stock.

in such instalments as they may deem expedient, and they may from time to time take and receive such additional subscriptions to the capital stock as may be thought advisable in extending the number and lines of the company's packet vessels, payment thereof to be made as aforesaid; but the total amount of capital stock of said company shall not at any time exceed five hundred shares of five hundred dollars each.

SECTION 4. That the shares in the capital stock of said company Certificates of shall be numbered from one upwards in progressive order, and certificates in proper form signed by the president and treasurer shall be issued to the stockholders therefor for the shares by them respectively held, and the number attached to each share included therein, shall be Transferable. particularly set forth in each certificate; said shares may be transferred by assignment on the books of the company in person or by power of attorney duly authorized, in presence of the president or treasurer; and in every case of transfer, the former certificate shall be given up and cancelled, and a new certificate issued in its stead in favor of the person to whom said shares had been transferred, but no share shall be transferred on which any instalment called for by the managers in pursuance of the authority herein granted remains due and unpaid, except by the consent of the board of managers first had and obtained; nor shall any share entitle the holder thereof to vote at any general meeting or election on which any such instalment shall be due and unpaid for the space of thirty days; and if any such instalment shall remain due and unpaid on any share or shares for the space of six months after the same has been required to be paid, the managers shall have power after giving thirty days' public or private notice in writing or in print, of their intention so to do, to the person or persons in whose name the said share or shares may stand on the books of the company, to declare the said share or shares forfeited to the use of the company, or they may sue for and recover to the use of the company the amount of all such remaining instalments, with interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum from the time the same became due and payable, together with costs of suit.

Dividends.

Special meetings.

SECTION 5. That dividends of so much of the profits of the said company as shall appear advisable to the managers, shall be declared and paid to the stockholders at least once in every year, and in such manner as may be provided by the by-laws of said company, but shall in no case exceed the amount of nett profits realized in such year; and if the managers shall declare and pay any dividend by which the capital stock shall be impaired, they shall be jointly and severally liable for the amount so paid, which shall be recoverable by any party aggrieved or injured thereby in an action on the case to be brought in any court having jurisdiction in claims or demands of like amount.

SECTION 6. That special meetings of the stockholders shall be called by the president, on the request in writing of members of the company, who are owners of at least one-third of the stock actually paid in, of which meetings at least ten days' notice shall be given by adver tisement in one or more newspapers published in the city of Philadelphia.

SECTION 7. That if the said company shall not carry into effect the objects of this charter, by the construction and employment of at least one steam vessel, suitable for ocean navigation between the ports of Philadelphia and Savannah, within two years after the passage of this act, then this act shall be null and void.

SECTION 8. That the Legislalature reserves the right to alter, amend,

or annul this charter, whenever in their opinion the same may be necessary for the public good.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

BENJAMIN MATTHIAS,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED The eighteenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 158.

AN ACT

To confer on Daniel Chambers, an illegitimate son of William and Elizabeth Chambers, the rights, privileges, benefits, and advantages of a child born in lawful wedlock, relative to the Tioga Railroad, for the relief of the Coudersport Academy, and authorizing the commissioners of Potter county to

borrow money.

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

Daniel Chambers, of Clearfield county, an illegitimate son of William Daniel Chainand Elizabeth Chambers, shall have and enjoy all the rights, privi- bers legitimated. leges, benefits, and advantages of a legitimate child of the said William Chambers and Elizabeth his wife, born in lawful wedlock, and shall be able and capable in law to inherit and transmit any estate whatsoever, as fully and completely, to all intents and purposes, as if he had been the legitimate child of William and Elizabeth Chambers, born in lawful wedlock.

SECTION 2. That the directors of the Tioga Railroad Company Tioga Railroad shall have full power to give to the loans created by said company in Company. pursuance and under the authority of the seventh section of the act for the relief of the creditors of the Tioga Navigation Company," passed April sixth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to any cther loans made by them for the purpose of providing locomotives, cars, depots, or machinery, a preference in the payment of interest not higher than seven per cent. over all other previous loans.

SECTION 3. That the commissioners of Potter county are hereby authorized and required to appropriate and pay out of the funds of said county, to the trustees of Coudersport Academy, in trust and for the use of said academy, the sum of three hundred dollars per annum for the term of five years, from the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

Coudersport

Academy.

Commissioners

of Potter county

SECTION 4. That the commissioners of the county of Potter are hereby authorized to borrow money on the credit of said county, such authorized to an amount (not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars) as they shall deem borrow money.

Further powers.

necessary for the erection of a court house and public offices in lieu of those now occupied for that purpose.

SECTION 5. That the commissioners of said county shall have full power and authority to contract for the building of the said court house and other offices at any time, and locate the same in such place upon the public square in the borough of Coudersport as they shall deem proper.

JOHN CESSNA,

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 159.

