SECTION 1. The said university shall be under the management, di- Trustees. rection and supervision of a number of trustees, not exceeding twentyeight, or a quorum, as hereinafter mentioned. SECTION 2. Five of the trustees shall constitute a quorum. ARTICLE III. Quorum. SECTION 1. The trustees of said university shall consist of the following persons, to wit: the present trustees of Franklin Academy, Present trusnamely: Adam Miller, Amherst Carpenter, Saxa Seymour, Lyman tees. Richardson, Charles Tingley, E. N. Loomis, C. C. Richardson, Samuel Lyon, Milbourne Oakley, Daniel Oakley, Stephen Sweet, Leonard Titus, Ira Carpenter, Freeman Peck, Urbane Burrows, Alonzo Abel, which said trustees' and their successors, to be elected as herein subsequently mentioned, shall be forever hereafter and they are hereby established and declared to be a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession, and with all the incidents of a corporation, in deed and law, to all the intents and purposes whatsoever, by the name, style and title Style. of "The Trustees of Harford University," by which name and title said trustees and their successors shall be able and capable in law and equity to take to themselves and their successors, for the use of said university, any estate in any messuages, lands, tenements, heredita- Privileges. ments, goods, chattels, money, or other effects, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, will, devise, or bequest, of any persons whatsoever: Provided, That the annual net income accruing from said estate and subject to a yearly appropriation or disposition by said trustees, shall not exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars, and the same messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments and estates, real and personal, to grant, bargain, sell, convey, assure, demise, and to farm, let, and to place out at interest, or otherwise dispose of, in such manner as to them, or at least a quorum of them, shall seem most beneficial to said institution, and to reserve the rents, profits, issues, income and interest of the same, to the proper use of said university, and by the same name to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in any courts of law or equity, and in all manner of suits whatever, and generally, by and in the same name to do and transact all the business touching or concerning the premises, or which shall be incidentally necessary thereto, as fully and as effectually as any natural person or body politic or corporate has power to manage the concerns belonging to such person or body, to hold, enjoy and exercise, all such power, authorities and jurisdictions, as are customary in other universities, or in colleges within this Commonwealth. SECTION 2. The said trustees shall have full power and authority to Seal. make and use one common seal, and the same to alter at their pleasure, or devise a new one. SECTION 3. A quorum of said trustees shall meet at Harford within Meeting of ninety days from the date of this charter, to transact any business trustees. which the interest of the institution may require; future meetings of said trustees shall be held in Harford, at such time and place as said trustees or a quorum of them shall appoint, of which public notice shall be given at least ten days before the time of such intended meeting, and if at such meeting less than a quorum be present, the number present shall have power to adjourn to some other day, but if a quo- Powers. rum of said trustees meet at the appointed or any time of adjournment, then the majority of the votes of such quorum or board shall be Ordinances. Proviso. Faculty. Powers. Diplomas. Kisnomer. Neglect or refu capable of doing and transacting all the business and concerns of said university not otherwise provided for by this act, and particularly of enacting ordinances and by-laws for the government and instructions of said university, of adding, within the limit prescribed by article two, section one, to the number of trustees whose names are inserted in this charter, of electing trustees in the place and stead of those who shall decline serving, resign, or die, or whose places become vacant by any other means, of electing or appointing the president, professors, tutors, and other teachers of said university, of agreeing with them for their salaries and stipends, of removing them for misconduct, breaches of the ordinances of the institution, or other sufficient causes, of appointing committees of their own body to carry into effect all the resolutions of the board, of appointing a chairman, secretary, treasurer, and other officers necessary for managing the concerns of the corpora tion, of providing for the maintenance and observance of di-cipline in said university, and of prescribing and inflicting the penalties due to all violations of the rules, ordinances or regulations thereof, or to other misconduct committed by students or other persons thereat, and generally the majority of the voices of the board or quorum of said trus tees, at any stated or extra meeting, shall determine all matters and things, although not herein specified, which shall occasionally arise and be incidentally necessary to be determined by said trustees: Provided, That said laws, rules and ordinances, or any of them, be not repugnant to the laws and constitution of the United States of America, or of the laws and constitution of this Commonwealth. ARTICLE IV. SECTION 1. The president, professors, tutors, and other teachers, or a majority of them for the time being, shall