thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, be and they are hereby extended to the county of Susquehanna. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The tenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN No. 131. An Act To incorporate the North-Western Navigation 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 James T. Leonard, J. W. Potter, John Briel and John Corporators. Gilliland, of the county of Clearfield, and O. D. Satterlee, of the county of Clinton, and such other persons as shall associate with them, for the purposes hereinafter named, be and they are hereby created into a body politic and corporate, by the name, style and title of the North-Western Navigation Com- Title. pany, with a capital of five thousand dollars, to be divided Capital. into shares of fifty dollars each; and the said corporation shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded; shall have a common seal, and shall have power to Seal. make and enforce such by-laws, rules and regulations, as may By-laws. be necessary and expedient: Provided, That the same do not Proviso. conflict with any law of this commonwealth, or of the United States. SECTION 2. That the said corporation shall use and employ Powers and priso much of their capital stock, as they may find necessary, in vileges. improving the navigation of the Little Moshannon creek, otherwise called Mosquito creek, in the county of Clearfield, from its mouth to the forks thereof, about ten miles up, by removing, from the channel, rocks, roots, trees and other obstructions, by straightening and deepening the stream, from time to time, as occasion may require, and by such other necessary means as will fit it for the safe and rapid passage of logs, boats and lumber; and the said company shall have the power to enter upon lands adjoining said stream, and take there from wood, gravel and other material, necessary for the improvement aforesaid; and the damages to be paid for such material shall Damages. be assessed, collected and paid, under the provisions of the ninth section of the act of twenty-sixth of January, one thou May receive tolls. Payment of, relative to. Statements to be furnished. Recovery of tolls. Annual meeting. When tolls to sand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An Act for the regulation of turnpike roads," together with its several supplements. SECTION 3. That the said company shall have the right to demand and receive from any and every person using that portion of said stream, improved by the said company, for the purpose of running, or floating, logs or lumber upon its waters, the sum of twenty cents per thousand feet, board measure, for all said logs and lumber, put in the said stream; and the company may, at their option, demand, in advance, the payment of said toll, or security for the same; and in all cases, in which they do so, the persons from whom such demand is made, shall be considered and treated as trespassers, if they use, or attempt to use, said stream, without first paying, or securing, to the satisfaction of the company, the toll so demanded; and the said company may require, from all persons using said stream, a statement of the amount of lumber put in the stream, to be floated; and the said persons are required to furnish such statement, within ten days after its demand, and upon failure so to do, or for a wilfully false statement so furnished, the said company shall be entitled to recover treble the amount of tolls authorized by this act, for the actual amount of lumber so floated; and the said company shall have power to sue for, and recover, all tolls authorized by this act, and all penalties hereby imposed, as debts and penalties of like amount are now by law recoverable. SECTION 4. That the annual meeting of said company, for the purpose of electing officers, shall be on the first Monday of July, in each year; that all tolls, for the use of the navigation of said stream, shall be payable, if no demand for the same, in advance, be made, to the treasurer of the company, be paid to trea- at his office, in the township of Covington, in the county of Clearfield, within ten days after the logs or lumber shall have been started in the said stream, and on failure to make such payment, the party in default shall forfeit and pay double the usual rates of toll. surer. Required to keep stream in good order. Damages to bridges or roads SECTION 5. That the said company shall be required to keep in good order and repair the said stream, within the limits herein before-mentioned, and if any bridge or road, crossing the same, shall be in any manner injured, or receive damage, by reason of the improvement of said stream, the said company shall forthwith repair the same; and any person or perPenalty for ob- sons wilfully obstructing said stream, after the same shall have been cleared or improved, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined and imprisoned, at the discretion of the court. structions. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The second day of March, Anno Domini one. thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 132. An Act Supplementary to an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Philadel phia and Baltimore Central Railroad Company," approved March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. 