Section 1

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 Jacob Stout, Samuel Moser, Jacob Leinback, Abraham Koenig, Daniel Aulenbach, John Koenig, Abraham Rieser, Abraham B. Tobias, George Maurer, George Metler, Reuben Harbine, Abraham Harbine, John Zacharias, John Zacharias, jr., Jonathan Koenig, Jonas Shalter, Samuel Mengle, George Schalter, George Fox, William Dunkle, Jacob Kalbach A.W. Kauffman, Dr. D. L. Beaver, Prese Hehn, Jacob S. Ebling, Jacob Ahrens, Dr. J. H. Spatz, and Jonathan Bittner, be, and they are hereby created commissioners authorized to receive subscriptions to the capital stock hereby created at such times and places as a majority of them may direct, previously giving at least two weeks notice thereof in one English and one German newspaper printed at Reading, Berks county, of the time and place when and where the subscriptions will be received; and at the time of subscribing for said stock two dollars shall be paid to the commissioners or some one of them, which money shall be paid over to the treasurer of said company as soon as one is appointed, and the residue of said subscriptions shall be paid in such instalments and at such times and places and to such persons as the president and managers of the company may direct.