Accounts. Tolls. Injuries to work punishable. Dividend. Proviso. Location. Valuation of old bridge, &c. Proviso. or appraise the damage and make report thereof to the justice of the peace who appointed them; and the said directors or other persons by them employed, after the payment of the appraised value to the owner, or giving adequate security therefor, may enter, chop, dig, quarry and carry off any material necessary in the building or repairing said bridge. SECTION 7. The president and directors of the said company shall keep just and fair accounts of all the moneys received by them, in any way under the provisions of this act, and also all moneys by them expended, and all voluntary contributions to said company, and shall at least once a year, or whenever called on, submit their accounts to the inspection of any or all the stockholders. SECTION 8. When a good and complete bridge is erected over said Juniata river at the place aforesaid, the company, their successors or assigns, may demand the same rates of toll as are allowed in the act, entitled "An Act to authorize the governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the Juniata river at M'Veytown, Mifflin county, and for other purposes," passed thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and shall cause to be put up and kept up in some conspicuous place at the gates of said bridge, a list of the rates of toll. SECTION 9. That if any persons shall wilfully cut, destroy or break, or remove from off said bridge, or any part thereof, any piece of timber, stone, plank, chain, bolt, or any materials whatsoever, belonging to said bridge, or otherwise wilfully or maliciously damage the same, he, she, or they so offending, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence over and above the damage done to said bridge, the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered with costs in any court having jurisdiction thereof. SECTION 10. The said president and directors shall keep just and true accounts of all tolls received by their respective collectors of tolls for crossing said bridge, and shall make and declare a dividend of the profits and income thereof among all the stockholders of said company, in proportion to the shares respectively held by each, and deducting therefrom all contingent costs and charges, and such proportions of said income as may by them be deemed necessary for a growing fund, for repairing or re-building said bridge, and shall, on the first Monday of January in each year, publish the dividends to be made of the clear profits thereof among the stockholders, and of the time and place when and where the same shall be paid, and shall cause the same to be paid accordingly: Provided, That no dividends of profits shall be declared until all the expenses of building and constructing said bridge shall be fully paid. SECTION 11. The said president and directors shall locate the said bridge upon the site of the old one, using the abutments and piers that are now standing, and paying the company incorporated in eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, for the same, and all other materials that can be used in the construction of the new bridge; the valuation of the property referred to of the old company, to be made by three disinterested persons, to be selected in the following manner: one by the president and directors of the old company; a second by the president and directors of the new company; and a third by the two chosen as aforesaid, who shall be duly qualified according to law: Provided however, If the company hereby incorporated are not satisfied with the valuation so made, it shall be lawful for them to apply to the court of quarter sessions of Mifflin county, whose duty it shall be to appoint three disinterested persons, who shall meet at a time and place agreed on by the parties; and after being duly sworn or affirmed according to law, shall put a fair and just valuation on said abutments, piers and other materials, to the best of their judgment. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. WILLIAMSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 386. AN ACT To incorporate the Allegheny Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania. Privileges. 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 members of the Allegheny Evangelical Lutheran synod of Incorporators. Pennsylvania, and their successors, shall be and hereby are created and declared to be a body corporate, by the name, style and title of The Style. Allegheny Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania,," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able and capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in courts of law or equity, in this state or elsewhere, and to make and have a common seal, and the same to break, alter or renew at their pleasure, and also to ordain and establish such by-laws and ordinances as shall be necessary and proper for the regulating of the temporal concerns of the synod, for promoting religion in it: Provided, They be not repugnant to this Proviso. act or to the laws of the state. SECTION 2. That the said synod shall consist of a president, secretary and treasurer, and such other officers as may be deemed advisable Officers. for the time being, who are to comply with such rules and regulations as may be adopted by the said synod. SECTION 3. That the said synod may annually elect 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. Election. Estate. SECTION 4. That the said synod and their successors, by the name and style aforesaid, shall be able and capable in 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 conveyed to said synod for their use, or in trust for them: Provided, That Proviso. the said corporation shall not at any time hold or possess property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding the annual value of three thousand dol lars. FRS. R. SHUNK. APPROVED-The third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. Incorporated. Style. Power to sell. Proviso. No. 387. AN ACT To incorporate the society of the First Regular Baptist church of Lewistown, in the county of Mifflin, with power to sell real estate. 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 Baptist society in the borough of Lewistown, in the county of Mifflin, in the state of Pennsylvania, be and the same is hereby created into a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of the "First Regular Baptist church of Lewistown," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and the present trustees who have been appointed agreeably to the rules and regulations of said church, or their successors in office, shall be able to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded in all courts of law and elsewhere, and shall be able and capable in law and equity to take and to hold to them and their successors, for the use of the said church, lands, tenements, goods and chattels of whatsoever kind, nature and quality, real personal or mixed, which now is or shall hereafter become the property of the said society, or be held for their use by gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, devise, bequest or otherwise, from any person or persons whomsoever capable of making the same, and the same to grant, bargain, sell or otherwise dispose of for the use of the said society: Provided however, That no such disposal or alienation shall be valid without having first obtained the consent of a majority of the members of the said church, present at their regular church meeting, of which notice shall be given from the pulpit on two Sabbaths next preceding said meeting: Provided also, That the yearly value or income of said estate shall not at any time exceed two thousand dollars, and shall not be appropriated to any other than benevolent or religious purposes. