Style. Location. Capital stock. Commencement and completion. Power. Toll. books, receive subscriptions and organize a company by the name, style and title of The Saint Mary and Erie plank road company," with power to construct a plank road from the borough of Saint Mary to the northern boundary of the state of Pennsylvania, and connect, if they see fit, with the Sinnemahoning river, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. excepting as hereinafter provided. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of two thousand shares, at fifty dollars per share: Provided, That said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion may be deemed necessary to complete the road, and to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That if said company shall not commence the construction of their road within two years after the passage of this act, and complete the same within five years thereafter, this act shall be null and void, except so far as the same may be necessary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of the company. SECTION 4. Said company shall have power to construct their road on a grade that shall in no place raise or fall more than will form an angle of five degrees from a horizontal line, and shall have authority to charge and collect tolls at the following rate, that is to say: for every five miles in length of the said road the following sums of money, and so in proportion for any less distance, or for any less or greater number of vehicles, horses, sheep, hogs or cattle, that is to say: for every score of hogs, eight cents; for every score of sheep, eight cents; for every score of cattle, twenty cents; for every horse, mare, gelding or mule and rider, or led horse, mare, gelding or mule, four cents; for every sulkey, chair or chaise with one horse and two wheels, eight cents, and with two horses, twelve and a half cents; for every chariot, coach, phaton or dearborn with one horse and four wheels, twelve and a half cents; for every chariot, coach, phæton, chaise or dearborn with two horses and four wheels, sixteen cents; for either of the carriages last mentioned, with four horses, twenty-five cents; for every other pleasure carriage, stage, wagon or coach, under whatever name it may be called, the like sums, according to the number of wheels thereto and horses drawing the same; for every sleigh, four cents for each horse drawing the same; and for every sled, three cents for each horse drawing the same; and vehicles, of whatever kind, drawn by mules or oxen, shall pay at the rates aforesaid, and as if drawn by horses. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE DARSIE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twelfth day of February, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 228. AN ACT To incorporate a company to build a turnpike or plank road from Warren, in 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 Samuel M'Gum, James M'Gill, William A. Irvine, Thomas M'Gee, Corporators. Levi Bigham, Perry Williams, Asa Scott and such others as may hereafter become associated with them, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of "The Style. Warren and Venango turnpike or plank road company," and by that name have perpetual succession, and all the privileges and franchises of Privileges. a corporation, and capable of holding their capital stock, and enlarging the same in such manner as they may think proper, and of buying and holding such real and personal estate as may be necessary, and of suing and being sued, and all other matters and things which a corporation may lawfully do. SECTION 2. That whenever one hundred shares shall be subscribed, Organization. of twenty-five dollars each share, any stockholder may call a meeting, by a notice published in a newspaper in the county of Warren, for the election of one person as president, and three persons as directors, who Officers. shall hold their office for one year, and until their successors shall be elected. Right. SECTION 3. That said company shall have the right to make use of any part of the road formerly occupied or located by the Warren and Franklin turnpike company, and locate upon the same ground. SECTION 4. That the Warren and Venango turnpike or plank road Subject to act of company shall be subject to all the provisions (so far as they are not 26th January, inconsistent with the foregoing sections of this act,) of the act, entitled 1849. "An Act regulating turnpike and plank road companies," approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fortynine. SECTION 5. That the townships through which said road may pass, are authorized to subscribe stock thereto. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE DARSIE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. Style. No. 229. AN ACT To incorporate the Erie and Waterford plank road company. 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 Commissioners. John A. Tracy, James Skinner, Wilson King, John Galbraith, C. M. Tibbals, William Kelly, Milton Cortright, John E. Nicholson, Robert Evans, John M. Reed, William Graham, William Dunn, John Brown, Stephen C. Lee, John L. Way, Martin Strong, Daniel Vincent, William Judson, Samuel Hutchins, Simeon Hunt, Graham Benson, Samuel Brotherton, C. H. Vincent and Andrew T. Oliver, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style and title of "The Erie and Waterford plank road company," with power to construct a plank road from Erie to Waterford, in the county of Erie, by such route as may be agreed upon and adopted by the stockholders, or a majority of them, at a meeting to be called for that purpose, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, excepting that portion of the thirteenth section of said act relating to tolls, which discriminates in favor of wheels of greater width than four inches; and the company hereby incorporated, shall have power to regulate their tolls within the limits prescribed by said thirteenth section, without reference to the width of the wheels in any case. Capital stock. Commencement and completion of road. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of one thousand shares at twenty five dollars per share: Provided, That said company may from time to time, by vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion may be deemed necessary to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That if said company shall not commence the construction of their road within two years after the passage of this act, and complete the same within five years thereafter, this act shall be null and void, except so far as the same may be necessary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of said company. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE DARSIE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 230. AN ACT Authorizing the governor to incorporate the Meadville, Klecknerville and Edinboro' plank road company. 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 Horace Cullum, David Dick, J. Stuart Riddle, R. C. Boilieu, Joseph Commissioners. Douglass, Edward A. Reynolds, William Gill, John Reynolds, Gaylord Church. Daniel Bemus, Daniel Shryock, Wilmot Bartle, John M'Farland, John Kerr, William Thorp, James E. M'Farland, John Osburn, Henry B. Brooks, David Derickson, William Barron, Samuel Adrain, David V. Derrickson, Samuel Wheeler, C. M. Yates, Joseph C. Hays, Alfred Huidekoper, Ashbel Clark, Andrew Smith, Jacob Snyder, John Culbertson, John Frazier, Edward Saeger, William J. Bole, John M'Claskey, John D. Humes, Nicholas Snyder, Henry Magill, Thomas Colter, John Kleckner, Jacob Kepler, Jacob Sherred, John Skelton, William Torrey, William Gross, Thomas Scott, Christian Blystone, Jacob Siverling, William Kerr, of Crawford county, and Cyrus A. Culbertson, Hamilton Campbell, James Reeder, Hiram Curtis. Isaac Taylor, Philip Kinter, Uriah Hawkins, Hiram Crow, John Compton and H. R. Terry, of Erie county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style and title of "The Meadville, Style. Klecknerville and Edinboro' plank road company," with power to construct a plank road from Meadville, in the county of Crawford, by Location. Saegertown and Klecknerville, to Edinboro,' in the county of Erie, by the nearest and best route, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fortynine, excepting that portion of the thirteenth section of said act, relating to tolls, which discriminates in favor of wheels of four inches and upwards; and the company hereby incorporated, shall have power to regulate their tolls within the limits prescribed by said thirteenth section, without reference to the width of the wheels in any case. Powers. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of Capital stock. one thousand shares, at twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That Proviso. said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital so much as in their opinion may be deemed necessary to complete the road, and to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That if said company shall not commence the construc- Commencement tion of their road within two years after the passage of this act, and complete the same within five years thereafter, this act shall be null of road. and completion and void, except so far as the same may be necessary to wind up the affairs, and pay the debts of said company. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. Style. No. 231. AN ACT To incorporate the Erie and Wattsburg plank road company. 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 Commissioners. A. W. Brewster, Joseph H. Williams, John C. Beebe, Giles Sanford, James M. Sterrett, M. W. Keith, Elihu Marvin, Walter Chester, N. W. Russell, N. M. Manly, H. L. Pinney, William B. Weed, Benjamin Gunison, William Allison, Jason C. Hatch, Timothy Reed, Eli Duncombe, Lyman Robinson, Hiram Moore, B. Town, Joseph W. Haskins, Wareham Warner, Samuel Taylor, William Sanborn, William K. Black, C. Capron and Allen Ensworth, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style and title of "The Erie and Wattsburg plank road company," with power to construct a plank road from Erie to Wattsburg, in the county of Erie, by such route as may be agreed upon and adopted by the stockholders, or a majority of them, at a meeting to be called for that purpose, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, approved the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred forty-nine, excepting that portion of the thirteenth section of said act, relating to tolls, which discriminates in favor of wheels of the width of four inches and upwards; and the company hereby incorporated, shall have power to regulate their tolls within the limits prescribed by said thirteenth section, without reference to the width of the wheels in any case. Capital stock. Proviso. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of fifteen hundred shares at twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as may in their opinion be deemed necessary to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. |