Chap. 565.—An AOT to amend and re-enact section 3225, code of Virginia, 1887—
on whom process against or notice to a corporation may be served.

Approved March 2, 1894.

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

§ 3225. On whom process against or a notice to acorporation may
be served.— Process against or notice to a corporation may be served
as follows: If the case be against a city or town, on its mayor, re-
corder, or any alderman, councilman or trustee of such city or town;
if against a bank, on its president, cashier, treasurer or any one of
directors; if against a railroad company, on its president, cashier,
treasurer, general superintendent or any one of its directors; if
against some other corporation created by the laws of this state, on
its president, rector or other chief officer, cashier, treasurer, secre-
tary or any one of its directors, trustees or visitors; if against a
corporation created by some other state or country, or in any case, if
there be not in the county or corporation wherein the case 18 com-
menced, any other person on whom there can be service as aforesaid
on any agent of the corporation against which the cage is (unless it
be a case against a bank), or on any person declared by the laws of this
state to be an agent of such corporation; and if there be no such
agent in the county or corporation wherein the case is commenced,
an affidavit of that fact and that there is no other person in such
county or corporation on whom there can be service as aforesaid, pub-
lication of a copy of the process or notice once a week for four suc-
cessive weeks in a newspaper printed in this state shall be a suffi-
cient service of such process or notice, except that in the case of an
insurance company created by the laws of this state, process shall
be directed to the sheriff or sergeant of the county or corporation
wherein the chief office of such company is. When the publica-
tion is of process it shall be made on an order directing the same in
the case in which the process issues. The order may be entered
either in court or by the clerk of the court at any time in vacation.

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