bers whose subscriptions are unpaid shall be entitled to vote, or be eligi ble as officers or managers of the institute; special meetings shall be called by the president or vice president, whenever requested by fifteen of the members, of which meetings at least three days public notice shall be given, in one or more newspapers published in the city or county of Philadelphia, and by posting in the library.

ARTICLE V.-President.

The president, or in his absence the vice president, or in the absence of both a president pro tem., shall preside at all meetings of the institute and of its board of managers, shall preserve order, and perform such other duties as appertain to his office.

ARTICLE VI.-Treasurer.

The treasurer shall receive and hold all moneys belonging to or paid in to the institute, shall keep a correct account of the receipts and disbursements, exhibit a statement of its funds quarterly, to the institute, and oftener, if required by the board of managers; he shall make no payments except on the order of the managers, signed by the president and secretary, and shall enter into an approved bond for the faithful performance of his trust.

ARTICLE VH.-Secretary.

The secretary shall keep full and correct minutes of the proceedings of all meetings of the institute and its board of managers, preserve all papers and documents belonging thereto in his possession, give notice of meetings, and perform all other duties required by his office.

ARTICLE VIII.-Managers.

The board of officers and managers, nine of whom shall constitute a quorum, shall hold stated meetings monthly, shall make their own by-laws, keep regular minutes of their proceedings, which shall be open at all times to the inspection of the members of the institute, shall establish a library and free reading room, purchase and receive such books, periodicals, and papers for the library, as they may think proper, provide for suitable lectures, and have power to devise and execute all measures which in their judgment will advance the interests of the institute and carry out efficiently the objects of the organization, not inconsistent with this constitution; they shall also hold their offices until their successors shall have been elected.

ARTICLE IX.-Library.

The books, periodicals and papers belonging to the library and reading room may be loaned, at the discretion of the managers, to the members of the institute, and to such young persons as shall furnish satisfactory security for the payment of fines in default of a punctual return of the volumes, and for any loss or injury that may be sustained in the book or books loaned; the reading room shall be kept open at such times and under such regulations as the managers may designate, for the free use of young persons and the members of the institute.

SECTION 2. A librarian shall be elected annually by the institute, and during his continuance in office shall be under the control of the board of managers, who shall have power to suspend or displace him for misconduct or incapacity, and shall report thereon at the next stated

meeting of the institute, and shall appoint a person to fill a vacancy so created until the next meeting of the institute.

ARTICLE X.-Amendments.

Any amendment to the constitution shall be offered in writing, at a stated meeting, be seconded by at least three members, and lie over until the next stated meeting of the institute, when a two-thirds vote shall be required for its adoption.

SECTION 7. That the officers and managers of the Northern Liber- Managers. ties Institute now acting, to wit: William B. Mann, president, Thos. K. Finletter, vice president, M. R. Harris, treasurer, S. Snyder Leidy, secretary, and Peter Armbruster, Daniel S. Beideman, George W. Reed, Edward T. Mott, J. Alexander Simpson, Jacob S. Mintzer, Conrad B. Andrews, John H. Frick, Abraham H. Rosenheim, George W. Hillier, John M. Kennedy, Bettle Paul, Robert M. Logan, John F. Maschert, Samuel T. Child, Thomas M. Marchment, John Horn, George Dilks, William M'Feuon, Benjamin H. Brown, James K. Knorr, James S. Watson, Stephen D. Anderson, Henry G. Leisenring, and William B. Elliott, shall be the board of managers of the institute hereby incorporated, until the stated meeting of the institute to be held in May next, as provided for in the third article of said constitution.

SECTION 8. That no misnomer of the said corporation shall defeat or annul any gift, grant, devise or bequest to the said institute: Provided, The intent of the parties making the same shall sufficiently appear on the face of the will, gift, grant, or other writing, whereby an estate or interest was intended to be given or passed to the said institute.

SECTION 9. That no bone boiling establishment, or depository of Bone boiling dead animals, shall be erected within the bounds of the districts of prohibited. Kensington, Penn, or Richmond, and all such establishments and de

positories within said districts are hereby declared public nuisances, and punishable as such.

SECTION 10. That no glue factory shall hereafter be erected within Glue factory the bounds of the district of Kensington, without the consent of at prohibited. least two-thirds of the board of commissioners of said district.

scribe certain

SECTION 11. That the borough of Germantown is hereby authorized Borough of Gerand empowered to subscribe for the stock of the Germantown and Branch- mantown to subtown turnpike and plank road company and the Willow Grove and Ger- stock. mantown turnpike and plank road company: Provided, That the said Proviso. companies shall not place a toll-gate within the limits of the said borough of Germantown.

