CHARTERED COMPANIES. LUNATIC ASYLUM. authorized to administer an oath or not, shall be held to be an oath, within the meaning and intention of this act, and within the meaning and intention of any other act in which such oath may be brought in question. 89 3. No record evidence of the election, appointment or qualifica- Record evidence not required tion of any officer under such usurped government shall be required, but the person's acting in the capacity of an officer, claiming to act under such government, shall be sufficient to establish his official character. 4. This act shall be in force from its passage. Commencement CHAP. 58.-An ACT to authorize the transfer and issue of new Certificates of Stock in Chartered Companies in certain cases.. Passed March 20, 1863. sold and seques 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that whenever any When property shares of stock in a chartered company shall be sequestered and sold tered under an order or decree of a district court of the Confederate States, as the property of an alien enemy, the proper, officers of such company shall, upon application of the receiver making the sale, assign or transfer the same to the purchaser on the books of the company, without requiring the production of the certificate for such shares, and shall issue new certificates of stock to such purchaser. 2. Be it further enacted, that whenever a certificate of stock in New certificate, how granted any chartered company belonging to a loyal citizen of the Confederate States, shall be beyond his control by reason of the public enemy, upon the production of proper evidence to the board of directors of the company, of the ownership of such stock, a new certificate therefor shall issue to the owner, and the old certificate annulled by old certificate an order of the said board entered on the records of the company. 3. This act shall be in force from its passage. destroyed Commencement CHAP. 59.-An ACT making an Appropriation for the Central Lunatic Asylum. priated 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that the auditor of pub- Amount approlic accounts be and he is hereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant on the treasury, payable out of any money therein not otherwise appropriated, for the sum of sixty five thousand dollars, for the support of the Central lunatic asylum at Staunton, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth September eighteen hundred and sixty Commencement three. Said amount, or any part thereof, to be paid upon the order of the board of directors of said institution, and to be in addition to the amount received from the pay patient fund. 2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Act of 1862 amended First section amended Second section amended CHAP. 60.-An ACT amending and re-enacting the 1st and 2d sections of an act entitled an act to repeal the Fence Law of Virginia as to certain Counties, and to authorize the County Courts to dispense with Enclosures in other Counties, passed October 3d, 1862, and to legalize the Action of County Courts held under said Law. Passed February 13, 1863. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that the first and second sections of an act entitled an act to repeal the fence law of Virginia as to certain counties, and to authorize the county courts to dispense with enclosures in other counties, passed October third, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: 66 "§ 1. Be it therefore enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, that the first section of the ninety-ninth chapter of the Code of Virginia, so far as it applies to the counties of Hanover, Henrico, York, Warwick, Elizabeth City, Alexandria, Fauquier, Stafford and King George, be and the same is hereby repealed. 66 "§ 2. Be it further enacted, that the county courts of the counties Power of courts of Augusta, Frederick, Clarke, Warren, Culpeper, Rappahannock, Norfolk, Princess Anne, Mercer, Shenandoah, Page, Frince William, Spotsylvania, Hampshire, Berkeley, Caroline, Rockingham, Richmond, Westmoreland, Loudoup, Jefferson, Orange, Essex. King & Queen, Goochland, Giles, Bland, Fairfax, Greenbrier, New Kent, Charles City, James City, Prince George and Nansemond shall have power, all the justices having been summoned, and a majority thereof being present, to dispense with the existing laws in regard to enclosures, so far as their respective counties may be concerned, or such parts thereof, to be described by metes and bounds, as in their discretion they may deem it expedient to exempt from the operation of such law.” Action of county courts legalized Commencement 2. Be it further enacted, that in case the county courts of any of the counties specified in the foregoing section shall have taken action in pursuance of the provisions of the act passed the third day of October eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled an act to repeal the fence law of Virginia as to certain counties, and to authorize the county courts to 'dispense with enclosures in other counties, since the passage thereof, such action is hereby legalized and made valid to the same extent as it would be, had such counties been specifically included in the second section of said act. 3. This act shall be in force from its passage. CHAP. 61.-An ACT to establish an Inspection of Tobacco at Keen's Warehouse in the Town of Danville. Passed March 10, 1863. tablished 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that an inspection of Warehouse estobacco be and the same is hereby established at a warehouse to be located on Loyal and Lynn streets in the town of Danville, and called "Keen's Warehouse," agreeably to the provisions of chapter eighty-seven of the Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty). 2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Commencement CHAP, 62.-An ACT to provide for an Inspection of Flour in the Town of Danville. Passed March 11, 1863. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that an inspection of To authorize inflour be and the same is hereby authorized to be established in and spection of flour for the town of Danville, under such regulations as shall be pre scribed by the ordinances of said town, and subject to the provisions of chapter eighty-eight of the Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty). 2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Commencement PRIVATE OR LOCAL ACTS. CHAP. 63.—An ACT to incorporate the Farmville Insurance Company. Passed March 3, 1863.. porated 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, that James Company incor W. Dunnington, Howell E. Warren, Frank. N. Watkins, Clement C. Read, James L. Hubard, Norval Cobb, Stephen O. Southall, Richard McIlwaine, Christopher C. Lockett, Archibald Vaughan, and others who may associate under this act, not less than twenty, are hereby created and declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of The Farmville Insurance Company; and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all the courts of law and equity in this state and elsewhere; and to make and have a common seal, and the same to break, alter or renew at their pleasure; to ordain and establish such by-laws, ordinances and regulations, and generally to do every act and thing necessary to carry into effect this act, or to promote the object and design of this corporation: provided, that such by-laws, ordinances, regulations or acts be not inconsistent with the laws of this state or of the Confederate States. and upon what 2. To make insurance upon dwellings, houses, stores, and all other Insurance, how kind of buildings, either in town or country, and upon household fur- made niture, merchandise and other property, against loss or damage by fire; to make insurance upon lives; to cause themselves to be reinsured, when deemed expedient, against any risk or risks upon which they have made or may make insurance; to grant annuities; to receive endowments; to contract for reversionary payments; to guarantee the payment of promissory notes, bills of exchange or other evidences of debt; to make insurance upon vessels, freights, goods, wares, merchandise, specie, bullion, profits, commissions, bank notes, bottomry and respondentia interests, and to make all and every insurance connected with marine risks and risks of transportation and navigation. 3. To receive money on deposit and grant certificates therefor, in Money received on deposit accordance with the conditions set forth in sections four and five, chapter fifty-nine of the Code of Virginia; but in no case are such deposits or the certificates therefor to be held liable to make good any policy of insurance issued by this company. 4. The funds of this company, however derived, may be invested Investments, in or loaned on any stock or real or personal security. how made |