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No. 319.

AN ACT

For the relief of the School Directors of Monongahela City, Washington county; to incorporate the Hancock and Warfordsburg Turnpike or Plank Road company; and relative to the Birmingham and Elizabethtown Turnpike Road 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 the Superintendent of Common Schools be and he is hereby instructed Superintendant to pay to the treasurer of the Monongahela school, in the county of of common Washington, the amount to which such district was entitled from the schools to pay certain school annual State appropriations for school purposes, for the years one thouappropriations sand eight hundred and fifty-one, one thousand eight hundred and to Monongahela fifty-two, and one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, as if the law school district. had been complied with, and that the treasurer of the district be and

is hereby empowered to collect the outstanding school tax for the years above mentioned.

SECTION 2. That the said directors and their successors in office, shall Directors of said have power to borrow money from time to time, to liquidate debts now district may boror hereafter contracted in the purchase of real estate or the erection of row money. buildings for school purposes, and to mortgage or pledge such estate and buildings for the payment of the same: Provided, Such sum or sums shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of two thousand dol lars.

Proviso.

SECTION 3. That Philip Gorden, Joseph Bernhard, George Smith, Commissioners. James B. Ditto, James Hunter, William Carl, Benjamin Gale, Samuel Gorden, Jacob Bernhard, James J. Kirb, or any five of them, be and are hereby appointed commissioners, to open books, receive subscriptions,

and organize a company, by the name, style and title of "The Hancock Hancock and and Warfordsburg Turnpike or Plank Road company, with power to Warfordsburg construct a turnpike or plank road, commencing at the Maryland line, turnpike comp. in the county of Fulton, by the nearest and best route through Warfordsburg, and to the White Oak run, near Jacob Bernhard's farm, in Fulton county, and the said company may, if they deem it expedient, extend a branch to any point within the limits of said county, Location. subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act approved the Subject to protwenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty. Visions of cer

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SECTION 4. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. two hundred and forty shares, at twenty-five dollars each: Provided, Proviso. That the said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for the purpose, increase their capital stock,

if it shall be deemed necessary to carry out the true intent and mean

ing of this act.

SECTION 5. That whenever said company shall have finished two When may take miles or more of said road, they shall have power to erect gates and tolls. receive tolls, agreeable to the conditions and restrictions of sections twelve and thirteen of an act approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

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repealed.

SECTION 6. That if said company shall not commence the construetion of said turnpike road within three years, and complete the same within ten years from and after the passage of this act, this act shall become null and void, except so far as may be necessary to settle the affairs of said company.

SECTION 7. That the fourth section of the act passed fifth April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Union and Cambridge plank road company; relative to supervisors in Shrewsbury township, York county, and to the Birming ham and Elizabethtown turnpike road company," be and the same is hereby repealed.

W. P. SCHELL,

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

and fifty-three.

No. 320.

WM. BIGLER.

AN ACT

To extend the time and increase the powers of the Waynesburg and Monoc. gahela Turnpike Road 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 Commencement the time for the commencement of the Waynesburg and Monongahela and completion Turnpike Road company, incorporated by an act passed the twenty fifth

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day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, is hereby extended to five years, and the completion to ten years from the passage of this act, and the provisions of said act of incorporation are hereby revived and extended, with full force and effect, during said period. SECTION 2. That in addition to the powers contained in said act, the said company, if a majority of the members so determine, may instead of a turnpike road construct a plank road between the points named in said act, upon such plan, and of such dimensions, as shall be agreed upon, subject, however, to any general law or laws of the Commonwealth now in force regulating plank roads, and in such event, said company shall be styled the Waynesburg and Monongahela Plank Road company.

W. P. SCHELL,

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APPROVED-The eighteenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 321.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Wilkinsburg and Green Spring Turnpike or Plank Road com

pany.

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 John Horner, George Johnston, John Rice, David Lytle, Joseph Als- Commissioners. house, and James Carothers, of Allegheny county, be and are hereby appointed commissioners, to open books, receive subscriptions, and

organize a company, by the name, style and title of "The Wilkinsburg Name and and Green Spring Turnpike or Plank Road company," with power to locate Style. and construct a turnpike or plank road in said county, commencing at a

point in Wilkinsburg, and running one mile or more, to connect with Location. the East Liberty and Penn Township plank road, on the Green Spring

farm, owned by James Kelly, subject to all the restrictions and provi- Subject to prosions of an act entitled "An Act regulating Turnpike and Plank Road visions and res companies," approved the twenty-sixth day of January, Anno Domini strictions of cerone thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the supplements tain act.

thereto.

SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist Capital stock. of one hundred shares, of ten dollars each: Provided, That said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase the capital stock so much as may be necessary in their opinion for the completion of the road, and to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act.

SECTION 3. That whenever said company shall have finished one When may take mile or more of said road, they shall have power to erect a gate or tolls. gates and receive tolls, agreeably to the provisions and restrictions of the thirteenth section of the act of twenty-sixth of January, Anno

Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, aforesaid.

SECTION 4. That the viewers to be appointed by the Governor, as Viewers. authorized by the twelfth section of the act last aforesaid, may be appointed whenever the company hereby to be incorporated shall have

finished one mile or more of said road.

SECTION 5. That if said company shall not commence the construc- Commencement tion of their road within two years, and complete the same within three and completion years from and after the passage of this act, then the same shall become of road. null and void, except so far as may be necessary to settle up the affairs

and pay the debts of the company.

