ART. 23] FRATERNAL BENEFICIARY ORDERS. 631

The insurance commissioner 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 transactions relative to the business
contemplated by section 210 to section 218 (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 certificate 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, sec. 143 I.

214. Each such association now doing or hereinafter admitted
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 pro-
ceeding 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 evidence
with the same force and effect as the original thereof might be
admitted. Service upon such attorney shall be deemed suffi-
cient service upon such association. When legal process against
any such association is served upon said insurance commis-
sioner, he shall immediately notify the association of such
service by letters prepaid and directed to its president, secre-
tary and supreme or chief secretary or corresponding officers ;
and shall within -two days after such service forward in the
same manner a copy of the process served on him to such