roads. No. 295. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To the act erecting a new county to be called Carbon. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly: met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Confirmation of the court of quarter sessions for the county of Monroe shall have full power to confirm such roads within that part of Monroe county which is now included in the new county of Carbon, as were confirmed nisi by the said court before the erection of Carbon county, anything contained in the act erecting said new county of Carbon to the contrary notwithstanding. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. Preamble. No. 296. AN ACT Authorizing the sale of the real estate of Mary Latta and Elizabeth Latta, deceased, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, The Reverend James Latta, of Drumore township, Lancaster county, lately died intestate, seized in his demise as of fee of and in a certain plantation or tract of land, situate, lying, and being in the said township of Drumore, in the county aforesaid, containing about one hundred and fifty acres, more or less: And whereas, The said plantation or tract of land, upon the death of the said James Latta, deceased, descended to and vested in Francis, William, John, Mary, Margaret, and Elizabeth Latta, and Sarah, intermarried with the Reverend Thomas Love, and James Latta, children and heirs at law of said James Latta, deceased, as tenants in common: And whereas, John Latta of the said tenants in common afterwards died intestate, and the said plantation or tract of land being undivided among the said heirs, an act of the general assembly of this commonwealth was passed the twenty-seventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, authorizing the sale of said John Latta's undivided share in the same: And whereas, Mary and Elizabeth Latta have both since died intestate, unmarried and without issue, and letters of administration have been granted in due form of law on the estates of the said Mary and Elizabeth Latta, by the register of Chester county, to the said Reverend James Latta: And whereas, The estates of the said Mary and Elizabeth Latta are not incumbered with debts, so as to authorize the orphans' court having jurisdiction to direct a sale of the undivided shares of the said Mary and Elizabeth Latta into the said plantation or tract of land: And whereas, It is desirable that the same should be sold, in order to effect a speedy settlement of their several estates; therefore, 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 Power to sell. the Reverend James Latta, administrator of said Mary Latta and Elizabeth Latta, deceased, be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to sell the undivided share or shares of the said Mary Latta and Elizabeth Latta, deceased, and the said plantation or tract of land situated in Drumore township, Lancaster county, by public vendue or outcry at such time and place as the orphans' court of Lancaster county may direct and authorize: Provided, That before the sale as aforesaid is Proviso. confirmed, the said administrator shall give bond. with security, to be approved by the orphans' court of said county, for the faithful application of the proceeds of the sale of such undivided share or shares of the real estate aforesaid. SECTION 2. That in all places in the act of eighteenth March, Jacob Van Bileighteen hundred and forty-five, entitled "An Act authorizing John biard and Van Bilbiard and other trustees, to sell and convey certain real estate, the name shall be read and mean Jacob Van Bilbiard; and where the name of John Bast occurs in said act, it shall be and read Jacob Bast; John Shick, trusand where the name of John Shiek occurs, it shall read John Shick. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred tees. and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. Repeal. No. 297. A SUPPLEMENT To an act, entitled "An Act to authorize the commissioners of the incorporated districts of the county of Philadelphia, to construct works for supplying said districts with water from the Schuylkill river." 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 second section of the act, passed the eighteenth day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, entitled An Act to authorize the commissioners of the incorporated districts of the county of Philadelphia, to constructs works for supplying said districts with water from the Schuylkill river," as provides for the election of water commissioners by the said incorporated districts, be and Duties of water- the same is hereby repealed; and the watering committees of the dising committees, tricts of the Northern Liberties and Spring Garden, be and they are N. L. and S. G. hereby empowered to perform all the duties now devolving upon said water commissioners: Provided, That this act shall not take effect Act to take effect. prior to the third Monday of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FINDLEY PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 298. AN ACT Declaratory to the twenty-ninth section of the act, entitled "An Act authorizing the governor to incorporate the Philadelphia and Taylorsville railroad company, the Hestonville and Schuylkill railroad company, to amend the charter of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad company, and the Little Schuylkill navigation railroad and coal company," approved the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, 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 by the passage of the twenty-ninth section of the above recited act, the meaning and intention of the legislature was to impose upon the Philadelphia and Reading railroad company, the obligation to make compensation to the owners of lots along the street, to be occupied by the location and construction of their road within the borough of Reading, for any injury or damages done to such lots fronting on said street, by Damages. reason of the occupation of said street with their railroad, in the same manner as is provided in the act incorporating the said Philadelphia and Reading railroad company, and the several supplements thereto. SECTION 2. That any proceedings now pending by owners of lots Proceedings along Seventh street, in the borough of Reading, against the Philadel- against, legalized. phia and Reading railroad company, under the twelfth section of the act to incorporate the Philadelphia and Reading railroad company, passed the fourth day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, shall be held and considered legal and valid for the purpose of recovering the damages done to said property, as fully and effectually as the proceedings against said company, for any injury done on any other part of their said road between Philadelphia and Pottsville. SECTION 3. That the canal commissioners be and they are hereby An engine boiler authorized to cause to be altered and repaired in the state shop, at to be repaired. Parkesburg, the boiler of the engine attached to the newly invented steam canal boat of Gilman Converse: Provided, The expense of the FINDLEY PATTERSON, WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. FRS. R. SHUNK. Incorporated. Proviso. Object. Board. Managers. No. 299. AN ACT To incorporate the American Sunday school union. 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 Alexander Henry, Charles Chauncey, William H. Richards, Ambrose White, Thomas Fleming, Herman Cope, Frederick W. Porter, Frederick A. Packard, and the other persons belonging to, or composing the society now called the American Sunday school union, and their successors, (who shall become members of the corporation according to the by-laws,) be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate in law, by the name, style and title of the American Sunday school union; and by that name shall have perpetual succession, have a common seal, make contracts, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of record, or in any other place whatever; and may also take and hold any real or personal estate, conveyed to them by gift, grant, bargain and sale, devise, bequest, or other alienation whatsoever, and sell and convey the same: Provided, That the clear yearly value of lands, tenements, or other real estate of the said corporation, shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars. SECTION 2. The object of this corporation is to establish and maintain Sunday schools, and to publish and circulate moral and religious publications. SECTION 3. The affairs of this society shall be under the direction of a board, consisting of a president, vice presidents, a corresponding secretary, recording secretary, treasurer, and thirty-six managers, twenty-four of whom shall reside in the city of Philadelphia, or its vicinity; the managers shall be divided into three classes, whose terms of service shall be, respectively, one, two, and three years, but they may be re-elected; the officers and managers shall be laymen, and shall be elected by ballot; the managers shall annually elect all officers of the society, fill vacancies in their own body, and may adopt such other measures as may, in their opinion, promote the objects of the association; five managers shall constitute a quorum, and until the first election shall be held in pursuance hereof, the officers of the present society shall be the officers of this corporation, Failures to elect. and no failure to hold an election for, or to elect any of said officers, Election. Quorum. Meetings. Voters. shall be deemed a forfeiture of any of the corporate privileges hereby conferred, but the same shall continue unimpaired thereby; and on such failure or failures, the officers of the preceding year shall continue in office until their successors are duly elected. SECTION 4. A meeting of the corporation shall be held once in each year, at such time and place as the board may, by their by-laws, appoint for the election of managers, and for such other business as it may be necessary for the society to transact; no person shall have a vote in the election of managers, who has not been a member of the corporation at least three months before the time of the election, at which he claims to vote. |