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No. 272.

A SUPPLEMENT

To the act entitled "An Act to incorporate the York and Cumberland Railroad Company.

WHEREAS, By the eighth section of the act entitled "An Act to incorporate the York and Cumberland Railroad Company," approved Preamble. April twenty-first, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fortysix, it is declared that on the completion of the road therein authorized to be made, said company shall pay into the treasury of the Commonwealth, semi-annually, a tax or duty on all tonnage and passengers carried over said road, at such rate as the Legislature may thereafter direct, not exceeding certain limits therein expressed; therefore,

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 it shall be the duty of the York and Cumberland Railroad Company to collect and pay into the State Treasury for the use of the Commonwealth, under the provisions of the eighth section of the act incorporating said company to which this is supplementary, a tax of three mills per ton per mile on all tonage passing over the entire extent of said railroad: Provided however, That coal, lumber, gypsum, firewood, iron ore, and iron, and all agricultural products, the growth of Pennsylvania, shall be exempt from said taxation. And in lieu thereof it shall be the duty of the said York and Cumberland Railroad Company to collect and pay into the State Treasury, in the manner aforesaid, a tax of ten cents on all passengesrs passing over the whole length of said railroad: Provided, Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to impair the right of taxation reserved by the charter.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

BENJAMIN MATTHIAS,
Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twelfth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

Corporators.

Style.

Privileges.

Annual meeting

No. 273.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Sons of Temperance Hall Association of Rawlinsville in Lancaster county, supplementary to an act incorporating the borough of Marietta, in Lancaster county, relative to the pay of certain judges in East Donegal township, to a title of a certain school house and lot of ground in Drumore township, relative to vacating part of an alley in the city of Lancaster, and for the relief of Jacob F. Herr.

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 John Rawlings, Hugh O'Nail, Mathias M'Comsey, Henry Hart, Benjamin Wilson, Samuel M'Elhaney, T. C. Kirkwood, Elias Hamilton, Tilghman Thompson, and Elias Ressler, or any seven of them and their successors, and all persons who are now or 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 Sons of Temperance Hall Association of Rawlinsville," in Lancaster county, 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 elsewhere, and shall be able and capable in law and equity to take and hold of them and their successors, either by gift, grant, devise, or lease, any lands or real estate for the use of the said association, and also to take and hold for the use of the said association any goods and chattels, sum and sums of money, by gift, grant, bargain and sale, will, devise, or bequest from any person or persons whatsoever capable of making the same, and the same at their pleasure to grant, bargain, and sell for the use of the said association, and generally to do and perform all and singular the matters and things which shall be lawful for them to do and perform 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 at any time be possessed, shall not exceed the clear yearly value of three thousand dollars: And provided also, That the certificates of stock and certificates of loan that may be issued by the persons and for the purposes herein before mentioned, shall be assumed by the said "The Sons of Temperance Hall Association of Rawlinsville," in Lancaster county, who shall pay the interest that may thereafter become due on the same, and redeem the same whenever they shall respectively become due and payable-the liability of the said association for the payment of the said interest and the redemption of the said certificates to be the same as if they had been issued by the said association in virtue of law: And provided also, That from and immediately after the purchase or gift of any lot or piece ground whereon the said hall or other buildings appertaining to the same may be erected, the title to the same shall be vested in the Sons of Temperance Hall Association of Rawlinsville, in Lancaster county, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as the same is held by the person herein before mentioned.

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SECTION 2. That the stockholders shall meet annually on the last of stockholders. Saturday in December of each year, and choose by ballot five trustees

who shall serve until their successors are elected; a majority of the whole number of votes polled shall constitute a choice. And in the event of a failure to elect any of the said trustees at any regular election or in case there shall be a vacancy or vacancies in the board of trustees growing out of any cause whatever, such action shall be taken as the said association shall by its by-laws provide at the first meeting of the trustees after their election in each year, they shall elect from their body a president, secretary, and treasurer, and such other officers as the business of the corporation may require: Provided, That the trustees and officers now managing the affairs of the said Sons of Temperance Hall Association shall continue as trustees and officers of the corporation hereby created till the regular election shall be held as before provided.

SECTION 3. That it shall and may be lawful for the said corporation to have a common seal, and the same at their will and pleasure to Seal. change, alter, and renew as they may think proper, and shall have and exercise all the rights, privileges, and immunities, necessary for the purposes of the corporation hereby constituted and as herein expressed. SECTION 4. That the government of the said association and the management and disposition of its affairs and property, shall be vested Trustees. in the said board of trustees.

SECTION 5. That the corporation shall have power and authority to By-laws. make by-laws conformable to this charter and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States or of this Commonwealth.

Reservation.

Elections in the

SECTION 6. That the Legislature hereby reserves the right to alter, revoke, or annul the charter of the said Sons of Temperance Hall Association of Rawlinsville, in Lancaster county, whenever in their opinion it may be injurious to the citizens of this Commonwealth, in such manner, however, that no injustice shall be done to the corporators thereof. SECTION 7. That all citizens of the borough of Marietta, in the county of Lancaster, entitled to vote for members of the general assem- borough of Mably, having resided in the borough one year, and paid borough tax rietta, relative within the year, shall on the stated day provided by law for the election to. of borough officers have power to elect one citizen of said borough as judge, two as inspectors, and two as clerks, to conduct the elections of said borough officers, and that they shall receive one dollar per day for their services in holding said elections; and that so much of the act to which this is a supplement as is inconsistent with this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

SECTION 8. That so much of the forty-sixth section of the "Act regu- East Donegal lating election districts in East Donegal township, in the county of township, LanLancaster," passed March seventh, A. D., one thousand eight hundred caster county, and forty-six, shall be so construed as to authorize the payment to the pay of judges judges of the tenth and seventeenth election districts for their services tions in. in attending at the village of Maytown, as provided in said section, the same compensation out of the county treasury as is now allowed by law to the judges of township elections for one day's service.

