(a) Except as otherwise expressly provided in this subsection, the following acts and parts of acts are repealed:

[1] Resolution of April 17, 1838 (P.L. 694, No. 22), entitled “A resolution relative to changing the lots attached to certain lock houses on the Juniata division of the Pennsylvania canal, and relative to other purposes.”

[2] Act of March 28, 1840 (P.L. 196, No. 91), entitled “A supplement to the act entitled ‘An act regulating Lateral Rail Roads.’ ”

[3] Act of February 12, 1842 (P.L. 18, No. 14), entitled “A further supplement to the act entitled ‘An act regulating Lateral Rail Roads.’ ”

[4] Section 10 of the act of April 24, 1843 (P.L. 359, No. 173), entitled “An act to incorporate the Butler County Mutual Insurance Company, and for other purposes.”

[5] Act of April 11, 1845 (P.L. 364, No. 243), entitled “An act to relieve canal and railroad companies from penalties for not performing certain acts on the Sabbath day.”

[6] Act of March 13, 1847 (P.L. 333, No. 273), entitled “An act relating to certain corporations.”

[7] Act of March 13, 1847 (P.L. 337, No. 276), entitled “An act in reference to running of locomotive engines and cars on connecting railroads.”

[8] Act of January 6, 1848 (P.L. 1, No. 1), entitled “A supplement to the act of fifth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled ‘An Act regulating lateral railroads.’ ”

[9] Act of April 11, 1848 (P.L. 516, No. 363), entitled “An act to authorize Margaret Parthemore, administratrix with the will annexed of John Parthemore, deceased, to collect certain outstanding taxes of the North ward of the borough of Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin, relative to school taxes in Manor township, Lancaster county, to the appeal of the Easton Bank, and relative to lateral railroads, and the accounts of John Foresman, of Lycoming county.”

[10] Act of February 19, 1849 (P.L. 79, No. 76), entitled “An act regulating railroad companies.”

[11] Act of April 11, 1853 (P.L. 366, No. 239), entitled “An act repealing the acts regulating the gauge of the track of railroads.”

[12] Act of February 25, 1856 (P.L. 61, No. 74), entitled “An act declaratory of the construction of the eleventh section of an act passed on the twenty-sixth day of July, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.”

[13] Act of May 16, 1857 (P.L. 538, No. 595), entitled “An act relative to Assignees and Trustees of Railroad Companies.”

[14] Act of May 20, 1857 (P.L. 629, No. 664), entitled “A supplement to the act Regulating Railroads.”

[15] Act of April 20, 1858 (P.L. 361, No. 402), entitled “A further supplement to the act, entitled ‘An Act regulating Lateral Railroads,’ passed May fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.”

[16] Act of March 29, 1859 (P.L. 290, No. 293), entitled “A supplement to an act in reference to running of Locomotive Engines and Cars on Connecting Railroads, approved thirteenth March, one thousand eight hundred forty-seven.”

[17] Act of January 9, 1861 (P.L. 2, No. 3), entitled “An act to enable citizens to hold title which had been held by Aliens and Corporations.” Except as otherwise provided by statute, a nonresident or an alien may hold title to property located in this Commonwealth to the same extent as a resident citizen.

[18] Act of April 8, 1861 (P.L. 259, No. 262), entitled “An act concerning the Sale of Railroads, Canals, Turnpikes, Bridges and Plank Roads.”

[19] Act of April 23, 1861 (P.L. 410, No. 379), entitled “An act relating to certain Corporations.”

[20] Act of May 1, 1861 (P.L. 433, No. 405), entitled “A supplement to an act relating to Corporations, passed the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.”

[21] Act of May 1, 1861 (P.L. 485, No. 453), entitled “A further supplement to an act in reference to running of Locomotive Engines and Cars on Connecting Railroads, approved thirteenth March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.”

[22] Act of May 16, 1861 (P.L. 702, No. 657), entitled “An act relating to Railroad Companies.”

