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 for the purpose of erecting a bridge over the Lehigh River, at Parryville, in the county of Northampton, John C. Parry, George Jenkens, Lewis S. Coryell, John D. Bowman, Thomas Craig & William Lilly, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to do and perform the several duties hereinafter mentioned, that is to say; they shall on or before the first day of June next, provide a book or books for the entering of subscriptions, and shall write therein as follows: We whose names are hereunto subscribed do promise to pay to the president and managers of the Parryville Bridge company, for erecting a bridge over the Lehigh river, at Parryville, in the county of Northampton, the sum of twenty dollars for each and every share of the stock in the said company set opposite our respective names, in such manner and proportions and at such times as shall be determined on by the president and managers, in pursuance of an act of the general assembly entitled "An act to incorporate the Parryville Bridge company; Witness our hands this day of in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty- ;" and shall thereupon give notice, in two of the public newspapers printed in the counties of Northampton and Lehigh, of the times and places where and when the said books shall be opened to receive subscriptions, at which time and places some one or more of the said commissioners shall attend for that purpose, and keep open the said books during six hours in each of three successive days, or until five hundred shares shall be subscribed; and if five hundred shares shall not be subscribed within that period, then the said commissioners may adjourn from time to time until the said number of shares shall be subscribed, of which adjournments public notice shall be given in some one or more of the newspapers before mentioned: Provided always, that every person, on entering his name in the said books as a subscriber, shall pay five dollars per share on each share he shall subscribe, as a fund out of which shall be defrayed the expenses attending the taking of subscriptions and other incidental charges, and the remainder shall be paid over to the treasurer of the corporation as soon as the same shall be organized; such first payment on each share to be taken and considered as a part of payment on each share subscribed.