Chap. 184.—An ACT to repeal the charter of the Farmers and mechanics in-
surance company of Alexandria, Va., which was granted by the judge of the
corporation court of the city of Alexandria on the 29th day of March, 1892,
under section 1145 of the code of Virgjnia and acts amendatory thereof.

Approved January 30, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
charter of the Farmers and mechanics insurance company of Alex-
andria, Virginia, which was granted upon the application of L. G.
Estes, James H. Manderville, William Small, J. S. Hunter and
Thomas B. Keogh, by Honorable J. K. M. Norton, judge of the cor-
poration court of the city of Alexandria, on the twenty-ninth day
of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and which is recorded
in charter-book number two, at pages three hundred and forty-one,
three hundred and forty-two (the same being the book provided
and kept for the purpose, pursuant to section one thousand one hun-
dred and forty-five of the code of Virginia, in the clerk’s office of
the corporation court of the city of Alexandria), and which charter,
after being certified by the clerk of said court, was, on the first day
of April,eighteen hundred and ninety-two, lodged in the office of the
secretary of the commonwealth, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

2. This act shall not be construed to interfere with, obstruct or
prevent suits by or against the said company, its officers, agents,
directors or stockholders, which may have been or which may be
brought on its existing contracts.

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