Girard Avenue Schuylkill Bridge Company, name changed.

Meeting of stockholders.

Votes.

Power to enter

Damages.

shall fill such vacancy or vacancies by the appointment of suitable persons who shall perform said duties.

SECTION 19. That the style and title of the corporation heretofore known and called "The President and Managers and Company of the Girard Avenue Schuylkill Bridge Company," shall be, and the same is hereby changed to "The Girard Avenue Bridge Company."

SECTION 20. That after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the president of the said company to call a meeting of the stockholders, at such time and place as the board of managers may appoint, for the purpose of electing five additional managers, and for the transaction of such other business as may be brought before them, of which meeting notice shall be given by advertisements twice a-week for two weeks in two newspapers published in the city of Philadelphia. And the said managers shall be voted for and chosen at such meeting in the same way and manner as the present officers were chosen, and shall along with them serve until their successors are lawfully chosen, as provided in the act to which this is a supplement. And the board of managers shall hereafter consist of one president, one treasurer, and eleven managers, who shall have the management and direction of the said company as provided in the act to which this is a supplement. And if at any time a vacancy shall occur in the said board, it shall be the duty of the said board to elect a person to fill such vacancy, who shall serve for the unexpired term of the person to fill whose place he may have been chosen.

SECTION 21. That no person shall be entitled to vote at any election for officers of said company who has not paid up all the instalments called for by the board of managers, and then due on the shares of stock by him or her subscribed or held; and the books of the said company for the transfer of the capital stock thereof shall be closed for twenty days prior to the annual meetings of the stockholders.

SECTION 22. That the said company, their agents, officers, and workupon lands, &c. men, shall and may have the right and privilege of entering upon and examining the lands on both sides of the Schuylkill, at or near the foot of Girard avenue and opposite thereto, for the purpose of ascertaining and deciding upon the most suitable site for the bridge proposed to be constructed by the said company; and shall have the right, power, and privilege which are hereby granted to them, of taking, using, and occupying so much of the land on both sides of the said river and in the bed thereof, at or near the foot of Girard avenue and opposite thereto, as may be necessary for the due construction of the piers, wings, abutments, and structure of the said bridge, and the access and entrance thereto from the nearest public street or highway. And for the damage, if any, thereby done to the owners of the land used, taken, or occupied as aforesaid, the said company shall make compensation to such owners; and if the amount of such compensation cannot be adjusted and ascertained by the parties, then six disinterested men to be mutually chosen by the parties or to be appointed by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia county, if they cannot agree, shall view the premises and assess and estimate such damage to be sustained by all the parties claiming the same, and make report thereof to the said court in writing, to be filed of record therein, which report if not appealed from within twenty days after the filing thereof, shall be binding and conclusive upon all the parties interested, who shall not appeal. And if any parties shall conceive themselves aggrieved by said report or award, they shall on the payment of all costs accrued up to the time of taking such appeal, be entitled to an appeal and a trial in the said court by a jury who shall view the premises to ascertain the said damages; and in estimating

the said damages, the appraisers or jury, as the case may be, shall take into consideration the advantages, if any, to be derived by any such owners from the erection of such bridge.

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

hundred and fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON

No. $26.

AN ACT

Erecting certain school districts in the counties of Westmoreland and Schuylkili, to incorporate the Meyer's Mills Plank Road Company, and for the relief of William Keller, of Bedford county.

Westmoreland

county, erected.

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 all that part of Donegal township, in the county of Westmoreland, Jones' Mill known as Barclay's and Mathew's sub-school district, lying within the school district, following bounds, to wit: Beginning at Jacob Hess' at the county line, thence along county line road to Robert Furgason, thence to John M'Lean's on Laurel Hill, thence to Adam Snider's, thence to John Ackerman's, thence to Frederick Ullery's, thence to Cramfort, thence to Richard Ross', thence to Jones' on Walnut Hill, and thence to the place of beginning, including all aforesaid persons, be, and the same is hereby erected into a separate and independent school district, to be called "Jones' Mill District."

SECTION 2. That the same be entitled to all the rights and privileges, Privileges. and subject to all the restrictions contained in the school laws of this Commonwealth.

