Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-05-08
AN ACT to incorporate tho Washington
Fire Company Number one in the
town of Baton Isoupe.

AN ACT to incorporate tho Washington
Fire Company Number one in the
town Of Baton Rouge.
Section LIT. BE Il enacted BY tic Senate
and House IF Representatives Of the STATE
Of Louisiana ia general assembly conrened;
That A. &. Mahgrum, Il. w. Slocumb, l..
II. Trtdean, Alexander Shaw, William =.
Pike, John Sans, junior, Jamcs Cooper,
John y. Wolff. John I%Iug,et, Thomas
Cumming, +. A. Walker, Henry Aldrieh
and others, members OF said fire company,
aud their associates and successors not OK
cnodltig forty persons in number, shall be
known under tho nalnc and style Of the
Washington Fire Company number II in
The town OF Ba' on Rouge.
Section I'd. BE IL further enacted, etc,
That the aforesaid Company is ereby
constituted II body polite and under its
aforesaid title sE,ull have succession and
shall be capable in law of suing and being
sued, defending and being defended in all
courts Of justice whatsoever, and the said
company and its successors shall be capa-
bio Of purchasing, holding and conveying
real and personal c3tuto for the use of said
company.
Section Sd. 10 IL further eaaoted, etc,
That ii shall be- the duty OF sud Company
TO keep one or more fire engines in good
and sufficient order md on the alarm Of
fire within the limits Of the corporation of
tho town Of Baton Rouge 10 repair to it
with despatch and to assist with all tho
means In their power t" c%xtingulsh the
same.
Section idl. Be it further enacted, etc,
That each member of said fire company
shall be exempt lrcm serving on jurios or
doing militia duty during the time they
uro members Of said company and it shall
be the duty Of the commanding officer and
secretary to annually testify under oath
that the members Oh the roll of the Com
pany are active fiemen performing truly
and faithfully tic duties Of the same on al
occasions unless prevented BY sickness or
absence. And ench and every member
Of said company after they have served us
active members Of said company tue space
Of ten years, shall forever after be exempt
from serving on jmies or doing militia
duty, pr vided that in every such case,
said member shall hive obtained q eertiti-
cate from the foreman or proper officer of
said company that he has during The said
term of ten years well and faithfully served
in sail company M nm active member
thereof. And provided also, TINT IN no
case shall any member Of said company be
exempt from militia or military duty, in
times of invasion, instruction OF civil ON
motion. It shall be The duty Of the fore
man or proper officer Of said company to
deliver to the saoriifof the Parish of East
Baton Rouge, and to the Colonel or com
manding Officer of the regiment Of militia
to which such member may belong a ceiti-
fled list Of the members composing said
company.
Section 9Th. BE il further enacted, etc,
That all fines imposed by said company in
conformity with its bye laws shall be reco-
verablc before the town magistrate or any
other justice of the peace in said corpora
ton.
Section 9th. Be it further caacted, etc,
That said company shall endure and this
act be in force for the space of ten years,
fbefore that time the Legislature shall not
modify OF repeal the same.
(Signed,) VIM. DUBUYS,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
(Signed,) FELIX GARCIA,
President of tx Senate.
Approved March I'd, 1871.
(signed,) A. b. ROMAN,
Governor of The State of Louisiana.