Keepers of any dance house, con tre, museum &c., where liquors are sold, prohibited from admitting or places of amusement, where wines or spirituous or malt cert, saloon, thea- liquors are sold or given away, or any place of entertainment injurious to health or morals, who admits or permits to remain therein any minor under the age of eighteen years, retaining any minor unless accompanied by his or her parent or guardian, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars. under eighteen years of age, unless under charge of parent or guardian. Violation of this section deemed a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding $200.00. SECTION 5. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. APPROVED The 28th day of May A. D. 1885. Repeal. ROBT. E. PATTISON. 500 copies each of volumes II. III. IV. V. VI. and VII. with the appendix to be reprinted. Volumes XIII. and To be sold at cost. Cost per volume limited to ninety cents. Secretary of the commonwealth to have prepared for ditional volumes of the same series. No. 31. AN ACT To provide for the publication of the Pennsylvania Archives. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Commonwealth is hereby directed and required to have printed and bound, in a style of binding uniform with the volumes already issued, five hundred copies of each volume, two, three, four, five, six and seven, with the appendix, of the Pennsylvania Archives, second series, and, also, to publish two additional volumes, numbers thirteen and fourteen, the manuscript of which has already been prepared: Provided, That full sets be furnished to each Senator and member of the present Legislature, and each of the clerks thereof, and the heads of departments of the State Government: And provided further, The Secretary of the Commonwealth is hereby authorized to sell the balance of the numbers of each volume at cost of printing and binding, the receipts therefrom to be turned into the State Treasury: And provided further, That the cost of publishing, binding and indexing all complete, shall not exceed ninety cents per volume, of not less than eight hundred pages each. SECTION 2. That the Secretary of the Commonwealth is also directed to prepare for publication five additional volpublication five ad- umes, of the same series of archives, of documents and papers in the various departments of the State Government of a date prior to the war of one thousand eight hundred Copies of papers to and twelve and fourteen, and that copies of all such papers as may be required by the editor thereof shall be furnished by the department in which they are on record without expense. be furnished thejed itor thereof without expense. Compensation of editor. SECTION 3. That the editor of the aforesaid volumes, including volumes thirteen and fourteen, heretofore directed to be published, shall be paid for his services in preparing the copy, reading the proofs, and making proper indices, the sum of four hundred dollars for each of volumes thirteen and fourteen. umes X and XI to stereotype plates. SECTION 4. That there be printed of volumes ten and 1500 copies of voleleven of the archives already published, the stereotype be printed from plates of which are in the possession of the present State Printer, fifteen hundred copies for the use of the Senate Distribution. and House of Representatives, to be separately labeled Label. "Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, to one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, volumes one and two." APPROVED-The 28th day of May, A. D. 1885. ROBT. E. PATTISON. No. 32. AN ACT To provide for the incorporation and regulation of natural gas companies. Now, therefore SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That corporations may be formed in the manner mentioned herein by the voluntary association of five or more persons, or as otherwise provided herein, for the purpose of producing, dealing in, transporting, storing and supplying natural gas to such persons, corporations or associations, within convenient connecting distance of its line of pipe, as may desire to use the same, upon such terms and under such reasonable regulations as the gas company shall establish, and when so formed, each of them, by virtue of its existence as such, shall have the following powers: How corporations be formed under this act may enumerated First. To have succession by its corporate name for the General powers period limited by its charter, and when no period is limited thereby, perpetually, subject to the power of the General Assembly, under the Constitution of the Commonwealth. Second. To maintain and defend judicial proceedings. Third. To make and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, and have a capital stock, not exceeding five million dollars, divided into shares such as each company may determine. Fourth. To produce, mine, own, deal in, transport, store and supply natural gas, for either light, heat or both, or other purposes, and have all the rights and privileges necessary or convenient therefor. Fifth. To hold, purchase, maintain, lease, mortgage, sell, and transfer such real and personal property including pipes, tubing, tanks, office and such other machinery, devices Charter must be subscribed by five or more persons. Contents