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No. 595.

A Further Supplement

To the act, entitled "An Act to authorize the Governor to incorporate a a company to erect a toll-bridge over the West Branch of the river Susquehanna, at Walton's landing," approved March the thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.

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, Corporate name That the corporate name, style, and title, of the company inchanged. corporated under the act to which this is a supplement, be and the same is hereby changed to the Muncy Bridge Company, by which name, style, and title, the business of the said company shall, hereafter, be managed and conducted, with the same effect as if the name thereof had not been changed; and all acts heretofore done by said company, under the name above stated, be and are hereby ratified and confirmed.

Votes.

Quorum.

Authorized to receive tolls.

Rates.

Treasurer to give bond.

SECTION 2. That each person shall be entitled to one vote, at all elections of said company, for every share of stock owned by such person; and said votes may be given in person, or by proxy; and a majority, of the president and managers of said company, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

SECTION 3. That the said company, their successors and assigns, shall have the power to demand, and receive, tolls, for crossing said bridge, at such general rates as the president, and managers, shall, from time to time, determine; and the president and managers, or a majority of them, shall, also, have power to make such commutations, or contracts, for crossing said bridge, by the year, or less period, as they shall deem expedient.

SECTION 4. The treasurers, hereafter chosen, shall, before entering upon the duties of their office, give bond, if demanded by the president and managers, with one, or more, sufficient sureties, to the satisfaction of the said president and managers, conditioned for the faithful execution of the duties of their office, the accounting for, and payment of, all moneys by them received, according to law; and, in default thereof, it shall be the duty of said president and managers, to appoint some suitable person treasurer of said company; which person, so appointed, shall hold the said office, of treasurer, until the next election by the stockholders, on giving the security required, and until a successor shall be duly elected, and give the necessary security.

SECTION 5. That the provisions of the sixth section of the Certain provisions extended act, entitled "An Act regulating bridge companies," approved the twelfth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, be and the same are hereby extended to said company; and, in

to.

addition to the penalties therein prescribed, if any person shall,

wilfully, injure, or deface, any part, or parts, of the property Penalty for inof said company, he, she, or they, so offending, shall forfeit, and juries to propay, for each and every such offence, to the said company, such perty. sum as will be sufficient to repair the injury, to be recovered

in the same manner as provided in said section.

SECTION 6. That the president and managers of said com- Dividends aupany shall, and may, make yearly, or half yearly, dividends, thorized. according to the state of the funds of said company; and so much of the provisions of the act to which this is supplementary, as may be inconsistent with this supplement, be and Repeal. the same hereby is repealed.

JOHN ROWE,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

LOUIS W. HALL,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The tenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 596.

An Act

To extend the charter of the Hummelstown Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Hummelstown, Dauphin county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen atives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same,

That the charter of the Hummelstown Mutual Fire Insurance Charter extend-
Company of Hummelstown, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, be ed.
and the same is hereby continued, and extended, for the period of
twenty years, from and after the expiration of its present charter,

subject to all the provisions, limitations, restrictions, and privi- Subject to.
leges, of the act of assembly, entitled "An Act for the incorpo-
ration of the Hummelstown Mutual Fire Insurance Company

of Hummelstown," approved the sixteenth day of April, Anno
Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.

SECTION 2. That all policies, heretofore issued by the com- Certain policies pany, which were to expire at the expiration of the present continued. charter, to wit: on the sixteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, are to continue valid until the sixteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thou

sand eight hundred and eighty-five, or until the expiration of the charter, as extended by this act.

JOHN ROWE,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

LOUIS W. HALL,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The tenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 597.

An Act

To extend the charter of the Mechanics' Savings, Loan and Building Association, located at Norristown, in the county of Montgomery.

WHEREAS, The Mechanics' Savings, Loan and Building Association, located at Norristown, in the county of Montgomery, was incorporated on the eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the period of ten years, from the said eighth day of November:

And whereas, It is ascertained that the said corporation can not wind up, and carry out the objects, and purposes, of the charter, within the time therein limited, and the court of common pleas, by which it was incorporated has no power to extend the same; therefore,

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 charter of the Mechanics' Savings, Loan and Building Association, located at Norristown, in the county of Montgomery, be and the same is hereby extended for the further period of two years, to be computed from the time of the expiration of the ten years, for which the said charter has been granted: Provided however, That nothing herein contained, shall prevent the winding up of the affairs, and business, of said corporation, at any time hereafter, as soon as the objects, and purposes, for which it was incorporated, have transpired. JOHN ROWE,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

LOUIS W. HALL,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The seventeenth day of March, Anno Domini

one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 598.

An Act

To extend the charter of the Norristown Savings, Loan and Building Association, in Montgomery county.

WHEREAS, The Norristown Savings, Loan and Building Association, located at Norristown, Montgomery county, was incorporated on the twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, by the court of common pleas of Montgomery county, for the period of ten years, from the said twentieth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two:

And whereas, It is ascertained that the said corporation can not wind up, and carry out the objects, and purposes, of its charter, within the time limited, and that the said court has no power to extend the same; therefore,

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 charter, and corporate privileges, of the Norristown Savings, Loan and Building Association, located at Norristown, in the county of Montgomery, be and the same is hereby extended, for the further period of two years, to be computed from the time of the expiration of the ten years, for which the said charter has been granted: Provided however, That nothing, herein contained, shall prevent the winding up of the affairs, and business, of said corporation, at any time hereafter, as soon as the objects, and purposes, for which it was incorporated, have transpired.

JOHN ROWE,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

LOUIS W. HALL,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED The seventeenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

A. G. CURTIN.

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No. 599.

A Further Supplement

To the act incorporating the Newry Railroad Company.

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 time for commencing and completing, the Newry railroad, as provided in the act incorporating said company, approved the fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, be and the same is hereby extended three years, from the expiration of the time designated in said act. JOHN ROWE,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

LOUIS W. HALL,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The seventeenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

A. G. CURTIN.

No. 600.

An Act

To extend the charter of the Montgomery Savings, Loan and Building Association, located at Norristown, in Montgomery county.

WHEREAS, The Montgomery Savings, Loan and Building Association, located at Norristown, in Montgomery county, was incorporated on the seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the period of ten years, from the said seventeenth day of May:

And whereas, It is ascertained that the said corporation can not wind up, and carry out the purposes of the charter, within the ten years; therefore,

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 charter of the Montgomery Savings, Loan and Building Association, located at Norristown, in the county of Montgomery, be and the same is hereby extended for the further

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