by reason of the trustees thereof being restricted by the fifth Preamble. article of the original charter, from selling, conveying and transfering the real or personal estate of the said corporation, without first making application to the general conference for their concurrence and direction, and the said general conference have directed the trustees of the said chartered fund to make application to the general assembly, to have the charter of the said corporation so amended as to enable the said trustees to sell and convey the real estate, and sell and transfer the personal estate of the said corporation, when they shall consider it expedient, and the said corporation pray that a law may pass so amending their said charter, and the prayer of the petitioners appearing to this general assembly to be reasonable; Therefore, ter to be SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in Gen- The 5th areral Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority ticle in the of the same, That the whole of the fifth article in the origi. original charnal charter of The Chartered Fund of the Methodist 66 Episcopal Church in the United States of America," be stricken from the said charter, and that the said fifth article be no longer a part of the said charter, and that in future the fifth article of the said charter shall be: striken out. Article 5. That it shall and may be lawful for the said trustees, or a majority of them, at any time when they shall New 5th are deem it expedient, to sell and convey any real estate which ticle. now is or hereafter may become vested in the said corporation, and to sell and transfer any personal estate of which the said corporation is or may hereafter become possessed, and that they invest the monies arising from such sale or sales, in such manner or way as they shall consider most beneficial for the said corporation. LEWIS DEWART, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The third day of April, Anno Domini, one housand eight hundred and thirty-seven. JOS: RITNER No. 75. An Act "To incorporate the Sunbury and Erie, and Pittsburg and Susquehanna Railroad companies. 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 Naglee, Robert Patterson, Benja min W. Richards, George Handy, Simon Gratz, William Commission- T. Smith, Cheyney Hickman, Charles Macalister, William ers. B. Reed, John White, Robert A. Parrish, William Buehler, Thomas Astley, Girard Ralston, Jacob Lex, Algernon S. Roberts, Samuel F. Reed, Lewis Ryan, J. Washington Tyson, James Campbell, Thomas P. Cope, Job R. Tyson, James F. Macauley, Charles D. Lybrand, William A. Crabb, Alexander L. Hodgson, John J. Krider, Charles Hinckle, Jacob Mintzer, David Jeffries, Lewis Shinnich, John Grim, Christian Read, E. D. Martin, John Miller, Thomas Earle, Robert Doran, Peter Baker, John C. Smith, A. Fougeray, Richard Tichener, Jacob Hentz, John Hentz, Samuel Heintzleman, Edmond B. Mixsell, William A. Irvine, Godfrey Bender, Samuel Butcher, (Mason,) Thomas E. Ashton, Joseph Rheiner, John Bender, Philip Miller, senr., George W. Riter, Henry Leech, John Miller, (Cooper,) William Heckman, Francis J. Harper, Joseph Lake, Anthony Felton, Daniel Bender, John Rheiner, Jr., D. F. Con die, L. Paynter, S. N. Morsellis, Isaac Oakford, Benjamin Martin, Joseph Dimond, G. W. Chambers, John M. Buchius, John Stalman, Jacob Haas, William H. Stokes, Windham H. Stokes, William Anslee, Josiah Wood, Henry Shitzline, John Foulkred, Alexander Major, Henry Troth, of the city of Philadelphia, R. S. Reed, P. S. V. Hamot John A. Tracy, Daniel Dobbins, Josiah Kellogg, Edwin Kelso, William Fleming, Isaac G. Williams, John Walker, Joseph S. Colt, Thomas H. Sill, Gillis Sanrd, William Kelly, of Erie, Joseph B. Anthony, Willis F. P Dr. W. R. Power, Henry Hughes, Dr. Arthur Davidson, John H. Cowden, William Wilson, Tunis Coryell, Nicholas Funston, William A. Petrikin Joslua Bow man, Peter Shoemaker, Isaac Brunner, James Wilson, James Gamble, Alexander Hamilton, William Johnson, Junior, Robert Carson, Benjamin Hays, of Lycoming, Robert Falconer, Josiah Hall, Stephen Littlefield, Obed Edson, Thomas Struthers, Archibald Tanner, N. B. Eldred, G. C. Irwin, G. A. Irvine, F. W. Brigham, of Warren county, Solomon :Sartwell, H. Payne, John King, Jonathan Colegrove, Asa Sartwell, Orlo J. Hamlin, of McKean, Henry Shippen, David Dick, Stephen Barlow, Andrew Smith, Joseph Douglass, J. Stewart Riddle, David McFaddin of Meadville, Rowletten Power, Alexander McCalmont, James Kinnear, John Evans, James Thompson, Joseph M. Fox, Christian Myers, David Phipp, Myran Parks, William Raymond, Arnold Plumer, Andrew Bowman, John W. Hawe, of Venango County, Thomas D. Grover, Henry Leech, Thomas Sparks, James Ronaldson, Walter Thompson, Robert K. Scott, Charles Brower, Rees W. Flower, John Wister, Jr., Dr. George Thomas, William B. Fling, of Philadelphia, Benjamin B. Smith, Robert G. White, Joseph W. Guernsey, Josiah Emery, Samuel Dickinson, Samuel W. Morris, of Tioga county, Abbot Green, Alexander Graham, Samuel Reber, William Hays, James Geddis, John Rank, Ner Middleswarth, James Merrill, John Lashells, John Baskin, John Ray, Samuel Henderson, C. M. Straub, Samuel Barber, William Foster, John Cummings, Jr., James Moore, of Union county, Henry Reader, David Watson, Montgomery Sweney, R. H. Hammond, Samuel Hepburn, Henry Frick, James Hepburn, Joseph R. Priestly, Hugh Bellas, C. G. Donnel, A. Jordan, E. Greenough, E. Gobin, John C. Boyd, Daniel Levy, Henry Yoxtheimer, Henry Masson, William Forsythe, James Dougal, Frederick Lazarus, of Northum berland county, Timothy Ives, John H. Rose, Charles Leyman, of Potter county, J. Noble Nesbet, William Banks, Indiana county, Dr. William Darlington, William Williamson, of Chester county, George L. Mayer, William Coleman, of Lancaster county, John Miller and William Schoener of Berks county, Henry K. Strong, David Krause, Edmund W. Roberts, William Ayres, of Dauphin county, John Bannon, Burd Patterson and Jacob Seitzinger, of Schuylkill county, Daniel