delivered in person or proxy, duly authorized, nine managers, and one treasurer, for the term of one year from the date of the aforesaid election; and yearly, and every year thereafter, the said subscribers shall proceed to ballot, as aforesaid, for nine managers and one treasurer; that the said managers so elected and appointed, shall meet, within thirty days from the date of such election, and select one of their number as 1st Proviso. president for the current year; Provided, That every stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each and every share he, she or they may hold, if the number shall not exceed five, and one vote for every three shares above five and 2d Proviso. under twelve; for every ten shares over twenty; Provided, That no stockholder shall be entitled to more than twelve votes. Number of votes. By-laws. Proviso. SECTION 4. The said president and managers may make such by-laws, rules, orders and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this state, or of the United States, as shall be necessary for the well ordering of the affairs of the corporation, and, generally, to have all powers, authorities and privileges necessary for completing, maintaining and keeping in repair the said bridge; Provided, That if the said company shall not proceed to carry on said bridge within five be completed in years after the passage of this act, and within five years thereafter complete the same, or if the said company shall Banking pro- proceed to issue any note or notes of the nature of bank notes, or do any business of the nature of banking, it shall and may be lawful for the legislature to resume all and singular, the liberties and privileges hereby granted to said company; 2d Proviso. Provided further, That the erection of said bridge shall not obstruct the navigation of said river, so as to endanger the passage of rafts, steamboats or other water crafts. ten years. hibited. Tolls. SECTION 5. When a complete bridge shall have been erected, the president, managers and company for erecting a bridge over the Allegheny river, from Mechanics' street in the borough of the Northern Liberties of Pittsburg, their successors and assigns, are hereby empowered to erect gates, and demand and receive tolls, not exceeding as follows, to wit: For every foot passenger, two cents; for every carriage, of whatever description, used for the purpose of trade or agriculture, having four wheels and drawn by six horses, seventy-five cents; for every such carriage having four wheels and drawn by five horses, sixty-two and one half cents; for every such carriage having four wheels and drawn by four horses, fifty cents; for every such carriage having four wheels and drawn by three horses, forty four cents; for every such carriage having four wheels and drawn by two horses, thirty-seven and one half cents; for every such carriage having four wheels and drawn by one horse, thirty-one cents; for every carriage of whatever description, used for 0.5 the purpose of personal accommodation or pleasure, having Tolls. four wheels and drawn by four horses, seventy-five cents; for every such carriage having four wheels and drawn by two horses, sixty-two and one half cents; for every such carriage having four wheels and drawn by one horse, thirty-seven and one half cents; for every carriage, of whatever description, used for the purpose of trade or agriculture, having two wheels and drawn by four horses, forty-four cents; for every such carriage having two wheels and drawn by three horses, thirty-seven and one half cents; for every such carriage having two wheels and drawn by two horses, thirty-one cents; for every such carriage having two wheels and drawn by one horse, eighteen cents; for every chair or other wheeled carriage of pleasure, for every horse used therein, eighteen cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by four horses, thirtyseven and one half cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by three horses, thirty-one cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by two horses, twenty-five cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by one horse, twelve and one half cents; for every horse, mare or gelding, with a rider, six cents; for every horse, mare or gelding without a rider, six cents; for every carriage drawn by oxen, or partly by oxen and partiy by horses, to be rated in proportion of two oxen for one horse, and in all cases a inule shall be rated in the same proportion as a horse; for every head of horned or muley cattle, two cents; for every head of sheep or swine, one cent; Provided, 1st Proviso That any person or persons attending funerals, any detachment of the military of this state or of the United States, foot passengers attending divine service, students or children attending schools or other seminaries of learning, shall at all times be exempt from paying toll; Provided also, That 2d Proviso. it shall be the duty of the president and managers of the company, and their successors, to have a written or printed list or lists of the above rates of toll, placed upon some conspicuous part, at each end of the said bridge, for the inspection of all persons desirous of seeing the same. NER MIDDLESWARTH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS S. CUNNINGHAM, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-six. JOS: RITNER. Capital stock may be increased. No.38. An Act Supplementary to the act entitled "An act authorizing the Gover- 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 it shall and may be lawful for the president and directors of the Philadelphia and Delaware county railroad company, to increase the capital stock of the said company, from time to time, to the number of eight thousand shares, of fifty dollars each, and to receive subscriptions for, sell and dispose of the same; and the subscribers and purchasers, his, her, and their assignee, or assignees, shall be subject to the like penalties, forfeitures and liabilities, in regard to the same, as are prescribed