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The tenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 388. AN ACT To incorporate the Rome academy, in the county of Bradford. 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 there shall be and is hereby established in the township of Rome, in the county of Bradford. an academy or public school for the education of youth in the English and other languages, and in the useful arts, sciences and literature, by the name, style and title of The Rome acad- Style. emy;" the said academy to be under the direction, management and government of a board of trustees not exceeding seven in number, four of whom shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, which said trustees and their successors shall be and they are hereby erected, established and declared to be a body politic and corporate, with perpetual Incorporate. succession, and with all the incidents of a corporation, in deed and in Privileges. law, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, by the name, style and title of "The trustees of the Rome academy," by which name and title the said trustees and their successors shall be able at law and in equity to take to themselves and their successors, for the use of said seminary, any estate, messuages, land, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, moneys, or other effects, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, will, devise, or bequest of any person or persons whatsoever; and the same messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, moneys and estates, real or personal, to grant, bargain, sell, convey, assure, demise and to farm, let, or otherwise dispose of or invest, in such manner as to them or a quorum of them shall seem most beneficial to the institution, and to receive the rents, issues, profits and income and interest of the same for the use of the said seminary; and by the same name to sue, prosecute and defend, implead and be impleaded in any courts of law or equity, and in all manner of suits and actions whatsoever, and generally, by and in the same name, to do and transact all and every the business touching or concerning the premises on which shall be incidentally necessary thereto, as fully and effectually as any natural person has power to manage his own concerns. SECTION 2. The said trustees shall cause to be made for their use Seal. one common seal, with such devices and inscriptions thereon as they shall think proper, by and with which seal all deeds, certificates and acts of said corporation shall be authenticated; and the same seal the said trustees may at their pleasure break and alter, and also, if they think proper, devise a new one. SECTION 3. That John W. Woodburn, Lemuel S. Maynard, William W. Woodburn, William E. Maynard, Samuel C. Mann, Joseph Allen Trustees. and W. W. Kinney are appointed trustees of said corporation, which said trustees or any four of them shall constitute a quorum for the Quorum. transaction of business, and shall have power to fill any and all vacancies which may occur in their body until the first Monday in October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight; at the expiration of which terin seven trustees shall be elected by ballot, on the first Monday in Elections. October next, and on the same day annually thereafter, at the academy trustees. in the township of Rome, by the stockholders of said institution; and each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of capital stock which he or she shall or may hold at the time of such election. SECTION 4. The trustees named in this act incorporating the Rome Meeting to elect academy, in the county of Bradford, or a majority of them, on due public notice given for ten days previous to the first Monday in October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, are hereby authorized to hold on that day a meeting to elect seven trustees, according to the provision of this act, to continue in office one year and until their successors are duly elected. Trustees, powers of. Proviso. Misnomer. Not entitled to appropriation. Reservation. Proviso. SECTION 5. The said trustees shall have the power of making and enacting ordinances for the government of said seminary; of electing and appointing teachers of the said seminary; agreeing with them for their salaries and stipends, and of removing them for misconduct, breaches of the ordinances of the institution, or other causes which shall be deemed sufficient; of appointing committees of their own body to carry into execution all and every the resolutions of the board; appointing all such officers as they may find necessary for managing the corporation; of providing for the punishment of all violations of the rules, regulations or ordinances of the seminary, and generally at any annual, adjournment or extra meeting, shall determine all matters and things which shall occasionally arise or be necessary to be determined by said trustees: Provided, That no ordinances or regulations shall be of any force which are repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States or of this commonwealth. SECTION 6. No misnomer of the said corporation shall defeat or annul any gift, grant, devise, or bequest to or from the said corporation: Provided, That the intent of the parties shall sufficiently appear upon the part of the gift, grant, will, or other writing whereby any estate or interest was intended to pass to or from said corporation. SECTION 7. That nothing in this act or any other laws of this commonwealth shall entitle the institution hereby incorporated, to receive the appropriation heretofore granted to academies and female seminaries, by the fourth section of the act of the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, entitled "A supplement to an act to consolidate and amend the several acts relative to a general system of education by common schools," passed the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six. SECTION 8. The legislature reserves the right to revoke, alter, or annul the charter hereby granted at any time they may think proper: Provided, That no injustice be done to the corporators. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. WILLIAMSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hunderd and forty-eight. FRS. R. SHUNK. |