APPENDIX CONTAINING LAWS PASSED AT THE SESSION OF 1852, No. 374. AN ACT To authorize the Pennsylvania railroad company to extend its lateral road now made from Leibengood's Summit, in Westmoreland county, to the borough of Blairsville, to the borough of Indiana, in the county of Indiana. 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 Pennsylvania railroad company, be, and is hereby authorized, if they deem it expedient, to extend its lateral road now made from Leibengood's Summit, in Westmoreland county, to the borough of Blairsville, in a northerly direction, to the borough of Indiana, in the county of Indiana; and that hereafter the said lateral road shall be subject to all the provisions of the several acts of Assembly relating to the said Pennsylvania railroad, excepting the toll on tonnage provided for in the twenty-second section of the act of thirteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Pennsylvania railroad company." JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of January, A. D., one thousand =eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 375. AN ACT To incorporate the Pine Creek Bridge Company 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 E. B. Campbell, Samuel G. Allen, Charles S. Baird, A. Davidson, and Commissioners. Jacob Rodearmel, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners autherized to receive subscriptions to the capital stock hereby created, at such times and places as a majority of them may direct, previously giving at least three weeks' notice thereof in one of the papers printed in Lycoming connty, and in one printed in Clinton county, of the time and Subscription. place when and where subscriptions will be received, and at the time of subscribing for said stock one dollar shall be paid by each subscriber to the commissioners out of which their expenses shall be defrayed, and the balance paid over to the treasurer of said company as soon as one shall be appointed, and the residue of said subscriptions shall be paid in such instalments, and at such times and places, and to such persons as the president and managers of the company may direct. Style. Privileges. Capital stock. Organization. Officers. Certificates. Transferable. SECTION 2. That when one hundred and fifty shares shall have been subscribed, the persons holding the same are hereby created and corperated into a company by the name, style, and title, of "Pine Creek Bridge Company," and by that name those who have subscribed, and those that may thereafter subscribe shall have perpetual succession, with all the privileges and franchises incident to a corporation, and shall be capable of taking and holding their capital stock and the increase and profits thereof, and of enlarging the same from time to time by new subscriptions in such manner and form as they shall think proper, if such enlargement shall be found necessary to build the bridge and toll-house or fulfil the intent of this act, and of purchasing and holding to them and their successors in fee simple, any real or personal estate necessary for the erection of said bridge, and the same to sell and dispose of at their pleasure, and of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded in all courts of justice. SECTION 3. That the capital stock of said company shall not exceed five thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of ten dollars each, payable as aforesaid. SECTION 4. That as soon as one hundred and fifty shares of the said capital stock shall have been subscribed, it shall be the duty of the commissioners to give notice in one of the papers printed in Lycoming county, and one printed in Clinton county, of a time and place of a meeting of the stockholders, who shall on meeting proceed to organize the said company, and shall choose by ballot, in person or by proxy, one president, three managers, one treasurer, and such other officers as they shall deem necessary to conduct the business of said company, and the said president and managers shall make such by-laws and regulations for the government of said company as they shall think necessary and proper, consistent with the laws of this Commonwealth for the wellordering of the affairs of said company and fixing upon the site or location of said bridge, and each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock by him or her held at the time of such election, and the stockholders shall meet on the first Monday of June in every year, at such place as shall be fixed on by the president and managers for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year: Provided, That no stockholder shall be entitled to more than one hundred votes. SECTION 5. That the president and managers first chosen, or their successors in office, shall issue certificates of stock to the several stockholders who shall have paid the full amount of their subscriptions, signed by the president and countersigned by the treasurer of said company, which certificates shall be transferable at the pleasure of the holder in person or by attorney, upon the entry of said transfer being made in a book of the company to be kept by the treasurer for tha purpose, and the president and managers shall meet at such times and places as shall be agreed upon for the transaction of business; they shall keep minutes of their transactions entered in a book, and shall have SECTION 6. That it shall be lawful for the president and managers, May enter upon their superintendents, engineers, and workmen, to enter on lands and lands. enclosures near the place where the bridge is to be built, and to cut and carry off any timber, dig gravel and sand, or quarry stone, necessary for building said bridge, also to enter thereon, with wagons, carts, sleighs, or beasts of burden or draught, and take and carry off any materials necessary for the construction of said bridge, doing as little damage as possible, and afterwards making amends for any damage that may be done, Damages how which damage, if the parties canuot agree, shall be submitted to the de. adjusted. cision of three disinterested freeholders chosen by the parties, and if the parties cannot agree upon the men, or if either party on reasonable notice, shall neglect or refuse to join in the choice, then said freeholders shall on application be appointed by any justice of the peace within the county not interested, who after being sworn or affirmed shall assess or appraise the damage and make report thereof to the justice of the peace who appointed them, and the said president, managers or other persons employed by them after the tender of the appraised value to the owner may enter, chop, dig, quarry, and carry off any material necessary in the building or repairing said bridge: Provided, That either party shall Proviso. have the right to appeal to the Court of Common Pleas of said county from the award of the said assessors of damages: And provided fur- Proviso. ther, That said company shall not take possession of, or use any private property against the consent of the owner, without first making compensation or giving