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Emerson Matlack,
22,
The above list includes every age, from the infant of "a few days" to the "mother in Israel" of more than fourscore and ten.
It is worthy of remark, as showing the healthfulness of the sur- rounding country, that more than one-eighth had reached ages vary- ing from seventy to ninety-one years.
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Christiana Ralston,
Jan. 2, 1884.
Benjamin Milnes,
4,
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ACT OF INCORPORATION.
ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PRESBYTERIAN CONGRE- GATION OF BRANDYWINE, IN THE TOWNSHIP OF WEST NANTMEAL, IN THE COUNTY OF CHESTER.
SECTION 1 .- WIIEREAS, divers members of the Presbyterian Con- gregation of Brandywine, in the township of West Nantmeal, in the County of Chester, have humbly petitioned the General Assembly, praying that the said Congregation may be incorporated, and thereby enabled to recover, receive, and hold bequests, legacies and donations which may be made to the use of the same Congregation, and that Samuel Cunningham, John Culbertson, Nathaniel Porter, Robert Smith, David Denny, Robert Lockhart, James Dunwoody, James M'Clure and Wm. Anderson, members of the aforesaid Congregation, may be constituted the first Trustees by Act of General Assembly, to be passed for that purpose.
And whereas, this General Assembly hath consented that the same Congregation be incorporated, and vested with such powers and privi- leges, as have been heretofore granted to other religious societies which have been incorporated by acts of the Legislature : Therefore,
SECTION 2 .- Be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the Repre- sentatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same, That the said Samuel Cunningham, John Culbertson, Nathaniel Porter, Robert Smith, David Denny, Robert Lockhart, James Dunwoody, James M'Clure and William Anderson, and their successors, to be nine in number, and to be duly elected as hereinafter is directed, be, and they are hereby made and constituted one body politic and corporate in law and in fact, to have continuance forever, by the name, style and title of "The Trustees of the Presbyterian Congregation of Brandywine, in the township of West Nantmeal, in the county of Chester."
SECTION 3 .- And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees and their successors, by the name, style and title aforesaid, shall forever hereafter be capable in law, as well to take, receive and hold all and all manners of lands and other real and per-
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sonal estate, which have at any time or times heretofore been granted, bargained, sold, enfcoffed, released, devised or otherwise given, granted or bequeathed to the said religious society and congregation of Bran- dywine, in the county of Chester, or to any person or persons in trust for the said society and congregation. And the said Trustees and their successors, are hereby declared to be seized and possessed of such estate therein, and for the same uses and intents, as in and by the respective grant, devise or other instrument is set forth and limited. And moreover, the said Trustees and their successors, at all times hereafter, shall be able and capable to purchase, take, hold and enjoy for the use of the said Congregation, any real estate in fee simple or less estate, by gift, grant, alienation, devise or other act or instrument, of and from any person capable to make the same. And further, the same Trustees and their successors, shall apply the rents, profits and yearly income of the said Congregation, for the time being, for repairing and enlarging, if need be, the house of publie worship and the enclosure of the burying ground of the same, and to erect and repair the schoolhouse,'and for such other pious and charitable purposes, as shall be directed by the major vote of the regular mem- bers of the said society and congregation duly assembled, upon public notice thereof the Sunday preceding, from the pulpit or desk of the said house of worship.
SECTION 4 .- Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and singular the powers, privileges, regulations, provisions and directions, subject to the limitations and restrictions contained in an Act of the General Assembly, entitled " An Act for incorporating the Presbyterian Congregation of Pequea, in the county of Lancaster," enacted on the fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, mutatis mutandis, shall be, and the same are hereby extended and applied to the said Congrega- tion of Brandywine and to the nine Trustees herein before mentioned, and their successors :
SECTION 5 .- Provided, nevertheless, That no sale or alienation of the real estate of the said Corporation, made by the said Trustees or their successors, bona fide and for valuable consideration, in case the possession thereof pass immediately to the purchaser thereof and continue in him or his assigns, shall be impeached or called in question, for want of the consent of the majority of the regular
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members of the said society and congregation, given as required by the Act aforesaid, unless the same be done within seven years from and after the sale and delivery of possession to the said purchaser.
Signed by order of the House.
THOMAS MIFFLIN, Speaker.
Enacted into a law at Philadelphia, on Friday, the first day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.
SAMUEL BRYAN, Clerk of the General Assembly. A true copy from the original, by
B. GRIFFITH.
January 14, 1831.
ACT FOR INCORPORATING THE PRESBYTERIAN CONGRE- GATION OF PEQUEA, IN THE TOWNSHIP OF SALIS- BURY AND COUNTY OF LANCASTER.
