The Republican journal., 1915-04-08

call on all Its policy holders for benefit
and expense funds until the reserve fund
SO accumulated shall amount. together
with the amount there deposited prior
to March one, eighteen hundred and
eighty nine, to not less than twenty-five
thousand dollars. These amounts may be
deposited in such interest-bearing Sc
chrities as the governor and council
may approve. or in such securities as
any insurance company or savings
banks may, from time to time, be au-
thor rl l., to hold for purpose Of invest
ment. These securities shall be held in
trust by the treasurer of State. but the
corporation shall have at all times the
rignt TO exchange any part of said Sc
curltiest for others Of like amount and
character. When deemed advisable by a
majority OF the directors, such part of
the fund as may be considered necessary,
may be applied from time to time to the
payment or claims under insurance con-
tracts and the expense necessarily incl
Gent thereto, and for no other purpose
provided, however, that said fund shall
not at any time be reduced below an
odlcal call upon all of its members for
benefit and expense funds nor to less than
one thousand dollars. The insurance
commissioner shall annually, in Feb
the minimum amount of reserve fund re-
CURED to be kept on deposit in the State
treasury by each corporation doing BUSH
i a,s Oh tle assessment plan, under this
for sixty days to satisfy any Judgment
against 1t, in any court in this State
then the said treasurer shall convert
into money any of said securities, and
forthwith satisfy such judgment, and
said corporation shall not transact
any further business until said de-
post is restored. When any such cor
poration shall discontinue business,
court, may appoint a receiver or agent
to administer any unexhausted portion
OF such fund which shall be used, less
compensation not to exceed five per cent
as such court or justice may allow the
receiver or agent, first, in the payment Of
accrued indemnity claims upon certifi-
Gates or policies, or if insufficient to paw
such claims in full, they shall be paid
after the payment of such claims, such
balance shall be distributed to the hold
ers OF certificates then in force, pro rata
in proportion to the total PAYMENTS nv
each policy-holder after first paying all
expenses incident to such distrib,1tion
If, upon the thirty-frs day of Deem
per OF any year, the reserve fund of any
such corporation is found to be less than
the amount of one assessment or periodi-
cal call upon all the members thereof
sald corporation shall, within one wear
hereafter, collect from it's members a
sum sufficient to bring said reserve f1,nd
up to one assessment or periodical cali
upon all its members and denosit tho
amount with the treasurer of state ~
NE r,e credit e toe of said fund -(Approved
Chapter $50.
An Act to amend Section sixteen of
Chapter two hundred twenty-one of the
Public Laws of nineteen hundred thir-
teen. relating to primary elections.
Section sixteen of chapter two hundred
tWenty-one of the public laws of nineteen
hundred thirteen, is hereby amended by
inserting after the word calculated" in
the fourth line of said section the words
and forthwith thereafter have forwarded
tons of his precinct or district; by
striking out the word 'seven'' in the
eleventh line and substituting therefor
the word fourteen; and by striking out
the word seven" in the fourteenth line
OF said section and substituting therefor
the word fourteen SO that said section
as amended shall read as follows
Section 16. The governor and council,
by the first Tuesday of July in each year
in which a primary election is held here
under, shall open and compare the votes
SO returned hereunder, and have the same
tabulated, and forthwith thereafter have
forwarded to each candidate a copy
of said tabulations of his precinct or dis
trict, and may receive testimony on oath
to prove that the return from any city,
town or plantation does not agree with
the record of the vote of said city, town
or plantation, in the number of votes, or
the names of the persons voted for, and
TO prove which of them IS correct; and
the return, when found to be erroneous,
may be corrected by the record. No such
correction can be made without applica-
tlon within fourteen days after the re-
turns are opened and tabulated, stating
the error alleged, nor without reasonable
notice thereof given to the person af-
fected by such correction, and during
said fourteen days any person voted for
may personally, and by or with counsel.
examine said returns in the presence of
the governor and council, or either OF
them, or any member of the council, or
the secretary of State. The person hav-
ing the highest number of votes for nomi-
nation to any office shall be deemed to
have been nominated by his political
party for that office, provided, that when
tie snail exist between two or more
persons for the same nomination by rea-
son of said two or more persons having
an equal and the highest number of votes
for nomination by one party to one and
the same office. the secretary of State
shall give notice to the several persons
SO having the highest and equal number
of votes to attend at the office of the
secretary of State at a time to be ap-
pointed by said secretary, who shall then
and there proceed publicly to decide by
lot which of the persons so having an
equal number of votes shall be declared
nominated by his party with like effect
as if there had been no such tie To as
certain what persons have received the
highest number of votes, the governor
and council shall count and declare for
any person all votes appearing by said
returns to have been Intentionally cast
for him, although his name upon the re-
turn is misspelled or written with only
the initial or initials of his christian
name or names, or with wrong initials or
otherwise as the case may be: and thew
may hear testimony on oath, in relation
10 such returns. in order to get at the in
tenlon OF the voters and shall decide ac-
cofdlngiy. When return is defective by
reason of any informality, an attested
copy OF the record may be substituted
therefor.
The secretary of State shall enter in a
register of nominations, to be kept by
MN Tor the purpose, the nominations for
each party so ascertained, and shall
forthwith notify by registered mail each
person who is SO nominated -(Approved
March 81, 1851
Chapter PSI.
An Act providing for enumeration OF neat
cattle, sheep and swine
Section sixteen of chapter eight of
the Revised Statutes is hereby amended
by striking out the whole of said sec
Section 16. Assessors of taxes. shall
include in the inventory. required to
be taken on April first, the number
and value Of all sheep, swine, yearling
and two-year-old neat cattle. stated
separately, Of sheep and of swine; and
at every fifth year after nineteen hun
dred and thirteen the number and value
of each kind Of domestic fowl, and of
the eggs and poultry, stated separately,
produced therefrom during the year
preceding. They shall make return
thereof to the state assessors who shall
tabulate the returns and publish them
in detail Said property shall not be
incl in hn Il A Tnr