mentioned: Provided, That the said by-laws or ordinances shall not be Proviso. JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, WILLIAM BIGLER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. DAVID R. PORTER. No. 311. AN ACT Entitled "An Act to incorporate the Furnace run coal and iron company.” 66 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 John C. Bucher, Calvin Blythe and William Ayres, or a majority of Corporators. them or their associates, successors and assigns, be and they are hereby created and constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name, style and title of the Furnace run coal and iron company, "the capital Name. stock of which company shall not exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the said company may hold not exceeding, at any one time, more than three thousand acres of land, in the counties of Union, Northumberland and Columbia; and the said company shall have the same powers, liberties, privileges, immunities, and be subject to the Powers, liberties, same terms and conditions as are imposed on the "Anthracite iron com- conditions, &c. pany," incorporated by an act of assembly, passed the twenty-fifth day of May, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Anthracite iron company:" Provided, That the company hereby created shall not be restricted to the use Proviso. of anthracite coal, in carrying on their operations; and they are hereby further authorized to employ such portion of their capital as may be necessary in mining coal, constructing railroads, and in transporting to market, and in vending the produce of their lands, mines and manufactured iron. SECTION 2. That before any real or any personal property, other Appraisement of than money, shall be taken or received in payment of any portion of property. the capital stock of said company, the same shall be personally viewed and examined by three disinterested persons, to be appointed by the court of common pleas of the county in which such property may be situated, who shall value and appraise the same, and make return thereof, with a description of said property, under their hands and seals, to said court, and if the said return be approved by said court, the same shall be entered on the records thereof; in which case, and not otherwise, Appraisers. the said property may be received and taken at the said valuation or appraisement; and after being so taken, shall be considered as part of the capital stock of said company: The said persons authorized to examine and appraise said property, in manner as aforesaid, shall be appointed by the said court of common pleas, upon the application of any person interested in said company; and before entering on the duties of their appointment, shall be duly sworn or affirmed, well and truly to perform the trust committed to them, and to value and appraise said real or personal property at its bona fide cash value; and the compensation of said persons appointed to examine and appraise as aforesaid, and the other expenses attending said proceedings, shall be as usual in such cases. JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM BIGLER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. DAVID R. PORTER. Preamble. No. 312. AN ACT Providing for the sale and conveyance of a school house in Morris township, in WHEREAS, James Rea, and Elizabeth his wife, by indenture dated the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, recorded at Huntingdon, in deed book Z, page three hundred and forty, granted and conveyed unto Maxwell Kinkead and John Hyle, trustees, and to their successors in office for ever, a certain lot of ground situate in Morris township, adjoining lands of Solomon Snyder, John Hyle and others, containing sixty-six and one-fourth perches, being part of a tract of land originally surveyed the sixteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, in pursuance of a warrant granted to Samuel Caldwell, dated the nineteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, this part was surveyed from the residue of said tract, whereon the petitioners erected a school house for the use of a school forever: And whereas, The said house is now, and has been for several years, unsuited for said use; in consequence of the public school system, Morris district was divided into sub-districts, in which case said lot and house became sub-divided number five, altogether at one end of said number, in consequence of which the school directors of said district have purchased another lot and erected a school house thereon for the use of school forever, which is more central for said sub-division number five; in consequence of this change, the trustees are desirous of disposing of the said lot, conveyed by said deed, and pay ing over the proceeds to the different stockholders in proportion to each and every one's stock: 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 John Hyle and Adam Shaffer, trustees of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Trustees to sell school house, in Morris township, Huntingdon county, the title of real estate. which is referred to in the preamble to this act, as may be seen by reference to records at Huntingdon, in deed book Z, page three hundred and forty, be and they are hereby empowered to sell and convey the same, by deed or deeds, in fee simple, SECTION 2. That the said John Hyle and Adam Shaffer shall make Distribute prodistribution of the proceeds of the sale of the said school house amongst ceeds. the stockholders, in proportion to their stock respectively: Provided, That the said trustees shall sell the same for the highest price they can get for said school house and lot of ground. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. DAVID R. PORTER. No. 313. AN ACT Authorizing and requiring John Boucher and Solomon Boucher, executors of Henry WHEREAS, Henry Boucher, late of the county of Somerset, deceased, by his last will and testament, among other things, did provide that the share of his estate coming to his daughter, Magdalena Tedrow, should not be paid to her so long as she remained the wife of David Tedrow, but that the same should be paid to her at his death, or in case their marriage were otherwise legally dissolved, and that upon her death it should be paid to her son, Joseph Crichfield, and to her other children, if she should have any others: And whereas, The said David Tedrow has been blind for upwards of three years, and is in destitute circumstances, and the said Magdalena, by reason of her advanced age, is unable to support herself and the said David Tedrow : And whereas, The shares of the said Magdalena of the said estate. now in the hands of John Boucher and Solomon Boucher, executors of the said last will and testament, amounts to about the sum of three hundred and thirty dollars, besides interest, and the said David Crichfield, the only child of the said Magdalena Tedrow, has expressed by his Preamble. Executors of Tedrow. petition his desire and consent that the same should be paid to the said Magdalena Tedrow; therefore, 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 John Boucher and Solomon Boucher, executors of the last will and Henry Boucher, testament of Henry Boucher, late of Somerset county, be and they are to pay Magdalena hereby authorized and required to pay to Magdalena Tedrow whatever sum of money may be in their hands as executors as aforesaid, and which would be payable to her under the said last will and testament at the death of David Tedrow, her husband, or at the dissolution of their marriage, with interest from the time they received the same: Provided, That the said money shall be for the sole and separate use of the said Magdalena Tedrow, and shall not be liable in any manner for the use of the said David Tedrow: Provided, That at the time of such payment the said David Crichfield shall deliver to the said executors a full release of his claim to the said legacy. Proviso. JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM BIGLER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. DAVID R. PORTER. No. 314. AN ACT To authorize the incorporation of a company to erect a bridge over the Susquehanna river at or near Liverpool, Perry county. 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 Commissioners. Jacob Seal, James Freeland, G. W. Finney, John Sherer and Israel Carpenter of Dauphin county, and F. Rinehart, S. Shuler, Isaac Meck, D. Steward, J. H. Case, H. W. Shuman and James Jackman of Perry county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to perform the duties hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: They, or a majority of them, shall, on or before the first Monday of October next, provide one or more books for the entering of subscriptions, and shall write Form of subscrip- therein as follows: "We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do promise to pay to the president, managers and company, for erecting a bridge over the Susquehanna river at or near the town of Liverpool, Perry county, the sum of twenty 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 said company, in pursuance of an act of the tion. general assembly, entitled 'An Act to incorporate a company for the purpose of erecting a bridge over the Susquehanna river at or near the borough of Liverpool, Perry county.' Witness our hands, this day of one thousand eight hundred and forty-four;" and the said commissioners, or a majority thereof, shall thereupon give notice in one of the newspapers printed in each of the counties of Perry and Dauphin, during one calendar month at least, of the times and places when said books shall be opened to receive subscriptions; at which Subscriptions. times and places some one or more of the said commissioners shall attend for that purpose, and keep open the said books during six hours in each place four successive juridical days, or until fifty shares shall be subscribed; and if said fifty shares shall not be subscribed within that period, then the said attending commissioners may adjourn from time to time, until the said number of shares shall be subscribed, of which adjournment public notice shall be given, by means of the newspapers aforesaid, or in others as occasion may require, and when fifty shares shall have been subscribed, the books shall be closed. SECTION 2. That as soon as fifty shares shall be subscribed, and five dollars paid on each share so subscribed to the said commissioners, then said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall certify the same, together with a list of the subscribers and the shares by each subscribed, and that the sum of five dollars has been actually paid on each share, in writing to the governor; who, thereupon, shall constitute the said Charter. subscribers, and also all those who may in future subscribe under the provisions of this act, a body corporate, by the name of the "President, Name. managers and company for erecting a bridge over the Susquehanna river at or near the borough of Liverpool, Perry county," with all the privileges incident to such a corporation, who shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable of taking and holding their said capital stock and the increase thereof, and of enlarging the same by new subscriptions, if such enlargement be necessary to fulfil the purposes of this act. SECTION 3. That the six persons first named in the letters patent of incorporation, shall, as soon as conveniently may be, after sealing the same, give notice in the newspapers aforesaid, of a time and place, by them to be appointed, not less than thirty days from the time of issuing the first notice; at which time and place the said subscribers shall proceed to organize the corporation, and shall choose by a majority of votes Organization. of the said subscribers, taken by ballot, to be delivered either in person or by proxy duly authorized, one president, five managers and one treasurer, and such other officers as they may deem necessary to conduct the business of the company during one year, or until other officers be chosen; and the said company may make such by-laws, rules, orders By-laws. and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this commonwealth, as may be necessary for the well ordering of the affairs of the said company; and as soon as the said corporation is so organized, the commissioners shall pay over to the treasurer the sums paid to them at the time of subscription; and the corporation shall pay to the said commissioners all reasonable expenses which may have attended the taking such subscriptions: Provided, however, No person shall have more than ten Proviso. votes, whatever number of shares he may hold in said company, and each person shall have one vote for each share of stock he may hold less than ten shares. SECTION 4. That a public meeting of the said stockholders shall be Annual meeting. held on the first Monday in October next, and on the first Monday of October in each year thereafter, at such place as the rules and by-laws |