ART. 23] STATEMENTS TO TREASURER. 617

1888, art. 23, sec. 135 1860, art. 56, sec. 33. 1858, ch. 432, sec 3.
1872, ch. 388. 1874, ch. 400. 1876, ch. 248. 1878, ch. 106.

184. Every insurance company, including individuals, part-
nerships, joint stock associations and corporations, conducting
any branch of insurance business in this State, must transmit
to the insurance commissioner a statement of its condition and
business for the year ending on the preceding thirty-first day
of December, which statement shall be rendered on the first
day of January following, or within sixty days thereafter,
(except that foreign companies may transmit their statement
of business, other than that done in the United States, at any
time prior to the following first of July,) which statements
must be in the form and state the particulars required by the
blanks prescribed by the insurance commissioner; and he may
require at any time statements from any company doing busi-
ness within this State, or from any of its officers or agents, on
such points as he may deem necessary and proper to elicit a
full exhibit of its business and standing; all of which state-
ments herein required must be certified by the signatures and
oath of the president or vice-president of the company, with
that of the secretary or actuary. No company having neg-
lected to file a statement required of it within the time and
manner prescribed shall do any new business, after notification
by the insurance commissioner, while such neglect continues ;
and any company or association neglecting for thirty days to
make and transmit any statement required, shall forfeit one
hundred dollars for each day's neglect; and any person or
company wilfully making a false statement in any report to
the insurance commissioner, shall be liable to the fines imposed
by section 188 of this article.

1904, ch. 376, sec. 135 A.

185. The statement or statements required to be made to
the insurance commissioner under section 184 of this article
may, for the year ending December 31,1903, be transmitted on
or before July 1, 1904, in lieu of the time or times provided
in said section 184 of this article, and the insurance commis-
sioner shall not be required to publish abstracts of the said
statement or statements as required by section 189 of this
article, nor his annual statement to the governor, as he is
required by sub-section tenth of section 160 of this article,
until September 1, 1904.