and upon tender of the appraised value to cut down, dig and take and carry away any timber, stone, sand, earth, or other materials, suitable and necessary for the said bridge and road.

SECT. 102. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the said president and managers, shall keep fair Annual and just accounts of all monies laid out and expended by statement of them in the construction of the said work, submit their accounts. books and accounts to a general meeting of the stockholders for examination and approval at least once in every year.

Rates of toll

SECT. 105. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when the said bridge and road or either of them Upon compleis completed, the property thereof shall be vested in the tion of works, said company, their successors and assignees forever, and it property shall and may be lawful for the said company their succes- vested in co. sors and assignees to erect gates on said bridge and road and demand and receive by their agents tolls from travellers and others passing said gates agreeably to the following rates, víz: For passing said bridge, every carriage of whatever description having four wheels and used for the purpose established of trade or agriculture, shall pay twelve and a half cents for each horse drawing the same, every carriage having two wheels and employed as aforesaid, shall pay twelve and a half cents, for each horse drawing the same; every carriage of whatever description, used for the purpose of personal accommodation or pleasure and having four wheels, shall be taxed twenty five cents for each horse drawing the same; every dearborn wagon drawn by one horse, shall be taxed twenty-five cents; every chair or other two wheeled pleasure carriage shall pay twenty five-cents, for each horse drawing the same; for every sleigh or sled drawn by four horses, fifty cents shall be the toll; for every sleigh or sled drawn by three horses, forty-four cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by two horses thirty-seven and an half cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by one horse twenty cents; for every horse, mare or gelding, with a rider, the toll shall be twelve and a half cents; for every horse, mare or gelding without a rider six and one-fourth cents; for every score of sheep or swine twenty-five cents; for every head of horned or muley cattle, four cents; and for every foot passenger, four cents: oxen and mules drawing wagons, carriages or other vehicles, to be rated the same as horses, and in no case shall it be lawful for any owner or driver of horses or cattle, to lead or drive more than twenty head on the bridge at any one time: Pro Proviso vided, That any person or persons attending funerals or any of free elections, any military company or detachment of this state passengers. er of the United States, persons attending public worship on the Sabbath day and students or children attending any school or other seminary of learning, shall at all times be

Penalty on crossing bridge rapid

ly.

be

exempt from the payment of tolls for passing the said bridge.

SECT. 104. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That if any person or persons shall wilfully ride, drive or lead, or cause to be rode, drove, led or driven, any horse or other creature faster than a walk, when crossing said bridge, he, she or they so offending shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than five dollars for every such offence, to be recovered as fines of like amount, are by law recoverable.

SECT. 105. And be it further enacted by the authority afore Road may said, That the president and managers of the said company licensed by 2 be, and they are hereby authorized, as soon as the said road mile sections. or any part thereof, not less than two miles shall be completed, to erect toll gates thereon, and demand and receive from travellers and others passing along said road, such tolls and profits as are given and granted by the president, managers and company of the Susquehanna and York borough turnpike road, and generally have like powers, authorities and privileges granted to, and be subject to all the duties, qualifications, restrictions, penalties and forfeitures imposed on that company by an act of Assembly, passed the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four.

Provisions of act of 19th March, 1804, partially adopted.

Penalty on extortion of

gate keepers.

Proviso.

fits over 12

SECT. 106. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any gate keeper for said company, their successors or assigns, shall demand and collect any greater rates or prices for passing over said bridge or along said road, than what is herein before authorized, he, she or they so offending, shall for every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars for the use of the person aggrieved, to be recovered as fines of like amount are by law recoverable: Provided, That such suit or action be brought within twenty days after the commission of such offence.

SECT. 107. And be it further enacted by the authority Half of pro- aforesaid, That whenever the nett profits of any of the companies incorporated by this act, shall exceed twelve per cent. upon the capital actually paid in, then one half of said surplus shall be paid into the state treasury for the purposes of education.

per cent. ap. propriated to education fund.

and 7 to com

SECT. 108. And be it further enacted by the authority 3 years al- aforesaid, That if the said company shall not proceed in lowed to com- the construction of the said bridge and road within three mence works, years after the passing of this act, or shall not within seven plete them. years thereafter complete the same, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, then, and in either of these cases, all and singular the rights, liberties and franchises relating to said bridge and turnpike company and by this act granted, shall revert to the Commonwealth.

SECT. 109. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said president, managers and company shall at the end of every year after the said bridge and road

shall have been completed, lay before the General Assembly After compleof this Commonwealth, an abstract of their accounts, shewing tion, annual the whole amount expended in the construction thereof, and abstract of of the income and profits arising from the tolls received accounts to during that period, together with an account of all incidental be made to costs and charges, in order that the clear yearly income and Legislature. profits of said bridge and road may be ascertained and known, and if it shall then be made appear that the said clear incomé and profits thereof will not bear a dividend of six per centum per annum on the whole costs and charges thereof, then and in Tolls to be that case it shall and may be lawful for the said president, regulated so directors and company, to increase the tolls herein allowed as to produce so much as will raise the dividend to six per cent per annum not less than on the amount expended in constructing the aforesaid, nor more than 8 per works, and at the end of two years thereafter, they shall cent. per render to the General Assembly a like abstract of the ac- annum. counts of said works for the preceding two years, and if at the end of such period of two years it shall appear that the clear profits and income of the said works will bear a dividend of more than eight per cent. per annum, then the said tolls shall be so reduced as will reduce the dividend to eight per centum per annum.

