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witnesses shall not be required to sign such transcript or other sta ment of his testimony. Provided, further, that in any suit or proced ing hereafter commenced for the recovery of damages arising from growing out of injuries caused by the negligence of any person, firm corporation resulting in the death of any person or for the collection a policy of insurance, neither the coroner's verdict returned upon t inquisition as provided herein, nor a copy thereof, shall be admissi as evidence to prove or establish any of the facts in controversy in sa civil suit or proceeding.

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(SENATE BILL No. 85. APPROVED APRIL 29, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act requiring corporations to make annual report to the Secretary of State, and providing for the cancellation of articles of incorporation for failure to do so, and to repeal a certain Act therein named," appropved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, and amendments thereto in force July 1, 1903, and July 1, 1917, by amending section seven thereof and adding thereto sections 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 7e, 7f, 7g, 7h and 7i.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois. represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act requiring corporations to make annual report to the Secretary of State. and providing for the cancellation of articles of incorporation for failure to do so, and to repeal a certain Act therein named," approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, and amendments thereto in force July 1, 1903, and July 1, 1917, be and the same is hereby amended, by amending section seven thereof and by adding thereto sections a, 7b. 7c, d, e, f, g, 7h and 71, which said section seven and added sections shall read as follows:

§. It is further provided that any corporation which is pursuing an active business under its charter, failing to make said report at the time provided by law, may at any time within two years from such

default be reinstated upon the records in the office of the Secretary of State, upon the payment of a fee in the sum of $20 for such reinstatement, and filing in said office an affidavit stating all facts required in section two of this Act, and in addition thereto the fact that it was at the time of such default, and still is, engaged in active business under is charter: Provided, further, that on or before the first day of July of each year, the Secretary of State shall certify the names of all corporations that have failed to file in the office of the Secretary of State an application for reinstatement within two years from date of default, together with the facts in relation thereto, to the Attorney General, whose duty it shall be to institute proceedings in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, either in the Circuit Court of Sangamon County or in the Circuit Court of such other county in this State as to him may seem best for the dissolution of said corporations or abandonment and non-user of their charter, and be it further provided, that said certificate from the Secretary of State to the Attorney General shall be taken and received in all courts and places as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated. Provided, that before instituting suit the Attorney General shall mail to the corporation or corporations at last known address of the corporation, as given in said certificate, a notice of the fact that a suit will be instituted to dissolve aid corporation unless an application for reinstatement, accompanied the fee heretofore mentioned in this section, is filed in the office of the Secretary of State within thirty days from the date of said notice. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State upon filing of said aplication for reinstatement, accompanied by said fee, by any corporaion certified by him to the Attorney General, to notify said Attorney General of the fact of the filing of said application for reinstatement. At the expiration of the said thirty days, the Attorney General shall proceed to dissolve any such corporation that has not filed an application for reinstatement, as provided by the provisions of this section. But if it shall appear, upon the hearing, that said corporation is pursaing an active business under its charter, then, upon payment to the Secretary of State of the sum of $50 and all costs that have accumulated in the prosecution of the suit, the charter shall be restored. Otherwise, a decree of dissolution shall be entered against said cororation by an appropriate judgment of the court for abandonment and non-user of its charter.

$7a. Such proceeding shall be commenced by filing in the Circait Court, in chancery, an information in the nature of a bill in chancery, stating the name and date of the organization of such corporation, the location of its principal office, and the names of its directors. managers, trustees or officers, if known; that it has failed to make its annual report to the Secretary of State, as provided in this Act, and praving for its dissolution.

7h. In proceedings under this Act, process in the form of a summons in chancery, may issue out of the court, upon the filing of such information directed to the sheriff of the county in which the principal office of such corporation is, by its charter. located, and shall be served by delivering a copy thereof to the president of such cor

poration, if he can be found in such county, and if he cannot be found therein, then by leaving such copy with the clerk, secretary, superin tendent or other agent of such corporation, and in case the sherif having such process shall make return thereon that such president clerk, secretary, superintendent, or other agent of such corporation can not be found in his county, then the Attorney General shall cause notice to be published in some newspaper published in the county wher the principal office of such corporation is located, (as shown by th records of the Secretary of State), as hereinafter in this Act provided § 7c. The publication notice required for service of process or said corporations sought to be dissolved, may be had by giving notic to all of said corporations which it is sought to have dissolved at the same term of the court in one notice to all of the corporations which are sought to be dissolved in that term of said court, and which said notice shall be in the following form, as nearly as may be:

NOTICE OF ACTION FOR DISSOLUTION OF CORPORATIONS.

