Governor to ap

or trustee to

represent this Commonwealth

American Independence the right to occupy the necessary ground in the said square for that purpose, and for a railing around the same not exceeding sixty feet in diameter, and for the purpose of maintaining and keeping the said monument and railing in good repair, and the faith of this Commonwealth is pledged to her sister States contributing to the said object, to enforce the strict performance of all the engagements of the said councils contained in the said ordinances.

SECTION 2. That for the purpose of uniting with the others of the point an agent said thirteen original States in the necessary measures for the construction of the said nonument, his excellency the Governor is hereby authorized to appoint a suitable citizen as agent or trustee to represent this Commonwealth in the board of trustees that may be appointed by the said States for the same purpose and with the like powers. It will be the duty of the said board of trustees, whenever nine or more shall have been appointed by as many of the said thirteen States, to determine the design, plan, material and expense of the said monument, and to prepare a statement exhibiting the proportion to be contributed by each of the original thirteen States to defray the said expense, assuming as a rule for such proportion the numerical representation at this time of each such State in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, and the periods when in their judgment the instalments of the said contributions will be required in determining the said design; an appropriate place on the exterior of such monument shall be provided for each contributing State, to contain such inscriptions as the State shall direct, commemorative of some citizen or citizens of her own who took part in the responsibility of the declaration of the independence of the said States, the said trustees are to report to each of the States represented by them with all reasonable expedition, the design, plan, and expense of the said monument as proposed by them, and the said statement of proportionate contributions when the said States shall have made provisions for contributing their respective quotas of the said expense, the said board of trustees shall be authorized to proceed and construct the said monument and a sufficient railing around the same, and shall receive and expend the moneys appropriated for that purpose by the different States, they will appoint the necessary superintendents and agents, and may authorize a committee of their body to receive and take charge of all moneys contributed; when the said monument shall be finished the board of trustees shall render an account to their respective States of the moneys received and expended by them or under their direction, which shall be verified by the oaths of the principal superintendent and one or more of the financial committee of the board, and shall be certified by the mayor of the city of Philadelphia and the president of the select and common councils of the said city, or any two of them, to have been compared with original vouchers and entries and found

correct.

SECTION 3. That the person so appointed trustee shall hold and exAgent or trustee to hold his trust ercise his trust during the pleasure of the Governor of the Commonduring the plea- wealth, and in case of vacancy in the said trust by death, resignation, sure of the Gov- or otherwise, the Governor shall appoint successors from time to time

ernor.

as occasion may require. No part of the fund contributed by the State shall be applied to compensate any trustee for his services, but the actual expenses of the trustees appointed on the part of this Commonwealth will be defrayed by the General Assembly thereof.

SECTION 4. That upon receiving the report of the said board of trustees of the design, plan, material, and expense of the said monument and their estimate of the proportion to be contributed by this

Commonwealth as herein provided, the General Assembly will make provisions for the payment of the same in such instalments as the said board of trustees shall have declared to be necessary.

W. P. SCHELL,

APPROVED-The second day of February, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER,

No. 37.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Penn medical college of Philadelphia.

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 Abraham Livezey, David J. Johnson, Ellwood Harvey, J. Emerson Corporators. Kent, William Turner, Joseph Jeanes, Edward Taylor, Seth Pancoast, Joseph S. Longshore, John C. Martier, W. C. F. Flanigen, and their associates and successors, be, and are hereby made and created a body politic, in law and in fact, by the name, style and title of "The Penn Style. medical college of Philadelphia," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession and may sue and be sued, have a common seal, purchase and hold and convey all lands and tenements, moneys, goods, chattels and effects, make all by-laws necessary and proper for the use of a medical college and immediately connected therewith, not contrary to the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth, and do all and every other matter and thing for the purposes of this act which any corporation or body politic may or can do: Provided, That said corpo- Proviso. ration shall hold no more real estate than the buildings and fixtures necessary for a course of medical instruction.

Privileges.

SECTION 2. That said corporation shall have power to elect such By-laws. officers as may be necessary for the administration thereof and to enact

by-laws for the government, admission and expulsion of members.

SECTION 3. That said corporation shall have power to grant the Degrees of degree of Doctor of Medicine to all such persons as shall have attended medicine. two courses of medical lectures and possess the qualifications now usually required of candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine

in other medical colleges in this State.

SECTION 4. That the Legislature may at any time alter, amend or Reservation. repeal the privileges herein granted.

W. P. SCHELL,

APPROVED The second day of February, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.

