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Page 381 - Each of said notes shall be payable, in part or in whole, at any time when the directors shall deem the same requisite for the payment of losses by fire or inland navigation, and such incidental expenses as may be necessary for transacting the business of said company.
Page 377 - ... and the sum to be paid by each member shall always be in proportion to the original amount of his deposit note...
Page 163 - The directors shall as often as they deem necessary, after receiving notice of any loss or damage by fire sustained by any member, and ascertaining the same, or after the rendition of any judgment against said company for loss or damage...
Page 390 - The number of votes to which each stockholder shall be entitled shall be according to the number of shares he shall hold, in the proportions following — that is to say: For one share, and not more than two shares, one vote; for every two shares above two, and not exceeding ten, one vote; for every four...
Page 141 - States or of this commonwealth, and generally to do all and singular the matters and things which to them it shall lawfully appertain to do for the well being of the said corporation and the due management and ordering the affairs of the same...
Page 166 - ... be entitled to all the rights and privileges, and be subject to all the liabilities and...
Page 177 - Company," and by that name, style and title, they and their said associates, shall have continual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in all courts of record and elsewhere, and to purchase, receive, have, hold and enjoy to them and their successors lands, tenements and hereditaments, goods, chattels and all estates, real, personal or mixed, of what kind or quality soever, and the same from time to time to sell, mortgage, grant, alien or dispose of...
Page 382 - ... sufferers insured by said company, shall receive, towards making good their respective losses, a proportionate dividend of the whole amount of said notes, according to the sums by them respectively insured; and, in addition thereto, a sum to be assessed on all the members of said company...
Page 310 - An act to repeal the State tax on real and personal property, and to continue and extend the improvements of the State by railroads and canals, and to charter a State Bank, to be called the United States Bank.
Page 249 - ... and also to make, have and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew at their pleasure; and also to ordain, establish and put in execution, such by-laws, ordinances and regulations as shall seem necessary and convenient for the government of the said corporation, not being contrary to the constitution and laws of the United States...