Chap. 225.—An ACT to repeal the charter of the “ Monarch fire insurance com-
pany” of Alexandria county, Virginia, which was granted by the judge of
the circuit court of Alexandria county, on the 12th day of February, 1895,
under section 1145 of the code of Virginia and amendatory acts.

Approved February 5, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the charter
which was granted upon the application of Thomas Francis, junior,
William Small, P. Bruce Anderson, John D. Garden, and William J.
Anderson, by Honorable Charles KE. Nicol, judge of the circuit court
of Alexandria county, on February twelfth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-five, and which is recorded in charter book number one, at
pages eighty-five to eighty-seven (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
circuit court of Alexandria county), and which charter, after being
certified by the clerk of said court, was, on the sixteenth day of
February, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, 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repealed.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.