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Commissioners to keep drain open. the said church and congregation, 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, by and with the advice and consent of a majority of the members of said church and congregation, expressed at a regular meeting present, shall grant, bargain, sell, or dispose of, for the use of the members of the said church and congregation, and to erect any building for the purpose of worship, or for a parsonage, and to alter and enlarge the same, as may be directed by a majority of the members of the church and congregation that may be present at a meeting for that purpose, of which said meeting at least ten days notice shall be given from the pulpit or clerk's desk, at a regular meeting of the congregation for worship, and to carry into effect any contract which may have been made for a site for the erection of a meeting house or other buildings, by the building committee of said church, and to collect all sum or sums of money which have or may hereafter be subscribed by any person or persons, for the erection of the said buildings, and generally to do all and singular the matters and things which shall be lawful for them to do for the well-being and due management of the secular affairs thereof: Provided, That the clear yearly value and income of said estates shall not for any time exceed three thousand dollars: The trustees of said church and congregation shall be five in number, and till others are elected shall consist of the following named persons: Jonathan Spyker, John Gundy, Levi Sterner, John Kling, William C. Painter, to continue in office until the first Monday in January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and on that day, and on the same day annually thereafter, the members of the said church and congregation may, at any general meeting thereof for that purpose, elect by ballot five persons to serve as trustees for the ensuing year and till others are elected; if vacancies by death or otherwise shall happen in the office of trustees, the remaining trustee or trustees may appoint others to supply such vacancies until the next annual election after such vacancy or vacancies happen: The said trustees and their successors shall, the first meeting after their election, appoint a president, secretary and treasurer, who shall perform the usual duties incumbent on such officers, and the said trsutees, thus organized, shall have full power to make and enact and enforce such by laws and ordinances as they shall think proper to enact for the regulation and transaction of the secular business of the church and congregation, and at pleasure again to repeal the same, and to make, have, and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure; if the members of the church and congregation omit or neglect on the day of the annual election to hold their election, the corporation shall not thereby be dissolved, but a majority of the trustees may appoint any subsequent time at which the election may be held: Provided, That ten days notice of said election be given, as aforesaid: And provided, also, That the said by-laws and ordinances shall not be inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this State or of the United States. SECTION 5. That the commissioners appointed by an act passed February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, entitled "An Act authorizing the construction of a culvert or drain through the streets of Selinsgrove, in Union county," are hereby authorized to keep said drain or culvert open at all times to allow free passage to the water, and that they have privilege and full power to prevent any person from interfering with or injuring said drain, and any person so interfering with or injuring said drain to be subjected to a penalty, not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, at the discretion of the justice of the peace before whom they may be brought, such penalty to be recoverable as other debts are now by law recoverable, and to be paid over to the school fund of the township of Penns. W. P. SCHELL, APPROVED-The eighth day of April, A. D, one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 230. AN ACT To incorporate the Old Fellows' Hall Association of Mifflinburg, Union county; repealing the Auction laws of the borough of Pottsville; the place of holding elections in the borough of Schuylkill Haven; the Delaware county Mutual Protection company; and changing the place of elections in Upper Saucon and Lower Milford townships, in Lehigh 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 Samuel Getgen, Joseph H. Leisenring, C. H. Hassenplug, John M. Corporators. Stayman, James W. Simington, A. J. Crotzer, John Weirick, George Boop, A. Frederick, E. N. Weirman, George Schoch, Cornelius Pellman, David W. Pellman, Charles Crotzer, Charles H. Schriner, O. P. Katherman, and others, members of Crescent Lodge number one hundred and seventy-nine, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Mifflinburg, in the county of Union, and their successors, and all persons who may hereafter be associated with them, be and they are hereby created and erected into a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of "The Odd Fellows' Hall Style. Association of Mifflinburg, in the county of Union," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, or elsewhere, and shall be able and capable in law and in equity to take and to hold, to them and their successors, either by gift, grant, devise, or lease, any lands or real estate, for the purpose of erecting thereon a suitable building or buildings for the use of said association, and any goods and chattels, sum or sums of money, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, will, Privileges. devise, or bequest, from any person or persons whatsoever capable of making the same, and the same at their pleasure to grant, bargain, and sell, lease and mortgage, for the use or benefit of the said association, and generally to do all and singular the matters and things which shall be lawful for them to do for the well-being and due management of the affairs of the said association: Provided, That the real estate Proviso. Object. Seal. Government of corporation. By-laws. Reservation. Proviso. Repeal. Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill county. Theodore Cuyler and John Kessler to reconvey certain property. Proviso. of which the said corporation shall be at any time possessed of shall not exceed the clear yearly value of three thousand dollars. SECTION 2. That the object of the said association shall be to provide, erect and furnish a hall, or suitable building or buildings, in the town of Mifflinburg, and county of Union, for the accommodation of said association, or societies, and for such other purposes as they shall deem proper. SECTION 3. That it shall and may be lawful for said corporation to have a common seal, and the same at their pleasure to change, alter and renew, as they shall deem proper, and shall have and exercise all the rights and privileges and immunities necessary for the purposes of the incorporation hereby constituted, and as herein expressed. SECTION 4. That the government of the Odd Fellows' Hall Association of Mifflinburg, and the management and disposition of its af fairs and property, shall be invested in a board of trustees, who shall be elected annually, at such time and in such manner as the said association shall by its by-laws provide; at the first meeting of the trus tees after their election in each year they shall choose from their body a president, secretary and treasurer. SECTION 5. That the corporation hereby created shall have authority to make by-laws, conformable to the charter and not in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States of this Commonwealth. SECTION 6. That the Legislature reserves the right to alter, revoke, or amend this charter, whenever in their opinion such revocation shall be considered necessary for the public interest: Provided, That no injustice shall be done to the corporators thereof. SECTION 7. That the seventeenth section of the act entitled "An Act relative to the Schuylkill couuty prison and to discharged convicts; to the election of school directors, council men, town clerk, and the appointment of an auctioneer, in the borough of Pottsville; to the division of the borough of Minersville into wards; and relative to the road laws in Frailey township, in the county aforesaid;" ap. proved April first, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, be and the same is hereby repealed. Construction of. SECTION 8. That the qualified voters of the borough of Schuylkill Haven, in the county of Schuylkill, heretofore voting at the public school house, shall hereafter vote at the public house now kept by George Kauffman, in said borough. SECTION 9. That it shall and may be lawful for Theodore Cuyler and John Kessler, trustees of certain real estate conveyed by Coburn Whitehead and Matilda his wife, by a deed bearing date September seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and recorded in the office for recording deeds in and for the city and county of Philadelphia, in deed book number forty-four, page five hundred and fortyone, in trust for the said Coburn Whitehead during his life, and upon his decease for such persons and estates as the said Coburn by his last will should appoint, to reconvey the said premises by he said deed granted and conveyed in trust unto the said Coburn Whitehead, and thereafter the said Coburn Whitehead shall stand seized and possessed of all and singular the said premises, in the same manner, and with the same effect, to all intents and purposes, as if the said mentioned deed of trust had never been executed: Provided, however, That no act, matter or thing, lawfully done by the trustees under said deed, shall be rendered invalid or ineffectual. SECTION 10. That the fifth section of an act entitled "An Act to fifth section of incorporate the Delaware county Mutual Protection company," passed act relative to June twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, shall be so tection construed as to permit the members of said company to pay annually Delaware counsuch per centage, not exceeding ten per cent., upon their premium ty mutual pronotes, as shall from time to time be fixed by the directors, by uniform company. rule, for the purpose of accumulating a fund to meet losses: Provi- Proviso. ded, That this section shall not be construed to apply to any insurance heretofore affected, unless the written consent of the person insured be first had and obtained. SECTION 11. That the thirteenth and fourteenth sections of said act Repeal. be and the same are hereby repealed. SECTION 12. That the Legislature of this Commonwealth may alter, Reservation. amend or repeal the said charter, and the above supplement, at any time, doing no injustice to the corporators. SECTION 13. That hereafter the general, special and township elec- Upper Saucon tions in the township of Upper Saucon, Lehigh county, be held at the 'P., Lehigh house of Daniel Cooper in said township. county. SECTION 14. That hereafter the general, special and township elec- Lower Milford tions in the township of Lower Milford, Lehigh county, be held at the tp., Lehigh house of Henry Dillinger in said township. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. county. WM. BIGLER. No. 231. AN ACT Relating to the Judicial Districts of this Commonwealth. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenlatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Fifth judicial the counties of Centre, Clearfield, and Clinton, be and are hereby district erected. erected into a separate judicial district, to be called the twenty-fifth district, and it shall be the duty of the Governor of this Commonwealth, pursuant to the provisions of the constitution, to appoint and commission a gentleman of integrity, learned in the law, to be president judge of said district, who shall hold his office until the first day of December next. SECTION 2. That the courts in said counties shall be held as follows, Time of holding to wit: In the county of Centre on the second Mondays of February, May, September and December, to continue two weeks, if necessary. In the county of Clearfield on the first Mondays of February, May, September and December. courts. Mercer county annexed to 18th judicial district. Montour county annexed to In the county of Clinton on the Mondays following the last week of the courts in Centre county, to continue one or more weeks. SECTION 3. That the qualified electors of the said twenty-fifth ju dicial district shall, on the second Tuesday of October next, elect 3 president judge for said district, according to the laws of this Commonwealth, to serve for the term of ten years from the first day of December next. SECTION 4. That the county of Mercer shall be annexed to and compose part of the eighteenth judicial district, and the courts therein shall commence their terms on the second Mondays of January, April, August, and November, of each year, and shall continue each term for two weeks, if necessary, and all writs, rules, recognizances, orders, and decrees, made returnable in said courts to the terms as now fixed by law, shall be considered as extended, continued, and returnable, to the terms as fixed by this act. SECTION 5. That the county of Montour shall be annexed to and compose part of the eighth judicial district, and the courts therein a ter eighth judicial the April term of the present year, shall be held on the second Monday succeeding the commencement of the terms of the courts of Lycoming county. district. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The ninth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 232. AN ACT To authorize the city of Philadelphia to subscribe to the capital stock of the 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 the city of Philadelphia is hereby authorized to subscribe for ten thousand shares in the capital stock of the Hempfield Railroad company, and to borrow money to pay therefor, and to make provision for the payment of the principal and interest of the money so borrewed, as in other cases of loans to said city, or payment for said shares may be made in stock held by said city, and in such mode as shall hereafter be agreed upon by said city and said Hempfield Railroad company, and the said city may be represented at elections and other meetings of |