all such lands, tenements, hereditaments and estate, real and personal, as shall be necessary to them in the prosecution of their work, and of suing and being sued, and of doing all and every other matter and thing which a corporation or body politic, may lawfully do, and generally have all the powers, authorities and privileges, and be subject to all the duties qualifications and restrictions, penalties, fines and forfeitures And restricwhich are given and granted, or imposed upon the president, tions. managers and company under the act to which this is a supplement. SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority afore act men corporation said, That as soon as the company shall be incorporated, in When the pursuance of the act to which this is a supplement, and shall company in proceed to carry on the road contemplated to be completed the original by the said act, the said company to be incorporated by this tioned, shall act, shall be incorporated with and the subscribers thereto be incorposhall constitute a part of the company to be incorporated by rated &c. the virtue of the act to which this is a supplement, and shall cease hereby to act or be known by any other name, character or capacity, created, to and the said company so consolidated, shall have and enjoy all be incorpothe privileges, rights and benefits, provided in and by the act to which this is a supplement. Provided nevertheless, that the Proviso as tolls on so much of the said road as shall be completed under to the tolls. this act, shall continue to be divided if any dividend shall be declared to the original subscribers under this act, until a portion of the road equal to what shall have been made by the company under this act, shall be completed by the consolidated company, for which they shall be entitled to receive toll, and rated there with. accounts. all unsettled accounts of the said company shall be settled and ofthe settleadjusted by the consolidated company, who shall be liable to ment of the all the engagements and contracts of the company which may be incorporated under this act, and nothing herein shall operate or be construed to impair or defeat any of the provisions of the original act. And provided also, until the said consolidation, the said company shall continue an entire separate body politic. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER CXXIV. An ACT to incorporate the Western Missionary Society. SECT. I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is bereby enacted by the authority The Pitts- of the same, That the synod of Pittsburg be, and they hereby burg Synod are made, declared and constituted a corporation and body constituted a politic, in law and in fact, by the name, style and title of "The body politic. Western Missionary Society," for the purpose of promoting Style of. and spreading the knowledge of agriculture, literature, and Christianity among the Indian tribes of America. SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforeThe proper said, That all and singular the lands, tenements, rents, annuty of the so- ities, rights, privileges, goods and chattels heretofore given, ciety vested in the corpo- granted, devised or bequeathed to the said society, or to any ration. Said corpo ration em take and hold other property. person or persons for the use thereof, or that have been purchased for or on account of the same be, and they are hereby vested in and confirmed to the said society. And further, that the said society may purchase, take, receive and enjoy any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, rights or privileges, or any goods, chattels, or other effects of what kind or nature soever, powered to which shall or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, bequeathed or devised unto them, by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such gift, grant, sale or bequest; and the said property, real or personal, to rent, seil, convey and confirm, or otherwise dispose of, as fully and effectually as any person or persons, bodies politic or corpoProvided the rate may or can do: Provided, That the clear annual income proceeds of, of all such property shall not exceed the sum of five thousand ceed $5000. dollars: And provided also, That the funds of said corporation How to be shall not be employed for any other purpose than the dissemiappropria- nation of the knowledge of the English language, the mechated. nical arts, or agriculture, and the knowledge of the Christian religion among the Indian tribes. do not ex SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Privileges of That the said corporation, by the name, style and title aforethe corpora- said, be, and they hereby are made able and capable in law to tion. sue, and to be sued, plead, and be impleaded, answer, and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in any court or courts, or other place or places, and before any judge or judges, justice or justices, or any other person or persons whatever, in all manner of suits, actions, complaints, pleas, causes, matters and demands of whatsoever kind or nature they may be, in as full and effectual a manner as any other person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, may or can do. SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporation shall have full power and aupowers and thority to make, have and use one common seal, with such privileges of device and inscription as they shall think proper, and the same Further to alter and renew at their pleasure, to assign to the officers who may be chosen to conduct or transact the business of the corporation their respective duties, fix their compensations, remove any or all of them from office for any sufficient cause, and appoint, until the next election, others in their room and place, as often as a majority shall agree so to do, to make, or- be held. be elected. SECT. V. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That there shall be an annual meeting of the members of Annual the corporation, held at such time and place as shall be esta- meetings to blished by the by-laws thereof; at which time and place the members aforesaid shall elect a secretary, a treasurer, and Officers to nine trustees, of whom not less than five shall constitute a quorum; and until the first election for trustees shall be held tees to conas aforesaid, James Hughs, John Anderson, Elisha M'Curdy, stitute a quoThomas Hughs, Thomas Marques, George Scott, William rum. Trustees ap Rea, William Hughs, and William Lee, shall possess and exercise all the power necessary for that purpose. Five trus pointed. SECT. