Trustees may lease estate. Misnomers. Proviso. SECTION 10. That said trustees may if they deem it expedient, lease and hire out the real estate and effects of said corporation to a competent teacher or teachers, and receive and collect rent and compensation for the use of such real and personal estate, and the same to divide ratably among the stockholders, after first deducting all necessary charges and expenses for repairs, taxes, and the due management of the affairs of said corporation. SECTION 11. That no misnomer of the said corporation shall defeat Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER Corporators. Style. Trustees. No. 332. AN ACT For the establishment of the Pennsylvania Female College, at Harrisburg. 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 is hereby erected, established and incorporated, at or near the borough of Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin, in this Commonwealth, a college, for the liberal education of females in the various branches of general knowledge, science, literature, and the learned and foreign languages, under the name, style and title of "The Pennsyl vania Female College," under the direction of the Governor of this Commonwealth, the Superintendent of Common Schools of this Commonwealth, Luther Reily, A. O. Hiester, Simon Cameron, William Dock, John Maglaughlin, Benjamin Parke, John J. Clyde, Robert J. Ross, Stephen Miller, Daniel W. Gross, Hamilton Alricks, Robert A. Lamberton, John H. Briggs, of Dauphin county, Otis H. Tiffany, Charles E. Blumenthal, of Cumberland county, James Buchanan and George Ford, of Lancaster county, John Weidman, Levi Kline, of Lebanon county, William H. Allen, Job R. Tyson, and George W. Wharton, of Philadelphia, as trustees, and their successors, together with such other persons as shall be made trustees in the manner hereinafter provided, who are hereby created, established and incorporated, and declared to be a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, with all the incidents of a corporation, hereby empowered and made capable at law and in equity to take, to themselves and their successors, Privileges. for the use of said college, any estate in any messuages, lands, tenements, goods, chattels, moneys, or other effects, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, will, devise, or bequest, of any person or persons, body politic or corporate, either municipal or otherwise, whatsoever: Provided, The same do not exceed in the whole the yearly Proviso. value or income of fifteen thousand dollars, and the same messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments and estates, real or personal, to grant, bargain, sell, convey, assure, devise, and to farm, let, and place out on interest, or otherwise dispose of, or invest for the use of said college, in such manner as to them or a quorum thereof, shall seem most beneficial to the said institution, and to receive the rents, issues, profits, income and interest of the same, and apply the same to the proper use of the said college, and by the same name to sue, commence, prosecute and defend, implead and be impleaded, in any courts of law or equity, and in all manner of suits and actions whatsoever, and generally, by and in the same name, to do and transact all and every business touching or concerning the premises, or which shall be incidentally necessary thereto, as fully and effectually as any natural person or body politic or corporate have power to manage their own concerns, and to hold and enjoy and exercise, as far as may be applicable to a college for the education of females, all the powers, authorities and jurisdictions granted to the other colleges within this Commonwealth. SECTION 2. That the first meeting of the said trustees shall be Meeting of truswithin three months after the passage of this act, at such time and tees. place in Harrisburg as shall be fixed by at least seven thereof, of which meeting at least three weeks' notice shall be given, by public adver tisement in two of the newspapers printed in Harrisburg; if at such or any subsequent meeting seven of the said trustees shall not be present, then those who are present shall have power to adjourn to any other day, of which they shall give like notice as herein before specified, but when seven or more of said trustees shall meet, at any time and place so appointed and fixed, they shall be capable of organizing, electing May organize officers to serve until the next annual meeting, or until others shall be and elect of duly elected or appointed, and generally of doing and transacting all cers. other business, matters and things appertaining to said college, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as the trustees of the other colleges in this Commonwealth are by law authorized and empowered to do. SECTION 3. That there shall be an annual meeting of the trustees Meetings. of this college at Harrisburg, on the third Friday of May in each year, and also such other stated meetings as may be fixed by the by-laws; of the time and place of all meetings of the trustees after their organi zation, written or printed notices shall be given to each trustee, or sent to him through the medium of the post office, at least ten days before such meeting; seven of the trustees, if no more be present, shall be a quorum for the transaction of all business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time until a quorum shall be present; special Quorum. meetings of the trustees may be held by adjournment, or upon the call of the president or any five trustees; all questions shall be decided by a majority of those present, and the trustees when so convened, shall at all times have power and be capable of making and enacting by-laws By-laws. and ordinances for the government of said college, electing trustees in the place and stead of such as may die or resign, or who, having been Powers. duly notified, have failed for more than twelve months to attend the stated meetings of the trustees, of removing the principal or any other of the professors or teachers or assistants, for misconduct, neglect of Increase of trustees. Proviso. No person excluded on account of religoussentiments. Reservation. duty, breaches of the ordinances of the institution, or other cause which may be deemed sufficient, and filling their places, and generally of doing and transacting all other matters and things appertaining to the welfare of said college; at the annual meeting, or the first thereafter at which a quorum shall be present, a full and perfect statement of the finances, accounts of the college, shall be made by the proper officers, the president and other officers for the year elected, the principal and other professors appointed, and their salaries and stipends