the association, or some person by him authorized, if the defendant is a resident of the county in which the lands are situated, otherwise no demand shall be necessary.

7501. Appropriation of material. § 25. If the association shall seek to appropriate any lands, timber, stone, gravel or other material for the construction or maintenance of any such works, they shall proceed in the manner required by law for the assessment of like damages in case of the construction of railroads, canals or other similar works.

7502. Individual liability. § 26. The members of every such association shall be individually liable for all debts contracted by and all damages assessed and accrued against the association during their membership. 7503. Powers. § 27. Every association organized under the provisions of this act shall have power, with the concurrence of three-fourths of its members, expressed by resolution at any regular meeting of the association, or by supplementary or additional articles of association to be signed by the members and recorded as the original articles, to correct or perfect any incorrect or imperfect description of the proposed work in the articles of association, or to alter the line or location of the proposed work, or to provide for the extension of the proposed work beyond the limits prescribed in the original articles of association, or for the construction of branches or tributaries to the same. In all such cases the directors of the association shall be governed, as to the mode and manner of doing such additional work and the making and collection of assessments to defray the expenses of the same, by all the rules and regulations herein before prescribed for the original or main line.

7504. No issue of bonds. § 28. Nothing in this act contained shall authorize any company, now or hereafter organized, to issue or sell bonds for any purpose whatever: Provided, that the existence, and the rights, franchises and powers of all incorporated companies or associations organized under said act, or under any prior law of this state, repealed by said act, the main line of whose contemplated work does not exceed sixteen miles in length, shall be saved unimpaired and unaffected by such repeal; and such companies and associations, and all members thereof, shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges conferred, and subject to all the liabilities and restrictions imposed by this act; and all such organizations may prosecute and complete their proposed work, and make and collect assessments to defray the cost of the same under the provisions of this act in the same manner as if they had been organized under the same, and not otherwise.

7505. Action - Limitation of. § 29. No action shall be commenced by any company to enforce any lien upon land for benefits assessed after the expiration of five years from and after the date of recording the schedules of assessments constituting such lien, as contemplated by this act; and any such assessment made pursuant to any former law of this state upon the same subject, when no action is pending for the enforcement of the same, it shall be prima facie satisfied upon the record thereof after the lapse of five years from and after the recording of the schedules of such assessment.

7506. Emergency. § 30. An emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this act, it shall therefore take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

AN ACT prohibiting persons not members of secret societies or other organizations from wearing the badge or uniform of such orders or organizations, and prescribing penalties for the yiolation of the provisions thereof, to take effect October 1, A. D., 1891. [Approved March 7, 1891; in force October 1, 1891; S., 1891, p. 340.*

7507.* Wrongful wearing of uniform or emblem of. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That it shall be unlawful for any person not a member of a secret society or other organization incorporated under the laws of the state of Indiana, or doing business in this state, to wear the badge, uniform or emblem of any secret society or other organization such as has been adopted by the regulations of said societies or organizations.

7508. Misdemeanor-Penalty. § 2. That every person violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars.

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* See, also, § 6797, ante.

AN ACT to enable stockholders of companies, corporations or voluntary associations, formed for the purpose of furnishing fuel or illuminating gas, electric light or water, to make agreements for voting all the stock of such company, corporation or voluntary association as a unit and validating such agreements as have heretofore been made and declaring an emergency. [Approved and in force March 5, 1889; S., 1889, p. 91.

7509. Stock voting through trustees-As a unit. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the subscribers to the capital of any company, corporation or voluntary association, organized for the purpose of furnishing natural or artificial gas for fuel or for

illuminating purposes, or for furnishing electric lights or water to the citizens of any village, town or city within the state of Indiana, may, by written stipulation at the time of making subscriptions to the capital of said company, corporation or voluntary association, agree with said company, corporation or voluntary association, and with one another, that the power of holding and voting said capital stock may be irrevocably given to a board of trustees, or a majority of them, which said board of trustees may be selected in such manner as the articles of incorporation may provide.

7510. Prior agreements validated. § 2. Be it further enacted, That any such agreement heretofore made by the subscribers to the capital of any company, corporation or voluntary association organized for the purposes set forth in the preceding section, shall be valid and binding upon said subscribers to the capital stock and their assigns.

7511. Emergency. § 3. It is hereby declared that an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this act, and it shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.

AN ACT to amend section one of "An act to amend the fourth and sixth sections of the act for the incorporation of manufacturing and mining companies and companies for mechanical, chemical and building purposes," approved May 20, 1852, by providing that any companies which may have been incorporated in this state, for any of the purposes contemplated in said act, with a fixed amount or limitation of capital, may increase the same, by a vote of its stockholders, in the same manner as is provided in said section for increasing capital stock, and providing for election of directors and certain officers and prescribing the manner of casting the votes in such elections, approved March 11, 1861, and declaring an emergency. [Approved and in force March 11, 1889; S., 1889, p. 379.

