Chap. 193.—An ACT to repeal the charter of the Provident fire insurance com-
pany of Richmond, Virginia, which was granted by the judge of the circuit
court of the city of Richmond, on the 21st day of November, 1893, under sec-
tion 1145 of the code of Virginia and amendatory acts.

Approved January 30, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
charter of the ‘“‘ Provident fire insurance company” of Richmond,
Virginia, which was granted upon the application of Polk Miller,
Daniel L. Fry, C. H. Jordon, A. C. Haynes and E. H. Clowes, by
Honorable B. R. Wellford, junior, judge of the circuit court of the
city of Richmond, on November twenty-first, eighteen hundred and
ninety-three, and which is recorded in charter book number three,
page three hundred and sixty-nine (the same being the book pro-
vided and kept for the purpose, pursuant to section one thousand
one hundred and forty-five of the code of Virginia, in the clerk’s
office of the circuit court of the city of Richmond), and which char-
ter, after being certified by the clerk of said court, was, on the twenty-
second day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, 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is hereby, repealed.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, di-
rectors 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.