112 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

this article, organized under the laws of this or any other State,
province or territory, and now doing business in this State, may
continue such business, provided that it hereafter comply with
the provisions of sections 143 H and 1431, regulating annual
reports, and the designation of the commissioner of insurance as
the person upon whom process may be served as hereinafter pro-
vided; and shall file with the Commissioner of Insurance a duly
certified copy of its charter or act of incorporation, its form of
benefit certificate and also a certificate of the proper officer of
such State, province or territory, certifying that such association
is authorized to conduct it business therein, where the laws of
such State, province or territory require an annual report of the
operations of such association, or where its laws authorize such
certificate, and, thereupon, said commissioner of insurance shall
issue a certificate to said association authorizing it to continue to
do business in this State, for which he shall receive the sum of
twenty-five dollars; but if said association be incorporated under
the laws of this State, or if it be a foreign corporation, and by
the laws of the State of its incorporation shall not be required to
make report, or the certificate referred to in this section shall not
be authorized by such law, then the commissioner of insurance
shall make examination of its affairs in manner as provided in
the next succeeding section, (section 143 G) in like case before
issuing such certificate, and until a certificate is refused, after
examination had as provided, such association shall continue to
do business in the State as heretofore. Immediately upon the
passage of this act, the commissioner of insurance shall notify
the supreme secretary and the State secretary of all associations
described in section 143 E, now doing business in this State, of
the provisions of this and the following section, and said asso-
ciation shall file the papers in this section required to be filed
within two months after receiving said notice. The expense of
the examination required under this section, for associations
incorporated under the laws of this State, shall not exceed fifty
dollars.

1894, ch. 295.

143 G. Any such association coming within the description of
a fraternal beneficiary association, as set forth in section 143 E of
this article, organized under the laws of any other State, province