever be diverted from the purposes designated by the donor. SECTION 6. That the college shall always be open to the admission of pupils of all religious denominations, who exhibit a fair moral character and are willing to yield a ready obedience to the general regulations prescribed for the conduct of the pupils and the government of the institution. SECTION 7. That no misnomer of said corporation shall defeat or annul any gift, grant, devise or bequest, to or from the said corporation: Provided, That the intent of the parties shall sufficiently appear upon the face of the gift, will or writing, whereby any estate or interest was intended to be passed to or from the said corporation. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 218. AN ACT To authorize the commissioners of Clinton county to borrow money; authoriz ing the commissioners of Sullivan county to sell and convey certain real es tate; relative to taxation in the borough of Lock Haven; to the treasurer of Sullivan county; incorporating the Mercer and Hendersonville plank road company; to streets in the district of Southwark; and to the Ridge Turnpike road company. Commissioners 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 commissioners of the county of Clinton be and they are hereby au- of Clinton co., thorized to borrow any sum of money not exceeding five thousand to borrow dollars. money. property. SECTION 2. That the commissioners of Sullivan county be and are Commissioners hereby authorized to sell and convey by deed, under their hands and of Sullivan co., seals, that part of a certain lot of ground situate in the town of La- to sell certain porte, in said county of Sullivan, marked and numbered according to the plan of said town twenty-eight, and containing about thirty-two perches, which said lot was conveyed to the said county by deed, bearing date the eighth day of November, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and upon the execution and delivery of such conveyance, the title and interest of the purchasers in and to the said lot of ground shall become firm and effectual, to hold to him and to his heirs and assigns in fee simple. SECTION 3. That so much of the act to incorporate the village of Repeal. Lock Haven, in the county of Clinton, into a borough, as limits the tax in any one year in said borough to one-half cent on the dollar of the valuation of the taxable property, be and the same is hereby repealed, and the town council may lay any tax therein not exceeding in any one year the sum of ten mills. SECTION 4. That so much of any law providing for the election of Repeal. county treasurer as renders the same ineligible to re-election, be and the same is hereby repealed so far as regards the county of Sullivan, and that from and after the passage of this act it shall be lawful for the treasurer of said county of Sullivan to be elected for two terms in any term of six years, and no more. SECTION 5. That William M. Stephenson, James M'Kean, Jacob Commissioners. Mowrer, Thompson Graham, B. H. Henderson, William M'Elhenny, G. A. Stokely, Henry Hosick, Esbin Turner, Elijah Satterfield, Nicholas Mowrer, Enoch Perrine, Robert Henderson, Alexander Elder, John Carmichael, Archibald Henderson, and John Carroll, or any five of them, are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, by the name, style and title of Style. "The Mercer and Hendersonville plank road company, to locate and construct a plank road from the borough of Mercer to the village of Hendersonville, in the county of Mercer, subject to all the provisions Subject to the and restriction of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, provisions and approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred restrictions of and forty-nine, and the supplements thereto, so far as the same are not inconsistent with the following sections. certain act. Capital stock. Commencement of road. SECTION 6. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of one thousand shares, at twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That the said company may from time to time, at a meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose, increase the capital stock to such an amount as in their opinion may be required to complete said road, according to the true intent and meaning of said act. SECTION 7. That if said company shall not commence the construcand completion tion of said road within two years, and complete the same within five years, this act shall be null and void, except so far as may be necessary to settle the affairs of the company. Commissioners SECTION 8. That the commissioners of the district of Southwark, in of Southwark to the county of Philadelphia, be and they are hereby authorized and borrow money. empowered to borrow from time to time, any sum or sums of money Proviso. that they may judge necessary, for the purpose of culverting or under ground draining any of the streets in said district that require such drainage, and to pledge the faith of the district for the payment of the same: Provided, That the concurrence of two-thirds of the commissioners of said district shall be essential to any law or ordinance to authorize such loan. Ridge turnpike SECTION 9. That the Ridge turnpike road company is hereby authocompany to sell thorized to sell, on such terms as they may deem expedient, any toll house and lots belonging to them situated within the county of Philadelphia or Montgomery. toll house. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. WM. BIGLER. APPROVED-The sixth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. No. 219. AN ACT Entitled "An Act to incorporate the Erie City Railroad company." 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 JoCommissioners. seph M. Sterrett, S. W. Keefer, James Skinner, John H. Walker, N. W. Russell, John A. Tracy, John S. Brown, and P. Arbuckle, of Erie county, Pennsylvania, be and the same are hereby appointed commis. sioners, under the provisions of an act entitled "An Act regulating visions and re- Railroad companies," passed the nineteenth day of February, one strictions of cer- thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, with all the powers conferred by said act. Subject to pro tain act. SECTION 2. That the name and style and title of the company Style. hereby authorized to be incorporated shall be "The Erie City Railroad company." SECTION 3. That the said company, when duly organized, is hereby Power to conauthorized to locate, construct, and operate under the provisions of struct railroad. said act, a railroad running from a point at the Harbor of Presque Isle, in the city of Erie, to a point on the New York and Pennsylva nia State line, in the township of North East, Greenfield, or Venango, in the county of Erie. SECTION 4. That the capital stock of the said company is hereby Capital stock. authorized to consist of ten thousand shares, of fifty dollars each, and it shall be lawful for the said company, upon a vote of the stockholders at any stated or special meeting convened for that purpose, to increase the capital stock to any number of shares not exceeding in the whole twenty thousand shares. SECTION 5. That said company be and hereby is authorized to con- Connections. nect their road at the line dividing this State from that of New York, and to form running connections with the road of any company organized under the laws of the State of New York. SECTION 6. That the term within which said company shall com- Completion of plete and open the said railroad for use shall be five years from the road. date of the passage of this act. APPROVED-The sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 220. AN ACT To authorize the Governor to incorporate the Wyalusing Bridge company; relative to a State road in Bradford county; to the Philadelphia Life Insurance company; to the high constable of Strattonville, Clarion county; and to authorize the counties of Beaver and Allegheny to subscribe to the capital stock of the Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad company. 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 Uriah Terry, G. F. Horton, J. J. Dull, Moses Elienberger, Michael Commissioners. Mylert, Justice Lewis, George H. Wells, Henry Gaylord, C. F. Wells, junior, and B. Laporte, be and they are hereby appointed commission ers, to do and perform the several duties hereinafter mentioned, that is to say they shall, on or before the first day of August next, procure Form of one or more books, and therein enter as follows: "We whose names subscription. |