[23] Act of March 21, 1862 (P.L. 149, No. 148), entitled “An act to encourage the development of Coal and Mineral Lands in the counties of Huntingdon, Cambria and Bedford.”

[24] Act of April 11, 1862 (P.L. 497, No. 490), entitled “An act authorizing Railroad Companies to re-locate their Roads in certain cases.”

[25] Act of April 22, 1863 (P.L. 534, No. 530), entitled “An act to regulate railroad gauges.”

[26] Act of March 23, 1865 (P.L. 33, No. 18), entitled “An act to authorize railroad companies, whose lines reach navigable streams, to erect docks, piers or wharves therein, and to take private property for such public use, on compensation, and ratifying the purchase of the same.”

[27] Act of March 24, 1865 (P.L. 43, No. 28), entitled “A supplement to the general law relating to railroad companies, approved nineteenth February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.”

[28] Act of March 24, 1865 (P.L. 49, No. 35), entitled “An act supplementary to an act, regulating railroad companies, approved the nineteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.”

[29] Section 2 of the act of March 23, 1865 (P.L. 631, No. 626), entitled “A supplement to an act, approved the first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, entitled ‘A supplement to an act relating to corporations, passed the twenty-sixth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five,’ and to extend the benefit of the said act to purchases, or sales, of real estate, for, or by, aliens, before that date.”

[30] Act of May 20, 1865 (P.L. 847, No. 837), entitled “An act to entitle the stockholders of any railroad company, incorporated by this commonwealth, accepting this act, to one vote for each share of stock.”

[31] Act of June 21, 1865 (P.L. 849, No. 839), entitled “An act relating to the use of tunnels and bridges by railroad companies.”

[32] Act of June 21, 1865 (P.L. 852, No. 841), entitled “An act authorizing the purchase, by railroad companies, of branch, or connecting, roads.”

[33] Act of March 23, 1866 (P.L. 299, No. 273), entitled “An act supplementary to an act to incorporate the city of Philadelphia, authorizing the improvement of Broad street, in said city.”

[34] Act of April 17, 1866 (P.L. 106, No. 95), entitled “An act relating to railroads.”

[35] Act of January 7, 1867 (P.L. 1368, No. 1283), entitled “An act relating to the qualifications of directors of railroad companies.”

[36] Act of April 10, 1867 (P.L. 61, No. 40), entitled “An act to authorize the president and directors of any railroad company to determine, by resolution, the manner in which, and the persons to whom, the increased capital thereof may be sold, and the amounts of the installments thereon, and the times and manner of their payment.”

[37] Act of February 14, 1868 (P.L. 40, No. 4), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An Act relating to certain corporations,’ approved March thirteenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, authorizing the governor to appoint directors for certain corporations in certain cases.”

[38] Act of March 10, 1868 (P.L. 294, No. 267), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An Act concerning the sale of railroads, canals, turnpikes, bridges and plank roads,’ approved the eighth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, so far as relates to certain counties.”

[39] Act of March 18, 1868 (P.L. 372, No. 335), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An Act to authorize the sale of the property of any incorporated company, upon the bonds secured by a mortgage given by it with like effect as if sold upon the mortgage,’ approved the tenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, extending the same to incorporated coal companies in the county of Luzerne, authorizing the purchasers of the same to organize new corporations.”

[40] Act of March 31, 1868 (P.L. 50, No. 17), entitled “An act to authorize incorporated companies to invest and re-invest surplus funds in mortgages, stocks and other securities, and fixing the time for holding elections for directors.”

[41] Act of April 2, 1868 (P.L. 53, No. 20), entitled “An act relating to the consolidation of railroad companies.”

[42] Act of April 4, 1868 (P.L. 62, No. 29), entitled “An act to authorize the formation and regulation of railroad corporations.”

[43] Act of April 14, 1868 (P.L. 100, No. 61), entitled “An act to authorize railroad companies leasing or using other railroads to provide for the payment of liens thereon.”

