of their own subscribers, by ballot, to be delivered in person or by proxy duly authorized, one president, seven managers, one treasurer, and such other officers as they shall think necessary to conduct the business of the said company for one year, and until such other officers shall be chosen; and the said managers so chosen, and their successors shall and may make such by-laws, rules, and regulations, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state and of the United States, as shall be necessary for the well ordering of General regu the affairs of the said company, and generally have like pow- lations same ers, authority, and privileges for carrying on and completing as those of Philipsburg said turnpike road, and be subject to all the duties, qualifi and Susque cations, restrictions, penalties, fines, and forfeitures, and be hanna comp. entitled to take tolls as soon as five miles of said road shall be completed, in proportion to the distance, as are given and granted to the president, managers, and company, of the Philipsburg and Susquehanna turnpike road; and the said Redbank and Clarion turnpike road, shall commence at the Commencemouth of Redbank creek, thence to Curllsville, in the county ment and terof Armstrong, and intersect the Northern turnpike road at Proviso. or near James Potter's, in Armstrong county, in the township Time allowed of Clarion: Provided, That the said company shall not pro- for comceed to carry on the said work within five years after the mencement passage of this act, and shall not within ten years afterwards and complecomplete the said road, according to the true intent and tion of work meaning of this act, then, and in either of the said cases, it Reservation shall and may be lawful for the Legislature of this Common- of right to wealth to resume all and singular the rights, privileges, liber- repeal. ties and franchises by this act granted to the said company. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO'S. RINGLAND, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. mination. GEO. WOLF. No. 99. A SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled, "An act authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Robbstown Bridge company," passed the twenty-third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, State sub scription of $2550 author. ized. in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Governor be and he is hereby authorized, on behalf of the commonwealth, to subscribe fifty one shares of stock of the Robbstown bridge company, amounting to two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid in the same manner as is provided by the third section of the act to which this is a supplement. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO'S. RINGLAND, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. sions of Berks co. au. thorized to appoint six viewers. No. 100. AN ACT Authorizing compensation to Jacob Neifert, Isaac Neifert, Michael Scheffer and Mary Leidecker, for damages done by a certain state road. 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 Quarter Ses same, That on the written application of Jacob Neifert, Isaac Neifert, Michael Scheffer and Mary Leidecker, of Albany township, in the county of Berks, if the same shall be made within one year after the passage of this act, the judges of the court of Quarter Sessions of said county are hereby authorized to appoint six disinterested men, to view and adjudge the amount of damages, if any, sustained by the said Jacob Neifert, Isaac Neifert, Michael Scheffer and Mary Leidecker, in consequence of a state road leading from the Union iron works, in Berks county, (to) Fogelsville, in the county of Lehigh, passing through the county of Berks, having been laid out and carried through the lands of the said Jacob Neifert, Isaac Neifert, Michael Scheffer and Mary Leidecker, situate in Albany township, in the county of Berks; and if the said viewers, or any five of them, after ten days notice thereof given to the commissioners of Berks county, shall view the said lands, and any four of them shall agree as to the amount of damages sustained, the said viewers so agreeing shall make a report of their proceeding to the next court of Quarter Sessions of the said county, and Road from Union iron works to Fo gelsville. if the said court shall approve of the same, the commis- Upon appro sioners of said county shall draw their warrant on the trea. val of report, surer of the same county, in favor of Jacob Neifert, Isaac co. comm'rs. Neifert, Michael Scheffer and Mary Leidecker, for the rant for am't. amount so awarded to them respectively; but if the viewers awarded. shall neglect to perform the duties required of them, or if the said court shall disapprove of their report, they shall, to draw war report. as often as the case may require, appoint other viewers, who New proceed. shall proceed therein in manner aforesaid; and it shall be ings authorthe duty of the said viewers, in assessing damages, to take ized upon disinto consideration the advantages derived by Jacob Neifert, approval of Isaac Neifert, Michael Scheffer and Mary Leidecker, from said road passing through their lands; and before entering on the duties herein prescribed, they shall take and subscribe Viewers' duan oath or affirmation, before some justice of the peace, ties, oaths, faithfully and impartially to perform the same, which oath &c. or affirmation so taken and subscribed, shall accompany their proceedings, and be filed in the office of the clerk of the court of Quarter Sessions of the county of Berks. