Proviso. Expenses how paid. Borough and Town Council to appoint keeper of lock-up house. Payment of persons dischar ged.. curity and temporary detention of persons committed by justices of the peace of said borough, or by the burgess of said borough, or member of the town council acting in his place, for any violation of the laws of this Commonwealth or of the ordinances of said borough, for which such person or persons could lawfully be committed to the com mon prison of said county, there to remain and be kept until such of fender or offenders can be removed to the common jail of said county, if committed for an indictable offence, or can be discharged acccording to law: Provided, That no person shall be confined in said house st any one time for a longer period than forty-eight hours, except suc person be charged with an indictable offence, and it be necessary to detain such person or persons for examination. SECTION 2. That the expenses of committing and keeping any per son or persons in said house on a charge of indictable offence, shall be paid by the said county of Allegheny, on the presentation of proper accounts of the same to the commissioners of said county. SECTION 3. That the burgess and town council, or a majority of them, shall have the power to appoint a proper person or persons to keep the said lock-up house, and that the said burgess and town council are enpowered to pay such person or persons for such service what the said burgess and town council, or a majority of them, may deem just and proper. SECTION 4. That upon a hearing before any of the justices of the costs in case of peace of the said borough of Tarentum, or before the burgess or any member of the town council acting in his place, such person or persons shall be discharged for want of sufficient cause to bind him, her of them, over for trial at the next criminal court of the said county of Allegheny, the said magistrate, burgess or town councilman, shall require such person or persons to pay all the costs that may have accrued in the case, and enforce the collection of the same by judgment and execution, in the ordinary way of collecting debts of like amount: Provided, however, That if such offender or offenders are found unable to pay the costs, the same shall be paid by the commissioners of said county, upon the presentation of proper accounts to said commission Proviso. Additional powers granted to Lawrence Co., Agricultural society. Penalty on hunting deer with dogs in certain townships in Lycoming co. Proviso. ers. SECTION 5. That the Lawrence County Agricultural society shall have power to alter or amend their constitution at any meeting of the society called by the board of Government: Provided always, That the amendment or alteration proposed shall be published in at least two newspapers in the county, together with the call for the meeting, at least three weeks previous to the time of holding said meeting. SECTION 6. That from and after the passage of this act, if any person or persons in the townships of Muncy or Plunket's Creek, in the county of Lycoming, shall hunt, chase or pursue, with any dog or dogs, with design to kill or destroy, any buck, doe or fawn within the said townships of Muncy and Plunket's Creek, at any season of the year, or shall entice any dog or dogs to chase as aforesaid, with the like de sign, he or they, on being convicted thereof, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars, nor less than ten dollars, to be sued for and recovered, with costs, before any justice of the peace, in the name of the Commonwealth, at the instance of any person who will sue therefor, who is hereby made a competent witness, as debts are now of a like amount recoverable by law; the whole of said penalty or fine shall be paid to the treasurer of the school district in which the offence has been committed, for the use of the common schools of said district: Provided, That this set shall not be so construed as to prohibit the hunting or catching with dogs of deer that have been previously wounded. the manufacture SECTION 7. That Henry Hannon, and any five other person or persons, Organization of or more, of the county of Beaver, who may have associated or shall asso-a company for ciate themselves together, in the borough of Bridgewater, in said county, of glass in Beafor carrying on the manufacture of glass only, may and they are hereby ver county. authorized, on a subscription of a capital stock of not less than ten thousand dollars, to organize themselves under and be subject to all the provisions of the act entitled "An Act to encourage manufacturing operations in this Commonwealth," passed the seventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, excepting as herein provided, the amount of capital stock. APPROVED-The third day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 388. AN ACT To incorporate the Ministers and Elders constituting the Synod of the Associate 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 Thomas Beveridge, Thomas Hanna, Abraham Anderson, James Rodgers, Corporators. Joseph T. Cooper, William M. McElwee, Joseph Scroggs, George C. Vincent, Daniel H. A. McLean, William S. Young, John S. Easton, David Clark, and William Bell, and their successors, duly elected and appointed in