ART. 23.] FRATERNAL BENEFICIARY ORDERS. 629

1894, ch. 295, sec. 143 F.

211. Any such association coming within the description of
a fraternal beneficiary association, as set forth in section 210
of 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 213 and 214 regulating
annual reports, and the designation of the commissioner of
insurance as the person upon whom process may be served as
hereinafter provided; and shall file with the commissioner of
insurance a duly certified copy of its charter or act of incor-
poration, its form of benefit certificate and also a certificate of
the proper officer of such State, province or territory, certify-
ing that such association is authorized to conduct its 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 author-
ized by such law, then the commissioner of insurance shall
make examination of its affairs in manner as provided in the
next succeeding section, in like case before issuing such certifi-
cate, and until a certificate is refused, after examination had as
provided, such association shall continue to do business in the
State as heretofore. The expense of the examination required
under this section for associations incorporated under the laws
of this State shall not exceed fifty dollars.

Ibid. sec. 143 G.

212. Any such association coming within the description of
a fraternal beneficiary association, as set forth section in 210
of this article, organized under the laws of any other State,
province or territory, and not now doing business in this State,
shall be admitted to do business within this State, when it
shall have filed with the commissioner of insurance a duly
certified copy of its charter and articles of association, and a
copy of its constitution or laws certified to by its secretary or
corresponding officer, together with an appointment of the