SECTION 1. Any mutual fire insurance company organized, or which may hereafter organize, according to the provisions of chapter one hundred and forty-five of the revised statutes, (one hundred and fifty-two of this compilation) may by a vote of such company limit the company to any town in this State, which vote shall be recorded, and said company shall thereupon be forever barred from insuring any property which is not situated within the limits of such town. (Laws of 1850, chap. 999.)

SEC. 2. The thirteenth section of chapter one hundred and forty-five of the revised statutes (one hundred and fifty-two of this compilation) shall not apply or be in force with respect to mutual fire insurance companies, which now are or may hereafter be formed agreeably to the provisions of said chapter, or be so construed as to render the members of such insurance companies liable for losses upon property insured in such companies beyond the amount of their deposit notes. (Laws of 1847, chap. 501.)

SEC. 3. All fire insurance companies in this State shall have the power and right to insure against damage to property by lightning, whether said damage be caused by burning or otherwise. (Laws of 1851, chap. 1100, sec. 1.)

SEC. 4. Whenever by the laws now existing in, or which may hereafter be enacted by any of the United States, other than this State, any taxes, fines, penalties, deposits of money or of securities, statements or other obligations or requirements of any description whatever, are or shall be imposed upon any mutual insurance company or companies incorporated by or organized under the laws of this State, and transacting business in such other state; or upon the agents of any such mutual insurance company or companies, then so long as such law or laws shall continue in force, the same taxes, fines, penalties, deposits, statements, obligations and requirements which under such law or laws are or shall be imposed upon any mutual insurance company or companies of this State, shall be imposed upon all mutual insurance companies doing business in this State, which are incorporated by, or organized under the laws of such other state, or states, and upon all agents of such mutual insurance companies. And such insurance company or their agents shall, from and after the first day of January next, be liable to pay the same taxes, fines and penalties, to make the same deposits and statements, and be in all respects under

and subject to the same obligations and requirements as are or shall be imposed upon any of the mutual insurance companies of this State, or upon their agents by the State, by, or under the laws of which, said company is incorporated or organized. (Laws of 1852, chap. 1279, sec. 1.)

SEC. 5. If, under or by virtue of the laws of such other state, any mutual insurance company incorporated by, or organized under the laws of this State, or its agents, is or shall be required to make any deposit, oaths or statements to any officer of said state, not known or existing in this State, or to pay any taxes, fines or penalties to such officer, then and in every such case, the mutual insurance companies of such state, or their agents, doing business in this State, shall make the same deposits with, and statements to the secretary of this State, and shall be liable to pay the like taxes and penalties to the treasurer of this State. (Laws of 1852, chap. 1279, sec. 2.)

SEC. 6. It shall not be lawful for any person to act within this State, as agent or otherwise, in receiving or procuring application for insurance, or to issue policies of insurance, or in any manner to aid in transacting the business of any mutual insurance company or companies, not incorporated by or organized under the laws of this State, until they have in all respects complied with the provisions of this act; and for every such violation the person so offending shall be subject to a penalty of five hundred dollars, to be sued for and recovered in the name of the State by the State's attorney, or by the solicitor of the county in which said offence shall be committed; and one half of the said penalty when recovered shall be paid into the treasury of this State, and the other half to the informant of such violation; and in case of non-payment of such penalty, the party so offending shall be liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, in the discretion of any court having cognizance thereof. (Laws of 1852, chap. 1279, sec. 3.)

SEC. 7. The governor, with advice of the council, shall appoint three suitable persons residing within the State, no one of whom shall be a director or hold any other office in any insurance company in this State, or shall have been such director, or held any other office in any such insurance company, within the space of one year prior to his appointment, as insurance commissioners, who shall hold their office for one year and until others are duly appointed and commissioned in their stead. (Laws of 1851, chap. 1111, sec. 1.)

SEC. 8. Said commissioners shall be removable, and the vacan cies may be filled at pleasure by the governor and council. (Laws of 1851, chap. 1111, sec. 2.)

SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of some one of said commissioners, once at least in each year, without previous notice to the company, and as much oftener as the governor may require, to make personally a full examination into the condition of each company

and the management of its affairs, inspect all their books, ascertain the amount of property at risk, the amount of premium notes constituting the capital stock of each, the amount of losses in each year, the sums assessed, the amount of indebtedness, the salaries or emolument of the president, secretary, treasurer, and each director, and the whole amount each individual officer has received or is to receive for his services per annum, the expense of adjusting losses, the sum paid or allowed by the company for travel and per diem, to officers or agents while attending to the same, the sum paid agents for each application taken by the company, the rate per cent. and the aggregate amount allowed agents for collecting assessments, and generally to make all such inquiries as may be necessary to obtain a full and thorough knowledge in detail of all its affairs, and whether it has violated any provisions of its charter, and to report the condition of each insurance company to the legislature annually during the first week of its session. (Laws of 1851, chap. 1111, sec. 3.)

SEC. 10. Such commissioners shall receive from each company so examined, ten cents per mile each way for his actual travel to make such examination, and two dollars for each day necessarily employed in making such examination and report; but if there is more than one company in any place he shall not tax more than one travel nor more than his actual travel from one place of examination to another. (Laws of 1851, chap. 1111, sec. 4.)

SEC. 11. Any such commissioner may examine under oath all the officers, agents or servants of any insurance company, or any other person, in relation to the affairs and condition of such company, and may administer such oath personally. (Laws of 1851, chap. 1111, sec. 5.)

SEC. 12. If such commissioners, upon examination into the affairs of any insurance company, or for other good cause, shall deem it unsafe for the public interest that such company shall issue policies of insurance, or if the officers of any company shall neglect or refuse to submit to any examination by them, or either of them, or to furnish the necessary facilities for such examination, they shall represent the same in writing, signed by a majority of the commissioners, to one of the justices of the superior court of judicature, and such justice shall forthwith issue an injunction to the president and directors of said company, prohibiting it from issuing any more policies until such injunction shall be dissolved, and said commissioners shall cause the same to be served according to law. (Laws of 1851, chap. 1111, sec. 6.)

SEC. 13. After due notice and a full hearing on the part of said company upon the matters aforesaid, said justice may dissolve, modify or continue said injunction, and make such further orders and decrees as the circumstances and business of said company, as the necessity of the case may require, according to the course of proceedings in equity, until the legislature shall take action in the premises. (Laws of 1851, chap. 1111, sec. 7.)

SEC. 14. The provisions of this act (seven preceding sections) shall not apply to any insurance company established under the provisions of the one hundred and forty-fifth chapter of the revised statutes, (152 of this compilation) when the articles of agreement prohibit said company from effecting insurance upon property not within the limits of the town or city where said company is established. (Laws of 1851, chap. 1111, sec. 8.)

CHAPTER 155.

OF LIFE INSURANCE.

SECTION

IDENTICAL WITH

Chapter 967, Laws of 1850.

SECTION

1. Insurance for the benefit of married 2. Entitled to the benefit of such policy women and others. against creditors, &c.

SECTION 1. Any policy of insurance made by an insurance company on the life of any person, expressed to be for the benefit of a married woman, whether the same be effected by herself or by her husband, or by any other person on her behalf, shall enure to her separate use and benefit and that of her children, if any, independently of her husband and of his creditors and representatives, and also independently of any other person effecting the same in her behalf, his creditors and representatives; and a trustee or trustees may be appointed by any court authorized to appoint trustees, to hold and manage the interest of any married woman in any such policy or the proceeds thereof.

SEC. 2. Where a policy of insurance is effected by any person on the life of another, expressed therein to be for the benefit of such other, or his representatives, or for that of a third person, and when it is expressed in any policy of insurance by which a person insures his own life, that it is made for the benefit of another, the party for whose benefit such policy is made shall be entitled thereto as against the creditors and representatives of the person so effecting the same.

Chapter 147 of the Revised Statutes, (except sec. 9, 10 and 11, repealed by Laws of 1851, chap. 1103.)

SECTION 1. No man shall marry his father's sister, mother's sister, father's widow, wife's mother, daughter, wife's daughter, son's widow, sister, son's daughter, daughter's daughter, son's son's widow, daughter's son's widow, brother's daughter or sister's daughter.

SEC. 2. No woman shall marry her father's brother, mother's brother, mother's husband, husband's father, son, husband's son, daughter's husband, brother, son's son, daughter's son, son's daughter's husband, daughter's daughter's husband, brother's son or sister's son.

SEC. 3. Every marriage contract by parties within the degrees prohibited by the two preceding sections, is incestuous and void, and the issue of such marriage illegitimate.

SEC. 4. All persons residing in this State, proposing to be joined in marriage, shall have their intention published on three