Seventh Section Corporation Law of 1874.

That every company incorporated or organized by or under any law of this Commonwealth, or incorporated or organized by or under any law of any other State, and doing business in this Commonwealth, which possesses the corporate right or privilege to mine or to purchase and sell coal, shall semiannually, upon the first days of July and January, in each and every year, make report, under oath or affirmation, to the Auditor General, of the number of tons of coal mined during the six months preceding the said first days of July and January, by such company, and also of the number of tons of coal that shall be mined by any unincorporated association, partnership, or individual, under any lease, contract, grant, or mining privileges upon the property of which the company making such report is the owner or lessee, or has any mining, or coal privileges, or interest therein, and also of the number of tons not mined as aforesaid, which shall have been purchased during the same period by the said company, and shall pay into the treasury of the Commonwealth an additional tax upon its corporate franchises, created by or used within this Commonwealth, at the rate of three cents upon each and every ton of two thousand two hundred and forty pounds of coal so mined or purchased as aforesaid: Provided, That the amount of coal consumed in the transaction of its business by any such company shall not be included

in its return: And provided further, That said tax shall not be payable more than once in respect to the same ton of coal: And provided also, That if any such company shall neglect or refuse, for a period of thirty days after such tax becomes due, to make said return, or to pay the same, the amount thereof, with an addition of ten per centum thereto, shall be collected for the use of the Commonwealth, as other taxes are recoverable by law from said companies.

Form of Application for Charters of Corporations under Act of 1874.

[Notice of intended application must be published three weeks in two newspapers of general circulation in the proper county, setting forth the character and object of the corporation to be formed.]

TO HIS EXCELLENCY

Governor of Pennsylvania. SIR: In compliance with the requirements of an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations," approved the 29th day of April, A. D. 1874, the undersigned, . of whom are citizens of Pennsylvania, having associated themselves together for the purpose of

and desiring that they may be incorporated, and that Letters Patent may issue to them, and their successors, according to law, do hereby certify:

1st. The name of the proposed corporation is.

2d. Said corporation is formed for the purpose of

3d. The business of said corporation is to be transacted in.

4th. Said corporation is to exist for the term of.. years.

5th. The names and residences of the subscribers, and the number of shares subscribed by each, are as follows:

Name.

Residence.

No. of Shares.

6th. The number of directors of said corporation is fixed at and the names and residence of the directors, who are chosen directors for the first year, are as follows:

7th. The amount of the capital stock of said corporation is $. . ., divided into . . . shares, of the par value of $. .; and $. . ., being ten per centum of the capital stock, has been paid in cash to the treasurer of said corporation, whose names and residences

Before me, the Recorder of Deeds, in and for the county aforesaid, personally came the above-named who, in due form of law, acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be their act and deed, for the purposes therein specified.

of

Witness my hand and seal of office, the.

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Recorder.

who being duly sworn according to law, depose and say that the statements contained in the foregoing instrument are true.

being duly sworn, doth depose and

say: That he is one of the corporators of the . .

That a notice, of which the above are copies, was published in the . both newspapers of general circulation, printed and in the county of State of Pennsylvania.

That said notice was published, to wit: