No. 84. An Act To incorporate the Litiz Academy, in the village of Litiz, Lancaster county, and the Pottsville Institute, in the county of Schuylkill, and relative to Washington and Dickinson Colleges. 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 academy for the education of boys, Litiz Acadein the village of Litiz, Lancaster county, at present under my incorpothe direction of John Beck, as principal thereof, is hereby rated. erected into one body corporate and politic, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of "The Litiz Academy," Style & title. and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any Privileges & court of law, or elsewhere, and shall be able and capable in law and equity to take and hold lands, tenements, goods and chattels, of whatever nature or quality, real or personal, or mixed, which are now, or hereafter may become the property of said academy, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, will, devise, bequest, or otherwise, from any person or persons capable of making the same, and the same to grant, bargain, sell, or dispose of: Provided, Proviso. That the yearly value or income of the said real and personal estate, shall not at any time exceed the sum of two thousand dollars, to be applied exclusively for the erecting of such buildings as may be necessary, and for the purchase of books, or of such apparatus for the use of said academy, and also, for such other purposes as may from time to time be necessary for the well being of the same, and that no misnomer shall defeat any gift, grant or sale to the said academy, contrary to the true intent of the person or persons making the same. SECTION 2. That the trustees of said academy shall be Trustees five in number, and until others shall be appointed, shall consist of the following named persons, viz: the Rev. Peter Woll, the present pastor of the church of the United Brethren at Litiz, John Beck, the present principal of said academy, Jacob Kreider, Christian H. Rauch, and Jacob B. Tshudy, members of the society of the United Brethren's church at Litiz, and the said pastor, and the said principal, and their respective successors, shall at all times be trustees of said academy, by virtue of their said offices, and the said Jacob Kreider shall continue in office until the second Mon day in January next, the said Christian H. Rauch to continue until the second Monday in January eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and the said Jacob B. Tshudy to continue until the Their terms second Monday in January eighteen hundred and forty, and on of office res- the several days aforesaid, and on the same day yearly therepectively. after, the members of the said society, at a general meeting to Proviso. Quorum. Powers. be held for that purpose, shall, by ballot, elect one person out of their own number to serve as trustee, for the term of three years: Provided always, That in case a vacancy or vacancies shall happen, by death or otherwise, of any of the trustees appointed or elected, the remaining trustees, or a majority of them, shall appoint a trustee or trustees, until the next general meeting or election, at which meeting, the members of said society shall elect another trustee or trustees to supply said vacancy or vacancies, as the case may be. SECTION 3. That the said trustees, or any three of whom being a quorum, shall have power to manage the said concerns of the academy, to have the funds thereof in their care, to change the annual meetings for the election of trustees from time to time, as they may find convenient, to appoint a secretary and treasurer, and to determine all matters and things necessary to the good order and well being of the said academy, and with the consent and approbation of the elders' conference of the said society, to enact and enforce such by-laws and ordinances as they may think proper for the management of the same: Provided always, That the said by-laws and ordinances shall not be inconsistent with the constitution of this state or of the United States, nor in anywise contrary or in violation of the stated rules and statutes of the society of the United Brethren's church at Litiz: And 2d Proviso. provided further, That the internal government of the academy shall be entirely under the direction of the principal thereof, and the said by-laws, and all the proceedings of the said trustees, shall fairly and regularly be entered in books, to be kept for that purpose. Pruviso. Principal of Seal, Pottsville Institute, SECTION 4. That the principal of said academy, and his successors, shall remain in said office until he or they shall be removed according to the stated rules and regulations of the said society, or otherwise, and all vacancies which may arise by such removal, shall be supplied according to the same rules. SECTION 5. That the said trustees and their successors, shall have full power and authority to use one common seal, and to alter and renew the same at pleasure. SECTION 6. That there shall be, and hereby is established Schuylkill co in the borough of Pottsville, in the county of Schuylkill, and commonwealth aforesaid, an institute or public school for the education of youth in the English and other lan quages, in the useful arts and sciences, and literature, by he name of the "Pottsville Institute," under the care, lirection and government of the trustees, viz: Benjamin W. Cummings, Samuel B. Fisher, and John C. Offerman, Trustees inwhich said trustees and their successors, to be elected as corporated. ereinafter directed, shall be, and are hereby declared to be ne body corporate and politic, by the name and style of The Trustees of the Pottsville Institute," and by the same ame shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to ue and to be sued, plead and be inpleaded, in all courts of cord