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under oath of the chief accountant officers of such company
at the time of obtaining the license hereinabove provided for.
The Insurance Commissioner, in computing the tax upon pre-
miums collected in this State by fire and marine insurance com-
panies, may allow credit for return premiums on cancelled
policies and for reinsurance effected in companies authorized
to do business in this State. Any company applying for ad-
mission to this State shall pay for its license pro rata, for a
fractional part of a year, so that all licenses issued shall expire
at midnight on the thirty-first day of December next ensuing
the date of issue. In addition to the above license and tax,
there shall be paid by each insurance company, individual,
resident or non-resident, partnership or association; whether
of this State or otherwise, doing business in this State, the
following fees to the Insurance Commissioner to defray the
expenses of executing the provisions of this Article: Upon filing
the certified copy of charter, declaration of organization or deed
of settlement required by this Article to be filed as a condition
precedent to do business in this State, twenty-five dollars; upon
filing each annual statement, twenty-five dollars; for each
certificate of authority which each general agent of every
insurance company not organized under the laws of this State
and doing herein the business of insurance in any of its
branches is hereby required to obtain, the sum of ten dollars;
and for each certificate of authority issued to any policy-writing
agent who may be appointed by any fire or marine insurance
company, except such as may be chartered under the laws of
this State, the sum of ten dollars; and the sum of five dollars
for each certificate of authority issued to any solicitor who may
be appointed by any fire or marine insurance company, except
such companies as may be chartered under the laws of this State
which said company shall pay the fees required by Section 184D
of this Act, and except for those companies of such States, Dis-
trict or Country as charge a greater sum than five dollars for
each similar certificate of authority to solicitors of fire and
marine insurance companies of this state, in all of which cases
the same fees shall be charged for certificates of. authority issued
to the solicitors of such companies as the home States of such
companies charge such solicitors of companies chartered under
the laws of this State; and for each certificate of authority is-
sued to a solicitor of any insurance company other than one
transacting fire or marine business, by request of such company
or of the general agent thereof in this State, the sum of two
dollars; (all certificates of authority issued to agents or solic-