H. Boas, Jacob Sallade, William H. Miller, George D. B. Keim, and Daniel Hahn, of Berks, William Donaldson, Valentine Best, Michael Fornwatt and S. F. Headly, of Columbia county, A. Y. Bright of Northumberland county, Josiah W, Smith, Richard Shaw, Peter Ritner, Benjamin Hartshorn, Thomas Hemphill, Robert Ross, Lewis W. Smith, John Irvin, of Clearfield county, Evan Jones, Charles F. Jenkins, Lewis Jones, Jonathan Roberts, Daniel H. Mulvany, Thomas Reed, William H. Slingluff, John Lloyd, Samuel Tyson, and Charles Palmer, 1 To procure books. Price of shares of Montgomery county, Charles Evans of the city of Philadelphia, John Findley, Benjamin Stokely, Bevan Pearson, John Hoge, William Maxwell, Samuel Thompson, William F. Clark, James Bredin, Joseph Smith, David T. Porter, Robert Stewart, Abraham Pell, Samuel Holstein, John Ferker, James McKean, Joseph T. Boyd, John Fisher, Robert W. Stuart, Ezekiel Sankey, Thomas Wilson and Daniel Means, of Mercer, or any three of them, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to do and perform the several things hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: they shall, on or before the first day of November next, procure books, one of which shall be opened at Northumberland, Sunbury, Milton, Williamsport, Warren, Wellsborough, Clearfield, Meadville, Erie, Franklin, Harrisburg, Bellefoute, in the city of Philadelphia, in each of which they shall enter as follows: "We whose names are hereunto Form of sub-subscribed, do promise to pay to the president and managers scription. of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad company, the sum of one hundred dollars for every share of stock set opposite our respective names, in such manner and proportions, and $100 each. 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 incorporate the Sunbury and Erie, and Pittsburg and Susquehanna Railroad companies.' Witness our hands, day of , one thousand eight hundred and thirty," and shall thereupon give notice, in at least one newspaper in each of the above named places, two weeks at least, of the times and places when and where the said books shall be kept open to receive subscriptions for the stock of said company, at which respective times and places, one or more of the commissioners shall attend, and permit all persons of lawful age who shall offer to subscribe in the said books, in their own names, or in the name or names of any other person or persons who shall authorize the same, for shares in the said stock, and the said books shall be kept open respectively for the said purpose, at least six hours in every juridical day, for the space of two daye, or until there shall have been subscribed thirty thousand shares; and if at the expiration of two days, the books aforesaid shall not have the number of shares aforesaid therein subscribed, the said commissioners may adjourn from time to time, and transfer the book or books elsewhere, until the whole number of thirty thousand 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 Notice. Who may subscribe. 30,000 shares whole no. the or more, shall be subscribed, then the books shall be closed, When books and the stock be divided equally, if more than the whole shall be should be taken, reducing the largest subscribers first, and closed. so on, until the requisite number is thereby obtained: Pro- Pruviso. vided, That no person or persons shall be permitted to subscribe more than fifty shares the first day, after which any person may subscribe for any number of shares, until the whole of the stock is taken: And provided also, That no 2d Proviso. subscription shall be valid, unless the person so subscribing $10 to be shall pay to the said commissioners, at the time of making paid at time of subscrithe same, the sum of ten dollars on each and every share, for the use of the company. bing. Style & title. SECTION 2. When six thousand shares or, more of the said stock shall be subscribed, and the sum of ten dollars paid on each and every share as aforesaid, the commissioners, or a majority of them, shall certify to the Governor, under oath or affirmation, the names of the subscribers, and the number of shares subscribed by each, and the sum of ten dollars on each share paid at the time of subscribing, whereupon the Governor Letters pat shall, by letters patent, under his hand and the seal of the ent, commonwealth, create and erect the subscribers, and if the subscription be not full at the time, then those also who shall thereafter subscribe to the whole number of shares aforesaid, into a body corporate and politic, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of The Sunbury and Erie Railroad company," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, with all the privileges, franchises and immunities Privileges incident to a corporation, and be able to sue and be sued, and powers, implead and be impleaded, in all courts of record and elsewhere, and to purchase, receive, have, hold and enjoy, to them and their successors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, goods, chattels, and all estates, real, personal or mixed, of what kind or quality soever, and the same from time to time may sell, exchange, mortgage, grant, alien, or otherwise dispose of, and to make dividends of such portions of the profits as they may deem proper, and also, to make and have a common seal, and the same alter or renew at pleasure, and also, to ordain, establish and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances and regulations, as shall appear necessary and convenient for the government of said corporation, not being contrary to the constitution and laws of the United States or of this commonwealth, and generally to do all and singular, the matters and things which to them it shall lawfully appertain to do for the well being of the said corporation, and the due management and ordering of the affairs of the same: Provided, That nothing herein contained Proviso. shall be so considered as giving to the said corporation any Seal, |