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manner, such building or buildings of brick, stone, or other materials, as they mny deem necessary and proper, to be located by them in some suitable and convenient place in or near the village of New Alexandria : Provided, That in selecting the site of such building or buildings, the said trustees shall be governed by the votes of the stockholders. SECTION 9. That it shall be lawful for the Court of Quarter Sessions of Greene county to appoint two additional supervisors for the township, Greene ship of Franklin, in said county, who shall hold their office and per- county, addiform the various duties of supervisors until the next annual Spring tional supervi election, at which time, and annually thereafter, it shall be lawful for sors for. the qualified citizens of said township to elect four supervisors instead

of two, as is now allowed by law.

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SECTION 10. That so much of the third article of the second section Pennsylvania of an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Pennsylvania Fire Fire Company, Company and the Diligent Fire Engine Company, of Philadelphia," relative to. approved April first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, as provides that ten members shall constitute a quorum, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and that hereafter five members shall constitute a

quorum.

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.

No. 299.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Manheim and Lebanon Plank and Turnpike Road 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 John Sheaffer, John H. Bassler, Jacob E. Cross, David B. Hostetter, John Hostetter, Henry Arndt, Benjamin M. Stauffer, Samuel Ensmin- Commissioners. ger, Daniel Brandt, A. Bates Grubb, Robert Moderwell, Henry Imhoff, J. H. Kurtz, Emanuel Shober, Hiram B. Swarr, William Gleim, Clement B. Grubb, David Longenecker, G. W. Hamersly, John F. Long, Benjamin C. Bachman, Henry G. Long, Abraham Hauffman, Elias Becker, and Benjamin Mishler, of Lancaster county, Robert Evans, Peter Horst, Peter Bachman, Charles B. Forney, David S. Hammond, David M. Carmany, Cyrus Shirk, Robert Coleman, Robert W. Coleman, Levi Kline, John Weidman, George Hoffman, and Jonathan S. Beckly, of Lebanon county, or any three of them, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions,

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and organize a company by the name, style, and title, of "The Manheim and Lebanon Plank and Turnpike Road Company," with power to construct a road part plank and part turnpike, or all plank or turnpike from the north end of Prussia street, in the borough of Manheim, Lancaster county, thence by the nearest and best route to the borough of Lebanon, Lebanon county, subject to all the provisions and restrieSubject to pro- tions and with all the powers and privileges contained in "An Act regulating turnpike and plank road companies," approved the twenty-sixth day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fortynine, and the supplements thereto: Provided, That the said company shall have the right to make use of the whole or any part of a publie road between the points specified, and locate their road upon the ground now occupied by such road; and it shall be lawful for the Courts of Quarter Sessions of Lancaster and Lebanon counties to appoint viewers and vacate such parts of public roads as shall be used or rendered useless by the said company as is provided by the general road laws of this Commonwealth in the cases of roads which have become useless.

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SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of twelve hundred shares, of twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That the said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion may be deemed necessary to complete the road and carry out the true intent and meaning of this act.

SECTION 3. That if said company shall not commence their road ment and com- within three years from the passage of this act, and complete the same pletion of road. within ten years thereafter, this act shall be null and void, except so far as the same may be necessary to close up the affairs and the debts of the company.

JOHN CESSNA,

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

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 300.

AN ACT

To authorize the Governor to incorporate the Wellsburg Plank Road Company, authorizing Rebecca Corbin to sell certain real estate, and for the relief of John Hanson.

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 Commissioners. Guy Tracy, John F. Smith, S. Squires, H. Owens, A. Brace, C. H. Campbell, Isaac Cooley, of Bradford county, and R. C. Lockwood, and

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ad Smith, of Chemung county, State of New York, or any five of them, , and are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subriptions, and oganize a company by the name, style, and title of the Wellsburgh Plank Road Company," with power to construct a plank Style. ad from the New York State line in Ridgeberry township, Bradford ›unty, near Wellsburg, at the residence of John S. Brewer, and taking le most feasible route to be determined upon by the board of managers directors of said company to Springfield, terminating at the county ad near the residence of Aaron Thomas, in said county of Bradford, ith the privilege of extending and constructing a branch of the said lank road to the Sugar creek at Burlington Corners in the township f Burlington, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act Subject to prontitled An Act regulating turnpike and plank road companies," visions of cerassed the twenty-sixth day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand tain act. ight hundred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of wo hundred shares of fifty dollars each, and that the aforesaid company nay increase said capital stock according to the aforesaid general act and the several supplements thereto.

SECTION 3. That it shall be lawful for said company to locate their road on any public highway: Provided, The consent of the road commissioners of the townships through which said road may pass shall be first obtained.

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SECTION 4. That if said company shall not commence said plank road within three years, and shall not complete it within four years and completion thereafter, according to the meaning of this act, or if after completed of road. said company shall suffer the same to go to decay and be impassable for the term of two years, then this charter shall become null and void, except so far as may be necessary to settle and close up its affairs.

