The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30
Public General LO2Cs.

or certified copy of charter hereafte admitted
to do business in this State, twenty five dol
lars; upon filing each annual statement, TWEEN
ty- five dollars; for each certificate of author
ity, which each agent of every insurance COM
pany not organized under the laws Of this
Stale is hereby required to obtain, the sum of
ten dollars; provided, however, that sub
agents or solicitors, who may be appointed by
the general agent of any life insurance COM
pany id this State, shall only be required to
pay for their respective certificates of an
thority, the sum of two dollars; for each alb
stract Of their annual statements for publica-
ZION, two dollars; for every copy OF any paper
filed in the Insurance Department, the sum of
twenty five cents per folio, and for stfixing
the official seal to such copy and certifying
the same one dollar; for valuing policies of life
insurance companies, thirty dollars per mill
lien of insurance, or any fractional part there
of for official examinations of companies un-
der this act, the actual expenses incurred;
provided, that the filing lof the papers
with the Insurance Commissioner, as re-
quired by this act, shall be in lieu of all
papers now required by law to be filed with
the Comptroller and Clerk of the Superior
Court of Baltimore city.
80. Any person, body polite or corporate,
partnership or association, who shall make,
negotiate or solicit within this State, any con-
tract of insurance, or shall effect an insur-
ance or assurances, or pretend to effect an in
surance or assurances, or receive and transmit
any offer or offers of insurance or assurances,
or receive or deliver policy or policies of in
surance or connect any other person or per-
sons with them in any policy they may at the
time hold, or shall do any business of insur
ance OF any kind, or make any guaranty, con-
tract or pledge, for the payment of annuities
or endowments or money, whether the amount
thereof be fixed or contingent, to the families
or representatives Of any policy or certificate
holder or the like, or shall advertise or circn-
late any card, circular, notice, or open or keep
any office for the transaction of said business,
except as an insurance broker, duly licensed
without fully complying with all the provisions
of this act shall be subject to the fines imposed
by section thirty-six of this article; and the
term insurance company, as used in this
article, shall be taken to embrace every cor
poration, association, partnership or indi-
vdual engaging in any such buaness; and
every such corporation association, partner
ship or individual making any engagement
for the payment of any money or other benefits
in the event of the death of any member, rs.-
icy or certificate holder, or the like, or entering
into any contract or agreements in which the
chances or probabilities of the duration Of life,
or the rate of mortality, are in any way
involved, as an element or condition of such
contracts or agreements, shall be deemed and
taken to be a life insurance company within
the meaning of this article, and shall be sub
ect to all the requirements of law applicable
to life insurance companies; provided, that
nothing herein contained shall b. construed
az applying to the granting of relief or bene
fits to members or their families, by any
societies Of a purely and exclusively religious,
charitable or benevolent description and or
ders or associations having rituaistic work
and ceremonies in he lodges councils OF
societies.
JOG. The Insurance Commissioner shall an.
! nually at the time of issuing a license to each
insurance company doing business in thi;
State, publish an abstract of the annual state
ment required by this act, of each insurance
company doing business in this State, once 6
week for three consecutive weeks in daily
newspaper published in the city of Baltimore
except that in case Of insurance companies o.
this State having their principal Office in one
| of the counties of this State, the newspaper
selected for such publication must be published
| in the county where such company is located
the companies shall in addition publish il
another paper said abstract three consecutive
times and the Insurance Commissioner anC
| the company shall cause the first appearance
| of the publication of fire insurance companies
prior to the first day of March, and of lif,
insurance companies prior to the first day o
| April, and the actual net cost of said publica
| ton by the Insurance Commissioner he il
hereby authorized TO collect from each com
pany, the abstract of whose statement Is sc
published by him; and provided also, that any
corporation, association, partnership or indl
| vldual doing life insurance business in THU
State on the cooperative or mortality assess
ment plan, shall not be subject to the pro
visions of section 81 and sub.sections second
third, fourth, fifth and eighth of section twenty
eight of article firty-six Of the Code of Public
General Laws, title Licenses" as amended by
an act passed at January session, eighteer
! hundred and seventyeght, chapter one hun
| dred and six, nor TO any other provisions o
said article not applicable TO the cooperative
plan, but shall in all other respects comply
with the provisions of said article and AM
amendments thereto.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this &C
take effect from the date of its passage, anC
| that all acts or parts of acts inconsistent will
| this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed
HIRAM MCCULLOUGH,
Speaker Of the House of Delegates
HERMAN STUMP, JR,
President of the Senate
Approved this 18th day of April, 1880.
VIM. I. HAMILTON,
Governor of Maryland.
We hereby certify, that the aforegoing is cor
rect copy of fan Act of the General Assembl,
of Maryland, passed at the January session
| 1880.
MILTON Y. KIDD
Chief Clerk Of the House of Delegates
EUGENE i1GGINs,
Secretary of the Senate