NOTICE is hereby given that the People's National Fire Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, Pa., has made application to the State Commissioner of Insurance for the withdrawal of its bonds on deposit with the Treasurer of Virginia, it having secured all of its Virginia business with the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company, Limited, of Liverpool, England, as of April 4, 1916.

VIRGINIA: In the Chancery Court of the City of Richmond, the 1st day of May, 1910.

In the matter of the application of Catherine M. Smith for letters of administration upon the estate of Peter H. Valentine, supposed to be dead on account of absence for seven or more years from the city of Richmond, the place of his last domicile within this State, without having been heard from.

This matter came on this day to be heard upon the order entered in the Dth day of March, 1911, which has been duly published as required by law, as appears from the certificate of the editor of the Richmond Evening Journal, a newspaper published in the city of Richmond, this day filed by leave of court, and upon the oral testimony of Catherine M. Smith and Annie Johnson this day given in open court, and the court being satisfied from said testimony that the legal presumption of the death of Peter H. Valentine is made out, does decree that said Peter H. Valentine is  Lorally presumed to be dead, on account of his absence for seven or more years from the city of Richmond, the place of his last domicile within this State, without having been heard from. 