forth the name of the person so employed, if an individual, or if a partnership, the names of all the individuals composing the same, and the name of the firm, the location or place where such business is transacted, and the amount of capital invested therein, if any. SECTION 3. That any stock broker, bill broker, exchange bro- Penalty for neker, real estate broker or private banker in this commonwealth glect to make return and report. who shall neglect or refuse to make the return and report required by the first and second sections of this act, shall for every such neglect or refusal, be subject to a penalty of one thousand dollars, which penalty shall be collected on an account How to be colsettled by the accountant officers, as taxes on bank dividends lected. are now settled and collected, and shall not be relieved from paying the amount which he is liable to pay to the commonwealth, under the provisions of the first section of this act, on account of his having been required and compelled to pay the said penalty. SECTION 4. That all brokers and private bankers shall be re- License to be quired to pay license as heretofore, in addition to the amounts paid. which they shall be required to pay under the provisions of this act. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, We do certify that the bill, No. 804, entitled "An Act relating to brokers and private bankers," was presented to the gov ernor on the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and was not returned within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it had been presented to him; wherefore it has, agreeably to the constitution of this commonwealth, become a law in like manner as if he had signed it. E. H. RAUCH, Clerk of the House of Representatives. HARRISBURG, May 16, 1861. No. 661. AN ACT To change the place of holding elections in Upper Mahantango township, 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 from and after the passage of this act, all special, general and township elections in the township of Upper Mahantango, Schuylkill county, shall be held at the public house now kept by Daniel S. Herb, in said township. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN P. PENNEY, We do certify that the bill, No. 763, entitled "An Act to change the place of holding the elections in Upper Mahantango township, Schuylkill county," was presented to the governor on the ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and was not returned within ten days (Sundays ex cepted) after it had been presented to him; wherefore it has, agreeably to the constitution of this commonwealth, become a law in like manner as if he had signed it. E. H. RAUCH, Clerk of the House of Representatives. HARRISBURG, May 16, 1861. RUSSELL ERRETT, Corporators. Name. Privileges. Proviso. No. 662. AN ACT To incorporate the Rescue Hook and Ladder Company of the Twentythird ward, 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 Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Samuel Ford, Edward V. O'Neill, George Greenhalsh, Michael Shuster, Thomas Dickson, and all others who are or may hereafter be associated with them, shall be and they are hereby created and declared to be one body politic and corporate, by the name, style and title of the Rescue hook and ladder company of the Twenty-third ward of the city Philadelphia, and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of record or elsewhere; and to purchase, receive, have, hold and enjoy, to them and their successors, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, liberties, franchises and hereditaments, goods and chattels, of what nature, kind or quality soever, real, personal or mixed, or choses in action, and the same from time to time to sell, grant, devise, alien and dispose of: Provided, That the clear value or income of the necessary houses, lands and tenements, rents, annuities, or other 1 hereditaments and real estate of the said corporation, and the interest of the money by it lent, shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars; and also to make and have a common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure; and Seal. also to ordain, establish and put in execution such laws, ordinances and regulations as shall appear necessary and convenient By-laws. for the government of said corporation, not being contrary to this charter or the constitution and laws of the United States or of this commonwealth, and generally to do all and singular the matters and things which to them it shall lawfully appertain to do for the well-being of this corporation and the due management and ordering of the affairs thereof. SECTION 2. That the object of said corporation shall be the Object. promotion of the general good, by the extinguishment of fires, and the protection of property endangered thereby. SECTION 3. The legislature reserves the right to amend, alter Reservation. or annul the chartered privileges granted by this act. