Chap. 817.—An ACT to require all companies, other than those incorporated: for
works of internal improvement, incorporated under the general incorporation
laws of this commonwealth, to file annually a list of their officers and direetors,
and in cases when the officers and directors are not residents of the county or
corporation where the principal office of the company is located, to appoint resi-
dent attorneys or agents, and to prohibit theni from exercising their charter
privileges until the requirements of this act shall have been complied with.

Approved March 3, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That every in-
corporated company, other than those incorporated for works of internal
improvement, heretofore or hereafter chartered under the general incor-
poration laws of the state of Virginia, shall, within thirty da ‘s after each
annual meeting, certify to the clerk of the county or corporation court,
where its principal office is located, a list of the officers and directors of
such company elected at its annual meeting; and it shall be the duty of
the clerk of such county or corporation court to keep a file of such cer-
tificates, which shall be open to public inspection; and the clerk of such
county or corporation court shall be entitled to a fee of twenty-five cents
for filing such certificate, to be paid by the company filing the same.

2. That every incorporated company heretofore or hereafter chartered
under the general incorporation laws of the state of Virginia, all of whose
officers and directors are non-residents of the county or corporation in
which its principal office is located, shall be required annually by writ-
ten power of attorney to appoint some practicing attorney at law residing
in the county or corporation where the principal oflice of said company
is located, its attorney or agent, upon whom all legal process against the
company may be served, and who shall be authorized to enter an ap-
pearance in its behalf. Such power of attorney shall be recorded in the
clerk’s office of the county or corporation where the principal office of
said company is located.

3. That any such company failing, after the passage of this act, to
comply with the provisions of the two preceding sections be, and the
same is hereby, prohibited from exercising any rights whatever under
its charter of incorporation until the provisions of this act shall have
been complied with; but this provision shall not operate to prevent the
enforcement of any contract against such company made by it during
the period of such default.

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