same, and whose bail shall be answerable for all fines and forfeitures collected by him, which warrant shall be in the following form: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, To A. B., Constable, greeting: WHEREAS, The persons named in the schedule hereto annexed, Form of warhave each become liable to pay the sum of dollars, rant. according to the by-laws of the company, this warrant therefor, authorizes and requires you to demand and collect of each and every such person the sum of dollars, and in case of ne glect or refusal to pay the same, you are to levy and collect the same, with costs, of the goods and chattels of each and every person, by distress and sale thereof, returning the overplus, if any, to the owner: Witness my hand and seal, this Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and day of C. D., Captain. SECTION 16. That the State Treasurer is hereby authorized to State Treasurer pay out of the aggregate military fund now accumulated, provided to pay defiby the tenth section of the said act to which this is a supplement, ciency out of to the several county treasurers, any deficiencies of the county military military fund. expenses, as therein provided in said counties of the Commonwealth, wherein statements shall have been duly transmitted on or before the first day of February in each year, to the State Treasurer, according to law, notwithstanding one or more counties shall have omitted to transmit statements to State Treasurer: Provided, however, That said counties so neglecting or omitting to transmit said statements, shall yet be entitled to be paid out of the remaining balance of said fund, at any time within three months thereafter, otherwise the moneys so remaining in the State Treasury shall be absolutely appropriated to the State debt. Proviso. SECTION 17. That so much of any law as may be altered or sup- Repealing plied by this act, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that this act clause. shall not be considered as affecting or impairing the provisions of an act passed on the eighteenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of the volunteers of the city and county of Philadelphia. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. C. KUNKEL, APPROVED-The thirtieth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 367. AN ACT To incorporate the Washington Medical College, of Philadelphia. 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 William S. Ernst, F. A. Fickhardt, D. C. McKibben, W. J. Smith, Samuel Rhem, William C. Foster, Michael Brown, Charles N. Robinson, William J. McCamman, James R. Reed, John K. Zeilin, John E. Latta, David C. McCamman, Henry Bley, John B. Woodward, Washington Wurts, Edward V. Lawrence, and Jacob S. Roberts, be and they are hereby incorporated into a body politic, under the name and style of the Washington Medical College of Philadelphia, for the purpose of instruction in medicine, surgery, and all the branches appertaining thereto; the said college to have the power of granting de grees and giving diplomas to all those who may comply with the rules and regulations thereof, and also to give a summer and winter course of lectures on the science of medicine; the said college to have all the immunities, rights and privileges granted to the allopathic colleges in the State of Pennsylvania, not inconsistent with the laws and constitution thereof. APPROVED-The second day of May, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-three. 368. WM. BIGLER. Corporators. AN ACT To incorporate Saosquahanaunk Tribe number twelve, of the Improved Order of Red Men, of the borough of Harrisburg. 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 Matthew Spear, John Wallower, junior, Robert A. Lamberton, Jacob G. Colestock, Joseph P. Miller, Samuel Colestock, Isaac S. Waterbury, Samuel G. Wiestling, Philo C. Sedgwick, John Thomas, George B. Laird, M. H. Stever, William T. Sanders, Findlay Osler, A. Jackson Herr, Collin M'Curdy, Benjamin Krieder, John Pyne, Samuel Murphy, Charles Dinweddie, George McCauley, William Myers, John Garverick, Andrew Black, Aaron Barringer, and their successors, and all persons who now are or may hereafter be associated with them, be and are hereby erected into a body corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of "Saosquabanaunk Tribe number twelve, of Name & style the Improved Order of Red Men, of the borough of Harrisburg, and by that name to have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, or else- Privileges. where, and shall be capable in law and in equity to take and to hold, to them and their successors, either by grant, gift, devise, lease, or otherwise, any lands or real estate, and also to take and to hold, for the use of the tribe, any goods and chattels, sum or sums of money, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, will, devise, bequest, or otherwise, from any person or persons whatsoever capable of making the same, and the same at their pleasure to grant, bargain and sell, 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 tribe: Provided, That the real estate of which the corporation shall at any Proviso. time be possessed shall not exceed the clear yearly value of three thousand dollars. SECTION 2. That the object of said corporation shall be to provide, Object. erect and furnish a hall and suitable building in the borough of Harrisburg, for the accommodation of the members of Saosquahanaunk Tribe number twelve, of the Improved Order of Red Men, and such other tribes as may be established in said borough, to hold their meetings therein. SECTION 3. That it shall be lawful for said corporation to have a Seal. common seal, and the same at their will and pleasure to change, alter and renew, as they may