No. 4. AN ACT To authorize the Sandy and Beaver canal company to borrow money. 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 no loan of money or contract, which has been or may be made by any person or persons, to or with the president, managers and company of the Sandy and Beaver canal company, for the purpose of completing their canal, shall be deemed or taken to be usurious, for or by reason of said company agreeing to pay a greater interest than at the rate of six per cent. per annum, or giving its bonds or other evidences of debt, for a greater sum than the sum actually lent them; but such loans and contracts shall be deemed and taken to be lawful and valid. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of January, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 5. AN ACT To incorporate the Philadelphia college of medicine. 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 John M'Clintock, Robert M'Grath. M. D., Robert Killduffe, M. D., William H. Allen, James M'Clintock, M. D., John P. Durbin, D. D., and Joseph B. Mitchell, and their associates and successors, be and they are hereby made and created a body politic and corporate, in law and in fact, by the name, style and title of the Philadelphia college Name. of medicine," with all the powers and subject to the restrictions contained in the act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Franklin medical college," approved the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six: Provided however, That the lectures in Proviso. said Philadelphia college of medicine, shall be delivered between the months of March and November in each year. JAMES COOPER, APPROVED-The fourteenth day of January, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. May hold real estate. Proviso. Claim of state released. No. 6. AN ACT Authorizing the Oneida Bank at Utica, New York, to purchase and hold real estate within the county of Tioga. 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 Oneida Bank, at the city of Utica, in the state of New York, is hereby authorized to purchase and hold real estate within the county of Tioga, in this commonwealth, to an amount not exceeding five thousand dollars, in the same manner and as fully, to all intents and purposes, as though the said Oneida Bank was not a foreign corporation. And further, it is hereby expressly enacted, that all purchases of real estate heretofore made by said Oneida Bank, in the said county of Tioga, shall be deemed and held valid, and shall pass all the estate, right, title and interest, which was intended to be conveyed to said bank: Provided, That the said real estate which may have been, or which shall he hereafter purchased as aforesaid, shall have been or may be taken in the collection of debts due to said Oneida Bank. SECTION 2. That any claim which the commonwealth of Pennsylvania may have to said real estate so purchased, or to be purchased as mentioned in the first section of this act, by virtue of the statutes of mortmain, is hereby fully discharged and released. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CH. GIBBONS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The eighteenth day of January, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 7. AN ACT To authorize the managers of the Perkiomen and Sumneytown turnpike road, to apply the surplus tolls to the extinguishment of debts heretofore by them incurred. 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 surplus tolls arising annually from the Perkiomen and Sumneytown Surplus tolls, in turnpike road, after deducting the necessary and unavoidable expenses whom to be of the corporation, be and they are hereby indefeasibly vested in those vested. persons who are now, or hereafter may be bound in their individual capacities, for the payment of the debts by them heretofore incurred, until the same shall be fully satisfied, or the said individuals be otherwise exonerated. their office. SECTION 2. That no officer or officers, chosen by the stockholders of Officers to release the corporation of the said turnpike road, at any future election held, and execute bond (in pursuance of the act to which this is a supplement) shall be entitled before entering to enter on the discharge of the duties of his office, until he or they on the duties of shall have released his predecessors in office from all personal liability. on account of the debts above mentioned, or shall have given bonds with security, to the governor of this commonwealth, in the sum of two thousand dollars each, conditional, for the appropriation of all the tolls and other money remaining in the hands of the treasurer of said com pany, after expenses for toll gathering and necessary repairs are deducted, to the payment of the interest of the said debt to the creditors, as the same shall become due, and also in discharge of the principal sum, which bonds shall be filed in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth; and in case of forfeiture, the same proceedings to be had as that of other bonds; and in default of the said debt being assumed, or bonds being given as aforesaid, the officers who are liable for the same, shall continue to receive the tolls and conduct the affairs of the corporation, until the provisions of this act are complied with: Provided, Proviso. That this act shall not be so construed as to prevent any person or persons, who may have any legal demands against the aforesaid company, for repairs or otherwise, from obtaining the amount thereof from the president and managers of said turnpike road. Commissioners SECTION 3. That it shall be the duty of the commissioners of the county of Montgomery, to subscribe on behalf of said county, for eighty of Montgomery shares of the stock of the Perkiomen and Sumneytown turnpike road county to subcompany, to be paid by warrants drawn by the county commissioners scribe for stock. upon the county treasurer; and for said purpose the commissioners of said county of Montgomery, are hereby authorized and required to sell or cause to be sold and transferred, the whole amount of the stock held by said county commissioners on behalf of the county aforesaid, in the Said commissionstock of the company for erecting a bridge over the river Schuylkill at ers to sell stock Matson's ford, in the county of Montgomery, to enable said commis- in Watson's Ford sioners to make said investment; and the subscription and payment bridge company. authorized by this act, shall, for every share subscribed and paid, vest in said commissioners, or their successors in office, for the use of said county, all the rights and emoluments appertaining to a share or shares, as those held by individual stockholders, providing the stock shall not be sold below par. JAMES COOPER, APPROVED-The twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. Proviso. Proviso. No. 8. AN ACT To authorize and direct the commissioners and inhabitants of the incorporated district of the Northern Liberties, to regulate and fix the width of Second street in said district. 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 commissioners and inhabitants of the incorporated district of the Northern Liberties, be authorized and directed to cause a re-survey to be made of Second street, in the incorporated district aforesaid, and regulate and fix the width of the same. A plan or draft of said survey, or portions thereof, as the same shall be completed, shall be filed of record in the office of the clerk of the court of quarter sessions of the county of Philadelphia; and thereupon the said court shall make an order directing notice to be given to all persons interested, to appear within twenty days, on a day certain to be fixed in said order, before the said court, to show cause, if any they have, why the said survey shall not be confirmed and made absolute; and the said court shall, at the time appointed, determine whether the same shall be fully and finally established, and make such order in the premises as may be required: Provided, That no part of the expense of said survey, or any matter or thing arising therefrom, shall be paid by the county of Philadelphia : And provided also, That the footways of said Second street shall not be fixed at less than thirteen feet in width. JAMES COOPER, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 9. A SUPPLEMENT To the "Act authorizing the commissioners of the county of Chester to borrow money," passed March twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and forty six. 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 in addition to the authority conferred by the act to which this is a supplement, the commissioners of the county of Chester are hereby autho- Additional sum rized and empowered to borrow any sum or sums of money, not exceed- may be borrowed. ing in the whole ten thousand dollars, which they may deem necessary for the purpose of erecting a court house and public offices, at any rate of interest not exceeding six per cent., in the name and upon the faith, credit, and responsibility of the said county; to issue certificates of such loans to the holders thereof, in sums not less than one hundred dollars each, and to make such provision out of the taxes of the said county, from time to time, as may be necessary to pay the interest upon such loan or loans, and to redeem the principal at such times and in such manner, as may be conformable to the terms upon which the same may be taken. JAMES COOPER, CH. GIBBONS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED―The twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. FRS. R. SHUNK. No. 10. AN ACT To regulate the standard measure of charcoal. 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 from and after the passage of this act, the standard measure of charcoal |