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

and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 322.

AN ACT

To incorporate Cambria Bridge company.

SECTION 6. 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. James P. McConaughy, George S. King, Evan Roberts, James Potts, R. B. Gagely, Cyrus L. Pushing and S. A. Cox, of Cambria county, be and they are hereby created commissioners, authorized to receive Subscriptions to subscriptions to the capital stock hereby created, at such times and stock, notice of places as a majority of them may direct, previously giving at least time and place four weeks' notice thereof in a paper printed in Cambria county, of to be given. the time and place when and where the subscription shall be received, and at the time of subscribing for said stock, two dollars shall be paid to the commissioners, or some one of them, which money shall be paid over to the treasurer of said company, as soon as one is appointed, and the residue of said subscriptions shall be paid in such installments, and how to be paid. at such times and places, and to such persons as the president and managers of the company may direct.

Installments

Name & style.

Privileges and

franchises.

Capital stock.

Notice of meeting of stockholders.

Officers.
Quorum.

By-laws.

SECTION 2. When forty shares are subscribed, the persons holding the same are hereby created and incorporated into a company, by the name and title of the "Cambria Bridge company," and by that name those who have subscribed, and those that may hereafter subscribe, shall have perpetual succession, with all privileges and franchises incident to a corporation, and shall be capable of taking and holding their capital stock, and the increase and profits, and of enlarging the same from time to time by a new subscription, in such manner and form as they shall think proper, if such enlargement shall be found necessary to build the bridge, or fulfil the intent of this act, and of purchasing and holding, to them and their successors, lands, tenements, heredita ments and estates, in fee simple, or any real or personal estate as shall be necessary and convenient to them in the prosecution of their work, and the same to sell and dispose of at their pleasure, and of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, in all courts of justice.

SECTION 3. That the capital stock of said company shall not exceed ten thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and the subscribers to said capital stock shall pay the sum or sums of money for the shares by them held respectively, or by them subscribed, at such periods and in such installments as the directors of said company may order or determine.

SECTION 4. That as soon as forty shares of the said capital stock shall be subscribed, it shall be the duty of the commissioners to give notice in one paper printed in Cambria county, for three weeks, of the time and place of a meeting of the stockholders, who shall on meeting proceed to organize the said company, and shall choose by ballot, in person or by proxy, one president, five directors, four of whom shall be a quorum, one treasurer, and such other officers as they shall deem necessary to conduct the business of said company until other officers shall be appointed, and the said president and directors shall make such by-laws and regulations for the government of said company as they

shall think necessary and proper, consistent with the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth, for the well ordering of the affairs of said

company, and fixing upon the site or location of said bridge, and each Officers to fix stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock by upon location. him or her held at the time of such election, if the number shall not exceed five, and one vote for every two shares above five and not exceeding nine, and one vote for every five shares above nine, until the number of votes amount to twelve, and that no person shall be entitled to more than twelve votes, and the stockholders shall meet on the last Saturday of December in every year, at such place as shall be fixed on by the president and directors, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year.

rectors.

SECTION 5. The president and directors first chosen shall issue cer- Certificates of tificates of stock to the several stockholders, signed by the president stock. and countersigned by the treasurer of said company, which certificates shall be transferable at the pleasure of the holder, in person or attor. ney, subject to the payment of any balance that may be due thereon, and the assignee holding such certificate, having caused the assignment to be entered in a book of the company to be kept by the treasurer for that purpose, shall be entitled to his or her just proportion of the capital stock, and of all the estate and emoluments of the company, in proportion to the number of shares by them held, and to vote at the meetings thereof as aforesaid, and the president and directors shall Duties of pres-. meet at such times and places as shall be agreed on for the transaction ident and diof business; at such meeting four members shall form a quorum for transacting business; they shall keep minutes of their transactions, entered in a book, and shall have authority to agree with and appoint engineers, artists, superintendents, and agents, as they shall think proper, to construct a bridge over the Conemaugh river, at or near the Broad Fording in Conemaugh township, in Cambria county, and to complete the same, and fix the salaries, and determine the time the stockholders shall pay their installments due on their respective shares, draw orders on the treasurer for money, the same to be signed by the president or chairman, and attested by the clerk, and to do and transact all things by this act and the by-laws and regulations of the company, that may be lawful.

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SECTION 6. That the president and directors of said company shall Accounts to be keep just and fair accounts of all the money received by them in kept. way under the provisions of this act, and also all moneys by them expended and all voluntary contributions to said company, and shall at least once a year, or whenever called upon, submit their accounts to the inspection any or all the stockholders.

Rates.

SECTION 7. When a good and complete bridge is erected over said When may take Conemaugh river at the place aforesaid, the company, their successors tolls. or assigns, may demand the same rates of toll as are allowed in entitled "An Act to authorize the Governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the Juniata river at McVeytown, Mifflin county, and for other purposes," passed the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and shall cause to be put up and kept up in some conspicuous place at the gates of said bridge, a list of the rates of toll.

SECTION 8. That if any person shall wilfully cut, destroy, or break Penalty for inju or remove from off said bridge, or any part thereof, any piece of tim- ries to bridge. ber, stone, plank, chain, bolt, or any materials whatsoever belonging to said bridge, or otherwise wilfully or maliciously damage the same, he, she, or they so offending, shali forfeit and pay for every such offence, over and above the damage done to said bridge, the sum of

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