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tions before such consolidation, but in no case shall a greater amount of capital be called in by the consolidated corporation under this act than that remaining unpaid on the stock of the several corporations at the time of such consolidation. The several corpora- Certificate to be tions forming such consolidated corporation, before the said consol- in section five of idation shall be completed, shall file in the offices designated in sec- this act. tion five of this act a certificate signed by the president and secretary of each of said corporations and verified under oath, showing the amount of capital stock actually paid in, the amount expended for the purchase of lands, and for improvements made upon said lands by each of said corporations; the consolidated corporation shall also file its articles of association as provided in said section five, which shall be signed and acknowledged in the manner provided in section two of this act, by the presidents and secretaries of the several corporations so consolidating: Provided, That the capital stock of Limit of capital every consolidated corporation shall be subject to the limitations of stock. section four of this act.

etc., of consoli

SEC. 26. The consolidated corporation so formed shall hold and Powers, rights, enjoy all the powers, privileges, rights, franchises, properties, dated corporaclaims, demands, and estates, which at the time of such union tions. may be held and enjoyed by either of the said existing corporations, and be subject to all the dues, demands, contracts, and liabilities existing against either of the same; and all suits at law or in equity, and all proceedings which may be pending, to which either corporation shall be a party, may be prosecuted and defended by the consolidated corporation in the same name, in like manner,. and with the same effect as might have been done had such union not have been formed. All claims, contracts, rights, and causes of action of or against either corporation, at law or in equity, may be enforced by suit or action, to be commenced and prosecuted by or against the corporation formed as aforesaid. And the said existing corporations shall continue corporations for the purpose of prosecuting and defending any suits or proceedings pending at the time of such consolidation.

to continue.

SEC. 27. The officers of the existing corporations shall continue officers of exist to exercise, in behalf of the corporations so to be formed, all their ing corporations rights and powers, until the consolidated corporation shall be organized; and thereafter each of the said existing corporations shall continue, for the purpose of perfecting the said union, and of doing all such acts and things, as may be necessary therefor; and shall execute all such transfers, conveyances and assignments, as the corporation forined as aforesaid may deem necessary or expedient to vest in itself any property, estates, contracts, rights, or claims which do not vest in it by virtue or authority of this act.

cancelling stock

SEC. 28. Any corporation consolidated under this act shall have Provision for power to call in and cancel the certificates of stock of the several and issuing new corporations so consolidating, and to make and issue to its stock- stock. holders new certificates of stock in the consolidated corporation, in such proportions to each as each shall be entitled to, according to the terms of consolidation as agreed upon, and to cancel the stock

How articles of

be amended.

of any stockholder who shall not return his stock to be canceled as aforesaid, within thirty days after actual notice of the resolution of the corporation for calling in such stock, or who shall not return. his stock after publication of notice of said resolution once in each week for four successive weeks in some daily paper published in the city of Detroit, also in some paper published in the Upper Peninsula, also in a paper published in the place where the principal business office of the company is located, if any paper is published at such place.

SEC. 29. It shall be lawful for any company organized or existing association may under this act, upon a vote of two-thirds of its capital stock, at any meeting thereof duly called, to alter and amend its articles of association in such manner not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, as it may determine; and upon such vote, said company may make articles amendatory of their original articles, which shall be signed and certified by the president and secretary of said company, and filed and recorded in the manner provided for the filing and recording of the original articles of such associations; and when so executed and filed, such amendatory articles shall have the same force and effect as though such alterations or amendments had been included in and made a part of the original articles of association, and they may be proved by certified copies thereof, in the manner provided for the proof of the original articles of such association.

Business office may be out of this State.

SEC. 30. It shall be lawful for any company associating under this act to provide in the articles of association, for having the business office of such company out of this State, and to hold any meeting of the stockholders or board of directors of such company, Must have busi at such office so provided for; but every such company having its

ness office with.

in this State.

Quantity of land to be held.

Annual report.

business office out of this State, shall have an office for the transaction of business within this State, to be also designated in such articles of association,

SEC. 31. Any corporation organized or existing under this act shall have power to acquire and hold any quantity of land, not to exceed fifty thousand acres.