AN ACT

Authorizing Watson Comly, Josiah Walton, and Charles Warmsley, to sell and convey certain real estate, and relative to the taxation of moneys at interest in the borough of Doylestown and township of Richland, in Bucks county.

That

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, Watson Comly, Watson Comly, Josiah Walton, and Charles Warmsley, have full power Josiah Walton, to sell the lot of land containing sixty-six perches, more or less, and and Charles the school house thereon, known as the Walnut Hill school house proWarmsley, authoriz d to sell perty, situated in Byberry township, Philadelphia county, at public certain real es- sale, and make a title therefor; the proceeds of said sale to be dis

tate.

Moneys at interest in the bor

tributed among all the original contributors, or their legal representatives pro rata, to the purchase of said lot of land, and the erection of the house thereon, who shall make application therefor within one year from the time of said sale, and the sum or sums not so applied for shall be paid over to the directors of the nearest public school, for the use and benefit of the same: Provided, That the said committee shall first pay the necessary expenses attending said sale and distribution of the proceeds thereof, out of the moneys arising from said sale.

SECTION 2. That hereafter moneys at interest shall be, and the same are hereby made subject to taxation for borough purposes in and for ough of Doyles the borough of Doylestown, in the county of Bucks; and any laws contown subject to trary thereto are hereby repealed, so far as relates to the said borough taxation for bor- and the township of Richland, in said county.

ough purposes.

JOHN CESSNA,

WE do hereby certify that the bill entitled "An Act to authorize Watson Comly, Josiah Walton, and Charles Warmsley, to sell and convey certain real estate, and relative to the taxation of moneys at interest in the borough of Doylestown, and Richland township, in Bucks county," was presented to the Governor on the sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and was not returned within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it had been presented to him. Wherefore it has, agreeably to the Constitution of this Commonwealth, become a law in like manner as if he had signed it.

WILLIAM JACK,

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

SAMUEL W. PEARSON,

Clerk of the Senate.

Harrisburg, March nineteenth, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

No. 160.

AN ACT

Relative to the destruction of deer in the counties of Franklin, Cumberland, and Schuylkill, and to the collection of taxes in Franklin county.

the counties of Franklin and

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 if any person or persons shall within a period of five years from the Penalty for defirst day of August next ensuing the passage of this act, hunt, chase, stroying deer in or follow with the design to kill, or shall kill or destroy any buck, doe, or fawn within the limits of the counties of Franklin and Cumberland, Cumberland. and shall be lawfully convicted thereof by the oath or oaths of one or more creditable witnesses, or the confession of the party before any justice of the peace in and for the said counties, he or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty-five dollars for every such offence, one moiety of which shall be paid to the treasurer of the school fund for common sehool purposes of the township wherein such conviction shall be had, and the other moiety to the person or persons who shall prosecute and sue for the same; and the collector of school tax in the township in which any person or persons so offending shall be convicted, shall proceed in the same manner, and shall have the like power and authority, to collect such fines, as the collectors of county rates and levies baye under the laws now existing, or that may hereafter be enacted, relative to the collecting of county rates and levies within this Commonwealth: Provided however, That no person shall be prosecuted or convicted for any offence against this act, unless such prosecution shall be commenced within six months after the offence shall be committed. SECTION 2. That so much of any act or acts relative to the hunting Repeal.

Relative to deer in Schuylkill county.

to taxes in

ty.

of deer as is inconsistent with this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as they relate to the counties of Franklin and Cumberland.

SECTION 3. That hereafter it shall be lawful for any person or persons to hunt, chase, or follow, with a design to kill or destroy, any buck, doe, or fawn within the county of Schuylkill, between the first day of the months of September and January in each year; and that so much of the supplementary act of the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, as.is inconsistent with this section, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as it applies to the county of Schuylkill.

SECTION 4. That the second and third sections of the act entitled Repeal of certain act relative "An Act to provide for the more effectual and economical mode of collecting State and county taxes in the counties of Chester, Franklin, and Franklin coun- Adams, for increasing and regulating the tax on dividends of banks and savings institutions, and for requiring supervisors and school tax collectors in Lebanon county to give bonds," approved the fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the sixth section of the act entitled "An Act relative to the escheated estate of Frederick Foster, deceased, to a school district in Adams county, to the Union Canal Company, to the sale of spirituous liquors in Warren county, to a clerical error in the act to incorporate the borough of Marietta, and to the collection of taxes in Franklin county," approved the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, be, and the same are hereby repealed, so far as they relate to the county of Franklin.

APPROVED-The twenty-fourth day of March, A. D., one thousand

eight hundred and fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 161.

AN ACT .

To perfect the title to Samuel Williamson of certain real estate, and relative to the Western Pennsylvania Coal Company.

That

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprezentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, Title to Samuel the conveyance made by David Harl, George W. Porter, and James Williamson of M. Wilson, commissioners of the county of Jefferson, dated the tenth tate perfected. day of May, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, of lot number three thousand one hundred and thirty-three, situated in

certain real es