Corporators. Style. By-laws. Object. Government. Trustees. from taxation. No. 140. AN ACT To incorporate the Odd Fellows' cemetery company of Philadelphia. 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 S. Snyder Leidy, F. Curran Philpot, John M. Dutton, John T. Quinn, John C. Little, William A. Moore, John D. Vanhorn, Joseph Kuen, Andrew French, James Holmes, Thomas Fenner, Joseph Charman, Joseph Hurst, John Underwood, Thomas J. Pinto, William Luper, their associates, and all and every the persons who now are, or may hereafter become members of the company styled the "Odd Fellows' cemetery company of Philadelphia," and their successors, shall be and they are hereby created and declared a body corporate, by the name and style of the Odd Fellows' cemetery company of Philadelphia; and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable in law to have and use a common seal, to hold and dispose of property, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or elsewhere, to ordain, pass and put into execution all such by-laws, rules and regulations not contrary to the constitution and laws of the United States and of this commonwealth, or to this act, as shall be necessary and convenient for carrying into effect the object of the company, and generally to do all and singular, the matters and things which shall lawfully appertain to them to do, for the improvement and ornament of the grounds, and the due management and regulation of the affairs thereof. SECTION 2. The object for which this corporation is created is to establish a cemetery or burial place for deceased human bodies, beyond the thickly populated portion of the city and districts; being in a lot of ground situated on Islington lane, in Penn township, in the county of Philadelphia. SECTION 3. The government of the said Odd Fellows' cemetery company, and the management and disposition of its affairs and property, shall be vested in a board of trustees, who shall be elected annually, at such time and in such manner as the said company shall by its by-laws provide; at the first meeting of the trustees after their election, in each year, they shall elect from their body, a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. SECTION 4. That the grounds of the said cemetery company (which Grounds exempt shall at no time exceed thirty-two acres,) shall hereafter be exempt from taxation; and no streets, roads, railroads or canals shall be opened through the same, except by and with the consent of the trustees thereof; and the lots in the said cemetery shall not be subject to attachment or execution: Provided, That the said exemption from attachment and execution shall not extend to more than four lots of the size laid out and held by any one individual: And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall exempt said grounds from taxation, for state purposes, or from such assessments or taxation as may be made by the Proviso. Proviso. trustees thereof for cemetery purposes, in pursuance of the by-laws of the said company. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE DARSIE, APPROVED-The fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 141. AN ACT To authorize the canal commissioners to sell and convey a certain lot of ground in Lancaster county. WHEREAS, A certain lot of ground, situate near the village of Mount Pleasant, in the county of Lancaster, adjoining lands of Jacob Klugh and John Cohick, has been purchased by the canal commissioners, at the time of vacating that part of the Pennsylvania railroad to avoid the inclined plane at Columbia, in consequence of the destruction of the buildings on said lot: (the road going under where the house stood:) And whereas, The remaining part of said lot is of no use to the commonwealth; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representalives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the canal commissioners be and they are hereby authorized to sell the same to the best advantage, at public sale, and convey the right of the commonwealth to the purchaser or purchasers thereof. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 142. AN ACT Relative to sales made by persons acting in a fiduciary capacity. 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 all powers of sale contained in any instrument which shall hereafter be made and delivered, by any person or persons, to his, her, or their agent or attorney in fact, and all powers to sell or let real estate on ground rent, contained in any deed, will or other instrument hereafter executed, shall be deemed and taken to authorize sales, conveyances or leases, either public or private, unless expressly restricted by the said instrument, to one or the other mode; and that all private sales, or such leases as aforesaid, heretofore made by any such agent, or any executor, administrator, trustee, or assignee, by virtue of a power contained in any deed, will, or other instrument, or any act of assembly, are hereby declared to be as valid as if that mode of sale or lease had been expressly authorized, except in such cases where such power expressly required a public sale or lease, and except also, all such sales, conveyances or leases as shall have been finally adjudicated and pronounced invalid by the proper courts. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE DARSIE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 143. AN ACT For the relief of Mrs. Murray and Mrs. Wolf, of Lancaster county. WHEREAS, By the late fatal and distressing accident which happened on the Columbia railroad, by which Henry Murray and Charles E. Wolf, engineer and fireman, were both instantly killed; the former leaving a now helpless family who depended on his industry for support. and the latter an aged mother who was alike dependent upon the labors of her son for the necessaries and comforts of life; 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 state treasurer be authorized and required to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred dollars to the widow of the said Henry Murray, or her legal represencative. and the like sum of two hundred dollars to the mother of Charles E. Wolf, or her legal representative. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 144. A SUPPLEMENT To in act, entitled “An Act authorizing a state road to be laid out from Landisburg, in Perry county, to Mifflintown, in Juniata county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representalives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That hat part of the state road lying on the east side of the Juniata river, in he township of Walker, and Fermanagh in the county of Juniata, laid tin pursuance of an act of assembly, approved the twenty-second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, entitled "An Act authorizing a state road to be laid out from Landisburg, in Perry county, to Mifflintown in Mifflin county," (which part has never been opened,) be and the same is hereby repealed. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE DARSIE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of March, Anno Domini, one thou sand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 145. AN ACT To authorize the executors of Isaac Baugher, deceased, 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 same, That the executors of Isaac Baugher, late of Frederick county, Maryland, deceased, be and they are hereby authorized to sell and convey the real estate of which their testator died seized, in the county of Adams, in this commonwealth: Provided, The distribution of the proceeds thereof shall be made according to the direction of the testator, in his last will and testament, and under the direction of the orphans' court of the said county of Adams. SECTION 2. That the successors of the said executors shall have the same power conferred by the foregoing section on the executors themselves, and that any sales made by the said executors or their successors, of the real estate aforesaid, shall be reported to the orphans' court of the county of Adams, for confirmation, as other sales made in pursuance of the existing laws of this commonwealth. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE DARSIE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 146. AN ACT To change the time of the commencement of the April and August terms of the several courts of the county of York. 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 Commencement from and after the passage of this act, the April and August terms of the several courts in York county shall commence on the fourth Mondays of said months, in lieu of the times now fixed. of the several courts. |