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weeks. Within ten days after the first publication of said
proclamation, the Department shall cause a notice thereof to
be mailed to each corporation named therein, addressed to it
at its mailing address, if it has a mailing address on file with
the Department, or, if it has not a mailing address on file with
the Department, addressed to it at any other address which
may appear upon the records of the Department. Any such
corporation paying all taxes, interest and penalties, and filing
such report, as aforesaid, after the first publication of said
proclamation, shall be omitted from subsequent publications
thereof. Immediately upon the expiration of sixty days from
the date of the first publication of said proclamation, the
charters of all such corporations, which have not then paid all
taxes, interest and penalties due, and filed such reports, as
aforesaid, shall be ipso facto repealed, annulled and forfeited
and the powers granted to such corporations shall be inopera-
tive, null and void, without the necessity of proceedings of any
kind either at law or in equity.
152. (c) When it is established to the satisfaction of the
Governor that any corporation named in said proclamation
has not neglected or refused to pay said tax within nine
months from the first day of January next after the expiration
of the calendar year during which said taxes became due and
payable, or has not neglected or refused to file such report
within nine months from the first day of January next after
the expiration of the calendar year in which such report was
required to be filed, or has been mistakenly reported to the
Governor by the Comptroller as refusing or neglecting to pay
such taxes or been mistakenly reported to the Governor by
the Department as refusing or neglecting to file such report
as aforesaid, the Governor is authorized to correct such mis-
take and to make the same known by filing Ms proclamation
to that effect in the office of the Secretary of State who shall
send copies thereof to the Comptroller, to the Treasurer and to
the Department. The effect of such proclamation shall be to
restore to said corporation its charter with the same force and
effect to all intents and purposes as if said charter had at all
times remained in full force and effect.
152. (d) Nothing in this section shall be held or construed
to repeal, supersede or in any manner affect any remedy or
provision of law for the collection of any and all taxes, and
the interest and penalties due thereon, or any remedy or pro-
vision of law to compel the filing of such reports.
153. (c) Such articles of revival, together with a copy
thereof, shall be delivered to the Department, which, upon the
payment, and not before, of a recording fee of f 10. 00 and a
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