No. 66. AN ACT To incorporate the Huntingdon and Cassville Turnpike Road 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 Commissioners. Thomas Fisher, Graffus Miller, George Jackson, William Dorris, junior, David Blair, J. Simpson Africa, David P. Gwin, John P. Anderson, Benjamin Graffius, George A. Steel, William B. Zieg. ler, A. L. Grim, John S. Miller, William P. Orbison, Henry S. Isenberg, David Haun, Abraham Shenefelt, Moses Swope, George W. Hazzard, Ephraim Chilcott, Simeon Wright, George W. Pheasant, Benjamin F. Glasgow, John R. Gosnell, David Stever, Joshua Greenland, David Clarkson, James Henderson, Joseph P. Heaton, Jacob Cresswell and Nicholas Corbin, or any five of them, are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, Style. style and title of the Huntingdon and Cassville turnpike road company, with authority to construct a turnpike road from the Route. borough of Huntingdon, by way of Haun's bridge, to the bo rough of Cassville, in the county of Huntingdon; and to have, Subject to. exercise and enjoy all the rights, powers and privileges confer red upon such corporations by 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; subject, also, to the con ditions and restrictions contained in said acts. Capital. Section 2. That the capital stock of said company shall con sist of eight hundred shares, at twenty-five dollars each. Limitation. Section 3.' That in case the company should fail to commence the construction of said road within three years, and to complete the same within six years, after the approval of this act, then this act shall be null and void, except so far as may be necessary to settle 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 fifteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 67. AN ACT Authorizing the qualified Voters of the township of Brush Valley, in the county of Indiana, to elect two additional Supervisors. 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 it shall be lawful for the qualified voters of the township of Brush Valley, in the county of Indiana, annually to elect four supervisors of roads and highways for said township, at the same time and place now fixed by law for the election of township officers. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 68. AN ACT To extend an act to improve the breed of Sheep in certain counties of this Commonwealth. 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 act, entitled "An Act to improve the breed of sheep in certain counties of this Commonwealth," passed the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, be and the same is hereby extended to the county of Clarion: Provided, That the penalties prescribed in the act to which this is an extension, shall be recoverable in the said county of Clarion only for trespasses committed between the first day of September and the first day of December in each year. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED- The fifteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 69. AN ACT To anthorize the Commissioners of Tioga county to borrow money. 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 commissioners of Tioga county be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow, upon the credit of the said county, for the purpose of erecting a new county prison, any sum of money not exceeding ten thousand dollars, payable within ten years: Provided, 'That no bond or other obligation shall be issued by the said commissioners for the payment of the same, of a less denomination than fifty dollars, and that the same shall be exempted from taxation. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The fifteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. а No. 70. AN ACT Extending the powers of the Philadelphia Conference Tract Society. 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 Philadelphia Conference tract society," incorporated by the court of common pleas of the city and county of Philadel. phia, on the tenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, be and they are further empowered to publish and print all such moral and religious tracts, books, &c., as by their charter, granted by the said court, they are authorized to circulate and distribute. JOHN M. THOMPSON, WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED— The fifteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 71. SUPPLEMENT To an act to incorporate the Turners Association. 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 so much of the act to which this is a supplement, approved the Ropoal of certain thirteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hun- act. dred and fifty-nine, as restricts membership in the said association to shareholders therein, and requires the said association to bare a capital stock as specified in the said act, and so much of the same as requires that one hundred shares of stock shall be subscribed before the said act to which this is a supplement shall take effect, is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act, each Votes. member of the said Turners association, and all persons who shall hereafter become members of the same, shall be entitled to one, and only one, vote for each member; and as much of the said act to which this is a supplement, as is inconsistent herewith, is hereby repealed. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The sixteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 72. AN ACT To incorporate the Home Insurance Company of Philadelphia. 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 Thomas Reath, Robert Morris, C. F. Norton, James T. Mitchell, William A. Rolin, Paschall H. Coulter, Joseph Yerkes, Evan Morris, George H. Ashton, Edward B. Vandyke, William H. Kimble and Collins West, of the city of Philadelphia, are hereby appointed commissioners, who, or any five of whom, are authorized and empowered, from and after the passage of this act, to establish an insurance company, by the name and title of the Home insurance company, and to be located in the city of Phila. delphia, with a capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of fifty dollars each, with the right to increase the same to five hundred thousand dollars, and to be organized and managed according to the provisions of an act to provide for the incorporation of insurance companies, approved the second day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and shall be limited to risks designated in the first class, in the seventh section of said act. JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tem. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senat e. APPROVED— The sixteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. 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