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 limitation contained in section five, of the act to Time for comwhich this is a supplement, requiring the road to be com- pletion of road pleted within ten years from the passage of the said act, be extended. extended so as to allow the said company, from and after the passage of this act, five years for the completion of their said road, according to the true intent and meaning of the act to which this is a supplement. SECTION 2. That the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Authorized to Railroad Company be and they are hereby authorized to issue issue preferred preferred stock, not exceeding three hundred and fifty thou- stock. sand dollars in amount; which stock shall be entitled to a dividend of six per cent., out of the earnings of said road, before any dividend is paid on the other stock issued by said company Provided, That the original stockholders, or a ma- Proviso. jority of them, shall accept of the provisions of this act. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 133. A further Supplement To an act to incorporate the M'Kean County 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 the capital stock of the M'Kean Railroad and Navigation Capital stock. Company shall consist of five thousand shares, of one hundred Election of officers, when to be held. Qualifications of directors. Meetings. dollars each, with power to increase the same, as heretofore provided. SECTION 2. That the annual election, for president and directors of said company, shall be held on the nineteenth day of March, of each year, commencing with the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three; at which first election, all persons, who are then stockholders, shall be entitled to vote. SECTION 3. That so much of the third section of an act, entitled "An Act regulating railroad companies," approved the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, as requires a majority of the directors to be resident citizens of this commonwealth, is repealed, so far as the same relates to this company; and the board of directors may meet for the transaction of business, at such place within this commonwealth, or elsewhere, as they may deem expedient. CYRUS L. PERSHING, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The tenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 134. An Act Extending to the Pittsburg, Allegheny and Manchester Passenger Railway 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 privileges extended to the Citizens' Passenger Railway Company of the city of Pittsburg, by an act approved the fifth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, be and they are hereby extended to the Pittsburg, Allegheny and Manchester Passenger Railway Company. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eleventh day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. A. G. CURTIN. No. 135. An Act To incorporate the Marshall Silver Mining Company of Washoe. 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 Clement B. Barclay, Loomis G. Marshall, A. Cochran, Corporators. John Halderman, Emanuel Metzgar, Joseph Woodworth and R. D. Barclay, and their associates, be and they are hereby created a body politic, by the name, style and title of the Title. Marshall Silver Mining Company of Washoe, and by such name and title shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable of suing and being sued, impleading and being im- Privileges. pleaded, and of granting and of receiving, in its corporate name, property, real, personal and mixed, and of holding and improving lands in Nevada territory, and to obtain therefrom any and all minerals, and other valuable substances, whether by working, or mining, or leasing, or disposing of privileges to work or mine such land, or any part thereof, and to erect houses and such other buildings and works as may, in the opinion of the managers of the corporation, appertain to said business, and to use, let, lease or work the same, and to dispose of the products of all such lands, mines and works as they may deem proper. By-laws. SECTION 2. That the said company shall have power to make such by-laws, as they may deem proper to enable them to carry out the objects of the corporation, and the same to alter, amend, add to, or repeal, at their pleasure: Provided, That Proviso. such by-laws shall not be contrary to the constitution of this commonwealth, or the provisions of this act, and to adopt a Seal. common seal, and the same to alter at pleasure, and to issue May issue certi certificates of stock, representing the value of their property, ficates of stock. in such form, and subject to such regulations, as they may, from time to time, by their by-laws, prescribe; and to regulate and prescribe in what manner and form their contracts and obligations shall be executed. SECTION 3. That the corporators named in this act shall Election of di elect persons to serve as directors of the company, a majority rectors. of whom shall constitute a quorum, for the transaction of business, and shall hold their offices until their successors shall have been elected in accordance with the by-laws. offices. SECTION 4. That it shall be lawful for said company to es- Location of tablish the necessary offices for the business of the company, wherever their business is located, and to have their principal, in the United States, in such place as they may deem expedient, at which place it shall be lawful to hold all meetings for the transaction of the business of the company. |