and elected in the same manner as is prescribed in the former part of Proviso. Pastor, associate or any officer may be discharged, &c. SECTION 8. The pastor, the assistant, or the associate pastor of the congregation, or any officer thereof, may be discharged from his office by a majority of the male members, qualified to vote according to the fifth section of this act, who may be present at a meeting, to be held for that purpose, and to be called by the consistory, upon the written request, stating the object and design to be for that purpose, of twenty members qualified to vote for pastor; at which meeting the vote shall be taken by ballot, by three members, appointed by the members present, qualified to vote: Provided, That in case of absence, neglect, or Proviso. refusal of the consistory to call such meeting, then twenty members, qualified as aforesaid, shall have the right to call the same. Proviso. SECTION 9. The consistory shall have power at all times to adopt, Power of consisalter, and amend such rules for the discipline of the members of the tory. congregation, as shall be sanctioned by two-thirds of the male members, qualified to vote for elders and deacons, present at a meeting to be held for that purpose: Provided, That the said rules shall be conformable Proviso. to, and in no wise inconsistent with the principles and constitution of the German Reformed church in the United States: And provided further, That nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the said consistory from expelling any member, according to the constitution of the German Reformed church of the United States; and by such expulsion, depriving him or her of all the rights and privileges hereby granted, subject, nevertheless, to an appeal to the classis or synod, agreeably to the constitution of the German Reformed church in the United States. Trustees, powers of. SECTION 10. The said trustees and their successors shall have full power to enact and enforce such by-laws and ordinances for their own government, and for the regulation and transaction of the secular business of the corporation, as shall be sanctioned by a majority of the male members of the congregation qualified to vote, who may be present at a meeting to be held for the purpose, and to make, have, and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew at pleasure : Provided, That the said trustees, or their successors, shall not contract Proviso. any debt or debts, exceeding in the aggregate the sum of one hundred dollars; nor shall they in any wise encumber any of the real estate belonging to the said corporation, except as is authorized by the thirteenth and sixteenth sections of this act, without the assent and concurrence of two-thirds of the male members of the congregation qualified to vote, present at a meeting to be held for that purpose: And provided Proviso. further, That the said rules, by-laws and ordinances, and all the acts of the said trustees, framed, enacted, and promulgated, shall not be contrary to this charter, nor to the constitution and laws of this com Congregational meetings. Proviso. May purchase, hold and enjoy lands for a cemetery, &c. Proviso. Further powers of trustees. Burial lots. lanes or alleys to be opened through the cemetery. monwealth, or of the United States; and that the said trustees shall regularly submit a report of their acts and proceedings to the congregation, at the annual election. SECTION 11. Two weeks' notice of the time, place, and object of every congregational meeting, shall be given by announcement from the pulpit, if the congregation be at the time supplied with a pastor, or if not, in such manner as the trustees may direct; and at all such meetings, the decision of a majority of the members present, qualified to vote according to the fifth section of this act, shall govern: Provided however, That to sell, transfer, mortgage, or in any wise encumber any of the real estate belonging to the said corporation, excepting the land and burial lots in their cemetery, the assent and concurrence of two-thirds of the male members of the congregation qualified to vote, as aforesaid, present at such meeting, shall be requisite. SECTION 12. The said trustees shall have power to purchase, have, hold, and enjoy, to them and their successors, such tract or parcel of land and other property conveniently situated near the borough of York, as may be suitable for a cemetery or burial place: Provided, That the whole quantity of real estate, to be held by them as a corporation, for burial purposes, shall not exceed twenty acres; and they shall have authority to receive gifts or bequests, for the purpose of ornamenting or improving said cemetery, and to hold such personal property as may be necessary to carry out the object of this section. SECTION 13. The said trustees shall power to lay out and ornament, or embellish the ground purchased or procured by them for a cemetery, to enclose the same, and to erect such buildings thereon, as may be necessary for the enjoyment and management thereof, to lay out, sell, and dispose of burial lots to members of the congregation and others, reserving a due proportion of said lots for the interment, without charge, of deceased members who were in indigent circumstances, but of good standing in the congregation, and shall appoint the necessary officers and superintendents, fix their several duties and compensations, and make such by-laws, rules, regulations and ordinances as they may deem proper, for the government of lot-holders and visitors to the cemetery, and for the transfer of lots, and the evidence thereof. SECTION 14. No roads, streets, lanes or alleys, shall hereafter be No roads, streets, opened through the land so purchased, or procured by the trustees for a cemetery, except with the consent of the said trustees; and any person who shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or remove any tomb, monument, grave stone, or other structure, or material placed in Penalty for inju- the cemetery aforesaid, or any fence, hedge or railing, or other work for the protection or ornament of said cemetery, or any lot or lots therein, or of any tomb, monument, grave stone, building, or other structure or material placed therein as aforesaid, or shall wilfully destroy, cut, break or injure, or remove any tree, shrub or plant within the limits of said cemetery, or shall shoot off, or discharge any gun, pistol, or other fire arms within said limits, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction thereof, before any justice of the peace in the county of York, be punished by fine at the discretion of the justice, of not less than five, nor more than fifty dollars, according to the aggravation of the offence, for the use of the said trustees, or of the owner or owners of the lot or lots whereon