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CHAP. 51.
Incorporated.
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selves for the purpose of protecting the property in said
village from fire, and have adopted rules and regulations,
and to promote the object of this association are desirous
of obtaining an act of incorporation—Therefore,
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Samuel Peaco, David Gilmore, Joseph
G. Nesbitt, T. B. Knight, Jacob Tome, Andrew Orr,
Benjamin Vandiver, John William McCullough, Alex-
ander Brown, Joseph W. Abrahams, Alonzo Snow, John
J. Heckart, and such others as now are or hereafter may
become members of the Susquehanna Fire Company of
Port Deposit, their successors and assigns shall be, and
they are hereby created and made a corporation and body
politic, by the name and style of the Susquehanna Fire
Company, of the village of Port Deposit, and by that
name they shall be and are hereby made able and capable
in law to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and re-
tain to them and their successors, lands, tenements, here-
ditaments, goods, chattels and effects of what kind soe-
ver, not exceeding in the whole amount of value often
thousand dollars, and the same to grant, demise, alien, or
dispose of, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
answer and be answered, defend and be defended in any
courts of record or any other place whatsoever, and also
to make, hare and use a common seal, and the same to
break, alter and renew at pleasure, and also to ordain and
establish, and put in execution, such by-laws, ordinances
and regulations, as shall seem necessary for the govern-
ment of said corporation, not being contrary to law, or
the constitution thereof, for which purpose general meet-
ings of stockholders shall and may be called by the di-
rectors or two-thirds of the stockholders, previously giv-
ing ten days notice in handbills, to be put up at all the
public places in said village.
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Five Direc-
tors.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the affairs of said com-
pany shall be managed by five directors, to be chosen
from among the stockholders on the first Monday in
March, in each and every year, except to fill vacancies,
when extra elections shall be held to fill such vacancies
for the unexpired time, who shall have power to make,
revise, alter or annul, rules, orders, bylaws and regula-
tions for the government of the company, who shall also,
have power and authority to appoint a treasurer, or any
other officer that may be necessary for the management or
superintendence of their concerns, and to allow to said
treasurer or other officers such reasonable salary as to
them shall seem proper; and generally to do all acts and
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