section of cer No. 297. AN ACT Construing the fifth section of the act entitled "A further supplement to an act to incorporate the Pennsylvania Railroad Company," and relative to the obstruction of private roads by railroad companies, relative to holding elections in Sparta township, Crawford county, and the borough of Loretto, Cambria county, authorizing John McDill to sell certain real estate, to a volunteer company called the Broad Top Rifle Rangers, to the borough of Ebensburg, Cambria county, to supervisors in Lancaster and Jefferson counties, changing the name of the Northumberland and Point Infantry, a volunteer company, to the Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Company, to an election district in Clearfield county, and to the Conococheague creek in Franklin county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly Construing fifth met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the fifth section of the act entitled "A further supplement to an act to tain act relative incorporate the Pennsylvania Railroad Company," passed the twenty. to the Pennsyl- eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, shall vania railroad. be so construed as to include the streets, lanes, and alleys, in any town, borough or city through which said road passes. Relative to the SECTION 2. That any chartered railroad company in this Common. obstruction of wealth obstructing or impeding the free use or passage of any private private roads by road or crossing place, by standing burthen cars or engines, or placing railroad compa- other obstructions on any railroad wherever any private road or crossing nies. Elections in Sparta township, Crawford county. John McDill, of Crawford place may be necessary to enable the occupant or occupants of land or farms to pass over any railroad with horses, cows, hogs, sheep, carts, wagons, and implements of husbandry, shall for every such offence, after any agent or other person in the employment of any railroad company shall have received at least fifteen minutes' verbal notice to remove burthen cars, engines, or other obstructions from any private road or crossing place that may pass over any railroad, be liable for a penalty of thirty dollars, which shall be for the use of the person or persons aggrieved, and which shall be recovered before any justice of the peace in the same manner that debts not exceeding one hundred dollars are by law recoverable. And in all suits or actions that may be brought against any railroad company for the recovery of said penalty of thirty dollars, the service of legal process on any agent or other person in the employment of any railroad company shall be as good and available in law as if made on the president thereof. SECTION 3. That the citizens of Sparta township, Crawford county, are hereby authorized and required hereafter to hold their annual elections for township officers on the second Tuesday of February. SECTION 4. That John McDill, of Crawford county, be, and he is hereby authorized to sell and convey at public or private sale, all the county, author- right, title, interest, and estate of his three minor children, to and in ized to sell cer- a certain tract of land situate in Jackson township, Venanago county, tain real estate. being number one thousand two hundred and fifty-eight (1,258) in the sixth district donation lands, and containing about two hundred acres, and to make a sufficient deed or deeds to the purchaser or purchasers thereof: Provided, That the said John McDill shall first file in the office of the clerk of the Orphans' Court of Venango county, a bond with sureties to be approved by said court, conditioned for the faithful appropriation of said purchase money under the direction of said court: And provided also, That said court shall approve of such sales. election district. SECTION 5. That the borough of Loretta, in the county of Cambria, Borough of be, and the same is hereby erected into a separate election district, and Loretta erected the qualified electors thereof shall hold their general and borough elec- into a separate tions at the school house in said borough; and Augustine Little is hereby appointed judge, and Henry Scanlan and Augustine Walters inspectors, to hold the elections in said borough until others are elected for that purpose, and that any provision in the charter of said borough inconsistent with this act is, and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 6. That the volunteer company known as the Broad Top Broad Top Rifle Rifle Rangers residing partly in Bedford and partly in Huntingdon Rangers, relacounty, be, and the same is hereby detached from the Huntingdon bat- tive to. talion and attached to the battalion in Bedford county, and that said company with those in the county to which it is attached, be, and it is hereby authorized to elect general battalion and company officers. SECTION 7. That the burgess and town council of the borough of Powers of the Ebensburg, in the county of Cambria, shall have powers by ordinance burgess and to determine the width of the side-walks or foot-walks of the streets, town council of the borough of lanes, and alleys within the limits of the said borough, and to require Ebensburg. and direct the paving and curbing thereof by the owner or owners of lots fronting thereon; and on the failure or neglect of any person or persons owning lots as aforesaid to pave and curb the side or foot-walks in front of his or their lot or lots agreeably to the requisition of such ordinance, the street commissioner of the said borough shall cause the same to be paved and curbed at the expense of the said borough, and the owner or owners of the said lot or lots shall be liable to repay the expenses thereof to the said borough; and it shall be lawful for the said burgess and town council to file their lien for the same in the Court of Common Pleas of Cambria county, which shall have priority to any mortgage, judgment, recognizance, or liability to which the said lot or lots may become liable after the passage of this act, and the amount secured thereby may be recovered by scire facias as debts are recoverable under the mechanics' lien law in the corporate name of said borough: Provided, That such lien shall be filed within thirty days after such expense is incurred by the said borough, and recite the name of the owner or reputed owner and the occupier or occupiers of such lots. SECTION 8. That the taxable citizens of the borough of Ebensburg, Place of holding in the county of Cambria, shall hold their Spring elections at the court elections in the house in said borough on the third Friday in March in each and every borough of year hereafter; and said elections shall be governed by the general elec- Ebensburg. tion laws of this Commonwealth. And so much of the second section of the act incorporating said borough, passed January fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, inconsistent with this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 9. That from and after the passage of this act, the bonds Relative to required to be given by the supervisors of Lancaster county, in pursu- bonds of superance of an act entitled "An Act requiring the supervisors of Lancaster visors in Lancounty to give bail," approved the twenty-fifth March, eighteen hun- caster county. dred and forty-eight, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Lancaster county; and that so much of said act as requires said bonds to be filed in the office of the prothonotary of Lancaster county, be, and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 10. That the first section of the act approved the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, directing ship, Jefferson the supervisors of Barnett township, in Jefferson county, to pay to the county. Supervisors in Suits or actions against said holder the due bills given by John Knox, supervisor for the opening of a public road laid out by order of the court, and opened in eighteen hundred and forty-two by John Knox, supervisor in that fractional part of Ridgway township remaining in the county of Jefferson, viz., commencing at the Spring creek road at Callen's run, and ending at the Shippensville and Ridgway State road at Turner's Falls, in the Clarion river, is hereby repealed. SECTION 11. That all suits or actions at law now commenced and pending, or hereafter may or shall be commenced in any of the courts township, rela- of Jefferson county, or any other county of the Commonwealth, against the township of Barnett upon the due bills so given or signed by the said John Knox, as supervisor for the opening of the road here described in the above section, shall abate and be fully ended. tive to. Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Com SECTION 12. That from and after the passage of this act, the Northumberland and Point Infantry, a volunteer company in the county of Northumberland, shall be known and called by the name and style of the "Cadwallader Infantry:" Provided, That all acts done under the former name of the Northumberland and Point Infantry shall not be affected in any manner by the passage of this act; and the said corps shall enjoy all the advantages in point of date or age, and all other immunities and privileges attaching to said company under its former organization, as if this act had not been passed. SECTION 13. That the Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Company are hereby pany authorized authorized to borrow on a mortgage of their real estate and works any sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, and to use any portion of the stock created by their charter in the construction of their works. to borrow money. Pike township, ty, place of hold county, relative to. SECTION 14. That the qualified voters of Pike township, Clearfield Clearfield coun- county, shall hereafter hold their general and Spring elections at the ing elections in. public house now occupied by William Mason, in said township. SECTION 15. That from and after the first day of August next, if Conococheaque any person or persons in the county of Franklin shall cast, throw, or creek, Franklin put into the West Conococheague creek in said county, any tan or other impurities, he or they on being convicted thereof shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of twenty-dollars, to be sued for and recovered with costs of suits before any justice of the peace in the name of the Commonwealth, at the instance of any person who will sue therefor, as debts of like amount are now recoverable by law; one-half of said fine or penalty shall be paid to the person or persons sueing for the same, and the other half to the treasurer of the school district in which the offence has been committed, for the use of the common schools of such district: Provided however, That no person or persons shall be prosecuted or convicted for an offence against this act, unless such prosecution shall be commenced within six months after such offence shall be committed. APPROVED-The twelfth day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 298. AN ACT To incorporate the New Alexandria Female Seminary, relative to the election of supervisors in Franklin township, Greene county, and the Pennsylvania Fire Company. 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 there shall be, and is hereby established in or near the borough of New Incorporate. Alexandria, in the county of Westmoreland, a seminary or public school for the education of females, by the name, style, or title, of "The New Alexandria Female Seminary," all religious instructions in which shall be Calvinistic and Presbyterian in their character. Board of trus tees. SECTION 2. Said seminary shall be under the direction, management, and government of a board of trustees, not exceeding nine in number, six of whom shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, which said trustees and their successors shall be, and they are hereby erected, established, and declared to be a body politic and corporate with perpetual succession, and with all incidents of a corporation in deed and in law, to all intents and purposes whatever, by the name, style, and title, of "The trustees of the New Alexandria Female Seminary," by Style. which name and title the said trustees and their successors shall be able in law and equity to take to themselves and their successors, for the use of said seminary, any estate, messuages, lands, tenements, heredita- Privileges. ments, goods, chattels, moneys, or other effects, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, will, devise, or bequest of any person or persons whatsoever, and the same messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, estates, moneys, real or personal, to grant, bargain, sell, convey, assure, devise, and to farm, let, or otherwise dispose of or invest in such manner as to them or a quorum of them shall seem most beneficial to the institution, and to receive the rents, issues, profits, and income and interest of the same for the use of the said seminary; and by the same name to sue, prosecute, and defend, implead and be impleaded, in any courts of law or equity, and in all manner of suits and actions whatsoever, and generally by and in the same name to do and transact all and every business touching or concerning the premises, or which shall be incidentally necessary thereto, as fully and effectually as any natural person has power to manage his own concerns. SECTION 3. The said trustees shall cause to be made for their use one Seal. common seal, with such devices and inscriptions thereon as they may think proper; by and with which seal all deeds, certificates, and acts of said corporation shall be authenticated, and the same seal the said trustees may at their pleasure break and alter, and also if they think proper devise a new one. SECTION 4. That John Mourer, John Snodgrass, Dr. William R. Trustees. Speer, James Stewart, Henry M'Bride, James Shields, sen., Samuel Patterson, William Taylor, and James Shaw, are appointed trustees of said corporation, which said trustees, or any six of them, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and shall have power to fill Powers. Subscription. Certificates of stock. any and all vacancies which may occur in their body until the second Monday in May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, at which time the stockholders of said seminary shall elect by ballot by a majority of the votes present, to be given in person or by proxy duly authorized, nine trustees, one-third of whom to continue in office till the last Thursday in September, one thousand eight hundered and fifty-two, one-third till the same day, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and the remaining third till the same day, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four; and on each of the fore-mentioned days, and on the same day annually thereafter, three persons shall be elected in the manner afore said to fill the places of those whose term of office shall then expire, and to continue in office three years or till others be elected the said trustees out of their own number one person to act president and one person to act as secretary and treasurer: Provided, That no person shall have more than one vote for every two shares of stock until his subscription shall amount to ten shares or one hundred dollars, after which he shall have one additional vote for every three additional shares, till his subscription amounts to twenty shares or two hundred dollars, after which five additional shares shall give but one additional vote: And provided, That such elections may be held at the place and conducted according to the rules that may be prescribed by the by-laws and ordinances of said seminary. SECTION 5. That the said trustees herein are hereby authorized to open books on or before the first Monday in April next, and enter therein as follows: "We whose names are hereunto subscribed do promise to pay to the trustees of the New Alexandria Female Seminary the sum of ten dollars for each share of stock set opposite our names, in such manner and proportions, and at such time or times as shall be required by said trustees; the whole of said stock by each of us subscribed to be paid within one year from the time of subscribing the same;" and shall thereupon proceed to receive subscriptions for the stock of the said corporation not exceeding in the whole the sum of seven thousand dollars divided into shares of ten dollars each, at such times and places as they may deem advisable; and it shall be lawful for any person or body politic or corporate to subscribe for as many shares as he or she or they may think proper, he, she, or they paying at the time of subscription to the attending trustees two dollars on every share of stock so subscribed. a SECTION 6. The said trustees shall procure written or printed certificates, and deliver to each stockholder à certificate signed by the presi dent of the board of trustees, countersigned by the secretary, and sealed with the seal of the said corporation, for the share or shares of stock by him, her, or them held or subscribed, upon payment to the treasurer of the full sum due thereon, and such certificates of stock shall be Transferable. transferable at pleasure in person or by attorney, in the presence of the president or treasurer; and the assignee holding any certificate first having caused the assignment to be entered in the book to be kept for that purpose by the said trustees, shall be deemed a member of the corporation, and entitled to all the rights and privileges of an original subscriber to said stock. By-laws. Buildings. SECTION 7. That the said trustees shall have power to enact such ordinances and by-laws not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth as may be necessary and proper for the government of said seminary. SECTION 8. That as soon as a sufficient amount of stock shall be subscribed and paid in, the trustees herein named, or their successors, shall erect or cause to be erected in a substantial and workmanlike |