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, We do certify that the bill, No. 292, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Rescue hook and ladder company of the Twentythird ward, in the city of Philadelphia," was presented to the governor on the ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and was not returned within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it had been presented to him; wherefore it has, agreeably to the constitution of this commonwealth, become a law in like manner as if he had signed it. E. H. RAUCH, Clerk of the House of Representatives. RUSSELL ERRETT, HARRISBURG, May 16, 1861. No. 663. AN АСТ To incorporate the Nesquehoning Valley Railroad 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 John Leisenring, Thomas L. Foster, J. B. Moorhead, Jacob P. Corporators. Jones, Samuel E. Stokes, R. Hare Powell, Andrew Manderson, James S. Cox and Samuel Hepburn, and such other persons as Style. Capital. same. shall become shareholders, be and they are hereby incorporated into a body corporate, in deed and in law, under the name, style and title of the Nesquehoning Valley railroad company, with all the powers and subject to all the restrictions of the act, entitled "An Act regulating railroad companies," approved the nineteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall con sist of ten thousand shares, of fifty dollars each: Provided, May increase the That the said company may, from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as, in their opinion, may be neces sary to complete the said road, and carry out the true intent and meaning of this act, not exceeding thirty thousand additional shares. Limitation. Empowered to construct road. Route. Branches and connections authorized. President and directors to issue, sell and transfer capital stock. Proceeds, how applied. May borrow money. SECTION 3. That the said company shall have the right to build and construct a railroad, from the Lehigh canal, near the mouth of Nesquehoning creek, in the county of Carbon, to the head waters of said creek, or thereabout; and also to construct branch roads, not exceeding ten miles in length each, with the privilege of connecting with the Lehigh canal, the Beaver Meadow railroad, the Lehigh Valley railroad, the coal mine road of the Lehigh coal and navigation company, in Nesquehoning and Panther Creek valleys, and such other railroads as are now or may be hereafter constructed contiguous to the said Nesquehoning Valley railroad, or its branches, as aforesaid. SECTION 4. That the president and directors of said company are hereby authorized and empowered to issue, sell and transfer the capital stock of the said company, and to apply the proceeds thereof to the construction of the railroad authorized by this act, and of the cars, engines, buildings and other appurtenances necessary for the transportation of passengers, coal and other commodities; and to borrow such sums of money as they may deem necessary for the purposes aforesaid, not exBonds and mort- ceeding five hundred thousand dollars, to issue their bonds or obligations for the same in sums of not less than one hundred dollars each, and to mortgage the road, property and franchises of the company as security therefor, and to provide for the conver bonds into capi- sion of such bonds or obligations into the capital stock of the said company, if they shall deem the same expedient. gage. Conversion of tal stock autho- Companies connecting, &c, may subscribe to stock. Proviso. SECTION 5. That at all general meetings or elections for officers, the holder of each bond for one hundred dollars and upwards shall be entitled to two votes for each one hundred dollars of such bond or bonds. SECTION 6. That it shall be lawful for railroad, coal and navigation companies, connecting with said railroad or forming continuous lines therewith to the seaboard and tide-water, to subscribe to or invest in the stock or loans of the said Nesquehoning Valley railroad company: Provided, That no company shall make such subscription or investment to an amount greater than ten per centum of its authorized capital. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate pro tem. I do certify that the bill, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Nesquehoning Valley railroad company," passed on the sixteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixtyone, which has been disapproved by the governor, and returned with his objections to the Senate, in which it originated, was agreed to by two-thirds of the House of Representatives on the fourteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and that the foregoing is the act so agreed to by said House. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Attest:-E. H. RAUCH, Clerk of the House of Representatives. I do certify that the bill, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Nesquehoning Valley railroad company," passed on the twelfth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, which has been disapproved by the governor, and returned with his objections to the Senate, in which it origi nated, was approved by two-thirds of the Senate on the eighth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and that the foregoing is the act so agreed to by the Senate. To authorize the Erection of a Free Bridge over the river Schuylkill, et 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 it shall be lawful for the select and common council of the city Erection of of Philadelphia, and they are hereby required, as soon as prac- bridge over the Schuylkill auticable, to erect or cause to be erected a good and substantial thorized. bridge over the river Schuylkill, at or opposite to South street; which bridge shall be constructed upon such piers or abut- Where and how ments as to afford at all times a clear or uninterrupted passage to be constructed for the water of the said river, equal at least, in area, to that now existing at the permanent bridge over the Schuylkill, at Cost of, how proHigh or Market street; the cost of said bridge not to exceed vided for. |