conveyances by

under the decree of the court as aforesaid, and with the like effect and Trustees, &c. to indemnity to them in acting thereunder, to make and take conveyances make and take by deed, acknowledged in court, without public sale, in order to square deed. and adjust lines between adjoining owners, to make and take conveyances, to perfect the partition of real estate held in joint tenantcy, coparcenary, or in common with others, to purchase other real estate, when needful, to that already owned by any such party, or useful to the business thereupon carried on, or when necessary, to protect any security or rent held on property exposed to judicial sale: Provided, Provise. That no corporation shall be so authorized to purchase beyond its charter license: And provided, That no purchase or sale by authority Proviso. of this act, shall change the course of descent or transmission of any property changed in its nature by virtue thereof, as respects persons who are not of competent ability to dispose of it, and all persons entrusted with moneys raised under this act shall be authorized to file their accounts in the court whence their authority was derived, and upon such notice as the court may order to parties interested, or after being audited, if deemed necessary, or by consent of all parties interested, such accounts may be finally confirmed, and upon payment of the balance, as may be decreed by the court, such accountants may be fully discharged from the trust.

taken to su

preme court.

SECTION 8. That in all cases and proceedings under this act, appeals Appeals may be may be taken to the supreme court from the orphan's court, as now provided by law in other cases, and in the court of common pleas, as provided in equity cases, in the respective counties of the State: Pro- Proviso. vided, That if any decree be carried into execution before the appeal be perfected, and written notice thereof given to any vendee, mort. gagee, or lessee, any reversal thereof shall not affect the right or title of such vendee, mortgagee, or lessee, but the purchase or mortgage moneys or rents shall stand in lieu of the premises sold or mortgaged, or leased, so far as thus encumbered: Provided further, That before Proviso. any decree be carried into effect to afford such indemnity, twenty days be allowed from its entry to take and perfect such appeal.

Prohibition as

SECTION 9. That no person or persons shall, after the passing of this act, by any deed, will, or otherwise, settle or dispose of any real to the disposal or personal property, so and in such manner that the rents, issues, of real or persointerest, or profits thereof, shall be wholly or partially accumulated for nal property. any longer term than the life or lives of any such grantor or grantors, settler or settlers, or testator, and the term of twenty-one years from the death of any such grantor, settler, or testator, that is to say, only after such decease during the minority or respective minorities with allowance for the period of gestation of any person or persons, who, under the uses or trusts of the deed, will, or other assurance directing such accumulation, would, for the time being, if of full age, be entitled unto the rents, issues, interests, and profits so directed to accumulate, and in every case where any accumulation shall be directed otherwise than as aforesaid, such direction shall be null and void in so far as it shall exceed the limits of this act, and the rents, issues, interests and profits, so directed, to be accumulated contrary to the provisions of this act, shall go to and be received by such person or persons as would have been entitled thereto if such accumulation had not been directed: Provided, That any donation, bequest, or devise, for any Proviso. lilerary, scientific, charitable, or religious purpose, shall not come within the prohibition of this section, which shall take effect and be in force, as well in respect to wills heretofore made by persons yet living and of competent mind, as in respect to wills hereafter to be made: And provided, That notwithstanding any direction to accumulate Provi

Directions contained in 6th

Proviso.

rents, issues, interests, and profits, for the benefit of any minor or minors, it shall be lawful for the proper court as aforesaid, on the ap plication of the guardian, where there shall be no other means for maintenance or education, to decree an adequate allowance for such purpose, but in such manner as to make an equal distribution among those having equal rights or expectations, whether at the time being minors or of lawful age.

SECTION 10. That the directions given in the sixth section of this act in regard to the security to be given in cases of sales, mortgage, or section, to apply letting of real estate, and the condition of the bond or security therein in certain cases. prescribed, shall apply to all cases of sales or mortgage of real estate by order of the courts of this Commonwealth: And provided, That no decree for the sale, mortgaging, or letting of any real estate under the provisions of this act, shall be made except when the president of the court, or the law judge or judges thereof, shall be present, and that the acts in relation to special courts, where the president judge shall be interested, related to parties in interest, or otherwise incapable of acting, shall apply to all such provisions.

W. P. SCHELL,

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

Corporators.

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Privileges.

No. 305.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Kensington Soup society, in the county of Philadelphia.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Matthias Cramer, Andrew Zanes, George J. Hamilton, Joseph Lippencot, Joseph Bennett, Robert Pearce, Jacob K. Vaughan, John Clouds, Abraham P. Eyre, Thomas D. Stiles, Joseph P. Cramer, Eli Garrison, senior, Franklin Eyre, Jacob Teese, George S. Cox, David Dancan, Jacob P. Donaldson, George W. Vaughan, Edward H. Gorgas, John Eyre, Theodore Bierly, Jacob Jones, William Cramp, George Stockham, and Richard S. Allen, and their successors, and all persons who may hereafter be associated with them in accordance with the condi tions hereinafter named, are hereby created a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name of "The Kensington Soup society," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in any court of law or else where, and shall be able to receive, take, have, hold and enjoy, to them

and their successors, for the use of the said society, any estate in lands, messunges, tenements and hereditaments, goods, chattels, money or effects, of whatsoever nature, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, assurance, devise or bequest, from any body corporate or person whatsoever, and the same or any part thereof to sell or dispose of at pleasure, and to make, have, and use a common seal, and to break, alter and renew the same at pleasure, and generally to do all and every other matter or thing which any corporation or body politic lawfully may or can do, to carry into effect the object and purposes set forth in the succeeding sections: Provided, That the clear yearly income or profits of all estate Proviso. had and enjoyed by the said society shall not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars per annum.

