Laws Enacted in the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ...J. Dunlop, 1811 - Law |
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academy accounts appointed APPROVED-the Assembly auditor-general authority afore authority aforesaid body politic borough bridge by-laws cents certificate CHAPTER clerk commonwealth of Pennsylvania corporation court creek day of April day of March dred and eleven duty election entitled erect executors expenses fee simple forty dollars further enacted granted hereby authorized hereby enacted House of Representa House of Representatives Hugh Horner hundred and eleven hundred dollars Huntingdon county incorporate a company JOHN WEBER land-office legislature letters patent managers and company manner monies number of shares P. C. LANE paid passing patent Penalty person or persons president and managers Provided Proviso purchase quarter sessions Represen Schuylkill Schuylkill canal seal SECT Senate and House SIMON SNYDER Speaker stockholders subscriptions successors Susquehanna tatives thousand dollars thousand eight hundred tion tives tolls town township tract of land treasurer trustees turnpike road union canal company warrant whole number
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Page 172 - Shall be capable of taking and holding their said capital stock, and the increase and profits thereof, and of enlarging the same from time to time by new subscriptions, in such manner and form as they shall think proper, if such enlargement shall be found necessary to fulfil the intent of this act, and of purchasing, taking and holding...
Page 22 - Incident to a corporation and shall be capable of taking and holding their said capital stock, and the increase and profits thereof and of enlarging the same from time to time by new subscriptions In such manner and form as they shall think proper, If such...
Page 127 - Susquehanna turnpike road," and by the said name PrmleK"the subscribers shall have perpetual succession, and all the privileges and franchises incident to a corporation, and shall be capable of taking and holding their said capital stock and the increase and...
Page 31 - Company, the sum of fifty dollars for every share of stock set opposite to our respective names, in such manner and proportions, and at such times as shall be determined by the presisident and managers of the said company, in pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of this State, entitled " An act to incorporate the Wilmington and Brandywine Railroad Company.
Page 23 - If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them or either of them.
Page 164 - ... to the common jail of the county, there to remain until he or they shall consent to comply with this act or shall be discharged by due course of law.
Page vii - An act to enable the governor to incorporate a company for making an artificial road...
Page 115 - Susquehanna, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars for every share of stock in the said company set opposite to our respective names, in such manner and proportions, and at such times, as shall be determined by the president and managers, in pursuance of an act of the general assembly...
Page 250 - York" and by that name they and their successors shall and may have continual succession, and shall be persons in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever...
Page 189 - ... estate, all such lands, tenements, hereditaments, and estate real and personal as shall be necessary to them in the prosecution of their works ; and of suing and being sued, and of doing all and every other matter and thing which a corporation or body poli-k may lawfully do.