manner as is hereinafter directed, be and they are hereby made, declared and constituted a corporation and body politic and corporate, in law and in fact, to have continuance for ever, by the name, style and title of "Trustees of the Synod of the Associate Presbyterian Church of North America," and by the name, style and title aforesaid, Style. shall forever hereafter be persons able and capable in law as well to take, receive and hold, all manner of lands, tenements, rents, annuities, franchises, and other hereditaments, which at any time or times here- Privileges. tofore have been granted, bargained, sold, enfeoffed, released, devised, or otherwise conveyed to the Ministers and Elders constituting the Synod of the Associate Presbyterian Church of North America, or any other person or persons to their use, or in trust for them, and the same lands, tenements, rents, annuities, liberties, franchises, and other hereditaments, are hereby vested and established in the said corporation and their successors forever, according to the original use and intent for which such devises, gifts and grants, were respectively made, and Misnomer. Proviso. Common seal. Further powers. By-laws, &c. Proviso. Corporation not to consist of more than 13 persous. the said corporation and their successors are hereby declared to be seized and possessed of such estate and estates therein, as in and by the respective grants, bargains, sales, enfeoffments, releases, devises, and other conveyances thereof, is or are declared, limited and expressed; also that the said corporation and their successors, at all times hereafter, shall be capable and able to purchase, have, receive, take hold and enjoy, in fee simple or of lesser estate or estates, any lands. tenements, rents, annuities, franchises, and other hereditaments, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, alienation, enfeoffment, release, confirmation, or devise, of any person or persons, bodies politic and corporate, capable and able to make the same; and further that the said Ministers and Elders, under the corporate name aforesaid, and their successors, may take and receive any sum or sums of money, and any portion of goods and chattels that have been given to said Ministers and Elders. or that hereafter shall be given, sold, leased or bequeathed to the said corporation, by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, that is able or capable to make a gift, sale, bequest, or other disposal of the same, such money, goods or chattels, to be laid out and disposed of for the use and benefit of the aforesaid corporation, agreeably to the inten tion of the donors, and according to objects, articles and conditions of this act. SECTION 2. That no misnomer of the said corporation and their successors, shall defeat or annul any gift, grant, devise or bequest, to or from the said corporation: Provided, The intent of the party or parties shall sufficiently appear upon the face of the gift, will, grant, or other writing, whereby any estate or interest was intended to pass to or from the said corporation. SECTION 3. That the said corporation and their successors shall have full power and authority to make, have, and use one common scal, with such device and inscription as they shall think fit and proper, and the same to break, alter and renew at their pleasure. SECTION 4. That the said corporation and their successors, by the name, style and title aforesaid, shall be able and capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court or before any judge or justice, in all manner of suits, complaints, pleas, matters and demands, of whatsoever nature, kind and form they may be, and all and every matter and thing to do in as full and effectual a manner as any other person, bodies politic or corporate, within this Commonwealth, may or can do. SECTION 5. That the said corporation and their successors, shall be and hereby are authorized and empowered to make, ordain and establish by-laws and ordinances, and do every thing incident and needful for the support and due government of the said corporation, and managing the funds and revenues thereof: Provided, The said by-laws be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States, to the constitu tion and laws of this Commonwealth, or to this act. and SECTION 6. That the said corporation shall not at any time consist of more than thirteen persons, whereof the said Synod may at their discretion, as often as they shall hold their sessions, change five-thir teenths, in such manner as to the said Synod shall seem proper, the said corporation shall have power and authority to manage and dispose of all moneys, goods, chattels, lands, tenements and hereditaments, and other estate whatsoever, committed to their care and trust by the said Synod, but in cases where special instructions for the management and disposal thereof shall be given by the Synod, in writing, under the hand of their clerk, it shall be the duty of the said corpora tion to act according to such instructions: Provided, The said instruc tions shall not be repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States, or to the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth, or to the provisions and restrictions in this act contained. SECTION 7. That six members of