the comm'rs.

to issue.

scribed by each, to the Governor; and thereupon, it shall and When 50 may be lawful for the Governor, by letters patent, under his shares are hand and seal of the state, to create and erect the subscribers subscribed, into one body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the to certify the name, style and title of "The president, managers and com- same to the pany of the Bethany and Canaan turnpike road;" and by the Governor. said name, the subscribers shall have perpetual succession, and Letters patent all the privileges and franchises incident to a corporation, and Style of corshall be capable of taking and holding their said capital stock, poration. and the increase and profits thereof, and of enlarging the same, from time to time, by new subscriptions, in such manner and form as they shall think proper, if such enlargement shall be found necessary to fulfil the intentions of this act, and of purchasing, taking and holding to them and their successors, and assigns, and of selling, transferring and conveying, in fee simple, or for any lesser estate, all such lands, tenements, hereditaments and estate, real and personal, as shall be necessary to them in the prosecution of their works, and of suing and being sued, and of doing all and every other matter and thing which a corporation and body politic may lawfully do: Pro- Proviso. vided, That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to Corporation authorize the said corporation to issue notes in the nature of to have no bank notes, or to endorse notes in their corporate capacity, or banking to make discounts, or to receive deposits after the manner of privileges. any bank or banks; and in case the said company shall at

any

time violate the provisions of this section, all and every

their chartered privileges shall cease and determinc.

SECTION 3. The said commissioners, or a majority of them,

tion of officers

as soon as conveniently may be, after the said letters patent Comm'rs. to shall be obtained, shall give notice, in two or more newspapers, give notice of printed nearest the route of said road, of the time and place, the first elecby them to be appointed, not less than ten days from the pub. lication of the first notice; at which time and place the subscribers shall proceed to organize the said corporation, and shall elect, by a majority of votes of the said subscribers, one president, six managers, one treasurer, and such other officers Subsequent as they shall think necessary to conduct the affairs of the said elections to be company, until the first Wednesday in January then next en- held the first suing, on which day, and annually thereafter on said day, the Wednesday in January. said company shall hold their elections for officers, at the borough of Bethany, in the county of Wayne; and the said company, when so organized, shall have power to make such bylaws, rules und regulations, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States, or of the constitution and laws of this state, as shall be necessary for the well ordering the affairs of said company, and to procure for said company a common seal, and the same to break, alter or renew, as often as the said company shall think proper: Provided, The said Proviso, subscribers may vote by ballot, to be delivered in person, or by proxy, duly authorized; but no person shall have more

Power to enter upon lands, &c.

than ten votes in his own right, at any election for officers, or determining any question which may arise at any meeting of the said company, whatever number of shares he or she may be entitled to; and that each person shall be entitled to one vote for every share by him or her held under that number.

SECTION 4. It shall be lawful for the said president and managers, their superintendents, surveyors, artists, and chain bearers, to enter in and upon all and every the lands, tenement and enclosures, in, through, and over which the said turnpike road may be thought proper to pass, and examine the ground most proper for the purpose, as well as the materials in the vicinity that may be necessary in constructing the said road, and to survey, lay down, ascertain and mark such route or Track of the track, as follows: beginning at the borough of Bethany, and thence on the nearest and best route, to intersect the Clarksville and Honesdale turnpike, near Benjamin Jenkins'; and the said company shall have like powers, authorities and privileges, neCo. to have cessary for constructing, carrying on, and completing the said the powers of turnpike road, and be subject to all the duties, qualifications, the Coshecton and G. Bend restrictions, penalties, fines and forfeitures, and be entitled to turnpike road like tolls and profits, in proportion to the distance, as are given company. and granted to the president, managers and company, of the Coshecton and Great Bend turnpike road, in and by an act of Assembly, passed the twenty-ninth day of March, eighteen hundred and four.

road described.

If the work

be not com

SECTION 5. If the said company shall not commence the menced with- work on said road within three years after passing this act, or in 3 yrs. and shall not, within seven years thereafter, complete the same, accompleted in cording to the true intent and meaning of this act, then the pri7 thereafter, vileges and franchises hereby granted shall revert to the Com. monwealth.

powers grant

ed to cease.

WM. PATTERSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO'S. RINGLAND,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The first day of February, one thousand eight

hundred and thirty-four.

GEO: WOLF.

No. 24.

