Style of. Trustees of. sors declared a body politic. Style of the corporation. son, fularts, sciences and literature, by the name, style and title of "Erie academy," under the care, direction, and government of eight trustees, viz. Thomas Forster, John Kelso, Thomas WilWilliam Wallace, John Gray, Jacob Carmack, James DunAnd their succes. can, and William Lattimore, which said trustees and their successors to be elected as is herein after mentioned, shall be, and hereby are declared to be one body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of "The trustees of Erie academy;" and by the same name shall have And privileges, perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of record and elsewhere; and shall be competent and capable in law and equity to take and to hold, to them and their successors, for the use of said academy, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, and chattels of whatsoever kind, nature or quality, real, personal or mixed, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, will, devise or bequest, from any person or persons whomsoever capable of making the same; and the same from time to time to grant, bargain, sell, demise, alien or dispose of for the use of said academy; and to erect such buildings as may be necessary; and generally to do all and singular the matters and things which shall be lawful for them to do for the well being of the said academy, and the due management and ordering the affairs thereof; Provided always, That the yearly value or income of the estates or money shall not exceed four thousand dollars. Limitation of income. Number of trastees. Term of service. elected. SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the number of trustees shall be eight as aforesaid, and shall be so changed as that none of them shall continue in office for a longer term than four years without being reelected by the citizens of said county, residing in the Triangle; and for that purpose it shall be the duty of the said trusFive members to tees at their first meeting when not less than five of them shall be present, (which members shall be a board or quorum to do business,) and they are hereby authorized and required to cast lots for ascertaining the members to be changed each year until the whole number shall be changed; and in order annually to supply the vacancies that may take place the citizens of the north part of said county of Erie commonly When elections called the Triangle shall on the second Tuesday of October be a quorum. Lots to be cast for changing the members. to be held, and how. next, and annually thereafter for ever, at the same places, in the same manner and under the same laws, rules, and regu lations as members of the state legislature are chosen, elect two trustees to supply the place of the trustees going out of How vacancies office; Provided always, That in case the places of any of the trustees shall become vacant by death, resignation or otherwise, the remaining trustees shall appoint person or persons to fill such vacancy or vacancies until the next general election, to be supplied. when the class in which said vacancy or vacancies may happen are to be chosen. the trustees. SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, First meeting of That the first meeting of the said trustees shall be at Erie on the third Tuesday of May next, and at such other times as a majority of the trustees shall determine. SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Treasurer to be That the trustees shall appoint a treasurer annually, who shall appointed. receive and hold all monies belonging to the institution and pay the same on orders signed by the board; he shall keep Duties of. fair accounts thereof, to be open at all times to the inspection of the trustees; and before he enters upon the duties of shall be bound his office, shall give bond in any sum at their discretion, with with surety. two or more sufficient sureties conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties enjoined, and the re-payment of all monies received by him, which bond shall be deposited with the prothonotary of the county. SECT. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, By-laws, &c. to That all by-laws, ordinances, and proceedings of the said be entered. corporation shall be fairly and regularly entered in a book or books to be kept for that purpose, and no misnomer of the No misnomer to said corporation shall defeat or annul any gift, grant, devise, &c. or bequest, to the said academy. defeat any gift, 500 acres of land granted to the use of said acade SECT. VI. And whereas by an act of assembly passed the eleventh day of April, anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, entitled, "An act to provide for selling the several reserved tracts of land adjoining the towns of Erie, Franklin, Warren and Waterford, and for other purposes therein mentioned," it was provided and enacted, that in each of the said reserved tracts the quantity of five hundred acres should be laid off for the use of such schools or academies as might thereafter be established by law in the said several towns; therefore, Be it further enacted by the autho rity aforesaid, That the tract of five hundred acres of land surveyed and laid off in the reserved tract adjoining the town of Erie in pursuance of the provision aforesaid, of the my; said act, be, and the same is hereby granted to and vested in the trustees of the said academy and their successors in fee simple, for the use of the said academy, which trustees shall have full power to farm, let, lease, or otherwise dispose of said land for any term not exceeding fifteen years from and after the passing of this act; and that the following in-lots in the town of Erie aforesaid; to wit, numbers two thousand town-lots. five hundred and twenty-nine, two thousand five hundred and thirty, two thousand five hundred and thirty-one, two thousand five hundred and thirty-two, two thousand five hundred and thirty-three, two thousand five hundred and thirty-four, two thousand five hundred and thirty-five, two thousand five hundred and thirty-six, two thousand five hundred and thirty And certain Buildings to be erected thereon, Penalty on trus tees neglecting to exhibit their accounts, &c. How to be settled and publish. ed. Trustees to take the oaths, &c. seven, two thousand five hundred and thirty-eight, two thou sand five hundred and thirty-nine, two thousand five hundred and forty, two thousand five hundred and forty-one, two thousand five hundred and forty-three, be, and the same are hereby granted to and vested in the said trustees and their successors in feesimple for the purpose of erecting a building or buildings thereon for the use of the said academy. SECT. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said trustees under the penalty of forty dollars each, to be recovered for the use of the said corporation as debts to that amount are by law recoverable, shall annually exhibit all their books, accounts, and vouchers of every kind to the auditors of the said county of Erie, to be settled, adjusted, and published in the same manner as the accounts of the county commissioners are by law directed to be settled, adjusted and published. SECT. VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the trustees herein before appointed, and their successors in office, shall before they enter on the duties of their trust before any judge or justice of the peace of this 'state, take and subscribe the oaths or affirmations prescribed by the constitution of this state to be taken by the officers of the state; and shall also take and subscribe an oath or affirmation for the faithful discharge of their respective trusts or office aforesaid. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. SIMON SNYDER. Philadelphia, &c. turnpike to be carried over the woodlands road. CHAPTER CXXII. A further SUPPLEMENT to an act, entitled, " An act to enable the governor to incorporate a company for making an artificial road from the city of Philadelphia, by Chads ford on Brandywine, to the line of the state in a direction towards Baltimore," SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful for the president, managers, and company of the Philadelphia, Brandywine and NewLondon turnpike road, to make and complete the same over and upon the road leading from the permanent bridge over Schuylkill to Darby, commonly called the Woodlands road, pleted over cer SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, And to be comThat it shall be lawful for the said president, managers and com-tain hills. pany to make and complete the said road on and over the hills at and near Crum, Ridley and Chester creeks, at an angle not exceeding four and a half degrees from a horizontal line. Angle of. SECT. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Notice to be giv That the notification to the stockholders of the company of en of dividends the time and place appointed for the payment of any proportion or dividend of the capital stock, in order to carry on the work, shall be given in two of the public newspapers printed in the city of Philadelphia, and one in the county of Chester. tion SECT. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Repealing serThat so much of the act to which this is a supplement as is hereby altered or supplied shall be so far and no farther repealed, JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER CXXIII. An ACT declaring Huntingdon creek from the mouth thereof to where Pine creek empties into the same; thence up Pine creek to Amos Buckele's saw-mill in the county of Northumberland, public highways. don and Pine public highways. SECT. I. 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 Hunt- Part of Huntingingdon creek from the mouth thereof; thence up the same to creeks declared the mouth of Pine creek; thence up Pine creek to Amos Buckelew's saw-mill; shall be, and the same are hereby declared public highways under the limitations and restrictions herein after specified; and.it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons desirous of improving or using the navigation of said Obstructions in streams to remove thereout all obstructions except mill-dams al- may be removed, ready built, at which dams the person or persons aforesaid shall have full power to make slopes thereon and keep the same in repair for for the passage of boats or rafts. ever D d except, &c. In what cases dams may be erected. And how. SECT. 11. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this act contained shall be deemed taken or understood to prevent any person or persons possessing lands on said streams of water, who before the passing of this act, had authority under the laws of this commonwealth to erect a dam, from erecting any such dam or dams that he, she or they may think proper; Provided always, That every such dam or dams be so constructed with a proper slope or slopes erected in the most convenient part thereof so that rafts or boats may not be obstructed in passing down the said waters, which slope or slopes shall be at least twenty feet wide, and be one foot lower than the other parts of said dam, the surface whereof shall be made of wood or other materials well compacted together, so that as little as possible of the water may be lost in passing down the same; and for every foot said slope shall be in height, it shall extend eight feet down the stream. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. SIMON SNYDER. named. CHAPTER CXXIV. An ACT authorizing the governor to incorporate a company for making an artificial road from, Mount Pleasant by Bethany, and the Narrows of Lackawaxen, to Dingman's ferry, in Wayne county. SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly Commissioners met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Edward Tilghman, Thomas Stewardson and William Drinker of the city of Philadelphia; Daniel W. Dingman, Dan Dimmick, Matthew Ridgway, Abisha Woodward. Jason Torry and Oliver Granger, of Wayne county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to do and perform the several things herein after mentioned; that is to say, they shall on or before the first day of June next, procure three books, and in each of them enter as Entry therein. follows, We whose names are hereunto subscribed do promise to pay to the president, managers and company of the Bethany and Dingmanschoice turnpike road; the sum of fifty dollars for every share of stock in the said company set opposite to our respective names, in such manner and proportions, and at such times as shall be determined by the president and managers of the said company in pursuance of an act of the general assembly Shall procure three books. |