thereof, and of the amount of profits on the shares which may be forfeited as aforesaid, and also all moneys by them expended in the prosecution of their said works, and shall once at least in every year, submit such accounts to a general meeting of the stockholders, until the said road shall be complete, and until all costs, charges and expenses of affecting the same, shall be fully paid and discharged, and the aggregate amount of such expenses shall be liquidated and ascertained. Commence SECTION 16. If the said company shall not proceed to carry on the said work, within five years after the passage of this act, or shall not, within ten years afterwards, complete the ment & comĮ letion limit'd same, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, then, or in either of those cases, all and singular, the rights, liberties, and privileges, and franchises hereby granted, shall revert to the Commonwealth. WM. A. CRABB, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. DAVID R. PORTER. [No. 85.] AN ACT For the relief of William Hultz and others, Soldiers and Widows of Soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian Wars. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the state treasurer be and he is hereby authorized, to pay to William Hultz, of Mercer county, and Relief of solAbraham Leasure, of Butler county, soldiers, and Hannah diers and wiPicker of Bucks county, Catharine Keller and Eve Kurtes, of cer, Butler, Lancaster county, widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war, Bucks and or to their respective orders, forty dollars to each immediately, Lancaster as a gratuity, and an annuity of forty dollars each during life, payable half yearly, to commence on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one. SECTION 2. The state treasurer is hereby authorized and required, to pay to Jacob Smeltzer of Westmoreland county, dows in Mer Westmorel' or to his order, the sum of forty dollars immediately, as a gratuity, in full for military services rendered by him in the revolutionary and Indian wars. The foregoing gratuities and annuities to be paid in conformity to the existing laws. WM. A. CRABB, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. DAVID R. PORTER. [No. 86.] AN ACT For the relief of James Warren and others, Soldiers and Widows of Soldiers of the Revolutionary and Indian Wars. 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 state treasurer be and he is Relief of sol- hereby authorized and directed, to pay to James Warren of diers in Berks, Berks county, James Cogley of Armstrong county, John DeiArmstrong, Schuylkill, Allegheny, trich of Schuylkill county, and Peter Parchment of Allegheny county, soldiers, and to Mary Mattocks of Mercer county, Ann Maria Weber of Lebanon county, Hannah Hill of Allegheny Mercer, Lebacounty, Rachael Davis and Jane Bell of Columbia county, Ronon, Allegheny, Columbia, sannah Bergctresser of Perry county, Elizabeth Logan of Montgomery, Northumberland ceunty, Mary Koons of Perry county, Sarah Perry, North- Hays of Butler county, Mary M'Vaugh of Philadelphia county, umberland, Sarah Potts and Juliann Schmull of Montgomery county, widPerry, Butler, ows of soldiers of the revolutionary and Indian wars, or to Philadelphia their respective orders, forty dollars each immediately, as a and Montgo- gratuity, and an annuity of forty dollars to each during life, pay mery Bucks county able half yearly, to commence on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. SECTION 2. The state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed, to pay to Jonathan Doyle, Garret Vanzant and John Shaffer of Bucks county, soldiers of the revolutionary war, or to their respective orders, forty dollars each immediately, as a gratuity and compensation in full for their military services. The foregoing gratuities and annuities to be paid in conformity with the existing law. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. DAVID R. PORTER. [No. 87.] AN ACT To authorize the Governor to incorporrte a company to make a Turnpike Road from the borough of Wilkesbarre, in Luzerne county, to the vil lage of Hazleton, in said county. Commisso'rs SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Ziba Bennett, George P. Steel, Henry B. Yost, Lewis Davenport, Robert Miner, Abram Drum, Chester Butler, Luther Kidder, Henry Colt and Henry Pettit, of Luzerne county, are hereby appointed commissioners to do and perform the several things hereinafter mentioned, that is to say they shall, on or before the first Monday of September next, procure two books, or more, and in each of them enter as follows: "We whose names are herennto subscribed do promise to pay to the president and managers of the Wilkes-Form of subbarre and Hazleton turnpike company the sum of twenty-five scription. dollars for every share of stock in said company set opposite to our respective names, in such manner and proportions, and at such times as shall be determined by the president and managers of said company, in pursuance of an act of the general assembly of this Commonwealth, entitled 'An act to authorize the Governor to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from the borough of Wilkesbarre, in Luzerne county, to the village of Hazleton, in said county. Witness our hands, the day of in the year of our 999 And Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Notice Who may subscribe shares said company, at which times and places one of the said commissioners shall attend, and permit and suffer all persons of lawful age, who shall offer to subscribe in said books, in their own names, or in the name or names of any other person who shall duly authorize the same, for any number of