& Waterford turnpike.

SECT. 110. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the president, Location of managers and company for erecting a bridge over the Alle- bridge over gheny river, at the place where the Susquehanna and Wa Allegheny at terford turnpike road crosses the same, and they, or a crossing of majority of them, shall have full power to locate the said Susquehanna bridge at any point not exceeding one half mile from the place where said turnpike crosses said river, and it shall be the duty of the president, managers and company of the Susquehanna and Waterford turnpike road company, immediately on the erection of said bridge, to connect therewith the said Susquehanna and Waterford turnpike road: Pro- Proviso. vided, That the steam boat navigation of said Allegheny river shall in no wise be obstructed by the erection of said bridge. SECT. 111. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That it shall and may be lawful for the president, managers and company aforesaid, to erect a toll house or other Erection of necessary buildings on any land or enclosure near said bridge, toll house and in case of dispute between the owner or owners of said authorized. land, and the said president, managers and company, as to compensation for the same, the same shall be settled according to the provisions of the ninth section of an act of Assem. Damages bly, passed the twenty-ninth day of March, A. D. eighteen under act of hundred and twenty-three, to which this is a tfurher sup- 1823. plement.

29th March,

SECT. 112. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in addition to the persons named as commission- Additional ers in the first section of the act aforesaid, for the purposes

commiss'rs.

appointed.

elections of

mentioned in said act, the following named persons shall also be commissioners for said purposes, viz: John D. Wood, Alexander M'Calmont and John Galbraith, Esq. of the town of Franklin, and Robert L. Potter and Samuel Torbett, Esq. of the town of Meadville.

SEOT. 113. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the secretary of the Lackawanna and SusquehanRegulations na rail road company, be, and he is hereby authorized to fix relative to the the place of holding the annual and special elections and meetings of the said company, when the by-laws shall not have determined the same, and the judges of the elections shall be chosen by a majority of the stockholders present, either in person or by proxy, and so much of any law as is hereby altered or supplied, be and the same is hereby repealed.

the Lacka wanna and Susquehanna rail Load co.

SAM'L. ANDERSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO'S. RINGLAND,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The eighth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

GEO. WOLF.

St. Paul's church, Merion. Style of

No. 163.

AN ACT

To incorporate the trustees of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of St. Pauls church, in Lower Merion township, in the county of Montgomery, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and the Lutheran and German Reformed church in the village of Hempfield, in the county of

SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly inet, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the members of the church aforesaid, be, and the same are hereby created and erected into one body politic and corporate in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of The Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of St. corporation. Paul's church," and by the same name have perpetual sucPrivileges cession, and be able to sue and be sued, implead and be and liabilities impleaded, and shall be able and capable to take and hold lands and tenements, goods and chattels, real, personal and

mixed, which are now or may hereafter become the property of said congregation or body corporate, by gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise, and the same to convey, lay out, apply or dispose of in such manner as a majority of the trustees of the said congregation shall direct and appoint, and according to the true intent of donors, grantors and devisors, and the yearly value or income of the real, personal or mixed estate of said congregation, shall not at any time exceed the sum of two thousand dollars, exclusive of annual stated contributions; that they shall have and use a common seal, and the Of the seal, same to alter and renew at pleasure, to enact and enforce by-laws, &c. such by-laws and ordinances as may be proper and necessary for the regulation and transaction of the business of the corporation: Provided. They be not inconsistent with the con; stitution and laws of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Proviso

Reformed

church,

Corporate

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the members of the Lutheran and German Reformed church of the village of Hempfield, in the county of Hempfield. Lancaster, be hereby created and erected into one body politic and corporate in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of "The Lutheran and German Reformed Church," and by style. the same name have perpetual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and shall be able and capable to take and hold lands and tenements, goods and chattels, real, personal and mixed, which are now or may hereafter become the property of said congregation or body Privileger, corporate, by gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise, and liabilities, &c. the same to convey, lay out, apply or dispose of, in such manner as a majority of the trustees of said congregation shall direct and appoint, and according to the true intent of donors, grantors and devisors, and the yearly value or income of the real, personal or mixed estate of said congregation, shall not at any time exceed the sum of two thousand dollars exclusive of annual stated contributions; that they shall have and use a common seal, and the same to alter and renew at Seal, pleasure, to enact and enforce such by-laws and ordinances by laws, &c. as may be proper and necessary for the regulation and transaction of the business of the corporation: Provided, They Proviso. be not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

SAM'L. ANDERSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THO'S. RINGLAND,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The ninth day of April, Anno Domini, eigh

teen hundred and thirty-three.

GEO, WOLF.