Amendment tified. the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met, (three-fourths of each branch of the Legislature concurring,) SECTION 1. That the amendment proposed by the said act, ena- titled "An act proposing an amendment to the Constitution of this State," passed at Dover January 24, 1853, be, and the same is hereby ratified and confirmed, and said amendment shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the Constitution of this State. Passed at Dover, January 30, 1855. 10 vol. Del. L. P 247. Chap eclxvii. CHAPTER CLXVIII. A supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met. That the act to which this is a supplement be, and the same is hereby amended in the following particular, to wit: That the anDay of annual Dual meeting of stockholders be held hereafter on the second meeting chang Tuesday in May, instead of the first Tuesday of January. Passed at Dover, January 30, 1855. corporation. CHAPTER CLXIX. AN ACT to incorporate the Female Society of Wilmington for the relief and employment of the poor. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, two-thirds of cach branch of the Legislature concurring herein as follows, riz: SECTION 1. That Hannah E. Gilpin, Sarah Bringhurst, Rebecca Gibbons, Eliza T. Canby, Mary Betts, Sarah R. Mendenhall, Corporate pow Martlia Cochran, Elizabeth Kean, Mary Latemer, Sarah T. Seal, ers. Members to elect SEC. 2. The members of said society shall have power from time to time, to elect all such officers as may be deemed expedient officers. and to make and ordain such by-laws, rules and regulations, not Ordain by-laws. contrary to the laws of this State, as they are a majority of them. shall judge necessary or proper, for prescribing the terms of membership, for defining the duties of officers, for the holding of annual and special meetings, for securing the funds of the society and applying them to their proper objects; and generally for promoting the order and efficiency of the society,and for accomplishing in the best manner, the benevolent purposes of its organization. evidence. SEC. 3. The books, acts and minutes of said society, shall be Books, acts, &c., received as competent evidence in all Courts of Justice of the ac- to be competent counts, matters, things and transactions, which they impart on the face of them, touching the affairs and business of the said corporation. another benevo SEC. 4. If at any time the said society, should by a vote of twothirds of its members determine that it is inexpedient to continue power to convey to prosecute the objects of this incorporation, it shall have power its roperty to to convey, assign, and transfer its property and effects to such lent association. other benevolent association, as it shall for that purpose select. SEC. 5. This shall be a public act. The Legislature reserves the right to revoke or alter this charter. Passed at Dover, January 30, 1855. Public act. porated. Name. CHAPTER CLXX. AN ACT to incorporata the "Nautilus Pearl Fishing Company." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, (tro-thirds of each branch of the Legislature concurring therein,) That Joseph Bringhurst, Mahlon Betts, Jacob Pusey, Joseph C. Gilpin, Edmund A. Harvey, John A. Duncan, Charles Warner, Simeon L. Spafford, Henry B. Sears, George Richardson, William Chandler, Joshua T. Held and George Bush, and such others as are or hereafter may be associated with them, for the purpose of conducting the business of gathering pearls, pearl shells, sunken treasures, or other property or valuables, from or in the waters on the Pacific coast or elsewhere; shall be and are hereby orCompany incor- dained and declared to be a body politic and corporate by the name of the "Nautilus Pearl Fishing Company," and by that name they and their successors, and assigns, shall and may have continued succession for twenty years, and no longer, and be capable to sue and be sued in courts of law and equity; to purchase, take, enjoy, sell and alien, lands, tenements and hereditaments, goods chattels, vessels, machinery, and effects of every nature, which may be connected with or conducive to the purpose for which the said Company is established, and to have a common. seal, to ordain by-laws for their own government, not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of the United States nor of thisState, and to enjoy the franchises incident to a corporation, Provided, always, that the said corporation shall not have, nor exercise any banking powers whatever; and that their capital stock shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars. Banking powers: prohibited. Capital stock Directors chos en. when and where. