regulations, as are or shall be established by law for the Phila- $20 fine for passing toll house with SECTION 22. If any owner or driver of any car, carriage, or conveyance whatsoever, upon the said rail-road, shall pass by any place appointed for receiving tolls without making payment, with intent to defraud the said company, he, she or they 30 offending, shall forfeit and pay for the use of the said com- intent to pany, the sum of twenty dollars, to be sued for and recovered defraud. by action of debt, before any justice of the peace, in like manner and subject to the same rules and regulations as debts under one hundred dollars may be sued for and recovered, together with costs of suit. to work of co. SECTION 23. If any person or persons shall wilfully and knowingly break, injure or destroy the rail-road, or any part Punishment thereof, or any work, edifice or device, or any part thereof, to for doing be erected by the said company in pursuance of this act, he, wilful injury she or they shall forfeit and pay to the said company three times the actual damages so sustained, to be sued for and recovered, with cost of suit, in any court having cognizance thereof, by action of debt, in the name and for the use of said company, and shall also be subject to indictment in the Court of Quarter. Sessions of the proper county, and upon conviction of such offence, shall be punished by fine and imprisonment at the dis cretion of the court. Co.must com. SECTION 24. If the president, managers and company shall not proceed to carry on said work within three years from the mence work passage of this act, and shall not complete the same as afore- in 3 years, said in five years thereafter, according to the true intent and complete in 5, meaning of this act, or if after the completion of the said rail- and keep road road the said corporation shall suffer the same to go to decay forfeit chartex in repair, or and be impassable for the term of two years, then this charter shall become null and void, except so far as compels said company to make reparation for daniages. creased to SECTION 25. If any increase of the capital stock be deemed necessary by the stockholders to complete the said rail-road, it Capital stock may be lawful for the said president, managers and company, may be in. at a stated or special meeting convened for the purpose, to in- 6000 shares. rease the number of shares, so that they shall not exceed the whole six thousand, and to receive and demand the moneys for shares so subscribed in like manner and under like penalties as is hereinbefore provided for the original subscription, or as shall be provided for by their by-laws. per When nett profits exceed 10 per cent. SECTION 26. That whenever the nett profits of the company incorporated by this act shall exceed ten the capi cent. upon sal actually paid in, then one-half of said surplus shall be paid half of surple into the State Treasury, to be added to the common school fund; to go to o and further, the said company shall not at any time reduce the school fund A. Hunter, Gratuity to 2. Deihl, J. Wachter, J. Shultz, county, and George Wolf, of Lebanon county, revolutionary soldiers, or to their respective orders, forty dollars each immediately, and an annnity of forty dollars to each during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. SECTION 4. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay to Andrew Hunter, of Indiana county, and William Brown, of Venango county, soldiers of the revolution, or to their respective orders, forty dollars immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars to each during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. SECTION 5. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay to Eve Deihl, of York county, widow of George J. Kormony, Deihl, a soldier of the revolution, to John Kormony, of Lebanon county, John Wachter, of Berks county, John Shultz, of Lebanon county, George King, of Franklin county, and Joseph Rehr, of Berks county, revolutionary soldiers, a gratuity of forty dollars each, as full compensation for their respective claims against the Commonwealth; the foregoing gratuities and pensions to be paid in conformity to existing laws. J. Rehr. JAMES THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB KERN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. GEO: WOLF. No. 28. Au Act To authorize Charles Roberts, guardian of Caleb C. and Henrietta Roberts, to sell certain real estate. * 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 Charles Roberts of the city of Philadelphia, the guardian of his two minor children, Caleb C. and Henrietta Roberts, be and he is hereby authoriz. d and empowered to sell and convey in fee simple, or otherwise, or to let on ground rent, all or any part of the estate, right, title or interest of the said minors in and to a certain lot or piece of ground, situated on the north side of Callowhill street and west side of Eleventh street, in the district of Spring Garden, being a part of the square of ground between Callowhill and James streets and Eleventh and Twelfth streets : Provided however, That before the said sale or sales or the said letting on ground rent shall be valid, and the conveyances of the said estates and interests made, the same shall be approved by the Orphan's Court of the city and county of Philadelphia, and the said guardian shall give such security for the application of the proceeds