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otherwise reply shall be counted from the date on which
such notices were mailed.

(4) Before sending any notices pursuant to the provi-
sions of this Section, the State Tax Commission shall
be paid an additional fee of one dollar by the plaintiff,
which shall be taxed in the costs of the proceeding. The
State Tax Commission shall keep a record of all notices
so mailed by it which shall show the date of mailing and
the name or names and post-office address or addresses
of the addressee or addressees, and for all fees so paid
to it, it shall account quarterly to the Comptroller and pay
the same forthwith to the State Treasurer for the use
of the State.

109. Any notice required by law to be served upon any
corporation of this State or any foreign corporation qual-
ified to do business herein or having a resident agent ap-
pointed pursuant to Section SS1/^ of this Article by personal
service upon its resident agent or any other agent or officer
of such corporation may be served upon such corporation in
the manner provided in Section 107, or, when applicable, in
the manner provided in Section 108, of this Article, for the
service of process, under the same circumstances in which
process is permitted by said Sections to be served there-
under, and such service shall be equivalent to personal
service upon a resident agent or other agent or officer of
such corporation.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That nothing in
this Act shall be taken or construed as affecting the exist-
ence of any corporation existing on June 1, 1935, or as
impairing the validity of any corporate act done or per-
formed in conformity with the pre-existing law; and
nothing in this Act shall release any corporation from the
payment of any tax or the performance of any obligation
to the State or to any county or city therein due or exist-
ing on June 1, 1935, or affect or change the remedy for
the collection or enforcement of the same; and nothing
in this Act shall release, affect or impair the rights of any
creditor of any corporation, or the obligations or liability
of any corporation or of any stockholder, director or offi-
cer of any corporation, existing on June 1, 1935, or affect
or change the remedy for the collection or enforcement of
the same.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1935,

Approved May 17, 1935.