THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 935
said municipal authorities may from time to time
prescribe.
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Sec. 95. And be it enacted. That if any corpora-
tion formed for the purposes mentioned in the next
preceding Section, cannot agree with the owner or
owners of any land or water rights, which such
corporation may have power to acquire for the pur-
pose of laying pipes or constructing its works, or
if such owner or owners, or any of them be a feme
covert, without power to contract in relation to
said property, or under age or non compus mentis,
or under any other legal disability, or be absent
from the county or city in which the said property
may lie, when the said land or water rights may
be needed, the corporation may proceed to condemn
and acquire the same in the manner provided for
in Sections one hundred and seventy, one hundred
and seventy-one, one hundred and seventy-two,
one hundred and seventy-three, one hundred and
seventy-four, one hundred and seventy -five of this
Article.
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Condemn
property.
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Sec. 96. And be it enacted, That the capital
stock of any insurance company incorporated under
this Article shall not exceed the sum of two mil-
lions of dollars, and except in the case of mutual
insurance companies shall not be less than one
hundred thousand dollars ; and at least one-fifth
of the whole capital stock shall be paid in before
the said company shall be competent to transact
the business for which it shall have been incorpo-
rated.
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Insurance
cornp'y — capi-
tal paid in.
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Sec, 97. And be it enacted, That any corpora-
tion incorporated under this Article for insurance
purposes, except for the insurance of the lives of
persons, is hereby authorized to include in its cer-
tificate of Incorporation as among the other ob-
jects and purposes for which said corporation is
formed, the following, that is to say: to guaran-
tee the payment, punctual performance, and col-
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Except life.
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lection of promissory notes, bills of exchange, con-
tracts, bonds, accounts, claims, rents, annuities,
mortgages, choses in action, evidences of debt, and
certificates of property or value, and the titles to
property, real or personal, on such terms as maybe
established by the Board of Directors of said com-
pany ; to receive on storage, deposit or otherwise,
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Powers.
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