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thereof, herein before mentioned, and of such others as may
hereafter be added, the mode of supplying vacancies in office,
the times of meeting of the said corporation, the number which
shall constitute a quorum at any such meetings, the mode of
electing members, the terms of their admission, the causes
which shall justify their expulsion from the corporation, shall
be regulated by the by-laws and ordinances of the said corpo-
ration, hereafter to be made, which the said corporation is
hereby authorized and empowered to make, and alter, in the
manner which may be therein mentioned: Provided, That the Proviso.
said by-laws, or ordinances, shall not be repugnant to, or in-
consistent with, the constitution or laws of the United States,
or of this commonwealth.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 207.

A Further Supplement

To an act to incorporate the Washington and Maryland Line 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 said company are hereby authorized to connect their Authorized to road, or any part thereof, with any railroad, or railroads, which connect with is, or are now, or may hereafter, be constructed in either Lan- other roads and caster, Chester, York or Adams counties; and to construct construct branch or lateral railroads, to connect with manufacturing or mining establishments, or other works.

SECTION 2. That the said company are hereby authorized to Lorrow money, not exceeding one million of dollars, in accordance with the provisions, and subject to the restrictions, contained in the fourth section of a supplement to the act to which this a further supplement, approved the twenty-ninth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

branches.

May borrow money.

Name changed.

SECTION 3. That hereafter the said company shall be known as the Columbia and Maryland Line Railroad Company.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED The first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 208.

An Act

Relating to sheriff's sales in Susquehanna county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the provisions of an act, entitled "An Act relating to sheriff's sales in Luzerne county," approved the eighteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, be and the same are hereby extended to the county of Susquehanna: Provided, That said selection shall not be restricted to newspapers published at the county seat, but the said notices may be directed to be published in any papers in the county; anything in the act to which this is a supplement to the contrary notwithstanding; and if no such direction be given by the party, or his attorney, then the sheriff shall make the publication as heretofore.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The first day of April, Anno Domini one thou

sand eight hundred and sixty-three.

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 209.

An Act

Relative to the school house and property of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, in the city of Philadelphia.

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 school house and property of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, in the city of Philadelphia, being number two hundred and forty-four, North Fourth street, be and the same is hereby exempted from all taxation, except taxes for state purposes. JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 210.

A Supplement

To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Philadelphia Lying-in Charity for attending indigent females at their own houses," passed the seventh day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.

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 objects of the Philadelphia Lying-in Charity for at- Objects of the tending indigent females at their own houses, now are and are association defined. hereby declared to be, the providing for the furnishing, gratuitously, of competent medical and nursing aid, and necessary medicines and sustenance to indigent women, in obstetric cases, and in diseases peculiar to their sex, the proper education of students of medicine, and nurses in the practical duties of the lying-in chamber, and the maintenance of a "Home" for the residence of the nurses during pupilage, and thereafter, during the intervals between engagements in the duties of their call

By-laws.

Office of chair

man abolished. Property ex

SECTION 2. That the said corporation is hereby empowered to adopt such a constitution, and to enact such by-laws, as may, in the judgment of the members thereof, best enable them to carry out the objects aforesaid: Provided, That said constitution and by-laws be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States, or of this commonwealth.

SECTION 3. That the office of chairman, in the said corporation, be and the same is hereby abolished.

SECTION 4. That the real and personal estate, of the said corempt from tax- poration, be and the same is hereby exempted from taxation.

ation.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 211.

Supplement

To an act, entitled "An Act to provide for the incorporation of boroughs,' approved the first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hunand thirty-four.

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 whenever an application has been, or shall hereafter be, made, by the freeholders of any town, or village, in the commonwealth, for an act of incorporation into a borough, and the boundaries fixed by the petitioners shall embrace lands exclusively used for the purposes of farming, and not properly belonging to the town, or village, the courts of quarter sessions of the county, where such application is made, shall have power, at the request of the party aggrieved, to change and modify such boundaries, so as to exclude therefrom the land used for farming purposes.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The first day of April, Anno Domini one thou

sand eight hundred and sixty-three.

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 212.

An Act

Relative to the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia.

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 property, now owned and occupied by the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia, be and the same is hereby released and freed from the payment of municipal taxes, whilst owned and occupied by said corporation as a hospital for the treatment of diseases of women and children.

JOHN CESSNA,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEORGE V. LAWRENCE,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

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Authorizing the sale of a certain lot of ground by the Society of Friends in the county of Washington.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenlatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Peter Cleaver, Josiah Johns, E. K. Griffith, Ellis Lilly and Joseph H. Miller, the representatives, or committees, of the two divisions of the Society of Friends, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey, in fee simple, and by a clear deed of transfer, at public or private sale, as they may determine, that tract, or lot of ground, situated in West Pike Run township, in the county of Washing

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