successors, for the use of the said Institute, any estate, real and shall not exceed in the whole the yearly value of five thousand SECTION 2. The said trustees and their successors, by the name, style and title aforesaid, may sue and be sued, plead and May sue, &c. be impleaded, in any of the courts of this Commonwealth, having jurisdiction of the subject matter, and may authenticate by their seal ail their corporate acts and deeds. $11,000 to be SECTION 3. The said trustees and their successors, for the purpose of purchasing the messuages and tenements, with sev-raised for the enty three acres of land appertaining thereto, called Abbeville, purchase of near the city of Lancaster, and fitting and preparing the same certain real for a seminary of learning, are authorized to raise the sum of estate, &c. eleven thousand dollars, by dividing the same into two hundred and twenty shares of fifty dollars, to be subscribed for by such persons as may be willing to make the investment, redeemable in the whole or in part whenever the trustees shall sell the above mentioned premises, and to bear interest at five per cent. per annum from the first day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, payable out of the annual revenue of the Institute after the expenses thereof are discharged, and they may sell when they deem proper any part of the said seventy-three acres, not including the mansion house, buildings and appurtenances, not exceeding sixty acres thereof, and after paying with the proceeds the expenses of the sale, and the debts of the Institute, (if any,) they shall distribute the balance pro rata amongst the share holders, in reduction of the amount of their respective shares, and in case the said Institute should fail or cease to be conducted as a seminary of learning, the said trustees shall, at their discretion, or whenever the owners of a majority of the shares may in writing require it, sell the whole of the premises remaining unsold, together with all the property belonging to the Institute, and after deducting expenses and debts, divide the proceeds equally among the share holders, pro rata, as aforesaid. of business. &c. SECTION 4. The trustees shall have power and authority to supply any vacancies in consequence of death, resignation or Of vacancies, otherwise in their own body, by new appointments, which a ma- the transact'n jority of the surviving or remaining trustees shall be competent to make. A majority shall be a quorum to transact business, and shall have power to appoint professors, tutors and all agents necessary to carry on the said Institute, to prescribe their duties and fix their compensation, and in general to manage the literary and fiscal concerns of the Institute in the manner most conducive in their opinion to its success and prosperity, for which purpose they may make such by-laws, rules and regulations, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States or this Commonwealth, as they may think proper: Provided, Proviso. The same shall be adopted at stated meetings or meetings called, with notice to each of the trustees: And provided, They shall cause to be kept a regular account of the income and expendi tures of the said Institute, which shall be open at all reasonable No misnomer times to the inspection of the share holders or any of them. to defeat a grant, &c. Proviso. Ind. Church SECTION 5. No misnomer of the said corporation shall de feat or annul any gift, grant, devise or bequest to or for the said corporation: Frovided, The intent of the parties shall suffi ciently appear on the face of the instrument containing the same. SECTION 6. The trustees of the First Independent Church Of the First of Christ, called the Universalist meeting, in their house of public of Christ, in Worship in Lombard street, in the city of Philadelphia, or a maPhiladelphia jority of them, shall have all the power and authority granted to said trustees in the act respecting the Universalist church, passed the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, in as full and effectual manner as if no misnomer of the corporate title of said church had been made in said act. O. C. of An Act Authorizing the clerk of the Orphan's Court of the county of Northamp ton, to supply the records of said court, and for other purposes. 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 Clerk of the same, That Charles Kitchen, esquire, clerk of the Orphans' Court of the county of Northampton, (or in case of his death, Northampton resignation or removal, his successor in office,) or any other fit co. to supply person under the direction of the commissioners, is hereby audefects in the thorized to supply, from the papers on file in his office by the records, &c. proper legal and customary docket entries in like cases, all deficiencies that may exist in the records of the said court, from the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, to the thousand eight hundred and fourteen, inclusive. SECTION 2. After the said docket entries shall have been made and the records made up, they shall be submitted to the To be exam'd & certified by judges. year one judges of the said Orphans' Court, who shall examine the same or cause them to be examined in such manner as to ascertain their correctness or incorrectness, and if the result of the said examination shall be such as to satisfy the said court of their correctness, they shall certify the fact at the end of the book or books containing the same, after which the said book or books shall ever be deemed and taken to be true and legal records of the said court. SECTION 3. After the books containing the said entries shall Compensatʼn thus have become part of the records of the said court, the com- & expenses missioners of the said county shall pay to the clerk, aforesaid, to be paid by by warrants drawn upon the treasurer of the said county, such co. commis're compensation as the said commissioners shall deem just and reasonable and the said commissioners shall also pay in the same manner in accordance with the instructions of the Orphans' Court as aforesaid, the amount of expense, if any, that may have been incurred in the examination of the records aforesaid. SECTION 4. The treasurer of Indiana county is hereby Treasurer of authorized and directed to transcribe and record, in suitable Ind. co. to books, to be by him for that purpose procured, all books of sale record sales of unseated lands for taxes now in his office, and all transcripts of unseated of unsealed lands now in his office, on which taxes were due, returned to the treasurer of said county by the commissioners thereof, preparatory to a sale for taxes. lands. SECTION 5. The records of said sale books and transcripts, Copi's thereof when so made and certified by said treasurer under oath or affir- to be evidence mation, shall