Preamble

No. 450.

A SUPPLEMENT

To the act incorporating the Delaware and Schuylkill Plank Road company, et cetera, passed the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

WHEREAS, The difficulties in the monetary affairs of the community for some time past, and the necessity for an increased width of the roadway in consequence of the marshy and depressed ground over which a large portion of the said road is to pass, requiring not only a considerable embankment, but also ditches of unusual width at its side, to drain off the water, have all contributed to prevent the completion of this road within the period limited by the said act of incorporation, and the sup plement thereto, passed the twelfth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two; now 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, That Extension of time the period limited by the act, entitled "An act for the laying

Width of road.

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out of a state road from the town of Goldsborough, in York county," et cetera, et cetera, passed the twelfth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the commencement and completion of the Delaware and Schuylkill plank road, shall be and the same is hereby extended, so far as concerns the last named road, as follows: that is to say, the first section thereof, from or near the junction of either Front street or Church street with Keeler's lane, to Greenwich Point house, shall be completed within three years; the second seetion thereof, from Greenwich Point house to Broad street, shall be commenced and completed within four years; and the third section thereof, from Broad street to Sutherland avenue, shall be commenced and completed within five years from the first day of April next ensuing the passage of this act.

SECTION 2. That the width of the roadway of the said plank road from Greenwich Point house to Sutherland avenue, may be laid out (including the footing ditches by the side thereof, where the same are necessary,) of the width of eighty feet, subject, however, to all the regulations and restrictions (except ing as to the width thereof) contained in the acts of assembly relating to plank roads, under which the said company has been incorporated; and that so much of the said act and supplement, to which said act this is a second supplement, as is hereby altered is hereby repealed, and that so much thereof as has not been so altered and supplied, is hereby continued in full force and virtue: Provided, That the route of said road shall be ap proved, before the ground be taken, by the board of surveys of the city of Philadelphia, and a plan thereof be filed in the office of said board. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT,

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

Speaker of the Senate. April, Anno Domini one JAMES POLLOCK.

No. 451.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

To an act to incorporate the Danville Gas Company, in the county of Mon

tour.

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 stockholders of the Danville gas company may hold their Election. first election for directors of said company at any time after the passage of this act and prior to the first Monday of May, eigh. teen hundred and fifty-six, at such time and place as shall be determined upon by a majority of the corporators named in the first section of the act incorporating said company, of which time and place of holding said election five days' public notice shall be given; and the directors so elected at such election shall act as such until the first Monday of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.

SECTION 2. That any and all acts done and contracts made Acts validated. and entered into by the corporators named in the first section of the act incorporating the Danville gas company, as a corporation, prior to the first election of directors by the stockholders of said company, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be valid to all intents and purposes, as if such acts had been done and contracts made by the directors of said company, regularly elected by the stockholders thereof.

RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WM. M. PIATT,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The eighteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

JAMES POLLOCK.

No. 452.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Bristol Gas Light 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 Charles W. Peirce, Samuel Cabeen, John Dorrance, Andrew W. Gilkeson, L. H. Scott, Robert C. Beatty, William Hawk, Wil- Corporators. liam D. Parrish, and Samuel Swain, junior, Albert L. Packer,

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Their duties.

and all and every other person or persons who may become subscribers, according to the mode hereinafter prescribed, and their successors, are hereby created a body politic and corporate, in fact, by the name of the Bristol gas light company; and by said name the said corporation shall have power and authority to manufacture, make and sell gas, to be made of bituminous coal or other materials, for the purpose of lighting the streets, buildings, manufactories and other places situate within the limits of Bristol and its vicinity, and to enter into and execute contracts, agreements or covenants in relation to the objects of this corporation, and to be capable of purchasing, taking and holding any estate, real or personal, necessary to give effect to the specified purposes of this corporation, for the accommodation of their business and concerns, or which it may be necessary for the said corporation to acquire and hold for the purpose of securing debts due or owing to them in the regular business of said corpora. tion: Provided, That the said real estate shall not exceed what may be necessary for the purposes mentioned, and no private lands shall be in any way injured or defaced without permission in writing first obtained from the owner or owners thereof.

SECTION 2. That so long as this act shall continue in force, the said corporation shall have power to lay down gas pipes and to erect posts, burners and reflectors in the streets, roads, lanes and public avenues of the borough of Bristol and its vicinity, in the county of Bucks; and the said company shall have power to do all other things necessary to light the said borough and vicinity, and the dwellings, stores, factories, hotels and other places situate therein: Provided, That the public travel shall at no time be unnecessarily impeded by the laying of the said pipes or the erection of said posts, and the streets, roads, lanes and public grounds shall be left in as good condition as before the laying of the said pipes or the erection of said posts.

