Dams. Proviso. be lawful for said company to build their dams of a greater height than ten feet, where the same may require it, and where such increase of height shall do no damage to any owner or owners of property on said river: Provided also, That the said company shall not be required to construct their locks so large as those required on the Monongahela river: Provided, That unless the lock navigation authorized to be made by this act, and by the act of eighteenth April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, entitled "An Act to authorize the governor to incorporate a company to make a lock navigation on the Youghiogheny Commencement river," shall, in both cases, be commenced within the period of two years and completion from the passage of this act, and finished within five years therefrom, the corporate privileges hereby created, and by the act aforesaid, shall cease and determine. limited. APPROVED The thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. DAVID R. PORTER. No. 363. AN ACT Incorporating the America fire engine company, in the county of Philadelphia. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Company incor- all and every the persons who shall, at the time of the passage of this porated. Name. Powers, &c. Proviso. Seal. By-laws. act, be members of the association called the America fire engine company, of the county of Philadelphia, and all such as shall hereafter be regularly admitted as members of the same, shall be and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name, style and title of the America fire engine company, of the county of Philadelphia,” and by the same name shall have perpetual succession; and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of record and elsewhere; and to purchase, receive, hold and enjoy real and personal estate, of whatsoever kind or quality, and choses in action, and the same, from time to time, to sell, grant, alien or dispose of: Provided, That the clear yearly value or income of the real and personal estate of the said corporation, shall not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars; and also to have a common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure; and also to ordain, establish and put in execution such by-laws and regulations as shall appear necessary and convenient for said corporation. not being contrary to this charter, or to the constitution and laws of the United States or of this commonwealth ; and generally to do all and singular the matters and things which may be necessary for the well being of the said corporation, and the due managing and ordering of the affairs thereof. SECTION 2. The following shall be the fundamental articles of the Object. said company: ARTICLE 1. The object of this company shall be the promotion of the public good, by the extinguishment of fires. ARTICLE 2. The officers of this company shall be a president, vice Officers. JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. DAVID R. PORTER. No. 364. AN ACT To secure the safe navigation of the river Delaware. 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 from and after the first day of June next, if the master of any vessel or craft navigating the river Delaware after sunset, shall omit to exhibit a visible signal light at least ten feet above the deck of the said vessel or Signal. craft, such master, or the owner or owners or any of them, of such vessel or craft shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay any sum Fine. not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, one moiety whereof shall go to the person giving information of the commission of such offence, and the other moiety to the treasury of the county where such offence shall have been committed: Provided, That the party aggrieved shall have a right to appeal to the next court of common pleas, of the county wherein the offence was committed. SECTION 2. The said penalty may be recovered before any alderman Penalty, how reor justice of the peace, in the same manner as sums not above one hun- coverable. dred dollars are now by law recovered; and in any suit or action brought to recover the same, the informer shall be a competent witness, leaving his credibility as in other cases, to be judged of by the proper authority determining the same; and no such suit or action shall be abated, nor a non-suit therein ordered on account of the names of all the owners of any such vessel or craft not being embraced as defendants, but it shall be lawful to bring and sustain any such suit or action against any one or more of the said owners, or the master of said vessel, at the option of the informer: Provided, That no suit or action shall be brought against any person for the penalty incurred, by a violation of the provisions of this act, after the expiration of thirty days from the commission of the offence. JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM P. WILCOX, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. No. 365. DAVID R. PORTER. AN ACT Relative to tavern licenses, in the counties of Northumberland and Susquehanna. 