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CHAP. 759

it is further provided that a certificate or statement for
any interest or assessment or any note or other evidence of
debt given in consideration of a policy of insurance or of
any other transaction or proceeding of said company, attested
by its secretary and the common seal, shall be prima facie
evidence before any justice of the peace or court of
law or equity; and no member of said corporation, not
being in his individual capacity a party to any suit, shall be
incompetent as a witness in any such cause on account of
his being a member thereof.
SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That no liability shall

Not liable f or
damages.

attach to this company where damage arises from fire hap-
pening in consequence of any invasion, insurrection, riot or
civil commotion, or by any military or usurped power.
SEC. -19. And be it further enacted, That the said company

Receive or
revoke any
policy of
Insurance.

shall have full power and authority to receive or revoke any
policy of insurance by them issued whenever they shall
deem it for the interest of said company to do so.
SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That the Legislature-

Right
reserved.

reserves the right to alter, amend or repeal this Act of incor-
poration at pleasure.
SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall not

When
operative.

go into operation so as to authorize the execution of any
policy or contract of insurance until there shall be entered
upon the books thereof property of the standard value of
thirty thousand dollars, but shall, in all other respects, take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 5, 1906.

CHAPTER 760.

AN ACT to repeal Section 9 of Chapter 199 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland for the Session of
1904, entitled "An Act to create the office of Treasurer
for Charles County, and to provide for the collection of
taxes therein ;" and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments, and to add a new section to said Act, to be known
as "Section 10."

Repeal and
re-enact.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the. General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 9 of Chapter 199 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland for the Session of 1904, enti-