Chap. 742.—An ACT to incorporate the Northern Neck mutual fire insurance
company of Virginia.

Approved March 4, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That W.
McDonald Lee, John C. Ewell, William A. Jones, William J. Newbill,
Howard Hathaway, Romulas M. Sanders, John A. Palmer, Frederick
W. Claybrook, L. D. Stoneham, Frank W. Lewis, Robert O. Norris,
Asa Rice, Lloyd T. Smith, George N. Reed, J. W. Tankard, Edwin
Brown, junior, Benjamin Chambers, Eli Sharp, William Y. Morgan,
George A. Richardson, Oscar M. Lemonie, William R. Omohundro,
T. E. Puller, William W. Walker, Thomas Brown, C. Conway Baker,
Richard A. Claybrook, C. C. Thrift, Robert Murphy, J. E. T. Hunter,
W. W. Stiff, H. Tayloe Washington, D. H. Griffith, F. F. Ninde,
Charles H. Ashton, John T. Minor, J. Sydnor Massey, A. Randolph
Howard, and their associates, together with all persons who may
hereafter become members of this corporation, are hereby created
and declared a body politic and corporate under the name and style
of the Northern Neck mutual fire association of Virginia, and by
this name shall have perpetual succession, and may sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded, and make, have, and use a common seal.

2. The said association hereby created shall have power to insure
on the mutual plan dwelling-houses, barns, and other buildings, with
their contents, and horses, mules, and cattle of persons holding
policies in the association against loss by fire or lightning upon
such terms and conditions as may be fixed by the by-laws of the
association.

3. The capital of the association shall not be more than ten thou-
sand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each.

4. Said association shall have power to make all necessary rules,
regulations, and by-laws for its government and the proper conduct
of its business not inconsistent with the laws of this state.

5. The officers of the association shall for the first year consist of
John C. Ewell, president and director; F. L. Crocker, secretary and
director; W. J. Newbill, treasurer and director; W. McDonald Lee,
general manager and director; W. A. Jones, director; Asa Rice,
director; W. W. Walker, director.

6. The principal office of said association shall be in Irvington,
Lancaster county, Virginia, and it may have branch offices in such
other counties of this state as to it may seem fit.

7. It shall have power to acquire and hold, by gift or purchase, or
otherwise, real estate in this state not exceeding five hundred acres.

8. All taxes and debts due, or to become due, to the state of Vir-
ginia by the association shall be paid in lawful money of the United
States, and not in coupons. .

9. The general assembly of Virginia reserves the right to alter,
amend, or repeal this charter at any time.

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