WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

with a complete and efficient apparatus for the extin-
guishment 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 or may be established by the said company, it
has been prayed that an act of incorporation may pass
in their favor; — Therefore,

CHAP. 373.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Charles W. Karthaws, the president
of said company, Frederick E. B. Hintze, vice presi-
dent of said company, and Charles Diffenderffer, Louis
Holter, Thomas Trotton, John A. Diffenderffer, Hugh
Deralin, George W. Pryor, William Ward, William
Higgins, William Craggs and Richard Miller, direc-
tors of said company, and such other persons as are
now, or may hereafter become members of the same,
shall be and they are hereby declared to be one com-
munity, corporation, and body politic, forever, here-

Persons incorporat-

ed.

after, by the name and style of the Friendship Fire
Company, and by that name they shall be and are
hereby made able and capable in law, to have, pur-
chase, receive, possess, enjoy and retain to them, and
their successors, lands, tenements, rents, annuities or

Name and style.

other hereditaments; and the same to grant, demise,

alien and dispose of, in such manner as they may judge

Corporate powers.

most conducive to the interest of the company; provi-

ded 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 thou-
sand dollars per annum.

Real estate—limit.

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 an-
swered, defend and he 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 also to assemble and meet at such
times and places as they may agree upon, and to or-
dain, establish, and put in execution, such by-laws,
and regulations, as to them shall seem conducive to
the interest of said company and necessary to the
good government and orderly management thereof;
the same not being contrary to the laws of this State

General powers
conferred.