SECTION 5. That Rebecca Corbin, widow and administratrix of Rebecca Corbin Charles Corbin, deceased, late of Warren township, Bradford county, authorized to be, and she is hereby authorized to sell and convey a certain lot of land sell certain real situated in said township, and which said Rebecca Corbin by agreement estate. contracted to sell to Daniel Pitcher, and to make and execute a good and sufficient conveyance by deed therefore: Provided, Before the said conveyance is made the said Rebecca Corbin give security to the Orphans' Court of said county for the faithful appropriation of the proceeds of said sale, and that said court approve the same.

SECTION 6. That the Canal Commissioners be, and are hereby re- John Hanson, quired to examine the claims of John Hanson, for work done on the relative to claim Tunkhannock division of the North Branch canal, and ascertain and of.

report to the Legislature what amount (if any) due said claimant under

the terms of his contract.

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.

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No. 301.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Sons of Temperance Hall Association of Doylestown, in the county of Bucks, and to erect the Point Pleasant school district in said county, and relative to the claim of Henry Fogle, of Dauphin county.

WHEREAS, Certain citizens of this Commonwealth hereinafter named have associated together for the purpose of erecting a Sons of Temperance Hall in the borough of Doylestown, in the county Bucks, and have with certain moneys belonging to them as menbers of the Oliver Branch Division of the Sons of Temperance, and contracts on credit with lumber merchants and mechanics, purchased a certain lot or piece of ground situate on the north side of State street near Broad street, in the said borough of Doylestown, and erected up the same a hall with apartments for the use and accommodation of the division of the Sons of Temperance, and other benevolent and religious societies; 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 Jonathan M'Intosh, John Lewzler, Jesse Reeder, Joseph Harvey, Les Corporators. ter Rich, F. P. Sellers, Benjamin S. Mann, John G. Mann, John M'Intosh, Benjamin Snodgrass, Wm. Cox, Joseph Mosier, Indepen dence Mosier, Samuel Mosier, David C. Robinson Edward S. Rapp, John Hayes, Wm. C. Eby, Samuel Hall, Thomas J. Fritzinger, Robert Winder, Hiel Gilbert, David Booz, Thomas J. Robinson, David K. Lewis, Zachariah Leidy, Joseph Johnson, Paul Brunner, Hervey Mathias, Esq., Josiah S. Moore, Rev. Samuel Nightingale, H. E. Eisenbrey, Wm. Bryan, Mahlon M. Heaton, John Walton, Augustus Swain, John Hoff, John Klein, Wm. M'Inall, John M. Potts, Samuel Herbison, George I. Rice, George Fisher, Wm. C. Dawson, and Jonas Fly, and their successors, and all persons who are now or may be hereafter associated with them, 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 the borough of Doylestown," 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 and elsewhere; and shall be able and capable in law and equity to take and hold to them and their successors, either by gift, grant, devise, or lease, any lands or real estate for the use of the said association, any goods and chattels, sum or sums of moneys 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 pos sessed, shall not exceed the clear yearly value of three thousand dol lars: And provided also: That the debts already contracted by the

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ersons, and for the purposes herein before mentioned, shall be assumed y the said "The Sons of Temperance Hall Association of the borough of Joylestown," who shall pay the interest now due or that may hereafter ecome due on the same, and redeem or pay off the same whenever they hall respectively become due and payable, the liability of the said asociation for the payment of the said debt to be the same as if they ad been contracted by the said association in virtue of law: And rovided also, That from and immediately after the passage of this ct, the title to the said lot or piece of land and the hall thereon rected shall be vested in "The Sons of Temperance Hall Association f the borough of Doylestown," as fully, to all intents and purposes, as he same is held by the persons herein before mentioned or any of hem.

SECTION 2. That said association (to enable them to pay off the debts Anthorized to lready contracted, and to finish the basement of the said hall) shall borrow money. lave power and authority to borrow on the credit of the association any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole nine hundred dollars, and to secure the re-payment of the same with its interest by mortgage on the real estate belonging to the association or otherwise.

SECTION 3. The stockholders shall meet annually on the last Thursday in March, and choose by ballot five trustees, any three of whom Annual meetshall form a quorum, who shall serve until their successors are elected; holders. ing of stockA 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 trustces 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 corporation 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.

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SECTION 5. That the government of the said association, and the management and disposition of its affairs and property, shall be vested affairs. in the said board of trustees.

SECTION 6. 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.

SECTION 7. That the Legislature hereby reserves the right to alter, Reservation. revoke, or annul the charter of the said "The Sons of Temperance Hall Association, of the borough of Doylestown," 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 8. That the village of Point Pleasant and its vicinity, in

the townships of Tinicum and Plumstead, in the county of Bucks, is Point Pleasant, hereby erected into a separate school district to be called Point Pleas- Bucks county, ant School District, and as such shall have power to elect all such offi- erected into a cers, and have all the rights and privileges granted by law to other district. school districts; and the elections thereof shall be held at the School House in the said village on the fourth Saturday in April in each year

separate school