organized shall be twelve (12) instead of nine (9), as provided in said Act; and that any such corporation may from time to time, and as its stockholders may determine, elect, or appoint on the board of directors thereof any number of directors not less than three (3) nor more than twelve (12). SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. Passed February 7, 1911. N. BAXTER, JR.. Speaker of the Senate. A. M. LEACH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Approved February 9, 1911. BEN W. HOOPER, Governor. CHAPTER 15. [HOUSE BILL No. 150.] (By Messrs. Galloway and Lipscomb.) AN ACT to amend an Act passed March 19, 1875, approved March 23, 1875, being Chapter 142 of the Acts of 1875, entitled An Act to provide for the organization of corporations. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Paragraph 3, Section 1, Chapter 142 of the Acts of 1875, be, and the same is, hereby amended by inserting after the words "or fine arts" the following: "The organization and support of cemetery associations for the purpose of acquiring and maintaining cemeteries or burial places wherein soldiers and sailors or other persons are buried, and for the preservation and maintenance of such cemeteries other than cemetery organizations for profit." SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. Passed February 10, 1911. A. M. LEACH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Approved February 16, 1911. N. BAXTER, JR., BEN W. HOOPER, CHAPTER 19. [SENATE BILL NO. 123.] (By Mr. McAlister.) AN ACT to authorize and empower corporations heretofore created for purposes of education or learning under the provisions of the Acts of the General Assembly of Tennessee enacted prior to the adoption of the Constitution of said State adopted in the year 1870, to continue their corporate existence and to become vested with all the powers, rights, and privileges granted to and become subject to all the penalties, limitations, and restrictions imposed upon corporations organized for the general welfare of society and not for profit by the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the organization of corporations." passed March 19, 1875, and approved March 23, 1875, and all subsequent Acts amendatory thereof in lieu and in place of the powers, rights, and privileges granted to and the penalties, limitations, and restrictions imposed upon such corporations as originally created. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That any corporation heretofore created for the purpose of education or learning under the provisions of the Acts of the General Assembly of Tennessee enacted prior to the adoption of the Constitution of said State adopted in the year 1870, which may at any time before the final dissolution of such corporation as provided by law desire to amend its charter for the purpose of continuing its corporate existence and becoming vested with all the powers, rights, and privileges granted to, and becoming subject to, all the penalties, limitations, and restrictions imposed upon corporations organized for the general welfare of society and not for profit by the Act of the General Assembly of Tennessee, entitled "An Act to provide for the organization of corporations," passed March 19, 1875, approved March 23, 1875, and all subsequent Acts of said General Assembly amendatory thereof in lieu and in place of the powers, rights, and privileges granted to and the penalties, limitations, and restrictions imposed upon such corporations as originally created shall have the right to do so by the board of trustees of such corporation making an application in these words: "We, the undersigned, composing the board of trustees of (here insert name of corporation), hereby apply to the State of Tennessee, by virtue of the laws of the land, for an amendment to the charter and memorandum of incorporation of said.... whereby said corporation may continue its existence and become vested with all the powers, rights, and privileges granted to and be and become subject to all of the pen alties, limitations, and restrictions imposed upon corporations organized for the general welfare of society and not for profit by the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the organization of corporations," passed March 19, 1875, approved March 23, 1875, and all subsequent Acts. amendatory thereof, in lieu and in place of the powers, rights, and privileges granted to and the penalties, limitations, and restrictions imposed upon said corporations as originally created. Witness our hands this the day of "(To be signed by all of the trustees)." SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said application for amendment shall be probated or acknowledged and recorded as provided by Section 26 and Section 23 of the said Act of 1875, entitled "An Act to provide for the organization of corporations," passed March 19, 1875, approved March 23, 1875, as in case of application for original charters under said Act, and the certificate of registration given by the Secretary of State under the great seal of the State shall, when recorded as required, complete the Act of amendment, and the validity thereof shall not in any legal proceedings be collaterally impeached or questioned, and said corporation shall thereafter continue to exist in the same manner as if it had been originally chartered under the said Act of 1875, entitled "An Act to provide for the organization of corporations," or any subsequent Act amendatory thereof, and shall have the same powers, rights, and privileges and none other, and shall be subject to the same penalties, limitations, and restrictions and none other, as are granted to or imposed upon corporations organized for the general welfare of society and not for profit under said Act of 1875, or any subsequent Act amendatory thereof, and as if it had been originally chartered under said Act of 1875 or any Act amendatory thereof; nor shall it thereafter be subject to any of the penalties, limitations, and restrictions imposed upon it as originally incorporated, saving and excepting such as are embraced in and imposed by said Act of 1875 and all subsequent Acts amendatory thereof. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the fees of the Secretary of State, Registers, and County Court Clerks for the registration, probate, and acknowledgment of the amendments herein provided shall be the same as provided in the case of original charters obtained under the said Act of 1875, entitled "An Act to provide for the organization of corporations," and all subsequent Acts amendatory thereof. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. Passed February 17, 1911. AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of cemeteries not run for profit, and to amend Chapter 142 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, 1874-5. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That cemeteries not run for profit and that have no capital stock may be incorporated, and that the form of charter provided for in Section 9 of Chapter 142 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Tennessee, 1874-5, and all the provisions of said Act shall apply to such corporation, except that the provisions of said Act in regard to the improvement, fund, and the other provisions in said Act in regard to the funds of such corporations provided for in said Act, be, and the same is, hereby repealed as to corporations formed under this Act. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all vacancies in the Board of Directors shall be filled by the County Court of the county where the cemetery controlled by said corporation is located. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That Section 9 of said Chapter 142 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1874-5 be further amended so as to strike from the same in so far as it applies to the corporations herein provided for, the provisions in same which require the land purchased to be situated not less than one mile from the corporation line of a town containing 15,000 inhabitants, nor less than two miles from a corporation line of a town containing a greater number of inhabitants. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That corporations formed under this Act are hereby empowered to purchase and hold land for the purposes provided for in said Act of 1874-5 in or near any town of any number of inhabitants, whether the same is an incorporated town or not, and in any part of the country away from any incorporated town. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same is, hereby repealed, and that this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. Passed April 6, 1911. A. M. LEACH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. N. BAXTER, JR., Approved April 15, 1911. BEN W. HOOPER, Governor. CHAPTER 13. [SENATE BILL No. 19.] (By Mr. Fisher.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to require corporations to file certain information with the Secretary of State, and to provide for the payment of an annual fee therewith to the Secretary of State," being Chapter 434 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee for the year 1907, passed April 10, 1907, and approved April 13, 1907, so as to provide more efficient means for the enforcement of said Act. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Chapter 434 of the Acts of 1907, entitled "An Act to require corporations to file certain information with the Secretary of State, and to provide for the payment of an annual fee therewith to the Secretary of State," passed April 10, 1907, and approved April 13, 1907, be, and it is, hereby amended by striking out all that part of Section 1 following the words and figures" and over $150," in the forty-sixth line of said section as same appears in the published Acts for the year 1907, and substituting therefor the following—to wit: |