SECTION 3. That Charles W. Peirce, Samuel Cabeen, Andrew W. Gilkeson, William D. Parrish and Samuel Swain, junior, are hereby appointed commissioners for receiving subscriptions. for the sum of thirty thousand dollars, to constitute the capital stock of said corporation, in shares of twenty-five dollars each; and said commissioners, or any two of them, shall open a book or books for that purpose, at such time and in such place or places within this state as they shall designate by a public advertisement to be previously inserted, for at least one week, in a public newspaper to be printed in or nearest to said borough of Bristol, and shall continue the same open until the said capital stock shall be subscribed, or at their discretion close the same after it shall have remained open one day, and again open the same at some other time or times, place or places, giving public notice thereof as aforesaid; and the sum of five dollars upon each share so subscribed shall be paid by each subscriber at the time of subscription to the said commissioners, or such of them as may open said subscription book or books, and each subscriber shall be entitled to receive a certificate for such stock from said commissioners; and the amount so received at the time of said subscription shall be, by the commissioners receiving the same, paid over to the directors of said company, to be appointed as hereinafter directed; and all the powers of said commissioners shall cease and determine on the appointment of such board of directors, and the said board when so appointed shall have power, and they are hereby authorized to open the

books for the further subscription of stock, until the whole stock subscribed amounts to the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the whole capital stock shall not at any time exceed the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, and that no increase of said capital stock be permitted, unless the stockholders holding a majority of the stock already subscribed shall first give their written consent thereto; and they are also authorized to call upon said subscribers for the payment of further instalments in such sum or sums, at such time or times, and under such forfeiture or forfeitures as they may deem expedient, until the whole amount of said shares so subscribed shall have been fully paid.

SECTION 4. That the management of the concerns of said com. Directors. pany shall be vested in five directors, to be selected from the stockholders, and the said directors shall choose, by plurality of votes, a president from among themselves, and as soon as conveniently may be, after thirty thousand dollars shall have been subscribed, the before-named commissioners, or any three of them, shall convene the said stockholders by public notice, and at such time and place as they shall designate in such notice, to choose the first board of directors, who shall hold their offices until the first Thursday in May next thereafter, and until their successors shall be chosen, and there shall be an annual election of directors by the stockholders, on the first Thursday Annual election. in May of every year thereafter, at such time and place as the board of directors for the time being shall appoint, of the time and place of holding which election, atl east ten days' notice shall be given in a newspaper published in or nearest the borough of Bristol; and any vacancy in said board of directors may Vacancies. be supplied by appointments to be made by the board of direc tors until the next annual election, and all elections of directors shall be by ballot of the stockholders, or their proxies, allowing one vote for each share which they shall have held in his or their name or names at least fourteen days before the time of voting, and all votes by proxy shall be on such terms and conditions as are prescribed by the act passed the twenty-eighth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled "An act to regulate proxies;" the board of directors for the time being shall have power to take from any treasurer or secretary, or other officers or agents appointed by them, such security for the faithful performance of their respective duties as they may think proper.

SECTION 5. That if at any time an election of directors be not held on the day herein appointed for that purpose, the corporation shall not be dissolved for that cause, but an election shall be held thereafter, at such time and place as the directors by their laws or other mode may appoint.

SECTION 6. That the directors for the time being shall form a board, and they, or a majority of them, shall be a quorum for transacting business, but any less number thereof may have power to adjourn.

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SECTION 7. That the stock of the corporation shall be trans- Transfers. ferable, according to the by-laws and regulations of the corporation, and shall be considered as personal property, and the stock and transfer books shall be open at all times to the inspection of the stockholders.

SECTION 8. That if any person or persons shall wilfully do, Penalty for inju or cause to be done, any act or acts whatever, thereby to injure ries to work.

Books.

any conduit pipe, cock, machine, or structure whatsoever, or any other thing appertaining to the works of said corporation, or whereby the same may be stopped, obstructed, or injured, the person or persons so offending shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being thereof convicted, shall be punished by a fine, not exceeding three hundred dollars, or imprisonment at hard labor, not exceeding two years, or both: Provided, That such criminal prosecution shall not in anywise impair the right of action for damages by a civil suit, hereby authorized to be brought, for any such injury aforesaid, by and in the name of said corporation, in any court having cognizance of the same. SECTION 9. That the said company shall cause to be kept at their office proper books of accounts, in which shall be fairly and truly entered all the transactions of the company, which books shall be at all times open for the inspection of the stockholders.

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.

JAMES POLLOCK.

Time for com. mencing.

No. 453.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

To an act authorizing the governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the Monongahela river, at the borough of Birmingham, in the county of Allegheny, with power to construct a turnpike road from the south end of Denman street, in said borough, to intersect the Monongahela and Coal Hill turnpike road, approved the third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the time for commencing the erection of a bridge over the Monongahela river, at the borough of Birmingham, in the county of Allegheny, under the act, entitled "An Act authorizing the governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the Monongahela river, at the borough of Birmingham, in the county of Allegheny, with power to construct a turnpike road from the south end of Denman street, in said borough, to intersect the Monongahela and Coal Hill turnpike road," approved the third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and the several supplements thereto, be and the same is hereby extended for the period of three years, from and after the passage of this act; and all the rights, liberties, privileges and franchises conferred by the said act, and the several