Chap. 197.—An ACT to repeal the charter of the Old Dominion fire insurance
company of Portsmouth, Virginia, which was granted by the judge of the
court of hustings for the city of Portsmouth, on the 20th day of July, 169°.
under section 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 “Old Dominion fire insurance company” of Ports-
mouth, Virginia, which was granted upon the application of M. J.
Dimmock, A. M. Tyler, H. W. Olcott, Wm. P. DeSaussure and R.
Shirreffs, by Honorable A. S. Watts, judge of the court of hustings
for the city of Portsmouth, on July twentieth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, and which is recorded in record of charters, page oné
hundred and thirteen (the same being the book provided 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 court of
hustings for the city of Portsmouth), and which charter, after being
certified by the clerk of said court, was, on the twelfth day of Sep:
tember, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, lodged in the office of thé
secretary of the commonwealth, be, and the same is hereby, repealed,

2. This act shall not be construed to interfere with, obstruct o!
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.