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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
of the city of Baltimore, that they have purchased a fire-engine,
and other apparatus, for the extinguishment of fire,
and have obtained a lot of ground from John Eager Howard
for the purpose of erecting thereon a house for the reception
of the engine, and to be used for such other purposes
as shall tend to promote the interest of the institution; and
in order to secure the right and title to the said property, and to
give effect to the laws, rules and regulations, which have or may
be established by the said company, it has been prayed that an act
of incorporation may pass in their favour; therefore, |
1807.
CHAP. 133. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Ebenezer Finley, president, Peter Little, first vice-president, William
Krebs, second vice-president, Leonard Frailey, Owen Dorsey
and Samuel Howard, and such other persons as now are or hereafter
may become members of the said company, shall be, and they
are hereby declared to be, one community, corporation and body
politic, for ever hereafter, by the name and style of the New-Market
Fire Company, and by that name they shall be and are hereby
made able and capable in law to have, purchase, receive, possess,
enjoy and retain, to them and their successors, lands, tenements,
rents, annuities, or other hereditaments, and the same to grant,
demise, alien or dispose of, in such manner as they may judge most
conducive to the interest of the company; Provided nevertheless,
that the said corporation or body politic, shall not at any one time
hold or possess property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding the
sum of one thousand dollars per annum. |
Company incorporated.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company,
and their successors,
by the aforesaid name, shall for ever hereafter be able and
capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer
and be answered, defend and be defended, in all or any courts of
justice whatsoever, and also to have, make and use, a common seal,
and the same to break, alter and renew, at pleasure, and also to
assemble and meet at such times and places as they may agree
upon, and to ordain, establish and put in execution, such by-laws,
ordinances and regulations, as to them shall seem conducive to the
interest of the said company, and necessary to the good government
and orderly management thereof, the same not being contrary
to the laws of this state or of the United States, and generally to
do and execute all such acts, matters and things, as to them shall
or may appertain to do. |
Company may sue
and be sued, &c.
and ordain by-laws,
&c. |
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CHAP. CXXXIV.
An Act to vest certain powers in the Orphans Court of Charles County,
and for other purposes. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 467. |
Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that Morris
J. McDonough, late of Charles county, deceased, by his last will
and testament devised certain property, real and personal, to Richard
Barnes, Robert Fergusson and Benjamin Contee, in trust, for
the purposes herein after mentioned, and requested that his executrix
should petition the general assembly of Maryland to pass a
law to authorise and empower the orphans court to assume the control
over the said property, and superintend the application thereof:
And whereas the executrix named in the said will is now dead:
And whereas it is wise and humane that the object of the said
Morris J. McDonough should be carried into execution, but inasmuch
as from the very organization of the orphans court they |
Preamble. |
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