or association.

The territorial treasurer must, upon receipt of such securities, forthwith deposit the same in the territorial treasury, in a package marked with the name of the corporation, company or association from whom received, where said securities must remain as security for stockholders of the corporation, company or association to which they respectively belong; but so long as the corporation, company or association remains solvent, he must permit such corporation, company or association to collect the interests or dividends on the securities so deposited, and may from time to time withdraw any of said securities, on depositing the value thereof in money or other securities of the same kind and value as those mentioned in this act, instead of those withdrawn.

Sec. 9. If for any cause the securities should at any time, in the judgment of the territorial treasurer, become insufficient, he may require such corporation, company or association to deposit additional securities to make up the fu. amount of fifteen thousand dollars.

Sec. 10. Any corporation, company or association mentioned in this act, desiring to suspend business and withdraw the securities so deposited, must furnish the territorial treasurer with satisfactory proof that all certificates of stock have been called in and satisfactorily settled and adjusted, and that there are no suits pending against it or them, and that there are no unsatisfied judgments against it or them, as the case may be.

Sec. 11. Any judgment creditor who may have unsatisfied judgment recovered on a certificate of stock against such corporation, company or association, and a supersedeas bond on appeal has not been given as required by law, may within thirty days from the date of said judgment have execution and levy on sufficient of said securities to satisfy said judgment.

Sec. 12. Any person or agent or otherwise who

shall solicit investments or issue or deliver any certificate of stock in this territory for or on account of any foreign building and loan corporation, company or association, which has not complied with the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars nor less than fifty dollars or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding three months.

Sec. 13. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved this fourth day of March, A. D. 1897. [Stats. 1897, p. 35.]

Insurance Companies.

Rev. Stat. Sec. 257. (Sec. 7.) It shall not be lawful for any agent of any insurance company not incorporated under the laws of this territory to transact the business of insurance within this territory unless the insurance company shall have first obtained a certificate of authority from the territorial treasurer, which certificate shall be issued to such agent upon his filing with said treasurer a statement under oath showing:

First. The name and locality of the company.
Second. The amount of capital stock.
Third. The capital stock paid up.

Fourth. The amount of its accumulation and assets and liabilities.

Fifth. Surplus as to policy holders.

Together with a written agreement under seal of the company, signed by the president and secretary thereof, and agreeing on the part of the company that service or process in any civil action against such company may be made upon any agent of the company in the territory, and authorizing such agent for and in behalf of such company to admit service of process on him, and agreeing that the service of process upon any such agent shall be valid and binding upon the

company as if made upon the president or secretary thereof.

Rev. Stat. Sec. 258. (Sec. 8.) The statement referred to in section seven of this chapter shall be renewed annually in the month of March of each year. The first statement may be made any time.

Rev. Stat. Sec. 259. (Sec. 9.) Upon filing said renewed statement the agent shall also file therewith a statement under oath of the sum total of the premium receipts collected within the territory for the period elapsing since the filing of the previous statement, and shall cause such statement to be published in at least one newspaper published within the territory, and thereupon the treasurer shall levy a tax of one and one-half per cent. upon said premium receipts, which shall be paid by said agent to said treasurer before said certificate of authority can issue, the said tax to go to the general fund of territory, and which said tax shall be payment in full of all demands for any tax on said premium receipts, or license for conducting such business of insurance.

Rev. Stat.Sec. 2uv. (Sec. 10.) Any person or firm in this territory who receives or receipts for any money on account of, or for any contract of insurance made by him or them, or for any such insurance company or individual aforesaid, or who receives or receipts for money from other persons to be transmitted to any such company or individual aforesaid, for a policy of insurance or any renewal thereof, although such policy of insurance is not signed by him or them, as agent or agents of such company, or who in any wise directly or indirectly makes, or causes to be made, any contract or contracts of insurance for or on account of such insurance company aforesaid, shall be deemed to all intents and purposes an agent or agents of such company, and

shall be subject and liable to all the provisions, regulations and penalties of this act.

Rev. Stat. Sec. 261. (Sec. 11.) The territorial treasurer shall be entitled to the following fees herein: For filing statement mentioned in section seven of this chapter, five dollars; for issuing certificate of authority, five dollars; for issuing each subsequent certificate of authority to other agents of same company, two dollars.

Rev. Stat. Sec. 262. (Sec. 12.) Any person violating the provisions of this act within this territory shall, upon conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.

Nevada-Statutes Relating to For

eign Corporations.

Annual Statements to be Published.
Certificate to be Filed.

Penalty.

Agent to Reside in the State.

Serving of Process.

When no Agent, Service-How Made.

Insurance Companies.

Same-Capital Required.

Same-Penalty.

Same-Deposit Required.

Same-License.

Same-Annual Statements.

Same-Penalty.

Surety Companies.

Electric Power Companies.

Mining Companies-Power to Consolidate.
Railroad Companies.

Service by Publication on Foreign Corpora-
tions.

Foreign Corporations-Must Publish Statements. An act requiring foreign corporations doing business in the state of Nevada to publish annual statements. (Approved March 28, 1901.) The people of the state of Nevada, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. All foreign corporations doing business in the state of Nevada shall during the month of May of this year and in each succeeding year in the month of January, publish a statement of their last year's business in some daily newspaper in the state of Nevada for a period of one week.

Sec. 2.

The secretary of the company publish