The Clerk read, as follows: To the congren of the U.S.: The undersigned.acommittee of the boardofdirect prs of the Firemens Insurance Company of Wash 1115M!a!!nd Georgetown, in the DistCol. (la y appointed to petition your honorable body for an amendment of the charter of said company. re5 ectlull represent that when said company was O artor. in 837.therewere regularly organizedfire companiesin the said cities and it was provided in the 6th section of said not that those companies alone should open books of subscription for the stock 9f said company. Iirthe 7th section of said not gt was provided that if any fire company should not in the spaceof 3 years subscribefor the amount of stock allotted wit. that then the residue of the shares not taken might be subscribed for by other companies. In the 8th section of said not it was provided that no person not a memberofa fire company should be entitled to purchaseor hold stock in and company; and upon the deceaaeof any stock holder thitt his stock 5 cold becomeextinct and the value of his stocksaid to his heirs and that newstock should he create to replace the some, and be disposedof by the directors. Sectionnine provided that no stock should be transferred on the books of the company to any other than a memberor membersof a fire company; and section ten provided that special advantaeesof"insuranceshouiii be granted to.all membersoffiro companies. In February. 1807.an act was passedto extend the said charter and the sections as above specified were by that act continued in force. Since the pass e of that act of extension the fire Dept has cen reer anized Within the said cities oFWnshington and reorgctowu and the fire companies have ceased to exist and thereare no fire mqn within the meaningof the provisionsofsaid acts of incorporatien to which the sumocan apply, Your petitioners. therefore.pray that the said 7th, 8th. 9th. end 10th sectionsof said not of 183;.extended by said not of 1857.may be repealed, I I have no objection to leaving the stockof said compmy open to theowner i l ship of an one who may desire to purchase it. and, governed y the some rules and regulations as the stock of other stock companies within the DistCol. B. B. FRENCH. C. w. DAVIS. T. EDWARD CLARK. Wasurnoror. January 22.1866. Commalso.