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the trustees and other officers of the said corpora- Accounts, tion shall keep, or cause to be kept, in suitable books for the &c. of the corporation purpose, just and proper entries of all the proceedings and ac- to be kept: counts of the said corporation; which books shall be laid be- and submit fore the members of the corporation at each annual meeting, ted, &c. prior to the election of the trustees and other officers for the ensuing year. In case of SECT. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That should the members of the said society or corpora- misuser or tion, at any time hereafter, misuse or abuse the powers, rights, nonuser of and privileges herein granted, by applying them to any other the power's purpose or purposes, than those enumerated in this act, the le- hereby gislature may resume all the rights, powers and privileges granted, the legislature herein and hereby granted, and declare the said act, and every may resume thereof void. part the same. This act to continue in SECT. VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this act shall be and continue in force for and during the term of twenty-one years after the passing thereof, and force no longer. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight years. hundred and ten. SIMON SNYDER B b ed. CHAPTER CXXV. An ACT supplementary to an act, entitled “An act directing the sales of certain town-lots in the town of Beaver, and other land adjacent thereto." SECT. I. 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 A proviso in of the same, That the time mentioned for making improve the original ments in the proviso of the first section of the act to which act extend- this is a supplement be, and the same is hereby extended to the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and Except as to eleven, and no longer: Provided always, That the extension lot No. 97. herein mentioned shall not extend to lot number ninety-seven, in the plan of said town; the title of which shall be vested in Matthew Taylor Steen, his heirs or assigns, on his or their paying to the treasurer of this commonwealth the sum for which said lot was sold by the commissioners appointed for that purpose. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER CXXVI in ACT dissolving the marriage of Lewis Albertus and Zilla his W wife. HEREAS it appears to the legislature that Lewis Alber tus of the city of Philadelphia, was married to a certain Zilla Clark, of the state of New-Jersey, and it appearing by the testimony of sundry reputable persons that the said Zilla, not only since her intermarriage, but previous thereto, has often discovered incontestible evidences of insanity, particularly since her intermarriage, by frequently abandoning the house of her said husband, in great rage, and going to her father's in New-Jersey, notwithstanding it appears that her said husband has uniformly treated her with great kindness and affection, and it further appearing that the father of the said Zilla has agreed to support and maintain her during her natural life, and that he has given his full and free consent to a separation of the said Lewis and Zilla by divorce, and it appearing to the legislature that no beneficial consequences will be likely to result either to the parties concerned or to society, from a further continuation of the matrimonial contract: Therefore, SECT. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General tract of Assembly met, and it is bereby enacted by the authority of the The mar same, That the marriage contract entered into by the said Lewis riage conand Zilla Albertus be, and the same is hereby declared to be null Lewis Aland void, and the parties respectively set free and discharged from bertus and the marriage contract, and all the duties arising under the same, Zilla his wife as fully and absolutely as if they never had been joined in mar- Legitimacy riage, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect, of children or render illegimate any child or children born of the body of not to be the said Zilla during the coverture. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate, APPROVED the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. dissolved. affected SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER CXXVII. A supplement to the act entitled, " An act to alter the judiciary system of this commonwealth," passed February 24th, 1806. SECT. I. BE E 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 from and after the passing of this act, the supreme court Supreme of this commonwealth shall have original jurisdiction within the court in cercity and county of Philadelphia, in all civil actions wherein the tain cases to have original matter in controversy shall be of the value of five hundred doljurisdiction lars and upwards, and shall have and possess all and singular the within the powers and authorities of issuing writs and original process in city and actions wherein the matter in controversy shall be of the value county. aforesaid, which they had and possessed before the passing of the act to which this is a supplement. in same SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the judges of the said supreme court shall severally, in the Courts of order and rotation, at the times and periods to be established by Nisi Prius themselves, hold courts of Nisi Prius in the same city and county to be held at least thirty-three weeks in each and every year hereafter; place. Provided always, that if the business of the said courts shall not Proviso. require so long a time to go through and finish the same, that in such case the said judges shall not be obliged to hold their said sessions for the whole number of weeks hereinbefore mentioned, but only for so long a time as shall be necessary to go through and finish the business of the said court. SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in all actions brought or to be brought in the court of com- In demands mon pleas for said county, wherein the matter in controversy 'of $500 &c. the suit may shall be of the value of five hundred dollars and upwards, the be removed defendant or defendants in such action or actions shall be at li- from the |