and fair value thereof, and to hold and enjoy the railroad so purchased, with all the rights, privileges, and franchises, and with the same rights to charge for tolls, transportation, and car service, and subject to the same restrictions as were held, enjoyed, and limited by and in respect to the company of which the road may be so sold.

AN ACT RELATING TO THE ORGANIZATION AND MEETINGS OF CERTAIN CORPORATIONS INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH.

Approved 27th November, 1865. (P. L., 1866, page 1228.)

SECTION I. That in all cases where any company has been incorporated under the laws of this State, and a majority of the directors, corporators, or stockholders thereof are citizens of any other State, said corporation may be organized and all the meetings of such corporators, directors, or stockholders held in such place, whether in this State or elsewhere, as such majority may from time to time appoint: Provided, however, That the annual election for officers of such corporation shall be held in the State of Pennsylvania, at such time and place, and upon such notice by publication in the newspapers of this State, as the by-laws of such corporation may from time to time determine.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO DUTIES AND POWERS OF CONSTABLES AND RAILROAD CONDUCTORS IN THE COUNTIES OF ERIE, CRAWFORD, LUZERNE, SUSQUEHANNA, AND PIKE.

Approved 12th March, 1866. (P. L., 1866, pages 182 and 183.)

SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the constables, and of the several police constables, officers, or detectives, appointed by the proper authorities in the counties aforesaid, and they are hereby authorized and required to arrest any professional thief, pickpocket, or burglar who may be found at any steamboat landing, railroad depot, church, banking institution, broker's office, place of public amusement, auction-room, or

common thoroughfare, in the city of Erie, in Corry, in the county of Erie, and in Meadville or Titusville, in the county of Crawford, and carry them forthwith to the mayor of the city or burgess of the borough, or a police magistrate, to be appointed by the mayor, burgess, or city or town council respectively; and if it shall be proven, to the satisfaction of the mayor, burgess, or other police magistrate, by sufficient testimony, that the person so arrested was attending or frequenting such place or places for an unlawful purpose, he or she shall be committed by the said mayor, burgess, or police magistrate to the jail of the proper county, for a term not exceeding ninety days, at hard labor, or, at his discretion, require the person to give security for his or her good behavior, for a period not exceeding one year, and require the person to pay the costs incident to his or her arrest, examination, and commitment.

SEC. 3. That the conductors on the several railroads, while passing through either of the counties aforesaid, shall have like power to arrest any one who may be found stealing or picking the pockets of passengers or others, or committing any breach of the peace on the cars, and detain him or her till reaching any one of the places, Erie, Corry, Meadville, or Titusville, and then deliver him or her to a constable or other police authority, to be taken before one of the authorities mentioned in the preceding section, to be dealt with in like manner as is there provided for real or suspicious offenders; and the several magistrates before named shall have power to order the detention of the person or persons so arrested, for a period not exceeding ten days, if it shall be deemed necessary to obtain the requisite testimony of absent witnesses to establish their guilt.

AN ACT

SUPPLEMENTARY TO AN ACT PASSED THE TWENTY-FIRST DAY OF FEBRUARY, ANNO DOMINI ONE THOUsand sevEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN, RELATIVE TO VAGRANTS.

Approved 21st March, 1866. (P. L., 1866, pages 259 and 260.) SECTION I. That if any person shall be found by any constable, police officer, or detective, staying or loitering in

or around any steamboat landing, railroad depot, gambling or drinking saloon, restaurant, banking-house, broker's office, or any place of public amusement, crowded thoroughfare, or other place of public resort, in any city or incorporated borough within the counties of Erie, Crawford, Venango, and Warren, having no apparent business, trade, or occupation, and without any visible avocation or means of subsistence, it shall be the duty of said officer to arrest such person, and take him or her, as soon as may be, before the mayor of any city, the burgess of any borough, or any convenient magistrate of the place where the arrest is made; and upon due proof of the fact, by one or more witnesses or by confession, and upon the party arrested failing to furnish any reasonable or satisfactory account of his or her name, residence, character, or business at that place, he or she shall be deemed and taken to be a vagrant, and shall be subject to all the existing laws respecting vagrants now in force in this Commonwealth; and the mayor of any city and the burgess of every borough within the said counties are hereby vested with full authority and jurisdiction to execute all the provisions of this act and all existing laws relative to vagrants.

