Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-02-04

an apDeal thereon; and, u either OF the SAID
companies shall expe any member thereof, ne,
the said member 50 expelled. shall thereupon
forfeit all the rights, privileges, and immunties,
granted by this act; and 1t shall be the duty OF
the Secretary of the company from which the
said member shall be SO expelled. Immediately,
70 inform the Captain of the militia company
within whose limits the said member shall reside
that he ha. been so expelled; and the said expel-
led member shall thereupon be enrolled in the
said militia company, and compelled to perform
Sec. 4. ind be it further enacted, That all
and every sum and sums of money collected un-
der the authority of this act shall be paid over by
the officer other person collecting the same. to
the Treasurer Of the company in the name OF
which the warrant shall have been issued. or mo-
ney collected; and upon such officer or other per,
sous failing to pay over the same, the said Trea-
surer may recover the same by warrant or suit IN
his own name, for the use of the said fire compa-
nv, in the same manner private debts are now
recovered by law. And each and every OF the
said fire companies now existing or which may
hereafter be formed as aforesaid, shall each for
itself provide fund for the relief OF such mem
Der or members of such company, who shall or
may receive any corporeal hurt or injury, or con-
tract any disease, ut, or in consequence OF, any
fire. and be unable TO provide medical AID, Or
whose family Or families may be dependent upon
his or their daily labor for support and tor the
relief of the family or families OF any member or
members of such fire company, who shall or may
be killed at, or die 10 consequences of any inju-
ry received or disease contracted at, or in copse.
quence Of, any fire, and whose family and FAINT
lies may have been dependent upon his or their
daily labor for support: and the Treasurer Of the
said company shall, after having paid all the ex-
penses which the said company shall have lawful
~ incurred, pay to the said fund the residue
of all fines collected undPr the authority Of this
act.
SEQ ). find be II further enacted. That moth
ing in this act shall be constructed to interfere
with the right Of the corporate authorities OF the
several cities aforesaid ''to provide tor the pre-
yenton and extingushment of hres;" and it is
hereby declared to be the true intent and mean.
Ing OF the several acts OF incorporation OF the Sc
versl cities aforesaid, to give TO the corporate
authorities thereof full power and lawful autho-
rily to make all necessary provisions for the pre-
vention and extiuguishment # fires; for the pre-
servation Of order and protection OF property at
any fire; for the removal from any fire OF suspl
cious persons, and those who are disobedient 10
the regulations OF the said several Corporations;
for the punishment, by fine aud Imprisonment. OF
such person and persons as, being present at, re-
proper officer. in extinguishing any fire; for the
iemoval of such property as may be necessary to
be removed, TO prevent and arrest the progress Of
any fires; and to aid. protect and obtain ODE
dience TO the officers in command of the several
fire companies. and to protect the members there
of while in the discharge of their duty any fire.
BILL for quieting possessions, enrolling con-
veyances, and securing the estates of purchas-
ers within the District of Columbia
Be IL enacted by The Senate and House of Re-
personalities file u s. Of annerica in Congress
assembled. That if any person or persons, seized
or possessed of, or holding any estate or interest
IN any lands, tenements. or Entertainments, lying
and being within the District of Columbia. shall
execute and acknowledge deed for the convey
ance of such estate or interest, or foe declaring
or limiting any use or trust in and of the same,
before any Judge of a court Of record and of law
of the State and county in which such person or
persons may be, or before any chancellor of any
such State, or before any judge Of the supreme.
circuit, district. or territorial Courts of the U.
States, or before any two justices Of the peace OF
the State, District or Territory, and County,
in which such person or persons may De;
and such judge, chancellor, or justices, shall an
mex to such a deed a certificate. under his or
their hands, of the execution and acknowledge
ment thereof and that the grantOr Or grantors
was or were known to him or them, or that his
her, or their identity had been satisfactorily prov
ed, and the register, clerk, or prothonatory Of
such court or county shall also certify, under his
hand and the seal of his office, that the judge,
chancellor. or justices, is or are. was or were,
such at the time of the execution and acknOw-
Judgement thereof; or if any such person or per-
sons, seized or possessed as aforesaid, shall be
in some foreign country, and shall execute and
acknowledge any such deed before any judge or
chancellor of any court, master, or master extra
ordinary IN chancery,, or notary public in such
foreign country; and such execution and &C
Acknowledgement, and also the identity Of the
grantor or grantors, shall be certified upon or an
nexed to, such deed. under the hand and seal
Of any such judge. chancellor. master or mas
ter extraordinary. or notary public; and such
deed, so executed, acknowledged and certified.
in the several and respective modes aforesaid,
shall be recorded amongst the land records of the
County Of Washington, or the County Of Alex