WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

CHAPTER 246.

CHAP. 246.

An act to incorporate a Company, in the City of Balti-
more, to be called the Columbian Fire Company.

Passed Mar. 26,
1839.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assem-
bly that the members of the Columbian Fire Company,
of the city of Baltimore, have provided themselves
with a complete and efficient apparatus for the ex-
tinguishment 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

been prayed that an act of incorporation may pass in
their favour: — Therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That John Henderson, the President of said
company, Frederick S. Littig, the Vice President of
said company, and John Henderson, James Frazier,
junior, Aaron Stockton, James Baxter, Job Fosler,
John Jillard, junior, William Hunt, Henry W. S.
Evans, Joseph Capprice, Richard Hamilton, Thomas
Binnion, junior, and William Hooper, Directors of
said company, and such other person as are now, or
may hereafter become members of the same, shall be,
and are hereby declared to be one community, corpo-

Persons incorporat-

ed.

ration and body politic forever thereafter, by the name
and style of the Columbian Fire. Company, and by
that name they shall be, and are hereby made able and

Name and style.

capable in law to have, purchase, receive, possess, en-
joy and retain to them and their successors, lands,
tenements, rents, annuities or other heriditaments,
and the same to grant, demise, alien, or dispose of,
in such manner as they may judge most conducive to

May hold property.

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.

Limit $2, 000 per

annum.

Sec. 2. 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
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Legal capacity.