pose of from time to time; and also to make and have one common SECTION 2. The object and business of the said company shall and Object. SECTION 3. All persons who shall hereafter insure with the said cor- Who may beporation, and also their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, come members. continuing to be insured in the said corporation, as is hereinafter provided, shall thereby become members thereof during the period they shall remain insured by the said corporation, and no longer. SECTION 4. The affairs of the said company shall be managed by a Number of diboard of directors, consisting of seven members, to be elected and rectors. chosen as hereinafter provided, which board shall elect from their own number, one person as president; they shall also elect or appoint one Power of board. person as secretary of the board, and one person as treasurer, of whom they shall require such security as they may provide by their by-laws; and may employ such other officers, clerks, agents and attorneys as may be found necessary for the transaction of the business of the institution; and shall also determine the rates of insurance, and the sum to be insured, and the sum to be deposited for any insurance; a majority of the said board shall constitute a quorum to do business. SECTION 5. The members of the company shall, upon ten days' Annual meeting. notice in one newspaper published in the county of Franklin, meet at their office, on the first Friday in December in each year, for the purpose of holding an election for directors; and such election shall be held under the inspection of three members, to be chosen by the members who may attend at the time and place of holding the election; such election of directors shall be by ballot, and a majority of the votes given shall elect, and the directors so elected shall continue in office until the first Friday in December in the succeeding year, or until others are elected; on which day, and annually thereafter, an election shall be held for directors, as is provided in the first part of this section, each member to be allowed one vote and no more; no vote shall be given by proxy. In case of the death, resignation or removal from the county of Vacancies, how any of the board of directors, the board shall have power to fill such supplied. vacancy until the ensuing annual election. SECTION 6. Every person who shall become a member of said corpo- Proceedings to ration by effecting insurance therein, shall, before he receives his policy, obtain a policy. deposit his promissory note, with security, to be approved by the board of directors, for such a sum of money as shall be determined upon by the directors; a part not exceeding ten per cent. of said note, shall be immediately paid, and the remainder of said deposit note shall be payable in part or the whole, at any time when the directors shall deem the same requisite for the payment of losses by fire, and such incidental expenses as shall be necessary for transacting the business of said company; and at the expiration of the term of insurance, the said note, or such part of the same as shall remain unpaid, after deducting all losses and expenses incurred during said term, shall be relinquished and given up to the maker thereof; and it shall be lawful for said corporation to loan such portion of their money on hand, as may not be immediately wanted for the purpose of said corporation, to be secured by judgment or mortgage, creating a lien for the same upon real estate of sufficient value beyond other incumbrances, to render the same perfectly secure, or upon other good and sufficient securities. SECTION 7. When any property insured with this corporation, shall be aliened by sale or otherwise, the policy shall thereafter be void and of no effect, and shall be surrendered to the directors to be cancelled; and upon such surrender, the insured shall be entitled to receive his deposit note on payment of his proportion of losses and expenses accrued prior to such surrender; but the alienee or grantee having the policy assigned to him, may have the same ratified and confirmed to him for his own proper use and benefit, upon application to the directors, with their consent, within twenty days next after such alienation, by giving proper security to the satisfaction of said directors, for such portion of the deposit note as shall remain unpaid; and by virtue thereof from the time of such ratification, the party causing such security to be given, shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges, and be subject to all the liabilities to which the original party to whom the policy was issued, was entitled and subject under this act. SECTION 8. Every member of said corporation shall be bound to pay for losses or damage, and such necessary expenses aforesaid accruing in said corporation, in proportion to the amount of his or her deposit note. SECTION 9. Suits at law may be maintained by said corporation against any of its members, for the collection of said deposit notes, or any assessment thereon, or for any other cause relating to the business of said corporation; also all suits may be prosecuted and maintained by any member against said corporation for losses or damages by fire, if payment be withheld or refused more than three months after the company are duly notified of such losses; no member of the company, not being in his individual capacity a party to the suit or suits, shall be incompetent as a witness on account of his being a member of the company. SECTION 10. The directors shall, after ascertaining the amount of loss or damage by fire sustained by any of its members, settle and determine in proportion to the deposit notes, the amount to be paid by each of its members as their respective shares of such loss or damage, and publish the same in such manner as may be prescribed by the by-laws; and the members shall pay the same to the company's treasurer, within thirty days after the publication of said notice; on neglect or refusal to pay the sum assessed upon him, as a proportion of any loss or expenses as aforesaid, in such case said company may sue for, and recover the whole amount of his or her deposit note or notes, with costs of suit; and the amount thus collected shall remain in the treasury of said company, subject to the payment of such losses or expenses as have or may accrue thereafter, and the balance, if any remain, shall be returned to the party from whom it was collected, after he shall have surrendered his policy, and ceased to be a member of the company. SECTION 11. At the annual meeting of the company, as provided for in section fifth, the members shall pass all by-laws, rules and regula tions necessary for the well government of the