Corporators. Style. Privileges. No. 49. AN ACT To incorporate the society to develop the mineral resources of the United States. 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 Peter A. Browne, George Chambers, William Darlington, Edward Swift, James S. Craft, Jonas P. M'Clintock, Samuel R. M'Clintock, Montroville W. Dickeson, Thomas Gilpin, B. B. Long, Jesse R. Burden, Samuel Moore, Richard Burr, Charles B. Penrose, William Rawle, Eli K. Price, Algernon S. Roberts, Richard C. Taylor, George M. Dallas, Charles Gilpin, T. A. Comley, Henry D. Gilpin, Josiah Randall, John Broadhead, William A. Porter, Isaac: Norris, Thomas Mitchell, Edmund S. Coxe, John Hanna, H. M. Watts, J. C. Van Dyke, John Titus, G. Blight Browne, Robert I. Arundel, Bayse Newcombe, Benjamin F. French, George W. Barton, Lewis Carr, Thomas E. Crowell, James M'Clintock, Charles A. Savory, John W. Ashmead, William S. Vaux, Thomas D. Smith, Samuel Hazard, W. M. Wilcocks, E. Spencer, Miller Chapman, Biddle Rush Van Dyke, N. Richard Moseley, Thomas Fisher, John Pennington, Robert Morris, Robert E. Peterson, Judah Dobson, William Fife, Robert Hare, Alfred L. Kennedy, J. G. Moore, W. W. Irvin, J. K. Moorhead, R. M'Gowin, R. Hilands, C. O. Loomis, Alfred W. Marks, O. Metcalf, H. W. Williams, John A. Wills, Thomas Williams, W. B. M'Clure, H. Hepburn, W. J. B. Smith, John Lloyd, A. De Kalb Tarr, David F. Slaughter, George Vanardesten, Charles W. Hunter, George T. Stull, Joseph S. Marsh, George W. Colladay, William F. Dean, Joseph H. Clay, Henry Pennington, William B. Reed, Jacob Broom, John Bouvier, Charles Ingersoll, Charles Dimmock, John B. Floyd, Joseph Paxton, Daniel F. Slaughter, J. F. Strother, Joseph Mayo, W. B. Whitecar, W. O. Reeves, W. F. Gordon, Remson Cook, A. Brown, junior, C. C. M'Clure, M. F. Groves, P. S. Smith, I. S. Jones, J. B. Strafford, F. A. P. Bernard, W. W. Wood, Hayght and Stewart, Thomas C. Simpson, John Williams, Walter R. Johnston, R. W. M'Dowell, John Welsh, J. Togno, J. H. Birkey, E. I. Pierce, Joel B. Sutherland, John Struthers, Andrew Brown, B. B. Brown, Samuel V. Merrick, Marshall Sprgel, Lloyd Chamberlain, W. B. Chittendon, Andrew Talcot, Hall Neilson, Edward Carrington, W. P. Mumford, Holden Rhoades, Whitman P. Turnstall, W. H. Allen, Spencer F. Baird, Allen L. Hayes, Benjamin M'Intire, F. C. Van Dyke, T. T. Mann, H. W. Collier, W. Humes, James H. Crane, F. H. Elmore, Washington Leveret, William C. Preston, Paul B. Goddard, John O. M'Kinsey, J. M. Heacock, P. M. Jackson, William F. Reynolds, J. Earnest, Isaac Lea, and their successors, shall be and are hereby created a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of "The Society for the development of the mineral resources of the United States;" and by the same name they shall have perpetual succession, and all the privileges, immunities and franchises incident to a corporation; and shall be capable of taking and holding to them and their successors, in fee simple, or for any lesser estate, as much lands, tenements and hereditaments, and other real and personal estate and property, as shall be needful or necessary to effect all and singular the objects, intents and purposes of their institution and association; and of suing and being sued, and of doing and performing all and every other act and acts, thing and things, which a body politic or corporate may or can lawfully do or perform. SECTION 2. That the said corporators, and their successors, or as many of them as they think proper, may on the first Monday of the months of January and July in each and every year, meet at some convenient hour and place, of which one week's previous notice shall be given in the way pointed out by their by-laws, (which they are hereby authorized to make,) and elect, by a majority of votes of those present, officers for the then next six months, and until others shall be duly elected to the same. SECTION 3. That the officers of the said corporation, shall be one president, five vice presidents, one corresponding secretary, one recording secretary, one treasurer, two curators, twelve managers, and such others as shall hereafter be deemed necessary, and shall be provided for by their by-laws. Meetings. Officers. SECTION 4. That for the six months commencing the first Monday Officers for six of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and until others months, &c. shall be duly elected to succeed them, the following shall be the officers, viz:-President, Peter A. Browne; vice presidents, George Chambers, William Darlington, Edward Swift, James S. Craft and Jonas R. M'Clintock; corresponding secretary, Montroville W. Dickeson; recording secretary, Samuel R. M'Clintock; treasurer, Thomas Gilpin ; curators, Montroville W. Dickeson and Algernon S. Roberts; managers, B. B. Long, Jesse R. Burden, Samuel Moore, Richard Burr, Charles B. Penrose, William Rawle, Eli K. Price, Algernon S. Roberts, Richard C. Taylor, George M. Dallas, Charles Gilpin and T. A. Comley. SECTION 5. That the business of the corporation shall be transacted Business, by by the said officers, at meetings to be holden agreeably to their by-laws, whom transacted. (which they are hereby authorized to make,) or by so many of them as, according to the said by-laws, shall constitute a quorum for busi ness. SECTION 6. The objects, intents and purposes of the said corporation Objects. are hereby declared to be, to collect and preserve specimens of all the rocks and minerals of the United States, useful in agriculture, architecture, manufactures or the