JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1833.

appointed Commissioners, a majority of whom shall have
power to act, to contract with, and employ any person or
persons to build and complete the same.

CHAP. 164

Sec. 3 And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the aforesaid commissioners to cause a bond with approv-
ed security to be given in double the amount of the con-
tract, for the true and faithful performance of the work,
and for the insurance of the bridge for ten years.

Bond required

Sec. 4. And 6e it enacted, That the commissioners for
Anne Arundel county, in their discretion, allow to each of
said commissioners, two dollars per day for each day they
may be necessarily employed, in executing trie duties im-
posed on them by this act.

Compensation

CHAPTER 154.

An Act to incorporate the Union Fire Company of Balti-
more.

Passed Mar. 5, 1334

WHEREAS, it has been represented to this General As-
sembly that the members of the Union Fire Company of
Baltimore have associated themselves for the purpose of
protecting the property in said City from fire, and have a-
dopted rules and regulations for the Government of said
Company, and in order to give effect to such rules and
reflations, and to promote the object of their association
are desirous of obtaining an Act of incorporation; — There-
fore.

Preamble

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That, Charles Kernan, Thomas W. Lever-
ing, and Jesse B. Wright, and such other persons as now are
or hereafter may become members thereof, be and are here-
by declared to be one corporation and body politic, forever

Persons incorpora-
ted

hereafter by the name, style and title of "The Union Fire
Company of Baltimore," and by that name shall be and are
hereby made capable in law to have, purchase, receive,
possess, enjoy and retain to them and their successors, lands
tenements, rents, annuities or other hereditaments or prop-
erty, and the same to grant, demise, alien or dispose of, in
such manner as they may judge most conducive to the in-

Style

terest 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 fifteen hundred dollars per annum.

Estate limited