[44] Act of March 17, 1869 (P.L. 11, No. 9), entitled “An act supplementary to an act relating to certain corporations, approved the twenty-third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.”

[45] Act of March 17, 1869 (P.L. 11, No. 10), entitled “An act to authorize an increase in the number of directors or managers of railroad companies, and to give stockholders the power to locate the general office of such companies.”

[46] Act of March 17, 1869 (P.L. 12, No. 11), entitled “An act to enable railroad, canal and slack-water navigation companies to straighten, widen, deepen and otherwise improve their lines of railroads, canals and slack-water navigation, and the bridges, aqueducts, piers and structures thereof.”

[47] Act of April 6, 1869 (P.L. 17, No. 16), entitled “A further supplement to an act regulating lateral railroads, approved the fifth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.”

[48] Act of April 10, 1869 (P.L. 24, No. 24), entitled “An act supplementary to an act relating to railroad companies, approved May sixteenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.”

[49] Act of April 15, 1869 (P.L. 31, No. 33), entitled “An act to authorize railroad and canal companies to aid in the development of the coal, iron, lumber and other material interests of this Commonwealth.”

[50] Act of April 26, 1869 (P.L. 96, No. 70), entitled “A further supplement to the act, entitled ‘An act to enable citizens to hold title which had been held by aliens and corporations,’ approved the ninth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.”

[51] Act of February 17, 1870 (P.L. 31, No. 8), entitled “An act to authorize railroad companies to lease or become lessees, and to make contracts with other railroad companies, corporations and parties.”

[52] Act of April 1, 1870 (P.L. 45, No. 26), entitled “An act to authorize and direct the Attorney General, upon complaint made by parties whose interests are thereby affected, to institute proceedings, according to law, against corporations alleged to have violated duties imposed upon them by law.”

[53] Act of April 14, 1870 (P.L. 73, No. 46), entitled “A supplement to an act regulating railroad companies, approved February nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.”

[54] Resolution of April 14, 1870 (P.L. 1334, No. 13), entitled “A Joint Resolution for the protection of the rights of corporations chartered by the Commonwealth.”

[55] Act of April 14, 1870 (P.L. 75, No. 48), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An Act relating to railroad and canal companies,’ approved April eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.”

[56] Act of April 26, 1870 (P.L. 1274, No. 1170), entitled “An act further supplementary to an act regulating railroad companies, approved the nineteenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.”

[57] Act of February 17, 1871 (P.L. 56, No. 61), entitled “An act supplementary to the acts relating to lateral railroads.”

[58] Act of April 28, 1871 (P.L. 246, No. 232), entitled “A supplement to the act of April fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, relative to the formation and regulation of railroad corporations.”

[59] Act of May 2, 1871 (P.L. 248, No. 234), entitled “A supplement to an act to enable railroad, canal and slack-water navigation companies to straighten, widen, deepen and otherwise improve their lines of railroads, canals and slack-water navigation, and the bridges, aqueducts, piers and structures thereof, approved the seventeenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.”

[60] Act of May 18, 1871 (P.L. 942, No. 830), entitled “An act relating to certain railroad, canal and incorporated companies authorized to construct railroads, and authorizing such companies to purchase and hold stock and bonds, to lease roads and property of and consolidate with each other, in the counties of Susquehanna, Wyoming, Wayne and Luzerne.”

[61] Act of June 2, 1871 (P.L. 283, No. 263), entitled “An act to authorize married women owning capital stock of any railroad company to sell and transfer the same.”

[62] Act of April 3, 1872 (P.L. 35, No. 25), entitled “An act relating to straightened or improved lines of railroad.”

[63] Act of April 4, 1872 (P.L. 46, No. 39), entitled “An act for the appointment of a receiver in cases where corporations have been dissolved by judgment of ouster, upon proceedings of quo warranto.”

[64] Act of February 7, 1873 (P.L. 126, No. 95), entitled “An act extending the time for the completion of the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Railway.”