SECTION 3. That the qualified voters of said district so erected be Election of entitled to elect six persons to act as school directors of said district on school directors. the second Tuesday in April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and every year thereafter, and that Jacob Barclay, John Ackerman, John Snider, Robert Singer, Samuel Jones, and John Fluck, be, and they are hereby appointed school directors of said district to serve until the first election for school directors in April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, with all the powers and authority of school directors in said county.

SECTION 4. That the first election and all elections hereafter for Place of holding school directors shall be held in the school house in said district, and elections. that Jacob Barclay shall act as judge of said election.

Stephens' school

kill county,

erected.

SECTION 5. That all that part of West Brunswick township, in the district, Schuyl-county of Schuylkill, lying within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning on the Blue Mountain at the corner of East Brunswick towoship, thence along said township line to a corner of "Centre School District," thence along said district to a point opposite the house of Jacob K. Moyer, thence to said house, the same included, thence to the farm of John Walborn, the same included, thence to the tenant house of the Rev. P. Moyer farm, now occupied by Charles Hammers, the same included, thence to the farm of William Matz, the same included, thence to the farm of Michael Moll, the same included, thence along public road leading from Morborger's tavern on the Centre turnpike to the Cattawissa road, thence along said Cattawissa road to farm of Samuel Miller, the same included, thence along line between lands of Samuel Miller and George Masser, and Samuel B. and John Medler and George Mosser, to the east side of Little Schuylkill river, thenee up said river to the farm of George Baer, the same included, thence along the line between Medlar and Stevens and John Schall, to land of Peter Dreher and Jacob Miller, thence along line of land of John Schall to the Berks county line on the Blue Mountain, thence along said county line to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby erected into a separate school district, to be called "Stephen's District." SECTION 6. That all moneys disbursed or debts contracted in erectbursed or debts ing a school house within the proposed Stephen's school district by the contracted vaii- school directors thereof who were elected without authority in eighteen hundred and fifty, are declared valid, and the same shall be accounted for and paid by the directors who may hereafter be elected.

Moneys dis

dated.

Commissioners.

Style.

Location.

Subject to provisions of certain act.

Capital stock.

Commencement

of road.

SECTION 7. That Peter Meyers, Gillian C. Lint, Conrad M. Hicks, George Klingman, junior, Samuel Haller, Elias Beighly, John Fichtner, Samuel Griffith, John Wilt, Daniel Beighly, and Jacob Lint, of Somerset county, or any five of them, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style, and title, of "The Meyers' Mills Plank Road Company," with power to construct a plank road from Meyers' Mills, in Somerset county, to such suitable point of intersection with the Wellersburg and West Newton plank road in said county as the said commissioners may select, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of "An Act regulating turnpike and plank road companies," approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto.

SECTION 8. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of four hundred shares of twenty-five dollars each.

SECTION 9. That if said company shall not commence the conand completion struction of said road within two years, and complete the same within five years thereafter, the sections of this act incorporating said company shall be null and void, except so far as the same may be necessary wind up the affairs and pay the debts of the company.

Auditor General authorized to

to

SECTION 10. That the Auditor General be, and he is hereby author ized and directed to open and re-examine the account of William Keller, re-examine ac- late Brigade Inspector of the first brigade, twelfth division, Pennsyl count of Wm. vania militia, and to make such corrections as he would have been Keller, late authorized to make had said account been settled within the time prebrigade inspecscribed by law, and to allow such credits as the equity and justice of the case may require.

tor.

Elections for

SECTION 11. That at the next election and at all elections hereafter school directors held for school directors of Mars Hill school district, Sewickley townin Mars Hill, ship, Westmoreland county, the president of the board of directors shall act as judge, assisted by two citizens to be by him appointed, who shall open and hold said election.

Westmoreland

county, regulated.

SECTION 12 That at the next election, and at all election held here- Youghigheny after for several districts of Youghigheny school district, Sewickley school district, township, Westmoreland county, the president of the board shall act as Westmoreland judge, assisted by two citizens to be by him appointed, who shall open County, relative

and hold said election.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

BENJAMIN MATTHIAS,

Speaker of the Senate.

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

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

to.