SECTION 1 .- WHEREAS, the Presbyterian Congregation of Pequea, in the county of Lancaster, have prayed that their said Congregation may be incorporated, and by law enabled as a body corporate and politic, to receive and hold such charitable donations and bequests as have been, or that hereafter may be made to their society, and vested with such powers and privileges as are enjoyed by other religious societies, who are incorporated within this State. And whereas, this house is disposed to exercise the powers vested in the Legislature of the Commonwealth for the encouragement of pious and charitable purposes :
SECTION 2 .- Be it therefore enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the Representatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Penn- sylvania, in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same, That Isaac M'Calmont, Amos Slaymaker, James Armour, Thomas Slemons, Andrew Caldwell, Robert Byers, David Jenkins, Thomas Patton and the Rev. Robert Smith, and their successors duly elected and appointed in such manner as herein after is directed, be, and they are hereby made and constituted a corporation and body politie, in law and in fact, to have continuance forever, by the name, style and title of "The Trustees of the Presbyterian Congregation of Pequea, in Salisbury township and county of Lancaster."
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SECTION 3 .- And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporation and their successors, by the name, style and title aforesaid, shall forever hereafter be persons able and capable in law, as well to take, receive and hold, all and all manner of lands, tenements, rents, annuities, franchises and other hereditaments, which at any time or times heretofore have been granted, bargained, sold, enfeoffed, released, devised or otherwise conveyed to the said Presby- terian Congregation of Pequea, in the township and county aforesaid, or to the religious society or congregation worshipping therein, now under the pastoral care of the Rev. Robert Smith, or to any person or persons to their use or in trust for them; and the same lands, tenements, rents, annuities, liberties, franchises and other heredita- ments are hereby vested and established in the said corporation and their successors forever, according to the original use and intent, for which such devices, gifts and grants were respectively made : And the said corporation and their successors are hereby declared to be seized and possessed of such estate and estates therein as in and by the respective grants, bargains, sales, enfeoffments, releases, devises, or other conveyances thereof, is, or are declared, limited or expressed : As also that the said corporation and their successors aforesaid, at all times hereafter, shall be capable and able to purchase, have, receive, take, hold and enjoy, in fee simple, or of lesser estate or estates, any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, liberties, franchises and other hereditaments, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, alienation, enfeoffment, release, confirmation or devise of any person or persons, bodies politie and corporate, capable and able to make the same : And further that the said corporation may take and receive any sum or sums of money, and any portion of goods and chattels, that have been or hereafter shall be given or bequeathed to them by any person or persons, bodies corporate and politic, able and capable to make a bequest or gift thereof, such money, goods and chattels to be laid out and disposed of for the use and benefit of the aforesaid Congregation, agreeable to the intention of the donor.
SECTION 4 .- Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the rents, profits and interest of the said real and personal estate of the aforesaid corporation and congregation, shall by the said Trustees and their successors, from time to time, be applied and laid out by them for the maintainance and support of the Gospel Ministry
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in the said congregation, for repairing and maintaining their house of public worship, lots of land, burial ground, and such other pious and charitable uses as shall be thought proper, by a majority of the Trustees and other regular members of the said congregation, on due notice met, to give their free vote in such case.
SECTION 5 .- Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when and as often as it may become necessary to rebuild, enlarge or otherwise alter the house of public worship belonging to the said congregation and corporation, or to erect any new building, or to make any new purchase for the use of the said congregation, then and in such case it may be lawful for the aforesaid Trustees and their successors to make sale of such part or parcel of the real or personal estate of the said corporation, as a majority of the Trustees and of the regular members of the said congregation shall by their votes direct, the money arising from such sale to be laid out and applied, agreeably to the vote of a majority met as aforesaid.
SECTION 6 .- Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees and their successors shall not by deed nor any otherwise grant, alien, convey, or otherwise dispose of any part or parcel of the estate, real or personal, in the said corporation vested, or to be vested, or charge or incumber the same to any person or persons whatsoever, except in the manner and for the purposes herein before mentioned.
SECTION 7 .- Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees, their successors, or a majority of them, may from time to time meet as often as they shall think necessary for the benefit of the said corporation, either on their own adjournment, or on public notice from the pulpit the preceding Sabbath immediately after divine service, and before the congregation is dismissed, or on regnlar notice in writing, left at the house of each of the Trustees, and that the said Trustees, or a majority of them, being so met, be authorized and empowered, and they are hereby authorized and em- powered to elect and appoint from among themselves a President, and also to elect and appoint from among themselves, or other members of the said congregation, a Treasurer and Secretary, and to remove, change or continue all or either of them at their pleasure, as shall seem to be most for the benefit of the said corporation.
SECTION 8 .- Provided, nevertheless, That the meeting or meetings
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of the said corporation be not called without the concurrence of two or more Trustees, or of three or more respectable members of the said congregation, with the President, or without the particular business and reasons of the meeting being specified with the notification.
SECTION 9 .- Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees, or a majority of them, met, as is herein before di- rected, shall be authorised and empowered, and they are hereby au- thorised and empowered, to make rules, by-laws and ordinances, and to do every thing needful for the government and support of the secular affairs of the said corporation and congregation : Provided that the said by-laws, rules and ordinances, or any of them, be not repugnant to the laws of this commonwealth ; and also that all their laws and proceed- ings be fairly and regularly entered in a book to be kept for that purpose.
SECTION 10 .- Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporation and their successors shall have full power and authority to make, have and use one common seal, with such de- vice and inscription as they shall think fit and proper, and the same to break, alter and renew at their pleasure.
