Repeal. SECTION. 34. That all general laws of this Commonwealth inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. APPROVED-The third day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 219. AN ACT For the relief of a certain soldier and widows of soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian wars. 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 he is hereby authorized and required to pay Agnes Lemon, Martha Bellas, to Agnes Lemon, of the State of New York, Martha Bellas, of FrankElizabeth Gon- lin county, Elizabeth Gonter, of Lancaster county, and Elizabeth Har ter, and Elizaper, of Fayette county, Martha Gillespie, of Mercer, Ann Coln, of Greene county, Elizabeth Brewer, of Butler county, widows of soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian wars, an annuity of forty dollars each, payable half-yearly during life, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. beth Harper, for relief of. Jacob Reiner. SECTION 2. That the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay to Jacob Reiner, of Schuylkill county, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, an annuity of forty dollars, and a gratuity of forty dollars. APPROVED-The third day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 220. AN ACT To incorporote the president and managers of the Beech Creek Plank Road SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Fennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Nathan J. Mitchel, John Breachdel, George Faust, Andrew White, Wil-Commissioners. liam H. Miller, Joseph Brownlee, George Sterling, and D. W. Counsel, be, and they or any two of them are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style, and title, of "The Beech Creek Plank Road Company," with power to construct a plank road commencing at the public road near Marsh creek, in Centre county, thence by way of Florence by the Location. nearest and best route to the public road at or near the house of William Fearon, deceased, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of Subject to pro"An Act regulating turnpike and plank road companies," approved on the tain act." twenty sixth day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the supplements thereto. Style. visions of cer Capital stock. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of two hundred and forty shares of twelve and a-half dollars each, with privilege of increasing said stock, if necessary, to complete said road. SECTION 3. That the road shall consist of a track of not less than Width of track. eight nor more than fourteen feet wide, with power to lay a double track (if the company shall deem it expedient) each eight feet wide. SECTION 4. That whenever the said company shall have completed Toll-gates. two miles of said road they shall have power to erect toll-gates and receive the same tolls per mile that are allowed by the twelfth and thirteenth sections of the act approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An Act regulating turnpike and plank road companies." pletion of road. SECTION 5. That if said company shall not commence the construc- Commencetion of said road in three years, and complete the same within six ment and comyears from the passage of this act, then this act shall be null and void, except so far as the same may be necessary to wind up and settle the affairs and pay the debts of the company. SECTION 6. That so much of the act to incorporate the president. and managers of the Susquehanna and Bald Eagle Plank Road Com- Repeal. pany, approved the twenty-ninth March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, as is superseded by this act is hereby repealed, so far as relates to this company. SECTION 7. That the fees to be paid to the Prothonotary of Lycom- Fees of proing county for the acknowledgement of treasurer's deeds for lands sold thonotary of Lyfor taxes, shall be the same that are allowed for similar services by the coming county. general laws of this Commonwealth. Amos Addis, SECTION 8. That the Canal Commissioners are hereby authorized and relative to claim directed to examine the claim of Amos Addis, of Lycoming county, of. for the use made of his patented schutes in the various dams of the public improvements of the Commonwealth, and report the facts to the Legislature, together with the amount, if any, in their opinion due said claimant: Provided, That the amount so reported shall not exceed five hundred dollars. APPROVED-The third day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. Preamble. Depositions, evidence. Record, &c., No. 221. AN ACT To confirm the title of certain real estate in Delaware county, conferring certain powers on the Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company, and relative to the trust estate of Marion W. Kingsbury, in the borough of Towanda. WHEREAS, In the matter of Isaac M. Ashton vs. Edward B. Garrigues, and others, number one of November term, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, in the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware county, proceedings in perpetuam rei memoriam in case of a lost deed and title papers, the notice to the parties was omitted to be published in a newspaper nearest to the court house in the county of Delaware; now for the purpose of curing said defect, therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the depositions taken and filed of record in the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware county, in the above matter of lost deed and title papers, and all other matters and proceedings in the case, shall be as good and legal evidence in any trial or controversy respecting the lands, tenements, hereditaments, or possessions described or mentioned in said proceedings in said Court of Common Pleas, as if the said notice to the persons interested in the matter had been duly published in a public newspaper published nearest to the court house in said county of Dela ware. SECTION 2. And that the record and proceedings had and made in certified by the the matter, or a copy thereof authenticated under the hand of the proprothonotary to thonotary and seal of said court, may and shall at all times hereafter be good evibe read upon any trial or controversy respecting the lands and tenedence. ments aforesaid, and shall be taken and allowed as good and sufficient evidence of the facts