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Under Law Enacted by Legislature,
One Per Cent of Al Premiums Col
Iected in Virginia Goes to Fire
Fiuhters-chief Stow Chosen Prcst
dent.

In compliance with the provisions OF
the firemen'S relief bill. passed at the
last session OF the Virginia Icgisla'
turc. committees from the three vOiun-
teer fire companies Of the city met al
Central fire house last night and Or
sanized the Newport News Firemen
Relief Association. Officers wer"
elected AZ follows:
President-ChiefW w. X. Stow.
Vice president--G. w. Dunaton. en-
CINE driver, l"France Engine Compa-
ny No. 2.
Secretary-I. u. Gordon. wagon
driver. Rescue Fire Company No. /.
Treasurer. A. Walker, foreman.
Eagle Engine Company No. 3.
Three members of each of the com
panies were elected trustees as fo'-
lows: b. I. Johnson, J. F. Darlington
and J. b Gordon. Rescue Company NO.
i.,B. NJ. Roy. G. W. DuntOn and w. II.
Redford. La France Company No. z:
and James A. Walker J. A. Rrag2 ana
II. p. Rosenberg. Eagl" Company NO.
3 The .foremen Of the three cOmpa-
MES. Il. |. Johnson. No. |; -. M. Roy
No. . and J. A. Walker. No. :. were
named AS the examining board.
A committee composed OF J. +,
Darlington. J. a. Bragg and }. a. wal
ker. was named to draft the bylaws
and constitution for the association,
and w. II. RedfOrd. G. W. nunton ana
J r. Gordon were named commit
Zee to secure charter. Application
for a charter for the association VIII
he made to thu State Corporation
Commission next week.
viii Get Relief Fund.
The organization Of this association
VAS practically the final step in the
securing of a relief fund for hremen
Injured while on duty and for the
widows ard orphans Of Bremen who
ARE killed when responding to ALARMS
of fire. The fight for this fund began
las wears ago and IL was waged in
|cessently until the legislature finally
passed tse relief bill.
Under the provisions Of the reilef
bin. all FIRE insurance companies dc
ing business in the State Of Nirg.-
MIA are required to pay the STATE
treasurer 81 OF every 500 of prem
iums. Two per cent Of this gross
fund derived from the companies VIII
h. paid hv the treasurer 10 the Nirsf
mia Stale Ffremen's Association. The
remainder will De divided pro rata
among the relief associations OF the
State. II is now estimated that the
local association will receive ab0uf
81. 500 per annum from the general re
lief fund. However. this does not
include any Ct the money that IL PAID
into the general fund OF the State as
|sociation. The ILL provides further.
that any insurance company which is
convicted of making false returns to
the State treasurer Of the amount OF
business done in the Stale shall he
fined not less than 5000 for eacn OF
Tense.
Details Of Organization.
The I'm also provides that the treas
urer of each association -ehali be hor;'
dej and that he shall make an an
nuai report To the State ASSOCIATION OF
the receipts nd disbursements Ct his
association. II will be the duty ot
the examining board of each assocta-
riou to investigate all accidents 10
members OF the association and 10
make n report on such accidents 10
he association.
In order 20 derive benefits from IN"
relief fund. the fremen must he Tem-
|bers Of tho virginia State AssSciaf'on.