atents and purposes as if such minor child or children had been of full ge, and as if such deed or deeds had been duly executed by such minor hild or children being of full age.

SECTION 10. That the guardian or guardians of such minor child or Guardians to hildren as aforesaid, shall have full power and authority, and he, she, execute bonds. or they are hereby empowered and authorized, upon the sale of the said real estate, and the receipt of the money, belonging to such ward under he care of such guardian or guardians, arising from the sale of such eal estate, after deducting all expenses, to make, sign, seal, execute, and deliver unto the said Jane Strickler, bond or bonds, in the name or names of such minor child or children, for such sum or sums of money as may be agreed upon by and between said Jane Strickler and her children being of full age, and the guardian or guardians of such as are minors, conditioned for the payment to her the said Jane Strickler, or to her certain attorney, executors, administrators, or assigns, the amount thereof, together with interest upon the same, and payable at such time and times, rate and rates, not exceeding that allowed by law, as may be stipulated for in the release of the said Jane Strickler, to be executed as aforesaid, or as may be afterwards agreed upon between them, and the said bond or bonds so executed as aforesaid, by the guardian or guardians in the name or names of such minor child or children, shall be held, taken, and deemed, to all intents and purposes, to be the act and acts, deed and deeds, of such minor child or children, when he, she, or they shall attain to and arrive at full age, and proper credit shall be allowed therefor, and for the interest paid thereon, in the account of such guardian or guardians: Provided, That before any such sale or sales shall be valid, the Orphans' Court of the county of Lancaster shall approve and confirm the same.

JOHN CESSNA,

APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 221.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Woodward Hill Cemetery; and relative to Cherry street in the borough of Columbia.

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 present owners of lots, and those who shall hereafter become owners Corporation, of lots in Woodward Hill cemetery grounds, Lancaster, are hereby cre

Style.

Subject to provisions of certain act.

Trustees of corporation.

ated a body politic and corporate in law, under the name and style of "The Woodward Hill Cemetery," with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the restrictions contained in the act of Assembly of this Commonwealth, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Woodland Hill Cemetery Company of Philadelphia," passed the thirteenth April, one thousand eight hundred and forty, except as herein otherwise provided.

SECTION 2. That Ellis Lewis, F. A. Muhlenberg, John Hamilton, Henry R. Reed, John Ehler, John F. Long, Christian Kieffer, Frederick Sener, John F. Shroder, Thomas E. Franklin, James Black, God fried Zahm, John Musselman, Reah Frazer, David Blair, George W. Hamersly, F. W. Beates, Newton Lightner, William Mathiot, Charles Boughter, Benjamin F. Shenk, William Carpenter, George M. Steinman, Jacob Albright, and William B. Fordney, shall be the trustees, and shall continue in authority until the first Monday in February next, on which day and annually thereafter, the lot owners for the time being shall elect twenty-five managers, one of whom shall be designated as Election of offi- president, and a secretary and treasurer; the said lot owners to be entitled to one vote for every lot held according to the original draft and plan of the grounds as laid out under the direction of the officers of the Lutheran church of the city of Lancaster; the said elections shall be held at such place and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the present trustees or the managers for the time being, by their by laws duly published.

cers.

Trustees to re

&c.

SECTION 3. That the present trustees or the managers for the time ceive convey. being who may be hereafter elected shall be authorized to receive a conance of grounds, veyance in the corporate name of the said Woodward Hill cemetery of the grounds heretofore purchased and laid out for cemetery purposes by the said Lutheran church, and in the corporate name aforesaid to execute a mortgage on such portion of the said ground and for such sum of money as shall be mutually agreed upon by the parties as sufficient to secure the purchase money and expenses heretofore incurred by the said Lutheran church in obtaining the said grounds and laying out and ornamenting the same.

Exempt from

taxation.

Repeal.

SECTION 4. That the privilege of exemption from levy and sale for debt, and from county and municipal tax, and the provisions relative to the punishment of trespassers and the right to receive donations and bequests as contained in the act to incorporate the Lancaster cemetery in the city of Lancaster, passed eighth March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, are extended to the corporation hereby created as fully as if re-enacted in this act.

SECTION 5. That so much of the first section of the act of ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, as relates to the extension of Cherry street in the borough of Columbia, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and that all proceedings that have been had under it in relation to the said extension of Cherry street shall cease and determine as fully as if the said act had never been passed, unless the town council of the borough of Columbia shall extend and open the said Cherry street from Third street to Second street in accordance with the directions of said act, on or before the first day of September next. JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

BENJAMIN MATTHIAS,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of March, A. D., one thousand

eight hundred and fifty-one..

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 237.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Charter House Association.

