the solicitor's fees, and to the reductien of the expenses of opening and grading and paving said street. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN P. PENNEY, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 385. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act incorporating the Pittsburg Gas 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 so much of the second section of an act, entitled "A supplement to an act to incorporate the Pittsburg gas company," approved January thirty-first, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty, as requires the trustees of said company to be citizens of Pittsburg, and authorizes stockholders to vote by proxy, be and the same is hereby repealed; and hereafter any stockholder residing in the county of Allegheny shall be eligible. to the office of trustee of said company. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN P. PENNEY, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 386. AN ACT Appointing Commissioners to lay out a State Road in the county of Delaware and city of Philadelphia. 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 William H. Bunting, S. Ketchley Morton, Lewis Miller, Ed- Commissioners. ward Garrett, and James Neill, of Delaware county, and John J. Hoopes, John Dick, and Samuel Gilson, of the city of Philadelphia, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a state road from a point on Bunting's lane or street, and the intersec- Boute. tion of Church lane, in the county of Delaware, to the Darby plank road, in the city of Philadelphia. SECTION 2. That when the said road shall have been surveyed Drafts. and located, it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to make out a draft of the same, which shall be filed of record in the court of quarter sessions in the counties of Delaware and Philadelphia; and when so filed, said draft and the record thereof shall be legal evidence in all things relating to the same, and said road from thence is declared to be a public road. SECTION 3. When the said road shall have been laid out and Bridges to be located as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the commissioners erected, cost of of Delaware county and of the city of Philadelphia, to cause to be erected a bridge over Cobb's creek, on the line of the said road, one-half the cost whereof shall be defrayed by each county; and upon the refusal or neglect of either of said boards of commissioners of said counties, to perform the duties hereby enjoined, it shall be lawful for the commissioners of either of said counties, to cause the said bridge to be erected and to recover the cost of the same from the county neglecting or refusing to perform the duties hereby enjoined. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN P. PENNEY, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. Corporators. Style. Powers. Seal. Proviso. Object. Capital stock. Limitation of dividend. No. 387. AN ACT To incorporate the Hahnemann University of Medicine of the city of Philadelphia. 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 Charles J. Hempel, Wm. A. Reed, J. J. Griffith, Wm. Radde, Jr., Robert P. King, John Steen, J. Jenkins, J. E. Brown, S. Whea ton Smith, and their associates and successors, be and are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate in law, by the name, style and title of the Hahnemann University of Medicine of the city of Philadelphia, and by that name shall have and enjoy perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of law and elsewhere; and shall be able and capable in law and equity to take, purchase, hold and receive to them and their successors and assigns, lands, tenements, goods, chattels, sum or sums of money, by gift, grant, bargain or sale, will devise or bequest from any person or persons whatsoever, and the same to grant, bargain, sell, mortgage and convey in such manner as the said corporation shall deem proper ; and to receive and make all deeds, transfers, contracts, conveyances, covenants and assurances whatsoever; and to make and have and use a common seal, under and by which all deeds, certificates, assurances, diplomas and acts of the said corporation shall pass and be authenticated, and the same to alter and renew at pleasure; and generally to do all things which may be lawful or necessary for the well-being and proper management of the said corporation: Provided, That the real estate which the said corporation shall at any time possess, shall not exceed the clear yearly value of twenty thousand dollars. SECTION 2. The object and design of said corporation shall be the establishment of a university in the city of Philadelphia, which shall include a hospital, for the study of clinical medicine and practical surgery, in which shall be taught all the sciences recognized as belonging to the domain of medicine, in the manner that may be determined from time to time by the proper offi cers of said corporation, and as the same may be set forth in the by-laws and regulations; and for this purpose the said corporation is hereby vested with all the rights, privileges and immunities of other medical colleges chartered by this state. SECTION 3. The capital stock of the said corporation shall consist of one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into two thousand shares of fifty dollars each, on which no dividend exceeding six per centum per annum shall ever be declared; Surplus, how ap- but the surplus, if any, shall be devoted to improving the unipropriated. versity and enlarging its usefulness; and the members of said corporation may organize the same whenever one hundred shares of the stock shall be subscribed, and at all elections the Organization. holder of each share of stock shall be entitled to one vote for Votes. each share held by him. SECTION 4. That the said corporation shall have full power By-laws. to make and establish by-laws for the proper administration of the university, and for the due management and government of the said corporation, and the same to amend, alter or repeal at pleasure. SECTION 5. That no misnomer of the said corporation shall Misnomer. defeat any intended gift, grant, conveyance, devise or bequest thereto, nor any act or deed intended to be done or made thereby. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN P. PENNEY, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 388. AN ACT To authorize the examination of the Claim of Charles Miller. 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 attorney general, auditor general and state treasurer be and they are hereby authorized and required to examine the claim of Charles Miller, for balance due him on account of wood furnished the commonwealth, and report the same to this or the next legislature. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN P. PENNEY, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. authorized to No. 389. AN ACT Relative to the Lien of Legacies. 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 Devisee or owner whenever any legacy or legacies shall have been or shall hereafter be charged as a lien upon any lands in this commonwealth, pay into orphans' court full amount by virtue of any last will and testament, or whenever it shall of legacy. be claimed that such legacy has been so charged, it shall be law. ful for the devisee of such land, or any owner thereof, claiming under such devisee, to pay into the orphans' court of the county wherein the land is situated, the full amount of such legacy; whereupon the said court shall make a decree discharging the discharging land land, so devised, from the lien of such legacies, or from so much thereof as may have been paid into court as aforesaid, which decree shall be entered of record in said court, and certified copies thereof may be recorded in the office for recording deeds in the proper county, in the same manner and with like effect as other papers, relating to the title to lands, may by law be Decree of court from lien. Distribution. recorded. SECTION 2. Upon the application of any party paying into court the amount of any legacy, or of any legatee or other person claiming the same, the court shall, after notice to the parties interested, make distribution of the money so paid into court, in the manner provided for the distribution of the proceeds of sheriff's sales, when paid into court, and direct it to be paid out to the parties who may be legally entitled to receive the same. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN P. PENNEY, Speaker of the Senate pro tem. APPROVED-The first day of May, Anno Domini one thou sand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. |