successors, to be duly appointed as hereafter directed, and to Duration of be twelve in number, citizens of Pennsylvania, be, and they charter 20 are hereby made, declared, and constituted a corporation years. and body politic in law and in fact, to have continuance for twenty years, by the name, style, and title of "the Trustees of the Theological Seminary at Canonsburg, belonging to the Corporate Synod of the Associate Presbyterian church, of North Ame

rica."

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SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the Synod of the Associate Presbyterian church of North America may, at their discretion, as often as they thorized to hold their sessions, remove all or either of the aforesaid trus- create and tees, or such other trustees of said Theological Seminary, as fill vacancies may hereafter be appointed; and said Synod shall have pow in board. er to fill by appointment, any vacancy or vacancies in the board of trustees which may be caused by death, resignation, refusal to serve, removal, or otherwise: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the reelection of any person to that office.

Proviso.

SECT. S. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said trustees and their successors shall have Privileges & full power and authority to make, have, and use one common liabilities of seal, with such device and inscription as they shall deem trustees. proper, the same to break, alter and renew at their pleasure; and by the name, style, and title aforesaid, shall be able and capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in every court or courts, before any judge or judges, justice or justices, in all manner of suits, complaints, pleas, causes, matters and demands whatsoever; and all and every matter and thing to do therein in as full and effectual a manner as any other person or persons, or bodies corporate and politic. SECT. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, hat the said trustees and their successors shall have power and authority to make rules, by-laws and ordinances, of the byand to do every thing needful for the support and good go- dinances. vernment and affairs of the said Theological Seminary, and managing the funds and revenues thereof: Provided, That Proviso. the said laws, rules and ordinances, or any of them, be not repugnant to the laws and constitution of the United States, or to the constitution and laws of this commonwealth, or to this act.

laws and or.

SECT. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporation hereby established shall be able Corporation and capable in law to take, receive, and hold all and all man- authorized to ner of lands, tenements, rents, annuities, franchises, and receive and hereditaments, and any sum and sums of money, and hold property any manner and portion of goods and chattels, which have at any cal Seminary. for Theologitime heretofore been granted, bargained, sold, released, en- cal Seminary. feoffed, devised, or otherwise given, granted, or bequeathed to the Synod of the Associate Presbyterian church of North

Misnomers quarded

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cation of the income.

America, or to the ministers and elders of said Synod, or to the said Theological Seminary or any person or persons in trust for said church, synod, ministers, and elders, or the Theological Seminary; and the said trustees and their successors are hereby declared to be seized and possessed of such estate therein, and for the same uses and intents as in and by the respective grant, devise, or other instrument, is set forth and limited; and moreover, the said trustees and their successors, at all times hereafter, shall be capable to purchase, take, hold and enjoy, for the use of the said Theological Seminary, any real estate in fee simple, or less estate, by gift, grant, alienation, devise, or other act or instrument of and from any person or persons capable to make the same: Provided, That the clear yearly value or income of the messuages, houses, lands and tenements, rents, annuities, or other hereditaments and real estate of said Theological Seminary, and the interest of money, (but) shall not exceed the sum of five hundred pounds.

SECT. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no misnomer of the said trustees or their successors, shall defeat or annul any gift, grant, devise or bequest to or from the said corporation: Provided, The intent of the parties shall sufficiently appear upon the face of the gift, grant or other writing whereby any estate or interest was intended to pass to or from said Theological Seminary.

SECT. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority afore. said, That the rents, profits and interest of the real and Of the appli- personal estate, and the annual income of the said Theolo gical Seminary, shall be applied by the said trustees and their successors, from time to time, for the inaintenance of the professors and students in the said Taeological Seminary, to procuring a library, and for purchasing and improving such lots of land, and building, finishing, repairing and maintaining such houses as shall be necessary for the aforesaid purposes, and such other pious and charitable uses as shall be thought proper by a majority of the trustees aforesaid.

Authority to sell real and personal property.

SECT. 8. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That as often as it may become necessary to re-build, enlarge, or otherwise alter the house or houses of the said Theological Seminary, or to erect any new buildings, or to make any new purchases for the use of the said Theological Seminary, the said trustees and their successors, may make sale of such part of the real or personal estate of the said Theological Seminary, as a majority of the trustees and a majority of the ministers and elders of the Synod of the AsApplication sociate Presbyterian church of North America present at any of proceeds. Session of said Synod, shall by their vote direct; the money arising from such sale, to be laid out and applied agreeably to the vote of a majority met, as aforesaid: Provided always nevertheless, That no sale or alienation of the real estate of

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said Theological Seminary, be made by said trustees or their of the rights successors, bona fide and for a valuable consideration, in case of purchasers. the possession pass immediately to the purchaser thereof, and continue in him or her, his or her heirs or assigns, shall be impeached or called in question for want of the consent of the majority of the regular members of said Synod, given as before required, unless the same be done within seven years from and after the sale and delivery of the possession to the said purchaser.

