Entry on premises to examine If during the test the consumption of gas varies from five feet an hour, or the candle from one hundred and twenty grains an hour, a proportionate correction shall be made for the candle power. Upon such complaint and after such notice and hearing as are provided for by section thirty-four of chapter one hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Laws the board may require a company to supply such gas as will give, when tested in the manner prescribed in this section, a light equivalent to such number of standard English candles, not less than sixteen, as said board may determine. SECTION 15. An officer or servant of a gas light company, who is duly authorized in writing by the president, treasurer, agent or secretary of said company, may at any P. S. 61, § 15. reasonable time enter any premises which are supplied meters, etc. 1861, 168, § 11. Company may shut off gas for arrears. 1861, 168, § 12. P. S. 61, § 16. 1894, 316. 199 Mass. 325. with gas by such company for the purpose of examining or removing the meters, pipes, fittings, and works for supplying or regulating the supply of gas and of ascertaining the quantity of gas consumed or supplied; and if any person, directly or indirectly, prevents or hinders such officer or servant from so entering such premises or from making such examination or removal, such officer or servant may make complaint to any court or magistrate authorized to issue criminal process who may thereupon issue a warrant directed to the sheriff or to either of his deputies, or to a constable of the city or town in which such company is located, commanding him to take sufficient aid and repair to said premises accompanied by such officer or servant, who shall examine such meters, pipes, fittings and works for supplying or regulating the supply of gas, and ascertain the quantity of gas consumed or supplied therein, and shall, if required, remove any meters, pipes, fittings and works belonging to said company. SECTION 16. A gas or electric light company may stop gas or electricity from entering the premises of any person who neglects or refuses to pay the amount due therefor or for the use of the meter or other article hired by him from such company; and, for such purpose, the officers, servants or workmen thereof may, after twenty-four hours' notice, enter his premises between the hours of eight in the forenoon and four in the afternoon and separate and take away such meter or other property of the company, and may disconnect any meter, pipe, wires, fittings or other works, whether they are property of the company or not, of chapter. § 15. 1861, 168, Substitute. [SECTION 19. The provisions of this chapter shall apply Application to all companies which manufacture or distribute gas for sale, and the term "shall include all pergas company sons who own or operate works for the manufacture and sale of gas for heating or illuminating purposes.] Section 19. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all persons, corporations and municipalities which manufacture or distribute gas for sale and the terms pany" and " and "gas light company shall be construed as including all persons, companies and municipalities owning or operating works for the manufacture and sale of gas for heating or illuminating purposes. 66 gas com Application 1909, 4883, of act. § 4. CHAPTER 110. OF MANUFACTURING AND OTHER CORPORATIONS. (Omitting sections which expressly do not apply to gas or electric companies.) SECTIONS 72-75. — Swine Slaughtering Associations. (Omitted.) SECTIONS 82, 83. Confirmation of Organization or Proceedings. COMMISSIONER OF CORPORATIONS. SECTION 1. The commissioner of corporations shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his duties. He shall examine the certificates submitted to him under the provisions of these statutes, and make suitable indorsements upon such as conform to the requirements of law. He shall keep a record of the names of corporations which submit certificates to his inspection, with the date of inspection and of his certificates when given, and the result in brief of his inspection. He shall bring instances of neglect or of omission on the part of corporations to comply with the provisions of this chapter to the knowledge of the attorney general, for the enforcement of the penalties therefor. He shall receive no fees for the performance of his duties. If a vacancy exists or if the commissioner is absent from his office, the first clerk shall perform the duties of the commissioner, and legal process served upon said clerk shall have the same force and effect as if served upon the commissioner. CORPORATIONS GOVERNED BY THIS CHAPTER. SECTION 2. All corporations organized or chartered under or subject to the provisions of this chapter, of chapter one hundred and six or one hundred and seven of the Public Statutes, of the statutes in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, of chapter two hundred and ninety-five of the statutes of the year eighteen hundred and seventyfour, of chapter two hundred and