in the act to which this is a supplement, in relation to the stock by that act authorized to be subscribed for; and the said company shall Power to bor. have power to borrow money on loan, to enable them to finish row money. their works, and to give mortgages, certificates of loan, or other evidences and securities for the payment thereof, the same to be convertible, or not convertible into stock, as shall be agreed on between said company and the lender or lenders; Provided, That the company shall not borrow as aforesaid, until at least one hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall have been expended in the construction of the said railroad. Proviso. Proviso. SECTION 2. Subscriptions for the said increase of capital stock, shall be taken in like manner as is provided by the act to which this is a supplement, for the subscription to the original stock; Provided, That the president and directors of the company shall perform the duties imposed on the 2d Proviso. commissioners named in the said act; And Provided further, That on the first day the books are opened, no person Relative to shall subscribe in his own name, or in the name of another subscriptions person, or persons, for more than ten shares of stock. Part of the SECTION 3. So much of the tenth section of the act to 10th section which this is a supplement, as requires the said company to of the origin-locate and construct the said road along the route of the al act re pealed, Baltimore Post road, or as near thereto as the ground will admit, making the post towns of Darby and Chester, or their vicinity, points in the said road, be, and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 4. The said company, shall not construct any No bridge to bridge or other device, on or over the river Schuylkill, below be built be the bridge at Fairmount, by which the navigation of said low Fairriver may be injured or obstructed. mount. SECTION 5. The corporate name of the said Philadelphia Style and tiand Delaware county railroad company is hereby changed the changed. to that of "the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore railroad company," and under the latter name, shall be entitled to the privileges, and subject to the liabilities and restrictions of the said company, under its present name. NER MIDDLESWARTH, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of March, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six. JOS: RITNER. No. 39. n Act Authorizing the Governor to incorporate the Warren and Pine Grove 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 Robert Falconer, Guy C. Irvin, Robert CommissionRussel, Archibald Tanner, Thomas Struthers, Zachariah ers appointed Eddy, Lansing Wetmore, and William A. Irvine, John Rees, Thomas Martin, Thomas Sloan, Henry Sargeant, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to do and perform the several things hereinafter mentioned; that is to Form and say, they, or any three of them, shall procure a sufficient manner of number of suitable books, and in each of them enter as fol-taking sublows, viz: "We and each of us whose names are hereunto scriptions. subscribed, do promise to pay to the directors of the Warren Price of and Pine Grove railroad company, the sum of fifty dollars shares fifty for every share of stock set opposite to our respective names, dollars each Notice. and by us respectively subscribed, in such manner and pro- thousand eight hundred and ; and shall, thereupon, give at least twenty days previous notice, in one or more newspapers printed in the county of Warren, of the times when, and the places where some one or more of the aforesaid commissioners will attend, and receive subscriptions from all persons of lawful age who shall offer to subscribe in said books, which shall be kept open for the purpose aforesaid, at least six hours in every juridical day, for the space of three days, or until there shall be subscribed in the said Whole num books two thousand shares; and if, at the expiration of three Who may subscribe. ber of shares 2000. Letters pat days, the books aforesaid shall not have the number of shares aforesaid therein subscribed, then the said commissioners, at their discretion, may adjourn from time to time, and transfer the books elsewhere, until the whole number of shares aforesaid shall be subscribed, of which adjournment and transfer, the commissioners aforesaid shall give such public notice as the occasion may seem to require. SECTION 2. When one thousand shares or more shall be Five dollars actually subscribed, and five dollars on each share paid to on each share said commissioners, the said commissioners, or a majority of to be paid. them, shall certify the same, under oath or affirmation, to the Governor of this commonwealth, and on the receipt of such certificate, the Governor shall, bv letters patent, under his hand and the seal of the commonwealth, create and erect the subscribers, and it the subscription be not full at the time, then those also who shall thereafter subscribe to the whole number of shares aforesaid, into a body corporate and politic, Style & title. in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of "the Warren and Pine Grove railroad company," and by the same name the subscribers shall have perpetual succession, and all the privileges, franchises and immunities incident to a Powers of the corporation, may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in all courts of record and elsewhere, may purchase, receive, have, hold and enjoy, to them and their successors and assigns, lands, tenements and hereditaments, goods, chattels, and all estates, real, personal or mixed, of what kind or quality soever, and the same from time to time, may sell, mortgage, grant, alien and dispose of, and make dividends of such portions of the profits as they may deem proper; and also may make and have a common seal, and the same alter or renew at pleasure, and generally may 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 ent. company. |