of the Senate, three competent citizens of this commonwealth as commissioners to revise, collate and digest all acts and statutes relating to or touching the revenue laws of the commonwealth. Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the said commissioners carefully to collect all acts and statutes, or parts thereof, relating to or touching the revenue laws of the commonwealth, and arrange the same systematically under proper titles, divisions and sections, and to suggest to the legislature any contradictions, omissions, defects or imperfections that may appear in the act to be revised, and the mode in which the same may be reconciled, supplied, improved or amended, to designate such acts or statutes, or parts of acts, as ought to be repealed, and to prepare and submit to the legislature new acts, as they may deem advisable or necessary, and generally it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to execute the trust confided to them, in such a manner as to render the revenue laws of the state more efficient, equal, clear and perfect. Resolved, That the said commissioners be required to report the result of their labors to the legislature on or before the third Tuesday of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. Resolved, That the said commissioners shall each receive for their services the sum of three hundred dollars, in full for compensation for the duties hereby imposed. ELISHA W. DAVIS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. LOUIS W. HALL, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. A. G. CURTIN. APPENDIX-1853. habitants of No. 697. AN ACT To authorize the Council and Inhabitants of the borough of Frankford to borrow money to erect Gas Works in the borough; relative to the Powe ton School House, in Philadelphia county; to the American College of Medicine, and to holding Elections in Delaware township, Juniata county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represente tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Council and in the council and inhabitants of the borough of Frankford, in the county of Philadelphia, be and they are hereby authorized and invested with full power to borrow, upon the faith of the said corporation, a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, to enable them to erect gas works for the benefit of the inhabitants of said borough and vicinity. Frankford to borrow money. Rate of interest regulated. Proviso. Trustees of Powelton school house authorized to sell. Corporators. Style. Privileges. SECTION 2. That the time at which said loan for the erection of said works shall be redeemable, and the rate of interest to be paid for the same, shall be regulated and determined by a ma jority of the councilmen of the said borough: Provided always, That the rate shall not exceed six per cent. per annum, and that no certificate shall be issued of a less denomination than one hundred dollars. SECTION 3. That Isaac White, Osborn Reed, William Johnston, John S. Vansant and Thomas Gentry, trustees of the Powelton school house, in the county of Philadelphia, or their successors in office, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey the Powelton school house, and lot of land thereunto belonging, to the controllers of the public schools of the First school district of Pennsylvania, for school purposes. SECTION 4. That Joseph S. Fisher, W. G. Hagaman, Edwin Cooledge, Jonas Bowman, Harman Baugh, W. G. Calvir, James Tuthill, William F. Smith, Henry F. Johnston, and their associates and successors, be and are hereby made and created a body politic and corporate, in law and fact, by the name, style and title of the American College of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and by the same shall have perpetual succession, and may sue and be sued, have a common seal, purchase, hold and convey all lands and tenements, moneys, goods, chattels and effects, make all by-laws necessary or proper for the uses of a medical college, and immediately connected therewith, not contrary to the constitution and laws of this commonwealth, and do all and ! very other matter and thing for the purpose of this act which SECTION 5. That said corporation shall have power to elect Officers. SECTION 6. That said college shall have power to teach all College to teach he branches connected with a thorough medical education, all medical branches, grant grant the degree of doctor of medicine to any such persons as degrees, &o. shall have attended two full courses of medical lectures, one of which must have been in this institution, and completed a course of study of not less than three years, and possess the requisite moral and literary qualifications for the same. SECTION 7. That hereafter the township, general and special Delaware townelections of Delaware township, Juniata county, shall be held ship, Juniata in the school house in Thompsontown, in said township. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-sixth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. county. WM. BIGLER. No. 698. A SUPPLEMENT To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Eagle Iron Company," approved the fifth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. road. 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 Eagle iron company be and it is hereby authorized and em- Authorized to powered to construct a railroad or railroads, not exceeding six construct railmiles in length, so as to connect any lands which may be held or owned by the same, with any principal railroad or canal within that distance, under the provisions, rights, privileges and re- Rights, restricstrictions set forth in the act of assembly, entitled "An Act tione, &c. regulating railroad companies," approved the nineteenth February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, which is hereby conferred on said company for the purposes aforesaid; 1 May increase capital stock. Change of name. and that the corporate name of said company shall hereafter be "The Donaldson improvement and railroad company;" and that said company shall have the right to increase its capital stock and number of shares to such an additional amount as it shall deem expedient, not exceeding one million of dollars: Provide, That no such increase of capital stock shall authorize any other or further increase of the rights, powers and privileges of said company than above set forth. Proviso. Repeal. SECTION 2. That so much of the act to which this is a supple ment, or any other act that authorizes the said Eagle iron com pany to mine and sell coal, be and the same is hereby repealed. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The thirteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER APPENDIX-1857. No. 699. AN ACT To extend and continue the Charter of the Diligent Fire Engine Company of Philadelphia, and to grant the said company further privileges. 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 last six sections of the original law, entitled "An Act to Charter extendincorporate the Pennsylvania fire company," approved April ed. first, Anno Domini ore thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and so much of every part thereof, or of any other law or laws relating to the said Diligent fire engine company, heretofore enacted by the general assembly of the state of Pennsylvania, be and the same are hereby continued for the period of thirty years, from and after the dates or time at which such law or laws will or may hereafter expire. tional officers, SECTION 2. That if the said Diligent fire engine company of May elect addiPhiladelphia shall at any time hereafter unite with their present when they pro means for the extinguishment of fires in the city of Philadel- cure steam apphia, the use of steam apparatus, or any other effective agent, paratus. then, from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the said Diligent fire engine company of Philadelphia to elect, in addition to the four directors, as is now provided in their original charter, as many more directors, and such other officers as the said company may from time to time deem to be expedient for their own regulation and government. All such elections to be by ballot. SECTION 3. All laws inconsistent herewith are hereby re- Repeal. pealed. J. LAWRENCE GETZ, Speaker of the House of Representatives. DAVID TAGGART, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The sixteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. JAS. POLLOCK. |