CHAP. 330.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1281 of the
code of Virginia, in regard to the verification and publication
of certain reports of insurance companies and associations, as
amended and re-enacted by acts approved March 4, 1890, and
March 5, 1890, being chapters 209 and 228 of the acts of the gen-
eral assembly of Virginia, session of 1889-90.

Approved February 20, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section one thousand two hundred and eighty-one of
the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by acts
approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and
March five, eighteen hundred and ninety, being chapters
two hundred and nine and two hundred and twenty-eight
of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, session of
eighteen hundred and eighty-nine-ninety, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1281. How verified and published.—The report shall
be verified by the oaths of the president and secretary, or
two other officers of the company or association, and be
published by the auditor at the expense of the company
or association once a week for four consecutive weeks, in
some newspaper published in the city or county where the
principal office in this state of the company or association
18 located, if it be a company or association incorporated
or constituted under the laws of this state. And if there
be no newspaper published in the said city or county, then
in some newspaper published in a county or city adjacent
thereto. And if the company or association is not incor-
porated or constituted under the laws of this state, then
said report shall be printed for the time prescribed in such
daily newspaper or newspapers published in the state of
Virginia as the auditor may in his discretion direct, hav-
ing reference in such selection to the place in which the
principal business of the said company or association is
done. And, in addition thereto, three hundred copies of
the reports of all companies writing or contracting to
write any form of life or endowment insurance, upon any
plan, shall be published in book or pamphlet form by the
auditor of public accounts, the cost of which shall be
equitably distributed by him among the respective com-
panies.

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