CONSTITUTION.

SECTION 2. That this society shall be known by the name of "The Name. Kensington Soup society" of the county of Philadelphia.

SECTION 3. That the object of this society shall be to secure a suita- Object. ble building in which to carry on its operations, which is the gratuitous distribution of soup and bread to the needy and deserving poor, under such regulations as may be provided for in the by-laws.

SECTION 4. That the officers of the society shall consist of a board of Managers. ten managers, to be chosen as is hereinafter provided; they shall have power from time to time to apply the rents, revenues and funds of the corporation for the maintenance and support of the soup house; they shall also have power to purchase, sell or mortgage the real or personal estate of the society: Provided, The same be approved of by a majority Proviso. of two-thirds of the members of the society.

SECTION 5. That the board of managers shall be elected by ballot, at Election of the annual meeting held in November, between the hours of three and managers, eight o'clock, P. M., and continue in office one year, or until others are chosen by a majority of all the members voting; no annual subscriber shall have the privilege of voting unless it shall appear by the books that his subscription was paid at least one month previous to said election; in case of a failure to elect managers on the day above named, this corporation shall not on that account be dissolved, but an election sball in every such case be held at such other time as may be directed by the managers, six days' public notice being given in at least two daily papers of the city or county of Philadelphia: Provided, That Proviso. the persons named in the first section of this act, or a majority of them, shall constitute a board of managers to transact the business of the society until the regular election shall be held as is herein before named.

SECTION 6. That the board of managers shall within one week after Officers. notice of their election, choose from among their own body by ballot, a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer; the officer last named shall give ample and sufficient freehold security for the faithful performance of his trust; the duties of the officers shall be prescribed in the by-laws, the board of managers shall have power to fill all vacancies that may occur in their body by death or otherwise.

SECTION 7. That the board of managers may enact such by-laws and By-laws. ordinances for their government and the good of the society, as they

may deem requisite: Provided, That the said rules and ordinances, Proviso. or any of them, be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of the United States, the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth, or this instrument.

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Proviso.

Membership.

Misnomers.
Proviso.

SECTION 8. That stated and special meetings shall be held at such times and in such way and manner as shall be directed in the by-laws: Provided, That one stated meeting be held in the month of November of each year.

SECTION 9. That annual subscribers to the amount of two dollars and upwards, shall be considered members of the society; any person contributing at one time the sum of twenty dollars shall become a member for life; any member having taken an active part in the affairs of the society for ten years shall be considered an honorary member, and shall thereafter be exempted from active duties, if he so desire.

SECTION 10. That no misnomer of the said corporation shall defeat or annul any gift, grant, devise or bequest to the said society: Provided, That the intent of the party 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 society.

W. P. SCHELL,

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred

and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER

No. 306.

AN ACT

Extending the time for the commencement of the Athens and Ithaca Railroad; relative to the New York and Erie Railroad company; and relative to Christian street, in the district of Moyamensing, Philadelphia 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 Commencement period for commencing the construction of the Athens and Ithaca Railand completion road, authorized by an act approved seventeenth March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and a supplement thereto, approved 1 eighth July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, is hereby extended three years from the passage of this act, and its completion to five years thereafter.

extended.

New York and Erie railroad company, may hold more land.

SECTION 2. That the New York and Erie Railroad company is hereby authorized to hold and possess an additional quantity of fifty acres of land in Susquehanna county, for the purposes mentioned in the ninth section of an act supplement to an act incorporating the Washington Mutual Insurance company of Philadelphia; and relative to the New York and Erie Railroad company, approved April twenty fifth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and the period limited in said section for conveying certain lands is hereby extended to the

first of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and that said company is hereby authorized to sell and convey such lands as are May sell lands held by it in Pike county, for other purposes than those mentioned in in Pike county. said section, which conveyance shall be good and valid in law to the purchaser or purchasers of the same.

SECTION 3. That all that part of Christian street in the district of Christian street Moyamensing, which lies westward of Irish Tract lane, as laid out but Moyamensing, not yet opened, be and the same is hereby declared to be opened to the to be extended. width of sixty-six feet, and it shall be the duty of the commissioners of the district to proceed without delay to have the same carried into effect.

WM. BIGLER.

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of April, one, thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

No. 307.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Kensington Literary Institute, in the county of Philadelphia ; and to authorize the Commissioners of the district of Kensington, in said county, to assess a Tax for the purpose of furnishing said district with Water.

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 persons who are now or may hereafter become members of the Kensington Literary Institute, in the county of Philadelphia, according to the terms of the constitution thereof, are hereby created a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name of the Kensing- Name. ton Literary Institute, shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in any court of law or Privileges. elsewhere, and shall be able to receive, take, have, hold and enjoy, to them and their successors, for the use of the said institute, any estate in lands, messuages, tenements and hereditaments, goods, chattles, moneys or effects, of what nature soever, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, assurance, devise or bequest, from any body corporate or persons whatsoever, and the same or any part thereof to sell or dispose of at pleasure, and to make, have and use a common seal, and to break, alter and Seal. renew the same at pleasure, and generally to do all and every other matter or thing which any corporation or body politic lawfully may or can do, to carry into effect the object and purposes set forth in the constitution hereinafter contained: Provided, That the clear yearly Proviso. income or profits of all the estate had and enjoyed by the said institute shall not exceed the sum of four thousand dollars.