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 first section of the act, entitled "An Act supplementary to the various acts relating to tavern licenses," passed the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as relates to the counties of Northumberland and Susquehanna. JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. DAVID R. PORTER. eamble. No. 366. A SUPPLEMENT To "An Act to provide for the resumption of specie payments by the banks of this commonwealth, and for other purposes," passed the twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. WHEREAS, The Girard bank, in the city of Philadelphia, did, on the sixteenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, make and execute unto Charles S. Boker, Charles Rugan and Henry Horn, an assignment of all their property, for the benefit of their creditors, in pursuance of the act to which this is a supplement. And whereas, The property of the said bank is in danger of being sacrificed by the provisions of said act, that the property assigned shall be sold by public sale. And whereas, Since the said assignment was made no election of directors has been held, and as it is manifestly necessary that a board of directors should be always in existence to superintend the interests of the stockholders; 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 &c. the said Charles S. Boker, Charles Rugan and Henry Horn, assignees Assignees of Giof the Girard bank, in the city of Philadelphia, under a certain inden- rard bank to sell ture of assignment, made and executed by said bank, bearing date the certain stocks, sixteenth day of March, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, or whoever may hereafter be invested with trust created by said deed of assignment, shall have power and be authorized to sell all and any part of the stocks, debts, loans, credits, effects and property, real and personal, which passed to them, or which they may now or at any time hereafter have, hold, be seized of, or possess, under and by virtue of the said deed of assignment, as well at private as at public sale or sales, as from time to time, and at any time may seem to them expedient, for the best price or prices that can be reasonably had or obtained for the same, or any part thereof: Provided, That none of Proviso. the assets of the said bank shall be sold at private sale for a less sum than the highest bid at public sale; and the notes of the said bank, and all other evidences of indebtedness, shall be taken at par in payment of any purchase of the assets of the said bank. SECTION 2. That it shall be lawful for the stockholders to hold an Election of dielection for directors, on any day within the month of June next, at rectors. some convenient place within the city of Philadelphia, of which day and place it shall be the duty of the president of the bank, now holding that station, to give thirty days notice in two newspapers published in the city of Philadelphia, and one newspaper published in Harrisburg, the said assignees to pay the expenses of the same; and future elections of directors shall be held and conducted at the same time and in the same manner, as if such neglect had not occurred. JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. DAVID R. PORTER. No. 367. AN ACT To authorize the governor to incorporate the Delaware canal company. 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. Joseph R. Evans, Benjamin Gerhard, Henry Horn, Thomas M'Cully, John Wiegand, Jacob K. Olwine, Mahlon D. Taylor, George N. Baker, Gideon G. Westcott, John Stallman, Augustus Shultz, Alexander Cummings, of Philadelphia, John N. Lane, of Lancaster, Samuel Sillyman, of Schuylkill, Franklin Vanzant and William M. White, of Bucks, William Elwell, of Bradford, David D. Wagner, of Northampton, John S. Gibons, of Lehigh, William S. Ross, Payne Pettibone. Jonathan J. Slocum, of Luzerne, William T. Morrison, Benjamin Hill, of Montgomery, Stephen Balliet, of Carbon, Benjamin M'Intire, of Perry, and James W. Coulter, of Clarion county, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to do and perform the several things hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: They Notice of sale by shall within thirty days from the passage of this act, give notice for at least sixty days, in one or more of the newspapers in the cities of Philadelphia, Lancaster, Pittsburg, New York and Boston, of the day and hour at which they will attend at the Merchants' exchange, in the city of Philadelphia, and there commence the sale, by public auction, of the stock of the Delaware canal company, on the following terms and conditions, to wit: auction. Shares. Purchasers. Premiums. Purchase money. I. The Delaware division of the Pennsylvania canal shall be divided into twenty-five thousand shares, of one hundred dollars each. II. The shares shall be set up for sale singly, giving the purchaser the right of taking, at his bid, any number of shares from one to one thousand: Provided, That no share shall be sold for a less sum than one hundred dollars: And provided, further, That none of the said commissioners, either in their own names, or in the names of any other persons, shall become purchasers of any of the stock at the sale authorized by this section. III. Each purchaser at the time of his purchase, shall deposite with the commissioners the premiums or advance above the par value of the shares by him purchased; or if the bid or bids do not amount to five dollars per share above the par value of the share or shares by him purchased, then and in such case, the said purchaser shall pay five dollars on account and in part of each share thus purchased; the said sums to be paid in money, or in the certificates of loan of this commonwealth, at the option of the purchaser. IV. Payment for the remainder of the purchase money will be required to be made within thirty days from the purchase, under the forfeiture for delinquency, of the amount paid to the commissioners at the time of sale. Transfer of loans V. A transfer to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, of certificates of commonwealth of the loans of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to an equal amount. will be received by the state treasurer in payment for the shares of stock |