fixed. SECTION 4. That the number of trustees of this college may hereafter be increased by the addition of twelve members, in the following manner: any person paying to the treasurer of the trustees the sum of one thousand dollars, shall be a trustee of said college for life; every two or more persons paying in like manner the sum of one thousand dollars, shall be entitled to elect a person who shall be a trustee of said college for three years, and until the said contributors shall elect his successor Provided, That when by such contributions and elections the number of trustees shall amount to fifty, the trustees created by this act, or their successors, shall determine by lot and designate one whose term shall then expire, to give place to the trustee next created by contributors, which process of designating a trustee to retire shall be repeated as often as others are by contribution created, until the whole of said trustees named in this act and their successors, except the Governor and Superintendent of Common Schools, shall have retired. SECTION 5. That persons of every religious denomination shall be capable of being elected trustees, or appointed professors and teachers, nor shall any person, either as trustee, professor, tutor, or pupil, be refused admittance into said college, or denied any of the privileges, immunities or advantages thereof, for or on account of his sentiments in matters of religion. SECTION 6. That the Legislature hereby reserves the right to revoke, alter or amend this charter, whenever to them it may seem expedient. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 333. AN ACT To annul the marriage contract entered into between Emily D. Whaley and 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 marriage contract entered into between Emily D. Whaley, late Emily D. Jeffries, and James E. Whaley, be and the same is hereby declared null and void, and said parties are hereby discharged from all liabilities and obligations growing out of the same, as fully and absolutely as if they had never been joined in marriage. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 334. AN ACT To incorporate the Safe Harbor and Susquehanna Turnpike Road company; anthorizing the widening of Locust street, in Lancaster city; relative to subscriptions to the capital stock of the Connellsville Railroad company; and changing the name of the Wellersburg and West Newton Plank 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 John Griffin, Henry Shenk, Samuel Harnish, Jacob Warfel, George Commissioners. Hess, David Hess, Henry Funk, Doctor John Kendig, William McCreary, J. H. Kurtz, Jacob Hoover, John Kolp, Abraham Peters, John Brady, Jacob Fehl, and Hugh Mehaffy, are hereby appointed commissioners, to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, by the style and title of "The Safe Harbor and Susquehanna Style. Turnpike Road company," with power to construct a turnpike, commencing at the bridge at widow Hess' tavern, in Safe Harbor; thence Location of along Conestoga creek to the Susquehanna river; thence down said road. river to the York Furnace bridge, in Lancaster county; subject to all visions of cer Subject to pro- the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty sixth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the supplements thereto. tain act. Capital stock. Commencement SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of five hundred shares, at twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That the said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as may be necessary in their opinion to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That the said company shall commence said road within and completion two years and finish it within six years from the passage of this aet, and failing so to do, the provisions of this act shall be null and void. of road. Locust street, widened. SECTION 4 That the Select and Common councils of Lancaster city, Lancaster, to be be and they are hereby authorized and required to cause the street commissioners of said city to widen or cause to be widened the public alley running from Factory road north-eastward along the south-eastern boundaries of the Adamstown lots to Montgomery's lane, into a public street, to be called Locust street, of the width of thirty-nine feet: Provided, The property holders along said alley shall first release all claims for damages on account of the widening of said street. Certain counties Proviso. SECTION 5. That the several counties heretofore authorized to subauthorized to scribe to the capital stock of the Pittsburg and Connellsville railroad borrow money. company, he and the same are hereby authorized to borrow money to pay for such subscription, and, to make provisions for the payment of the principal and interest of the money so borrowed, as in other cases of loans of said counties, and no bond shall be issued for a less sum than one hundred dollars, and the certificates of loan, or bonds issued or to be issued by either of said counties for the purpose aforesaid, bearing an interest of six per centum per annum, payable half yearly, may be received as cash by the said railroad company, in the payment of instalments on shares subscribed by such county: Provided, That whenever certificates of loan or bonds shall be given by such county in payment of subscriptions, the same shall not be sold by said railroad company for less than their par value, and so much of the act incorporating said company as limits the route of their railroad to the course of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same effects that portion of the line lying between the city of Pittsburg and a point on the Youghiogheny river not less than six miles below Connellsville, and the said railroad company are hereby authorized to mortgage or otherwise encumber their said road, and any real and personal estate which may belong to it, for the purposes of carrying out the privileges granted by the act and the several supplements thereto incorporating the same; that the bonds which may be issued by any county, corporation or municipality, as also the bonds or certificates which may be issued by said company to the stockholders in the same, shall not be subject to taxation until the clear profits of said railroad shall amount to six per cent: Provided, That no bond shall be issued for a less sum than one hundred dollars. Proviso. Pittsburg and Connellsville railroad, inay extend road. SECTION 6. That the Pittsburg and Connellsville Railroad company are hereby authorized to extend their road to any point they may select in Somerset or Bedford counties; so to form a connection with the Chambersburg and Allegheny railroad, or any other railroad that may be constructed. |