May hold and convey real and personal estate. Annual certificate to be deposited and recorded in clerk's office. "Sect. 7. Every corporation established under the provisions of this Act, may in its corporate name hold all such real and personal estate as shall be necessary for the purpose of such corporation, and may convey the same at pleasure." Sect. 8. Increase of capital stock. Certificate of increase. "Sect. 9. The directors of every corporation that may be formed under the provisions "of this Act shall annually in the month of January make a certificate containing a transfers of stock to be « statement of the amount of the capital stock of such corporation actually paid in, the "amount invested in real estate, and the amount invested in personal estate, the amount "of property owned by such corporation, and of debts due to it on the first day of "December then next preceding, the amount of all existing debts against such corpora"tion, as nearly as the same can be ascertained, with the name of each stockholder, and "the number of shares held by him at the date of such certificate, which certificate "shall be signed and sworn to by the president, treasurer, and a majority of the "directors of such corporation, and deposited with the clerk of the town or city in which "such corporation may be established or located; and whenever any stockholder shall "transfer his stock in any such corporation a certificate of such transfer shall forthwith "be deposited with the town or city clerk as aforesaid, who shall note the time when "the same was deposited, and record the certificate at full length in a book to be by "him kept for that purpose, and no transfer of such stock shall be valid as against any "creditor of such stockholder until such certificate shall have been deposited and recorded as aforesaid." Shareholders indi vidually liable for debts due to operatives. How recovered. Shares not to be issued below par value. Sect. 10. Certificates required by this Act to be in addition to those required by Revised Statutes, c. 38. sections 17, 18. Sect. 11. Officers individually liable for neglect to comply with this Act. Sect. 12. Such companies to make returns to assessors. Sect. 13. Power to amend and repeal reserved to legislature. Not to affect remedies then existing. Sect. 14. Secretary of Commonwealth to prepare annual abstract of certificates for legislature. "Sect. 15. The stockholders of any corporation organized under the provisions of this " Act shall be, jointly and severally, individually liable for all debts that may be due "or owing to all their labourers, servants, and apprentices for services performed by "themselves, their wives, or minor children as operatives for such corporations, within "six months next preceding the demand made for any such debt; and for the recovery "thereof, as well as to obtain contribution therefor in case of payment by any stockholder, like remedies shall be had as are provided in the thirty-sixth chapter of the "Revised Statutes in cases of individual liability of stockholders. "Sect. 16. No shares in the capital stock of any corporation organized under the provisions of this Act shall be issued for a less sum or amount, to be actually paid in on each, than the par value of the shares which shall be first issued." Sect. 17. Act to take immediate effect. RETURN FROM THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OFFICE, IRELAND. ABSTRACT of Partnerships registered under Irish Statutes 21 & 22 Geo. 3. c. 46. Anonymous Partnerships Act.") 1787 6 7 * "Electric Telegraph Company," as many anonymous as may sign the deed of partnership. 2 900 0 0 1,200 0 0 3,250 0 1,400 0 0 8,500 0 0 16 8,600 0 0 0 6225 Pp 2 PARTICULARS of each Partnership registered under Irish Statute 21 & 22 Geo. 3. c. 46, commencing 1st January 1829, and ending 6th May 1854.* * Similar particulars of each partnership registered under the "Anonymous Partnerships Act," from its commencement to the end of the year 1828, were furnished by the Registrar together with the foregoing Abstract, but as they are of considerable length, the particulars of the more recent partnerships only are here given. |