[65] Act of March 27, 1873 (P.L. 435, No. 450), entitled “An act providing for the surrender by the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Streets Passenger Railway Company of the city of Philadelphia, of certain corporate rights upon Broad street, and in consideration thereof, confirming the merger with the Navy Yard, Broad Street and Fairmount Railway Company, and granting and confirming unto said Thirteenth and Fifteenth Streets Passenger Railway Company, certain rights as to laying tracks upon said Broad street and Thirteenth and Fifteenth streets, and excluding all other persons or bodies corporate from hereafter laying tracks upon any of said streets.”

[66] Act of June 5, 1873 (1874 P.L. 331, No. 219), entitled “An act authorizing directors of railroad companies to elect vice president.”

[67] Act of June 6, 1873 (1874 P.L. 417, No. 303), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An Act regulating lateral railroads,’ approved the fifth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, in the county of Armstrong.”

[68] Act of April 1, 1874 (P.L. 51, No. 13), entitled “An act to validate acts done by corporations created by the courts before the recording of their charters.”

[69] Act of April 29, 1874 (P.L. 73, No. 32), entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations.”

[70] Act of April 20, 1874 (P.L. 110, No. 36), entitled, as amended, “An act to enable the officers of dissolved corporations to convey real estate held by such corporations.”

[71] Act of May 11, 1874 (P.L. 133, No. 64), entitled “An act relating to the validity of the charters of certain incorporations.”

[72] Act of May 15, 1874 (P.L. 185, No. 117), entitled “An act to provide for the adjustment, settlement and collection of compensation from railroad companies, for railroads located or that may be located on county bridges, and to empower county commissioners to make contracts relating thereto.”

[73] Act of June 8, 1874 (P.L. 277, No. 162), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An Act to authorize the formation and regulation of railroad corporations.’ ”

[74] Act of June 9, 1874 (P.L. 282, No. 169), entitled “An act to authorize the counties, cities, towns or townships of this state, respectively, to enter into contracts with railroad companies whose roads enter their limits, whereby said companies may re-locate, change or elevate their railroads.”

[75] Act of June 15, 1874 (P.L. 289, No. 175), entitled “An act requiring every railroad or canal corporation, organized in this state, to maintain an office therein for the transaction of its business.”

[76] Act of March 17, 1875 (P.L. 7, No. 9), entitled “An act to extend the time for the completion of railroads authorized to be constructed by railroad or railway corporations of this commonwealth under any general law.”

[77] Act of March 18, 1875 (P.L. 28, No. 30), entitled “A supplement to an act to authorize the formation and regulation of railroad corporations, approved April four, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.”

[78] Act of April 25, 1876 (P.L. 47, No. 36), entitled “An act supplementary to the act, entitled ‘An Act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations,’ approved the twenty-ninth day of April, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-four, extending its provisions to all who may have the right to vote at elections for directors, managers or trustees.”

[79] Act of April 28, 1876 (P.L. 53, No. 45), entitled “An act relieving members of beneficial societies from individual liability for lodge indebtedness.”

[80] Act of May 1, 1876 (P.L. 90, No. 52), entitled “An act supplementary to an act, entitled ‘An Act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations,’ approved April twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, relative to the incorporation and powers of telegraph companies for the use of individuals, firms and corporations, and for fire alarm, police and messenger business.”

[81] Act of May 1, 1876 (P.L. 93, No. 57), entitled “An act defining the rights and obligations of corporations formed under the laws of other states, and under the said laws succeeding to or becoming invested with the rights of purchasers or mortgagees under mortgages executed by railroad companies of other states, but authorized or confirmed by the laws of this state, where such mortgages extend to or include railroads partly within this and partly within another or other state or states, and where foreclosures or sales of the mortgaged premises have been decreed by courts of the states within which the said last named companies were incorporated, and such decrees of sale or foreclosure have been confirmed or enforced by confirmatory or ancillary decrees rendered by state or federal courts of or in this commonwealth.”

