Chap. 386.—An ACT to amend section 3 of an act entitled an act to incorpo-
rate the farmers’ and mechanics’ benevolent fire insurance association of
the counties of Roanoke and Botetourt, approved April 2, 1873.

Approved February 16, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assemblv of Virginia, That section
three of the act in force April second, eighteen hundred and seventy-
three, entitled an act to incorporate the farmers’ and mechanics’ benevo-
lent fire insurance association of the counties of Roanoke and Botetourt,
be, and the same is hereby, amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:
~§3. The said association shall have power to insure its members
against any loss or losses by fire to an amount not exceeding, in any case,
two-thirds of the estimated value of the property insured, but it shall
make no charge for such insurance; and in order to enable it to raise
the means of paying its liabilities, it shall he the duty of the board of
directors. as soon as may be after the happening of any fire for which
the association mav be responsible, to assemble together and make such
assessment upon each individual member of the association as the by-
laws may authorize and provide for, which said assessment shall be paid
by such member within sixty davs from the time of its being levied. And
if any member, or his personal representative, on being applied to, shall
fail to pay his assessment within the period aforesaid, the same may be
recovered in the corporate name of the association, where the amount
of the assessment to be recovered is twenty dollars or over, by suit or
motion before any court of record having jurisdiction thereof, of the
county wherein the member in default resides, or, where the amount to
be recovered does not exceed one hundred dollars, by a warrant before a
justice of the peace,of the county wherein the member in default resides.

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