1842

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE> GOVERNOR,

CHAP. 60.

CHAPTER 60.

Passed Feb. 6,
1843.

An act to incorporate the Independent Junior Fire Company
of Hagerstown.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly,
that the members of the Independent Junior Fire Com-
pany of Hagerstown, have associated themselves for the
purpose of protecting the property in said town from fire,
and have adopted rules and regulations for the government
of said company, and in order to give effect to such rules
and regulations and to promote the object of their associa-
tion are desirous of obtaining an act of incorporation —
therefore,

Incorporated.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That James L. Freanar, Peter Hammond, J.
B. Updegraff, G. H. P. Schwartz, Cornelius Arty, William
Force, William Bierstring, Martin Sater, William William-
son, John Boyd and such others as now are, or hereafter
may become members of the Independent Junior Fire Com-
pany of Hagerstown, are hereby declared to be one com-
munity corporation and body politic, by the name and style
of the Independent Junior Fire Company, for which purpose
they are hereby made able and capable in law to have, pur-
chase, receive and possess, enjoy and retain to them and
their successors, lands, tenements, rents, annuities and other
hereditaments, and the same to grant, demise or dispose of,
in such manner as they may judge most conducive to the

Proviso.

interest of the company, provided however, that the corpora-
tion shall not at any time hold or possess property, real or
personal or mixed, exceeding in value the sum of five
thousand dollars.

Corporate
powers.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said company and
their successors, by the aforesaid name, shall be able and
capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
defend and be defended, in all and any court of justice what-
ever, and also to have, make and use a common seal, and
the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure, and to as-
semble and meet at such places and times as they may agree
upon; and to ordain, establish and put in execution such
bye-laws, ordinances and regulations as to them shall seem
conducive to the interest of the said company, and necessa-
ry to the good government and orderly management there-
of, 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 and matters and things as to them shall or may
appertain to do.