of damages to be paid by the parties to the obligation as aforesaid, which said award or verdict shall be reduced to writing, and subscribed under their respective hands and seals, and returned to the next succeeding term of said court, whereupon the said court shall enter judg ment for the amount of such award or verdict against the parties entering, into said obligation as aforesaid, which said judgment shall be final and conclusive, and may be proceeded upon as other judgments entered in said court. SECTION 3. That it shall also be the duty of the said commissioners Duties of comto view, lay out, and enlarge Coal and George streets, between Cal- missioners. lowhill and High streets, and if in the opinion of a majority of them the said street ought to be opened and enlarged as aforesaid, then they shall make out a plot or draft of said street so to be opened and enlarged, by its courses and distances, and report the width of said enlarged street to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the said county of Schuylkill, to be entered of record, and thereupon the said street so enlarged shall be deemed and taken to be a public highway; and it shall be the duty of the town council of the said borough to proceed forthwith to open the said street Provided, always, That on the petition of any owner of Proviso. land through which the said street shall or may be opened and enlarged to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the said county, representing that he has sustained damage, the same proceedings shall and may be had as in the preceding section. JOHN S. RHEY, APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 380. A SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled "An Act to authorize the trustees of the Associate Reformed church and congregation of the city of Philadelphia, to sell certain real estate." 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 it shall and may be lawful for Samuel C. Huey, Alexander H. Julian, Trustees to sell William K. Hemphill, Andrew Braden, J. H. Dales, and W. D. Mac- real estate. leod, trustees of the Associate Reformed church and congregation of the city of Philadelphia, and their successors in office, and they the said trustees and their said successors, are hereby authorized and empowered at any time or times hereafter, when they may be for that purpose required and directed by said congregation, in due form to grant and con Disposition of the money. vey in fee simple by way of mortgage, the whole or any part of the lot of ground, church, and premises mentioned and described in the act of Assembly, to which this is a supplement, passed the tenth day of March, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, as fully in ⚫the same manner and with like effect for all purposes, as if said lot and premises were vested in said trustees, by purchase or otherwise in fee simple, wholly freed and discharged from all trust, limitation, and restraint whatsoever, and so that in case of default in the payment of the money raised and secured by said mortgage or mortgages, the mortgagee or mortgagees shall have the usual rights and remedies incident to a mortgage, and that any judicial sale or sales of said lot and premises, or any part thereof under said mortgage or mortgages shall vest in the purchaser or purchasers thereof, a full, absolute, unincumbered title in fee simple thereto, wholly freed and discharged from all trust, limitation, and restraint whatever, without any responsibility on the part of such mortgagee or mortgagees, purchaser or purchasers, to see to the proper use or application, as hereafter provided, of the moneys raised by such mortgage or mortgages, or of the moneys paid by such purchaser or purchasers. SECTION 2. That the moneys raised by such mortgage or mortgages shall not be, at any time or in any manner, applied or disposed of by said trustees contrary to the intent or object of the will of the said Margaret Duncan, deceased. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN H. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. Seminary and town ball. No. 381. AN ACT To incorporate the Female Seminary at New Alexandria, Westmoreland county: relative to supervisors in Sewickly township, and an election district in East Hantingdon, in said county; to the sale of the farm of the poor house of Huntingdon county; to the real estate of Henry Brewster and George Leas; and to the terminus of a State road in Mifflin and Huntingdon counties. 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 there shall be, and is hereby established in the borough of New Alexandria, in the county of Westmoreland, a seminary and town hall in connection; the former for the education of females (all religious in structions in which shall be Calvinistic or Presbyterian in their character), the latter for the purpose of holding all public meetings of a moral character. Style. SECTION 2. That said seminary and town hall shall be under the Trustees. direction, management, and government of a board of trustees, not exceeding nine in number, six of whom shall be a quorum for the trans- Quorum. action of business, which said trustees and their successors in office shall be, and they are hereby erected, established, and declared to be a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession, and with all inci- Corporation. dents 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 Seminary and Town Hall," by 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 and townhall, any estate, messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, Privileges. 