as in their opinion may be deemed necessary to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That it shall be lawful for the said company to make May make arany arrangements with any turnpike road company, along the route by rangements with which the said plank road may be located, for the purchase of the right any turnpike of way of such turnpike road company; and it shall be lawful for such company for the turnpike road company, to transfer to said plank road company, the purchase of the right of way. right of way for such portions of their road as may be supplied thereby, upon such terms as may be mutually agreed upon, and when such transfer shall be duly made, all the rights of such turnpike road company shall cease and be determined for such portions of their road as shall be thus transferred; and in case any publie road or highway shall be supplied by said plank road, it shall be lawful for the court of quarter sessions of Susquehanna county, to appoint viewers to view and vacate the same, as is provided by the general road laws of this commonwealth, in the cases of roads which have become useless. SECTION 4. That if said company shall not commence the construction Commencement of their road within two years after the passage of this act, and com- and completion plete the same within five years thereafter, this act shall be null and of road. 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-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hunderd and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 242. AN ACT Authorizing the governor to incorporate the Meadville and Franklin plank road company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representalives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly mel, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That David Derrickson, Gaylord Church, David M'Fadden, William Kerr, Commissioners. Thomas M'Kean, Taylor Randolph, John Stuart Riddle, Walter Crocker, John J. Douglass, Thomas N. Brooks, David V. Derickson, Arthur Cullum, Alfred Huidekoper, J. C. G. Kennedy, John Clark, John Dick, John M'Farland, James Hunter, Hugh Brawley, Alexander Johnston, Jesse Pardee, Francis Brawley, John M'Dill, Joseph Miller, William Eden, John R. Brawley, John Stewart, John P. Daniels, John Oakes, Ephraim Spring, junior, Andrew M'Knight, Style. Location. Subject to the provisions and restrictions of a certain act. Capital stock. Commencement and completion of road. John Allen, Francis M'Daniels, James Allen, J. Moss, Francis Thompson, Edward Ferry, Joseph Johnston, John Pardee, John Whitman, Andrew Harvey, James Cochran, William Dean, Peter Frantz, John Bell, Thomas Powel, junior, Harvey Heath, John Bigham, James Marley, Elisha Whitman, Jackson Brawley, John C. C. Brooks, John Burnes, William K. Cochran, James Smith, Brooks Rhynd, Hugh Brawley, junior, William M'Dill, John Ferry, George Long, Joel Oakes, John Paden, James D. Work, David Diek, John Reynolds, David Compton, junior, James Buchanan, Edward A. Reynolds, Edgar Huidekoper, Uri B. Merwin, David Thurston of Crawford county; and Charles H. Heydrick, James Duffield, James A. Donaldson, James D. M'Gill, A. Bailey, John M'Quaid, James A. Gilliland, John Boughner, John Wilson, William Boughner, Jacob Lussher, Andrew Hill, John M'Kenzie, Robert Crawford, E. Sweeney, Robert Bradley, W. W. Shaw, James Haslet, Jesse Benn, William Crawford, John Venatten, George Crain, George Gibbens, William M'Quaid, Samuel C. Small, William Lamberton, Isaac Fetterman, Robert Beaty, Andrew Webber, Robert M'Calmont, James M. Russell, J. C. May, B. A. Plumer, A. S. Wilson, S. L. Ulman, Thomas Moor, James Cooper, Henry Booth, William H. Lamberton, Henry Gould, Andrew Bowman, Alexander Cochran, D. W. S. Cook, John Evans, Myron Parkes, Robert Lamberton, James Myres, William Elliot, Luke Turner, James P. Hoover, A. P. Whitaker, William Raymond, E. A. Wilson, Alexander M'Calmont, John H. Shannon, Arnold Plumer, John W. Howe, Jacob Keifer and James Cook, of Venango county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books and receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style and title of "The Meadville and Franklin plank road company," with power to construct a plank road from Meadville, Crawford county, to Franklin, Venango county, by the nearest and best route or routes, as the stockholders may determine upon, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, passed 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 discriminate 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 the said thirteenth section, without reference to the width of wheels in any case. 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 a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion may be necessary to complete the road or roads, 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 three years after the granting of this charter, and complete the same within ten 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. