CHAP. 106.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act
entitled an act in relation to insurance companies and associa-
tions upon the assessment plan, passed May 18, 1887.

Approved February 24, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section two of an act entitled an act in relation to
insurance companies and associations upon the assess-
ment plan, passed May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

$2. Any corporation or association organized under
the laws of this or any other state of the United States
for the purpose of furnishing life or accident indemnity
insurance, ezther upon the assessment plan or by periodical
premium payments, fixed in amount, to meet death losses in
accordance with American experience tables of mortality, or
that is carrying on the business of life or accident insur-
ance upon cither the assessment or periodical premium pay-
ment plan, shall deposit with the auditor of this state, a cer-
tified copy of its charter or articles of incorporation, a
copy of its statement of business for the year ending the
thirty-first day of the next preceding December, sworn to
by the president and secretary, or like officers thereof,
setting forth the number and amount of certificates of
membership or policies in force, and a detailed account of
its expenditures, income, assets and liabilities, and also
a certificate sworn to by the president and secretary, or like
officers thereof, setting forth that it has paid, and has the
ability to pay, its certificates or policies to the full limit
named therein; that its certificates or policies are paya-
ble only to beneficiaries having a legal insurable interest
in the life of the member or insured; that an ordinary
assessment upon or the periodical premium collections from
its members is sufficient to pay its maximum certificate
of membership or policy therefor issued, if any, or there-
after to be issued, to residents of this state to the full
amount or limit named therein; a certificate from the
auditor or other like officer charged with the duty of exe-
cuting or enforcing the execution of the insurance laws of
its home state, certifying that it ,is legally entitled to do
business in its home state; a copy of the application]for
membership or insurance, and of each form thereof, if
more than one form is used; a copy of the form of cer-
tificate of membership or policy, and of each form thereof,
if more than one form is used, and a copy of the constitu-
tion and by-laws, and of each and every edition thereof.
A company or association for furnishing life or accident
indemnity insurance that shall show by the above de-
scribed papers that all indemnities to beneficiaries are 1n
the main provided for either by assessments upon mem-
bers made when needed by said company or association ;
or by payments at a fixed date or dates, but with the right
reserved by such company or association to make an addi-
tional call or calls; or, if definite periodical premiums,
without the right to make such additional call or calls,
are used, such premiums must show that they are suffi-
cient to pay average death losses in accordance with the
American experience tables of mortality, and that its
mortuary surplus fund is sufficient to meet death losses in
excess of the average death losses in accordance with said
tables of mortality, shall all or either of them be held to
be a company or association doing business upon the
assessment plan; provided, that said periodical premiums
do not include the reserve element of the legal reserve
systems of life insurance. And the auditor of public
accounts, when said company or association has complied
with the provisions of this act, shall license the same to
do business in this state.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act
are hereby repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.

CHAP. 107 —An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3527 of the
code of Virginia, in relation to payment of fees to officers out
of the treasury in criminal cases.

Approved February 24, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section thirty-five hundred and twenty-seven of the
code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

§3527. The fees of attorneys for the commonwealth,

clerks, justices, sheriffs, sergeants, coroners, criers, and
constables shall be paid out of the treasury when certified
as prescribed by section forty hundred and eighty-four.
No account shall be allowed or paid unless verified by affi-
‘davit of the person rendering the service; and when
allowance is made for a guard, or to a person to assist in
making an arrest, the account shall also be verified by the
affidavit of such guard or person employed to assist i
making the arrest, or the personal representative of suc!
oficer, guard, or person, if he be dead; nor shall an:
account be allowed or paid for prosecutions of offense
against the ordinances of.any city or town. The fees o
said officers shall be as follows:

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.