No. 682.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

To the act incorporating the Navigation Railroad Company, approved Apr twentieth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

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 the time now allowed for the commencement of the construcTime for completion extended. tion of the Navigation railroad, be and is hereby extended for a further period of five years.

Additional corporators.

Election of offi

cers.

Repeal.

May connect

with other railroads.

Enrolment tax,

ment of.

SECTION 2. That A. A. Yarington, E. J. Kerlin and J. D. Focht be and they are hereby made additional incorporators; and it may be lawful for the incorporators, or any five of them, to meet for the purpose of organizing said Navigation railroad company, within six months from and after the passage of this act, of which meeting the passage of this act shall be deemed due and sufficient notice.

SECTION 3. That whenever five per centum of the capital of the said Navigation railroad company shall have been subscribed, and ten per centum of the amount so subscribed be paid in cash or its equivalent, then the stockholders may proceed to elect such officers as is provided in the act to which this is a supple

ment.

SECTION 4. That all acts and parts of acts relative to said Navigation railroad company, inconsistent with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed; that it shall and may be lawful for the said Navigation railroad company to connect their said railroad, at either or both ends, with any railroad now constructed or hereafter to be constructed; and any railroad company with whose railroad the said Navigation railroad may be so connected, is hereby authorized and empowered to subscribe to the capital stock and bonds of the said Navigation railroad company.

SECTION 5. That on the payment of the enrolment tax on the relative to pay act, entitled "A further supplement of the act incorporating the Navigation railroad company, approved April twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four," which said act was ap proved the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, said act shall be as good and valid as though the enrolment tax had been paid as required by law.

W. C. A. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JNO. CRESSWELL, JR.,
Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thou

sand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

WM. F. PACKER.

No. 683.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Huntington Valley Mutual Fire Insurance 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 Andrus Fellows, James Buckalew, Gilbert M’Waine, John Commissioners. Koons, D. L. Chapin, Freas Brown, Daniel Bulkely, Silas Dodson, William B. Koons, A. N. Harvey, Jacob Good, Jesse Harrison, James Tubles and S. H. Dodson are hereby appointed commissioners, who, or a majority of whom, are authorized and empowered, from and after the passage of this act, to establish an insurance company, to be called and known by the name and title of the Huntington Valley mutual fire insurance company, Name. to be located in the village of New Columbus, Huntington town- Location. ship, Luzerne county; which said company shall be organized and managed according to, and subject to all the provisions of, Subject to. an act to provide for the incorporation of insurance companies, approved the second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and be limited to risks designated in the first class, in the seventh section of said act, with the right to transact its business upon the mutual principle.

Section 2. That said company shall have power to make such By-laws. , by-laws, rules and regulations for its better government, not inconsistent with the act of the second of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, above mentioned, and not contrary to the constitution of the United States or the state of Pennsylvania, as they may think proper.

Section 3. That this company shall not have full force and When to take effect until their applications for insurance shall amount to forty thousand dollars.

W. C. A. LAWRENCE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JNO. CRESSWELL, JR.,

Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

WM. F. PACKER.

effect.

No. 684.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Indiana County Mutual Fire Insurance 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 James Sutton, Thomas White, William M. Stewart, Isaac M. Watt, Joseph Thompson, Thomas St. Clair, A. W. Taylor, Moses T. Work, Titian J. Coffey, John G. Coleman, John H. Lichte berger, Alexander Elliott, John Graff, William Jiaher, Jacob J. Anthony, Robert H. Armstrong, William Sandles, Jacob Weamer, Cornelius Lowe, Daniel Stanard and William Evans, and such other persons as are or may be associated with them under the authority of this act, their successors or assigns, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the Indiana County Mutual fire insurance company; and they and their successors are hereby made a body politic and corporate in law, with all the legal incidents of a corporation aggregate, to have and enjoy all the rights, powers and privileges, and be subject to all the limitations and restrictions provided and enacted by an act of assembly, passed the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, entitled “ An Act to provide for the incorporation of insurance companies,” and shall be limited to the risks designated in the first class, in the seventh section of said act, and shall transact its business on the mutual principle.

