United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/7th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 23
Chap. XXIII.—An Act concerning the insurance of buildings, goods and furniture, in the county of Alexandria, in the territory of Columbia.
Jurisdiction to the circuit court of the county of Alexandria, in suits by certain insurance companies.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the two incorporated bodies of the state of Virginia, the one known by the name of “The Mutual Assurance Society against fire on buildings in the state of Virginia;” the other called “A Mutual Insurance Company against fire, on goods and furniture, in the state of Virginia,” or either of them hereafter making insurances on buildings, goods or furniture, situated in the county of Alexandria, in the district of Columbia, according to the laws, rules and regulations, by which the said societies are or may be respectively governed in their insurances in that state, may have the same right and mode of recovery, in the circuit court of the county of Alexandria, in the district of Columbia, against any person so insuring his building, furniture, or property, as the case may be, situated in the county aforesaid, with either of the said societies, which might have been had against him or her, if the person so insuring was resident, and the building, furniture, or property, so insured, was situated in the state of Virginia.
Approved, March 3, 1803.