SEC. 32. It shall be the duty of the president and secretary of each corporation, annually in the month of July, to make a report for the preceding year ending December thirty-first, containing a statement of:

First, The amount of cash paid in on the capital stock;

Second, The amount of capital paid in by the conveyance of property to the corporation;

Third, The entire amount invested in real estate;

Fourth, The amount of personal estate;

Fifth, The amount of the unsecured or floating debt of the corporation, as near as may be;

Sixth, The amount of the secured or bonded debt of the corpor

ation;

Seventh, The amount due to the corporation;

Eighth, The number of gross tons of copper obtained;

Ninth, The number of gross tons of two thousand two hundred and forty pounds each, of iron ore mined and shipped;

Tenth, The number of gross tons of mineral coal mined;
Eleventh, The number of gross tons of pig iron manufactured;
Twelfth, The number of tons of any other mineral or ore mined;
Thirteenth, The amount of slate or stone mined;

Fourteenth, The name of each stockholder of record and the number of shares held by him on the said thirty-first day of December, and when stock is held in trust or in some representative capacity, it shall be so stated.

duplicate, etc.

Auditor General

SEC. 33. Such report shall be executed in duplicate by said pres- Report to be in ident and secretary, and shall be sworn to before some officer authorized to administer oaths. If sworn to outside the limits of the State it shall be before a Commissioner for Michigan, a notary public having a seal, or any other person authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds. Such duplicate report shall be filed on To be filed with or before the thirty-first day of July annually, one copy with the and county clerk. Auditor General of this State, and the other with the clerk of the county in this State where the mine or smelting or manufacturing works of the corporation are principally or wholly situated. If any swearing falsely, person signing such duplicate report shall, as to any material facts perjury. therein stated, willfully swear falsely, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury. Blank reports shall be prepared by the Auditor General Blank reports and furnished to any corporation on application therefor. When- Auditor General. ever any corporation ceases to carry on business for one year or more it shall not be required to make such reports until it again commences business.

furnished by

lect to make

SEC. 34. If said officers, or either of them, mentioned in the pre- Intentional negceding section, willfully and intentionally neglects to make and file report deemed a the report required in said preceding section, they shall be deemed misdemeanor. guilty of a misdemeanor.

individually

corporation.

SEC. 35. The stockholders of all corporations existing hereunder stockholders shall be individually liable for all labor performed for such corpor- liable for labor ation, which said liability may be enforced by action in assumpsit performed for commenced within two years from the time when payment for such labor became due, and not afterwards. Every action against any stockholder for labor heretofore performed for any such corporation shall be brought within two years after this act takes effect, and not afterwards, but this shall not be construed as reviving any cause of action already barred by any statute of limitations, nor shall it include any cause of action, the right to sue for which will expire in less than two years after this act takes effect, by virtue of some existing statute of limitation. Suit for such labor may be commenced against any or all the stockholders and the corporation jointly; but no levy shall be made upon the property of stockholders under Property of coran execution issued upon such judgment until the property of the portion exhaus corporation shall have been exhausted, and the clerk of the court on property of issuing such execution shall endorse thereon a direction to the officer to that effect. Suit may be commenced against the corporation alone at any time within six years from the time the cause of action accrues, as in other personal actions.

SEC. 36. If any stockholder shall be compelled by any action to

ted before levy

stockholders.

Stockholders

debts of corpo

ration, may reCover ratable amount due

pay the debts of the corporation, or any part thereof, he shall have compelled to pay the right to call upon all the stockholders to contribute their part of the sum so paid by him as aforesaid, and may sue them at law or in equity, jointly or severally, or any number of them, and recover in such action or suit the ratable amount due from the stockholder or stockholders so sued.

from other stockholders.

Service of legal

process against

made.

where commenced.

SEC. 37. Service of any legal process, against any corporation organized or existing hereunder may be made on the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, superintendent, or agent. Personal Personal actions, actions against said corporations shall be commenced only in the county where the mine, or smelting or other manufacturing works are situated, or in the county where the business office in this State is located. Suits may be commenced in any manner in which suits are or may hereafter be commenced against natural persons. Upon the return of any process, rule, or order showing that no personal service can be had, the court, or judge thereof, if a court of record having common-law or equity jurisdiction, may by an order prescribe the manner in which service of such process, rule, or order may be made. In any suit or proceeding instituted by or against any corporation existing hereunder, it shall not be necessary to set forth its corporate character, nor where it carries on its business, nor where its business office is located.