SEC. 2. That the burgess and town council of each of the boroughs in said counties shall have power to appoint one or more special policemen or detectives, whenever they shall deem it necessary for the protection of their citizens or strangers against the depredations of thieves, burglars, pickpockets, gamblers, or other disorderly persons, and appropriate public funds of said boroughs or levy tax for payment of the same, who, after being duly sworn to discharge the duties thereof, shall have and exercise all the powers of constables in the execution of all process in criminal cases and under this act, and shall be entitled to the same fees and perquisites as are now allowed to constables for similar services.

SEC. 3. That on the application of any railroad company having depots or stations at any places not incorporated into boroughs, or upon application of a respectable number of the inhabitants of any borough, when the burgess and council have neglected or refused to make the appointment, it shall be lawful for the courts of quarter sessions of the several

counties named to appoint special policemen and detectives for such localities, who shall be sworn and give bail, if required by the court, and shall hold their said offices one year, unless the appointment be sooner revoked by the court.

SEC. 4. That after the arrest of any such person as is hereinbefore described, and upon the oath or affirmation of the arresting officer or other person that he has reason to suspect and does suspect such person of being a gambler, burglar, thief, or pickpocket, it shall be lawful for the mayor, burgess, or justice before whom such person is brought, to direct the officer, in his presence, or that of some disinterested person named by him, to search the person, the baggage, and place of residence or resort of such suspected person, and return to the presiding magistrate everything he may find or take deemed confirmatory of such suspicion, and everything not so deemed shall be left with or returned to the owner; and if, upon said examination and search, such mayor, burgess, or other magistrate shall be satisfied such suspected person is a professional gambler, thief, pickpocket, or burglar, he shall have power so to render his judgment, and then to sentence such party to pay a fine of any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars and the costs of prosecution, and to undergo imprisonment in the county jail for any period not exceeding three months, or to require such party to enter into recognizance and give bail for his or her appearance at the next court of quarter sessions, in such sum as he may fix; and upon the failure of any such party to comply with said sentence or give the required recognizance and bail, to commit him or her to the jail of the county; of all of which doings the said magistrate shall keep a record, and transmit a certified copy of the same to the clerk of the quarter sessions at or before the next succeeding term.

SEC. 5. If any person shall feel him or herself aggrieved by the final adjudication of any mayor, burgess, or justice, under this act, he shall have the right to sue out a writ of habeas corpus before any judge of the county in which he shall be so arrested, and have a rehearing of his case, or by giving satisfactory security, in the usual form, shall have the right to have

a writ of certiorari to remove the proceedings to the next court of quarter sessions for review, which shall suspend the further execution of the judgment or sentence until the case is heard and finally determined by the court.

SUPPLEMENT TO AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT REGULATING RAILROAD COMPANIES," APPROVED FEBRUARY NINETEENTH, ANNO DOMINI ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINE.

Approved 17th April, 1866. (P. L., 1866, page 106.)

SECTION I. That no suit or action shall be brought against any railroad company incorporated by the laws of this Commonwealth, for damages for right of way or use and occupancy of any lands by said company for the use of their railroad, unless such suit or action shall be commenced within five years after said lands shall have been entered upon for the purpose of constructing said road, and within three years after said road shall be in operation: Provided, That any person who would be sooner barred by this act shall not be thereby barred for two years from the date hereof.

AN ACT RELATING TO RAILROADS.

Approved 17th April, 1866. (P. L., 1866, page 106.)

SECTION I. That whenever any judge or judges of election, appointed in accordance with the provisions of the fifth section of the general act regulating railroad companies, approved February nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fortynine, shall fail to attend the meeting of stockholders, and whenever any board of directors shall neglect or refuse to appoint such judges, then and in such cases it shall be consistent (competent) for the stockholders of any railroad com