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SECTION 9. That the title to certain school house and lot of land in Title to a certhe township of Drumore and county of Lancaster, conveyed by Philip tain school Housekeeper and wife unto Robert Clark, his heirs and assigns, in trust house vested in nevertheless for the only proper use of Philip Housekeeper, William the school diRichie, Robert Shippen, and others, their heirs and assigns forever, to rectors of Drumore township, and for the use and purpose of building a school house on said lot or Lancaster piece of land, to be forever hereafter appropriated for the education of county. youth in the several branches of literature, and to be appropriated to no other use or uses, purpose or purposes whatever; the above lot or

piece of land described in the indenture (bearing date fifteenth October, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and recorded in the recorder's office of Lancaster county, in record book number eight, at page three hundred and thirty-seven), as follows: "A certain lot or piece of land containing twenty-two and a-half perches, adjoining the village of Chesnut Level, in the township of Drumore aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby vested in fee simple in the board of directors of common schools in Drumore township, Lancaster county, and their successors for ever, to be held by the said directors and their successors for the uses and purposes specified in this indenture, and with power to sell or dispose of the same: Provided however, That in case the said directors should hereafter dispose of said property, the proceeds arising therefrom shall be appropriated to the purpose of common schools.

Lancaster city, SECTION 10. That the fourteen-feet wide alley laid out and never relative to a cer- opened, extending from Charlotte street to another fourteen feet alley tain alley in. between Chestnut and Walnut streets, in the city of Lancaster, shall be, and the same is hereby vacated.

Preamble.

for relief of.

Whereas, Jacob F. Herr, who is engaged in the forwarding business on the Columbia and Philadelphia railroad, did, on the fifth day of November last, sustain serious loss of property by reason of the breaking of the rope at the inclined plane near Philadelphia;

And whereas, A committee was appointed by authority of the su perintendent of the road to appraise and assess the damages sustained by J. F. Herr, and reported the same at four hundred dollars; therefore,

SECTION 11. That the State Treasurer be, and he is hereby authorJacob F. Herr, ized and required to pay to Jacob F. Herr, of Lancaster county, or his legal representative, the sum of four hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

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APPROVED-The twelfth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 274.

AN ACT

To locate a street in Brookville, in Jefferson county, and to incorporate the Cochranville Hall Association of Chester county, dividing the township and borough of Chester, and relative to the mode of voting in Upper Chichester township, Delaware 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

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Edmond English, William Erdice, and Robert Means, of the borough C mmissioners.
of Brookville, Jefferson county, be, and they are hereby appointed com-
missioners to view and lay out a public street from Market street in
said borough (on the ground of the proposed street called White), thence
south by the best ground to intersect the Punxsatawney road south of
said borough.

SECTION 2. That it shall be the duty of the said board of commissioners, or a majority of them, after taking and subscribing an oath or affirmation before a proper officer to perform the duties enjoined upon them by this act with impartiality and fidelity, to carefully view the ground over which said street may pass, and lay out the same on the best ground to the width of fifty feet.

Duties.

Mark the

SECTION 3. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners plainly and distinctly to mark the ground agreed upon for the said street in ground. such a manner as to enable the street commissioners readily to find the same. Said commissioners respectively shall receive a per diem allowance not exceeding one dollar each for every day necessarily expended Pay of commisin the duties enjoined by this act, to be paid in manner and form as hereinafter directed.

sioners.

SECTION 4. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners to make
out a fair and accurate draft of the location of said street respectively, Draft.
noting thereon the courses and distances as they occur, also the crossing
of Red Bank creek, with such other matters as may serve for explana-
tion, one copy whereof shall be deposited in the office of the clerk of
the court of the said county on or before the first day of September
next, or as much sooner as practicable, which shall be a record thereof,
and from thenceforth the said street shall be to all intents and purposes
a public highway, and shall be opened to the breadth of fifty feet, and
repaired in all respects as the other streets of the said borough.

SECTION 5. That the accounts of said commissioners for their pay
shall be made out and returned to the town council of said borough ac-
cording to the time spent in locating said street, and that they be paid
out of the borough treasury on warrants drawn the usual way.

SECTION 6. That the said commissioners shall meet on or before the first Monday of July next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and complete the view of said street, and if any vacancy occur the Court of Quarter Sessions of the county shall supply by the appointment of suitable persons who shall do and perform said duty.

Accounts.

Meeting of commissioners.

SECTION 7. That Henry Burt, William Welch, R. L. M'Clellan, John Gilfillan, H. A. Hesson, George Dale, Joseph Gilmor, John Hen- Corporators. niss, David Bicking, James Reese, A. J. Gibson, John R. Doan, John B. Snead, Alfred Hamilton, William Fahnestock, and Jacob Gillbough, and their successors, and all persons who now are or 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 Cochranville Hall Association," and by that name Style. shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity or elsewhere, and shall be able and capable in law and in equity to take and hold to them and Privileges. their successors, either by grant, gift, devise, lease, or otherwise, 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, bequest, or otherwise, from any person or persons whatsoever capable of making the same, and the same at their pleasure to grant, bargain, and sell for the use of said association, and generally to do all and singular the

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