SECTION 12. That the citizen volunteers of the county of North- Citizen volunampton, be and are hereby exempt from parading or drilling with any teers of Northregiment or battalion, except at the discretion of said company: Pro- ampton county. vided, The said company meet the number of days required by law,

and parade and drill, at such place or places as they may designate.

SECTION 13. That from and after the passage of this act, Samuel Samuel Peck Peck, now of the borough of Marietta, Lancaster county, shall be en- legitimated. dowed with all rights and privileges of a child born in lawful wedlock, and shall be called and known by the name of Samuel Stence, and by that name be capable of suing and being sued, and of taking any real or personal estate by descent, devise or purchase, and of granting or devising the same, in the same manner as if he had been always known by the name of Samuel Stence.

Standard of

weights and

SECTION 14. That the commissioners of York county are hereby authorized and required, on or before the first of May next, to purchase measures in copies of the original standard of weights and measures now in the York county.

hands of the Secretary of this Commonwealth, and said commissioners are authorized to pay for said standards out of any money in the treasury of the county of York.

W. P. SCHELL,

APPROVED-The twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hun

dred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

Preamble.

Corporators.

No. 242.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Milton Cemetery; to reduce the width of Green street, in Churchville, Northumberland county; to authorize the school directors of Turbot, Lewis, and Chilisquaque townships, Northumberland county, to sell certain school houses; to authorize George Weiser and Benjamin Hendricks, trustees of the German Lutheran church of Sunbury, to sell real estate; re pealing the fifth section of the act of ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine; relative to voting the slip ticket in Northumberland county; authorizing Jacob Hilbish to sell certain real estate of Krebs', Jacobs', Heirnel's, and Deep Creek German Reformed congregations of Nor thumberland and Schuylkill counties; fixing the time of holding the borough elections in Gratz, Dauphin county; and authorizing George T. Hammel and Jacob Shope to sell a certain school house in Hummelstown, Dauphin county.

WHEREAS, The persons hereinafter named have entered into an agreement to purchase a piece of land in the vicinity of the borough of Milton, in Northumberland county, containing about ten acres, for purpose of converting the same into a cemetery, et cetera, they are desirous that they and their successors may be incorporated for the purpose of establishing and perpetuating such cemetery; therefore,

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 Moses Chamberlin, William F. Nagle, James Pollock, Edward W. Chapin, Robert M. Frick, Samuel Hepburn, Thomas S. Mackey, John F. Wolfinger, William C. Lawson, James Buoy, Thomas Mervine, Jacob Campbell, Joseph Augstadt, J. H. McCormick, Heinen and brother, William McCleery, Benneville K. Hagg, J. H. Eckbret, H. D. Barr, John Miller, William H. Frymire, John V. Goodlander, A. T. Goodman, John M. Woods, Paul Masteller, Thomas Swenk, Samuel T. Brown, John Datesman, George H. Hertz, George Baker, Isaac *Brown, Isaiah B. Davis, Joseph L. Auten, Archibald W. Rhawn, Anthony Hipp, John Houtz, B. Galbraith, Jacob Bastian, David L. Ir land, James White, David Kramm, Fleming W. Pollock, Joseph Rhoads, James S. Dougal, James Montgomery, C. J. Eagle, John Norris, William H. Marr, E. S. Trego, Joseph Eckbret, Samuel A.

Liedy, and Charles Shearer, and their successors, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate in law, by the name, style Style. and title of "The Milton Cemetery," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, in any court of law or equity, and may have and use a common seal, and the same at their pleasure to alter or renew, and shall have power to purchase, Privileges. have, hold and enjoy, to them and their successors, the aforesaid piece of land, for the purpose aforesaid, and the said corporation shall have authority to receive gifts or bequests for the purpose of ornamenting or improving said cemetery, and to hold such personal property as may be necessary to carry out the object of this act.

managed.

