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 Adam Klinefelter, Daniel Hartman, William Ilgenfritz, John Kolb, Corporators. William Schall, Robert J. Fisher, Thomas B. Hambly, John G. Campbell, Michael Hoke, John Hough, Alexander Demuth, John Hartman, Peter M'Intyre, Benjamin Weiser, junior, Captain William Patterson, Jacob Drexler, Samuel Wehrly, Frederick Baugher, Martin Crull, Peter Zorger, senior, John Voglesong, James L. M'Call, Henry Latimer and Andrew M'Conkey, and all and every other person or persons hereafter becoming members of the York savings institution, in the manner hereafter mentioned, shall be and are hereby created and made a corporation and body politic, by the name and style of the York Name. savings institution, and by that name shall have succession, and be capa

ble by law to hold and dispose of property, to sue and be sued, plead

and be impleaded, answer and defend, and to be answered and defended Powers, authoriin courts of law and equity, or in any other place whatever, and to re- ties, rights, &c. ceive and make all deeds, transfers, contracts, covenants, conveyances, and grants whatsoever, and to make, have, and use a common seal, and the same to change and renew at pleasure, and generally to do every act or thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and promote the object and design of said corporation.

SECTION 2. The object of this corporation shall be to receive, from Object. time to time, and at all times, from all persons disposed to entrust them therewith, such funds as may be deposited with them, aud for which they shall pay to the depositors such rates of interest as may be from time to time agreed upon by the directors of the said institution: Pro- Proviso. vided, That this charter shall continue in force until the first Monday

of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.

SECTION 3. There shall be a meeting of the members of the said Annual meeting. York savings institution, on such day in the month of May next, at such place as the five persons first named in this act, or any three of them shall appoint, giving at least ten days' notice of such meeting, in two or more newspapers in the said county of York, and on such day in the month of May, and at such place annually thereafter, as the bylaws of said institution shall provide, for the purpose of choosing from Elections. among the members, thirteen directors to manage the affairs of the said institution for twelve months thereafter, and until a new election shall take place; and the five persons first named, shall be judges of the first election of directors; and the judges of all future elections, shall be appointed by the directors, for the time being, and notice of such elections, given in such manner as the by-laws shall provide.

SECTION 4. The directors for the time being, or a majority of them, Officers. shall have power to elect a president from their own body, to appoint such officers and agents as they shall deem necessary to conduct or execute the business and affairs of the institution, to fix their compensation, and in their discretion, to dismiss them, to provide for the taking bonds to the corporation from all or any of the officers or agents by them so

By-laws.

Proviso.

Capital stock.

Proviso.

Committee of examination.

Dividends.

Banking prohibited.

Quarterly state

ments.

Repeal.

appointed, with security, conditioned in such forms as they shall prescribe for the faithful execution of their several duties, and secure the corporation from loss, to provide for the investment of the funds of the corporation, in such manner as they shall deem most safe and beneficial, to provide for paying all the necessary expenses of conducting the affairs of the corporation, and generally to pass all such by-laws as shall be necessary to the exercise of the said powers, and of the other powers vested in said corporation by this charter, and the said by-laws, from time to time, to alter and repeal: Provided, That all such by-laws as shall be made by the directors, may be altered or repealed by two-thirds of the members, at any annual meeting, or at any general meeting called in pursuance of any by-law made for that purpose, and the majority of members may, at any annual or general meeting, pass by-laws, which shall be binding upon the directors: Provided, That such by-laws shall not be contrary to the laws of this state or of the United States.

SECTION 5. The capital of said corporation shall consist of five thousand shares, at twenty dollars each, to be subscribed for, and paid in at such times, and in such sums as shall be decided on by the persons herein appointed commissioners, or by a majority of such as shall attend the first stated meeting of said commissioners: Provided, That no individual shall be allowed to take more than one hundred shares of the stock of said corporation by subscription; in case the whole number of shares be not sold at the first opening of the books, the amount so left unsold may afterwards be disposed of, at such time and place, and under such regulations as the directors for the time being may order; and as a part of the notice required by law, previous to applying for a charter, was, by accident, omitted in the first weeks' advertisement thereof in the newspapers, therefore, it is hereby provided, that no irregularity in said advertisement shall affect the validity of this charter.

