Chap. 198.—An ACT to repeal the charter of the Commonwealth fire insurance
company of Winchester, Virginia, which was granted by the judge of the
corporation court of the city of Winchester, on the 17th day of July, 1883, un-
der 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 Commonwealth fire insurance company of Winchester,
Virginia, which was granted upon the application of J. M. Lewis,
G. M. Wing, E. Tiffany, C. C. Felker and H. M. Morris, by Honorable
William M. Atkinson, judge of the corporation court of the city of
Winchester, on July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three,
and which is recorded in charter book number one, page seventy-
four (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 corporation court of the
city of Winchester), and which charter, after being certified by the clerk
of said court, was, on the twentieth day of July, eighteen hundred
and ninety-three, lodged in the office of the secretary of the common-
wealth, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.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.

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