The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801: Compiled Under the Authority of the Act of May 19, 1887, Volume 15C.M. Busch, State Printer of Pennsylvania, 1911 |
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accounts act entitled afore appointed April 18 Assembly authority aforesaid borough burgesses carriage certificate CHAPTER city of Philadelphia clerk commissioners Commonwealth of Penn constable corporation county of Philadelphia creek day of April debts Delaware directed discharge duties empowered entitled An act erected exceeding execution fee simple forfeit and pay freemen further enacted governor health office hereafter hereby authorized hereby enacted hereinafter house now occupied House of Representatives hundred dollars inhabitants inspectors intestate John judges justice Lancaster lands legislature lots manner Northern Liberties Northumberland number of shares oath or affirmation owners paid Passed April Passed March payment person or persons purposes therein mentioned quarter sessions receive Recorded L. B. regulations respectively river road seal Section I. P. L. Section VII Senate and House separate election district ship or vessel subscribed Swatara creek sylvania thence thereof thousand seven hundred tion town township treasurer votes warrant Whereas
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Page 243 - Easton," and by the said name the said 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 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...
Page 43 - States : and also to make, have, and use, a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew, at their pleasure...
Page 75 - ... requisite for its immediate accommodation in relation to the convenient transacting of its business, and such as shall have been bona fide mortgaged to it by way of security, or conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts previously contracted in the course of its dealings, or purchased at sales, upon judgments which shall have been obtained for such debts.
Page 179 - That all murder, which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree ; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree...
Page 238 - The number of votes to which each stockholder shall be entitled shall be according to the number of shares he shall hold, in the proportions following — that is to say: For one share, and not more than two shares, one vote; for every two shares above two, and not exceeding ten, one vote; for every four...
Page 80 - CD, deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits of the said deceased, which have or shall come to the hands, possession or knowledge of him, the said AB,or into the hands and possession of any other person...
Page 44 - That in case it should at any time happen, that an election of directors should not be made on any day when, pursuant to this Act, it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not, for that cause, be deemed to be dissolved, but...
Page 81 - hands and possession of any other person or persons for " him, do well and truly administer according to law : " " And further do make, or cause to be made,' a true and "just account of his said administration at or before the " day of : And all the rest and residue of the " said goods, chattels, and credits...
Page 80 - The condition of this obligation is such, that if the within bounden AB, administrator of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits of CD, deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits...
Page 81 - Request to have it allowed and approved accordingly, if the said above bounden being thereunto required, do render and deliver the said Letters of Administration (Approbation of such Testament being first had and made) in the said Court; then this Obligation to be void and of none Effect, or else to remain in full Force and Virtue.