THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

pose of insuring houses and other property, and were ac-
tuated therein by the wants of the community, and for
the purpose of securing to themselves whatever benefit
is derived from similar associations.

CHAP. 372.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland. That John Dukehart, of the Mechanical;
Thomas W. Levering, of the Union; Daniel Super, of
the Friendship; Samuel S. Briggs, of the Deptford;
James A. May, of the Liberty; John Rodgers, of the
Independent; Charles C. Egerton, Jr., of the Vigilant;
Charles McDonald, of the New Market; Henry W. S.
Evans, of the Columbian; J. Hamilton Goll, of the First
Baltimore; Anthony Whittenberger, of the United;
James Young, of the Franklin; Jesse Hunt, of the
Washington; Andrew E. Warner, of the Patapsco;
Francis A. Miller, of the Howard; Henry E. Barton, Jr.,
of the Watchman, and John Pickell, of the Lafayette,
fire and hose companies, and Thomas M. Locke, of the
Baltimore United Fire Department, together with the sub-
scribers to the stock of the association, and their succes-
sors shall be, and they are hereby declared to be a body
politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Presi-
dent and Directors of the Association of Active Firemen,
in the city of Baltimore, and by that name shall have per-
petual succession, and be capable in law to sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered,
defend and be defended, in all courts of law or equity or
elsewhere, and to make and use one common seal, and
the same to alter or renew at their pleasure, and gener-
ally to do and perform all things relative to the objects
of this association, which now is or shall be lawful for
any individual or body politic or corporate to do.

Incorporated.

SEC 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
the association shall be one hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars, divided into one hundred thousand
shares, at one dollar and twenty-five cents each share,
with the privilege of increasing, until the same shall
reach a sum not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars;
the said sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars to be paid in the following instalments, viz:
twenty-five cents shall he paid on each share at the time
of subscribing, sixty days after such subscription and
payment, a further instalment of ten cents shall he paid
on each share; four months after the first subscription
and payment, a further instalment of ten cents shall be
paid on each share; six months alter the first subscrip-
tion and payment, a further instalment of ten cents shall

Capital stock
$25, 000.