School directors of Oley townseip, Berks county, authorized to borrow money. Amity township, Berks county. Muhlenberg county. No. 175. AN ACT Authorizing the school directors of Oley and Amity townships to borrow money, relative to the collection of taxes and security of supervisors in Muhlenberg township, vacating a certain street in the city of Reading, and incorporating St. John's church, in Bobeson township, Berks county. That 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, the school directors of the township of Oley, in the county of Berks, be, and are hereby empowered to borrow any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the aggregate one thousand dollars, and to secure the re-payment of the same by mortgage on the real estate or any part thereof belonging to the said board, or by judgment which shall be a lien on said real estate. SECTION 2. That the school directors of the township of Amity, in the county of Berks, are hereby authorized to borrow the sum of two hundred dollars on the credit of their district, to be applied in payment of the debt contracted in building school houses in said district, which sum so borrowed shall be paid out of the first money collected on the school tax for the ensuing school year. SECTION 3. That the provisions of the second section of the act entownship, Berks titled "An Act authorizing the sale of certain real estate, and relative to the collection of taxes in certain townships in Monroe, Berks, and Lancaster counties, and certain school districts in Butler, Franklin, Mifflin, Indiana, and Schuylkill counties," approved April tenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, be, and the same are hereby extended to the township of Muhlenberg, in the county of Berks. Supervisors of said township. Neversink road, St. John's SECTION 4. That hereafter, the supervisors of the township of Muhlenberg, in the county of Berks, shall upon their election enter into a bond, with one or more sufficient sureties, in such sum as the Court of Quarter Sessions of said county shall direct, and to be approved by said court, conditioned for the faithful discharge of their duty, and the faithful appropriation of all moneys that may come into their hands. SECTION 5. That all that part of Neversink road or street in the city of Reading and county of Berks, from the point where it intersects South street, and extending thence northerly to the point where it intersects Laurel street, be, and the same is hereby vacated. SECTION 6. That the members of the St. John's Church of Robeson Church, Robe- township, in the county of Berks, be, and the same are hereby created son township, and erected into one body politic and corporate in deed and in law, by Berks county, the name, style, and title, of "The Independent Associated German ncorporated. Reformed and Lutheran Congregation of St. John's Church, of Robeson township," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and shall be able and capable to take and hold lands, tenements, goods, and chattels, real, personal, and mixed, which are now or may hereafter become the property of said congregation or body corporate by gift, grant, devise, bequest, or otherwise, and the same to convey, lay out, apply, or dispose of, in such manner as a majority of the trustees of the said congrega tion shall direct and appoint, and according to the true intent of doners, grantors, and devisors, and the yearly value or income of the real, personal, or mixed estate of said congregation, shall not at any time exceed the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, exclusive of annual stated contributions, and shall not be appropriated to any other than benevolent or religious purposes. SECTION 7. That Jocob R. Hill, Philip Harts, Benjamin H. Hill, Henry Moyer, Benjamin Clauser, and John Haws, be trustees, to continue in office for one year, and until others be chosen, in such manner, time, and place, as shall be determined by a majority of the members of said church. Trustees, SECTION 8. That the said trustees shall choose by ballot from among Officers. their number a president and secretary, and shall also choose a treasurer who is a member of the congregation, and who shall if required by the trustees give security for the faithful performance of the trust reposed in him, and to account to them for all sums of money received by him; and in case of the removal of the president or of any of the trustees, or of any other officer of the board of trustees by death, resignation, or otherwise, the vacancy or vacancies shall be supplied by said board until the next annual election. SECTION 9. That the trustees and their successors shall have full power to make and to use one common seal, and the same to alter and renew at pleasure, to enact and enfore such by-laws and ordinances as may be proper and necessary for the regulation and transaction of the business of the congregation, to appoint the time for holding the annual meeting for electing trustees, and to change the time for said purpose from time to time as they may find convenient, or if the congregation neglect to clect on the day of the annual meeting, appoint any subsequent time on which said election shall be held: Provided, That notice thereof be given from the pulpit, or in such other manner as a majority of the trustees may direct, at least two weeks before said election: And provided also, That said by-laws and ordinances shall not be inconsistent with the Constitution or laws of this State or of the United States. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. BENJAMIN MATTHIAS, APPROVED-The twenty-fourth day of March, A. D., one thousand Common seal. eight hundred and fifty-one. 16 WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 176. AN ACT Relating to the repairs of county bridges, to the collection of taxes in Colebrookdale, Maxatawney, and Greenwich townships, to the election of county treasurer, to the dividends of the Reading Gas Company, and to the boundaries of the township of Oley, in the county of Berks, and to incorporate the Odd Fellows' Hall Association of New London, Chester 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 Bridges in Berks from and after the passage of this act, all bridges heretofore erected by the county of Berks, except the toll bridges in the said county, which are situated upon any turnpike road and used by the companies owning such turnpike roads, shall be kept in repair by the turnpike companies upon whose roads such bridges are built and used. county. township of Colebrookdale, Berks county. SECTION 2. That from and after the next assessment of taxes, the State and coun- collection of State and county taxes in the township of Colebrookdale, ty taxes in the Berks county, shall be given to the lowest bidder for the same-proposals to be presented to the commissioners of said county at least three weeks prior to the giving out of said collection of taxes; and the dif ference between the compensation now allowed by law for the collection of such taxes, and the bids obtained under the provisions of this act, shall be applied to the repair of the roads of said Colebrookdale township in the same manner that other moneys are now applied by law to the same purpose. Relative to election of county Treasurers in SECTION 3. That so much of the third section of the act approved