shares of stock, and the said books shall be kept open respectively, for the purposes aforesaid, at least six hours in every juridical day, for the space of six days, or until the said books shall have eight hundred shares therein subscribed; and if, at the expiration of the said six days, the books aforesaid shall not have the said number of eight hundred shares therein subNumber of scribed, the commissioners respectively may adjourn from time to time, and transfer the said books from place to place, until the whole number of shares shall be subscribed, of which adjournment and transfer the commissioners aforesaid shall give such public notice, as the occasion may require, and when the whole number of shares subscribed shall amount to four hundred the same shall be closed. Provided always, That every person offering to subscribe in said books, in his own or any other name, shall previously pay the attending commissioner or commissioners the sum of one dollar for every share to be subscribed, out of which shall be defrayed such incidental charges and expenses as may be necessary for taking subscription, and the remainder shall be paid over to the treasurer of the corporation as soon as the same shall be organized, and the officers chosen as hereinafter mentioned. Proviso Letters patent SECTION 2. When ten persons or more shall have subscribed one hundred shares of the said stock, the said commissioners respectively may, or when the whole number of shares aforesaid shall be subscribed, they shall certify, under their hands and seals, the names of the subscribers and the number of shares subscribed by each, to the Governor of this Commonwealth, whereupon it shall and may be lawful for the Governor, by letters patent, under his hand and the seal of the state, to create and erect the subscribers, and if the subscription be not full at the time, then those who shall afterwards subscribe to the number aforesaid, into one body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of the president and managers of the Wilkesbarre and Hazleton turnpike road company, and by the same name the subscribers shall have perpetual succession, and all the privileges Priviliges and and franchises incident to a corporation, and shall be capable of taking and holding the said capital stock, and the increase and profits thereof, and of enlarging the same from time to time by new subscriptions, in such manner and form as they shall think proper, if such enlargement shall be found necessary to fulfil the intent of this act, and of purchasing, taking and holding to them and their successors and assigns, and of selling, transferring and conveying in fee simple, or for any Name franchises less estate, all such lands, tenements, hereditaments and estates, real and personal, as shall be necessary to them in the prosecution of their works, and sueing and being sued, and of doing all and every other matter and thing which a corporation or body politic may lawfully do. Organization SECTION 3. The commissioners aforesaid, as soon as conveniently may be, after the said letters patent shall be sealed and obtained, shall give public notice in one of the public papers printed nearest the route of the said road of a time and place by them to be appointed, not less than twenty days from the publication of the first notice, at which time and place the said subscribers shall proceed to organize the said corporation, and shall choose, by a majority of votes of the subscribers, by ballot, to be delivered in person, or by proxy, duly authorized, one president, six managers, one treasurer, one secretary, and such other officers as may be necessary to conduct the business of the said company for one year, and until such other officers be chosen, and shall and may make such by-laws, rules, orders and regulations, not inconsistent with By-laws the constitution and laws of the United States and this Commonwealth as shall be necessary for the well ordering the affairs of said company. Provided always, That no person shall have more than ten votes at any election, or in deter- Ratio of votes mining any question arising at such meeting, whatever number of shares he may be entitled to, and that each person shall be entitled to one vote for every share by him held under that number. SECTION 4. It shall be lawful to and for the said president Authority to and managers, their superintendents, surveyors, artists and locate road chain bearers, to enter in and upon all and every the lands, tenements and enclosures in, through and over which the said intended turnpike road may be thought proper to pass, and examine the ground most proper for the purpose, as well as the materials in the vicinity that may be necessary in making and constructing the said turnpike road, and to survey, lay down, ascertain, mark and fix such route or track for the said road as in the best of their judgment will combine shortness of distance with the most practicable ground, and generally they shall have like powers, authorities and privileges necessary for carrying on and completing the said turnpike road, and be subject to all the duties, qualifications, restrictions, penalties, fines and forfeitures, and be entitled to like tolls and profits in proportion to the distance as are given and granted Subject to act to the president, managers and company of the Coshocton and incorporating Great Bend turnpike road company, in and by an act of as- Great Bend sembly of this Commonwealth, passed the twenty-ninth day turnpike road of March, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and company four, and the said Wilkesbarre and Hazleton turnpike shall commence at the borough of Wilkesbarre, in the county of Coshocton & |