SECTION 6. It shall be the duty of the directors, at least once in every six months, to appoint from the members of the said corporation, five competent persons as a committee of examination, whose duty it shall be to investigate the affairs of said corporation, and to make a report thereof; and it shall also be the duty of the directors, on the first Monday of January and July, in each and every year, to make and declare a dividend of the interest and profits of the said corporation, after paying its expenses, and the same to pay over to the stockholders, or their legal representatives, within ten days thereafter.

SECTION 7. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construct, as to give or extend to the said institution the power of issuing their own notes.

SECTION 8. It shall be the duty of the said institution to lay before the auditor general, quarterly statements, under the oath or affirmation of their president, of the affairs of the said corporation, at such time as the said officer shall designate.

SECTION 9. That the legislature hereby reserves the power to alter, revoke or annul the charter of said savings institution, whenever in their opinion it may be injurious to the citizens of this commonwealth, in such manner, however, that no injustice shall be done to the corporators thereof.

FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WILLIAM P. WILCOX,

Speaker of the Senate.

FRS. R. SHUNK.

APPROVED-The seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-five.

No. 223.

AN ACT

Authorizing the citizens of the county of Clearfield to decide whether the sale of vinous and spiritous liquors shall be continued in that county.

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 from and after the first day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand Citizens of Cleareight hundred and forty-six, it shall be lawful for the citizens of the field county, to several boroughs and townships of the county of Clearfield, at the vote for or against annual elections for constables and other township officers in the said sale of spiritous liquors. several boroughs and townships, to decide by their votes whether or not the sale of vinous and spiritous liquors shall be permitted among them for the then ensuing year; and it shall be the duty of the inspector and judges of the said several boroughs and townships, at the said elections, to receive tickets, either written or printed, from the qualified voters thereof, labelled on the outside Sale of Liquors," and in the inside, "For the sale of Liquors," or "Against the sale of Liquors," and to deposite the said tickets in a box to be provided for that purpose by the said inspectors and judges, as is now required by law in case of tickets for officers to be elected at such election; and at the close of said election the votes so deposited shall be counted, and an accurate return of the same shall be made to the clerk of the court of quarter sessions of said county, to be by him laid before the judges of the said court, with the other township election returns, on the first day of the court next after such election shall be held.

SECTION 2. That in receiving and counting said votes, and in making Returns. returns of the same, the said inspectors, judges, and the clerks of the elections, shall be governed in all respects by the laws of this commonwealth now in force, or which may hereafter be enacted, regulating township elections; and all the penalties of the said election laws are hereby extended to the voters, judges, inspectors and clerks voting at and attending upon the election to be held under the provisions of the first section of this act.

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SECTION 3. That whenever, in any of the said boroughs or town- Result of election ships, there shall be a majority of votes Against a sale of Liquors," to determine sale as aforesaid, then and in that case, for the year next ensuing the first of liquor. day of the then next regular term of the court in said county, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell vinous or spiritous liquors within such borough or township; and it shall not be lawful for the court of quarter sessions to grant licenses to any inn or tavern within such borough or township for the said year, nor for the treasurer of the county to issue any license to any retailer of merchandize for the sale of vinous or spiritous liquors within said boroughs or townships for said year; and the sale of vinous or spiritous liquors within such boroughs and townships, at any time during said year, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and is hereby prohibited.

SECTION 4. That if any person or persons, within any of the said Penalty for vendboroughs or townships, in which there shall have been given a majority ing liquor. of votes "Against the sale of Liquors," as aforesaid, shall, within one

year next after the first day of the court of the said county held next after the said election, sell and deliver, or cause to be sold and delivered, any vinous or spirituous liquors to any person or persons, such person or persons so selling shall be liable to indictment, and on conviction thereof shall forfeit and pay, for every such offence, a sum not less than twenty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars.

SECTION 5. That if any of the boroughs or townships in said county Laws applicable shall, by a majority of votes polled as aforesaid, decide "For a sale of when decision is in favor of selling Liquors," then the laws now in force regulating the licensing of inns liquor. and taverns, and retailers of foreign goods and merchandize, including liquors, shall remain in force and apply to the said boroughs and townships, as if this act had not been passed; and all laws hereby supplied or altered, are hereby repealed.