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 secure the rents, issues, profits, and income and interest of the same, for the use of the said seminary and town hall, 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. That the said trustees shall cause to be made for their Seal. own use one 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, William R. Speer, Trustees of corJames Stewart, Henry McBride, James Shuld, Senior, Samuel Patter- poration. son, 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 to fill any and all vacancies which may occur in their body, until the last Thursday of Vacancies. September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, at which time the stockholders of said seminary and town hall shall elect, by ballot, by a majority of the votes present, to be given in person or by proxy Election of offiduly authorized, nine trustees; one-third of whom to continue in office cers. till the last Thursday in September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three; one-third till the same day, one thousand eight hundred and fifty four; and the remaining third till the same day one thousand eight hun- Term of office. dred and fifty-five, and on each of the fore-mentioned days, and on the same day annually thereafter, three persons shall be elected in the manner aforesaid, 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, shall choose one person to act as president, and one person to act as secretary and treasurer. Amount of SECTION 5. That ten dollars shall constitute a share of stock in this corporation, and the person holding such share shall be entitled to one share. Proviso. Proviso. Open books. Form of subscription. vote: Provided, That no person shall have more than one vote for every two additional shares of stock, until his subscription shall amount to ten shares, or one hundred dollars; after which he shall have one vote for every three additional shares of stock, till his subscription amounts to twenty shares, or two hundred dollars, after which five additional shares shall give but one additional vote: And provided further, 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 corpora tion. SECTION 6. That the said trustees herein named are hereby authorized to open books on or before the first Monday of May 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 and town hall the sum of ten dollars for each share of stock set opposite our names, in such manner and proportion and at such time or times as shall be required by said trustees, the share 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 Who may sub- 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. scribe. Certificates of stock. SECTION 7. That the said trustees shall procure written or printed certificates and deliver to each stockholder à certificate, signed by the president 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 the payment to the treasurer of the full sum due thereon, and such certificates of stock Transferable. shall be 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 By-laws. Erection of buildings. Proviso. subscriber to said stock. SECTION 8. 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 and town hall. SECTION 9. 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 manner, such building or buildings of brick, stone, or other materials as they may deem necessary and proper, to be located by them in some suitable and convenient place in the borough of New Alexandria: Provided, That in selecting the site of such building or buildings the said trustees shall be governed by a vote of a majority of the stockholders present at a meeting to be called for that purpose. Supervisors of SECTION 10. That hereafter the supervisors of Sewickly township. Sewickly to pay Westmoreland county, shall annually pay to Elizabeth Carnahan, eight Elizabeth Car- dollars for the use of her house for holding their elections in said townof house. ship. nahan for use Elections of SECTION 11. That hereafter the qualified voters of East Huntingdon Hunting township, Westmoreland county, shall hold their township and general elections at the house of Daniel Fretz, now occupied by Elliott Harvey, don tp., Westin said township. moreland co. SECTION 12. That for the purpose of ascertaining the wishes of a Sale of poor majority of the citizens of Huntingdon county, respecting the sale of house farm, the poor house farm, in said county, and investing the proceeds of such Huntingdon co. sale in a tract of land in a more central and convenient location, it shall be the duty of the inspectors of the several townships and boroughs, in said county, at the next general election, to receive tickets, either written or printed, from the qualified voters thereof, labelled upon the outside "poor house," and on the inside "for the sale," or "against the sale," and make return of the same to the meeting of the return judges, as is provided for in the case of county officers, and if it shall appear upon counting up the votes that the highest number of votes of those voting on the subject are for the sale of the poor house farm, the directors of the poor in said county, or a majority of them, shall as soon as practicable proceed to sell the poor house farm at public sale upon giving six weeks' notice by hand-bills, and in two newspapers of said county, upon such terms as shall be by them considered most advantageous; and after the sale thereof, to purchase a tract or parcel of land, situate within seven miles of the borough of Huntingdon, for the purpose of giving employment and support to the poor in said county: Provided, Proviso. That the purchase money thereof shall not exceed the amount realized by the sale of the farm which the said directors are required to sell. SECTION 13. That the third section of an act entitled "An Act for Repeal. the relief of Bernard Kelly, of Blair county, and for other purposes," approved March twenty-ninth, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as relates to the real estate of Henry Brewster and George Leas. State road in SECTION 14. That the western terminus of a State road laid out be- Change of loca tween Brown's mills, in Mifflin county, and Petersburg, in Huntingdon tion of certain county, be, and is hereby changed from the town of Petersburg, to the dividing line between Barre and Jackson townships, where the present Huntingdon cos." road between the points above mentioned now crosses said line. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN II. WALKER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. |