[82] Act of May 8, 1876 (P.L. 127, No. 93), entitled “An act to enable citizens of the United States and corporations chartered under the laws of this commonwealth, and authorized to hold real estate, to hold and convey title which had been held by aliens and corporations not authorized by law to hold the same.”

[83] Act of May 13, 1876 (P.L. 157, No. 128), entitled “A further supplement to an act, entitled ‘An Act to authorize the formation and regulation of railroad corporations,’ approved April fourth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, authorizing articles of association to be filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth, and companies to organize, when two thousand dollars of stock is subscribed and ten per centum thereon paid in good faith, in cash, to the directors, for roads not exceeding fifteen miles in length.”

[84] Act of May 22, 1878 (P.L. 85, No. 108), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An act to enable citizens to hold title which has been held by aliens and corporations,’ approved the ninth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.”

[85] Act of May 25, 1878 (P.L. 145, No. 184), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An act concerning the sale of railroads, canals, turnpikes, bridges and plank roads,’ approved the eighth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, extending the provisions of said act to coal, iron, steel, lumber, or oil or mining, manufacturing, transportation and telegraph companies, in this commonwealth.”

[86] Act of June 12, 1878 (P.L. 183, No. 224), entitled “A supplement to an act to authorize railroad corporations to secure the payment of their bonds and obligations, by a mortgage upon their property, rights and franchises, approved the thirteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, applying the provisions thereof to mortgages upon certain personal property of such corporations.”

[87] Act of April 22, 1879 (P.L. 31, No. 26), entitled “An act to extend the time for the completion of public works by corporations chartered for the construction thereof, and authorizing such corporations to borrow money for that purpose.”

[88] Act of April 8, 1881 (P.L. 9, No. 8), entitled “A supplement to the act, entitled, ‘An act to enable citizens of the United States and corporations chartered under the laws of this commonwealth, and authorized to hold real estate, to hold and convey title, which had been held by aliens and corporations not authorized by law to hold the same,’ approved the eighth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.”

[89] Act of May 21, 1881 (P.L. 27, No. 31), entitled “A further supplement to an act, entitled ‘An act to authorize the formation and regulation of railroad corporations' approved the fourth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, authorizing railroad companies incorporated under said act, and supplements thereto, not exceeding fifteen miles in length, to extend their lines.”

[90] Act of May 24, 1881 (P.L. 27, No. 30), entitled “An act to extend the time for the completion of railroads in this commonwealth.”

[91] Act of June 1, 1883 (P.L. 49, No. 40), entitled “An act to extend the time for the completion of railroads in this Commonwealth.”

[92] Act of June 1, 1883 (P.L. 57, No. 52), entitled “An act relating to the terminal points to which railroads may be constructed.”

[93] Act of June 2, 1883 (P.L. 61, No. 54), entitled “An act supplementary to an act, entitled ‘An act for the incorporation and regulation of corporations,’ approved April twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, authorizing the incorporation of pipe lines for the transportation of petroleum, and providing for the exercise of the right of eminent domain in taking lands and property for such purposes.”

[94] Act of June 13, 1883 (P.L. 122, No. 108), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations,’ approved April twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, providing for the improvement, amendment and alteration of the charters of corporations of the second class, and authorizing the incorporation of traction motor companies.”

[95] Act of July 5, 1883 (P.L. 176, No. 165), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An act regulating lateral railroads,’ approved the fifth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, authorizing the owners or lessees of iron ore or coal mines to construct lateral railroads from said mines to any railroad, public road or navigable stream, within the county in which such mines are situated.”

[96] Act of May 29, 1885 (P.L. 29, No. 32), entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of natural gas companies.”

[97] Act of June 25, 1885 (P.L. 186, No. 155), entitled “An act limiting the time for the completion of railroads by corporations organized by purchasers at judicial sales.”

[98] Act of May 7, 1887 (P.L. 94, No. 44), entitled “An act to enforce against railroad corporations the provisions of section seven of Article sixteen, of the Constitution.”

