subscriptions to the capital stock of said water or gas company, and to contract with any person or persons for the erection of che said works, or either of them: Provided, That no contract Proviso. shall be made for the erection of the said work or works, till at east twenty-five thousand dollars of the capital stock of said company shall first be subscribed, after at least one week's due notice in one newspaper printed in the said borough of Johns town. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 575. AN ACT To incorporate the Mutual Fire Insurance, Company of Roxborough, Manayunk and Montgomery county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Charles Thomson Jones, James F. Nicholas, John Hagy, Nathan L. Jones, Henry Proot, George W. Davis, Henry K. Bogle, Joseph Dickinson, Joseph Shantz, Daniel O. Hitner, John Dager, John Righter, junior, and Benjamin Harry, are hereby appointed commissioners, who or a majority of whom are authorized and empowered, from and after the passage of this act, to establish an insurance company, to be called and known by the name and title of the Mutual fire insurance company of Roxborough, Manayunk and Montgomery county, to be located in Roxborough, in the Twenty-first ward of the city of Philadelphia, with the power to establish agencies; which said company shall be organized and managed according to an act to provide for the incorporation of insurance companies, approved the second day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and shall be limited to the risks designated in the first class in the seventh section of said act, with the right to transact its business upon the mutual principle. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 576. AN ACT To change the name of the Greenwich Land and Building Association, and to authorize said company to construct a Railroad in the city of Philadelphia. 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 Name changed. the Greenwich land and building association is hereby changed in its name, style and title, and shall be known hereafter by the name, style and title of the Greenwich improvement and railroad company, and shall retain under the said name and title all its existing powers, privileges, rights and property, and be subject to all its present duties, obligations and liabilities. Privileges continued. Subject to. SECTION 2. That the said company is hereby authorized and Authorized to make a railroad. empowered to construct a railroad with one or more tracks, from their property in the First ward, in the city of Philadel phia, to some convenient point in the said ward, and connect the same with any railroads therein, subject to all the provi sions of the act of assembly regulating railroads, approved February nineteenth, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine; and the said company shall have the right to increase its capital stock to the extent of two thousand shares more: Provided, That said road shall be located as regards grades and route, by and under the approval of the board of surveys of said city: And provided, That nothing herein contained shall extend the existence of said corporation beyond its present limit. Proviso. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 577. AN ACT To incorporate the Lackawanna Bridge Company. 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 Joseph Fellows, second, Orrin Frink, Charles W. Potter, Wil liam Merrifield, A. B. Dunning, Joseph Godfrey, B. A. Throop, Commissioners. William P. Stephens and William P. Carling, of the county of Luzerne, be and are hereby appointed commissioners, (a majority of whom shall be a quorum,) to open books to re- Their duties. ceive subscriptions of stock for the purpose of erecting a bridge across the Lackawanna river, between the boroughs of Hyde Park and Scranton, above the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad bridge, at such place as the president, directors and managers shall select. Officers. SECTION 2. That the officers of said company shall consist of a president, four managers, a treasurer and secretary, and when so organized the corporate name of the company shall be the president and managers of the Lackawanna bridge company. SECTION 3. That the capital stock of said company shall con- Capital. sist of three hundred shares of fifty dollars each. Style. SECTION 4. That the said bridge company shall be subject to Subject to. all the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act regulating bridge companies," approved the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 578. AN ACT Relative to the Estate of Joshua Griffin, deceased. 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 Calvin Spencer, guardian of John, Maria and Mehitable Griffin, minor children of Joshua Griffin, late of Providence, Luzerne county, deceased, be and is hereby authorized to sell at public or private sale, the interest of said minor children in the homestead or real estate on which said decedent lived at the time of his death, (under the will,) and make deed or deeds to the purchasers thereof, leaving the widow's dower charged on the lands during her life, and the principal thereof payable at her death, or upon the said wards severally becoming of age, with the widow's assent: Provided, That before any deed is executed and delivered, the said guardian shall make report of any and all sales, to the orphans' court of said county; and if the said sale or sales shall be approved of by the said court, the court shall order and direct the said guardian to file a bond or bonds, and the amount thereof with security, with conditions similar to the conditions now required by law in case of an order of sale to a guardian; and upon the filing of the bond or bonds, and approval of the security, the said court shall forthwith endorse an order of absolute confirmation of the sale. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. Corporators Style. Insurances. Capital No. 579. AN ACT To incorporate the Westmoreland Safety Mutual Insurance Company. 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 Israel Painter, Cyrus P. Markle, Israel Uncapher, Joseph Lippin cott, Daniel Shupe, Jesse Kilgore, David Fullwood, Edward J. Keenan, John George of North Huntingdon, George Albert, John M'Farland, Levi Kempf, S. D. Johnson, John Eicher, J. P. Hurst, James C. Clarke, Esq, Thomas J. Barclay, and all other persons who may associate with them in the manner hereinafter provided, shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of the Westmoreland safety mutual insurance company, which shall have perpetual succession, with power and authority to make contracts of insurance with any person or persons, or any body politic or corporate, against any loss or damage of property by fire, or any cause of risk, to make all kinds of insurance against loss or damage of goods, mer chandize, or other kinds of property in the course of transpor tation by land or water, or otherwise, and in any vessel or boat or other water-craft, and to make insurance upon such goods, wares and merchandize, and to cause themselves to be insured against any loss, damage or risk in course of their business, for such term or terms of time, and for such premium or considera. tion, and with such modifications and restrictions as may be agreed upon between the said corporation and the persons agreeing with them for insurance, with a capital stock of five thousand shares of twenty-five dollars each, and with all the privileges and powers conferred upon the Girard fire and ma rine insurance company of Philadelphia, by its act of incorpora tion, approved twenty-sixth day of March, A. D., one thou sand eight hundred and fifty-three, except such as are inconsis tent with the provisions of this act. SECTION 2. That the affairs of this corporation shall be man- Directors. ged by a board of seven directors, and all vacancies occurring à said board shall be filled by the remaining directors for the mainder of the year for which they were elected. SECTION 3. That after the first election the directors shall be Elections. ected by the stockholders on the third Monday of November, such hour and place in the borough of Greensburg as the irectors for the time being shall appoint, of which ten days' otice in at least one newspaper published in said borough, all be given. SECTION 4. That as soon as two thousand shares of the capi- Letters patent. al stock are subscribed for, and ten dollars per share paid in, he governor shall issue letters patent incorporating the subcribers into a body politic; and in all elections each share of ock shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote. SECTION 5. That it shall be lawful for the said company to Agencies. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, WM. M. PIATT, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twentieth day of March, Anno Domini one housand eight hundred and fifty-six. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 580.. AN ACT To confer upon Eliza Cameron Warford, adopted daughter of Anthony B. Warford and Eliza Warford his wife, the rights of a child born of their bodies. WHEREAS, Anthony B. Warford and Eliza Warford his wife, of the borough of Harrisburg, have adopted as their own child Eliza Cameron Warford, a daughter of James Warford, deceased, brother of the said Anthony B. Warford; therefore, 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 Eliza Cameron Warford, daughter of James Warford, deceased, and adopted daughter of Anthony B. Warford and Eliza Warford his wife, shall have and enjoy all the rights, liberties and privileges of a daughter of the said A. B. Warford and Eliza Warford, and shall be able and capable of inheriting their estate |