the duration of its corporate existence for a less period than it was privileged to do by the first section of said act, it may, by a vote of the stockholders representing a majority of the stock, and upon executing and acknowledging a new or amended certificate under its corporate seal, signed by the president and two-thirds of its directors, and filing the same in the county. where its business shall be carried on, and in the office of the Secretary of State, extend the term of its corporate existence to a period not longer than it could have originally fixed the same, and shall thereupon possess all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the liabilities mentioned in said act, during such extension of its existence. [Laws of 1857, ch. 29, § 2.]

[Place of business.]-Any certificate hereafter [June 7, 1853] filed may designate one or more places where the company may carry on their business. [Laws of 1853, ch. 333, § 1.] And if any company shall be formed under said act for the purpose of carrying on any part of its business in any place out of this State, the said certificate shall so state, and shall also state the name of the town and county in which the principal part of the business of said company within this State is to be transacted; and said town and county shall be deemed the town, place and county in which the operations and business of the company are to be carried on, and its principal place of business within the meaning of the provisions of this act. [Laws of 1857, ch. 29, § 3.]

No company organized under the provisions of said act to authorize the formation of corporations for

manufacturing, mining, mechanical or chemical purposes, shall be deemed or taken to have a principal office or place for transacting its financial concerns other than that at which the operations of said company are carried on, unless within the month of May in each year the president and treasurer, or a majority of the trustees shall make duplicate certificates stating the amount of the then capital of said company, and the portion of such capital not invested in real estate, and stating that such company then has a principal office for transacting its financial concerns in a county other than that in which the operations of said company are carried on, stating the town or city and county in which such financial office is located, and that the president and treasurer, and a majority of the trustees of said company are then actually residents of the town or city in which such financial office is then located, which duplicate certificates shall be signed and sworn to by the persons making the same, and filed, the one in the clerk's office of the county where the operations of said company are carried on, and the other in the clerk's office of the county in which such financial office shall be. And in case in any year such duplicate certificates shall be made and filed as aforesaid, then during the year succeeding the first day of June next after the filing of such certificates, the personal estate of such company shall be assessed only in the town or ward named in said certificates, as that in which such financial office is located. [Laws of 1861, ch. 170, § 2.]

Any company formed under this act may change its place or places of business, by a vote of the stock

holders, representing two-thirds of the stock, at any meeting of the stockholders regularly called, and executing and acknowledging an amended certificate, specifying the names of the towns or cities from and to which the business location of the company is to be changed, and in other respects conforming to the original certificate, which amended certificate shall be signed by the president and two-thirds of the directors of the company, and shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and in the office of the clerk of the county where the business operations of the company are to be carried on, and published weekly in two papers in the towns or cities from and to which the business operations have been removed, and are to be carried on for the term of three months. But the property of said company shall be liable to taxation in any county where such property may be, or in which its business may be done, to the extent of its property in any such county. [Laws of 1864, ch. 517, § 1.]

The certificate required by section one is conclusive as to the location, and in which the operations of the company are to be carried on, and fixes the location of the company for the purposes of taxation. (Western Transportation Co. v. Schen, 19 N. Y. Reports, 408.)

[Operations of the act extended.]-And any three or more persons may organize themselves into a corporation in like manner, for the purpose of collecting, storing and preserving ice, of preparing it for sale, of transporting it to the city of New York or elsewhere, and of vending the same [Laws of 1855, ch. 301, § 1], or for the purpose of constructing and using machines. for the raising of vessels or other heavy bodies. [Laws

of 1851, ch. 14, § 1.] Any three or more persons may organize themselves into a corporation in like manner for the purpose of bottling and selling mineral water, drawn from any natural mineral spring. [Laws of 1863, ch. 63, § 1.] Any three or more persons may organize and form themselves into a corporation in like manner for the purpose of constructing, owning and using vessels and machines, to be.employed for hire in towing vessels, carrying freight and passengers, and in aiding, protecting and saving vessels and their cargoes, wrecked or in distress on any of the navigable rivers and lakes in or bordering upon the state of New York, or on the high seas, or in the various arms of the seas and rivers running into the same, with all the rights appertaining by law, to private individuals performing service as salvors. [Laws of 1864, ch. 337, § 1.]

Any three or more persons may organize and form themselves into a corporation, in the like manner, for the purpose of buying and selling and transporting coal and peat of all kinds. [Laws of 1865, ch. 307, p. 514.]

Every corporation so formed shall be subject to all the provisions, duties and obligations contained in this act, and shall be entitled to all the benefits and privileges thereby conferred, except that such corporations shall not be confined in their operations to the county in which their certificate shall be filed. [Laws of 1855, ch. 301, 2; Laws of 1851, ch. 14, § 2; Laws of 1863, ch. 63, § 2; Laws of 1864, ch. 337, § 2.] Any three or more persons are hereby authorized to organize themselves into a corporation, in the manner pro

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Any three or more persons may organize and form themselves into a corporation in the manner specified and required in and by the act entitled "An Act to authorize the formation of corporations for manufacturing, mining, mechanical or chemical purposes," passed February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, for the purpose of propagating, cultivating and developing the different varieties of the grape, and the manufacture of wines and brandies therefrom, and cultivating sugar cane, cotton, rice, tobacco, indigo, and other products of the earth, for preparing the same for market, and for transporting and disposing of the same. Every corporation so formed shall be subject to all the provisions and obligations contained in the aforesaid act, and the several acts amendatory of the same, so far as they are or may be applicable, and shall be entitled to all the benefits and privileges conferred by said act and amendatory acts; except that such corporations shall not be confined in their operations to the counties in which their certificates shall be filed.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

[Laws of 1865, ch. 234, p. 378.