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 243. AN ACT Authorizing the governor to incorporate the Meadville, Allegheny and Brokenstraw 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 David Dick, David Derrickson, Horace Cullum, William Thorp, Ed- Commissioners. gar Huidekoper, John Carr, William Reynolds, Joseph C. G. Kennedy, Joseph Douglas, John Radel, Samuel Wheeler, Robert Adrain, J. Stuart Riddle, John Kean, John Dick, Hugh Brawley, Charles P. Cochran, William H. Davis, Joseph Derrickson, F. F. A. Wilson, Hiram L. Richmond, James E. M'Farland, John Luper, William R. Brawley, John Stuart, Justin Dewey, Henry C. Johnston, D. A. Finney, Alexander Johnston, John Pardee, Jacob Guy, David Hunter, James Hunter, Andrew Radle, Moses Gilbert, William Hotchkiss, Noah Town, Ezra Carpenter, Ransom Kingsly, John Baker, David Winton, James R. Kerr, Joseph L. Chase, John Robertson, John Gilson, Edward H. Chase, Thomas Gilson, James Titus, John M. Gilson, Francis Magee, William Shugert, William M. Henderson, George Sloan, James Curry, Salmon S. Bates, Robert Curry, Jasper Catlin, Henry Noble, Daniel M'Laughlin, Hiram Southwarth, Peter Day, T. C. Hallock, B. B. Cummings, George White, David Rice, Francis Webb, Hiram Baker, Jesse Blakesley, Thomas Fuller, Elisha Clark, Abraham Blakesley, Henry Woster, Eli D. Catling. Joshua Hamilton, Perry Blakesley, Thomas Dilamater, Charles Loop, Joshua Hamilton, Simon P. Bailey, and Joseph Armstrong, of Crawford county; Samuel Granden, John Henry, H. L. Bringham, Samuel M'Guire, James Foreman, William A. Irvin, Warner Perry, Noah Hand, John M. Kerr, John M'Kinney, Carlton B. Curtis, Archibald Tanner, Orris Hall, H. P. Kinnaear, J. Y. James, Gilbraith Irvin, C. V. Kinnaear, A. H. Ludlow, James Magill and Guy C. Irvin of Warren county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books and receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style and title of "The Meadville, Allegheny and Brokenstraw plank Style. road company," with power to construct a plank road from Meadville, Crawford county, to intersect a road leading from Erie, Erie county, Location. to Warren, Pennsylvania, at or near the Big Bend, on the Brokenstraw creek, or to the mouth of the Brokenstraw, in Warren county, and a lateral branch to Tideute, on the Allegheny river, in Warren county, Pennsylvania, by the nearest and best routes, subject to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and plank road companies, passed 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 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 wheels in any case: Provided, That the company hereby incorpo- Proviso. rated, shall have authority to construct and complete one or both of the Proviso. Capital stock. Proviso. Commencement and completion of road. above mentioned roads or branches, as the directors of said company may from time to time determine upon: Provided further, That the aforesaid company shall have authority to extend their plank road to the New York state line, in the direction of Jamestown, in the state of New York, at any time the said company may hereafter determine it necessary so to do. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of two thousand 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 in their opinion may be necessary to complete the road or roads, or 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 three years after the passage of this act, and complete the same within ten 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. APPROVED-The twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 244. AN ACT Authorizing the governor to incorporate the Butler and Mercer plank road com pany. 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. William Beatty, Samuel A. Purviance, John Bredin, C. C. Sullivan, James G. Campbell, George W. Smith, Alfred Gilmore, Samuel C. Meylert, of Butler county; and John Hodge, Jacob Mowrer, Peter Shepler, Jacob Gibner, Jacob Zohnizer, Thompson Graham, John Forker, Henry Walsh, Alexander Black, Henry Black, David Findley, Daniel M. Millin, Dawson Wadsworth, John Brackenridge, William S. Garvin, John Pew, James Shaw, David Snyder, John Sewart, Ezra W. Pearson, Michael C. Trout, George W. Yeager, Andrew Buchannan, of Mercer county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books and receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style and title of "The Butler and Mercer Style. plank roak company," with power to construct a plank road from Butler, Butler county, to Mercer, Mercer county, by the nearest and Location. best route or routes, as the stockholders may determine upon, subject Subject to the to all the provisions and restrictions of an act regulating turnpike and provisions and plank road companies, passed the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, excepting that portion of the certain act. thirteenth section of said act, relating to tolls, which discriminate 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 the said thirteenth section, without reference to the width of wheels in any case. 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 a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion may be necessary to complete the road or roads, and to carry out the true and meaning of this act. restrictions of a Capital stock. Proviso. SECTION 3. That if said company shall not commence the construc- Commencement tion of their road within three years after the granting of this charter, and completion and complete the same within ten years thereafter, this act shall be of road. 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. APPROVED-The twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. |