No. 227. A SUPPLEMENT To an act to incorporate the Wellsborough and Tioga Plank Road Company, et cetera. 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 Wellsborough and Tioga plank road company be and the May stone road. same is hereby authorized to cover the plank of said road with pounded stone or gravel, or other hard substance, in lieu of replanking the same, at all such points as the directors or managers of said company may deem it advisable. SECTION 2. That in lieu of the tolls now by law chargeable for teams drawing sawed lumber or boards over said road, said Wellsborough and Tioga plank road company shall be authorized, from and after the passage of this act, to charge at the rate of two cents per mile per thousand feet: Provided, That this act shall not be construed so as to forbid charging teams when returning from hauling lumber, the same rates of toll as are now by law recoverable from other teams passing over said road. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-ninth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. Tolls. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 228. A SUPPLEMENT To an act to authorize the Governor to incorporate the Glenn Hope and SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assenbly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That authorized. 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Division of road the stockholders in the said Glenn Hope and Little Bald Eagle turnpike road company are hereby authorized and empowered to make a division of said turnpike road, so as to form thereof two distinct and separate corporations; one of which embracing the line of said turnpike road from Muddy run to its eastern terminus, at Birmingham, shall be styled the Glenn Hope and Tyrone turnpike road company, and shall be represented by the stockholders who live east of said Muddy run; the other, embracing the western end of said turnpike road from Muddy run to its terminus, at Packersville, in Clearfield county, shall be styled the Glenn Hope and Susquehanna turnpike road company,. and be represented by the stockholders who reside west of said Muddy run: Provided, That previous to such separation of interests, the question shall have been submitted to the stockholders at an election to be held for that purpose, and of which election there shall be published a notice, to be inserted for three successive weeks, and signed by the president of the Glenn Hope and Little Bald Eagle turnpike road company, in one or more newspapers in Clearfield county, and one or more in Blair county; and a majority of the stockholders present and voting at said election, shall be deemed final: And provided further, That any separation of interests made in pursuance hereof, shall not be construed to impair or in anywise affect any contract, liability or obligation belonging or attached to the said Glenn Hope and Little Bald Eagle turnpike road company at the time of such separation or division. Election of officers Roads may be sold. Connections fallowed. SECTION 2. That it shall be proper for the stockholders representing respectively the two divisions of said road immediately after such election, and at the call of the president of the Glenn Hope and Little Bald Eagle turnpike road company, to meet together and choose officers for their respective divisions, in the manner prescribed by the act to which this act is a supplement; and the organization thus made and established, shall have all the privileges, and be subject to all the liabilities of the act incorporating the Glenn Hope and Little Bald Eagle turnpike road company, and the supplements thereto; and the officers elected at this first election, shall retain their offices until the general election provided for in the act to which this act is a supple ment. SECTION 3. That the board of managers of either or both the divisions herein erected into corporate bodies may sell, lease or otherwise dispose of their respective franchise or parts thereof: Provided, That such sale, lease or disposal shall have first received the assent of a majority of the stockholders representing the same, and shall impair no previously existing right or obligation. SECTION 4. That in case of sale, lease or other connection on the part of the Glenn Hope and Susquehanna division of said road with the Tuckahoe and Mount Pleasant plank road company, the said Tuckahoe and Mount Pleasant plank road company shall allow to the said Glenn Hope and Tyrone turnpike road company, the right and privilege to tap and connect with said plank road at any point that may be deemed advisable by the board of managers of the said Glenn Hope and Tyrone RICHARDSON L WRIGHT, To appropriate the road taxes on certain unseated lands in Clearfield county, to the improvement of a road through the same. 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 certain road. the road taxes assessed and to be collected during the ensuing Certain road six years, under existing laws of this commonwealth, upon taxes appropriaand from all the unseated lands in the township of Huston, in ted to repair of a the county of Clearfield, and also upon all the unseated lands in the townships of Lawrence and Pike, in the said county, which lie west of the Susquehanna river and north of the turnpike leading from Clearfield to Luthersburg, shall be and they are hereby appropriated to, and directed to be expended upon, the improvement of the township road leading from the town of Clearfield to Bennet's Branch of the Sinnemahoning creek, at or near Jesse Wilson's. Commissioners. SECTION 2. That G. Latimer Reed, David Tyler and A. K. Wright, of the county of Clearfield, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to superintend the appropriation afore. said, and they shall have like powers and be subject to like responsibilities as supervisors of highways in the county of Their duties. Clearfield, are now by law vested with and subject to; and in addition thereto shall have power to change the location of such parts of said road as they may deem best for the permanent improvement of the same; and if such changes are made, they shall file in the office of the clerk of the court of quarter sessions of said county, a draft showing the changes so made as contrasted with the old road: Provided, That the said commissioners shall, before entering upon their duties, file in the office of the clerk of the court aforesaid their bond, with two securities to be approved by one of the judges thereof, in two thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties under this act of assembly, and that the accounts of said commissioners shall be filed in and subject to correction and approval by the court of quarter sessions aforesaid. Vacancies. SECTION 3. That the court of quarter sessions of the county of Clearfield, shall have power to fill vacancies in said board of commissioners, and to direct the amount of security to be given by the appointee. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. be made with. No. 230. A SUPPLEMENT To the charter of the West Ward Water Company of Easton. 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 Who contracts to the owners of the freehold in and upon which said water is so taken and used, shall in all cases be the parties with whom such contract for the use of the water shall be made, and the said real estate be bound for and liable for the payment of the samé, reserving to the company the right to contract with the lessee or tenant, on the responsibility of the lessee or tenants, if they see fit or proper so to do, and any person or persons within the said borough, who shall take any of said water for domestic or Penalty for using other uses, without having previously contracted for the same water illegally." with the said president and managers, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding the sum of fifty dollars to the president and managers, for the use of the company, to be recovered before a justice of the peace by action of debt or assumpsit, in the same manner as debts of equal amounts are now recoverable. Water may be stopped. SECTION 2. That if any person or persons or body politic, who shall have contracted with the said company for the use of said water, shall wantonly or unnecessarily waste the same to the injury of said company, or shall permit any other person or persons not being by the said contract entitled to the use of the same, or shall neglect or fail to pay to the said company the amount of money by him, her or them agreed upon to be paid, as a compensation for the use of said water, for the period of three months after the same shall be due and payable according to the terms of said contract, it shall be lawful for the president and managers to withhold and cut off such water from the premises of such individual or body politic and corporate, until all such arrears, with interest and cost of recovering the same, shall be paid Provided, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to affect, impair, or take away the right of said company to sue for and recover the amount of such arrears. SECTION 3. That the fourteenth section of the act, entitled Repeal. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, APPROVED-The thirty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 231 A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To the act incorporating the Williamsport and Elmira 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 May borrow for the purpose of enabling the Williamsport and Elmira rail- money and mortroad company to settle and pay off their floating debt, and to gage road. purchase such additional machinery as their business may require, it shall be lawful for the said company, at any time within five years after the passage of this act, with the consent of a majority in value of the stockholders of said company first given at a meeting called for that purpose, to mortgage or transfer in trust, at such rate of interest, and upon such terms and conditions as they may deem expedient, as security for any money that may be lent or advanced to them, or any debts that they may now or hereafter owe, the personal property, or any part thereof that may now or hereafter belong to the said company; and the said mortgage or transfer shall be a good and valid security, without delivery of the possession of the things so mortgaged or transferred, till the re-payment of the said mortgage, or the debt for which the same is transferred; the lien thereof on such property, and all of it, shall not be in any way discharged or impaired, or affected by any subsequent mortgage or sale by an execution creditor or otherwise; and as |