No. 109. AN ACT To fix the place of holding the Elections in the borough of Elizabethtown, Lancaster county. WHEREAS, The third election district of Lancaster county has lately had two other election districts framed out of it: And whereas, The people of the borough of Elizabethtown, part of the said third election district, by reason of such change, are left without any authorized place wherein to hold the ensu. ing election, on the fifteenth instant; 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 the next election, on the fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the borough of Elizabethtown, shall be held at the public house of Abraham Greenawalt, in said borough, and thereafter, until changed by a vote of the people of said election district, and that the officers duly elected at the last annual spring election for that purpose shall hold said election. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 110. AN ACT Reviving the Warrants to Peter Swoope, a Collector of Taxes in the borough of Huntingdon, Huntingdon 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 the warrants issued to Peter Swoope, of the borough of Huntingdon, in the county of Huntingdon, for the collection of school, borough and state, county and military taxes, dated re spectively the seventeenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, the twelfth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, be and the same are hereby revived and continued in full force and virtue for the space of one year from and after the passage of this act. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, APPROVED-The thirteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 111. AN ACT To incorporate the Philadelphia Turngemeinde, (Turner Society.) 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 Barnhard Sprungk, Anson Vogt, Victor Kalek, Israel Kohn, Wil- Corporators. liam Wunderlich, Otto Fischer, William Kayser, Lorenz Lang, Daniel Metzger, Nicholaws Kalck and Conrad Hausmann, and all persons who are now or who may be hereafter associated with them, and their successors, are hereby created and erected into a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of the Philadelphia Turngemeinde; and Style. by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and to be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be Privileges. defended, in all courts of law or equity within this commonwealth or elsewhere; and also to take and hold, either by gift, grant, devise or lease, any real estate, and by gift, grant, bargain and sale, will or bequest, any goods and chattels, sum or sums of money, from any person or persons, for the use of the said corporation; and also to sell and convey, and to mortgage May sell and all or any part of the real estate held by the said corporation : mortgage real Provided however, That the clear yearly income of the real estate Proviso. held by the said corporation shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars. estate. SECTION 2. The object of the said corporation shall be the objects. intellectual and physical improvement of the members, by forming and keeping up a library, by establishing schools, and by furnishing instruction in gymnastic exercises. Qualification of members. Officers and of. SECTION 3. The members of this corporation shall be male persons of full age, and citizens of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The rights and duties of the members shall be fixed by the by-laws. SECTION 4. The management of the affairs of the corporation teachers, duties shall be transacted by a board of managers, which shall consist of a president, a vice president, two teachers of gymnastics, two superintendents, a treasurer, a librarian, and two secretaries. Every officer must be able to speak fluently the German language. The rights and duties of the officers, their election, and their term of office, shall be fixed by the by-laws. By-laws. Board of managers. SECTION 5. The members of the corporation shall be entitled to make, alter and rescind by-laws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this charter, or with the constitution and laws of this commonwealth. SECTION 6. Until an election of officers can take place, the board of managers of this corporation shall consist of the fol lowing persons: Anson Vogt, William Wunderlich, Otto Fischer, William Kayser, William Foehl, Israel Kohn, Lorenz Lang, Victor Kalck, Edward Scherer and Edward Thiery. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twentieth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 112. AN ACT To change the Name of Ben Welch. 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 Benjamin Welch, of the city of Philadelphia, be and he is hereby authorized to change his name to Ben Garretson Welch, and shall henceforth be called and known by the name of Ben Garretson Welch, and by that name shall be able and capable in law to sue and be sued, grant, receive, take and inherit any estate, real or personal, and to do all other legal acts as effec tually, to all intents and purposes, as he could have done by his former name, if no change had been made therein. APPROVED-The twenty-sixth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 113. AN ACT To incorporate the Sonora Improvement Company. jects. 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 John M'Arthur, junior, Washington Keith, William P. Chan- Corporators. dler, Thomas T. Butcher, George R. Berrill, James A. M'Gowen, Lewis A. Truefilt and David W. Bradley, their associates and assigns, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name, style and title of the Sonora improvement Style. company, with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars, with Capital. power to increase the same to the extent which the true object Powers and oband intention of this act may require, shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable of buying, selling, leasing and improving lands in New Mexico, and to obtain minerals therefrom, or any other valuable substance whatever, by mining, or working, or otherwise, to erect houses, mills and manufactories thereon, and to use and work the same, and to dispose of the product of all such lands, mines, minerals, manufactories, mills. and privileges as may be to the interest of said company. SECTION 2. That said company shall have the power of mak- May make bying and establishing such by-laws as they may deem necessary certificates of or expedient to enable them to carry out the object of this cor- stock. poration, and such by-laws to alter and amend, or repeal, at their pleasure; and they shall have the power to issue certificates of stock or bonds representing the value of said property, in such form and manner as the by-laws may determine, and to have and use a common seal, and the same to alter and amend at pleasure. laws and issue SECTION 3. That the corporators named in this act shall elect, Election of direcat their first or some subsequent meeting, five of their number tors. to serve as directors of this company, a majority of whom shall Quorum. Vacancies. Officers. Tax on capital stock to be paid. be a quorum for the transaction of business, until the time which the by-laws shall prescribe for another election, or until their successors shall have been chosen. They shall have the power of filling all vacancies in their board, whether caused by death, resignation or otherwise. SECTION 4. That at the first meeting of the board of directors, or at some subsequent meeting, they shall elect one of their number to serve as president, and shall appoint such other officers as may be deemed necessary. SECTION 5. That said company shall pay into the treasury of the commonwealth a bonus or tax of one-half per centum on its capital stock. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 114. AN ACT To authorize the Minister, Trustees, Elders and Deacons of the German 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 minister, trustees, elders and deacons of the German Reformed congregation of the city of Philadelphia, in the province of Pennsylvania, be and the same are hereby authorized to grant, bargain and sell, in fee simple, and without liability of the purchasers to see to the application of the purchase money, to such person or persons, and for such prices as they may see proper, those two certain yearly ground rents of one hundred and thirtythree dollars and thirty-three and one-third cents each, payable by George Chandlee, his heirs and assigns; one of them issuing out of a lot of ground on the west side of Seventeenth street, thirty-seven feet four inches south of Cherry street, in the city of Philadelphia, eighteen feet eight inches in front by ninety feet in depth; the other of them out of a lot on the west side of said Seventeenth street, one hundred and forty-nine feet four inches south of said Cherry street, eighteen feet eight inches |