Chap. 61.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 25 of an act entitled “an act to
raise revenue for support of the government and public free schools, and to pay
the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as
authorized by section 189 of the Constitution,” approved April 16, 1903.

Approved March 7, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-five of an act entitled “an act to raise revenue for support of the
government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the pub-
lic debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by sec-
tion one hundred and eighty-nine of the Constitution,” approved April
sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three, be amended and re-enacted.so as
to read as follows: :

§ 25. No charge shall be made against any fire insurance company char-
tered in this State for the privilege of transacting its business when
such company is purely a local mutual association, doing business in not
more than four contiguous counties in this State, or in more than four
contiguous counties, provided the territory embraced in the counties in
which business is done has not a population exceeding one hundred
thousand, and is not designed to accumulate profits for the benefit of, or
pay dividends to, the stockholders or members thereof: and provided,
further, that nothing in this act shall be construed to require any tax,
other than the tax imposed upon property and the fees imposed by the
general law defining and regulating fraternal beneficial associations,
orders or societies, upon secret or fraternal orders where the benefit or
relief is payable by the grand or supreme body of the same and is derived
from assessment upon lodges, councils, or other bodies.