Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-02-02

ering property located in this State, in
Guiding any risk or liability under any
general or floating policy or any agree
ment, general, floating or specific, to
reinsure, excess lost by one or more
fires. No, fire insurance company or
association shall reinsure, or assume as
a reinsuring company, or otherwise, in
any manner or form whatsoever, the
whole or any part of any risk or liza
bility covering property located in this
State, or any insurance company or as
ISOLATION not authorized to transact
business in this State.
Sec. 3-Whenever the insurance COM
missioner shall have or receive in
formation that any fire insurance conf
pany or association not Incorporated
| under the laws of this State has vio-
lated any of the provisions Of section
Of this act, he is authorized, at the
expense of such company or association,
to examine, by himself, or his &C.
| credited representative, at the prin-
cipal office or offices of such company
or association located in the United
| States Of America, or any foreign COM
pany, and also at such other Offices or
| agencies of such company or associa-
| tion as he may deem proper. all books,
records and papers of such company
FOR association, and may examine under
| oath the officers, managers and agents
of such company or association as to
such violation or violations. The re-
| fusal of any such company or asso-
citation to submit to such examination,
or to exhibit its books and records for
| inspection, shall be presumptive evil
| dence that it has violated the pro
visions of the first section of this act,
and shall subject it to the penalties
prescribed and imposed by this act.
Sec. avery fire insurance company
or association shall annually, and at
| such other times as the insurance COM
missioner may require, in addition to
all returns now by law required of it,
or its agents or managers, make a
return to the insurance commissioner
in such form and detail as may be
prescribed by him of all reinsurance or
cessions of risk or liability contracted
for, or affected by it, whether by issue
of policy, entry or bordoreau, or gen.
eral participation agreement, or by
excess loss. reinsurance, or in any other
manner whatsoever, upon property
located in this State, or covering,
whether specified or otherwise, any
risk or liability upon property so
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| the oath of Its president and secretary,
il company or association of one Of
the United States and, if company
or association of a foreign country,
| by the oath of its managers in the
| United States, and, il q company or
association of a. foreign country, by
the oath of its managers in the United
States, as to such reinsurance or ces-
sions effected through its branch office
in the United States, and by the oath
of its president and secretary, or by
offices corresponding thereto, at its
home Office, wherever located, as to
reinsurance or cessions as aforesaid con-
tracted for, or effected through the
foreign office. The refusal of any such
company or association to make the
returns herein required shall be pre-
sumptive evidence that it is guilty of
violating the provisions Of the second
section of this act, and shall subject
it to the penalties prescribed and i'm
posed by this act.
| Sec. 5-Any insurance company or
association wilfully violating, or failing
to observe and comply with any Of the
provisions of this act, applicable
thereto, shall be subject to and liable
to pay penalty of five hundred dollars
for each violation thereof, and for each
failure to observe and comply with any
provisions Of this act; such. penalty
may be collected and recovered in an
action brought in the name of the
State in any court having jurisdiction
thereof. Any insurance company or
association, which shall neglect and
refuse for thirty days after Judgment in
any such action to pay and discharge
1 tho of ot1ah fttlr hal
have its authority to transact business
In this State revoked by the insurance
commissioner, and such revocation shall
continue for at least one year from the
date thereof, nor shall any insurance
company or association whose authority
to transact business in this State shall
have been SO revoked be again author.
lied or permitted to transact business
herein until it shall have paid the
amount of any such judgment, and
shall have filed in the office of the
insurance commissioner q certificate
signed by its president, or other chief
officer, to the effect that the terms and
obligations of the provisions of this
act are accepted by it as Il part of the
conditions of its right and authority
to transact business in this State.
Sec. GAIL acts and parts of acts,
whether general or special, inconsistent
with tho provisions of this act are
hereby repealed.
Sec. This act shall take effect i'm
mediately.
GRAIN MEAL IN BAGS.
Senator Shakespeare has given notice
of an act prescribing the manner in
which -four and other grain meal shall
be offered and exposed for sale in bags,
packages, parcels or boxes.
On and after the first day OF April,
after this act becomes law, it says,
each bag, package, parcel or box of
flour or grain meal of any kind exposed
or offered for sale in this State shall
have marked or printed prominently,
distinctly and conspicuously thereon
the correct and exact weight, in
avoirdupois, of the -four or other grain
meal contained in such bag, package,
parcel or box. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person or persons, firm or firms, cor
poration or corporations to offer or ex-
pose for sale any bag, package, parcel
or box of -four or any kind of grain
meal unless the same has printed or
marked thereon the exact and correct
weight 1t shall also be unlawful to
mark or print the weight falsely or in
correctly, or in any way to deceive the
public. Violation of the act will be
punished by fine of s25 and costs.
ATTACHMENT OF WAGES.
Senator Lewis has given notice of an
act amending chapter 542, Vol. XVI,
Laws of Delaware, in relation to at
tachment of wages.
The amendment adds to section | of
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