the twenty-seventh of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, as renders county treasurers ineligible to re-election, be, and the same Berks county. is hereby repealed, so far as regards the county of Berks; and that from and after the passage of this act it shall be lawful for the county treasurer of Berks county to be elected for two terms in any term of six years, and no more. Reading Gas SECTION 4. That so much of the ninth section of the act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Reading Gas Company," passed the eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, as provides that the managers shall declare dividends when advisable on the first Monday's in June and December, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and in lieu thereof, the said managers shall declare dividends as provided in the act aforesaid, on the second Monday's of January and July in each year. SECTION 5. That so much of the township of Ruscomb Manor, in the county of Berks, as lies within the following lines, viz.: Beginning at a corner on the Oley line, at or near the hill range; thence southwardly along said line, say two hundred and forty perches, to the Alsace township corner; thence along the line of said Alsace township northwestwardly about two hundred perches, to, at, or near Daniel Moyer's building in said Alsace township; and thence in a direct line to the place of beginning, containing about three hundred and fifty acres, more or less, be, and the same hereby is attached to and made a part of the township of Oley, in the said county of Berks, for school and all other purposes. SECTION 6. That from and after the next assessment of taxes, the Relative to the collection of state and county taxes in the townships of Maxatawny and collection of Greenwich, in Berks county, shall be given to the lowest bidder for the taxes in Maxasame; proposals to be presented to the commissioners of said county at tawny and Greenwich least three weeks prior to the giving out of said collection of taxes; and the difference between the compensation now allowed by law for the Berks county. townships, collection of such taxes, and the bids obtained under the provisions of this section shall be paid into the common school fund, for the purpose of education in said townships: Provided, That the said collectors shall severally give good and sufficient security to said commissioners for the true performance of their duty in the collection of said taxes. Corporators. Style. SECTION 7. That William Wheeler and others, members of the Odd Fellows' Lodge at New London, in the county of Chester, and their successors, and all persons who hereafter may be associated with them, be, and they are hereby created and erected into a body politic and corporate in deed and in law, by the name, style, and title, of "The Odd Fellows' Hall Association of New London, in the county of Chester," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity or else- Privileges. where, and shall be able and capable in law and in equity to take and to hold to them and their successors, either by grant, gift, devise, or lease, any lands or real estate, for the purpose of erecting thereon a suitable building or buildings for the use of said association; and also to take and hold for the use of the said association any goods and chattels, sum or sums of money, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, will, devise, or bequest, from any person or persons whatsover capable of making the same; and the same at their pleasure to grant, bargain and sell, lease or mortgage, for the use or benefit of the said association; and generally to do all and singular the matters and things which shall be lawful for them to do, for the well-being and due management of the affairs of the said association: Provided, That the real estate of which the said corporation shall be at any time possessed of, shall not exceed the clear yearly value of three thousand dollars. SECTION 8. That the object of the said association shall be to pro- Object. vide, erect, and furnish a hall or suitable building or buildings in the township of New London and county of Chester, for the accommodation of such associations or societies, and for such other purposes as they shall deem proper. SECTION 9. That it shall and may be lawful for said incorporation Seal. to have a common seal, and the same at their will and pleasure to change, alter, and renew as they shall deem proper, and shall have and exercise all the rights and privileges and immunities necessary for the purposes of the incorporation hereby constituted, and as herein expressed. SECTION 10. That the government of the Odd Fellows' Hall Association of New London, and the management and disposition of its affairs and property, shall be vested in a board of trustees, who shall be elected annually at such time and in such manner as the said associaton shall by its by-laws provide. At the first meeting of the trustees after their election in each year, they shall choose from their body a president, secretary, and treasurer. Trustees SECTION 11. That the corporation hereby created shall have leave and authority to make by-laws conformable to the charter, and not in By-laws. violation of the laws of the United States or of this Commonwealth. SECTION 12. That the Legislature reserves the right to alter, revoke, Reservation. or annul this charter, whenever in their opinion such revocation shall be considered necessary for the public interest: Provided, That no injustice shall be done to the corporators thereof. APPROVED-The twenty-fourth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. Commissioners. Style. Location. Subject to provisions of cer tain act. Capital stock. No. 177. AN ACT To incorporate the Millerstown, Andersonburg, and New Germantown Plank 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 Samuel Black, Robert Elliot, Isaac Kinter, Wm. B. Anderson, Thomas Boal, Andrew Shuman, W. Blair, Jas. Milligan, Samuel Ligget, Simon Kell, James Irvin, Jacob Shuman, Kirk Haines, T. P. Cochran, Jacob Bixler, W. I. Jones, G. W. Parsons, William Rice, Soloman Bower, and George Black, be, and they are hereby apppointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style, and title, of "The Millerstown, Andersonburg, and New Germantown Plank Road Company," with power to construct a plank road or other artificial roads, commencing at the west end of Millerstown bridge, at Millerstown, in Perry county; thence up Raccoon Valley to Icksburg, Andersonburg, and Germantown, in Sherman's Valley, 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, and the several supplements thereto, excepting that portion of the thirteenth section of said first mentioned act relating to tolls which discriminate in favor of wheels of greater width than four inches; and the company hereby incorporated, shall have power to regulate their tolls within the limits prescribed by said thirteenth section, without reference to width of wheels in any case. SECTION 2. That the stock of said company shall consist of eight hundred shares, of twenty-five dollars each: Provided, That said company may at any time, by a vote of the stockholders at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital so much as in their judgment may be necessary to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. |