affairs of said corpora tion, or vest the power to do so in the board of directors; it shall also be the duty of the secretary and treasurer, at such annual meeting, to have all books and papers concerning the business of the company, at such place of meeting; and any member of the company shall be allowed to examine the same. SECTION 12. No policy shall be issued by this corporation, until the When policies property insured shall amount to fifty thousand dollars; and nothing in may be issued. this charter to be so construed, as to allow the said corporation to exer cise banking privileges. SECTION 13. The hereinbefore named Jonathan Wright, John Bea- Present directors. ver, James Campbell, William M'Grath, Jackson Beaver, Stephen C. Brown and Thompson M'Allister, shall constitute the board of directors of said company, until the first Friday in December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six, or until others are elected in their stead, with power to fill vacancies, and adopt such necessary by-laws and regulations as may be convenient and proper for the government of the said company, agreeably to section first. SECTION 14. This act shall take effect immediately after its passage; Reservation. but the legislature of this commonwealth may at any time, alter, modify or annul its provisions, in such manner however, as to do no injustice to the corporators. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED the seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 407. AN ACT To incorporate the Pittsburg Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran church. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representalives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the present members of the Pittsburg Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Incorporated. church, and their successors, shall be and hereby are created and declared to be a body corporate, by the name, style and title of the Pittsburg Sy- Name. have perpetual succession, and shall be able and capable in law to sue Privileges. Proviso. Officers. Annual election. May hold real estate. Proviso. religion in it: Provided, They be not repugnant to this act, or to the laws of the state. SECTION 2. That the said synod shall consist of a president, secretary, treasurer, and such other officers as may be deemed advisable to elect, for the time being, together with such ministers of the gospel and laymen, as they in their wisdom and prudence may, from time to time, admit as members of said synod. SECTION 3. That the said synod may annually elect a president, secretary and treasurer, and such other officers as may be deemed advisable, for the time being, who are to comply with such rules and regulations as may be adopted by the said synod. SECTION 4. That the said synod, and their successors, by the name and style aforesaid, shall be able and capable is law to have, purchase, take, receive, and hold lands, tenements, results, annuities, and other hereditaments, which may be sold, devised, or in any other way convey to said synod, for their use, or in trust for them: Provided, That the said corporation shall not at any time hold or possess property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding the annual value of four thousand dollars. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. DANIEL L. SHERWOOD. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-six. FRS. R. SHUNK. Incorporated. Object. Hold real estate. Powers. No. 408. AN ACT To incorporate the Carbon county benevolent society. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, Tha John M'Ginley, Christopher Curren, John M'Fadden, Michael Kelly and John Boyle, and such persons as now are or hereafter shall becom members of the Carbon county benevolent society, in the county Carbon, and state of Pennsylvania, are hereby contituted a body politi and corporate, by the name aforesaid. SECTION 2. The object of this society shall be to afford relief to the members thereof, and their families, in case of sickness and destitution and for their burial after death. SECTION 3. The said corporation may purchase and hold real an personal estate, for their use and benefit, to an amount not exceeding time the sum of ten thousand dollars. any SECTION 4. The said corporation shall possess the general powers and be subject to the general restrictions and liabilities, contained in the first, third, fourth, fifth and six sections of the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the American Baptist publication society," approved twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. DANIEL L. SHERWOOD, APPROVED The eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 409. AN ACT To incorporate the Gettysburg water company. 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 John B. M'Pherson, John Bringman, William King, James A. Thomp- Commissioners. son, Samuel H. Buehler, Robert Smith, Daniel M. Smyser, David Middlecoff, and George W. M'Clellan, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to do and perform the several duties hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: they, or any three of them, shall procure a book or books, and therein enter as follows: "We whose names are here- Form of subunto subscribed, do promise to pay to the president and managers of scription. the Gettysburg water company, the sum of fifteen dollars for each and every share of stock set opposite to our respective names, in such manner and proportions, and at such times as shall be determined by the said president and managers, in pursuance of an act of assembly, entitled 'An Act to incorporate the Gettysburg water company.' Witness our hands, day of Anno Domini, one thousand ;" and shall thereupon give notice, the eight hundred and forty in one or more of the public newspapers printed in Gettysburg, of the time and place or places, when and where the said book or books shall Open books and be opened to receive subscriptions for the stock of said company; at take subscriptions which time and place one or more of the said commissioners shall attend, and permit and suffer all persons, or bodies corporate, who shall offer to subscribe in the said book or books, which shall be kept open for the purpose, at least six hours in every juridical day, for three days, if three days shall be necessary; and if at the expiration of said time, two hundred and fifty shares shall not be subscribed on said books, the said commissioners may adjourn from time to time, and from place to place, until the said number of shares shall be subscribed, and then the said books shall be closed: Provided always, That every person sub- Proviso. scribing as aforesaid, in his own name, or in the name of any other |