that the diameter of the circle of the top of the measure shall be not less than one-twentieth greater than the diameter of the bot tom of the measure, and the height not more than nine-twelfths of the diameter of the bottom. SECTION 16. The denominations of weight of this Common. wealth, whereof the troy pound as heretofore provided is the standard unit, with the relations thereof to said standard and to each other, shall be: Twenty-four grains make one pennyweight. SECTION 17. The denominations of weight of this Commonwealth, whereof the pound avoirdupois as heretofore provided is the standard unit, with the relations to said pound and to each other, shall be: Sixteen drams make one ounce. Four quarters make one hundred. Twenty hundreds make one ton. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-four. GEO: WOLF. No. 239. A SUPPLEMENT To the act entitled, Ag act to enable the Governor to incorporate the Harrisburg Water Company. SECTION 1. It is 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 president and managers of the Harrisburg water company, shall cause the canal authorized to be constructed by the provisions of the said act, to be extended of the width of twenty-five feet from Pine street, along Front street, outside the abutment of the Harrisburg bridge to the lower line of the borough of Harrisburg: Provided, That the said extension shall be so constructed as not to prejudice the public landing, and be covered in its whole passage along front street above the bridge: And provided, That the said extension may pass within six feet of the private burial ground on Front street; and that in laying out and constructing said canal, due regard shall be had towards forming a junction with the contemplated out-let locks and cross cut, from the state canal to the river Susque hanna: And provided further, That proper bridges across the said canal shall be constructed by the said company at suitable intervals, for the accommodation of the public, so as to afford convenient access to the landing along the front of the town. WM. PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB KERN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, GEO: WOLF. No. 240. AN ACT To incorporate the Bloomfield Saving Fund Association. Style of corporation Capacities & SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re: presentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That George Barnett, Robert Kelly, James Marshall, Jonas Ickes, Benjamin M'Intire, John M'Keehan, and David Lupfer, and their successors are hereby erected into one body politic and corporate, in deed and in law by the name, style, and title of "The Bloomfield Saving Fund Association," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and are hereby made able and capable in law to receive and hold to them and their successors, lands, goods and chattels, real, personal and privileges. mixed, for the use and benefit of the said society, and the same to alien, release, transfer, and convey at pleasure: Provided, Proviso. The nett income of their real estate, shall not at any time exceed the sum of two thousand dollars per annum, exclusive of what may be purchased by the said society for the purpose of securing debts due to the same, and the said society by the name, style, and title aforesaid, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law within this Common. wealth, having jurisdiction of the amount of the claim or matter in controversy. Moneys to be SECTION 2. The business of the said society shall be to re- received on ceive moneys on deposit at such rate of interest as may be deposit. Proviso. 2d proviso. 3d proviso: agreed on: Provided, That such rates shall not be reduced without giving at least sixty days notice of the intention so to do, in at least two of the papers published in the county: And provided further, That the said society shall not issue any note or check in the nature of a bank note, or exercise any banking privilege whatsoever: And provided also, That in receiving and paying out bank notes, it shall not be lawful to receive or pay out the notes of any other banking institutions, than the chartered banks of this State or of the United States. SECTION 3. For the security of the depositors of the said institution, it shall be the duty of the persons named in the first secCapital not to tion, and such others as may become members of the associa exceed $50,000. How transferable. Power to invest. Proviso. Officers appointed. Appoint & tion previous to the granting of the letters of incorporation to raise and form a capital of not less than ten or more than fifty thousand dollars in shares of ten dollars each, which capital shall be at all times liable to the depositors for the amount of their deposites, and of the interest accruing thereon, the said shares to be transferable on the books of the company in such manner as may be designated by the by-laws of the said insti tution. SECTION 4. The said corporation shall be authorized to invest its funds in public stocks of this State or of the United States, or real securities or in the discount of notes and personal securities: Provided, That the rate of discount at which loans may be made by the said institution shall not exceed one helf per centum for thirty days, and it shall not purchase promissory notes, bills, bonds or other regociable securities at s greater rate of discount. SECTION 5. The business of the said society shall be managed and conducted by thirteen directors to be chosen in the manner hereinafter mentioned, seven of whom shall form a quorum to do business; they shall choose from their own number a president and secretary, and appoint a treasurer, and the office of the said institution shall be in the town of New Bloomfield. No president, secretary or director or any other officer of such institution shall directly or indirectly become a borrower from the same. SECTION 6. It shall be the duty of the persons named in the first section of this act, or a majority of them, to appoint a treastreasurer, &c. urer and give notice