and elsewhere, and shall be competent and capable Powers and law and equity to take and to hold, to them and their liabilities ccessors, for the use of the said institute, lands, teneents, hereditaments, goods, and chattels, of what kind, naare or quality whatsoever, real, personal or mixed, by gift, ant, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, will, devise or equest, from any person or persons whomsoever, capable of aking the same, and the same from time to time to grant, rgain, sell, demise, alien, dispose of, for the use of said stitute, and generally to do all and singular, the matters d things which shall be lawful for them to do, for the well ng of the said institute, and the due management or order. the affairs thereof: Provided, That the yearly value or Proviso. come of the said real or personal estate, shall not at any me exceed the sum of two thousand dollars. SECTION 7. The said trustees shall hold their first meet- 1st Meeting. g in the institute, in the borough of Pottsville, on the first onday in June next after the passing of this act; any two. them shall constitute a quorum to transact any of the Quorum. ECTION 8. All by-laws, ordinances and proceedings of, Record of proceedings Proviso. Seal. or bequest to the same: Provided, The interest of the parties shall sufficiently appear on the face of the gift, grant, will, or other writing, whereby any estate or other interest was intended to pass to the said corporation, nor shal! any nonuser of the rights, liberties, privileges, jurisdiction and authority hereby granted to the said corporation, create, or in anywise cause a forfeiture thereof. SECTION 9. That the said trustees and their successors, shall have full power and authority to use one common seal, and to alter and renew the same at pleasure. SECTION 10. That all the real estate situated in the borough of Washington, in the county of Washington, which Washington belongs to the trustees of Washington college, be and the College. same is hereby exempted from taxation in support of the poor, as well as for borough, county and school purposes. Dickinson SECTION 11. That the real estate belonging to the trustees of Dickinson college, situate in the county of Cumberland, shall hereafter be exempt from taxation. LEWIS DEWART, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. JOS: RITNER. No. 85. An Act To incorporate the Lebanon Sugar and Silk 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 William Moore, Dr. John Gloninger, Thomas Harper, Jacob B. Weidman,Simeon Guilford, Dr.Benjamin Baker, John Marguart, John George, David Greenewalt, Commission-Jacob Stoever, A. Ritscher, John Shindel, Esq. Joseph Reinhart, Esq. John Uhler, Dr. H. Shneck, all of the borough of Lebanon, George Seltzer and Jacob Heilman of Jonestown, Jchn Moyer, William Stoever, Lyon Lemberger of Meyers. town, Dr. Christian Bucher, Samuel Rex, of Shaefferstown John Killinger, James Bingham, John Shertzer, Jr. Dr. Joh Marshall, all of Millerstown, Philip Wolfersberger of Camp ers. day of , one books. Notice. bellstown, and Henry Garman of Palmyra, or any sever of them, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners. to do and perform the several things hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: they shall, immediately on the passage of this bill, procure three books, one of which shall be opened To procure at the house of Jacob Oyler, in the borough of Lebanon, one at the house of Daniel Moyer in Meyerstown, one at the house of Henry Heilman in Jonestown, in each of which they shall enter as follows: "We whose names are hereunto subscribed, do promise to pay to the president and managers Form of subof the Lebanon Sugar and Silk company, the sum of ten scription. dollars for every share of stock set opposite our respec- Price tive names, in such manner and proportions, and at such of shares times as shall be determined by the president and mana-$10 each. gers of the said company, in pursuance of an act of general assembly of this commonwealth, entitled An act to incorporate the Lebanon Sugar and Silk company:' Witness our hands, the thousand eight hundred and thirty;" and shall thereupon give notice, in three newspaper printed in the county of Lebanon, two weeks at least, of the times and places when and where the said books shall be kept open to receive subscriptions for the stock of said company, at which respective times and places, one or more of the commissioners shall attend, and permit all persons of lawful age who Who may shall offer to subscribe in the said books, in their own names, subscribe. or in the name of any other person who shall authorize the same, for shares in said stock, and the said books shall be kept open respectively for the said purpose, at least six hours in every juridical day, for the space of six days, or until there shall have been subscribed five thousand shares; and if at the expiration of six days, the books aforesaid shall not have the number of shares aforesaid therein subscribed, the said commissioners may adjourn from time to time,and trans-5,000 shares fer the book or books elsewhere, until the whole number of whole No. five thousand shares shall be subscribed, of which adjourn ment and transfer, the commissioners aforesaid shall give such public notice as the occasion may require, and when the whole number of shares shall be subscribed, then the books shall be closed. SECTION 2. When three hundred shares or more of the said stock shall be subscribed, and the sum of one dollar paid on each and every share, the commissioners, or a majority of them, may certify to the Governor, under their hands and seals, the names of the subscribers, and the number of shares subscribed by each, whereupon the Governor shall, by letters patent, under his hand, and seal of the commonwealth, ent Letters pat |