this corporation, whereof the presi- Transaction of dent, or in his absence the vice president, to be one, shall be a sufficient business. number to transact the business thereof, and to make by-laws, rules, and regulations: Provided, That previous to any meeting of the board Proviso. or corporation for such purposes not appointed by adjournment, ten days' notice shall be previously given thereof, in at least one of the newspapers printed in the city of Pittsburg, and the said corporation shall and may, as often as they shall see proper, and according to the rules by them to be prescribed, choose out of their number a president Officers. and vice president, and shall have authority to appoint a treasurer, and such other officers and servants as shall by them, the said corporation, be deemed necessary, to which officers the said corporation may assign such a compensation for their services, and such duties to be performed by them, to continue in office for such time, and to be succeeded by others in such way and manner as the said corporation shall direct. SECTION 8. That all questions before the said corporation shall be Decision of decided by a plurality of votes, whereof each member present shall questions. have one, except the president, or the vice president when acting as president, who shall have only the casting voice and vote in case of an equality in the votes of the other members. SECTION 9. That the said corporation shall keep regular and fair Proceedings. entries of their proceedings, and a just account of their receipts and disbursements, in a book or books kept for that purpose, and their trea surer shall once in every year exhibit to the Synod of the Associate Presbyterian Church of North America an exact state of the accounts of the corporation. SECTION 10. That the said corporation may take, receive, purchase, Lands, &c. possess and enjoy, messuages, houses, lands, tenements, rents, annuities and other hereditaments, real and personal estate, of any amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, yearly value, but the said limitations not to be considered as including the annual collections and vol. untary contributions made in the churches, under the care of the said Synod. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. Corporation. Privileges. Proviso. Seal. Certain liabili ties declared valid. Trustees and No. 389. AN ACT To incorporate the society known by the name of the First Baptist church of 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 the church or society known by the name of the First Baptist Church of Bridgeport, in the county of Montgomery, is hereby erected into one body politic and corporate, in fact and in law, by the name, style and title of "The First Baptist Church of Bridgeport," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, in all courts of law and elsewhere, and shall be able and capable in law and equity to take, receive and hold, lands and tenements, goods and chattels, of whatsoever kind and nature and quality, real, personal or mixed, which are now or hereafter shall become the property of the said church, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, will, devise, bequest, or otherwise, and also the same to grant, bargain, seil, mortgage or dispose of: Provided, That the yearly value or income of the real and personal estate of said corporation shall not at any time exceed two thousand five hundred dollars. SECTION 2. That the said corporation shall have a right to make and use a common seal, with such devise or inscription as to them shall seem meet, and to alter and revise the same at pleasure. SECTION 3. That all bona fide engagements entered into, and liabilities contracted heretofore by individuals for the proper debts of the said society or church, or for money borrowed for its use or benefit, and by its authority, shall immediately after the enrolling hereof, be held and deemed the debts of the body politic and corporate hereby created, which shall be liable therefor in its corporate capacity and property, and all moneys due and owing to the said church or society as such, and property to it belonging, shall be taken and deemed to be the moneys and property of the said corporation. SECTION 4. That the secular affairs of said corporation shall be manaother officers. ged and superintended by five trustees, three of whom shall be a querum to transact business, who shall choose by ballot from among their number, a president and secretary, and shall also choose a treasurer, who shall, if required by the trustees, give sufficient security for the trust reposed in him, and shall account to such trustees for all sums of money, goods and chattels, received by him or remaining in his hands at any time, and in case of the removal of the president or other officers aforesaid, or any of the trustees, by death, resignation or otherwise, the vacancy or vacancies shall be supplied by the remaining trustees till the next annual election; and the following named persons shall be trustees, to continue in office until the first annual election, to wit: Eli G. McCarter, Benjamin F. Hancock, Richard S. James, Sylvester Makens, and Henry L. McMahan; the annual election of trustees shall be held on the first Thursday of January in each year; in |