Chap. 378.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3847 of the Code of Vir-
ginia. [H B 129]
Approved March 20, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-eight hundred and forty-seven of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 3847. Every company to keep an office in this State for pay-
ment of claims to residents; foreign company to appoint agent on
whom process may be served; copy of charter, with power of attorney,
to be filed, et cetera; license; fees—Every incorporated company do-
ing business in this State shall have an office in the State, at which
all claims against the company due residents of the State may be
audited, settled and paid; provided, however, that no foreign corpora-
tion which deposits securities with the treasurer of the Commonwealth
for the protection of its patrons in Virginia shall be required to main-
tain an office in this State for such purpose. Every such company
incorporated under a jurisdiction beyond the limits of the State (and
hereinafter designated as a foreign corporation) shall, before doing
business in this State, present to the State corporation commission
(a) a written power of attorney executed in duplicate appointing the
secretary of the Commonwealth of this State and his successor in
office its agent, upon whom all lawful process shall be served, and
who shall be authorized to enter an appearance in its behalf; (b) two
duly authenticated copies of the charter of the corporation; and (c)
a certificate of the auditor of public accounts, showing the payment
into the treasury of the fee required by law to be paid by such cor-
poration, and shall obtain from said State corporation commission a
certificate of authority to transact business in the State. If it shall
be made to appear to the State corporation commission that said cor-
poration has complied with the law relative to the obtaining of a
certificate of authority for foreign corporations of the character of
the applicant corporation, then said State corporation commission
shall issue to said corporation a certificate of authority to transact
business in the State. Said commission shall file and preserve in their
office one copy each of the power of attorney, charter, certificate of the
auditor and a certificate of the commission granting such certificate of
authority, and forward copies of said documents to the secretary of
the Commonwealth, who shall file and preserve the same in his office.

If the charter of any foreign corporation thus authorized to trans-
act business in this State is amended, two duly authenticated copies

of such amendment shall be presented to the State corporation com-
mission and filed as copies of the original charter are required to be
filed, and the fee required by law on such amendment shall be paid in
the manner prescribed by law.

Any foreign corporation which has complied with the law relative
to domestication in this State and whose certificate of authority to do
business in this State has been surrendered or revoked and annulled,
shall upon re-entering the State be required to pay the entrance fee
and all other fees required by law incident to domestication, and
execute and file the power of attorney required herein, but such cor-
poration shall not be required to again file copies of its charter or
any amendment thereto heretofore filed.

Such corporation shall pay the clerical fees for such certificate of
authority and for filing such papers as prescribed by law.