be injurious to the citizens of this Commonwealth, in such manner, however, that no injustice shall be done to the corporators. APPROVED-The eleventh day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 291. AN ACT To incorporate the Union Beneficial Society of Oxford, in the county of Adams. 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 Charles Will, Daniel Fink, Joe J. Smith, Matthias Martin, John L. Corporators. Noel, David Fink, Henry Colhour, Alexious Robinson, Edward Colgan, John Filler, Jocob Martin, George Filler, Samuel Hilt, Philip Hemler, Josiah Miller, Peter N. Werrick, Lewis Long, John Sneeringer, Jacob Adams, Charles Timmons, Aloysias Marshall, John McSherry, George W. Lilly, Thomas Timmons, Matthias Hemler, George Shane, Andrew Smith, and their successors, and all such other persons being citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as shall hereafter be admitted or become members of the association, are hereby incorporated and made a body politic in law and in deed, by the name, style, and title, of "The Union Beneficial Society," and by the same Style. name they and their successors shall forever hereafter be able and capable in law to have, hold, receive, and enjoy lands, tenements, rents, franchises, gifts, and bequests, of what nature soever, in fee simple or for term of life, years, and otherwise, and also to give, grant, let, sell, alien, or assign the same, according to the nature of the respective gifts, grants, or bequests made to them, the said society, and of their estates therein, to be employed and disposed of according to the objects, articles, and conditions hereafter to be adopted by the society hereby incorporated: Provided, That the amount of the clear yearly value or income of such real estate and the interest of money by them lent, do not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars. Privileges. SECTION 2. That the said society shall be forever hereafter able and Further privicapable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all law leges. causes, and things, and to obtain and sustain all legal judgments, exe cutions, and decrees incidental to the same, and enjoy all such privi Seal. Officers. Property vested in said society. Reservation. leges, rights, powers, and franchises as other corporations of the same kind in this Commonwealth enjoy. SECTION 3. That the said society shall have power to use a common seal, and the same to change, alter, or amend at pleasure. SECTION 4. For the well-governing of the said society, and ordering and managing their affairs, they shall choose from among themselves, in such manner as shall be determined upon in their fundamental articles and regulations, a president, vice president, treasurer, and door keeper, and such other officers and committees as they may deem necessary or useful, and shall have power and authority to order special and stated meetings of the said society, to do and transact all business and matters appertaining thereto, agreeably to such rules, ordinances, and regulations and by-laws, as a majority of the society shall judge necessary or convenient, and shall from time to time establish and make and put into execution such by-laws, rules, and regulations as may be passed from time to time by the society aforesaid, or the same to revoke, annul, alter, or amend at pleasure: Provided, That the said rules, regulations, or ordinances and by-laws relate only to the charitable purposes before mentioned, and be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of the United States or of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, nor repugnant to any of the provisions of this act. SECTION 5. All and singular the estate whatsoever now belonging to the said society and held by any person whatsoever for the use of said society, shall be and the same is hereby transferred and vested in the said society and their successors for the purpose before mentioned: Provided always, That the clear yearly value or income of the messuages, houses, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, or other hereditaments and real estate of the corporation, and the interest and money lent shall not exceed five thousand dollars as aforesaid. SECTION 6. The Legislature hereby reserves the the power to alter, revoke, or annul this charter whenever it deems proper, in such manner, however, that no injustice be done to the incorporators. APPROVED-The eleventh day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 292. AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Marshall Savings Association of the city and county of Philadelphia," approved the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and relative to the estates of Sarah Knorr and Thomas Reeves, and in reference to deeds and the collectors of corporation taxes in the district of the Northern Liberties, in the county of Philadelphia. ation of Phila 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 name and style of the Marshall Savings Association, of Philadel- Marshall phia, is hereby changed to the Marshall Savings Institution of Phila- Savings Associdelphia, and they shall henceforth be known and called by the name, delphia, name style, and title, of the "Marshall Savings Institution of Philadelphia," changed. and by that name shall be able and capable in law to exercise, do, and perform all the rights, powers, privileges, and immunities guaranteed, and the same are hereby extended to them as they are fully set forth and contained in an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Marshall Savings Association, of the city and county of Philadelphia," approved the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and all acts heretofore done under the provisions of said act of incorporation, under the name and style of the Marshall Savings Institution, of Philadelphia, be, and the same are hereby confirmed and made as good and valid in law as though the corporate name had originally been the Marshall Savings Institution, of Philadelphia. SECTION 2. That a majority of shareholders of said institution pre- May dispose of sent at any annual or special meeting called for the purpose, may dis- shares. pose of the shares of said institution