of certificate. Notice of intention or arrangements, as the purposes of the corporation requires, and the right also to enter upon, take and occupy such lands, easements and other property as may be required for the purpose of laying its pipes for transporting and distributing gas. Sixth. To appoint and remove such subordinate officers and agents as the business of the corporation requires and to allow them suitable compensation. Seventh. To make by-laws, not inconsistent with the law, for the election and regulation of its directors and officers, the management of its property, the regulation of its affairs and the subscription, collection and transfer of its stock. Eighth. To enter into any obligation necessary to the transaction of its ordinary affairs. SECTION 2. The charter of such intended corporation must be subscribed by five or more persons, three of whom, at least, shall be citizens of this Commonwealth, who shall certify in writing to the Governor: First. The name of the corporation. Second. The place or places where natural gas is intended to be mined for and produced or received, the place or places where it is to be supplied to consumers, the general route of its pipe line or lines and branches, the location of its general office. Third. The term for which said corporation is to exist, which may be limited as to time, or be perpetual. Fourth. The names and residences of the subscribers, and the number of shares subscribed by each. Fifth. The number of its directors, and the names and residences of those chosen directors for the first year. Sixth. The amount of its capital stock, and the number and par value of shares into which divided. Notice of the intention to apply for any such charter to apply for charter shall be inserted in two newspapers of general circulation, must be published for three weeks in printed in each of the counties named in the charter of each county named said corporation, for three weeks, setting forth briefly the two newspapers in in the certificate. Ten per centum of capital stock must be paid. character and object of the corporation to be formed, and the intention to make application therefor, and the places where its business in its various branches is to be conducted. The certificate to the Governor shall state that ten per centum of the capital stock named therein has been paid in cash to the treasurer of the intended corporation, and the name and residence of the treasurer shall be therein given; said certificate shall be acknowledged by at least three of the subscribers thereto, before the recorder of deeds of the the subscribers be- county in which its principal office is situate, and the sub Certificate must be acknowledged, and statements verified by at least three of fore recorder of deeds. And presented, with proof of publication, to the gover nor. Duties of the governor. scribers shall also make and subscribe an oath or affirmation before him, to be endorsed on the certificate, that the statements contained therein are true; the certificate so endorsed, accompanied with proof of publication of notice as heretofore provided, shall then be produced to the Governor of the Commonwealth, who shall examine the same, Certificate to be reof the secretary of corded in the office the commonwealth. Abstract thereof to tor General. and, if he finds it to be in proper form and within the purpose named herein, shall approve thereof and endorse his approval thereon and direct letters patent to issue in the Letters patent. usual form incorporating the subscribers and their associates and successors into a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name chosen; and the certificate shall be recorded in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, in a book to be by him kept for that purpose, and he shall forthwith furnish to the Auditor General an abstract therefrom showing the name, location, amount of be furnished Audicapital stock, and name and address of the treasurer of the corporation. The original certificate with all of its endorsements shall then be recorded in the office for recording deeds in and for each of the counties named therein, and from thenceforth, the subscribers thereto and their associates and successors, shall be a corporation for the purposes and upon the terms named in said certificate: Provided, That neither this act nor any other shall be so construed as to confer, authorize or give color to any claim of exclusive right in any corporation, howsoever formed, dealing in any way or for any purpose in natural gas. Certificate and all its endorsements to be recorded in office of recorder of deeds therein named. corporation. Thenceforth, a Exclusive right not for each county to be conferred or claimed. May borrow money, and secure the same by mortgage. SECTION 3. It shall be lawful for all corporations named in this act to borrow money to secure any indebtedness created by them, by issuing bonds with or without coupons attached thereto, and to secure the same by a mortgage or mortgages, for the use of the bondholders, upon their property real and personal and their franchises to an amount Amount limited, not exceeding one-half of the capital stock of the corpora tion paid in, and at a rate of interest not exceeding six per Rate of