the misdemeanor or injury was committed, or shall on conviction thereof, in the court of quarter sessions of said county, be punished by fine as aforesaid, and by imprisonment, according to the aggravation of the offence, at the discretion of the court; and any person who shall without authority open any tomb or grave, in the land or burial lots of the said cemetery, or shall clan ries. Misdemeanors, how punished. destinely remove any body, corpse, or remains therefrom, shall on conviction thereof, be sentenced to undergo imprisonment, in the prison of said county, or in the Eastern penitentiary of this commonwealth, at hard labor, for a term of not less than one, nor more than five years, and pay a fine of not less than five hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court of quarter sessions of said county. SECTION 15. Every lot conveyed in the said cemetery, shall be held Lots in cemetery by the proprietor thereof, for the purpose of sepulture alone, shall be to be held for septransferable with the consent of the trustees, and shall not be subject to ulture alone. attachment or execution; and the said cemetery shall hereafter, forever, be exempted from all taxation, excepting for state purposes. &c. SECTION 16. For the payment of the purchase money of said tract of One moiety of land, the trustees shall have power to pledge one moiety of the gross re- the receipts of ceipts from the sale of burial lots, and the other moiety shall, if neces- sale of burial lots sary, be applied to the payment of the expenses incident to the laying to be pledged for out and embellishment of the said cemetery, and after the purchase the payment of purchase money, money, with the interest accruing thereon, shall have been repaid, the one-half of the net receipts from the sales of burial lots, shall, if necessary, be devoted to the improvement, embellishment, maintenance and repair of said cemetery, and the other half to the endowment and support of the parochial schools of the said congregation, to which schools the children of others, besides members, shall be admitted on the same terms, and under the same rules and regulations, as the children of members. 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. 173. A SUPPLEMENT To an act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Lancaster County mutual insurance company." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representalives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the directors of the Lancaster County mutual insurance company, be and they are hereby authorized to borrow a sum of money, not exceedng ten thousand dollars, to be appropriated agreeably to their charter, in the payment for loss or damage sustained by fire, by the said compony; and that so much of the tenth section of the act to which this is ▲ supplement, as is altered by this section, be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. That the fourth section of the act to which this is a supplement, shall hereafter be so construed as to authorize the directors of said company to appoint a secretary, who is not a member of the board. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE DARSIE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 174. AN ACT To enable the Chambersburg insurance company to wind up its affairs. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives 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 directors of "The Chambersburg insurance company," or any ten of the stockholders thereof, to convene a meeting of the stockholders at any time in the borough of Chambersburg, giving notice thereof by at least four weekly insertions, in at least two newspapers published in Chambersburg, for four successive weeks next preceding such meeting, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of dissolving the said company, and dividing the assets and capital thereof, among the stockholders; and if at any such meeting, a majority of the stockholders present shall be in favor of such dissolution and division of the assets and capital as aforesaid, it shall not be competent for the said company thereafter, to make any insurances of any kind, or to take any premiums, or in any manner to contract for the continuance of any policy or insurance, which would otherwise expire; but the directors of the said company shall thereupon proceed to wind up the affairs and business thereof, as soon as may conveniently be done, to which end they shall call in, and collect all moneys due to the said company on loan or otherwise, and sell and dispose of all stocks held by the same, and convert all the assets thereof into money; and upon the expiration or surrender of all policies or contracts made or granted by the said company, and after paying all debts and liabilities, (if any such there be) incurred or owing by the said company, and providing for the expenses of such winding up of the affairs and business thereof as aforesaid, they shall make distribution of the moneys on hand, to and among the said stockholders, according to the amount of the capital stock paid in upon their respective shares; and in like manner shall from time to time, make similar distributions of the moneys so called in, or raised from the sale or disposal of the assets as aforesaid, as often as it may be considered by the directors to the advantage of the stockholders, until the whole of said assets and capital are so distributed. APPROVED-The twentieth day of March, Anno Domini one thou sand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 175. AN ACT Extending the limits of the borough of Kittanning. 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 limits of the borough of Kittanning, in the county of Armstrong, be extended so as to include the territory embraced within the following oundaries, to wit: beginning on the margin of the Allegheny river; thence Walnut street, in the borough of Kittanning, north fifty-two and a alf degrees east to the west corner of l'hilip Hutchinson's lot in said borough; thence by the same lot and the Armstrong and Indiana turne road, along the line of said borough, south thirty-seven and onealí degrees east to the south corner of said lot; thence by said road rough land of Joseph Buffington, south twenty-three and one-half degrees east six perches; thence by said road along the boundary lines of land of Brown, Philips and company, south seven and one-quarter degrees east twenty-two perches, and south sixteen degrees east sevenen and one-half perches; thence by land of the said Joseph Bufgon south seventy degrees west fifteen perches, to the Allegheny ver, and thence up the same fifty-nine perches, to the place of begin APPROVED-The twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hun red and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. |