Chap. 40.—An ACT to amend section 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-
enact an act entitled an act to require the payment of fees on certain char-
ters, approved February 10, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act en-
titled an act to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act of the general
assembly, approved February 10,{1890, entitled an act to require the payment
of fees on certain charters approved February 28, 180.

Approved January 22, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two of an act entitled an act toamend and re-enact an actentitled an
act to require the payment of fees on certain charters, approved Feb-
ruary tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended and re-enacted
by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section one of an act
of the general assembly, approved February tenth, eighteen hundred
and ninety, entitled an act torequire the payment of fees on certain
charters, approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and
ninety, approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

2. Where the charter of incorporation is granted under the pro-
visions of said section eleven hundred and forty-five of the code of
Virginia, the clerk of the court in which, or by the judge of which,
such charter is granted, shall collect such fees before recording the
charter, and shall forthwith pay it into the state treasury, less a com-
mission of five per centum, which the said clerk may retain as his
commission or compensation for collecting the same; and where the
act of incorporation is passed by the general assembly, such fee shal]
be paid directly into the state treasury, and such act shall not continue
in force or be available unless such fees be paid within ninety days
after the passage thereof, and the fact of such payment shall, in case
the charter was granted under the provisions of section eleven hun-
dred and forty-five of the code of Virginia, be certified by the audi-
tor of public accounts to the secretary of the commonwealth, and the
fact of payment, in case the act of incorporation was passed by the
general assembly, shall be certified by the auditor of public accounts
to the keeper of the rolls: provided that no fees shall be required to
be paid on any amended charter that has been passed during the
present session of the general assembly, or may hereafter be passed,
or any charter confirming or amending a charter granted by a court,
or by a judge in vacation, unless the maximun amount of the capital
stock shall be increased, in which case the same proportionate charge
for such increase shall be made; but if no fee shall have been paid
on the grant of the original charter the fee to be charged when such
amended charter is granted shall be the same as if the amended
charter were an original charter.
3. This act shall be in force from its passage.