thereof, as the said court shall and may direct. APPROVED- --The nineteenth day of February, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-five. GEO: WOLF. No. 29. An Act For the vacation of a part of Cherry alley, in the borough of Washington, in the county of Washington. WHEREAS, the board of trustees of Washington college, in the borough of Washington, have recently purchased several lots with a view of erecting a new college edifice, which lots lie to the north of the present college campus, and are separated therefrom by an alley called Cherry Alley: And whereas, it has been represented that it would be conducive to the interests of said institution to have said lots attached to the present campus, so that the whole college ground may be embraced in one enclosure: Therefore, Preamble. Part of 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 so much of the alley called Cherry alley, in the general plan of the town of Washington, in the county of Wash- Cherry alley, ington, as runs from College street westward, two hundred and in Washing forty feet, or as far as the lots on both sides of said alley may ton, vacated. hereafter be owned by the board of trustees of Washington college, be and the same is hereby declared to be vacated, and shall no longer be deemed and allowed to be a public way. SECTION 2. The board of trustees of said college shall, at Duty of the their own proper cost, before actually closing any part of said board of Cherry alley, cause to be made an accurate survey of such part trustees. A. Hunter, Gratuity to J. Wachter, J. Shultz, G. King, J. Rehr. county, and George Wolf, of Lebanon county, revolutionary soldiers, or to their respective orders, forty dollars each immediately, and an annnity of forty dollars to each during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. SECTION 4. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay to Andrew Hunter, of Indiana county, and William Brown, of Venango county, soldiers of the revolution, or to their respective orders, forty dollars immediately, and an annuity of forty dollars to each during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. SECTION 5. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay to Eve Deihl, of York county, widow of George Deihl, a soldier of the revolution, to John Kormony, of Lebanon county, John Wachter, of Berks county, John Shultz, of Lebanon county, George King, of Franklin county, and Joseph Rehr, of Berks county, revolutionary soldiers, a gratuity of forty dollars each, as full compensation for their respective claims against the Commonwealth; the foregoing gratuïties and pensions to be paid in conformity to existing laws. JAMES THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB KERN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. GEO: WOLF. No. 28. An Act To authorize Charles Roberts, guardian of Caleb C. and Henrietta Roberts, to sell certain real estate. 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 Charles Roberts of the city of Philadelphia, the guardian of his two minor children, Caleb C. and Henrietta Roberts, be and he is hereby authoriz. d and empowered to sell and convey in fee simple, or otherwise, or to let on ground rent, all or any part of the estate, right, title or interest of the said minors in and to a certain lot or piece of ground, situated on the north side of Callowhill street and west side of Eleventh street, in the district of Spring Garden, being a part of the square of ground between Callowhill and James streets and Eleventh and Twelfth streets: 'rovided however, That before the said sale or sales or the said letting on ground rent shall be valid, and the conveyances of the said estates and interests made, the same shall be approved by the Orphan's Court of the city and county of Philadelphia, and the said guardian shall give such security for the application of the proceeds thereof, as the said court shall and may direct. APPROVED--The nineteenth day of February, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-five. GEO: WOLF. No. 29. An Act For the vacation of a part of Cherry alley, in the borough of Washington, in the county of Washington. WHEREAS, the board of trustees of Washington college, in the borough of Washington, have recently purchased several lots with a view of erecting a new college edifice, which lots lie to the north of the present college campus, and are separated therefrom by an alley called Cherry Alley: And whereas, it has been represented that it would be conducive to the interests of said institution to have said lots attached to the present campus, so that the whole college ground may be embraced in onc enclosure: Therefore, Preamble. Part of 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 so much of the alley called Cherry alley, in the general plan of the town of Washington, in the county of Wash- Cherry alley, ington, as runs from College street westward, two hundred and in Washing forty feet, or as far as the lots on both sides of said alley may ton, vacated. hereafter be owned by the board of trustees of Washington college, be and the same is hereby declared to be vacated, and shall no longer be deemed and allowed to be a public way. SECTION 2. The board of trustees of said college shall, at Duty of the their own proper cost, before actually closing any part of said board of Cherry alley, cause to be made an accurate survey of such part trustees. |