Special Acts & Resolves

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Page 69 - That, in case it should at any time happen, that an election of directors should not be made upon any day when pursuant to this act it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not, for that cause, be deemed to be dissolved; but it shall be lawful, on any other day, to hold and make an election of directors in such manner as shall have been regulated by the laws and ordinances of the said corporation.
Page 13 - When the certificate shall have been filed as aforesaid, the persons who shall have signed and acknowledged the same, and their successors, shall be a body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, by the name stated in such certificate, and by that name...
Page 68 - ... be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, answer and be answered unto, in any court of record or elsewhere.
Page 68 - ... shall prescribe ; and such corporation shall at all times have a lien upon all the stock or property of its members invested therein, for all debts due from them to such corporation.
Page 71 - If the directors of any such company shall declare and pay any dividend, when the company is insolvent, or any dividend, the payment of which would render it insolvent, or...
Page 128 - Company," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity within the United States, and may make and have a common seal.
Page 6 - That the Senators and Representatives of this state in the Congress of the United States...
Page 99 - ... call the first meeting of the stockholders of said company, in such way and at such time and place as they may appoint, for the choice of directors of said company. And, in all meetings of the stockholders of said company...
Page 114 - College," and that they and their successors, and such others as shall be duly elected members of the said corporation, shall be and remain a body politic and corporate, by that name forever.
Page 38 - ... and by that name they and their successors shall be known In law, have perpetual succession (unless such corporation be dissolved), sue and be sued, implead and be Impleaded, defend and be defended...

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