Manner of service of process,

etc., when per.

sonal service

cannot be had.

Want of seal not to invalidate instrument in writing.

Secretary to keep record of stock. holders and

SEC. 38. The want of the corporate seal to any instrument in writing shall not invalidate such instrument if in all other respects legally authorized by the corporation, and signed by the president and secretary, or other duly authorized officer or officers of the corporation.

SEC. 39. The secretary of every corporation shall keep an accurate record of its stockholders, with the number of shares owned by number of shares each, which shall at all reasonable times be open for the inspection any stockholder. If such officer refuse to exhibit such record, he shall forfeit a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense.

owned by each.

Executors,

guardians, trustees, etc., may

of

SEC. 40. An executor, administrator, guardian, or trustee may represent the shares of stock in his hands at all meetings of the correpresent stock poration, and may, in his representative capacity, vote as a stockholder, but shall not be personally liable as a stockholder by reason of acting in such representative capacity.

in his hands, etc.

Provisions for dissolving cor

poration and or. ganizing under

this act.

SEC. 41. Any corporation engaged in the kind of business contemplated by this act, organized and doing business under any special charter heretofore granted by this State, may at any time, by a vote of a majority of its capital stock, at any annual meeting, or a special meeting called for that purpose pursuant to the provisions of this act, dissolve its organization, and organize under this act, and any corporation so organizing under this act shall have the right, in preference to any other company or corporation, to assume the name by which it was known in its former charter. After perfecting its organization according to the provisions of this act, it shall be Lew corporation, entitled to all the rights, privileges, and immunities herein conferred and the property, effects, and rights of action of such corporation shall pass to and be vested in the corporation so organized under

Rights, privileges, etc., of

ings, articles of

this act, and the debts, liabilities, and demands existing against such corporation so dissolved, shall be and remain debts, liabilities, and demands against such corporation so organized hereunder, and may be prosecuted against it in like manner, and to the like effect, as they might have been against the corporation so dissolved: Provided, Any such corporation shall perfect its organization within sixty days after dissolving under its special charter: And provided Copy of proceedfurther, That before any such corporation shall commence doing association, etc., business under this act, it shall file in the same manner as articles to be filed." of association are, by the provisions of this act, required to be filed, a copy of the proceedings had dissolving its organization under its special charter as aforesaid, verified by its secretary as a true copy of such proceedings, in the office of the Secretary of State and county clerk of the county where such corporation carries on its business, together with its articles of association as provided in section five of

this act. Such verified copies shall be recorded in such offices at To be recorded. the expense of such corporation, and the copies so filed, the record thereof, or copies of them certified by the Secretary of State or by the county clerk, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of the facts therein set forth.

be dissolved after

ness for five

SEC. 42. When any corporation organized for the purposes contem- Corporation may plated by this act shall, for a period of five years, cease to be actually ceasing to be enengaged in the business for which it was organized, stockholders hold-gaged in busi ing not less than one-third of its capital stock, may file a petition years. in the circuit court in chancery in the county in which its mine or I works are located for its dissolution. Notice of such application shall be given to the stockholders and creditors in such manner as the court may direct, and said court shall, upon final hearing, enter a decree dissolving the corporation, and directing the sale of its property, and the distribution of the proceeds among its stockholders after payment of its indebtedness. Such dissolution shall not affect the liabilities of officers or stockholders previously incurred. If at any time before final decree it shall be made to appear to the court that the stockholders holding more than two-thirds of the stock desire the existence of the corporation to be continued, the proceedings shall be discontinued and dismissed. The time prior to the passage of this act, in which any such corporation shall not have been actually engaged in its business, as well as the time subsequent thereto, shall be considered in determining the right of such stockholder to petition for the dissolution of the corporation. SEC. 43. All meetings heretofore held or corporate acts done, Meetings and without the limits of this State, by any corporation organized for the purposes contemplated by this act, shall be held and are hereby declared to be, as lawful and binding as though held or done in this State.

acts out of State legalized.

SEC. 44. The following entitled acts, so far as they relate to cor- Acts repealed. porations authorized by this act, are hereby repealed, viz.: "An act to authorize the formation of corporations for mining, smelting, or manufacturing iron, copper, or silver ores," approved April eight, eighteen hundred and fifty-one; "An act to amend section three of

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