Restrictions. ment of dividends to the stockholders, and in general to superintend the business and concerns of the company, but such bylaws shall not be repugnant to the constitution of the state or the United States. SECTION 6. That this act shall not confer on said company any mining privileges, and shall continue in force twenty years, HENRY K. STRONG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. HIESTER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 626. AN ACT To make Sarah Ann Miller an heir of Jacob Gamber, and to confer on her the name of Sarah Ann Gamber. WHEREAS, Jacob Gamber, of Lancaster county, has by an in strument under seal, adopted as his own child a certain Sarah Ann Miller, otherwise called Sarah Ann Gamber, now residing in his family and under his protection, and desires to make her his heir at law; therefore, 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 name of the said Sarah Ann Miller, be and the same is hereby changed to Sarah Ann Gamber, by which name she shall hereafter be able and capable in law, to hold all property and rights of property to which she has been, or may hereafter be in any manner entitled. SECTION 2. That the said Sarah Ann shall have and enjoy as the adopted child of Jacob Gamber, of West Hempfield town+ | ship, Lancaster county, all the rights, benefits and advantages of a lawful child of him the said Jacob Gamber, so as to render her able and capable in law, to inherit and transmit any estate whatsoever of him, the said Jacob Gamber, her father by adop tion, as fully and completely, to all intents and purposes, as i she, the said Sarah Ann, had been his lawful issue. HENRY K. STRONG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. HIESTER, APPROVED-The eighteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 627. AN ACT To change the name of James Baxter M'Farland. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assemly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the name of James Baxter M'Farland, of Philadelphia, adopted child of Thomas W. and Emma L. Duffield, shall henceforth be called and known by the name of Charles Wadsworth Duffield, and by this name be capable of suing and being sued, and of granting or taking any estate, in the same manner he could have done if no change had been made therein. APPROVED-The twenty-first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 628. AN ACT To change the name of the Philadelphia Mutual Live Stock Insurance Company, and to increase the capital stock thereof. 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 Philadelphia mutual live stock insurance company shall hereafter be known by the name, style and title of Mutual fire and live stock insurance company of Philadelphia, and that they are hereby vested with the privileges and powers granted in the fifth section of an act to incorporate the Philadelphia insurance company, approved the seventh day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one; and that the capital stock of said company may be increased to three hundred thousand dollars, whenever the same shall be directed by a majority of the stockholders: Provided, That no policy of insurance shall be issued by said company until one thousand shares of the capital stock thereof shall have been subscribed for, and five dollars per share paid thereon. APPROVED-The twenty-sixth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. JAMES POLLOCK. Commissioners. Style. Route. Capital stock. Election of officers No. 629. AN ACT To incorporate the Excelsior Railroad and Coal Company, in Allegheny county. 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 Thomas Steel, David Mitchell, junior, R. F. Smyth, William Boggs, David Ritchie, John F. Singer, Andrew Fulton, C. S. Eyster, Christian Zug, of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to receive subscriptions and organize a company by the name, style and title of The Excelsior railroad and coal company, with power to construct a railroad from the coal mines on Bell's run, near the line between Upper Saint Clair and Chartiers townships, in Allegheny county, to such point as said company may select on the Pittsburg and Steubenville railroad, between the town of Mansfield and the city of Pittsburg, and connect the same with the Pittsburg and Steubenville railroad, on such terms as may be agreed on between said companies. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That said com pany may, by a vote of a majority of the stockholders, increase the same from time to time to an amount sufficient to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That a majority of the commissioners named in this act shall, as soon as practicable after the reception of the letters patent, give two weeks' notice in two or more newspa pers in the city of Pittsburg, of a time and place for the subscribers to the capital stock of said company to meet, and shall at such time and place proceed to hold an election by ballot, and appoint judges thereof, for the purpose of electing from the stockholders five directors for the management, who shall continue in office until the first Monday in January next ensuing said election, or until other officers are chosen and qualified: Provided, That no person shall be eligible as a director who is not a citizen of this commonwealth. SECTION 4. That the stockholders shall meet on the first Mon- Annual meeting. ay in January in each year, at such place as may be designated n the by-laws of the company, of which meeting two weeks' otice shall be given in two newspapers in the city of Pittsurg, as the board shall direct, and shall by a majority of votes lect five directors, all of whom shall be stockholders in said ompany. SECTION 5. That the said directors, and those thereafter to be hosen annually in like manner, shall appoint one of their umber president of said company, and said president and diectors shall manage the business and affairs of said company, nd make, ordain and establish such by-laws, rules, regulations nd orders, and generally do and perform all such other matters nd things as are authorized by law. President. SECTION 6. That the directors of said company are hereby Interest. SECTION 7. That said company shall be entitled to all the HENRY K. STRONG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. HIESTER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-sixth day of April, Anno Domini one housand eight hundred and fifty-five. Completion. JAMES POLLOCK. No. 630. AN ACT o incorporate the Peters Creek Lodge Association number two hundred and forty-eight, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen utives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assemly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That 3. S. Boggs, James M'Alister and William Crouch, and their Corporators. uccessors, and all persons who now are or may be hereafter Style. Powers. Proviso. Objects. Seal. Trustees. By-laws. Reservation. associated with them, be and are hereby erected into a body corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of Peters Creek lodge association number two hundred and fortyeight of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and by that name to have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, and shall be capable in law and equity to take and hold, to them and their successors, either by grant, gift, devise, lease, or otherwise, any lands or real estate, and also to take and hold for the use of the said association, any goods and chattels, sum or sums of money, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, will, devise, bequest or otherwise, from any person or persons whatsoever, capable of making the same, and the same at their pleasure to grant, bargain and sell, and generally to do all and singular the matters and things which shall be lawful for them to do for the well being and due management of the affairs of the association: Provided, That the real estate of which the corporation shall at any time be possessed, shall not exceed the clear yearly value of two thousand dollars. SECTION 2. That the object of said corporation shall be to provide, erect and furnish a hall and suitable buildings, in the township of Union, in the county of Washington, for the aecommodation of the members of Peters Creek lodge number two hundred and forty-eight, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and such other lodges as may be established in said township. SECTION 3. That it shall be lawful for said corporation to have a common seal, and the same at will and pleasure to alter and renew as they think proper. SECTION 4. That the trustees of said association, chosen at such time and in such manner as the said association by its by-laws shall provide, shall have the management and disposi tion of its affairs and property with which they shall be legally entrusted by said association, and they are hereby declared the proper persons, to sign, seal and deliver conveyances of lands or real estate, which may be sold by said association. SECTION 5. That the corporation shall have power and authority to make by-laws conformable to this charter, the constitution of this commonwealth and of the United States. SECTION 6. That the legislature hereby reserves the right to alter, revoke or annul this charter, whenever in their opinion it may be injurious to the citizens of this commonwealth, in such manner, however, that no injustice shall be done to the corporators. HENRY K. STRONG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. HIESTER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-sixth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. JAMES POLLOCK. |