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line of said road, and proceed in the construction of the same as they proceed in the construction of the branch from Erie to the Ohio State line, or in lieu thereof the said company shall not declare a dividend of more than six per cent. upon the profits of the railroad between Erie and the Ohio State line, and shall appropriate the entire surplus of that portion of said road towards the construction and completion of the main line of the Susquehanna and Erie railroad; and the Legislature hereby reserves the right to pass such laws as will compel said company to prosecute the work with due diligence, so as to secure the comple tion of the whole road within the time heretofore specified.

Constructing a SECTION 7. That it shall not be lawful for any private individual, or private railroad association of individuals, or any company or companies, to construct a prohibited. private railroad, connecting with any railroad authorized to be constructed by the laws of this State, with the Ohio and New York State lines, or with any railroad constructed, or to be constructed in the States of Ohio and New York; and it shall not be lawful for any railroad company authorized by the laws of this State to connect with any such private railroad, and any violation of the provisions of this act shall subject all individuals or associations of individuals violating the same, to the jurisdiction of the courts of this State, and to such forfeiture as the Legislature may hereafter direct.

JOHN CESSNA,

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

hundred and fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

Turnerville

No. 416.

AN ACT

To incorporate the village of Turnerville, in Crawford county, into a borough.

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 Turnerville, in the county of Crawford, shall be, and the same is hereby erected into a erected into a borough, which shall be called "The borough of Turnerborough. ville," bounded and limited, as follows: beginning at the north-east corner of James White's land; thence along said White's, Webb's, and Kellogg's north line, and west by the west line of Kellogg's; thence to the south-east corner of lands owned by David Jackson; thence east to Shenango creek; thence along said creek to the place of be ginning.

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SECTION 2. The provisions of the act of the General Assembly, passed the first day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and

thirty-four, entitled "An Act to provide for the incorporation of boroughs," are hereby extended to the borough of Turnerville, except so far as the same may be inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

SECTION 3. The high constable of the said borough shall have the Duties of high powers and authority vested by the laws of this Commonwealth in the constable. constables of the different townships in the said county, and shall give bond for the just and faithful discharge of the duties of his office in the manner required of the constables of the different townships in the county.

SECTION 4. At the first election held in the said borough for borough Six school direcofficers, there shall be elected six school directors, two to serve for one tors to be year, two to serve for two years, and two to serve for three years, and elected. thereafter two school directors, annually; and the said school directors shall perform the same duties, and possess the like powers in all respects as school directors, agreeable to the general laws of this Commonwealth.

SECTION 5. The school directors first elected under the provisions of Enumeration of this act shall immediately after their election, cause to be made an taxables. enumeration of the taxable inhabitants in said borough; and the president of the board of directors shall certify the same to the superintendent of common schools, who is hereby directed to adopt the number of taxables thus certified to him as the basis of the distribution to said borough of its share of the State appropriation; and the amount which the said borough is entitled to shall be deducted from the amount to which South Shenango school district, in said county, would otherwise be entitled, until after the next triennial enumeration of taxables for school purposes.

SECTION 6. After the first election held in the said borough for bo- Officer of generough officers, and thereafter annually, there shall be elected an assessor, ral election to and a judge, and two inspectors, to conduct the general and borough be elected. elections in said borough, and at such times as are directed by the existing laws of this Commonwealth, an assistant assessor.

SECTION 7. The number of justices of the peace in said borough shall Justice of the not at any time exceed one, unless increased agreeable to the provisions peace. of the fourth section of the act of June twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, entitled "An Act providing for the election

of aldermen and justices of the peace:" Provided, however, That no- Proviso. thing herein contained shall be construed so as to effect the unexpired commissions of any person holding and exercising the office of justice

of the peace within the limits of said borough.

SECTION 8. The qualifications of voters in the election of burgess Qualification of and town council shall be those required by the act of General Assem-voters. bly, passed the first day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, entitled "An Act to provide for incorporation of boroughs, and the qualifications of voters in the election of all other officers provided for by this law shall be the same as required in the election of similar officers in the different townships in said county.

SECTION 9. The said borough shall form a separate election district, Separate elecand the qualified voters therein shall hereafter hold their general and tion district. borough elections at the school house, in said borough.

SECTION 10. The borough elections in said borough shall be held on Borough electhe third Friday in March, of every year, between the hours of nine tions, where o'clock, A. M., and six o'clock, P. M, of said day.

held.

SECTION 11. Any indebtedness by South Shenango township, for Poor in South the making and repairing of roads or bridges, and for the support of Shenango tp. paupers, and by South Shenango school district, shall be paid ratable by the proper authorities of the said township and district, and the bo

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rough of Turnerville; and any money due or owing to the said tow ship and district shall be divided ratable between the said township and district, and the borough of Turnerville.

SECTION 12. It shall be lawful for the town council of said borough to assess and collect a tax on all single freemen and inmates resident in said borough, to be rated according to the provisions of the act to raise and collect county rates and levies; and the said town council shall further have the power and authority to assess and collect on each and every dog owned in said borough, a tax not exceeding in amount one dollar, and on every bitch a tax in amount not exceeding three dollars, as they may deem expedient and proper for the use of said incorporation.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

BENJAMIN MATTHIAS,

Speaker of the Senate.

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

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

No. 433.

AN ACT

To annul the marriage contract of Philip Gangwer and Harriet his wife; reistive to the trustee of the Green Ridge Improvement Company; the Loyalhanna Plank Road Company; to insane married women; and to the tax of the Short Mountain Coal 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, Tha: Philip Gangwer the marriage contract entered into between Philip Gangwer, and Harand Harriet his riet his wife, be, and the same is hereby annuled and made void, and wife divorced. the parties released and discharged from the said contract and from all legal duties and obligations arising therefrom as fully and effectually as if they had never been joined in marriage.

