Chap. 169.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3845 of the Code of Virginia,
being in relation to service of process or notice on foreign corporations and
societies. [H B 193]

Approved March 17, 1938

1. Be enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-eight hundred and forty-five of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3845. Every corporation created by the laws of another
State or foreign country and doing business in this State, and every
fraternal benefit society organized or created under the laws of any
other State or country and doing business in this State, shall, by writ-
ten power of attorney, appoint the Secretary of the Commonwealth
and his successor in office, its agents, upon whom shall be served all
lawful process against, or notice to, such company or society, and who
shall be authorized to enter an appearance in its behalf. The service
shall only be made upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth, or, in
his absence, upon the person. in charge of his office, and shall be made
in duplicate, but the officer or person serving said process or notice
shall be entitled only to a single fee for such service. A copy of such
power of attorney, duly certified and authenticated, shall be filed with
the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and copies thereof duly certified
by the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall be received as evidence in
all the courts of this State. No judgment shall be entered against a for-
eign corporation under this section until after the process has been
served, as aforesaid, at least ten days.