SEET. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority Privileges of aforesaid, That the privileges granted by the seventh section 7th sect, of of the act of Assembly passed the third day of April, A. act of 3d Ap'l D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to the Mine Hill and 1832, extend; Schuylkill Haven rail-road company, and extended by the ed to this company. ninth section of the same act to the president and managers of the Danville and Pottsville rail-road company, the Mount Carbon rail road company, the Little Schuylkill navigation, rail road and coal company, and the Little Schuylkill and Susquehanna rail-road company, be and the same are hereby extended to the Mill creek and Mine Hill navigation and rail-road company. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-eighth day of January, Anno Do mini, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. No. 13. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To the act to incorporate the Beaver Meadow rail road and coal com pany. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the time provided in the twenty-second section Extension of of the act to incorporate the Beaver Meadow rail-road and for comple coal company, for the completion of their rail-road as aution, 4 years. thorized by the aforesaid act and the supplement thereto, shall be extended for the further term of four years. time allotted Governor to appoint engi SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so much of the supplement to the act to incorporate the Beaver Meadow rail road and coal company as provides that the canal commissioners shall appoint two enplement in gineers to examine the ground from immediately above stead of canal Mauch Chunk down the valley of the Lehigh, and determine commission the practicability of constructing a rail-road upon said route neers under former sup ers. without injuring the canal of the Lehigh coal and navigation company, or the works necessarily appertaining thereto, or obstructing the navigation on said canal, be so amended as that the said engineers shall be appointed by the Gover nor. SECT. S. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Beaver Meadow rail road and coal com- Company aupany may hold in their own right, eight hundred acres of thorized to land, in addition to what they are now authorized to hold: hold 800 acres Provided. The said laud shall be contiguous to that now held additional contiguous by the said company, or to the route which may be fixed land. upon for their rail road. SECT. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the stockholders of said company shall meet Annual and on the second Monday of January in every year, at such special meet. place as may be fixed upon by the by-laws, of which due ings of steckholders, notice shall be given, and choose by a majority of votes present, their officers for the ensuing year, as mentioned in the third section of the act to which this is a further supplement, who shall continue in office for one year, and until others are chosen, and at such other times as they may be summoned by the managers, in such manner and form as shall be prescribed by the by laws; at which annual or special meeting they shall have full power and authority to make, alter or repeal, by a majority of the votes in manner aforesaid, all such by laws, rules, orders and regulations as aforesaid, and to perform every other corporate act; and the number of votes to which each stockholder shall be entitled shall be according to the number of shares he or she shall hold, in the proportions following, that is to say, for each share not exceeding two shares one vote; for every two Ratio of votes shares above two and not exceeding ten, one vote; for every four shares above cen and not exceeding thirty, one vote; for every ten share above thirty and not exceeding one hundred, one vote; and for every twenty shares above one hundred, one vote; and no share shall confer a right of suffrage which shall have been transferred within three calendar months transferred prior to the day of election, nor unless it be holden by the shares. person in whose name it appears in his own right or in that of his wife, or for his or her sole use and benefit, or as executor or administrator, trustee or guardian, or in the right and for the use and benefit of some co-partnership, society or corporation of which he or she may be a member, and which shall not be bona fide held or owned as aforesaid, and of votes by all votes by proxy shall be on such terms and conditions as proxy. are prescribed by the act passed on the twenty eighth day of to shares. Of votes upon March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled 18th sect. of "An act to regulate proxies," and the eighteenth section of former act the act to which this is a further supplement is hereby rerepealed. pealed. 島 extended to this comp'ny. SECT. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority Privileges of aforesaid, That the privileges granted by the seventh section 7th section of of the act of Assembly passed the third day of April, A. D. act of 3d of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, to the Mine Hill April, 1832, and Schuylkill Haven rail-road company, and extended by the ninth section of the same act to the president and managers of the Danville and Pottsville rail-road company, the Mount Carbon rail-road company, the Little Schuylkill navigation rail-road and coal company, and the Little Schuylkill and Susquehanna rail road company, be and the same are hereby extended to the Beaver Meadow rail-road and coal Right of state Company: Provided, That nothing in this act shall affect the to make canal right of the state to make a canal or rail road from the Lethrough lands high to the Susquehanna river, or through any part of the of company. said company's lands. Proviso. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of January, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. Authority given to bor row money. Proviso. No. 14. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled An act to incorporate the city of Lancaster. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the select and common councils of the city of Lancaster in councils assembled, shall have full power and authority, by ordinance or resolution, to borrow for the use of the said city, any sum or sums of money which they may deem necessary, and to levy taxes for the re-payment of all loans already made, and that hereafter may be made for the use of the said city, for the re-payment of which the faith of the said city now is, or hereafter may be pledged: Provided, That the said councils shall in no one year lay a tax en any property in said city which shall ex ceed the sum of fifty cents in every hundred dollars of valu. ation. APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. No. 15. AN ACT For the relief of Ebenezer Kerr, present coroner of Allegheny county and for other purposes. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the commissioners of Allegheny county, are Comm'rs. to hereby authorized and required to draw their warrants on draw warthe county treasurer in favor of Ebenezer Kerr, the present rants in favor coroner of said county for the amount of jurors, constables of E. Kerr for and witnesses fees, paid on coroners inquests held by him in said county, at the rate of one dollar per diem for each juror in each case, and the constables and witnesses fees shall be taxed in conformity with the act of the twenty second of February, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, regulating fees before justices of the peace and constables. certain fees. coroner to SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That from and after the first day of June next, it shall From 1st of not be lawful for the coroner of the county of Allegheny to June next summon more than fifteen jurors upon any one inquest, and summon not that the fees of such jurors so summoned and serving upon more than 15 such inquest shall be fifty cents each per diem, which said jurors. fees shall be paid by the county commissioners to the jurors Fees regulaor their orders respectively, by warrant drawn by them in ted. the usual way. SAMʼL. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirty-first day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. 5 trustees authorized. No. 16. AN ACT To revive and continue in force the chartered privileges of the Presbyterian congregation of Waynesburg, in Mifflin county, which have been lost by neglecting to choose trustees. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Presbyterian congregation of Waynesburg, Election of in Mifflin county, are hereby authorized to elect, as soon as practicable after the passage of this act, five trustees in the same manner as they are allowed to do under their charter of incorporation, who shall serve as such trustees until the second Monday in January next, at which time they may choose as they originally did under the charter aforesaid, and so on annually thereafter as directed by said charter. Their acts made valid. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the acts of the trustees so chosen shall be as good and valid in law as if there had not been any failure to choose as provided by said charter. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE R. BURDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirty-first day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. No. 17. AN ACT For the relief of Jacob Bastian and others, soldiers of the revolutionary war. SECT. 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 State Treasurer be and he is hereby au |