adequate security to make compensation therefor. SECTION 7. That the president and managers of said company shall keep just and fair accounts of all the moneys received by them in any way under the provisions of this act, and also of all moneys by them expended and all voluntary contributions to said company, and shall at least once a year, or whenever called on, submit their accounts to any or all of the stockholders. Accounts. SECTION 8. That when a good and complete bridge shall have been Tolls. erected over said stream at the place aforesaid, the company, 'their sucsessors or assigns, may demand and receive toll from travelers and others crossing the same, at the following rates: for every score of sheep or hogs, five cents; for every score of horned cattle, ten cents; and so on in proportion for greater numbers; for every horse or mule laden or unladen with rider, five cents; for every chair, chaise, or sulky with two wheels and one horse, eight cents; for every dearborn or light wagon with one horse, ten cents; for every chaise, coach, phaeton, chair, wagon, coachee or light wagon, with four wheels and two horses, twelve and a half cents; and with four horses twenty cents; for every other carriage of pleasure, under whatever name it may go, the like sum of toll according to the number of wheels or horses drawing the same; and two oxen shall be rated as one horse or mule; for every foot-1 t-passenger crossing the bridge, two cents; and they shall cause to be put and Proviso. Penalty. Dividends. Proviso. To subscribe stock. Proviso. Commencement kept up in some conspicuous place at the gates of said bridge a list of the rates of toll: Provided, That the bridge shall be so constructed as not to injure or obstruct the free navigation of Pine creek. SECTION 9. That if any person shall wilfully cut, destroy, break, or remove from off said bridge or any part thereof, any piece of timber, stone, plank, chain, bolt, or any material whatsoever belonging to said bridge, or otherwise wilfully or maliciously damage the same, he, she, or they so offending shall forfeit and pay for every such offence over and above the damage done to said bridge, the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered with costs in any court having jurisdiction thereof, in addition to any punishment or penalties prescribed by the laws of this Commonwealth for similar offences. SECTION 10. That the said president and managers shall keep fair and just accounts of all tolls received by their respective collectors of tolls for crossing said bridge, and shall make and declare a dividend of the profits and income thereof among all the stockholders of said company in proportion to the shares respectively held by each, and deducting therefrom all contingent costs and charges and such proportion of said income as may by them be deemed necessary for a growing fund for repairing or re-building said bridge, and shall on the first Monday of June in each year, notify the stockholders by publication or otherwise, of the time and place when and where the said dividends shall be paid, and shall cause the same to be paid accordingly: Provided, That no dividends of profits shall be declared until all the expense of building and constructing said bridge shall be fully paid. SECTION 11. That the commissioners of the counties of Lycoming and Clinton respectively, having first obtained the approbation of a grand jury of the proper county, may subscribe to the capital stock of said company, and the stock subscribed by them, or either of them, shall vest in their respective counties, and shall be transferable by the said commissioners in the same manner that the other stock of said company may be transferred: Provided, That the amount subscribed by either county shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars. SECTION 12. That said company shall commence the construction of and completion said bridge within two years from the passage of this act, and complete of bridge. the same within six years thereof, or the privileges hereby granted shall revert to the Commonwealth. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No 376. AN ACT To incorporate the Odd Fellows' Hall Association of the borough of Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland. Style. 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 Jacob Shrom, George Weise, Junior, Robert A. Noble, Armstrong Corporators. Noble, John Mell, W. W. Dale, Peter Monyer, William Breeze, William M. Penrose, Henry Glass, George Wahls, George L. Murray, W. H. Trout, James M. Allen, Charles Ogilby, John Gutshall, Frederick A. Kennedy, Joseph C. Thompson, John B. Bratton, and Peter Matson, and their successors, and all persons who now are or hereafter may be associated with them, be, and they are hereby enacted into a body corporate and politic, in deed and in law, by the name, style, and title of "The Odd Fellows' Hall Association of the borough of Carlisle, and county of Cumberland," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead, and be impleaded, in any Privileges. court of law or equity, and to take and hold to them, and their successors, either by grant, gift, devise, or lease, 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 said association any goods or chattels, sum or sums of money, by gift, grant, bargain, or 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 said association, and generally to do all and singular the matters and things which it shall be lawful for them to do for the well-being and due management of said association: Provided, That the real estate of which said incorporation shall Proviso. be at any one time possessed shall not exceed the clear yearly value of three thousand dollars. SECTION 2. That the persons hereinbefore named are hereby ap- Open books. pointed commissioners to do and perform the several acts and things hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, they or such of them as shall act in the premises, being not less than five, shall as soon as conveniently may be, and within three months next after the passage of this act, procure and open a suitable book or books at such time and place as they may designate, in the borough of Carlisle, of which time and place at least two weeks' previous public notice shall be given in at least two newspapers published in said borough, in which book or books they shall enter, as follows: "We, whose names are hereunto subscribed do Forms of subpromise to pay to the trustees and company of the Odd Fellows' Hall cription. Association of the borough of Carlisle, and county of Cumberland, the sum of ten dollars for each and every share of stock set opposite to our respective names, in such manner and proportions and at such times as shall be determined by the trustees of said association; Witness our hands and seals the Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty two;" and at the time and place so designated in the public notices to be given as aforesaid, the said commissioners, by themselves, or by committees to be by them appointed, shall attend day of |