creek navigation company, is extended three years for commencing, and ten years for completing the said navigation, from and after the passage of this act. WHEREAS, A number of persons have associated for the pur- Preamble. pose of promoting and encouraging literature, and the said persons are desirous of becoming incorporated: 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 persons who constitute the Manayunk Athenæum and Library Company, or who shall hereafter be admitted members of the same, shall and hereby are declared to be a Style of body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The corporation. Manayunk Athenæum and Library Company," to have perpetual succession, to plead and be impleaded, sue and be sued, Capacities & in all courts of record or elsewhere, and be capable to take, privileges. hold and enjoy property to the amount of five thousand dollars, to use a common seal, and to alter or renew the same at plea sure. SECTION 2. The officers of said corporation, shall be such as the said corporation may think necessary, who shall be elected annually, or otherwise, as the rules and by-laws of the corporation may direct. Officers, and how elccted. Powers. SECTION 3. Said corporation, when convened, upon due notice given to the members, by public advertisement, or otherwise, shall have power and authority to make, ordain and establish such and so many rules, by-laws and ordinances, relating to the times of meeting, the admission of members, the power and duties of the officers thereof, and the ordering of the other concerns of the said corporation, as they may deem necessary and proper: Provided, That no rule, by-law or ordinance, as Proviso. cers to con. aforesaid, shall be valid, if inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this State, or of the United States. SECTION 4. The present officers of the said society, shall Present offi- continue in their respective stations until an election shall be made under this act, and the rules, by-laws and ordinances now in force, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this State, or of the United States, shall be good and valid until altered, amended, or abrogated by the corporation. inue until an election. Right to repeal. SECTION 5. The Legislature reserves the right of altering, repealing or revoking the privileges hereby granted. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini, eighhundred and thirty-four. No. 204. GEO: WOLF. sell. AN ACT To enable the executors and widow of James Walton to sell and convey certain real estate. 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 Executors same, That Charles Lloyd, Charles Shoemaker and Ebenezer authorized to Walton, executors of the last will and testament of James Walcontract and ton, late of Muncy creek township, in Lycoming county, deceased, a majority of them or the survivor of them and Catharine Walton the widow of the said James Walton, deceased, are hereby authorized and empowered, to contract for and sell any part or parts of a certain tract, piece or parcel of land with the appurtenances, situate in Muncy creek township, aforesaid, late the estate of the said James Walton, deceased, and by him given and devised to his wife, the said Catharine Walton, for the term of her natural life, with power to his executors, above named, to sell and convey the same, after the decease of the said Catharine Walton, for the uses and purposes mentioned in the said last will and testament of the said James Walton, deceased. SECTION 2. All such contracts and sales of the said premises, shall be made as nearly as can be, after the manner in the said will directed to be done, after the decease of the said Catharine made after Walton: that the said sales and contracts, so to be made, may Contracts and be by public or private contract and sale, in the discretion of the sales to be said executors, a majority of them, or the survivor of them, C. Walton. and the said Catharine Walton, so as best to promote the intent of the said James Walton, and the interest of the heirs at law and devisees, interested in his said will and estate therein disposed of. SECTION 3. The said executors, a majority of them, or the Convey and survivor of them, and the said Catharine Walton, are hereby confirm. further empowered, all or any part of the said premises so by them contracted for and sold, by good and sufficient deeds, to convey, assure and confirm, in fee simple or otherwise, unto the purchasers thereof, for such title and estate as the said James Walton had therein, at and immediately before his decease. Interest to be SECTION 4. The principal of the purchase money of the said premises, so to be sold and conveyed as aforesaid, shall be, paid yearly by the said executors, secured by good and sufficient securities, or half yearly the interest thereof to be paid yearly or half yearly to the said to C. Walton. Catharine Walton, during her natural life, and after her decease, the said principal monies to be paid to and for the uses and intent of the said last will and testament of the said James Walton, deceased. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini, eigh teen hundred and thirty-four. GEO: WOLF. No. 205. AN ACT Granting to James Beatty a tract of donation land. 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 upon application to him made for that purpose, the Secretary of the Land Office is hereby authorized and required to issue a warrant and patent to James Beatty, of Mercer county, for a tract of land on which he now resides, containing two hundred acres, situate in the fourth donation district, and numbered in the general plot of said district, with the number seven hundred and six, for which the said Beatty is to pay fifty cents per acre, with interest, from the sixteenth day of Febru ary, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirteen: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be taken or construed to affect the right or title of any other person. WM. PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB KERN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. GEO: WOLF. No. 206. AN ACT Authorizing the commissioners of the internal improvement fund to apply certain moneys to the payment of interest, 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 of the internal improvement fund be and they are hereby authorized and required, if there should be any deficiency in the fund for the payment of interest on the first day of August next, to apply such portion of the moneys that may be in their hands for the construction of canals and rail roads as will meet the deficiency, which sum or sums are to be repaid out of the funds pledged for the payment of interest. WM. PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB KERN, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. GEO: WOLF. No. 207. AN ACT Vesting the right of this Commonwealth to the escheated estate of Diana 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 title which this Commonwealth may have ac quired by reason of an escheat for want of heirs, or known kindred of Diana James, deceased, of the city of Philadelphia, in and to the personal property whereof the said Diana James died possessed, is hereby vested in Sarah Dexter and Jane Nelson, wife of Ralph Nelson. WM. PATTERSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. GEO: WOLF. No. 208. AN ACT Concerning the boroughs of Hanover, Lewisberry and Marcus Hook. 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 borough constable of the borough of Hano- Duties of bover, in the county of York, is hereby authorized and required to rough consta execute all process, civil and criminal, which may be directed ble. to him, with like effect as township constables may execute the same, under and subject to all the provisions which now by law are applicable to the duty of township constables in the execu tion of process, and subject to the same liabilities and penalties as such township constables are now by law subject to, and the said borough constable shall receive for the execution of such process such fees as township constables now by law are entitled to receive, and the said borough constable before he shall be authorized to execute civil process, shall give the same se Fecs. |