630 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

commissioner of insurance of this State, as a person upon
whom process may be served as hereinafter provided; and
shall pay said commissioner of insurance a fee of twenty-five
dollars for filing said charter, copy of constitution and laws,
and appointment of attorney; and provided that such associa-
tion shall be shown by certificate to be authorized to do busi-
ness in the State, province or territory in which it is incorpo-
rated or organized, in case the laws of such State, province or
territory shall provide for such authorization; and in case the
laws of such State, province or territory do not provide for any
formal authorization to do business on the part of any such
association, then such association shall be shown to be con-
ducting its business in accordance with the provisions of
section 210 to section 223 (both inclusive) of this article, for
which purpose the commissioner of insurance of this State
may personally or by some person to be designated by him,
examine into the condition, affairs, character and business
methods, accounts, books and investments at its home office,
which examination shall be at the expense of such association,
and shall be made within thirty days after demand therefor ;
and the commissioner of insurance shall be paid by such asso-
ciation for such examination the actual traveling expenses and
not more than ten dollars per day for each day actually
employed in such examination, not to exceed fifty dollars in
the aggregate. The commissioner of insurance shall issue a
certificate to such association, qualified as required in this
section, authorizing it to do business within this State, for
which certificate said association shall pay to the said commis-
sioner the fee of twenty-five dollars.

1894, ch. 295, sec. 143 H.

213. Every such association doing business in this State
shall, on or before the last day of March of each year, make
and file with the insurance commissioner of this State a report
of its affairs and operations during the year ending on the
thirty-first day of December immediately preceding, which
annual report shall be in lieu of all other reports required by
any other law; such reports shall be upon appropriate blank
forms to be provided by the insurance commissioner, and shall
be verified under oath by the duly authorized officer of such
association, and shall be published, or the substance thereof,
in the annual report of the insurance commissioner, under a
separate part, entitled "Fraternal Beneficiary Associations."