W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. CRESSWELL, JR.,

Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED— The eleventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

WM. F. PACKER.

No. 685,

AN ACT

To incorporate the borough of New Columbus, in the county of Lazerde.

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

tion district.

the town of New Columbus, in the county of Luzerne, and ter- Boundaries. ritory adjacent thereto, comprised within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning on the county line between Columbia and Luzerne counties, at a corner dividing lot number one on the south from lot number nineteen on the north ; thence along said division ine to the corner of lot number nine; thence along the western boundary of lot number nine and lot number eight, to the south-west corner of lot number seven; thence along the southern boundary of lot number seven to a corner on the western boundary line of lot number fifty-two; thence by lots numbers fifty-two, six and fourteen, to the southeast corner of lot number thirteen; thence along the southern

2 boundary of said lot to a public road; thence along said road to the southern boundary line of lot number forty-nine; thence south sixty-eight and a half degrees west one hundred and seventy-five perches to a corner; thence by lots twenty-nine, thirtyone and thirty-two to a corner; thence along the southern boundary of lot number thirty-three to a corner on the county line dividing Luzerne county from Columbia county; thence along the said county line to the place of beginning, be and the same is hereby erected into a borough, to be called the borough of New Columbus, and shall enjoy the privileges, and shall be subject to the limitations and restrictions, not herein other vise provided for, of the general laws of this commonwealth relating to boroughs.

Section 2. That the said borough shall form a separate elec. Sehoo! and election and school district.

Section 3. That the qualified electors shall, on the third Fri- Annual election, day of March next, and at the same time every year thereafter, when and where meet at the school house in said borough, and then and there, between the hours of one and six o'clock in the afternoon, elect by ballot one reputable person, to be styled burgess of the said borough, and five other persons to be members of the town council, one asses or and two assistant assessors, and when required by the laws of this commonwealth, one justice of the peace, one person for constable, who shall also act as high constable, one judge and two inspectors of elections, and at the first election, six school directors, two of whom to serve one year, two for two years, and two for three years, all of which said officers must be citizens of said borough, and have resided therein at least six months next preceding such election; the said election shall be conducted in the same manner as is provided for township officers of this commonwealth, except the certificates of the election of burgess, councilmen and school directors, shall be filed among the records of the corporation.

SECTION 4. The first election under this act shall be held by Pirst election. a judge and two inspectors, to be chosen by the qualified electors of said borough, who may be present at the opening of said election ; and the inspectors, so chosen, shall appoint each a clerk; and the constable of Huntington township is by himself, or by a depuis, required to attend at the school house of said borough, on the day of the first election, at one o'clock in the afternoon, to open said election; be is also required to give five days' previous notice of said election : Provided, That is said Promiso.

School directors, duties of

constable shall fail to be present at the time aforesaid, the said election may be opened by any qualified elector of said borough.

SECTION 3. That the school directors elected under this act shall perform the same duties and possess the like powers, in ail respects, as school directors elected agreeably to the general laws of this commonwealth ; and those first elected shall immediately after their election, canse to be made an enumeration of the taxable inhabitants of said borough, and the president of the board of directors shall certify the same to the superinten. dent of common schools, who is hereby directed to adopt the number of taxables, so certified, as a basis of distribution to said borough of its share of the state appropriation ; and the said borough shall be entitled to its share of proprietor school fund in the township of Huntington.

SECTION 6. That the corporation aforesaid shall have power to purchase and hold such real or personal estate as the purposes of the borough shall require, not exceeding the yearly value of one thousand dollars, and convey the same when the interest of the borough will be promoted by it.

W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. CRESSWELL, JR.,

Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED— The eleventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

WM. F. PACKER.

Real and personal estate.

Corporators.

To incorporate the Williamsport Library Association. 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 James Armstrong, 0. Watson, A. B. Cummings, J. W. May, nard, Lewis Jamison, E. B. England, Peter Herdic, Daniel Bower, Clinton Lloyd, S. Jones, W. H. Armstrong, T. Coryell, R. P. Allen, Henry C. Parsons, E.C. Johnson, Samuel Pollock, and their successors, are hereby erected into a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name and style of the filliamsport library association.

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