arts, to offer them for free inspection in such convenient place, at such convenient times, and under such reasonable restrictions, as the said officers shall think proper, to cause to be disseminated useful information upon economical, mineralogy and geology, and to introduce into use American mineral production; for which purposes the said corporation shall have power to appoint teachers and professors of mineralogy, geology, and mineralogical chemistry. SECTION 7. The said corporation shall have power to grant diplomas Diplomas. of membership, honorary membership, and professorship. Annual contribu SECTION 8. That each member shall contribute three dollars annually; and the said corporation shall have power to accept all and every gift, tion. bequest or loan, made to them by any and every person or persons, bodies corporate or politic, of any books, charts, maps, instruments or specimens, or other property or estate to be had and holden by the said corporation, in furtherance of the objects, intents and purposes aforesaid. SECTION 9. That in the disposition of duplicate specimens of minerals, the claims of members of the corporation shall always be preferred; and to all public lectures delivered before the corporation, members thereof who have paid their annual contribution for the time being, and their wives, shall be admitted without further charge. 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. 50. AN ACT To confer on Mary Ann Hall the rights and privileges of a child born in lawful wedlock. 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 from and after the passage of this act, Mary Ann Hall, wife of Isaac Hall, of the borough of Bristol, in the county of Bucks, daughter of Elizabeth Guy, who after the birth of the said Mary Ann, was legally intermarried with Robert Sanderson, the father of the said Mary Ann, shall have and enjoy all the privileges and rights of a child born in lawful wedlock; and that she shall be able and capable in law to take. hold, inherit and possess, pass and transmit all and every estate, real and personal, of whatever kind or nature soever, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if she had been born in lawful wedlock. APPROVED-The twelfth day of February, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 51. AN ACT To furnish the West Lebanon artillery company, and the Columbia Guards, with field pieces. 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 adjutant general of this commonwealth is hereby authorized and required to furnish a field piece to the West Lebanon artillery company, of the fourth battalion, second brigade, and fifteenth division, of the Pennsylvania militia: Provided, That such field piece can be furnished by the adjutant general from unappropriated field pieces in his posses sion. SECTION 2. That the same officer is hereby authorized and required, under the same restriction, to furnish a field piece to the Columbia Guards, of the third battalion, first brigade, eighth division, of the Pennsylvania militia. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE DARSIE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twelfth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 52. AN ACT Defining the place for keeping the records of the deputy surveyor of the county of Greene. 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 from and after the first day of July next, it shall be the duty of the deputy surveyor of the county of Greene, by himself or by his deputy duly authorized, to deposit and keep at an office within the county seat of said county, all the records, books, surveys, warrants, and other papers pertaining, or which may hereafter pertain to his office, except the one unfinished book in which he may from time to time be entering the last current surveys, until the same be completed; and said person so authorized to take charge of said official records, shall have full power to give copies and abstracts thereof, by him certified, which shall in all cases be as good evidence, as if certified by said deputy surveyor; and all of said records shall be kept open at all reasonable times, for the inspection of any citizen. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE DARSIE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The twelfth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. WM. F. JOHNSTON. Open books. Letters patent. Organization. No. 53. A SUPPLEMENT To an act to incorporate the president and managers of the Morrison Cove turnpike 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 it shall be lawful for the commissioners named in the act to which this is a supplement, or a majority of them, to open books to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said company, on or before the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and to adjourn from time to time, to such place or places, as they may deem expedient, until the whole of said capital stock is subscribed, or so much thereof as is required by said act, before letters patent are issued by the governor of this commonwealth. SECTION 2. That the officers for the organization of said company, shall be elected in the manner prescribed by the third section of said act, who shall continue in office until the first Monday of November in every year thereafter: the stockholders of said company shall, at such place as may be fixed by their by-laws, elect the officers authorized by the act incorporating said company. 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. |