The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-09
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
THE CITY TR USTS.

The Proposed Act for Negotiating the
Charities Entrusted 10 the CaroOfPH
delphia.
The following is the full text of the act Intro
Oonnell, Affecting the charities entrusted 70 the
care OF this city.
a Further Supplement 20 an Act Etttted an Act
to incorporate Ute Cty Of Philadelphia, ap.
proved The I'd Of February, 1854.
l. BE IL enacted by the Senate and House of
Pennsy lvanla, In General Assembly met, and iJ
Is hereby enacted by authority OF the same:-
That from and e1ter the first day OF July next
all and every the duties. rights and powers Of
the City of Philadelphia concerning, all pro
periy and estate whatever dedicated to
charitable uses or trusts, the charges or ad :
ministrs lion OF which are now, or snail
hereafter become, vest ed In or con nded to the
City OF Philadelphia. shall be discharged
by the said city through the instru-
persons, including the Mayor of said
city, the Presidents of the Select and Com mon
Councils for the time heing, and twelve otner
citizens appointed as hereinafter provided. to be
called Directors of Cty Trusts" who shall
exercise and discharge all the duties and
lDg any such property appropriated TO chari.
table uses, as well as the control and M an age
the objects OF such cnarty TO the extent that tne
same nave been or hereafter may be, by statute
lay or otherwise, vested in or delegated to the
ii. The Judges OF the Supreme Court, together
with the Judges of the District Court and the
court OF Common Pleas of the city and county
OF Philadelphia shall form a Board OF Appont-
mem, of which the Chief Justice OF the Supreme
Court shall e1 oglcto be President whicn shall
convene in tne city of Philadelphia at such
time and place as the said Chief Justice shall
appoint, within eight weeks from the PASSAGE
OF this act, and select and appoint from the ciIi.
zens OF said city twelve persons TO serve, during
good behavior, as mem bers of the before. men,
TONED Board OF Directors of City Trusts sub
ject, however, to removal, as hereinafter pro-
vided. VACANCIES in the um Der of said Dl-
rectors OF Trusts shall be filled from time TO
time by the said Board of Appointment, and
any Director of Trusts may be removed from
his ONCE by the concurrent vote of two-thirds
of the members of the Board OF appointment
III. Said Directors of Trusts shall meet every
to them may require A majority of the whole
shall constitute quorum for the transaction of
business: AT their first meeting after organizs.
tion, and annually thereafter they shall elect
from their own number president, who shall
serve until the first day OF the following year,
officer and not a member of the board, TO serve
for the same period. The Treasurer of the city
OF Phiiadelphia shall be the treasurer of the
~. The said Directors of Trusts shall have
power TO make rules and bylaws for the pro-
per regulation OF their business. to appoint as
many agents as in their judgment shall be re-
quiTed for the proper discharge of all the duties
duties and compensation of all such agents and
appointees; also, in the name of the said city
charitable trusts, to make allleases contracts
and agreements whatsoever which in the
co9Ise of the administration and management
of said property 1t may from time to time be.
come necessary and proper TO make and exc.
cute; and IL sba be the duty of the said
Directors of Truss g, and in the name of the said
city, 10 do, perform, and discharge all and
s;r;,,,,, whatever acls and duties are or from
sin1s ,a limo ro become proper and neces-
sary to be done by the ss,U Guy IN oiscnsrge OF
said trust, and to make annual reroe 'nefeoi
to the Councils of the city, the Board OF Ap.
pointment, and to the Legislature OF The State
OF Pennsy lvania.
W IL shall be the duty of the said Directors
ofTrusts, Immediately after their organization,
to provide q suitable place for the safe keep
ing of all the title-papers, books of accounts,
records, and documents whatsoever, OF the
said city appertaining to the property the care
and manag ement whereof, and the trusts and
duties the discharge Whereof for the said city 1t
is intended 10 devolve upon the said Directors
Of Trusts and thereupon, on notice to the
| agents and employees of the city having such
tiIle-papers account books. records, and docu-
menis in their care the same shall be de.
| livered into the custody of the said Board Of
| Trusts.
vi The said Directors, In the discharge of
their duties and within the scope of their
towers Aforesaid, shall be considered agents or
officers of said city; but no compensation or
emolument VIVA ever shall be received for such
services nor shall any of them have or acquire
any personal interest in any lease or contract
whatever, made by said city through said
Directors, or through any agent or employe
whatever appoin ted by them.
VII. That SO much of any act OF Assembly IA
it tereby altered or supplied, be and the same
is hereby repealed.