SECTION 2. That the affairs of the said corporation shall be con- Affairs of corpoducted by a president and six managers, who shall be elected by a ration, how majority of the votes of the members of the corporation, on the first Monday of June in each and every year, at such place as a majority of the managers shall designate, of which election ten days' notice shall be given, by at least three printed or written handbills, or by publication in a newspaper printed in Milton, and in case no election shall be held at the time aforesaid, the officers of the preceeding year shall continue in office until an election shall be held; the said president and managers (a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business) shall fill all vacancies that may occur in their own body, by selecting a lot-holder to supply such vacancy, and shall have power to lay out and ornament the grounds purchased for the said cemetery, to erect such buildings thereon as may be necessary for the enjoyment of the same, to lay out, sell and dispose of burial lots, to appoint a treasurer and all other necessary officers, and fix their several duties and compensation, and to make such by-laws and regulations as they may deem proper for conducting the affairs of the corporation, for the lot-holders and visitors to the cemetery, and for the transfer of lots and the evidence thereof, for the regulation of burials, the improvement of burial lots, the erection of grave stones, monuments, and sepulchural structures, and the inscriptions on the same; and it shall be the duty of the said board of managers to cause a record of their proceedings to be kept, and to make report of the same and of the state of the finances at each annual meeting of the corporation, and as much oftener as may be required by a majority of the corporators: Provided, That until an election takes place for president and managers, the first named ten of the aforenamed corporators shall act as a board of managers, and elect one of their number as president, seven of whom shall constitute a quorum, and shall be invested with all the authority as a president and managers duly elected as herein before provided.

SECTION 3. That every lot conveyed in said cemetery shall be held Lots to be held by the proprietor and his heirs for the purpose of sepulture alone, for use of sepaltransferable with the consent of the president and a majority of the ture. managers, and shall not be subject to attachment or execution, and that the said cemetery shall hereafter be forever exempted from taxa

tion.

members and

when.

SECTION 4. That as soon as the money received from the sale of Who may be lots in said cemetery shall be sufficient to pay the purchase money expended by the persons hereby incorporated, with interest, and the expenses that shall have been incurred by them in laying out, enclosing and improving the grounds and erecting the necessary buildings, then each lot-holder shall become a member of the corporation, and have a right to vote for the officers thereof, and at all elections held

Green street, in Churchville, reduced.

School directors

thereafter under this act, each member of the corporation shall be entitled to one vote, and no more.

SECTION 5. That Green street, in the town of Churchville, Northumberland county, be and the same is hereby reduced to the width of ten feet upon each side of the true centre thereof, and that the ground ly. ing and being beyond the limits aforesaid, upon either side of said street or road, be and the same is hereby vested in the owner or owners of the land adjoining said ground, their heirs and assigns, and he or they are hereby authorized to occupy and hold the same.

SECTION 6. That the school directors of Turbot, Lewis and Chilisquaque authorized to townships, Northumberland county, be and they are hereby respectively authorized to sell and convey certain school houses in said districts, and apply the proceeds of said sales to the erection of new school houses in said districts.

sell school houses.

George Weiser

certain lots.

SECTION 7. That George Weiser and Benjamin Hendricks, the preand Benjamin sent trustees of the German Lutheran congregation of Sunbury, NorthHendricks to sell umberland county, or their successors in office, be and they are hereby authorized to sell and dispose of two certain lots of ground situate in said borough of Sunbury, on the south-west corner of Pokeberry and Deer streets, and numbered in the general plan of said borough as numbers two hundred and forty-five and two hundred and forty-six, whereon the church and lecture room of said congregation are erected, either at public or private sale, and either in the whole or in such parts or portions as they may deem proper, and to make titles for the same to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, their heirs and assigns, in fee simple, and without any liability on the part of any purchaser to see to the application of the purchase money.

SECTION 8. That the fifth section of the act entitled "An Act relative to supervisors in Franklin county, and for other purposes, approved the ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, in relation to voting the slip ticket at the general elections in Mifflin and other counties, be and the same is hereby repealed so far as relates to Northumberland county.

SECTION 9. That Jacob Hilbish, of Jackson township, Nothumberland county, be and he is hereby appointed trustee to sell, at public or private sale, and good and sufficient conveyance make to the purchaser or purchasers, all the right, title and interest of the St. Peter's or Krebs' German Reformed congregation, Jacobs' or Howerders' German Reformed congregation, Hainel's German Reformed congregation, all of the county of Northumberland, and Deep creek German Reformed congregation, of the county of Schuylkill, in and to twenty acres of land, more or less, situate in Jackson township, Northumberland county, adjoining lands of John Kieffer, Jonathan Reitz, and others, and after deducting the expenses of said sale, shall pay over the proceeds to the aforesaid congregations, according to their respective interests therein.

SECTION 10. That the qualified voters of the borough of Gratz, Dauphin county, shall hereafter hold their borough elections on the third Friday of March of each year.

SECTION 11. That George T. Hummel and Jacob Shope, of Hummelstown, Dauphin county, be and are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey a certain lot of ground, about thirty-four feet square, with a brick school house thereon erected, situate in the town of Hummelstown, in the county of Dauphin, at public sale, and by giving public notice of ten days by handbills, that such conveyance, when duly executed, shall be held and taken to vest in the purchaser or