To the following named corporations, their officers and stockholders: Acme Bond Company, Brown Ink Company; New York Sand Company; (inserting names of all the corporations against whom bills have been filed:)

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You will hereby take notice that the Attorney General of Illinois has filed a bill in chancery in the name of the People of the State of Illinois against each of the above named corporations, in the Circuit Court of.... .... County to the... thereof, the said bill in chancery praying for the dissolution of each of the above named corporations, and that a summons has been issued by the clerk of said court and delivered to the sheriff of the county in which the principal office of each of said corporations is located for service, and that said sheriff has returned said summons to the clerk of said court with a return that he has been unable to obtain service on any of the above named corporations.

You will therefore take notice that said information in chancery has been filed in said Circuit Court of.. Illinois, and is now pending in said court.

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Clerk of the Circuit Court of....

. County.

Attorney General of the State of Illinois.

S7d. It shall not be necessary for the Attorney General to file an affidavit showing such president, clerk, secretary, superintendent or other agent of such corporation resides or has gone out of the State, or on due inquiry cannot be found, or is concealed, so that process cannot be served upon them, or that upon diligent inquiry the places of residence of such officers or agents cannot be ascertained.

§7e. Said publication shall be had at least once in each week for three successive weeks, and no default shall be taken upon such notice unless thirty (30) days shall have intervened between the date

of the first publication of such notice and the first day of the term of court at which such default or preceeding is proposed to be taken.

7f. The practice in proceedings under this Act shall be the same as in cases of chancery, except that it shall not be necessary for the complainant to file a copy of his pleadings. Suits and proceedings Instituted under the provisions of this Act shall be placed on a separate docket by themselves, and stand for trial upon the call of such docket at such times during any term of such court as the judge thereof shall order.

§7g. Upon the hearing of the information, the court may decree a dissolution of such corporation, and upon the clerk of said court certifying to the fact that said court has decreed a dissolution of such corporation and filing such certificate with the Secretary of State, and same being entered by the Secretary of State in the records of his office, the dissolution of such corporation shall be complete.

§ 7h. The court shall decree that the defendant corporation shall pay the costs of the suit. Upon the failure of the defendant corporation to pay the costs, the State of Illinois shall pay the costs of the publication notice necessary to procure service of notice on the defendant corporation.

The fees allowed for the publication notice provided for in this Act shall be not exceeding twenty-five (25) cents for each corporation named in said notice, and in addition thereto ten dollars ($10.00) for the publication of said notice; the said twenty-five (25) cents per Corporation and said ten dollars ($10.00) for the notice is to constitute full payment for the three nublications of said notice, and the certificate of the publisher that said publication was made. The costs of said publication shall be paid upon certified fee bills approved by the Attorney General, and shall be paid out of any moneys in the State treasury, not otherwise appropriated. No other costs or charges shall be allowed or paid for any other services performed under the provisions. of this Act by the State of Illinois.

§ 71. Whereas, an emergency exists, therefore, this Act shall take efect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED April 29, 1919.

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(HOUSE BILL No. 184. FILED JUNE 19, 1919.)

AN ACT in relation to mutual building, loan and homestead associations SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: DEFINITION.] Every associa tion heretofore or hereafter organized under any law providing for the incorporation of building, loan and homestead associations, and every association heretofore or hereafter organized or incorporated under any law for the purpose of assisting its members to accumulate and invest their savings, by accumulating a fund from periodical pay ments on its stock, or otherwise, to be loaned among its members, shall be known in this Act as a mutual building, loan or homestead associa tion.

Associations organized under this Act may operate under either the serial, or the permanent plan, or both, as their by-laws may provide. Associations issuing shares at fixed times, or in series, shall be known as serial associations, and associations issuing shares with a minimum payment, or when required, or without fixed dates of issue. shall be known as permanent plan associations. Such associations organized under the laws of this State shall be known as "domestic" associations, and those organized under the laws of any other state, territory or nation, shall be known as "foreign" associations.

§ 2. LICENSE, HOW OBTAINED.] Whenever any number of persons, not less than ten (10), may desire to become incorporated as a mutual building, loan or homestead association, for the purpose of ac cumulating funds to be loaned to the members thereof only, they shall

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