No. 327.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Bloody Ron, Clearville, and Maryland Line Turnpike Road Company, relative to certain elections and election districts in Bedford, Cambria, Fulton, and Bucks counties, and in relation to a deed and to certain turnpike stock in Bedford 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 Daniel Fletcher, Lewis Koons, George Von Stein, John Shreeve, Mat- Commissioners. thew Murray, Himas O'Neal, Barnabas Steckman, William States, and George Blankley, of Bedford county, or any five of them, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style, and title of "The Style. Bloody Run, Clearville, and Maryland Line Turnpike Road Company," to locate and construct a turnpike road from the Chambersburg and Bedford turnpike road at or near the village of Bloody Run, in Bedford county, by way of or near to Clearville in said county, and by way of or near to Werefordsburg, in Fulton county, to the Maryland State line, in said county, subject to all the provisions and restrictions Subject to proof "An Act regulating turnpike and plank road companies," approved tain act. the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto, so far as the same are not inconsistent with this and the following sections.

SECTION 2. That the capital stock of the said company shall consist of two thousand five hundred shares, of twenty dollars per share: Provided, The said company may from time to time, at a meeting of the stockholders called for the purpose, increase their capital stock to such an amount as in their opinion may be required to complete the road according to the true intent and meaning of this act: And provided also, The said company may at their option construct a plank road on any part or parts of the same in lieu of a turnpike, as a majority of

visions of cer

Capital stock.

the stockholders in amount may determine at a meeting to be called for that purpose, and notice thereof to be first given.

Commence- SECTION 3. That if said company shall not commence the construcment and com- tion of their road within three years after the granting of this act, and pletion of road. complete the same within seven years thereafter, the preceding seetions of this act shall become null and void, except so far as the same may be necessary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of said com

Broad Top township, Bed

ford county, elections in.

Bethel township, Fulton county.

Summitville

borough, Cam

bria county,

election of bor

pany.

SECTION 4. That the qualified voters of the township of Broad Top, in the county of Bedford, shall hereafter hold their general, special, and township elections at the house of William T. Griffith, in said township.

SECTION 5. That the qualified voters of Bethel township, in the county of Fulton, shall hereafter hold their general, special, and township elections at the school house in the village of Werfordsburg, in said township.

SECTION 6. That the election of borough officers in the borough of Summitville, in the county of Cambria, held on the third Friday of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, be, and the same is hereby made ough officers in. and declared to be valid; and the officers elected at that time shall have and enjoy such powers and privileges, and be subject to such liabilities and restrictions, as they would have been had they been elected at the time prescribed by law.

Liberty township, Bedford county.

St. Clair town

SECTION 7. That the qualified voters of the township of Liberty, in the county of Bedford, shall hereafter hold their general, special, and township elections at the school house in the village of Stonerstown, in said township.

SECTION 8. That the qualified voters of the township of St. Clair, ship, Bedford in the county of Bedford, shall hold their general, special, and township elections at the store house near the dwelling of Gideon D. Trout, in said township.

county.

Certain deed

F. Buck validated.

SECTION 9. That the deed made by David F. Buck, committee of the made by David person and estate of Jacob Longenecker, a lunatic, to David Robeson, in pursuance of an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Bedford county, for the one undivided half part of a tract of land situate in Middle Woodbury township, Bedford county, be, and the same is hereby made and declared to be valid, and to vest in said David Robeson, his heirs and assigns, the entire title of the said Jacob Longenecker of, in, and to said real estate, notwithstanding the alleged lunacy of the said Longenecker at the time when the contract for the said real estate was made, the specific performance of which was decreed by the court aforesaid.

Auditor General authorized to assign two

shares of stock

SECTION 10. That the Auditor General be, and he is hereby directed to assign to the Bedford and Stoystown Turnpike Road Company the two shares of stock in said company held and owned by the Commonto the Bedford Wealth, and not sold by him in pursuance of the act of twenty-sixth and Stoystown April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, upon payment by said Turnpike Road company for each share of a sum equal to the highest price given for Company. any one share at the sale authorized by said act.

Said company

SECTION 11. That the said Bedford and Stoystown Turnpike Road directed to pay Company be, and it is hereby directed to pay to the purchaser or pur chasers, at the sale mentioned in the foregoing section, any dividend that may be now due, or may hereafter become due upon the shares of stock at that time sold.

certain divi

dends.