for such price, in such manner, and for such consideration as they may direct and determine: Pro vided, That no share shall be sold at less than its par value. WHEREAS, Peter Beck and wife, did by deed dated the twenty-fifth Preamble. day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, duly recorded in the office for recording deeds for the city and county of Philadelphia, in deed book A. W. M., number thirty-one, page two hundred and thirtyseven, et cetera, grant and convey unto Mathew Thompson, of the county of Philadelphia, in fee, a certain lot of ground situate on the south side of Buttonwood street, at the distance of two hundred and thirty-four feet ten inches eastward from Eleventh street, in the District of Spring Garden and county of Philadelphia, containing in front or breadth on said Buttonwood street twenty feet, and extending in depth southward between parallel lines at right angles with said Buttonwood street, one hundred and fifty-nine feet eleven inches and fiveeighths of an inch to Pleasant street, together with the buildings thereon erected, in trust nevertheless for the sole and separate use of Sarah Knorr, wife of George Knorr, of the county of Philadelphia, victualler, for and during all the time of her natural life, and from and after her decease then in trust to convey the same in fee simple to the child or children of said George Knorr and Sarah Knorr; Trustee of Sarah ized to sell cer And whereas, The said deed of trust conveys or contains no power to said trustee or any person to sell or mortgage said property, or to alter or annul any of the trusts therein contained, and it is for the interest and is the desire of all parties concerned that said premises should be sold either in whole or in part; therefore, SECTION 3. That the said Mathew Thompson, trustee as aforesaid of the said Sarah Knorr, be, and he is hereby authorized with the consent of said Sarah Knorr, under and by her signing the deed, tain real estate. to sell in such manner as he may deem best, all or any part of said lot of ground and premises, so held by him in trust as afore said, and to execute, acknowledge, and deliver a good and sufficient deed or deeds of conveyance therefor to the purchaser or purchasers thereof in fee simple, or on ground rent altogether freed and discharged from the said trust, and from any obligation on the part of the purchaser or purchasers to see to the application of the purchase money: Provided, Said trustee shall give good and sufficient security, to be approved by the Orphans' Court in the city and county of Philadelphia, for the faithful application of the purchase money: And provided also, That said trustee may convey said estate to Sarah Knorr in discharge of his trust and surety hereby required to be given at his option. Preamble. Daughters of ized to convey certain real estate. Whereas, Thomas Reeves, junior, late of Philadelphia, devised the shares of his daughters for their sole and separate use, and appointed no trustee for them, and the executor Eli K. Price conveyed to them their shares in like manner for their sole and separate use, some parts of which are vacated and unproductive. SECTION 4. That the said daughters whether married or single be authorized to convey all their real estate devised to them as aforesaid Reeves, jr., de- in fee simple to the purchasers thereof, with or without the reservation ceased, author of ground rents, without obligation on the part of the purchasers to see to the application of the purchase money or moneys for the extinguishment of the ground rents which said daughters are authorized to release and extinguish: Provided, That such of said daughters as are married shall first have a trustee appointed by the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Philadelphia, to unite with them in such conveyance under the act of twenty-fifth of April, eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled "An Act relating to bail of executrixes, &c." Deeds, relative to the recording of. Pennsylvania SECTION 5. That all deeds heretofore duly made, and on motion in open court entered among the records thereof in conformity with the act of sixteenth January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An Act to facilitate the barring of entails," although not recorded within six months next after the execution thereof in the office for recording deeds, shall be equally available and valid within the intent of said act: Provided, That the same shall have heretofore been recorded in such office. SECTION 6. That the eleventh section of an act entitled "An Act Railroad Com- to incorporate the Southern Gas Company, and relative to the appraisers pany, repeal of of tavern licenses in the city and county of Philadelphia," approved the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, be, and the same is hereby repealed. certain act con cerning. ties, Philadelphia county, relative to tax collectors in. SECTION 7. That the board of commissioners of the district of the Northern Liber- Northern Liberties, in the county of Philadelphia, shall hereafter take from each and every collector of tax appointed by said commissioners a bond and warrant of attorney to confess judgment thereon with at least one sufficient surety in the amount of the duplicate delivered to such collector, conditioned for the payment of the amount of said duplicate in such portions and at such time or times as the said board of commissioners may direct, and so much of the twenty-sixth section of an act entitled "An Act to incorporate that part of the township of the Northern Liberties lying between the middle of Sixth street and the river Delaware, and between Vine street and Cohocksink creek," approved the sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, be, and the same is hereby repealed. APPROVED-The tenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 293. AN ACT To incorporate the Sherman's Valley Plank Road Company, and relative to roads in Wheatfield township, Perry county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- a company by the name and style of "The Sherman's Valley Plank Style. county, with all the authorities and subject to all the provisions and Subject to pro- |