APPROVED-The seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred

and forty-five.

FRS. R. SHUNK.

Expenses.

Berks county.

No. 224.

AN ACT

Relating to views of roads and damages, in the counties of Monroe and Montgomery, 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 hereafter, the expenses of all views and reviews of public roads, and views to assess damages arising from the opening of public roads, in the counties of Monroe and Montgomery, shall be paid by the petitioner or petitioners therefor.

SECTION 2. That from and after the first day of August next, all Road damages, &c., Colebrook- assessments of damages arising from the opening of any public road, or dale township, part of any public road, within the township of Colebrookdale, in the county of Berks, shall be paid by the petitioners for the road, before such public road, on the part thereof shall be opened; and the court of quarter sessions of Berks county, upon application, at any time after confirmation of any such road, shall appoint six disinterested persons to view and assess the damages, if any, which may be sustained.

Jefferson county, roads, expenses, &c.

SECTION 3. That all expenses for laying out and opening roads, in Jefferson county, be paid out of the road funds of the several townships through which the same may pass, and that all expenses for the election of township officers be paid out of the township rates and levies; also, that the several supervisors of all the townships, in the county of

Jefferson, before they enter upon the duties of their office, be required to give surety, in a bond double the amount of the sum assessed for road purposes, conditioned for the faithful performance of their respective offices, and for the faithful application of all moneys that may come to their hands; also, that the auditors of the several townships, within ten days after they shall have settled with the supervisors, to file in the office of the clerk of the quarter sessions of Jefferson county, under their oaths or affirmations, a true copy of said settlement, which said account, when so exhibited, if no exceptions are filed within thirty days, the same shall be final and conclusive, and have all the effects that a settlement made by the auditors of the county can or would have, when made with the commissioners of the county.

Commissioners'

SECTION 4. That Jacob S. Yost, George Richards, Isaac Linderman, Streets in NorrisJohn M. Jones, and William T. Morrison, be and they are hereby town. appointed commissioners, and they, or any three of them, shall have authority to view and lay out streets in the borough of Norristown, in the county of Montgomery, at the following places, and on the follow-duties, &c. ing lines or routes, and of such width as may be necessary, to wit: One street from Sweede street, at or near the angle in the same near Samuel Jacoby's barn, and the west corner of William Powell's land, to the public road leading from the north-east end of Greene alley, eastwardly, by Samuel Haw's house; one street from Sweede street, at a point at or near the west corner of the Friends' meeting house and burial lot, to Greene alley continued, or to the above mentioned road; one street from Sweede street, at the intersection of Chestnut street, to Greene alley continued, on to the above mentioned road; one street from Sweede street, at the intersection of Marshall street, to Greene alley continued, each of which streets shall be laid out as nearly as practicable parallel with Airy street; one street from the first above mentioned proposed new street, at a point where a line from the middle of the north-east end of De Kalb street, run on the course of De Kalb street would strike said proposed new street; thence along such line to Marshall street continued or the academy lot; thence northwesterly along Marshall street continued, or by said academy lot, to a point north-west of the east corner of Mrs. Maris's land; thence on the southeast side of the same, along the north-west line and clear of the academy lot to Airy street; one street from the north-east end of Greene alley, on the same course thereof, to the first or second above mentioned proposed new street; one street from the south-west end of Cherry alley, on the same course thereof to Schuylkill street, if they shall think the said streets, or either of them, necessary for the convenience of the citizens or for public use; and shall also widen Barbadoes street on the north-west side thereof, between Egypt street and Lafayette street, so as to make Barbadoes street, between said points, of the same width as the same is between Lafayette street and the Schuylkill river, and also widen the road leading from Sweede street, by William Stroud's land, to the borough line near Stoney creek; and make report of their proceedings, accompanied with a plot or draft of the streets laid out and widened by them, and the connecting streets and roads, to the court of quarter sessions, within two months thereafter; and all the provisions of the act of the twenty-fourth of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, entitled "An Act for the improvement of the borough of Norristown, in the county of Montgomery," so far as the same may be applicable to the said proposed new streets shall apply to the authority, duty, and proceedings of the commissioners herein named, as fully as if such provisions were herein specifically enacted; and said commissioners shall receive one dollar and fifty cents per day for their