Preamble.

Trustees of the
Green Ridge

WHEREAS, Robert M. Ludlow, Frederick A. Vandyke, Junior, and Bartram H. Howell, were erroneously named as trustees in the act incorporating the Green Ridge improvement company; therefore,

SECTION 2. That the names of John B. Trever, Frederick A. Vandyke, Junior, and David Longenecker, be substituted as trustees in the Improvement place of the persons mentioned in said act, and the third proviso to the first section of the said act, be, and is hereby repealed, and the other provisions of the said act shall be in full force as if specially re-enacted, and the said company shall have the right to transport to market and sell the products of their lands.

company.

Commissioners.

SECTION 3. That John Snodgrass, J. L. Chambers, Alexander Johnston, Oliver W. Barnes, Joseph Cook, Doctor W. B. Speer, Thomas G.

Stewart, Henry McBride, and William Stewart, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, and receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style, and title, of "The Loyalhanna Style. Plank Road Company," with power to construct a plank road or a road partly plank and partly turnpike, by the way the Loyalhanna valley, from Saltsburg, in Indiana county, via of New Alexandria, in Westmoreland county, to the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad, at or Location. near its crossing of the Loyalhanna river, and extend the same to a point on the Southern turnpike, at or near Alexander Johnston's in Westmoreland county, with all the authorities, and subject to all the Subject to proprovisions and restrictions of the act regulating turnpike and plank road visions of cercompanies, passed the twentieth day of January, Anno Domini, one tain act. thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and the supplements thereto, except so much thereof relating to the imposition of tolls as discrimi nates in favor of vehicles having wheels of the breadth of four inches and upwards, and such other portions of the same act as may be inconsistent herewith.

SECTION 4. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. fifteen hundred shares of twenty-five dollars each, with power to the said company to increase the same from time to time by new subscrip

tions when it may be deemed expedient to do so.

SECTION 5. That it shall be lawful for the said company to construct Occupation of such portions of their road first as they may deem expedient, and it any public road shall be lawful for them to occupy with their road any public road al- for use of comready made, or as much thereof as may be deemed eligible for their purpose, preserving, however, a width of not less than forty feet throughout.

pany.

SECTION 6. That it shall be lawful for the said company to erect and Erection of set up a gate or gates, and to levy and collect tolls for the use of said gates. road at such rates as the company may deem expedient and proper without further license, as soon as one mile or more of the said road shall have been completed and be ready for use.

women be

SECTION 7. That when any married woman in this Commonwealth hath Proceedings in become insane, it shall be lawful for her husband upon application to case of married the Court of Common Pleas of the proper county to select and appoint coming insane. three discreet and intelligent persons, one of whom shall be a practising physician, who shall make an examination personal, or otherwise, of such alleged insanity and report the facts to the court, and if the said court be fully satisfied that the said married woman is insane and approve the said report, the same shall be filed of record in said court, and the husband shall thenceforth upon giving good and sufficient security to the Commonwealth for the faithful performance of his trust have full power to transact all business relating to the management or disposition of his or her real and personal estate in as full and ample a manner as he might or could do if his said wife was sane and gave her full consent thereto.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

BENJAMIN MATTHIAS,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED The twenty-eighth day of October, A. D., one thous

and eight hundred and fifty-one.

WM. F. JOHNSTON.

[1850.]

Corporation.
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Business of cor

conducted.

Trustees.

No. 288.

AN ACT

Incorporating the Lutheran and German Reformed_Congregations of South
Hanover township, in the county of Dauphin.

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 a corporation is hereby created, by the name, style, and title of "The Lutheran and German Reformed Congregations of South Hanover township, in the county of Dauphin," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts of law and elsewhere, and shall be able and capable in law and equity to take, hold, and receive to them and their successors for the use of said corporation, lands, tenements, goods and chattels of whatsoever kind, nature, or quality, real, personal, or mixed, which is now, or shall, or may at any time hereafter become the property of said corporation, or to be held for their use, by gifts, grants, bargains, sales, conveyances, devise, bequest, or otherwise, from any person or persons whomsoever capable of making the same, and to grant, bargain, sell, mortgage, improve, or dispose of the same for the use of the said cor poration Provided, That the yearly value or income of the said estate so held by said corporation shall not at any time exceed the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, and shall not be appropriated to any other than benevolent or religious uses.

SECTION 2. The business of the said corporation shall be conducted poration, how by two trustees, and one secretary, which trustees may appoint a treasurer, and such other officers as they may from time to time deem necessary for the better government of the said corporation, and until others are or shall be elected, as is hereinafter provided, the following named persons shall be trustees, viz: George Hocker on the part of the Lutheran, and Jacob Rouch on the part of the German Reformed congregations, to continue in office until the last Saturday in December, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, on which day the male members of said congregation shall elect two trustees, and one secretary, and on the same day every two years thereafter, elect two trustees, and one secretary, who shall serve two years, and until others are elected; and if vacancies by death, or otherwise, shall happen in the office of trustees, the remaining trustee may appoint another to supply such vacancy until the next general meeting of the members of said congregation, when another trustee or trustees shall be elected, to serve until the next election; and if the members of said congregation neglect on the day of the meeting to hold their election as is hereinbefore directed, the said corporation shall not be dissolved, but a majority of the trustees may appoint any subsequent day on which the election may be held: Provided, That notice thereof may be given in manner as a majority of the trustees may think proper to direct, and

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