1887 private laws – Ch.40 Sec.1
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CHAPTER 40 4 An act to incorporate the Cape Fear Steam Fire Engine Company, of Wilmington, North Carolina, WHEREAS, For many years there has existed in the city of Wil- mington a very active and effective association of citizens, forming a volunteer fire company, whose members have always been among the foremost in their noble and unselfish efforts to save from destruction the lives and property of all classes of people in said city ; and whereas, said association desires to have a corporate existence; now, The General Assembly of North Carclina do enact:
That Robert Morrissey, J. N. MceDuffy, I Isaac Brinkley, Valentine Howe, John H. Jackson, Stephen Jones, Parris Jones, Emanuel B. Jones, William H. Cotton, Jr., Godfrey Willis, Jr., John Sheridan, James Bland, Samuel Jones, Elias Campbeli, Wright Simmons, Benjamin Sheppard, Stephen Nelson, Amos Simmons, Henry B. Waiker, George Walker, Edmond Dixon, George McGary, Charles ‘ Jackson, Moses Howe, Abraham Jones, John Hines, Aliison Burnett, Benjamin Roan, John Garrison, Joseph H. Hill, James W. Green, Jr., Albert Green, Harvey Taylor and James Ivery, and such other persons as may be associated with them, and their successors, be and they are hereby created a body corporate, under the name of The Cape Fear Steam Fire Engine Company, of Wilmington, North Carolina, and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, plead and be impleaded, sue and be sued, have, purchase and hold such real and personal property as may be deemed necessary for its purposes, and in general exercise and enjoy all other rights and privileges as are usually incident to corporations of the same nature.