Seal on Township Bonds

Brown, Dep. Att’y-Gen.,

Your letter of Nov. 23rd, relative to the purchase of $15,000 of Pike Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, road bonds, the said bonds having no seal attached to them, has been received. Townships, while not strictly corporations, are quasi-corporations. The statutes confer upon them all the powers they possess, prescribe all the duties, and impose all liabilities to which they are subject; being such quasi-municipal corporations, they must act in a corporate way: Shronk v. Penn Township, 3 Rawle, 347; Union Township v. Gibboney, 94 Pa. 534.

One of the powers of the…