T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

made of the proportion or sum to be contributed
by each member to make good such, loss and shall
cause the members to be notified in writing of the
same, and if at the expiration of sixty days from
the date of said notice, any member shall have
failed to pay his, her or their contribution afore-
said, it shall be lawful for the board of directors
to file a statement thereof with the clerk of the
Circuit court of Frederick county, who shall there-
upon issue execution for the said proportion, and
all costs of proceedings in like manner as if judg-
ment had been rendered on the same.

CHAP. 266.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the said com-
pany shall have and is hereby invested with pow-
ers to make any by-law or by-laws whereby any
member failing to pay the interest on his, her or
their premium, note or notes according to the con-
stitution and by-laws of the company may be ex-
cluded from all benefits of insurance.

Members
failing to pay
interest may
be excluded
from benefits.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That the said com-
pany shall have full power to rescind or revoke
any policy of insurance issued by them, whenever
they deem it for the interest of the company so to
do.

Policies may

be revoked.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That it may and
shall be lawful for any married woman with assent
of her husband, signed by his signature to the ap-
plication for insurance to apply for and have in-
surance in said company on the property of said
married woman, and the premium notes given by
said married woman and her husband shall be a
lien upon the real estate so insured, and shall be
as binding and effectual upon such married woman
as if she were sole or unmarried.

Married
women may
insure their
property.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That in any
suit at law or equity or before arbitrators by or
against said company, no member thereof shall on
that account if he be not a party to such suit in
his or her individual capacity, be incompetent as a
witness for or against said company.

Suits— mem-
bers compe-
tent as wit-
nesses.

SEC, 14. And be it enacted, That this charter
shall continue and be in force until the first day of

In force.

June, in the year nineteen hundred; Provided,
however, that the legislature reserves to itself the
right to change, alter or amend this act of incor-
poration at pleasure.

Proviso.