SECTION 11 .- Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporation and their successors, by the name of " The Trustees of the Presbyterian Congregation of Pequea, in the township of Salisbury and county of Lancaster," shall be able and capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any Court, or be- fore any Judge or Justice, in all and all manner of suits, complaints, pleas, matters and demands of whatsoever kind, nature or form they may be, and all and every matter and thing therein to do, in as full and effectual a manner as any other person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, within this Commonwealth, may or can do.
SECTION 12 .- Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporation shall always consist of nine members, ex- cept as is herein after provided, called and known by the name of "The Trustees of the Presbyterian Congregation of Pequea, in the township of Salisbury, and county of Lancaster," and the said mem- bers shall at all times hereafter be chosen by ballot by a majority of such members (met together) of the said congregation as shall have been enrolled as stated worshippers with the said congregation for at least the space of one year, and shall have paid one year's pew rent, or
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other annual sum of money not less than ten shillings, for the use and benefit of the said corporation and congregation, and shall not at any time of voting, be more than one half year behind or in arrears for the same : Provided, always, that the Pastor or Minister of the said congregation for the time being, shall be entitled to vote equally with any member of the said congregation, and also, that all and every per- son or persons qualified to vote and elect as aforesaid, shall and may be also capable of being elected as a Trustee as aforesaid.
SECTION 13 .- Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Isaac M'Calmont, Amos Slaymaker, James Armour, Thomas Slem- ons, Andrew Caldwell, Robert Byers, David Jenkins, Thomas Patton, and the Rev. Robert Smith, the first and present Trustees hereby in- corporated, shall be and continue Trustees aforesaid, until they be re- moved in manner following, that is to say : One third part in number of the Trustees aforesaid, being the third part herein first named and ap- pointed, shall cease and discontinue, and their appointment determine on the first Monday in the month of April, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, and the second third part herein named shall cease and discontinue, and their appointment determine on the first Monday in April, which will be in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and in like manner the last third part herein named shall cease and determine on the first Monday in April, which will be in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, on which days in each of the afore- mentioned years respectively, new elections shall be held of other Trustees, instead and in place of those whose appointments shall have ceased and terminated; which manner of discontinuance, determina- tion and new appointment or clection shall be continued on the first Monday in April every year hereafter forever, so that no person shall be or continue a Trustee longer than three years together, without being re-elected, which may be done whenever and as often as the members of said congregation qualified to vote as aforesaid, shall think fit.
SECTION 14 .- Provided, always, nevertheless, That whenever any circumstance or concurrence of circumstances shall happen, to prevent the holding of an election at the periods aforementioned, for Trus- tees instead and in place of those whose appointments shall have ceased and terminated, also whenever any vacancy shall happen by the
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death, refusal to serve, or other removal of any one or more of the Trustees of the said corporation, an election shall be held as soon as conveniently can be done, in the manner before directed, for other Trustees in the stead and in place of those whose appointments shall have ceased and terminated, or for supplying such vacancies that may happen as aforesaid, and that the remaining Trustees have power to call a meeting of the electors of the Congregation for such purposes.
SECTION 15 .- Provided, always, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the clear yearly value, interest or income of the lands, tenements, rents, annuities, or other hereditaments and real estate of the said Corporation, shall not exceed the sum of five hundred pounds, gold or silver money, at the present current value thereof in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, exclusive of pew rent and other free contributions belonging to the aforesaid congregation, which said money shall be received by the said Trustees, and disposed of by them for the purposes and in manner herein before deseribed and directed.
Signed by order of the House.
JOHN BAYARD, Speaker.
Enacted into a law at Philadelphia on Saturday the fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.
SAMUEL BRYAN, Clerk of the General Assembly.
A true copy from the original, by
B. GRIFFITH.
January 14, 1831.
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:The Presbytery of . Memphis, on the 18th ult., ordained Mr. E. II. Green a licentiate and installed him pastor of the Portersville church. The Rev. J. H. Gray, D.D., preached the ser- mon; the Rev. D. L. Gray presided, and the Rev. P. R. Bland delivered the charges to the pastor and people,
The address of the Rev. F. B. Dinsmore is now Virginia Grove, Louisa county, Iowa, in- stead of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, as heretofore.
On Tuesday, 13th inst. the Presbytery of .
Long Island, at its regular semi-annual meet- ing, held at Bellport, Long Island, ordained Mr. Robert Cruikshank to the work of the gos- pel ministry, and installed him as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Bellport. The .Moderator, the Rev. Rutgers Van Brunt, pro- posed the- constitutional questions and made the ordaining prayer; sermon by the Rev. Gaylord L. More; charge to the pastor by the Rev. E. C. Wines, D.D., and charge to the peo- ple by the Rev. C. H. Edgar.
The Presbytery of West Lexington, on the 7th inst., dissolved the pastoral relation be- tween-the Rev. R. J. Breckinridge, D.D., and the First church, Lexington, Kentucky, with a view to his accepting his appointment in Dan- ville Seminary. At the same meeting, the pas- toral relation was dissolved between the Rev. F. G. Strahan and the Cherry Spring church. .
At the sessions of the 'Presbytery of Louis- ville, held on the 6th inst., the pastoral relation without straw.
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