think proper. SECTION 4. That the trustees of this association, as chosen at such Trustees. time and in such manner as the tribe by its by-laws shall provide, shall have the management and disposition of its affairs and property, as they shall be legally entrusted by said association, and they are hereby declared the proper persons to sign, seal and deliver conveyances of lands or real estate which may be sold by said association. SECTION 5. That the corporation shall have power and authority to By-laws. make by-laws, conformable to this charter and not in violation of the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth or of the Union. SECTION 6. That the Legislature hereby reserves the right to alter, Reservation. revoke or annul this charter, whenever in their opinion it may be injurious to the citizens of this Commonwealth, in such manner, however, that no injustice shall be done the corporators thereof. APPROVED-The second day of May, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 369. A SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Philadelphia Steam-Tug and Navigation company," passed the twelfth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. 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 Rights of Phila, the Philadelphia Steam-Tug and Navigation company shall have the Steam Tug Nav-right to transport coal, iron, and merchandise generally, and passengers, igation co. between the port of Philadelphia and ports and places of the other States. Capital stock. SECTION 2. That the said company is hereby empowered to increase its capital stock one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and may borrow on mortgage or otherwise, a sum not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars, and may purchase or hire such steam or other vessels for its transportation purposes as may be requisite. APPROVED-The second day of May, one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER Corperators. No. 370. AN ACT To incorporate the Mutual Deposit Insurance Association of Philadelphia. 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 Johnston, Joseph H. Seal, T. Paulding, Charles W. Churchman, Edmund A. Souder, John Wilgand, James Traquair, William Martin, Edward C. Biddle, John C. Davis, James B. M'Farland, Edward T. Mott, William C. Ludwig, William Smith, Samuel E. Stokes, Joseph Price, Marmaduke Moore, John R. Penrose, W. Daltz, H. N. Corey, Joseph E. Temple, Joseph C. Henszey, James Bingham, John R. Barker, Thomas C. Hand, S. H. Albridge, Charles Havrestick, Joseph W. Cowan, John J. Huntzinger, H. E. Saulmer, Thomas S. R. Fassett, J. M. Taylor, Richard Price, James Tennant, T. A. Johns, SECTION 2. That said association shall have power and authority to Powers and make contracts for insurance with any person or persons, or any body privileges. politie or corporate, against loss by fire, or loss from risks at sea, on board of vessels, steamers, or by inland navigation, and to receive all proposals or applications for insurance in writing, as a warranty on the part of those insuring, and to base policies of insurance thereon, and to incorporate the same as a part of the contract between the company and the insured, and for the purpose of defining the rights of each contracting party. SECTION 3. The corporation hereby created shall have power and May receive authority to receive on deposit specie, bullion, bank notes, and other deposits, property, from any and every person, copartnership, or body politic, upon such terms and in such manner as the said association may determine; and the said parties so depositing, shall thereby become members of the said corporation, and be entitled to all the rights and privileges thereof, during such time as there may remain a balance to their credit upon the books of the said association. SECTION 4. Suits at law may be prosecuted and maintained by any Suits. member of said corporation for claims against the same, if payment thereof be withheld. SECTION 5. It may and shall be lawful for said corporation to loan May loan funds, the funds and money on deposit to such person or persons as they &c. on deposit, may deem expedient, or invest the same in stocks, ground rents, bonds or invest in stocks, &c. and mortgages, or other securities, and it shall also be lawful for said corporation to purchase, receive, have and hold, to them and their successors, lands and tenements, hereditaments, goods and chattels, of whatever nature, kind or quality soever, real, personal and mixed, and the same from time to time to sell, demise, grant, alien or dispose of: Provided, That the real estate shall only be such as shall be necessary Proviso. to accommodate the said corporation for the convenient transaction of its business, or shall be purchased, taken or held, to secure the payment of any debt due the association: Provided also, That the said corpo- Proviso. ration shall not issue any paper, bill or note, of the nature of bank notes. SECTION 6. The directors shall annually in the month of January Dividends of cause the affairs and accounts of the institute to be examined and bal- profits to be deanced, and the profits or loss of the business ascertained, when, if clared. there shall be a surplus, after deducting the losses, expenses, interest on the guarantee capital, and six per cent. upon the scrip certificates of the corporation, the same shall be divided among the members thereof, in proportion to the respective average balances at their credit on the books of the association for the year preceding the same; within thirty Statement of days after the declaration of the dividend, as aforesaid, the officers of affairs to be the association shall cause to be prepared and published in at least two published. |