constitute the faculty of the university, and in their respective departments shall have the power of enforcing the rules and regulations adopted by the trustees for the government and instruction of the students, and the president and professors with the counsel and consent of a quorum of the trustees, or a majority of trustees present, shall have the power to grant, confirm unto the students of the university, or unto others deemed worthy, such degrees, medical or academical, in the liberal arts or sciences, or in certain branches thereof, as have been usually granted in universities, to grant likswise to said graduates diplomas, under the common seal of the corporation, in order to authenticate and perpetuate the memory of such graduation, and to grant also certificates to such students as have duly completed their course of studies prescribed in any subordinate department of the university. ARTICLE V. SECTION 1. No misnomer of said corporation shall defeat or annul any gift, grant, devise, bequest, to or from the said corporation: Provided, The intent of the parties shall sufficiently appear upon the face of the gift, grant, will, or other writing, whereby any estate or interest was intended to pass to or from said corporation. SECTION 2. Any trustee who shall neglect or refuse to attend the al of trustee to meetings of the board for the space of two years, shall cease to belong SECTION 3. The Legislature reserves the right to alter or annul this Reservation. charter, in case of any abuse of the privileges hereby granted. J. S. M'CALMONT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. V. BEST, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of March, one thousand eight hun dred and fifty. [1849.] WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 428. AN ACT Authorizing the Governor to incorporate a company to erect a Font Bridge over the Conestoga at Safe Harbor, in the county of Lancaster. 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 Joseph C. Herr, Charles W. Morris, Elward Hess, John H. Shue, Commissioners. Daniel Will, Amos Hess, Thomas Lewis, and others, or a majority of them, be and they hereby are appointed commissioners to do and perform the several duties hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: they shall, on or before the first day of June next, provide a book or books for entering of subscriptions, and shall write therein as follows: "We Form of sub- Lord one thousand eight hundred and who ena.. pue T AL ERA K each way. ed and m and assigns. berebr each pe half SECTION 11. The mi riser 3. BISTY si keep account of ali modeȚI ESETEL T DE SANT crossing said bridge, and stal pany's stock, in proportion to the tammmmetals? income and profits thered among ai the SUCI De said com R SIL mar & Send of i seducting 1 the income a coutingent costs and charges, and sua may be sufficient for a fund to pro ม Januar clear prafis time and in ten days pall down. cock, wiă fatent to injure, any part or parts of the said phase, gates, bars, or other property of the said ces of said bridge, or the persons employed seof, or shall wilfully deform or destroy f the rates of tolls affixed in any Passers, or who shall wilfully or malison or over the said bridge, or ys effending, shall each of Fe to the said corporation the 2nd recovered as debts of like w sum or they so offending, shali rporatzen, for such wrongs, scient to repair 1h suit shall 3. The proposed re - free passage a mule ding or descri a man ash upon angl have been ents of the Lancaster and Susquehanna Slack Water Navimpany, on said stream, nor otherwise interfere with any of red rights and privileges of said Navigation company. VED-The twentieth day of March, one thousand eight and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON No. 429. AN ACT ncorporate the Beaver Manufacturing company, in Beaver county. ON 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representathe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That James on, Charles T. Whippo, Ezekiel Sankey, Joseph Pollock, and Corporators. ald Robertson, B. R. Bradford, David Boise, and their associall be incorporated and become a body politic in law, and under visions, regulations and restrictions hereinafter mentioned, uncorporate name and style of "The Beaver Manufacturing com- Style. Beaver county," the objects of such corporation shall be the Object. cture of plain and fancy goods, consisting of silk, cotton and r some of them, with power to sell the same, and the said cor- Privileges. shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable to sue sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts of law and equity, , purchase or lease, for a year or term of years, hold, possess joy, convey and dispose of, lands, tenements, hereditaments, chattels, rights, credits, and to have and to use a common seal, same to change and renew at pleasure, and have all the other ts of a corporation: Provided, That the real estate to be held Proviso. corporation, to be purchased, leased, or sold by them, (except may be purchased under an execution, or otherwise taken in nt or on account of an existing debt or debts belonging to said ation,) shall be such only as may be necessary or convenient for e, management or business of said corporation in carrying on manufacture and business aforesaid. TION 2. The said y, Joseph Polla ise, shall be of said comp shall be org orporation sh hares of not Patterson, Charles T. Whippo, Ezekiel Commissioners rovided; the capital stock of Capita stock. ch, and when one-fourth of |