PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1847.

CHAPTER 212.

An act to incorporate the Mutual Insurance Company of
Anne Arundel County.

CHAP. 212.

Passed
March 3, 1848.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That John S. Sellman, John F. Bird, John
Iglehart, Doctor Richard S. Stewart, James Kent, John
F. Wilson, Henry Owens, Gassaway Winterson, Ed-
ward Harvey, John W. Iglehart, Doctor James S.
Owens, James Higgins, James H. Watkins, Nicholas
B. Worthington, Thomas R. Kent, Thomas Davidson,

Alfred Sellman, Doctor Benjamin Watkins, Thomas H.
Hodges, Thomas S. Iglehart, Thomas Welch and all
other persons who may hereafter associate with them in
the manner herein prescribed, be and they are hereby in-

Incorporated.

corporated by the name of the Mutual Insurance Com-
pany of Anne Arundel county, for the purpose of insur-
ing their respective d welling houses, manufactories, mills,
stores, shops and other1 buildings, merchandize, household
furniture and other property against; loss or damage by
fire, and by such name shall have succession, to sue and
be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or
equity in this State, to have, make and use a common
seal, and the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure.

Name and
style.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the above named
persons shall be the directors of said company until the
first Monday of May eighteen hundred and forty-nine,
at which time and annually thereafter, twelve directors
shall be elected to manage the affairs of said company,
and each member having property insured to the amount
of one hundred dollars shall be entitled to one vote, and
notice of every such election to be given in one or more
newspapers published in Anne Arundel county at least
three weeks before such election shall be held, and the
persons herein named as directors shall immediately
after the passage of this act, organize company and
prepare a constitution or bye-laws, as they may see best,
to be submitted to the members for adoption before
the said first Monday in May eighteen hundred and
forty-nine.

Directors—
how and when
elected.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the officers of this
company shall be a president, secretary, treasurer and
such agent or agents, surveyor or surveyors as may be
necessary to carry this act into effect, to be elected by
the board of directors annually, and whose duties, obli-
gations and responsibilities shall be such as may be de-
signated in the constitution and bye-laws.

Officers—
how, when and
by whom elec-
ted.