WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

is Riggle, George Messamore, David Lippy, Elias
Buckingham, Jacob Houck, George E. Weaver,
George Everhart, George Trump, William Crumrine,
Jacob Lineweaver, Henry Krantz, Henry Brink-
man, John Shultz, Jesse Shulty, Andrew Pfeifer, Eze-
kiel Boring, James Davis, Jacob Frankforter, David
Frankforter, Joseph Gonter, George Baker, Joseph
Gardner, Jacob Wentz, George Wentz, Frederick
Hamburg, Jacob Kerlinger, Jacob Miller, Charles Mil-
ler, Samuel B. Furhman, George Matter, David Houck,
Amos Gauman, Jacob Campbell, Adam Shower,
Joshua F. Kopp, John Kuhn, Michael Gettier, George
Lineweaver, Levi Maxfield, Michael Matter, Gar-
ret Garner, Richard Jones, James Stansbury, Henry
E. Beltz, Joseph M. Parke, Philip Crumrine, Fred-
erick Smith, John N. Steffy, Levi Mansfield, Henry
Lippy, John Krantz, John Everhart, and David
Whiteleather, and their successors, and such other per-
sons as are now, or hereafter may become members of
the same; shall be, and are hereby declared to be one
community, corporation and body politic, forever,

CHAP. 248.

hereafter, by the name of the Union Fire Company, in
the borough of Manchester, the object of which com-

Name and style.

pany is hereby declared to be, the protection of the pro- i
perty, within the borough of Manchester and vicinity,
from destruction by fire, for which purpose they shall
be, and are hereby made able and capable in law, to

Purpose.

have, purchase, receive, possess and retain to them:
and their successors, lands, tenements, rents, annui-
ties, or other hereditaments, ami the same to grant)
demise, alien, or dispose of, in such manner as they
may judge most conducive to the interests of the com-

May hold estate.

pany; provided nevertheless, that said corporation, or
body politic, shall not at any time, hold, or possess
property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding the sum
of five thousand dollars.

Limit $5, 000.

Sec. 2. And. be it enacted, That said company, and
their successors, by the name aforesaid, shall forever
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
to assemble and meet at such times and places as they

Legal qualification.