be as good evidence in all courts of justice and as valid in law, for all purposes, as the said original sale books and transcripts would or could be. SECTION 6. The said treasurer shall be allowed as a comCompensati'n pensation the same fees that are by law allowed to recorders of of treasurer. deeds for the same amount of service, which compensation and the costs of said books to be procured, as aforesaid, shall be paid out of the county funds, on warrants drawn by the commis. sioners of said county or the treasurer thereof. SECTION 7. The treasurer of Somerset county is authorized Trea. of Som. and hereby directed to commence on the second Monday of co to sell un August next, and adjourn from day to day, if it shall be neces- seated lands. sary so to do, in order to make public sale of the whole or any part of such tracts of unscated lands lying and being in said county of Somerset, as will pay all arrearages of taxes that may be due thereon up to the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, inclusive, together with all costs accruing by reason of the nonpayment thereof. SECTION 8. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of said county of Somerset to give at least sixty days notice of the time and place of such sales, the township or townships in which such tracts are respectively situated, the number of acres contained in each tract, the names of the warrantees or owners thereof, and the sums due on each tract for taxes, at least four times in one daily newspaper published in the city of Philadel To publish notice thereof &c. phia, and in at least one newspaper published in the county of Somerset, and the said sales shall be conducted in the manner and under the regulations and restrictions prescribed in the act entitled An act to amend the act directing the mode of selling unseated lands for taxes, and for other purposes, passed the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. JAMES THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS S. CUNNINGHAM, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-five. GEO: WOLF. Commis'ners appointed to No. 150. An Act Relative to the laying out certain State roads, and for other purposes. 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 Jack, John Cribbs, junior, and Robert lay out a State Richards, be and hereby are appointed commissioners to view, lay out and mark a State road, beginning at the borough of Kittanning, Armstrong county, and to cross Redbank creek, at or near the town of Millville in said county, and from thence to the town of Brookville in Jefferson county. road in Arm strong co. Indiana to Cambria co. Cambria to Bedford co. SECTION 2. Americus Bender, James Fenlon, J. Duane Stark, Michael Leary, William Todd, Andrew McGuire and John Kean of Cambria county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, lay out and mark a State road leading from the Cherry tree, in Indiana county, to pass at or near the town of Loretto, in Cambria county and thence by the nearest and best route to the town of Munster, in said county. SECTION 3. Peter Livergood and Christian Horner of Cambria county, William Oldham of Somerset county, and John Hammer and Abraham Schell of Bedford county, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a State road, by courses and distances, beginning at the borough of Johnstown, in the county of Cambria, to the town of Schellsburg, in the county of Bedford. SECTION 4. Peter Schell, Christopher Appleton, Humphrey Dillion, Thomas Rea, Hubartus Rice, George Bortz and CampState of Ma'd bell Hendrickson of Bedford county, and Peter Cassidy and James O'Connor of Huntingdon county, be and they are hereby Bedford to appointed commissioners to view, lay out and mark a State road, leading from the town of Bedford, in Bedford county, by the nearest and best route to the Maryland line, in a direction to Cumberland, in the State of Maryland. Duties of SECTION 5. It shall be the duty of the said commissioners, or a majority of them appointed to view as aforesaid, after having Commis'ners. been sworn or affirmed before some justice of the peace, who shall file and preserve the same in his office, to perform the du ties enjoined on them by this act with impartiality and fidelity, carefully to view the ground over which the road by them laid out may pass, and lay out the same as near to a straight line between the aforesaid points, as the nature of the ground and circumstances will permit, and so that the vertical departure from a horizontal line shall in no point exceed five degrees, except at the crossings of ravines and streams, where, by moderate filling and bridging, the declination of the road may be preserved within that limit; and further, it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to have due regard to the crossing of waters, the nature of the ground and damages to private property, and all other circumstances that may effect the route, so that by a judicious combination of them, the route adopted may best promote the public good, and that they shall clearly and distinctly mark upon the ground the route agreed upon in such a manner as to enable the supervisors readily to find the same; and for the purpose of fulfilling the duties by this act enjoined, the commissioners herein mentioned shall receive a per diem allowance of one dollar and fifty cents each for every day that they, to- allowance. gether with provisioners, they shall be necessarily employed in performing the duties of this act, and in case any of the said commissioners shall perform the duties of surveyor, he shall receive fifty cents per day in addition, and the said commissioners are hereby authorized to employ one surveyor, at one dollar and fifty cents per diem, two chain bearers and one axe-man, at a per diem allowance not exceeding seventy-five cents. Per diem Time of meeting. SECTION 6. The said commissioners shall meet on or before the first Monday in August next, or as soon thereafter as prac ticable, at such places as a majority of them shall agree upon, and complete the location of said roads as soon as practicable; and if any vacancy or vacancies shall happen by resignation, or any other cause, the Governor or the court of Quarter Sessions of the proper county, as the case may be, are hereby au- Vacancies, thorized to fill the vacancy or vacancies by a suitable appoint- how filled. ment.. SECTION 7. It shall be the duty of the commissioners to make out a fair and accurate draft of the location of each of said Drafts of roads, noting thereon the courses and distances as they occur, roads, where to be depost'd the improvements passed through, and also the crossing of county and township lines, roads and waters, with such other matters as may serve for explanation, one copy whereof shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, |