twenty-four of the stat utes of the year eighteen hundred and seventy, of the statutes in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, of chapter one hundred and eighty-seven or two hundred and ninety of the statutes of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, of chapter sixty or sixty-one of the General Statutes, of chapter one hundred and thirty-three of the statutes of the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, or of chapter thirty-eight of the Revised Statutes, corporations established by special charters subsequent to the twentythird day of February in the year eighteen hundred and thirty for the purpose of carrying on any kind of manufacture, and those which in compliance with law have voted to adopt the provisions of chapter fifty-three of the statutes of the political year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, of chapter thirty-eight of the Revised Statutes, of chapter sixty of the General Statutes, of chapter two hundred and twenty-four of the statutes of the year eighteen hundred and seventy, or of chapter one hundred and six of the Public Statutes, and have performed the things in that behalf prescribed in the several statutes so adopted, and those which shall comply with the provisions of the following section and the respective officers and stockholders of all such corporations shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter. which may chapter. § 13. 1829, 53, §§ 28, 29. § 65. § 1, cl. 4. SECTION 3. If any manufacturing corporation char- Corporations tered before the twenty-third day of February in the year become subeighteen hundred and thirty, at a legal meeting called for it to this the purpose, accepts the provisions of this chapter, and causes to be recorded in the registry of deeds in the county or district in which such corporation is established a certificate, signed by its president, treasurer, clerk and a majority of its directors, stating the amount of its capital actually paid in, and, if any part thereof has been divided or withdrawn, the amount so divided and withdrawn, and also the amount of its debts and credits, and an estimate of the value of its real and personal estate for the purpose of carrying on its business at the time of making such certificate; and if such officers make oath that they have carefully examined the records and accounts of said corporation, and have faithfully estimated the value of its property and funds, and that said certificate signed by them is true according to their best knowledge and belief; then such corporation with its members and officers shall be sub - for mechanical, mining or manufacturing business. 1851, 133, §§ 1, 2. 1855, 68, § 1. ject to the provisions of this chapter applicable to such corporations; and no stockholder therein shall be liable for any debts of the corporation contracted after the recording of such certificate, except for the causes and in the manner hereinafter provided. FORMATION OF CORPORATIONS. Purposes, Number of Associates and Limits of Capital SECTION 4. Any persons, to the number hereinafter provided, who associate themselves by an agreement in writing hereinafter described with the intention of forming a corporation for any purpose hereinafter specified, upon complying with the provisions of section twenty, shall be and remain a corporation. 12 Allen, 273, 362. SECTION 5. For the purpose of carrying on any mechanical or manufacturing business, except that of distilling or manufacturing intoxicating liquors, three or more persons may associate themselves, with such capital, not less than five thousand dollars, as is fixed in the agreement of association, and, for the purpose of carrying on any mining business, three or more persons may associate themselves, with a capital of not less than five thousand 101 Mass. 385. nor more than one million dollars. 173 Mass. 254. G. S. 61, § 1. 1870, 224, 2. 1871, 110, § 1. 1875, 177, 3. 1899, 199, § 1. for cooperative trade, etc. 1866, 290, §§ 1, 5. 1870, 224, § 3. SECTION 7. For the purpose of co-operation in carrying on any business authorized in the two preceding sections, and of co-operative trade, seven or more persons may associate themselves, with a capital of not less than one P. S. 106, § 9. thousand nor more than one hundred thousand dollars. 1879, 210. for making gas and fur nishing steam and hot water. SECTION 9. For the purpose of making, selling and distributing gas for light, or for heating, cooking, chemical 1855, 146, § 1. and mechanical purposes, or for the purpose of generating G. S. 61, § 15. and furnishing steam or hot water for heating, cooking and 1879, 202, § 1. mechanical power, or for the purpose of generating and 1857, 276, § 1. 1870, 224, § 5. P. S. 106, § 11. 1885, 240, § 1. 1891, 189, furnishing hydrostatic or pneumatic pressure for mechanical power, in any city or town, or for any two or more of said purposes, ten or more persons may associate them18839.373. selves, with a capital of not less than [five] one thousand Amended. nor more than five hundred thousand dollars. § 1. 1910, 346. |