7512. [3857] Capital stock, increase of, how. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That said section one of the above entitled act, being section 3857, R. S., 1881, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 6. The amount of capital stock shall be fixed by the company, but may be increased by a vote of the stockholders at any annual meeting, and in like manner any company which may have been incorporated in this state for any of the purposes contemplated in said act with a fixed amount or limitation of capital may increase its capital stock by a vote of the stockholders at any annual meeting; and such capital stock shall be divided into shares of not more than one hundred dollars each. [See § 7514, amendatory.

7513. Emergency. § 2. An emergency is hereby declared to exist for the immediate taking effect of this act, and, the same shall be in full force from and after its passage.

AN ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled An act to amend an act to amend the fourth and sixth sections of the act for the incorporation of manufacturing and mining companies, and companies for mechanical, chemical and building purposes," approved May 20, 1852, by providing that any companies which may have been incorporated in this state for any of the purposes contemplated in said act, with a fixed amount or limitation of capital, may increase the same by a vote of its stockholders, in the same manner as is provided in said section for increasing capital stock, and providing for election of directors and certain officers, and prescribing the manner of casting the votes in such elections, approved March 11, 1861, and declaring an emergency, approved March 11, 1889. [Approved March 9, 1891; in force June 10, 1891; S., 1891, p. 387.

7514. [3857] Capital stock - Corporate existence - IncreaseExtension. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That section six of the above entitled act be amended so as to read as follows: Section 6. The amount of capital stock shall be fixed by the company, but may be increased by a vote of the stockholders at any annual meeting, and in like manner any company which may have been incorporated in this state for any of the purposes contemplated in said act, with a fixed amount or limitation of capital, may increase its capital stock, and extend the term of its existence (not, however, to exceed fifty years from its first organiza

tion), by a vote of the stockholders at any annual meeting, and such capital stock shall be divided into shares of not more than one hundred dollars each: Provided, a certified copy of the record and proceedings of such meeting be filed in the office of the secretary of the state of Indiana within thirty days thereafter. [See § 7514.

AN ACT to amend section seven (7) of the act for the incorporation of manufacturing and mining companies and companies for mechanical, chemical and building purposes, approved May 20, 1852, by providing that any companies incorporated in this state for any of the purposes contemplated in said act, shall not use its funds in the purchase of any stock in any other corporation only upon the written consent of all the stockholders of the company desiring to purchase said stock, and also the written consent of all the stockholders of the corporation in which stock is sought to be purchased, and declaring an emergency. [Approved and in force March 7, 1891; S., 1891, p. 344.

7515. 13858 Stock, personal estate - Transfer of- Purchase of stock of another company. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That said section seven of the above entitled act, being section 3858 R. S. 1881, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 7. The stock of such company shall be deemed personal estate, and when fully paid in shall be transferable in such manner as the by-laws may prescribe. Such company shall not use its funds in the purchase of stock in any other corporation only upon the written consent of all the stockholders of the company desiring to purchase said stock, and also the written consent of all the stockholders of the corporation in which stock is sought to be purchased.

7516. Emergency. § 2. An emergency is hereby declared to exist for the immediate taking effect of this act, and the same shall be in force from and after its passage.

AN ACT requiring corporations, companies, associations, firms and persons engaged in mining or manufacturing in this state to pay their employes once every two weeks, in lawful money of the United States; prohibiting the issue or circulation of scrip; regulating the sale of merchandise and supplies by employer to employe, and providing penalties for violation. [Approved March 5, 1891; in force June 10, 1891; S., 1891, p. 108.

7517. Employe, payment of-- Bi-weekly. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That every corporation, association, company, firm or person engaged in this state in mining coal, ore or other mineral, or quarrying stone, or in manufacturing iron, steel, lumber, staves, heading, barrels, brick tile, machinery, agricultural or mechanical implements or any article of merchandise shall pay each employe of such corporation, association, company, firm or person at least once every two weeks the amount due such employe for labor, and such payment shall be in lawful money of the United States, and any contract to the contrary shall be void.

7518. Failure to pay - Misdemeanor. § 2. That any person, copartnership, corporation or association, or any member, agent or employe thereof, who shall publish, issue or circulate any check, card or other paper which is not commercial paper payable at a fixed time in any bank in this state, at its full face value in lawful money of the United States, with 8 per cent. interest or by bank check or currency issued by authority of the United States government, to any employe of such person, copartnership, corporation, or association, in payment for any work or labor, done by such employe or in payment for any labor contracted to be done by such employe shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not more than one hundred dollars.

7519. Corporation stores-Sale to employe. 3. It shall be unlawful for any corporation, company, association, firm or person, described