established, notwithstanding said omission of pub lication: Provided, The same shall be liable to all other legal exceptions excepting said publication of notice. Additional pow SECTION 3. That it shall and may be lawful for the stockholders of the corporation called "The President and Directors of Beaver Meadow ers granted to Railroad and Coal Company," at a meeting to be called in the usual the Beaver manner, to authorize their president and managers to issue such addi- Meadow Railtional amount of stock as they from time to time may see fit, not ex- road and Coal Company. eceding in the whole four thousand shares, and to transfer the same or any part thereof in payment of any debts for interest or otherwise due or which may become due by the said company, or to sell or dispose of the said shares, or any of them, for the best price or prices which can be obtained therefor, and at such time or times as the said president and managers may deem most expedient and conducive to the interests of the said company, and to apply the proceeds of such sales to such uses as the said president and managers may deem proper for promoting the interests of the said company. SECTION 4. That it shall and may be further lawful for the stockholders Further powers. of the said company, at a meeting to be called in the usual manner, to authorize their president and managers, in addition to any debts heretofore contracted by the said company, notwithstanding the provisions of the sixteenth section of the act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company," passed the seventh day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, to issue from time to time bonds in the corporate name and under the corporate seal of the said company for any sum not less than five hundred dollars, each payable at any period the said president and managers may see fit, not later than thirty years after their date, with coupons attached to the same for interest thereon payable semi-annually at the rate of six per centum a year, or to authorize their said president and managers to issue so as aforesaid from time to time, bonds in any other form or forms which they the said president and managers may see fit; but if any such bonds shall be issued in another form than that of coupon bonds, they may be issued for any sum not less than one hundred dollars each, which said bonds shall not in the whole exceed the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, and each of the said bonds may contain a stipulation that the same may be converted at the option of the holder thereof at any time before it shall become payable into shares of the capital stock of the said company at the par value of the said shares; any of which shares the said president and managers are hereby authorized to issue to such holder on his request within the stipulated time in addition to the shares heretofore issued by the said company, and also in addition to those which the said company are empowered to issue by the third section of this present act; and it shall and may be further lawful for the said stockholders at such meeting as aforesaid, to authorize the said president and managers to secure to payment of the said bonds and coupons, by executing in the corporate name and under the common seal of the said company, a mortgage in any form they may see fit to trustees to be named by them on their mines, railroad, and their other property, real and personal, or any of them the said mines, railroad and other property, or any part or parts thereof; and the said mortgage may also include the tolls, rents, issues, and profits accruing therefrom, or any portion or portions thereof; and if the said mortgage shall so stipulate, the said the president and managers of the Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company may continue in the possession and management of the mortgaged property, as well personal as real, without prejudice to the security of the mortgage thereon; and it shall and may be further lawful for the said stockholders at such a Marion W. Kingsbury, rela tive to estate of. meeting as aforesaid, to empower the said president and managers to sell and dispose of at public or private sale the said bonds by this seetion authorized to be issued for the best price or prices which can be obtained for the same, and at such time or times as the said president and managers may deem most expedient and conducive to the interests of the said company; and the purchase of the said bonds authorized to be issued as aforesa'd shall not be deemed usurious or in violation of any law of this Commonwealth prohibiting the taking of more than six per centum interest. SECTION 5. That the house and lot situate in the borough of Towanda, Bradford county, on the east side of Main street, conveyed to Joseph Kingsbury by Gilbert H. Drake, and by said Kingsbury to Barton Kingsbury in trust for the use of Marion W., daughter of said Joseph Kingsbury, and bounded on the north by lot of N. P. Brown, on the east by lot lately belonging to G. W. Wansey, on the south by lot lately belonging to John Morris, be, and the same hereby discharged is from said trust and uses, and said house and lot is hereby vested in said Marion W., daughter of said Joseph Kingsbury, as her separate property according to the provisions of the act of eleventh April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, relating to the rights of married women and the supplements thereto. APPROVED-The third day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON Commissioners. No. 222. AN ACT To incorporate the Rays Hill, Werefordsburg, and Maryland Line furmake Road Company, authorizing John Payne to sell and convey or let upon ground rent certain real estate, fixing the place of holding elections in Middle Woodbury township, Bedford county, confirming certain elections in Fulton county, and certain legal proceedings in Bedford county, changing the road laws in Tioga county, regulating the inspection of weights, beams, and measures, and relating to the estate of Rebecca Large. 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 Peter Morgart, Lemuel Hill, George Smith, William Mason, Jacob Bernhard, Philip Gordon, Mason Lodge, Henry A. Barton, Jacob Rhom, Noah Frazer, Charles M'Laughlin, Bolser Morgart, Simon Nycum, A. C. Stingers, James J. Kirk, David Mann, Jr., and Daniel |