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the business and concerns of said corporation shall be managed by nine Directors, who shall be stoctockholders, five of whom shall be citizens of Wilmington, Delaware, and shall be elected at each annual Annual "meeting meeting of the stockholders, which shall be held at Wilmington, Delaware, on the second Monday, of June, in every year, and shall continue in office until the next successive annual meeting, and until successors to them be duly chosen. The direhow tors shall be elected by ballot by the stockholders in person or by proxy, who shall have a vote for every share of stock, and a majo rty of votes given in shall be necessary to a choice; and such ballot shall be made from time to time until the requisite number of directors shall have a majority. If any director cease to be a stockholder and if any vacancy or vacancies shall occur therein by death, resignation, refusal to serve, or from any other cause, the remaining directors or director shall choose one or more directors to serve until the next election in course, or until successors shall be duly Directors chosen. Vacancy. How supplet Failure to elect effect a dissolu chosen, but if vacancies shall exist at any time in all the offices of directors, or if such directors shall not be chosen at the time directors not to appointed herein, this corporation shall not thereby cease, but in tion. the former case such persons shall manage the business and concerns of the said corporation as may be provided by its by-laws, and in the latter case the directors shall continue in office until successors shall be actually chosen and enter on the duties of their office. The directors shall choose from among their number a President who shall have such powers and duties as shall be provided by the by-laws. The directors, until the first annual meeting after this act shall go into operation, and until others shall be appointed and shall act, shall be Joseph Bringhurst, Mahlon Present direc Betts, Jacob Pusey, Joseph C. Gilpin, Edmund A. Harvey, John A. Duncan, Charles Warner, Simeon L. Spafford and Henry B. Sears. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the by-laws shall be made by the directors of said company subject to alteration or amendments, at any time by consent of two-thirds of the direc tors. tors. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the directors shall powers and dukeep, or cause to be kept, proper books of accounts in which shall is of directers be regularly entered the transactions of the said corporation, which books shall at all times be subject to the inspection of the stockholders, and the directors shall cause to be exhibited to the stockholders, at their annual meeting, a statement of the affairs and-doings of the company, and no director shall have any emolument except such as shall be allowed by the stockholders at their annual meeting. $100 each and be SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the shares of the capi- Capital shares tal stock shall be one hundred dollars each, and be personal pro- personal properperty, and shall be created, certified, held, arranged and assignable according to the provisions of the by-laws. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock Capital stock, shall be paid in such manner, and in such instalments, and at such how paid in. times as the directors shall appoint, and the same shall be liable to be forfeited according to the provisions of the by-laws. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the stated meetings stated meetings, of the directors shall be held at the office of the Treasurer, which where held. said office shall be located in the city of Wilmington, Delaware. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be Pubic act. deemed and taken to be a public act. Passed at Dover, January 30, 1855. CHAPTER CLXXL 7 sec. chap. 77 AN ACT to amend Chapter 77 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware. Revised Code, p. 241, amended. Amendment. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the seventh section of chapter seventy-seven, of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware, as the same is printed, shall be, and the same is hereby amended by inserting in the ninth line of said section immediately after the word "same," the words "and also shall pay five dollars to the physician who attended the To be published mother during her delivery," and that in any edition of the Staany future edi- tutes hereafter to be published the printing thereof shall be conformed to the provisions of this act. as amended in tion of laws. Passed at Dover, January 30, 1855. Trustees appointed CHAPTER CLXXII. AN ACT appointing Trustees for a certain Church therein named. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met, That Thomas Barton, Joseph Griffith, Alexander Coulter, Joseph Swarnsly and Josiah Dance, are hereby constituted Trustees of the Baptist Church, commonly known as Ebenezer, situated in Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, with the power of continuing their succerssors in office, under the name and title of Ebenezer Church. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees and Incorporation. their successors, shall be a corporation, by the name and title aforesaid, and shall have all the rights, powers, capacities, incidents and franchises mentioned and conferred on the trustees of Chap. 39 of R. religious societies in this State, in and by the provisions of chapter thirty nine, of the Revised Statutes entitled Of Religious Societies," so far as the same are applicable to the corporation created by this act. Code extended to this act. Passed at Dover, January 31, 1855. |