1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 213.

CHAPTER 213.

Passed Mar. 1.

1850.

An act entitled, an act to incorporate the Mutual Fire
Insurance Company of Baltimore County.

Incorporated,
&c.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Peter W. Gibbins, Thomas J.
Welsh, James L. Ridgley, Lemuel Offutt, Robert M.
Denison, Frederick Harrison, Edward Worthington,
John T. Ford, Jonathan Tracy, William Curtis,
William H. Hoffman, Jacob M. Hampshire, Pleasant
Hunter, William Rowe, Thomas H. Matthew, Edward
Rider, George M. Hiss, Charles A. Buchanan, John
B. Pearce, Joseph D. Dance, Walter T. Allender,
Thomas Gorsuch, Carvil Stansbury, and Thomas S.
Jones, and their successors, and all other persons who
may hereafter become members of the corporation to
be created by this act, are hereby created and declared
to be a body politic and corporate, by the name, style,
and title of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company, in
Baltimore county, and by the same name shall have
succession, and be able to sue and be sued, implead
and he impleaded, answer and defend, and be an-
swered and defended, in all courts of law and equity
in this State, or elsewhere, to have, make and use a
common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew
at their pleasure, and shall have full power and autho-
rity to make insurances on any kind of property
against loss and damage by fire, to provide for the
keeping and investment of any funds or assets that
may become the property of the company, and gene-
rally to transact, execute and perform all such business
as may appertain to a fire company, not being contrary
to this act, of the constitution and laws of this State,

Proviso.

or of the United States; provided however, that nothing
in this act shall be construed to grant banking privi-
leges on the said company, or the right to issue any
note of the nature of a bank note.

Duty of secre-
tary.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the secretary of the said company to keep a book
containing a copy of this act, and of such constitution
and bye-laws of the said company as may be estab-
lished, and that all persons who may wish to become
members of the said company as may be established,
and that all persons who may wish to become mem-
bers of the said company, shall be required to express
in writing at the foot thereof, their assent thereto,
which expression of assent, and the payment of such