AN ACT

For the relief of Andrew Wallace, a soldier of the revolutionary war.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gêneral Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the officers of the Land Office be, and they are hereby authorized and required to issue to Andrew Wallace, of Chester county, a soldier of the war of the revolution, in consideration of his services in the said war, and of his present advanced age, on his producing to them the usual documents and evidence of title, a patent for a certain tract of land on which he now resides, in Lower Oxford township, Chester county, containing one hundred acres and a half, besides the usual allowance of six per cent., free from any charge for arrears of purchase money to the Commonwealth, or fees of office: Provided, That nothing in this act contained, shall affect or impair the right of any other person to the said tract of land, or any part thereof.

WM. PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO'S. RINGLAND,

Speaker of the Senate.

GEO: WOLF.

APPROVED-The first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

No. 25.

AN ACT

For the relief of John Sparry, Isaac Sullender, James Hogge and Conrad Schlagle, soldiers of the revolutionary war.

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 the State Treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to John Sparry, of Montgomery county, Isaac Sullender, of Delaware county, James Hogge, of Bucks county, and to Conrad Schlagle, of Northampton county, soldiers of the revolution, or to their respective orders, forty dellars to each 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-four. WM. PATTERSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO'S. RINGLAND,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The first day of February, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.

GEO: WOLF.

No. 26.

A SUPPLEMENT

To the Act relative to actions of ejectment."

WHEREAS, inconvenience frequently occurs to plaintiff's in ejectment, from the re-entry of the defendants, or persons claiming under them, on the lands recovered, after the execu tion and return of the writ of habere facias possessionem; and the plaintiffs are obliged to resort to a new ejectment, and it is proper to render recoveries in ejectment more effectual: Courts, on ap- Therefore,

tho' former

ones may

plication, to SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reaward alias & presentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General pluries writs of hab. fac, Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the poss. in ejec't. same, That it shall be the duty of the court, in which a judgment in ejectment shall be recovered, on the application of the plaintiff, his agent or attorney, and on cause shown, to award alias and pluries writs of habere facias possessionem, from time to time, notwithstanding any or all preceding writs may Application have been returned executed; and the additional costs shall be to be made taxed and collected in the usual manner: Provided, That such within 3 yrs. application shall be made within three years after the return day of the preceding writ.

have been executed. Proviso.

after return of

former writ.

WM. PATTERSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THOS. RINGLAND,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The first day of February, one thousand eight

hundred and thirty-four.

GEO: WOLF.

No. 27.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Yardleyville Delaware Bridge Company.

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 the capital stock of the Yardleyville Delaware Bridge company, for the purpose of erecting a bridge over the river Delaware, at or near the town of Yardleyville, in the county of Bucks, shall amount to twenty thousand dollars, and that the same shall be divided into shares of fifty dollars each; and the subscribers to the said capital stock shall pay the sum or sums of money, for the share or shares by them respectively subscribed, at such periods, and in such proportions, as the directors of the said company may determine.

Capital,

$20,000.

$50 a share.

Comm'rs in

them, to re

$5 on each

share.

SECTION 2. James Worth, Lewis S. Coryell, Jolly Long- conjunction shore, Michael H. Jenks, Thomas Jonny, Courtland Yardley with comm'rs and Theodore Morris, be, and they are hereby appointed com- appointed by missioners, on the part of this state, who, with commissioners N. Jersey, or to be appointed by the commonwealth of New Jersey, shall be a majority of authorized to receive subscriptions to the said capital stock, at ceive subsuch times and places, as they, or a majority of them, may scriptions. direct, giving notice thereof in two of the newspapers printed To give no. in the county of Bucks, in this state, and in two of the news- tice in newspapers printed in the county of Hunterdon, in the state of New papers. Jersey, for at least twenty days, of the times and places when and where the said subscriptions shall be received; and at the time of subscribing for the said stock, five dollars shall be paid, upon each share subscribed for, to the commissioners, or some of them, which money shall be paid over to the treasurer of the company, as soon as one shall be appointed; and that the residue of the subscriptions shall be paid in such instalments, and at such times and places, and to such persons, as the presi dent and directors of the company shall from time to time di- To give notice rect, and give public notice of; and upon failure of payment on failure of thereof, as so directed, for thirty days thereafter, the said presi- payment. dent and directors shall have power to forfeit the shares of each and every person failing to pay the said instalments, or any of them, to and for the use of the said company: Provided, That if the number of shares subscribed for shall exceed the amount or number of shares authorized by this act to be subscribed for, that then the said commissioners shall apportion the said stock among such subscribers, in proportion to the amount or number of shares by them subscribed as aforesaid.

Proviso,