No. 402.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Lock Haven and Tyrone 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 D. K. Jackman, H. L. Dieffenbach, Allison White, N. L. Atwood, of Corporators. the county of Clinton; W. H. Blair, B. R. Petriken, Charles R. Foster, of the county of Centre; John A. Gamble, W. F. Packer, and Robert Faries, of the county of Lycoming; John T. Mathias, James L. Shultz, and R. A. M'Murtrie, of Blair county; William Frick, of the county of Union; and Israel Painter, of Westmoreland county; and their associates, successors and assigns, be and they are hereby created and erected into one body politic and corporate, by the name, style and Name. title of "The Lock Haven and Tyrone Railroad company," with the power and for the purpose of constructing a railroad, with one or more tracks, from Lock Haven, in the county of Clinton, or from any point within two miles thereof, by the best and most practicable route, to Route. Tyrone, in the county of Blair, or to such other suitable point on the Pennsylvania railroad, in Blair county, as may be deemed most advisable, with the right and privilege to connect the same with the said Pennsylvania railroad, the Sunbury and Erie railroad, or any other railroad which it may intersect, with the power also to extend a branch or lateral railroad or railroads to any point in the county of Clinton, and in the county of Centre, deemed useful and expedient by the said company, not exceeding ten miles in length in any case, subject to all Subject to prothe provisions and restrictions of "An Act regulating Railroad com- visions of cerpanies," approved the nineteenth day of February, Anno Domini one tain act. thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, so far as the same are not altered or supplied by the provisions of this act.

SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. twenty-five thousand shares, of fifty dollars each: Provided, Said com- Proviso. pany may increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion may

be necessary to complete the said road and carry out the true meaning

of this act.

SECTION 3. That if said company shall not commence the construc- Commencement tion of said road within three years, and complete the same within and completion seven years thereafter, this act shall be null and void, except so far as of road. may be necessary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of the com

pany.

W. P. SCHELL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO. CARSON,

Speaker of the Senate.

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

WM. BIGLER.

[1852.]

Preamble.

Corporation.

Style.

Privileges.

Membership.

Annual meet

No. 403.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Temporary Home Association.

WHEREAS, To secure from fraud and imposition a class of persons whose homeless situation exposes them to the arts of the vicious and designing; to provide a safe shelter or transient boarding house for females out of employ, where those who have funds may be accommodated at small expense, and where those who have not will be received under an engagement to pay when they are able whatever compensa tion their circumstances may admit; also to provide a temporary asỹlum where destitute children, of age suitable to be placed in families, can be taken care of until permanent homes may be procured; a sec ety of women has been formed, and denominated "The Temporary Home Association," whose members have petitioned to be incorporated. to enable them more effectually to accomplish their purpose of bui manity; Therefore,

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, Tha: the persons who are now or shall hereafter become contributors, hereinafter prescribed, are hereby incorporated into a society, by the name of "The Temporary Home Association," and by that name sha have perpetual succession, with power to have a common seal, to mak contracts, sue and be sued, to take, hold, mortgage, any estate, real and personal, the annual income of which at any time in actual possession. shall not exceed ten thousand dollars, to be appropriated to the parposes of said charity, and to make by-laws, rules and regulations, for the government of the society, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States and this Commonwealth.

SECTION 2. Every woman on the payment of not less than one dal lar annually, shall be considered a member of this society, or by pr ing twenty dollars shall be a life member; any person may become annual contributor.

SECTION 3. The annual meetings of the society shall be held on the ings & appoint- first Saturday in May, when a president, vice president, secretary a ment of officers. treasurer shall be appointed, who, with sixteen other members, shall be a board of managers for the ensuing year.

Powers & duties of managers.

Intelligence

SECTION 4. The managers shall meet within five days after their election; they shall have power to make by-laws for their own govern ment, to fill vacancies, and call special meetings of the society, whenever deemed expedient; they shall meet at least once a month, and ap point a portion of their numbers to be the executive and visiting con mittee for the ensuing month; they shall make an annual report of their proceedings.

SECTION 5. There shall be an intelligence office under the care of the

managers.

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SECTION 6. That the building occupied as an asylum by the said Building exsociety shall during such occupaney be exempt from taxation.

APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

empt from taxation.

No. 404.

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Odd Fellows' Hall Association of the borough of West Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia, and for other purposes," passed the eighth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one; to alter the plan of the district of the Northern Liberties; and relating to elections in Kingsessing, Philadelphia county.

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 name, style and title of "The Odd Fellows' Hall Association of the Odd Fellows borough of West Philadelphia, and county of Philadelphia," incorpo- Hall association rated by the act to which this is a supplement, shall hereafter be known of West Philaby the name, style and title of "The Odd Fellows' Hall Association of delphia, name the district of West Philadelphia," and the proviso to the second sec- changed.

tion of said act shall be altered and amended so that the said association may have a clear yearly income from their real estate of which they may at any one time be possessed, of five thousand dollars.

SECTION 2. That the said association be and is hereby authorized Authority to to issue and sell two thousand shares of capital stock, in addition to and sell additional upon the same terms designated for the sale of the original one thou- stock. sand shares authorized to be issued and sold by the third section of the

said act incorporating said association.

SECTION 3. That the number of trustees of the said association shall Number of trusbe seven, having the qualifications heretofore required, constituting a tees.

board, to be elected annually, in the same manner, time and place, and

for the same purpose, as designated by the said act of incorporation

and the supplement thereto.

