Year: 1861

QuallncQ, TO take the assets OF SucI
partnership at the appraised value
thereof, first deducting therefrom the
debts and liabilities of such partnership
and upon his or their giving to the ad-
ministrator or exasator of such deceased
partner his or their promissory note,
with good and approved security for the
payment of the interest of such deceased
partner in said partnership assets in
nine months from the time he or they
shall SO elect to take said partnership
assets; and, provided further, that said
surviving partner or partners shall give
bond and security to the administrator
or executor of such deceased partner,
for the payment Of the debts and laibil-
tiles Of such partnership.


SEC. 4. This act to take effect from
and after its passage.


ED. A. PARROTT,
Speaker pro tenn. of the House of Rep


resentat1ves.


JAMES MONROE,


President pro tenn. of the Senate.
mo. a3,1 AN ACT


Supplementary to an "act to provide for


the creation and regulation of incor-


porated companies in the State of


Ohio" passed May l, 1852.


SECTION l. Be 1t enacted By the Gen.
eraz Assembly Of the ,State Of Ohio. That
from and after the passage of this act, it
shall be lawful for any number of active
fremen, not less than ten, being men,
bers of any regular fire company, or hose
or hook and ladder company, in this
state, to associate themselves together as
a Firemen's General Relief Association,
having for its principal object the relief
of fremen disabled while on duty, with
the power also of donating as it may
deem proper, under such rules as may
be established, to poor, sick fremen, and
to the widows and orphans of deceased
fremen.


SEC. g. That said active fremen, in
number not less than ten, shall first in-
dicate their intention to form such asso-
citation by signing their names to pa
per declaring such to be their intention,
and fixing therein time and place for
the election of officers and the taking Of
proper steps to perfect their organization
as body corporate under the provis-
ions of this act.


Sec. 8. That said persons so signing
said paper as aforesaid. in number not
less than tea, may proceed, at the time
and place designated, to select their cor
porate name, and to elect from their men,
bers president, secretary, treasurer, and
any number Of their members, not less
than three, to serve as trustees or direc-
tors who shall hold their Offices during
the pleasure. Of the association.


SEC. t. That the Secretary SO ap-
pointed shall make out a true record of
the proceedings of said meeting, incor-
porating therein the original paper pro-
vided for in section two of this act, and
shall certify and deliver the same to the
recorder Of the county in which such
meeting shall be held, together with the
name by which such association shall de-
sire to be known; and it shall be the duty
of such county recorder Immediately
upon the receipt Of such certified state
ment, to record the same in a book Of
record to be kept by him, provided for
that purpose by the commissioners OF
the county, for which record he may de-
mand and receive the sum of ten cents
per hundred words, and from and after
such record being made, said persons
and their successors, and their associated
members shall be invested with the pow
ers, privileges and immunities incident
to aggregate corporations, and certi-
fed copy of the record herein authorized
to be made by the county recorder shall
be deemd and taken in all places and
courts whatsoever in this state as evil
dence Of the existence of such associa-
ton or corporation.


Sec. 5. The trustees or directors who
may be elected as provided for in sec
ton three, and their successors in office
whether three in number or any larger
number as may be ordered by
said body corporate, elected in such
manner as may be ordered, either by
the members of said body corporate in
its aggregate capacity or by the active
fremen of each fire, or hose, or hook
and ladder company being members in
good and regular standing in said body
corporate, holding separate elections and
electing such number of directors or
trustees as said body corporate may de-
eide and order, shall have perpetual sue
cession by such name as may be desig-
mated, and by such name shall be legally
capable of contracting, and of prosecu-
ting and defending suits, and shall have
capacity to acquire, hold, enjoy, dispose
of and convey, all property, real or per-
sonal, which it may acquire by purchase,
contribution, donation, assessment upon
its members, or otherwise, for the pur-
pose of carrying out the intention OF
such body corporate; but it shall not ac-
quire or hold property for any other pur-
pose; and for the purpose of increasing
its funds, it shall have the power OF
loaning its moneys upon bond and mort,
gage, under such rules and regulations
as may be prescribed, and at an annual
interest not exceeding six per cent. pei
annum.


SEC. 6. That such association or body
corporate, when incorporated as herein
provided for, shall have full power to
make and establish such rules and by
laws for its government as it may deem
best; to decide what officers it shall
have, and to prescribe the times and
manner Of their elections; the trustees
or directors to be elected, either by said
corporation in its aggregate capacity or
by the members Of each authorized fire
company, hose Or hook and ladder COM
pany, being members of said body cor
porate in good standing therein; to pre-
scribe the powers and duties Of its Off
GERS; to make all regulations for the re-
lief of fremen disabled while on duty:
to provide for such entrance fee for mem
bers, 'and such weekly, monthly or