interest. centum. But every SECTION 4. The capital stock or indebtedness, of any corporation created under this act, may be increased or its capital stock may be reduced from time to time by consent of the person or bodies corporate holding the larger amount in value of the stock of such company, but such increase of capital stock or indebtedness shall only be made for labor done, or money or property actually received. corporation, created under the provisions of this act, may purchase such real and personal estate, mineral rights, patent rights and other property as is necessary for the purpose of its organization and business, and issue stock therefor, and the stock so issued shall be declared and taken to be full paid stock and not liable to any further calls or assessments, and in the charter and certificates and statements to be made by the subscribers and officers of the corporation, such stock shall not be stated or certified as having been issued for cash paid into the company, but it shall be stated or certified in this respect according to the fact. SECTION 5. When and as often as any such corporation shall be desirous of enlarging or altering its territory of production or of supply, for consumption, both or either of them, and its pipe line or lines and branches, it shall, there Capital stock for inincreased. debtedness may be Increase shall be only for labor done, or money or prop- and personal estate organization, and issue therefor full paid and non-assessable stock. Such full paid stock certificate. to be so stated in May enlarge or alter territory of produc tion or of supply. Must make and de posit in the office of the secretary of the cominonwealth a certificate setting forth particulars thereof. upon, make, under its common seal and deposit in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, a certificate setting forth the particulars of such enlargement and alteration, and shall record in the office of the recorder of deeds of Copy of such certifi- the county or counties to which the enlargement or alteration applies, a copy of the certificate, and thereupon and thereafter the rights, powers and duties of the corporation shall be as to the extension of its business and lines as if the same had been originally provided for and embodied in its charter. cate to be recorded in office of recorder of deeds of each county. When increase of capital stock or indebtedness is desired meeting of stockholders must be called. And meet at chief office or place of business in this state, after due notice published for sixty days. Election of stock- Ballots to be endorsed and proxies exe cuted within a cer tain time not to en SECTION 6. That any corporation formed hereunder, desirous of increasing its capital stock or indebtedness as provided by this act, shall, by a resolution of its board of directors, call a meeting of its stockholders therefor, which meeting shall be held at its chief office or place of business in this Commonwealth, and notice of the time place and object of the meeting shall be published, once a week for sixty days prior to such meeting, in at least one newspaper published in the county, city or borough wherein such office or place of business is situate. SECTION 7. At the meeting thus called an election of the stockholders of the corporation shall be taken for or against the proposed increase, which shall be conducted by three judges, who shall be stockholders of the corporation appointed by the board of directors to hold the election, and if one or more of the judges be absent the judge or judges present shall appoint a judge or judges who shall act in the place of the judge or judges absent, and who shall respectively take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths well and truly and according to law to conduct the election to the best of their ability, and the judges shall decide upon the qualification of voters, and when the election is closed count the number of shares voted for and against such increase, and declare whether the persons or bodies corporate, holding the larger amount of the stock of the corporation, have consented to the increase or refused to consent thereto, and shall make out duplicate returns of the election stating the number of shares of stock that voted for the increase, and the number that voted against the same, and subscribe and deliver the same to one of the chief officers of the company. SECTION 8. Each ballot shall have endorsed thereon the number of shares thereby represented, and be signed by the holder thereof or by the person holding a proxy therefor, Shares transferred, but no share or shares transferred within sixty days shall entitle to vote at such election or meeting, nor shall any title holders to vote. proxy be received or entitle the holder to vote unless the same shall bear date and have been executed within three months next preceding the election or meeting; and it shall be the duty of the corporation to furnish the judges at such meeting with a statement of the amount of its capital stock, with the names of persons or bodies corporate holding the same, and the number of shares by each respectively held, Judges to be furnished with a statement, verified by affidavit showing amount of capital stock, number of shares and holders thereof. |