SECTION 4. That the object of this association shall be to provide, Object of assoerect and furnish a hall or suitable building or buildings in the district ciation. of West Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia, for the accommodation of lodges and encampments of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, other associations and societies, for the use of the district commissioners of the district of West Philadelphia, a public library, and such other purposes as the said trustees shall deem proper, by renting the same.

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Stock forfeited

on refusal to comply with terms of subscription.

Trustees.

Officers.

Proviso.

District of West Philadelphia authorized to

subscribe stock.

May borrow money.

Repeal.

SECTION 5. That in the event of any of the subscribers to the capital stock heretofore or hereafter subscribed, refusing or neglecting in any wise to comply with the terms of subscription for the space of sixty days after they shall have been respectively notified thereof, they shall forfeit the money or installments already paid by them respectively which shall become the property of or enure to the said association, and the trustees are hereby authorized thereupon to sell and dispose of the same, in such manner as they may determine, as if the same had never been issued or sold.

SECTION 6. That the trustees for the time being, or a majority of them, shall have power to carry out the objects of this association, 38 herein before expressed by the act of incorporation and by this supple ment; they shall elect from their own body a president, and also elect a treasurer and secretary, and appoint such other officers and agents as they shall deem necessary to conduct and execute the business affairs of the said association, fix the compensation of said officers and agents, and at their discretion dismiss them; they shall provide for the invest ment of the funds of the association, in such manner as they shall deem most safe and beneficial, provide for paying all necessary expenses of conducting the affairs of the association, and generally to pass all bylaws necessary to the exercise of these and other powers vested in said association, and the said by-laws from time to time to alter and repeal: Provided, That such by-laws shall not be contrary to the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth nor of the United States.

SECTION 7. That it shall and may be lawful for the district of West Philadelphia, according to the discretion of the president and commissioners thereof, or a majority of them, to subscribe to or purchase any number not exceeding four hundred shares of the capital stock of said association, and the said president and commissioners are authorized to borrow in anticipation of taxes, for any period not exceeding twenty years from the date of the loan, such amount as they may determine to subscribe, in order to meet the payment of such subscription.

SECTION 8. That the ninth section of the act to which this is a sup plement, and the proviso in the eighth section of said act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

SECTION 9. That the commissioners of the incorporated district of Commissioners of incorporated the Northern Liberties be and they are hereby authorized and emp district of the ered to revise so much of a certain plan filed in the office of the clerk i Northern Liber of the court of quarter sessions of the county of Philadelphia, on the ties authorized twenty-second of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, as to revise a cer- lies north of Willow street, in the said district, and to make such alter!

tain plan or

draft.

Three addition

ation or corrections therein as in their opinion the public interest and convenience may require, of which alteration or correction they shall cause a correct draft or plan to be made, and deposit the same in the office of the clerk of the court of quarter sessions of the county Philadelphia, and the said revised draft or plan, when so deposited shall thereupon have the same force and effect as the plan deposited e the said twenty-second of October, eighteen hundred and fifty, woul have had had no alteration been made therein.

SECTION 10. That the qualified electors of the township of Kingses al school direc- sing, in the county of Philadelphia, shall on the third Friday in March tors authorized next, at the time and place of holding constables elections, elect three to be elected in citizens in addition to the number now required by law, to serve Kingsessing, Philadelphia county.

school directors, and the said additional school directors so elected, sha divide themselves by lot into three classes; one third to serve for year, one-third two years, and the remaining one-third for three years

nd annually thereafter the qualified electors shall elect three citizens o serve as school directors for the term of three years.

APPROVED-The twenty-fourth day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-two.

WM. BIGLER.

No. 405.

AN ACT

To incorporate Iris Lodge number one hundred and eighteen, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, Bethany, Wayne county.

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 Ira Vadakin, A. B. Sloan, H. G. Chase, H D. Brooks, Elijah Had- Corporators. field, Benj. Munson, E. W. Hamlin, Alonzo Hubbard, Pope Bushnell, Thos. Stephens, B. T. West, D. Cramer, Wm. Patridge, J. A. Hubbard, William N. Fisher, J. G. Tuttle, H. Gregory, C. Tracy, J. L. Terell, and their successors, and all persons who hereafter may be associated with them, be and they are hereby created and erected into a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and Style. title of Iris Lodge number one hundred and eighteen, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Bethany, Wayne county," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, and shall be able Privileges. and capable in law and in equity to take and to hold, to them and their successors, either by grant, gift, devise or lease, any building, lands or real estate, for use or the purpose of erecting thereon a suitable building or buildings for the accommodation of said body politic, and also to take and hold, for the use of said body politic, any goods and chattels, sum or sums of money, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, will, devise or bequest, from any person or persons whatsoever capable of making the same, and the same at their pleasure to grant, bargain and sell, lease or mortgage, for the use or benefit of the said body politic, and also all contracts or trusts heretofore made or held for the benefit and use of said Lodge, by Ira Vadakin, Oliver D. Dunham, Harrison Gregory, and Hawley Olmstead, trustees of said Lodge, be and the same shall enure to the benefit of said Lodge or Independent Order of Odd Fellows, as if made in pursuance of this act; and further, to do all and singular the matters and things which shall be law

ful for them to do for the well-being and due management of the affairs Proviso as to of the aforesaid body politic: Provided, That the real estate of which real estate.