1841.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 53.

Proviso.

appurtenance, which shall stand or be situated on the public
ground, to erect or attach to said dwelling house, such porch,
portico or other appurtenance; provided, said porch, portico
or other appurtenance shall not occupy in wedth, a greater
space than is occupied by the general or average wedth of
the porches and porticoes, now erected in said town.

CHAPTER 53.

Passed Feb
2, 1842

An act to incorporate the Watchman Fire Company, of the
City of Baltimore.

Preamble

Whereas, it is represented to this General Assembly,
that the members of the Watchman Fire Company of the
city of Baltimore, have provided themselves with a com-
plete and efficient apparatus for the extinguishment of fires,
and have adopted a constitution for the government of said
company, and in order to give effect to the laws, rules, and
regulations which Have been, or may be established by the
said company, it has been prayed that an act of incorpora-
tion may pass in their favor—therefore,

Incorporated

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Langly B. Cully, the president of said
company, John S. Brown, Abraham Busch and Thomas W.
Jay, the vice presidents of said company, and Joseph Craig,
Michael Dorsey, Gideon Brown, Joseph Donovan, John
Watchman, Henry Myers, George Klasey and Richard H.
Middleton, members of said company, and such other per-
sons as are now, or may hereafter become members of the
same, shall be, and are hereby declared to be one community,
corporation and body politic thereafter, by the name and style

Corporate
name and
powers

of the Watchman 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, devise, alien or dis-
pose of, in such manner as they may judge most conducive

Proviso

to the interest of the company; provided nevertheless, that the
said corporation or body politic shall not at any time hold
or possess property, real, personal, or mixed, exceeding the
sum of two thousand dollars per annum.

Legal powers

Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That the said company and their
successors, by the aforesaid name, shall forever Hereafter be
able and capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defend-
ed, in all or any courts of justice whatsoever, and also to