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BALTIMORE CITY.

fire company, unless authorized so to do by the president and

electors of said company, or by their duly authorized agent ;

and any person offending against the provisions of this section,

Fine$5.

shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than five dollars, nor more

than twenty dollars, to be sued for and recovered in the name

of the company, and for the use of the company, before a single

magistrate, in the same way that small debts are by law reco-

verable.

Company

SEC. 6. And be U enacted. That it shall be the duty of the

badge.

president and directors of each fire company to appoint and

order some appropriate designation or badge to be worn by the

members of said company, in front of their hats or caps, at all

times when attending their engine \ and if any person, not a

member of said company, shall assume or wear said badge, or

aiay imitation thereof, at any time when the company shall be

Penalty for

engaged in their appropriate duties, he shall be fined, in a sum

assuming.

not exceeding five dollars, to be sued for and recovered in the

Dame and for the use of the said company, before a single ma-

gistrate, in the way that small debts are by law recoverable.

Competent

SEC.7. And be it enacted, That any member or members of

witnesses.

a fire company, notwithstanding his or their being a member of

the company, seeking to recover the penalty imposed by this

act, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be competent

witnesses in any case wherein the penalties imposed by this

act ate sought to be recovered.

FREE SCHOOLS.

AN ACT for the benefit of the several Free Schools in the City and Pre

cincts of Baltimore.— 1814, ch. 131.

Bond to be

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That upon passing any order in

required.

pursuance of this act, the court aforesaid shall require a bond,

with security to be by them approved, to be given to this state,

which shall be recorded and preserved in said court as other

records are, conditioned for the faithful application of all mo-

neys to be received under such orders, to the benefit of the

institution to which the orders shall direct its payment, and also

with the further condition that a true account shall be submitted

to said court of the expenditure of said money, at least once

in a year, or oftener if by them required.

Not to in-

SEC. 3. Provided always , and be it enacted, That nothing in

terfere with

this act contained shall be construed to interfere with or affect

rights of
Charitable

the rights vested in the Charitable Marine Society of Baltimore,

Marine
Society.

by the act, entitled, a supplement to the act, entitled, an act to
incorporate the Charitable Marine Society of Baltimore, passed

* Ch. 123.

at November session, eighteen hundred and seven.*

The residue repealed by 1838, ch.407.

See 'Schools' post.