WM. BIGLER.

Corporation.

Privileges.

Proviso.

Object.

Repeal of act relative to bridge over

Clarion river.

No. 38.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Darby and Paschallville fire company, and repealing an act relative to certain duties to be performed by the commissioners of Clarion county.

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 all and every the persons who shall at the time of the passage of this act be honorary and active members of the association called the Darby and Paschallville fire company, shall be, and they are hereby created and declared to be one body politic and corporate by the name, style and title of the "Darby and Paschallville fire company," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded in all courts of record or elsewhere, and to purchase, receive, have, hold and enjoy to them and their successors, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, franchises and hereditaments, goods and chattels of what nature, kind or quality soever, real, personal or mixed, or choses in action, and the same from time to time to sell, grant, devise, alien or dispose of: Provided, The clear yearly value or income of the necessary houses, lands and tenements, rents and annuities, or other hereditaments and real estate of the said corporation, and the interest of the money by it lent shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, and also to make and have a common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure, and also to ordain, to establish and put in execution such by-laws, rules, ordinances and regulations as shall appear necessary and convenient for the government of the said corporation, not being contrary to this charter or the Constitution or laws of the United States, or of this Commonwealth, and generally to do all and singular the matters and things which to them it shall lawfully appertain to do for the well being of the said corporation, and the due management of the affairs thereof

SECTION 2. That the object of the said corporation shall be the promotion of the public good by the extinguishment of fires.

SECTION 3. That the second and third sections of an act entitled "An Act to authorize the commissioners of the county of Clarion, to settle the account of Richard Wilson, deceased, for the erection of a bridge over the river Clarion, near the mouth of Little Toby creek, in the county of Clarion, and for other purposes," approved the twentyseventh day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fiftytwo be, and the same is hereby repealed.

W. P. SCHELL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The fourth day of February, A. D., one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 39.

AN ACT

For the relief of John Boughner, of Centre county, a Revolutionary soldier ; and relative to the Marietta and Mount Joy turnpike road company.

WHEREAS, An act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania was approved Preamble. April twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, allowing John Boughner, of Centre county, a Revolutionary soldier, an annuity of forty dollars during life, and a gratuity of forty dollars on the passage of said act, which the Senate amended by striking out the annuity, the House non-concurred, and Senate receded:

And whereas, By a clerical error in transcribing the said bill, John Boughner is deprived of receiving his annuity; 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 the State Treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to John Boughner, of Centre county, a Revolutionary soldier, an annuity John Boughner. of forty dollars during life, to be paid half yearly, commencing on the

first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

pany to make a

SECTION 2. That the Marietta and Mount Joy turnpike road company Marietta and are authorized to make a branch of said road from near the residence of Mount Joy turnSamuel Naylor to the east end of the borough of Marietta, to intersect pike road comthe Columbia and Marietta turnpike, for which purpose said company branch. are hereby authorized to occupy the road now in use; said branch to be subject to all the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement. W. P. SCHELL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives."

THO. CARSON,
Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The third day of February, A. D., one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 40.

AN ACT

Authorizing the commissioners of the county of Montgomery to borrow money.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly me, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the commissioners of the county of Montgomery be, and they are hereby

authorized and empowered to borrow, on the credit of said county, any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole, the sum of sixty thousand dollars, and to issue bonds or certificates of indebtedness therefor, under the seal of said county, of not less amount than one hundred dollars each, payable at the expiration of twenty years, or any shorter period, at the discretion of said commissioners, from the date of issue, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, which interest shall be payable annually to the holder or holders of such bond or bonds, certificate or certificates: Provided, That such money when borrowed, shall be applied to the payment of the present indebtedness of the said county, and to the completion of the public buildings thereof.

W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The third day of February, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 41.

AN ACT

Explanatory of the third and fourth sections of the supplement to the act incorporating the Susquehanna railroad 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 the third and fourth sections of the act of Assembly, passed the twentyfourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, entitled "A supplement to the act incorporating the Susquehanna railroad com pany," shall be so construed, and the true intent and meaning of the same is hereby declared to be, that the York and Maryland Line railroad company, the York and Cumberland railroad company, and the Wrightsville, York, and Gettysburg railroad company may either separately or collectively, or any one of them, subscribe to the capital stock of the Susquehanna railroad company, or loan to the said company a sum not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars.

W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

APPROVED-The fourth day of February, A. D., one thousand eight

bundred and fifty-three.

WM. BIGLER.