[99] Act of May 31, 1887 (P.L. 275, No. 162), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An act to authorize the formation and regulation of railroad corporations,’ approved the fourth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.”

[100] Act of June 6, 1887 (P.L. 350, No. 242), entitled “An act to enable the citizens of the United States and corporations, chartered under the laws of this Commonwealth and authorized to hold real estate, to hold and convey title which had been held by aliens and corporations not authorized by law to hold the same.”

[101] Act of June 7, 1887 (P.L. 365, No. 252), referred to as the Cooperative Association Act.

[102] Act of May 7, 1889 (P.L. 102, No. 108), entitled “An act defining evidence of stock ownership in corporations and for determining the right to vote thereon.”

[103] Act of May 8, 1889 (P.L. 136, No. 153), entitled “An act to amend an act, entitled ‘An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations,’ approved the twenty-ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, providing for the incorporation and regulation of electric light, heat and power companies.”

[104] Act of May 13, 1889 (P.L. 205, No. 223), entitled “An act prescribing the amount of stock and bonds which may be issued by railroad companies heretofore or hereafter consolidated and merged.”

[105] Act of June 16, 1891 (P.L. 301, No. 231), entitled “An act authorizing the extension of the corporate existence of any railroad corporation organized under either a special or general law of this Commonwealth.”

[106] Act of May 26, 1893 (P.L. 141, No. 90), entitled “An act amending an act, entitled ‘An act defining evidence of stock ownership in corporations, and for determining the right to vote thereon,’ approved May seventh, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, further defining evidence of stock ownership and the right to vote thereon.”

[107] Act of May 26, 1893 (P.L. 158, No. 103), entitled “An act authorizing water companies to re-locate roads destroyed, and to acquire land to preserve water supply from contamination.”

[108] Act of June 8, 1893 (P.L. 355, No. 289), entitled “An act to regulate the change of location of the principal office, the place of annual and other meetings of stockholders, and the time of such annual meeting of corporations of this Commonwealth.”

[109] Act of June 18, 1895 (P.L. 195, No. 116), entitled “An act validating purchases or leases heretofore made or acquired by water companies of lands to preserve their water supply from contamination.”

[110] Act of June 24, 1895 (P.L. 258, No. 172), entitled “An act relating to and regulating the issue and transfer of certificates of stock by companies incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth.”

[111] Act of June 24, 1895 (P.L. 264, No. 176), entitled “An act to enable the citizens of the United States, and corporations chartered under the laws of this Commonwealth and authorized to hold real estate, to hold and convey title which had been held by aliens and corporations not authorized by law to hold the same.”

[112] Act of July 2, 1895 (P.L. 425, No. 302), entitled “An act granting to water power companies, and other corporations owning or controlling water power, authority to develop and distribute electric power by means of their water power, and to erect, construct and maintain the necessary buildings, plant and apparatus for that purpose.”

[113] Act of July 2, 1895 (P.L. 432, No. 309), entitled “An act being a further supplement to an act, entitled ‘An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations,’ approved the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, to further provide for the incorporation and regulation of corporations heretofore or hereafter incorporated for the purpose of the supply, storage or transportation of water and water power for commercial and manufacturing purposes.”

[114] Act of February 9, 1901 (P.L. 3, No. 1), entitled “An act to provide for increasing the capital stock and indebtedness of corporations.”

[115] Act of February 9, 1901 (P.L. 6, No. 2), entitled “An act to permit the classification by railroad, railway and transportation corporations of their boards of directors or managers.”

[116] Act of March 22, 1901 (P.L. 53, No. 20), entitled “An act to authorize and empower any railroad corporation of this Commonwealth, which shall own at least two-thirds of the whole capital stock of any other like corporation of this Commonwealth, and shall have a railroad connecting with the railroad of the latter, to acquire the franchises, property, rights and credits of the latter.”