in all the newspapers in the county of Perry for at least ten days, of the appointment of their treasu rer, and that all persons of lawful age desirous of becoming depositors in the said society and of exercising the rights of a member thereof, shall have the right of paying to the said treasurer, any sum not less than ten dollars, and at the expiration of the said time it shall be the duty of the treasurer to give notice Notice to be in the papers aforesaid, for at least three weeks, that an election will be held, specifying the time and place for the election of thirteen directors of the said society, to serve for one year, at which and all subsequent elections the members aforesaid given for the election of directors. either in person or by proxy, shall have the right of electors; the said election shall be conducted under such rules and regulations as the persons named in the fifth section of this act, may establish, and an election for directors shall be held annually thereafter, under such rules and regulations as may be established by the by-laws of the company. Make by-laws SECTION 7. The president and directors of the said society shall have power to make all such by-laws, rules, and regulations, as they may deem necessary for the well governing and conducting the business of the said 'society, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States or of this State, Vacancies, and may fill any vacancy that may occur in their board until how supplied. the next annual election. sites. SECTION 8, The amount of the deposits made by weekly de positors in the said society shall at no time exceed the sum of Limit to fifty thousand dollars, and the president and managers shall de- weekly depo. clare dividends of the interest arising on deposits, to the depositors as often as they may deem proper, and a depositor shall have the right of withdrawing his deposits at any time, if not exceeding twenty dollars, on ten days notice, if above that sum and not exceeding forty dollars, on thirty days notice, and if above that sum on three months notice. SECTION 9. The treasurer shall give bond to the president Treasurer to and managers of the said company in a sum not less than give bond. twenty thousand dollars, with two or more sureties to be approved by the said president and managers, conditioned for the faithful performance of all the duties enjoined on him by this act, or the by-laws of the society; he shall be receiver of all the moneys of the society, and shall disburse and pay the same, under such rules and regulations as may be established by the president and managers, and may be removed at the pleasure of the said president and managers. SECTION 10. The president shall make a statement annual- Annual stately of the affairs of the said society, on oath or affirmation, to ment to be made to Aud. the Auditor General, to be by him laid before the Legislature. General. SECTION 11. This society shall continue for ten years and no longer, except so far as may be necessary to close its busi- Duration 10 ness; and the Legislature may at any time alter, amend or re- years. voke the privileges hereby granted; and the institution shall be liable to such taxes, whether on dividends or otherwise, as the Legislative Legislature may at any time impose. WM. PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB KERN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini, eigh revision. teen hundred and thirty-four. GEO: WOLF. Power to Proviso. No. 241. A SUPPLEMENT To the act entitled "An act to improve the Norwegian creak in Schuylkill county," passed April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven. 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 it shall be lawful for any person or persons to make or cause to be made, a navigable canal or slack water naviga. make a canal tion from the Schuylkill navigation to Callowhill street, where or slackwater Norwegian creek crosses the same, and further if deemed nenavigation. cessary, in the borough of Pottsville, and to occupy in its passage the canal recently made by M. B. Buckley & Co., if they shall deem it expedient: Provided, That the said person or persons, making the said canal or slackwater navigation, desi rous of occupying and using the canal made by M. B. Buckley & Co., shall pay the same, at the rate of tolls as are by law made payable to the Schuylkill navigation company in propor tion to the distance thereof, together with all damages the said Damages, how recover'd M. B. Buckley & Co., as well as all individuals through whose property the said canal may pass, and if the parties cannot agree upon the amount of damages so to be paid, the sum shall be ascertained in the manner as directed by the sixteenth section of the act incorporating the Pottsville and Danville rail road company, passed on the eighth day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and twenty-six. authorized to make a slack. water nav'n Act of 20th full force. SECTION 2. To remove all doubts on the subject the Schuylkill Valley Nav'n Schuylkill Valley Navigation and Rail Road company, are and R. R. co. hereby authorized to make a slack water navigation from the mouth of Mill creek to Middleport, in the county of Schuylkill; and that all the provision of the act of the twentieth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, are hereby deMarch, 1827, clared to be in full force and operation, so as to enable the said continued in company to make both a slackwater navigation and rail road. SECTION 3. The president and managers of the Schuylkill Valley navigation and rail road company, are authorized to open books for new subscriptions on the first Monday in June next, at Pottsville, Port Carbon and Orwigsburg, in the county of Schuylkill, at Reading in the county of Berks and in the city of Philadelphia, and that they have liberty to adjourn, as to time and place, until they shall have subscribed a sufficient amount to enable them fully to complete the said navigation and rail road. Authorized to open books for new sub. scriptions. |