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or territory, and not now doing business in this State, shall be
admitted to do business within this State, when it shall have filed
with the commissioner of insurance a duly certified copy of its-
charter and articles of association, and a copy of its constitution
or laws, certified to by its secretary or corresponding officer,
together with an appointment of the commissioner of insurance
of this State, as a person upon whom process may be served as
hereinafter provided; and shall pay said commissioner of insur-
ance a fee of twenty-five dollars for filing said charter, copy of
constitution and laws, and appointment of attorney; and provi-
ded that such association shall be shown by certificate to be
authorized to do business in the State, province or territory in
which it is incorporated or organized, in case the laws of such
State, province or territory shall provide for such authorization;
and in case the laws of such State, province or territory do not
provide for any formal authorization to do business on the part
of any such association, then such association shall be shown to
be conducting its business in accordance with the provisions of
section 14: 3 B to section 143 B (both inclusive) of this article, for
which purpose the commissioner of insurance of this State may
personally or by some person to be designated by him, examine
into the condition, affairs, character and business methods,
accounts, books and investments at its home office, which exami-
nation shall be at the expense of such association, and shall be
made within thirty days after demand therefor; and the commis-
sioner of insurance shall be paid by said association for such
examination the actual traveling expenses and not more than ten
dollars per day for each day actually employed in such examina-
tion, not to exceed fifty dollars in the aggregate. The commis-
sioner of insurance shall issue a certificate to such association,
qualified as required in this section, authorizing it to do business
within this State, for which certificate said association shall pay
to the said commissioner the fee of twenty-five dollars.

1894, ch. 295.

143 H. Every such association doing business in this State,

shall, on or before the last day of March of each year, make and

file with the Insurance Commissioner of this State, a report of its

affairs and operations during the year ending on the thirty-first

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