Trustees for

SECT. 9. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the said trustees and their successors, shall not grant or otherwise dispose of the real or personal estate of bidden to disthe said Theological Seminary, or charge or incumber the pose of propsame, except in the manner and for the purposes herein erty for other before stated; and in all cases where special instructions for purposes. the management of said Theological Seminary, and for the Instructions disposal of the funds and property thereof shall be given by of Synod. the said Synod, in writing under the hand of their clerk, it shall be the duty of said trustees to carry such instructions into effect.

dent, vice

president,

SECT. 10. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the said board of trustees shall, and may as often Of the presi as they see proper, and according to rules by them to be prescribed, choose out of their number a president and vicepresident, and shall also have authority to appoint a treasur- treasurer, er and such other officers and servants as shall by said trus. &c. tees be deemed necessary, to which officers the said corporation may assign such 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 board of trustees shall direct.

SECT. 11. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That five members of the board of trustees including Five to form a quorum. the president, or in his absence the vice president, shall be a quorum sufficient to transact the business of said board, and to make by-laws, rules and regulations: Provided, That Proviso. previous to any meeting of the board of trustees for such Notice of purposes, not appointed by adjournment, ten days notice shall meetings. be previously given thereof in at least one of the newspapers printed in either of the cities of Philadelphia or Pittsburg, or in the borough of Washington.

Decisions of

SECT. 12. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all questions before the board of trustees shall be questions decided by a plurality of votes, whereof each member before board. present shall have one, except the president, or vice president when acting as president, who shall have only the casting voice or vote in case of an equality in the votes of the other members.

SEOT. 13. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said trustees shall keep regular and fair

Record of

entries of their proceedings, and a just account of their reproceedings. ceipts and disbursements, in a book or books to be provided for that purpose, and their treasurer shall once in every Annual exhi-year exhibit to the Synod of the Associate Presbyterian church bition thereof of North America, an exact state of the accounts of the to Synod. corporation.

Reservation of right to repeal.

SECT. 14. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if at any time said privileges. or any of them hereby granted, shall be deemed hurtful and prejudicial to the interests of the citizens of this Commonwealth, then the Legislature shall and may alter, amend or annul all or any of them, as they may think expedient, and proper.

SAM'L. ANDERSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO'S. RINGLAND,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The eighth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

GEO. WOLF.

Special collection of tax authorized to

pay T. P. Simmons.

No. 115.

AN ACT

Relative to supervisors in Loyalsock township, Lycoming county, and collectors in certain townships, in Fayette county, and for other purposes.

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 be the duty of the supervisors elected for the year Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, for the township of Loyalsock, in Lycoming county, to assess and collect and they are hereby authorized and required to assess and collect and and pay over to Thomas P. Simmons, such sum or sums of money, as may appear due him on the books of said township, as settled by the auditors thereof.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforeCompensa said, That from and after the passage of this act, the collection of cer. tors of the townships of Saltlick Wharton and Henry Clay, tain collectors in Fay. in Fayette county, shall retain at a final settlement of their ette county. duplicates, eight per cent on all moneys by them collected

and paid over to the county treasurer, which shall be in full for their services.

streets, &c.

SECT. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the acting surveyor or surveyors, of the Kensington Kensington district of the Northern Liberties, in the county of Philadel- dist. Philad. phia, be, and they are hereby authorized to revise the plans certain alterof the first, second and third divisions of the said district, and ations in make such alterations in the width, graduation and direction authorized. of the streets and footways, as the improvement of the said district may require, which alterations when approved by the commissioners of the district, and confirmed by the court of Quarter Sessions of the county of Philadelphia, shall be and remain unalterable, and the damages occasioned Damages to the owners of property by the opening of said streets, to how paid. be assessed and paid according to the provisions of the several acts of Assembly, in relation to the laying out and open. ing streets, in the county of Philadelphia.

SECT. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority afore

said, That the twenty-first section of the act passed the third 21st sect. of day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, act of 3d vesting in the Kensington district of the Northern Liberties May, 1832, repealed. the power of regulating the heights of the streets within the said district, be and the same are hereby repealed.

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SECT. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the board of commissioners of the said Kensing ton district of the Northern Liberties, shall have full power thorized to and authority to lay yearly any rate and assessment not lay taxes to exceeding one dollar in every hundred dollars of the clear carry act into value of all the real and personal estate within the said dis- effect, &c. trict, as ascertained by the last county assessment, and a proportionable personal tax upon all free white male inhabitants of said district, agreeably to the said county assessment, and to be applied to the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into effect, and for defraying the expense of repairing the pumps already erected or which may be hereafter erected by the inhabitants, also for defraying the expense of cleaning. and repairing the streets, roads, laues and alleys, and paving the intersections of the same, for building and erecting close culverts in and over the common sewers, and for detraying the expense of all such matters and things as by this act, or by any law or ordinance of the board of commissioners, may be requisite for and beneficial to the health, safety and convenience of the inhabitants of said district; and the said board of commissioners shall have full power and authority to appoint collectors of all taxes by this act made payable, from each and every of whom they shall take a bond and warrant of attorney to confess judgment thereon to the full satis. Of the colfaction of the said board of commissioners, in double the amount of the duplicate delivered to such collector or col

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lectors bonds.