118 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

provided for the formation of corporations under this article;
provided, that no such society, order or association incorporated
in another State, province or territory, nor any council or branch,
or component part thereof, can be incorporated under the laws of
this State.

1894, ch. 295.

143 B. Any association entitled to do business in this State
under the provisions of section 143 E to section 143 B (both
inclusive) of this article, which shall so conduct its affairs or shall
in any manner change its charter, constitution or laws, so that it
shall not answer to the description of a fraternal beneficiary asso-
ciation as set forth in section 143 E, shall thereupon cease to be
entitled to the privilege of said section.

Ibid.

143 S. The Insurance Commissioner of this State shall notify
the supreme secretary of each of the said associations now doing
business in this State of the passage of this act, and enclose a
blank for the report of its operations for the year ending Decem-
ber 31, 1893; and every association receiving such notice and
blank shall file such report in the manner provided in section
143 H, not later than three months from the date of the receipt
of such notice and blank, under the like penalties as provided in
section 143 F for not filing a report.

Ibid.

143 T. Nothing herein contained shall apply to lodges or
orders of a purely religions, charitable or benevolent description,
paying exclusively sick, funeral or death benefits to members,
their family or dependents, and not operated with a view to
profit, nor shall any such organization be required to make any
report under this or any other sections of the insurance laws;
and provided further, that no society, lodge or body of any secret
or fraternal society, or association of employes of any particular
trade, firm or corporation organized in this State, paying only
sick benefits not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars in the
aggregate to any one person in any one year, or a funeral benefit
to those dependent on a member not exceeding three hundred
and fifty dollars, shall be required to make any report thereof