experiments with primitive earths and mineral substances, and of manufacturing phosphates and other chemical products therefrom, for the advancement of science and the benefit of agriculture; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General AssemWy met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Frederick A. Genth, Jacob L. Wendell, Gove Mitchell, Bettle Corporators Paul, George V. Neville, Lewis Seal and Henry T. Grout, and their successors, and all persons who now are or who may hereafter be associated with them, be and they are hereby created and erected into a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of “ The Penn City Chemical Style. college; and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all Powers. the courts of record and elsewhere ; and shall be capable, in law and in equity, to receive, take and hold, by purchase, gift

, devise or bequest, for the use of the said corporation, lands, tenements and hereditaments, and estates, both real and personal, Real estate. wherever situated : Provided, That the said corporation shall not hold, by purchase, real estate of a greater yearly value than ten thousand dollars; and the same to grant, bargain, sell and assign, in fee simple or for any less estate, as to the said corporation may seem proper; and to make and have a common seal, Seal. and the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure; and also to ordain and establish, and put into execution such by-laws, ordi- By-laws. nances and regulations as shall appear necessary and convenient for the government of the said corporation, not being contrary to the constitution or laws of the United States and of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; and generally to do all and singular the matters and things lawfuily appertaining to the well being of the said corporation, and the due management of the affairs thereof.

Section 2. The capital stock of the said company shall con- Capital stock sist of five thousand shares of fifty dollars each, to be called in as the necessities of the company may require, for the purpose of making chemical tests, carrying on the experiments and general business operations of the said corporation.

Section 3. The government of the said corporation, and the Government, management and disposition of its affairs and property, shall be relative to. rested in a board of seven directors, who shall be elected by the stockholders annually, at such time and in such manner as the by-laws of the said corporation shall direct: Provided, That said Proviso. corporation shall not purchase or hold any real estate, except such as may be requisite and necessary to carry out the true intent and purposes of this act.

JOHN M. THOMPSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

WM. M. FRANCIS,

Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The twenty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

WM. F. PACKER.

No. 249.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

To an act to incorporate the Selinsgrove Bridge 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 act approved the eighteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, entitled “An Act to incorporate the Selinsgrove bridge company,” be and it is hereby revived and extended to the eighteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one : Provided, The enrollment tax thereon be paid within one year after the passage of this act.

JOHN M. THOMPSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

WM. M. FRANCIS,

Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The twenty-fourth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

WM. F. PACKER.

No. 250.

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act to equalize Taxation upon Corporations.
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 act, entitled “ An Act to equalize taxation upon corpora.
tions," approved the twelfth day of April, Anno Domini one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, shall not be so construed,
that banks of deposit and discount or savings banks, shall be
liable to tax upon dividends,

JOHN M. THOMPSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

WM. M. FRANCIS,

Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-fourth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

WM. F. PACKER.

No. 251.

AN ACT

Relative to the Military Funds of Huntingdon county.

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 auditor general and state treasurer be and they are hereby authorized and required, in the settlement of the accounts of Franklin H. Lane, late treasurer of Huntingdon county, to allow him a credit on general account, for the an.ount of money shown to have been paid by him, for expenses of the Hunting: don county military brigade, during the years one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, on orders of the brigade military board of auditors of said county, for which he has not already received a credit.

JOHN M. THOMPSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

WM. M. FRANCIS,

Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The twenty-fourth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

WM. F. PACKER.

No. 252.

AN ACT
To incorporate the Lock Haven and Logansville Turnpike Road 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 D. K. Jackman, L. A. Mackey, Simon Scott, William A. Simp- Commissionen, son, J. G. Harris, P. T. Wright, William White, David Cars. kaddon, John Calvert, C. A. Mayor, P. M. Price, William Dunn, James Hemphill, Charles Blanchard, P. T. Dickinson, Jacob Brown, Phaon Jarrett, Jonathan Moyer, D. R. Heckman, Joseph Snook, Anthony Kleckner, George Brumgard, John B. Schrack and Philip Wohlfart, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a com

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pany by the name, style and title of the Lock Haven and Lo.
gansville turnpike road company, with power to survey and lay
out, and construct a turnpike, from the borough of Lock Haven
to the town of Logansville, in Clinton county, subject to all the
provisions, rights and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike
and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of
January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-
nine, and the several supplements thereto.

Section 2. That the capital stock of said company shall con.
sist of five hundred shares, at twenty-five dollars each, with
power to increase the same, if necessary, to seven hundred
shares.

Section 3. That if the said company shall not commence the
construction of this road within three years, and complete the
same within five years from the passage of this act, then it
shall be null and void, except so far as the same may be neces-
sary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of the company.

JOHN M. THOMPSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

WM. M. FRANCIS,

Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED— The twenty-fourth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

WM. F. PACKER.

No. 253.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

To an act to incorporate the Allentown Railroad Company, passed the nine

teenth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.
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 May extend road the Allentown railroad company shall have power to extend their

railroad from its present terminus, at or near Auburn, any dis-
tance not exceeding eleven miles, and to connect, by means of

such extension, with any lateral railroad in Schuylkill county. Lateral railroad Section 2. That it shall be lawful for any lateral railroad comcompanies may pany with which the Allentown railroad company makes such

oapi-
tal stook. connection, to subscribe to or purchase the capital stock or bonds

of the said Allentown railroad company, in such amounts and
upon such terms as may be agreed to in writing, under the cor-
porate seals of the respective companies; and also, if they shall
at any time so elect, to consolidate the stock of the two com-
panies on terms that may be mutually agreed upon; and it shall

be lawful for any railroad company connected with under this
act, to change the line of its railroad at the point or points of
connection, where it may be necessary to improve its location :
Provided, That the damages caused by such change shall have Proviso.
been paid, or secured to be paid, before effecting the same; and
it shall further be lawful for the railroad company so connected
with, to grant the use of its motive power to companies or indi-
viduals, upon such terms as may be mutually agreed on in wri-
ting: Provided further, That no discrimination shall be made Proviso.
by said company among the lateral railroads connected with
under the provisions of this act, but that the rates of charges
for tolls, freight, motive power, and all other charges on this
road, shall be uniform among said railroads.

Section 3. That the Allentown railroad company are hereby May pay interest authorized to pay to the subscribers to their capital stock, in- to subscribers to

capital stook. terest on the amount of capital stock paid in, at the rate of six per cent. per annum, either in money or stock, for a period not exceeding three years from the time of such payments.

JOHN M. THOMPSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem.

WM. M. FRANCIS,

Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The twenty-fourth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

WM. F. PACKER.

No. 254.

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 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 specified in the third section of the act to which this Time for com. is a further supplement, within which the works of the M'Kean mencing and

completing exrailroad and navigation company are required to be commenced tended. and completed, is hereby extended for the further term of two years.

Section 2. That said company is hereby authorized to con- May construot struct such portions of their works, as may be necessary, with works in Portor in the limits of Potter county; and said company is hereby exempted from so much of the provisions of section third, of the Exempt from act of February nineteen, one thousand eight hundred and provisions of cerforty-nine, entitled “ An Act regulating railroad companies,