have one vote, and two-thirds of the votes thus
given shall decide any amendment or alteration of
the constitution or by-laws thus made, and shall be
binding on all the members of the company.

Power to
call General
Meetings.

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That it shall be the
duty of the President, whenever required in writ-
ing by not less than twenty members of the com-
pany, other than the Directors, to call a general
meeting of the members by giving notice as in
cases of election for Directors for the transaction
of such business as may be specified in the said
written requisition, and any resolutions or pro-
ceedings passed, by not less than two-thirds of the
members who shall be present after hearing all the
facts in reference to the requisition, any resolutions
or proceedings passed or had shall be binding on
the President, Directors and members of the
company.

In force,

Sec. 9. .And be it enacted, That this charter
shall be in full force and effect until the first Mon-
day in January nineteen hundred.

Power to ar-
rest.

Sec. 10. And be it enacted. That this corporate
body shall have the power to offer reward, for the
recovery of property insured by this company, and
also for the thief, and to make arrest and to confine
the party supposed to be the thief after a fair trial
before a Justice of the Peace, in the jail of the
county where the property was stolen, there to be
kept subject to the laws of this State made and
provided, and the parties claiming the reward for
making such arrest shall be entitled to the reward
upon conviction of the thief before the Circuit
Court of the county.

In case of
loss.

Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That whenever a loss
shall occur which the said company are liable to
pay, it shall be the duty of the Directors at their
next meeting after they shall have been notified of
said loss, to cause an accurate estimate and state-
ment to be made of the proportion or sum to be
contributed by each member, to make good said
loss to the person having sustained said loss and
to notify the members of the said corporation, of
the same, and if at the expiration of sixty days
from the date of such notice any member of said
corporation shall have failed to pay his, her, or