New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-29
No. 90.
AN ACT

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10 amend and re-enact an act entitled an
act to incorporate Independence Fire
Company No. 2. in the city of Baton
Rouge, approved March 10, 1854.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by tie Senate
and House OF Representatives of the State
OF Louisiana in General Assembly con-
vened, That F. Arbour, Jr., A. Attain, S.
Hyatt, +. E. Hebert, Isidore Langnier, Ed
ward HOriat, V. Hencle, Alfred Sheppen
and other members of said fire company
and their associates and successors, not ex-
ceedlng sixty persons in number, shall be
known under the name and style of the In
dependent Fire Company No. = of the city
of Baton Rouge.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That
the above company is hereby constituted
body polite, and under its aforesaid title
shall have succession, and shall be capable
IN law of suing and being sued defending
and being defended in all courts of Justice
whatsoever, and this company and its sue
cessors shall be capable of holding and
conveying real and personal estate for the
use OF said company.
SEC. 3. Be 1t further enacted, etc, That
it shall be the duty of said company to keep
one or more tire engines in good and sufi-
Gent order, and on the alarm of fire within
the limits OF the city Of Baton Rouge, to
repair TO it with dispatch, and to assist
with all means in their power to extinguish
the same.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, etc, That
each member of said fire company shall be
exempt from services on iuries, or doing
militia duty, during the time they are mem
bers of said company, and it shall be the
duty Of the commanding officer and secre-
tary to annually testify under oath that
the numbers on the roll of..thescompany are
active fremen, performing truly and faith
fully the duties of the same on all occa-
sions, unless prevented by sickness or alb
sence, and each and every member of said
company, after they have served as active
members during the space of seven years
shall be eyerafter exempted from serving
on iuries or doing militia duty; provided,
that in every case said member shall have
obtained a certificate from the foreman. or
proper officer OF said company, that he has
during the said term OF seven years well
and faithfully served in said company as an
active member thereof; and provided also,
that in no case shall any member of said
company be exempted from militia or mill
tary duty in times of invasion or civil com
motion. 1t shall he the duty of the fore
man, or proper officer of said company. to
deliver to the sheriff of the parish of East
Baton Rouge. and to the colonel or COM
handing officer of the Louisiana militia,
IN which regiments thereof said members
may belong a certified list of the members
composing said company.
SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, etc. That
all fines imposed by the said company in
conformity with its bylaws shall be re-
coverable before any justice of the peace
within the corporation OF the city of Baton
Rouge.
SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, etc, That
section six, reading as follows: THAT the
said company shall endure and this act be
enforced for the space of twenty years, If
before that time the Legislature shall not
modify or repeal the same" be so amended
and re-enacted 50 as to read: That the
said company shall endure and this act be
for the space of fifteen years, if
before that time the Legislature shall not
modify or repeal the same
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, etc, That
all laws or parts of laws conflicting with
this act are repealed SO far as they conflict,
and this act shall take effect from and after
it's passage.
(Signed) CHARLES w. LOWELL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
(Signed) G. G. ANTOINE,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate
Approved March u, 1874.
(SIgned) WILLIAM 2. KELLOGG.
Governor OF the State Of Louisiana.
a true copy:
?. G. DEsLONDE.
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