Laws Enacted in the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ...

No. 337.

AN ACT

For the relief of Edward Bloomer.

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 be and is hereby required to pay to Edward Bloomer, the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars, and to receive in exchange an equal amount of notes of the Towanda relief issue, by J. G. Boyd

APPROVED-The ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and

forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 338.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Lancaster and Sinking Springs turnpike road company.

Henry Shirk, Aaron Mull, Charles H. Adams, Levi Ruth, Jones Sharp, H. T. Palm, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name style, and title of "The Lancaster and Sinking Springs turnpike road company," with power to construct a turnpike road commencing at the Berks and Dauphin turnpike, at Sinking Springs, county of Berks, thence by the easiest route by way of Jacob Shirk's cross roads, in the county of Lancaster, to intersect the Downingtown, Ephrata, and Harrisburg turnpike, at or near the dwelling house of Peter Martin, Elizabeth township, Lancaster county, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of

four hundred shares, at fifty dollars per share.

Capital stock.

SECTION 3. That if this company shall not commence the construc- Commencement tion of this road within three years from the passage of this act, this and completion of act shall be null and void, except so far as the same shall be necessary road.

to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of said company.

WILLIAM F. PACKER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEORGE DARSIE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and

forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 339.

AN ACT

Incorporating the Methodist Episcopal church in the village of Haddington, Philadelphia 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 a corporation is hereby created which shall be called by the name, style and title of The Haddington Methodist Episcopal church," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and Style. be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of law and elsewhere, Privileges. and shall be able and capable in law and equity to take, hold and receive to them and their successors, for the use of the said society, lands, tenements, goods and chattels of whatsoever kind, nature or quality, real, personal or mixed, which is now or shall or may at any time hereafter become the property of the said society, or to be held for their use by gifts, grants, bargains, sales, conveyance, devise, bequest or otherwise, from

any person or persons whomsoever capable of making the same, and to grant, bargain, sell, mortgage, improve or dispose of for the use of the said society: Provided, That the yearly value or income of the said estate shall not exceed the sum of two thousand and five hundred Proviso. dollars, and shall not be appropriated to any other than benevolent or religious uses.

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of.

SECTION 2. The business of said society shall be conducted by seven trustees, and until others are or shall be elected as is hereinafter Trustees, election vided, the following named persons shall be trustees, viz: John Esray, Leonard Frailey, Patrick Scanlin, Evan Lewis, Isaac Anderson, John L. Frailey and Thomas J. Watson, to continue in office until the first Saturday of July, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fortynine, on which day the male members of said society shall elect seven trustees, three for one year, two for two years, and two for three years, and on the same day annually thereafter elect a corresponding number to

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of.

Proviso.

those whose term has expired; and if any vacancies by death or otherwise shall happen in the office of trustees, the remaining trustees may appoint others to supply such vacancy or vacancies until the next annual election, when another trustee or trustees shall be elected to fill such vacancy or vacancies as may then exist in the board of trustees; and if the society neglect on the said day annually to hold their election as is hereinbefore directed, the said corporation shall not be dissolved, but a majority of the trustees may appoint any subsequent day on which the election may be held: Provided, That at least ten days' notice may be given in such manner as a majority of the trustees may direct, and any male member of said society at least twenty-one years of age, and one year in connection with the Methodist Episcopal church, shall be entitled to vote for trustees.

SECTION 3. The said trustees and their successors shall have fall Trustees, power power to enact such by-laws and ordinances as they shall think proper for the regulation and transaction of the business of the said society, and shall have power also to change the time of holding the general election, if the same should be deemed advisable: Provided, That the said by-laws and ordinances shall not be inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state or of the United States: Provided further, That the said trustees and their successors shall have full power to sell and make title to such lots or ground as is or may be appropriated for the purpose of burial by said society, but shall not dispose of, alien, sell or in any way encumber the other real estate belonging to the said church, nor purchase any real estate for the use of said church, unless with the consent of a majority of the members of said society entitled to vote as aforesaid, who shall meet and determine upon such sale, encumbrance or purchase as shall have been proposed.

WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE DARSIE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and

forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 340.

AN ACT

For the relief of Rebecca H. Duncan and James M'Coy.

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, That the canal commissioners are hereby authorized and instructed to examine the claims of Rebecca H. Duncan and James M'Coy, for damages alleged to have been sustained, and for property lost and destroyed by a breach in the embankment of the Susquehanna division, Pennsyl

vania canal, at the head of Duncan's Island, in October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and if on examination the said commissioners are satisfied that the damages sustained were occasioned by the construction of this embankment and breach of the same, they shall assess the same, and report the same to the next legislature.

WILLIAM F. PACKER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEORGE DARSIE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and

forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 341.

AN ACT

Relative to mechanics' liens in the counties of Westmoreland, Columbia and Elk.

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 Certain act exthe provisions of the act, entitled "An Act relating to the lien of me- tended to the chanics and others upon buildings," passed the sixteenth day of June, counties of Westone thousand eight hundred and thirty six, be and the same is hereby moreland and extended to the counties of Westmoreland and Elk.

for

Elk.

&c.

SECTION 2. The provisions of said act are hereby further extended to Provisions of said every fixture in and about iron works and mines, and to every bridge and act to extend to building where work is done or materials furnished in the construction every fixture in of such fixture, in and about mines or iron works, bridge or building, and about iron any corporate body, or for a contractor in the employment of a cor- works, bridges, porate body; and the process to obtain satisfaction of any judgment obtained upon such lien, in any case where by the existing laws no lien is given, for labor or materials done or furnished to a corporate body, shall be by writ of sequestration, as provided by the seventy-third section of the act of sixteenth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirtysix, entitled "An Act relating to executions:" Provided, That this Proviso. act shall not be construed to extend to any case in which work has been done or materials furnished before the passage of this act, unless the lien is filed within six months after the last work is done, or the last materials furnished: And provided further, That this section shall only extend to the counties of Columbia and Elk.

WILLIAM F. PACKER,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEORGE DARSIE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and

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forty-nine.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 342.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Chambersburg water company.

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, That Commissioners. George A. Madeira, Frederick Smith, William Seibert, Matthias Nead, George Garlin, George S. Eyster, James Nill, Martin Newcomer, William M'Lellan, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to do and perform the several duties hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: they or a majority of them shall procure a book or books and therein Form of subscrip- enter as follows: "We whose names are hereunto subscribed, do promise to pay to the president and managers of the Chambersburg water company, the sum of twenty 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 Chambersburg water company,' passed the day Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty

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nine. Witness our hands the Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty- "; and shall thereupon give notice in one or more of the public newspapers printed in When and where Chambersburg, of the time and place or places, when and where said books to be open- book or books shall be opened to receive subscriptions for the stock of said company; at which time and place one or more of the said commissioners shall attend, and permit and suffer all persons or bodies corporate, including the commissioners of Franklin county and the burgess and town council of the borough of Chambersburg, in their corporate name, 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 four days, if four days shall be necessary; and if at the expiration of the said time, three hundred shares shall not be subscribed on the 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 subscribing as aforesaid, in his own name, or in the name of any other person or body corporate, shall at the time thereof be required to pay to the attending commissioner or commissioners five dollars on each share, out of which the said commissioners shall defray the expenses attending the taking such subscriptions and other incidental charges, and the balance shall be paid over to the treasurer of the said company, as soon as the same shall be organized as hereinafter mentioned.

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SECTION 2. That when twenty or more persons shall have been subscribed not less than one hundred and fifty shares, the commissioners aforesaid may, or when the whole number of shares aforesaid are subscribed, shall certify under their hands and seals the names of the subscribers and the number of shares subscribed by each, and the amount Letters patent. paid on each share, to the governor of this commonwealth, and there upon he shall, by letters patent under his hand and the great seal of the

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