Notice of loss. Rates of insu rance. of this company, and shall notwithstanding be liable to said rates, pursuant to his or their covenants and agreements. SECTION 7. All and every of the members of this company, who shall sustain any loss by fire, shall give immediate notice to the president of the company, who shall appoint a committee of three from the board of managers, that shall examine and inquire into the same; and the said managers, with all convenient expedition, shall inquire into the same, and after ascertaining the sum which said parties shall be lawfully entitled to, make provision and payment as herein is specified. SECTION 8. The members shall, at their general meetings, fix such rates of insurance and incidental charges and fees, as may be deemed equitable and proper, or vest the power so to do in the board of managers; and any person who shall become a member of this corporation by effecting insurance therein, shall the first time he effects insurance. and before he or she receives his or her policy, pay the rates that shall be fixed and determined upon, and no premium so paid shall ever be withdrawn from said company during the continuance of its charter. Transfer of policy SECTION 9. That in case any assured, named in any policy or contract of insurance made by the said corporation, shall sell, convey, or assign the subject insured, it shall be lawful for such assured to assign and deliver to the purchaser, such policy or contract of insurance; and such assignee shall have all the benefits of such policy or contract of insurance, and may bring and maintain a suit in his or her own name: Provided, That before any loss happens he or she shall obtain the consent of the president or secretary to such assignment, and have the same endorsed on or annexed to such policy or contract of insurance, to be according to the aforesaid directions for that purpose, and not otherwise. Profits. Repeal. Managers. Policy. Suits at law. SECTION 10. That the net profits arising from interest or otherwise, shall be ascertained yearly to every member, in proportion to his, her or their deposite, for which each member shall have a credit in the company's books-nothing in this charter to be construed as to allow any of the funds of the association to be used for banking and manufacturing purposes. SECTION 11. If at any time it shall appear that the chartered privileges hereby granted, are injurious to the public welfare, the power thereof to repeal shall not effect any engagement to which the said company may have become a party previously thereto, and that the said company shall have a reasonable time to bring their accounts to final settlement. SECTION 12. The first thirteen named persons in this bill to constitute the first boards of managers, with power to organize the corporation, and appoint a president, and other officers and agents, agreeable to the spirit of this act, and to hold their power and authority until the next election as is herein provided, with all the powers contemplated to be vested in the board of managers elected by the company under the authority of this act. SECTION 13. No policy shall be issued by the corporation, until application be made for insurance to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars. SECTION 14. Suits of law may be prosecuted and maintained by any member against said corporation, for losses or damage insured against by them, if payment is withheld more than sixty days after the company is duly notified of such losses, and no member of the corporation, not being in his own individual capacity a party to such suit, shall be incompetent as a witness: Provided, The managers do not agree to Proviso. rebuild or replace the property lost or damaged, in which case a reason able time shall be allowed them. SECTION 15. Any amendment or alteration may be made to the con- Amendments. stitution at any general meeting, by a majority of the whole association: Provided, The same is not repugnant to the constitution of this com monwealth, or of the United States. SECTION 16. That the privileges hereby granted shall expire at the Duration of charend of twenty years. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. B. STERIGERE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred ter. and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 335. AN ACT To authorize the appropriation of certain road taxes in Schuylkill county, to the opening of a road in Pinegrove township, in said county. 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 Appropriation. the road taxes assessed upon the unseated lands, within the townships of Pinegrove and Porter, in the county of Schuylkill, now held and owned by George Richards, Thomas Baird and Thomas M. O'Brien, are hereby appropriated to the opening and making of the road laid out for a public road, leading from the old Sunbury road, at Harvey's tavern, Route. through the valley between the Sharp and Second mountains, and intersecting the public road leading from Port Mifflin, on the Union canal, to Lykens' valley, in the Fishing creek gap, in the Second mountain, for and during the term of four years. SECTION 2. That George Richards, Thomas Baird, and Thomas M. Power to open O'Brien, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to open said road. road, on being allowed a credit for the making said road, for their road taxes, as they yearly become due on the lands referred to in the first section of this act, for the term therein