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO'S. RINGLAND, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. No. 101. AN ACT To enable Richard Johnson and others, to sell and convey certain property. Pear st. pur WHEREAS, Eunice Cowell, by her attorney in fact, by in- Preamble denture dated the fifteenth day of June, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, recorded at Phila. rel. to a lot on delphia in deed book G. W. R. number eight, page one hun chased for the dred and forty-seven, &c. granted and conveyed to Richard use of St. Johnson, Thomas T. Stiles, John D. George, John Beatty Paul's and Thomas Mitchell, their heirs and assigns, a brick mes. church, Phil. suage and lot of ground situate on the south side of Pear street, between Dock and Delaware Third streets, in the city of Philadelphia, containing in breadth on Pear street, seventeen feet six inches, and in depth fifty-four feet, more or less, to hold the same in trust; in the first place, to mortgage the Trustees authorized to sell, with ap. probation of vestry. Conveyance thereof. said premises to Eunice Cowell, her heirs and assigns, to secure the payment of twelve hundred dollars, with interest, and after the execution of the said mortgage, which was duly executed and subject thereto, and to a ground rent of eighteen dollars, they the said trustees, their heirs and assigns, should hold the said premises in trust, to permit and suffer the same to be used and occupied, under the direction and superintendence of the rector, for the time being, of the Episcopal church of St. Paul, in the city of Philadelphia, as a Sunday school for the education of adults and children, without regard to colour, and for such other benevolent and religious purposes as the said rector, for the time being, should see fit: and upon this further trust, that if the rector, church wardens and vestry men of the Episcopal church of St. Paul, in the city of Philadelphia, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, should at any time thereafter request them so to do, they, the said trustees, would grant and convey the said messuage, lot and premises, subject to the said yearly rent, charge and mortgage debt, to the rector, church wardens and vestry men of the Episcopal church of St. Paul, in the city of Philadelphia, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, their successors and assigns forever, for the uses and purposes aforesaid, and none other, on condition that they should not further incumber, sell or convey the same: And whereas, it is represented to the Legislature, that the vestry of St. Paul's church decline taking a conveyance of the premises, inasmuch as the same are found totally inadequate for the purposes originally intended, and other and more suitable apartments for those purposes are now afforded by recent improvements to the church; that the mortgage debt aforesaid still remains unpaid, and the premises being in a great measure unproductive and burdensome to those concerned therein, renders it desirable that the same should be sold, but which cannot be done without legislative aid: Therefore, 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 it shall and may be lawful for Richard Johnson, John D. George, John Beatty and Thomas Mitchell, who survived Thomas T. Stiles, trustees aforesaid, by and with the consent and approbation of the vestry of St. Paul's church, testified by their becoming a party to and executing the conveyance thereof, to grant, bargain and sell the messuage, lot and premises aforesaid, by public or private sale, and to make, execute, acknowledge and deliver a good and sufficient deed of conveyance for the same, to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, his, her or their heirs and assigns forever, in fee simple, discharged from the trust aforesaid, and to pay over the money that may be produced by such sale, after deducting and paying the mortgage debt aforesaid, prin cipal and interest, and all arrears of ground rent and taxes to the time of such sale, to the vestry of the said church, to be by them applied, as near as may be, for the purposes contemplated by the trust aforesaid. SAM'L. ANDERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO'S. RINGLAND, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. GEO. WOLF. No. 102. AN ACT To incorporate the Philadelphia Hospital. SEOT. 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 Thomas Dunlap, Jonathan K Hassinger, Ben- Contributors jamin W. Richards, Henry J. Williams, Edward C. Dale, incorporated. Jesse R. Burden, Thomas M. Pettit, William Fotterall, Style, priviCornelius Comegys, Morgan Carr, George F. Randolph, leges, &c. Samuel Chew, Robert W. Sykes, Thomas F. Betton, William E. Horner, David F. Condie, William Meredith, Joseph R. Ingersoll, H. L. Hodge, Rene La Roche, and their associates, contributors to the institution called the Philadelphia Hospital, be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name, style and title of The Philadelphia Hospital," to have perpetual succession, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of record and elsewhere; to have a cominon seal, and the same to alter at pleasure; to take, hold and enjoy lands, tenements and hereditaments, and the same from time to time to sell, grant, devise, alien or dispose of: Provided, The clear yearly value Proviso. of the real estate by them held, shall not exceed five thou- Income limitsand dollars; to make, ordain and establish such rules, by. ed to $5000. Jaws and ordinances for the control of the institution and the ordering of the concerns thereof, as they may deem necessary and proper. SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the essential objects of said corporation, shall be |