[117] Act of April 4, 1901 (P.L. 63, No. 29), entitled “An act to authorize railroads, heretofore or hereafter constructed to any river forming the boundary between this and any adjoining State, to be built by means of a bridge and its approaches to the middle of such river, and there connect with any railroad of such adjoining State, heretofore or hereafter constructed.”

[118] Act of April 4, 1901 (P.L. 67, No. 36), entitled “An act to validate changes heretofore made in the names of corporations by the several courts of common pleas of this Commonwealth.”

[119] Act of May 21, 1901 (P.L. 270, No. 177), entitled “An act granting certain rights and privileges to regularly organized and incorporated water companies.”

[120] Act of May 29, 1901 (P.L. 326, No. 207), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations,’ approved April twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four; authorizing formation of corporations for profit by voluntary association of three or more persons, one of whom, at least, must be a citizen of this Commonwealth.”

[121] Act of July 10, 1901 (P.L. 651, No. 329), entitled “An act to validate acts done by corporations before the recording of their charters.”

[122] Act of March 19, 1903 (P.L. 34, No. 41), entitled “An act to prevent the multiplication of poles, wires, and conduits for electrical purposes, by authorizing corporations, manufacturing or using electrical current for any purposes, to enter into contracts with each other relating to the exchange of current, the joint use of poles, wires, and conduits, or the lease or operation of each others systems.”

[123] Act of March 24, 1903 (P.L. 50, No. 52), entitled “An act relating to the taking of stock votes, upon subjects presented to stockholders of corporations of this Commonwealth for their action.”

[124] Act of April 22, 1903 (P.L. 251, No. 185), entitled “An act regulating the change of corporate titles.”

[125] Act of April 23, 1903 (P.L. 280, No. 208), entitled “A further supplement to the act approved April fourth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, entitled ‘An act to authorize the formation and regulation of railroad corporations.’ ”

[126] Act of March 24, 1905 (P.L. 56, No. 39), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘A supplement to an act, entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations,” approved the twenty-ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, further amending the twelfth section thereof so as to permit corporations organized thereunder, either for the purpose of carrying on any manufacturing business, or for the supply of water, or for the manufacture or supplying of light, to purchase bonds or stock of other corporations of the same character, or to guarantee the payment of interest and principal of such bonds, or either principal or interest, or to lease and operate corporate property,’ approved the twenty-sixth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, correcting errors therein and validating all acts done in pursuance thereof.”

[127] Act of April 22, 1905 (P.L. 264, No. 184), entitled “An act to authorize railroad companies of this Commonwealth, in order to secure an adequate supply of water for their corporate purpose, to acquire, hold, dispose of, and guarantee the stock and securities of water companies.”

[128] Act of June 6, 1907 (P.L. 417, No. 287), entitled “An act requiring that all water, gas, or electric light corporations, before entering upon or occupying any public street or highway in any township of the first class of this Commonwealth, shall first make application to the proper authorities of such township of the first class and obtain its consent to such entry or occupancy.”

[129] Act of April 27, 1909 (P.L. 244, No. 154), entitled “An act to validate acts done by corporations before the recording of their charter.”

[130] Act of May 3, 1909 (P.L. 408, No. 229), entitled, as amended, “An act authorizing the merger or consolidation of certain corporations.”

[131] Act of March 15, 1911 (P.L. 17, No. 15), entitled “An act to validate acts done and conveyances made by or to corporations after letters patent are issued, and before the recording of their charters.”

[132] Act of May 11, 1911 (P.L. 261, No. 165), entitled “An act relating to Receivers' Sales.”

[133] Act of June 3, 1911 (P.L. 635, No. 243), entitled “An act to further amend the eighteenth paragraph of the second section of an act, entitled ‘An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations,’ approved the twenty-ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, so as to compel corporations heretofore or hereafter incorporated for the purpose of the storage, transportation and furnishing of water for manufacturing and other purposes, and for the creation, establishing, furnishing, transmission and using of water-power therefrom, to furnish such power for public purposes.”