WHEREAS, A number of citizens of this Commonwealth have formed themselves into an association under the name of "The Charter House Preamble. Association," for the purpose of erecting a public house, at Media, Delaware county, for the accommodation of their fellow-citizens of the county, and travelers, generally, and which shall be kept in accordance with the thirty-fourth section of the borough charter:

And Whereas, The members of this association have by memorial to the Legislature prayed to be incorporated; therefore,

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 William Eves, John P. Crozer, Edward Garrett, John Hill, John M. Sharpless, Samuel M. Leiper, Abraham L. Pennock, John Dunwoody, Corporators. William T. Cook, William B. Lindsay, Benjamin Brooke, Levis Miller, John C. Beatty, George G. Knowles, Joseph Rowland, George Bishop, Isaac Thomas, Jonathan P. Abrahams, James Lewis, Nathan Shaw, John Sellers, James Barton, Robert M. Thomas, Thomas Pratt, John F. Taylor, James W. Dale, Daniel T. Hawkins, J. D. White, and Enos Williamson, the present officers and managers of said association, together with the other members thereof, be, and they are hereby made and constituted a corporation and body politic, in law and in fact, by the name, style, and title of "The Charter House Association," and Style. shall have all the rights, powers, and privileges incident by law to a corporation.

SECTION 2. That the estate and property of what kind soever the same may be now held, and which at any time hereafter shall be ac- Privileges. quired by the said association shall be vested in the said officers and managers, and their successors, duly elected, who shall by the name and title aforesaid, be able and capable in law to purchase, take and hold for the use and benefit of said association, any land, tenements, hereditaments, and any sum or sums of money, goods and chattels, by the gift, alienation, devise, or bequest of any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable to make the same: Provided, That the clear Proviso. yearly value or income of the messuages, houses, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, and other hereditaments, and real estate of the said company or corporation, and the interest of the moneys lent by the same shall not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars.

SECTION 3. That the following articles shall be the fundamental laws of said corporation.

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.

We, whose names are hereunto subscribed do agree to form ourselves into an association, to be known as the Charter house association; the object of this association shall be to erect a public house at Media, Delaware county, for the accommodation of our fellow-citizens, and travelers generally, and which shall be kept in accordance with the thirtyfourth section of the borough charter; in furtherance of this object, we

do severally promise and agree to pay to Abraham Pennell, treasurer of the association, the sums set opposite our respective names, that a suitable lot may be purchased, and a house, with the necessary outbuildings, may be erected thereon; we do also agree that the money so subscribed shall be expended in such manner as may be prescribed by the majority in number and amount of the subscribers, and by such person or persons as may be appointed by them, in order to our more perfect organization and better government; we do also assent to the following articles as binding the members of this association.

ARTICLE I.

The house to be erected shall be called the Charter House, and the sale of intoxicating liquors shall be excluded from it forever.

ARTICLE II.

Each subscriber shall be entitled to stock in the building and lot secording to the amount subscribed, one share being valued at twenty-five dollars.

ARTICLE III.

Each share of stock shall be entitled to one vote in all business trans. actions of the association.

ARTICLE IV.

Each subscription shall be payable in five equal instalments, and on the following days, namely: the twenty-third of the ninth month, September, the twenty-fifth of the eleventh month, November, the twentyseventh of the first month, January, the twenty-fourth of the third month, March, the twenty-sixth of the fifth month, May.

ARTICLE V.

No subscriber shall be entitled to vote in the business of the association until after the payment of the first instalment.

ARTICLE VI.

Every subscriber refusing or neglecting to pay any instalment as it becomes due, shall after thirty days' written notice, forfeit to the association whatever may have been previously paid.

ARTICLE VII.

The officers of this association shall be a president, eight vice presidents, a secretary, an associate secretary, a treasurer, and eighteen managers.

ARTICLE VIII.

The treasurer before entering upon his duties shall give a bond, with sureties, in the amount of five thousand dollars, to be deposited with the president.

ARTICLE IX.

When the association is not in session, its business shall be transacted by the managers, of whom three shall constitute a quorum; a majority present shall decide all questions except when three only are present, in which case unanimity shall be required.

ARTICLE X.

The managers shall keep a full record of all their proceedings, to be laid annually, or as often as may be required before the association; they may make by-laws not inconsistent with these articles for their own government.

ARTICLE XI.

The president may convene the association at any time, and shall do so, or in case of his failure, the secretary, at the request of any three members by a call made in two successive numbers of one or more of the county papers.

ARTICLE XII.

The treasurer shall receive all moneys becoming due to the association, and shall pay all claims against it when countersigned by three managers.

ARTICLE XIII.

The treasurer shall keep a full account of all funds received and expended, which account shall always be open to the inspection of the managers, and shall annually be laid before the association..

ARTICLE XIV.

The officers and managers shall hereafter be elected on the fourth Monday in September, of each year, by the members met at the call of the president; in case no election takes place, the officers in place shall continue to act.

ARTICLE XV.

These articles, the first excepted, may be changed at any meeting of the association, unless there be objection, in which case the proposed alteration shall lie over until the next meeting.

SECTION 4. That until the election of officers and managers aforesaid, Officers. pursuant to this act, the before named officers and managers of the association, viz.: William Eves, president; John P. Crozer, Edward Garrett, John Hill, John M. Sharpless, Samuel M. Leiper, Abraham L. Pennock, John Dunwoody, and William T. Cook, vice presidents; William B. Lindsay, and Benjamin Brooke, secretaries; and Abraham Pennock, treasurer; shall be, and they are hereby continued and confirmed.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

BENJAMIN MATTHIAS,
Speaker of the Senate.

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

dred and fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON..