Chap. 181.—An ACT to provide for the extension, through the State Corporation
Commission, of charters of corporations which have complied with the pro-
visions of the ordinance adopted by the Constitutional Convention on the 26th
day of June, 1902.

Approved April 27, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That all cor-
porations heretofore chartered by special acts of the general assembly of
this State, whose charters would have expired before the first day of Mav,
nineteen hundred and three, and which have procured an extension of
their charters until the first day of May, nineteen hundred and three, by
complying with the provisions of an ordinance adopted by the late Con-
stitutional Convention of Virginia on the twenty-sixth day of June, nine
tecn hundred and two, may have their charters extended for a further pe-
riod of six months by complying with the provisions of this act.

2. Any such corporation may, before the first day of May, nineteen
hundred and three, present to the State Corporation Commission an ap-
plication, to be signed and sworn to by its president, setting forth the
date of its incorporation, the extent of work done under its charter, the
provision in its charter by reason of which the charter would have expired
or been forfeited before the first day of May, nineteen hundred and three,
when and in what manner it had availed itself of the provisions of the
said ordinance of the late Constitutional Convention of Virginia, and that
it had paid into the treasury of the State the additional charter fee pre-
scribed in said ordinance and the amount thereof. The State Corpora-
tion Commission shall thereupon issue an order, a copy of which shall be
endorsed on, or attached to, said application, extending the charter of
such corporation and all its provisions and privileges for a period of six
~ months from the expiration of the thirtieth day of April, nineteen hun-
~ dred and three, and said charter shall thereupon stand and be extended
for said period of six months. The State Corporation Commission shall
deliver to said corporation a duly certified copy of said application and
order, and said corporation shall pay into said State Corporation Com-
mission the sum of twenty-five dollars, which said corporation commis-
sion shall pay into the treasury of the State in the manner provided by
law. The original application and the order endorsed thereon, or at-
tached thereto, shall be delivered by the clerk of the State Corporation
Commission to the secretary of the Commonwealth, who shall file and
record the same in his office.
3. This act shall take effect from its passage.