[134] Act of April 24, 1913 (P.L. 114, No. 77), entitled “An act to validate receiver's sales of real estate, held subsequent to the passage of an act, entitled ‘An act relating to receiver's sales,’ approved the eleventh day of May, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and eleven, in all cases where notices of said sales have been mailed within the time specified in said act.”

[135] Act of May 15, 1913 (P.L. 213, No. 149), entitled “An act to validate certain charters issued by the Governor of the Commonwealth to electric light companies, for districts comprising two or more municipalities or townships, under the thirty-fourth section of the act approved April twenty-nine, one thousand eight hundred seventy-four, entitled ‘An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations,’ and its supplements.”

[136] Act of June 6, 1913 (P.L. 458, No. 304), entitled “An act providing for the making valid of the charters of certain corporations, heretofore incorporated for the purpose of supplying heat, light, and power, by means of electricity, to the public, upon the filing of certain certificates with the Secretary of the Commonwealth.”

[137] Act of April 26, 1917 (P.L. 102, No. 61), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of natural gas companies,’ approved the twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five; providing that corporations engaged in the business of supplying natural gas may manufacture or purchase, and transport and supply, manufactured fuel gas.”

[138] Act of May 3, 1917 (P.L. 146, No. 78), entitled “An act to validate acts done by corporations before the recording of their charters.”

[139] Act of May 17, 1917 (P.L. 228, No. 126), entitled “An act to authorize the payment by corporations to their directors of compensation for services rendered by them.”

[140] Act of July 5, 1917 (P.L. 698, No. 258), entitled “An act to authorize corporations organized for profit, under the laws of Pennsylvania, to continue the salaries of employes enlisting or enrolling in any branch of the military or naval service of the United States, or other protective organization.”

[141] Act of July 19, 1917 (P.L. 1123, No. 382), entitled “An act to authorize the construction of branches by railroad companies.”

[142] Act of April 18, 1919 (P.L. 67, No. 52), entitled “An act to give to women, married and single, the same right as men to be corporators, and, in furtherance of their interests as stockholders, to serve as directors and officers of corporations for profit.”

[143] Act of May 23, 1919 (P.L. 240, No. 132), entitled “An act validating the holding, ownership, and exercise of material, rolling stock, property, and franchises, sold and conveyed under and by virtue of any process or decree of any court or under or by virtue of a power of sale contained in any mortgage or deed of trust, as the property of any gas, water, coal, iron, steel, lumber, oil or mining or manufacturing, transportation or telegraph company, or any railroad, canal, turnpike, bridge, or plank road or any corporation, notwithstanding the failure of the owner or owners thereof to reorganize said company or corporation in accordance with the act of Assembly, entitled ‘An act concerning the sale of railroads, canals, turnpikes, bridges, and plank roads,’ approved the eighth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred sixty-one, and the supplements and amendments thereto.”

[144] Act of May 23, 1919 (P.L. 253, No. 135), entitled “A supplement to the act, approved the twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five (Pamphlet Laws, twenty-nine), entitled ‘An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of natural gas companies,’ authorizing corporations created under said act to renew their charters which are about to expire or have already expired, and providing a procedure therefor, and for the payment of fees and bonus.”

[145] Act of June 20, 1919 (P.L. 509, No. 249), entitled “A supplement to an act, approved the eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine (Pamphlet Laws, one hundred and thirty-six), entitled ‘An act to amend an act, entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations,” approved the twenty-ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, providing for the incorporation and regulation of electric light, heat and power companies,’ granting electric light, heat, and power companies the right to exercise their charter powers in adjoining States.”

[146] Act of July 22, 1919 (P.L. 1123, No. 456), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations,’ approved the twenty-ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four; providing for the incorporation and regulation of telephone companies; defining the rights, powers, and privileges of such corporations; authorizing and regulating the purchase, acquisition, and leasing the whole or any part of the properties, systems, capital stock, and securities of other corporations, associations, and persons engaged in the telephone business; and authorizing existing telegraph corporations to accept the provisions of this act.”