No. 668. A SUPPLEMENT To an act to incorporate the Western Transportation Company, approved 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 Western transportation company be and is hereby authorized Authorized to to borrow money and issue its bonds therefor, bearing any rate and issue bonds. of interest not exceeding seven per centum per annum, to make provision for the payment of the principal and interest of said borrow money bonds, by pledge or mortgage of its property, leases, franchises Bonds may be or other lawful manner; and the sale of said bonds for less sold for less than than their par value, shall not be deemed a violation of the usury laws of this state. par value. SECTION 2. That the total amount of said bonds shall not ex- Limitation of ceed eighteen hundred thousand dollars, nor shall the amount amount. I of said bonds issued at any time, exceed the amount of the capital stock of said company paid in, unless for the payment of their principal and interest; said bonds or any excess thereof Exception. SECTION 3. That no bond herein authorized to be issued, shall Repeal. be for a less amount than one hundred dollars; and all former supplements to the charter of said company, giving it power to borrow money, are hereby repealed. 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. Empowered to include all their property, &c., in a certain mortgage. May issue preferred stock. Dividend. rized to purchase scribe for the stock issued. Proviso. No. 669. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Bedford Railroad Com pany." 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 Bedford railroad company shall have power to include all their property, real and personal, and their franchises acquired and to be acquired, in the mortgage which they are authorized to execute by the second section of the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Bedford railroad company," approved the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyeight. SECTION 2. That the Bedford railroad company be and they are hereby authorized to issue preferred stock, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars in amount, which stock shall be entitled to a dividend of six per centum out of the earnings of said road, before any dividend is paid on the other stock issued by said company. Any railroad SECTION 3. That any railroad company incorporated by any company autho- law of this commonwealth, is hereby authorized to purchase the bonds or sub- the whole, or any part of the bonds to be secured by the mort gage authorized to be executed as aforesaid, and also to subscribe for the whole, or any part of the stock hereby authorized to be issued, on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between said companies: Provided, That this act shall not go into effect, unless it shall be first approved of by a majority in number of the stockholders of said Bedford railroad com pany, at a meeting to be called for that purpose, by public ad vertisement, for at least two weeks, in two newspapers in Bedford county: Provided, That letters patent, granted to the Bed ford railroad company, be and the same are hereby confirmed. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Proviso. Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. No. 670. AN ACT 'o incorporate the Empire Hook and Ladder Company, number one, of Lancaster city, Lancaster county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly net, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That ill persons who are now members of the association called the Incorporation. Empire hook and ladder company, number one, of the city of Lancaster, county of Lancaster, or who shall hereafter be adnitted members of the same, shall be and they are hereby erected and declared to be one body politic and corporate by the name, style and title of the Empire hook and ladder company, Name. number one, and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, implead and be im- Powers. pleaded in all courts of record or otherwise; and to purchase, receive, have, hold and enjoy, to themselves and their successors, all and all manner of 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 or dispose of: Provided, That the clear yearly income of Proviso. the said corporation shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars; and also to make and have a common seal, and the Seal. same to break, alter or renew at pleasure; and also to ordain, establish and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances and By-laws. regulations as shall appear necessary and convenient for the government of the 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 the said corporation and the due ordering and management of the affairs thereof. SECTION 2. That nothing in this act contained shall be deemed Prohibition. to authorize the said company to engage, either directly or indirectly, in any banking, moneyed, commercial or manufactur ing concern; but the object of the said corporation shall be the object. promotion of the public good at fires. voluntary asso SECTION 3. That all real and personal property, belonging to Property belong. the present voluntary association known by the name of the ing to present Empire hook and ladder company, number one, or which may ciation to be hereafter accrue or belong to it, is hereby transferred to and transferred. vested in the corporation hereby created, its successors and assigns. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBT. M. PALMER, Speaker of the Senate. We do hereby certify that the bill, entitled "An Act to incor porate the Empire hook and ladder company, number one, d Lancaster city, Lancaster county," was presented to the gor ernor on the fifteenth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and was not returned within three days after the meeting of the present legislature; wherefore it has, agreeably to the constitution of this commonwealth, become a law in like manner as if it had been signed. RESOLUTIONS PASSED SESSION OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE. No. 1. RESOLUTION Relative to the Pay of the Retiring Officers of the General Assembly. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the retiring officers of the last session of the general assembly, for ten days service at the opening of the present session, and the usual mileage, including such officers as were paid by resolution or otherwise. APPROVED-The eighth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. WM. F. PACKER. No. 2. RESOLUTION Relative to the Legislative Manual and Purdon's Digest. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives be authorized to procure a copy of Sutherland's and Ziegler's Manual, and one copy of Purdon's Digest, for each member and clerk and assistant clerk of the respective houses, and that the state treasurer be and he is hereby authorized to pay for the |