The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-05-01
Public General Lascs.

ing business in this State, the following fees
TO deffay the expenses Of executing the pro-
visions ofthis act, upon filing the declaration
or certified copy Of charter hereafter admitted
to do business In this State, twenty-five dol
lars; upon filing each annual statement, TWEEN
| ty.iiye dollars for each certificate Of author
| lily, which each agent Of every insurance com
pany not organized under tho laws Of this
State 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'
lhoriy the sum of two dollars; for each alb
siract OF their annual statements for publica-
lion, two dollars; for every copy oil any paper
filed in the Insurance Department, the sum Of
twenty-five cents per folio, and for afixing
the official seal TO such copy and certifying
the same, one dollar; for yaluing policies Of lie
insurance companies, thirty dollars per mil.
| lien of insurance, or any fractional part there
| OF; for official examinations Of companies I'M
der this act the actual expenses incurred;
provided, that the filing Of 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
suranoe or insurances, or receive and transmit
any cfler or offers Of Insurance or assurances,
or receive or deliver policy or policies Of iu-
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 aunuities
or endowmenis or money, whether the amount
thereof be fixed or contingent, to the iamiliea
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 hnea imposed
by section thirty-six Of this article; and the
term insurance company, us used in this
article shall be taken 10 embrace every cor
/ poration, association, partnership or indi-
yidual engaging in any such buainess; 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, pol.
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, az an element or condition Of such
contracts or agreements, shall be deemed and
taken to be life insurance company within
the meaning Of this article, and shall be sub.
to n fba Of las
to life insurance companies; provided, that
nothing herein contained shall be construed
as applying TO the granting Of relief or bene
fits TO members or their families, by any
societies ola purely and exclusively religious
charitable or benevolent description, and or
ders or associations having ritualistic work
aud ceremonies in he lodges, councils or
societies.
l08. The Insurance Commissioner shall an
nually. Of the time Of issuing license to each
insurance company doing business in this
State, publish an abstract Of the annual state
ment required by this act, Of each insurance
company doing business in this State onre a
week for three consecutive weeks in daily
newspaper Published in the city Of Baltimore,
except that In case OF Insurance companies Of
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 il located,
the companies shall In addition publish in
another paper said abstract three consecutive
times, and the Insurance Commissioner and
the company shall cause the first appearance
Of the publication Of fire insurance companies
prior TO the frst day Of March, and OF life
insurance companies prior TO the first day Of
April, and the actual net cost OF said pub lea
ton by the Insurance Commissioner he ia
hereby authorized 10 collect from each com.
pany. the abstract Of whose statement is 80
published by him; and provided also, that any
corporation, association, partnership or indi-
vidusl doing life insurance business in this
State on the cooperative or mortality assess
ment plan. shall not be subject to the pro.
visions of section "a and sub.sectons second,
third, fourth, ffth and eighth Of section twenty.
eight OF article tiily-six Of the Code Of Public
General Laws, title Licenses" "a amended by
an act passed at January session, eighteen
hundred and seveutY-eight, chapter one hum
dred and siI, nor 10 any other provisions Of
said article not applicable to The cooperative
plan, but shall in all other respects comply
with the provisions Of said article and any
amendments thereto.
Sec. .. And be il enlcted, That this act
take effect from the date OF its passage, and
that all acts or parts Of acts inconsistent with
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 l4lh day of April, 1880.
WIN. 7, HAMILTON,
Governor Of Maryland.
We hereby certify, that the aforegoing is cor
rect copy ofan Act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at the January session,
1880.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk OF the House Of Delegates.
EUGENE HIGoISs,
Secretary Of the Senate.
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MARYLAND HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
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