mentioned, the said Richards, Baird and O'Brien opening the said road, at as early a day as possible; and that Samuel B. Fisher, and Samuel Lewis, of the borough of Pottsville, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to examine Examiners. the route laid down by the jury, and if in their opinion the same can be altered to advantage in any part, they shall make a survey and draft Draft. of the same, and make a return of the same to the office of the clerk of the court of quarter sessions of the said county, which shall be a record thereof, and from thenceforth the said road shall be to all intents Expenses. and purposes a public highway, and after being opened by the said Richards, Baird and O'Brien, shall be repaired, in all respects as other public roads are repaired; the expenses of the said survey and return is to be paid out of the taxes aforesaid. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. B. STERIGERE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. Incorporation. Name. Powers, &c. Proviso. Seal. Secretary. Made subject to a certain act. No. 336. AN ACT Relating to the controllers of the public schools of the city and county of Philadelphia. 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 the present controllers of public schools for the city and county of Philadelphia, and such persons as may hereafter be duly elected, according to the laws of this commonwealth, as their successors in office, be and they are hereby made a body politic and corporate in law, with all the legal powers and incidents of a corporation aggregate, and shall have capacity as such. I. To sue and be sued by the corporate name of "The Controllers of the public schools of the first school district of Pennsylvania." II. To take and hold real estate in fee simple, or for any less estate. within the city and county of Philadelphia, and to have power to sell and dispose of the same, from time to time, in absolute fee simple or for any less estate, and to convey the same to any purchaser or purchasers free from all trusts: Provided, That no such real and personal estate shall be taken and held by the said controllers, except for public school purposes, or such as are directly incident thereto, by the laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. III. The said corporation shall have a common seal, which shall remain in the custody of such person as shall be prescribed by the bylaws of said corporation. IV. The said corporation shall have full power and authority to elect a secretary, not one of their own body, who shall give such security for the proper performance of his duties as the by-laws of the corporation may require; they shall also have authority to make such by-laws, rules and regulations, as may be necessary for their well government. V. The said corporation shall have and exercise all the privileges and powers, and be subject to all the duties which are now had, and exercised by the board of controllers of public schools of the city and county of Philadelphia, and to which the same are subject, and all the acts of assembly relative thereto shall be and remain in full force and effect, except so far as the same may be expressly altered by the terms of the present act. VI. That the legal title of all property now held by the commis- Certain trust essioners of the county of Philadelphia, or by the county of Philadelphia, tates vested. or by any person or persons, body politic or corporate, in trust for or to the use of the controllers aforesaid, shall be, and the same is hereby fully vested in fee simple, or for any less estate, as the case may be, in the corporation created by the provisions of this act; and the said commissioners and county aforesaid, and all other persons, are hereby directed to execute and deliver to the corporation hereby created, all Transfers directproper deeds and conveyances for the purpose of transferring the title as ed. aforesaid, together with all policies of insurance and muniments of title appertaining thereto. SECTION 2. That the legislature hereby reserves the right to alter, Reservation. annul or amend this act, whenever it may deem it expedient. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 337. AN ACT To annul the marriage contract of Joseph P. Jones, and Charlotte S., his wife. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- FINDLEY PATTERSON, JNO. B. STERIGERE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 338. AN ACT To annul the marriage contract of John Rose, and Diana, his wife. 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 the marriage contract entered into between John Rose, and Diana, his wife, be and the same is hereby annulled and made void, and the parties released to all intents and purposes as if they never had been joined in marriage. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. B. STERIGERE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. Annuity. No. 339. AN ACT For the relief of Elizabeth Holdren, widow of an old soldier. 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 the state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay Elizabeth Holdren, of Bucks county, or to her order, forty dollars per annum during life, payable semi-annually, to commence from the first of January, eighteen hundred and forty-five, for services rendered by her late husband during the Revolutionary war. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. B. STERIGERE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. |