114 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

day of December immediately preceding, which annual report
shall be in lieu of all other reports required by any other law;
such reports shall be upon appropriate blank forms to be provi-
ded by the Insurance Commissioner, and shall be verified under
oath by the duly authorized officer of such association, and shall
be published, or the substance thereof, in the annual report of
the Insurance Commissioner, under a separate part, entitled
"Fraternal Beneficiary Associations. " The Insurance Commis-
sioner is authorized and empowered at any time to address any
additional inquiries to any such association, in relation to its
doings or condition, or any other matter connected with its trans-
actions relative to the business contemplated by section 143 E to
section 143 s. (both inclusive) of this article, and such officers of
such associations as the Insurance Commissioner may require,
shall promptly reply in writing under oath to all such inquiries
if so required; and in case after such inquiry the Insurance
Commissioner shall have reason to believe that such association is
insolvent or cannot meet its obligations to its beneficiaries or cer-
tificate holders, or is conducting its business in an illegal manner,
he may, by some person designated by him, examine the accounts,
books and investments of said association at its home office, at the
expense of said association, not to exceed in the aggregate the
sum of fifty dollars; each such association on filing its annual
report shall pay to the Insurance Commissioner the sum of
twenty-five dollars.

1894, ch. 295.

1431. Each such association now doing or hereinafter admit-
ted to do business within this State, and not having its principal
office within this State, and not being organized under the laws
of this State, shall appoint, in writing, the Insurance Commis-
sioner, or his successor in office, to be its true and lawful attorney
upon whom all lawful process in any action or proceeding against
it may be served, and in such writing shall agree that any lawful
process against it which is served on said Insurance Commissioner
shall be of the same legal force and validity as if served upon
the association, and that the authority shall continue in force so
long as any liability remains outstanding in this State. Copies of
such certificate, certified by said Insurance Commissioner, shall
be deemed sufficient evidence thereof, and shall be admitted in