CHAPTER CCXV.

An Act to incorporate the Defiance Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 of the City of Jefferson.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That James Hoban, Charles G. Graham, W. P. Levy, A. J. Redman, Julius Ney, F. H. Goodfellow, P. M. Graham, W. E. Estes, P. Eldridge, Joseph Brnckmiller, J. P. Russell, W. Q. Bateman, J. A. Noreworthy, V. H. Claiborne, and others, of the county of Marion and State of Texas, and their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the Defiance Hook and Ladder Company No. 1; and by that name shall have succession, and may sue and be sued, plead and be im- pleaded; have and use a corporate seal; buy, sell and' hold property, real, personal and mixed, not to exceed in value twenty thousand dollars; may contract and be contracted with, and make all rates and by-laws that may be necessary for the government of the company, and have and exercise all the powers and rights generally incident to such companies.

Sec. 2. That said company shall have the right, in its constitution or by-laws, to impose fines upon its members for neglect of duty, not to exceed in any one instance the sum of five dollars, which may be collected in the name of said company by suit before any justice of the peace in and for the county of Marion.

Sec. 3. That the members of said company shall never be less than twenty-five nor more than sixty in number.

Sec. 4. That the members of the company, as long as they are in good standing, shall and they are hereby exempt from militia duty and serving as jurymen.

Sec. 5. That it shall be the duty of the secretary to report all members who absent themselves from three consecutive regular meetings to the sheriff of the county as no longer members of the company, and subject to jury duty.

Sec. 6. That neither the company nor its members shall be liable in damages, or otherwise, for property destroyed or injured by the company while in the discharge of their duties as firemen : provided, it is done by the order of the chief engineer of the fire department or his .assistants.

Sec. 7. That this act take effect from and after its passage.

Passed May 28th, 1873.

[NOTE.—The foregoing act was presented to the Governor of Texas for his approval on the thirty-first of Mav, A. D. 1873, and was not signed by him, or returned to the house in which it originated, with Ms objections thereto, within the time prescribed by the Constitution, and thereupon became a law without his signature.—James P. Newcomb, Secretary of State.]

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