tution for a home for outcast and destitute colored children, where they may be educated and trained in good habits, and fitted to be placed in situations where they may be useful, and learn an occupation for their support through life; and to enable said association to place out, as apprentices, such children, it is necessary they should be incorporated, and have power confer. red upon them to execute indentures of apprenticeship. 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 Corporators. Sarah W. Cope, Deborah M. Williamson, Elizabeth C. Collins, hereby incorporated as a body politic in law, with perpetual Powers. succession, with authority to purchase, hold and convey or mortgage real or personal estate, the annual income whereof shall not exceed five thousand dollars; and the rents and proceeds to use and apply to the purposes of said institution, and the business thereof to transact, with or without a common seal, Style. under the name and style of the Home for the moral reform of destitute colored children. Mombership Section 2. Members shall be admitted into this corporation in such manner and upon such terins as the by-laws may from time to time prescribe. Managers to be Section 3. The managers of this corporation shall be annually elected from the elected from the female members thereof, by the corporators, female members. under such rules and regulations as may be established by the by-laws, which shall prescribe their number and time of election; and in case of any failure to elect, the managers in office shall continue to act until their places shall be supplied ; and Male assistants they shall be assisted by the advice of five male members, to be to be a board of called a board of council, to be in like manner and at the same council. time chosen. Powers and du Section 4. The said managers shall appoint and have power ties of managers. to discharge their treasurer, secretary and other officers; and to take under their care, management and guardianship all colored children under twelve years of age, who may be confided or committed to them by their father, or, if he be deceased or absent, by their mother or guardian, or by the mayor or any alderman of the city of Philadelphia, on account of vagrancy, neglect or abandonment by their parents or parent, or any other person having custody of them ; and while under their charge the said managers shall have all the powers of control over such children, which a guardian or a master of an apprentice may exercise, and, while under their care, shall cause them to be educated and instructed in useful learning and moral and religious habits, until of proper age, to be placed out as apprentices, if they behave themselves well, but if they become unmanageable they may, in their discretion, place them in the house of refuge, in manner according to the regulations of that institution, or return them to their parents or guardians. Children of pro Section 5. When the said colored children shall arrive at a per age to be proper age, and as suitable places can be obtained for them, the bond out. said managers shall have power, in the like manner and with the like effect as a father, to bind said children apprentices to useful trades and callings, and such apprenticeship may be during their W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED— The thirteenth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 609. AN ACT Toincorporate the Pennsylvania Sewing Machine Fund and Loan 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 Robert B. Parkinson, Samuel M. Owens, Clement A. Wilson, Corporators. W’illiam A. Peet, Jacob J. Neff, Michael Bachert, Malcolm Martin, John Hall, Samuel Seed, William F. Johnston, Cornelius J. Wilson, and their associates, be and they are hereby created and erected into a body politic and corporate in law, by the name, style and title of the Pennsylvania Sewing Machine fund and Style. loan company, and by that name to have perpetual succession, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all the courts of Powers. law and equity; to take, hold, possess and enjoy lands, tenements and hereditaments, goods, chattels, rights and credits to have and use a common seal, and change and renew the same at pleasure, and generally to have all the other incidents of a corporation : Provided, that the clear yearly income of the real estate Proviso. of said corporation shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars. Section 2. The object of said corporation shall be the accu- Object. mulation of a fund for the purpose of making loans to the members thereof, to enable them to purchase any one of the popular and reliable sewing machines, that he or she may desire, at reduced prices and on advantageous terms, on giving good and reliable security: Section 3. That the said corporation shall have full power and By-laws. authority to make all needful rules and by-laws for their own government, and to alter and amend the same as they may deem expedient, and issue the shares of the capital stock, not exceeding in number ten thousand, at the par value of twenty-five dollars each: Provided, That no rule or by-law, as aforesaid, Proviso. Management. shall be repugnant to or inconsistent with the laws of the United States or of this commonwealth. Section 4. That the government of said corporation, and the management and direction of its affairs and property, shall be vested in a president, vice president, cashier, assistant cashier and nine directors, who shall be chosen, annually, by the stockholders, at such times and in such manner as the constitution and rules of said corporation may direct. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The fifth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 610. A SUPPLEMENT To an act to incorporate the Big Muncy Creek and Laporte Plank Road Company, passed the twenty-third day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. 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 Time for com- the time for completing the road by the Big Muncy Creek and pleting extended Laporte plank road company be and the same is hereby extended for five years from the passage of this act; and the said com. May construct pany in lieu of a plank road may construct a turnpike road over turnpike road. all or any portion of said route, subject to all the regulations and restrictions of the act to which this is a supplement, and of the general turnpike road laws of this commonwealth. Sole right to use Section 2. That the said company and their assigns shall steam engines as have the sole and exclusive right to use upon said road steam a motive power. engines as a motive power, subject to such regulations as said company may make, in relation to transportation of freight or passengers thereon. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED— The sixteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 611. AN ACT Authorizing the Supervisors of the township of Susquehanna, in the coun. ty of Lycoming, to collect Road Taxes in money. JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The sixteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 612. AN ACT To incorporate the Easton and Nazareth Railroad Company. Secrion 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 John C. Leibfried, Solomon Shafer, Jacob S. Hartzell, Edward Commissioners. H. Reichel and William Beitel, of Nazareth ; Samuel Yohe, James Thompson, Thomas Michler, Peter Kemerer, William Barnet and Thomas H. Leary, of Easton ; John Jordan and William B. Sinith, of Philadelphia ; C. W. Kellog, A. Van Sickle, A. Zoelisch and J. C. Gunther, of New York city, or any five of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions and organize a company by the name, style and title of the Easton and Nazareth railroad com- Style. pany, with power to contruct a railroad from the borough of Easton to the borough of Nazareth, in the county of Northamp- Route. bonds. ton, and with power to connect with any railroad now existing or hereafter to be built at either end of said route. Capital stock. Section 2. That the capital stock of said company shall be one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, with privilege to increase the same from time to time, if deemed expedient by a majority of the stockholders, present at a meeting called for that purpose, to an amount sufficient to complete their road and provide the same with all the necessary cars, locomotives, machinery, depots, water stations, et cetera, not exceeding, however, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars. May borrow mo- Section 3. That the directors of said company may borrow Dey and issue money to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dol lars, and issue their bonds therefor, either with or without courpons, in sums not less than one hundred dollars each, bearing any rate.of interest not exceeding eight per centum per annum, and secure the payment of the principal and interest of said May mortgage bonds by a mortgage or mortgages upon the railroad, locomoreal and personal tives, cars, and all other real and personal property, and the property corporate rights, privileges and franchises of the company; and the said directors may make the said bonds convertible into stock at par, if such course shall be deemed advantageous to said company; and every such mortgage, duly acknowledged and recorded in the proper office of the county in which the railroad of said company may be located, shall be good and valid, and effectual in law against the said company and against all judg ments and executions, subsequent in date to the recording of Lien of mortgage, such mortgage or mortgages, notwithstanding said company relative to. continue to use and be in possession of said property so mort. gaged ; and the said railroad, locomotives, cars, and real and personal property, corporate rights and franchises, in the event of a sale under the said mortgage or mortgages, shall pass to the purchaser or purchasers, free from any encumbrance, lien or liability, subsequent to the recording of the said mortgage or mortgages, as aforesaid, and to be vested in him or them : ProProviso. vided, That all debts and claims against the said company for ties, wood, or materials furnished, or damages ascertained, or labor performed along the line of said road, prior to the recording of said mortgage or mortgages, as aforesaid, shall be satisfactorily secured to the creditor or creditors, otherwise the said mortgage or mortgages shall have no validity against said debts Proviso. or claims: And provided further, That the declaratory act, passed the twenty-fifth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, respecting the interest on loan certificates issued by any railroad or canal company, together with the eleventh section of the act of twenty-sixth July, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, referred to therein, shall extend to and be applied to the certificates issued under the present act. Subject to. Section 4. That the said company shall be entitled to all the privileges and subject to all the restrictions imposed by an act, entitled "An Act regulating railroad companies," approved the ninth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hun. dred and forty.nine, except so far as otherwise provided in this act. |