Corporations for Charitable and Other Purposes

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Wright & Potter, 1909 - 30 pages

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Page 13 - Association, with the powers, rights, and privileges, and subject to the limitations, duties, and restrictions, which by law appertain thereto. Witness...
Page 25 - ... and have complied with the provisions of the statutes of this commonwealth in such case made and provided, as appears from...
Page 27 - Commission to require that all or any transactions of carriers involving the furnishing of equipment, supplies, research, services, finances, credit, or personnel to such carrier be upon competitive bids on such terms and conditions and subject to such regulations as it shall prescribe as necessary in the public interest.
Page 26 - Massachusetts, do hereby certify that said [the names of the subscribers to the agreement of association], their associates and successors, are legally organized and established as, and are hereby made, an existing corporation under the name of [name of the corporation], with the powers, rights and privileges, and subject to the limitations, duties and restrictions, which by law appertain thereto.
Page 22 - The supreme judicial court or the superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity, upon the application of...
Page 22 - Within thirty days after any meeting at which an amendment of the articles of incorporation has been adopted, articles of amendment signed and sworn to by the president, treasurer, and a majority of the directors, setting forth such amendment...
Page 24 - A copy of the notice shall, seven days at least before the day appointed for the meeting, be given to each subscriber or left at his residence or usual place of business^ or deposited in the post office, postage prepaid, and addressed to him at his residence or usual place of business, ,and another copy thereof and an affidavit of one of the signers that the notice has been duly served shall be recorded with the records of the corporation.
Page 14 - ... of the corporation ; the manner of rescinding or amending bylaws and making new ones ; the purposes for which the funds of the corporation shall be applicable ; the purposes for which assessments may be laid upon...
Page 17 - The by-laws of any such corporation shall be approved by the board of railroad commissioners and shall prescribe the manner in which and the officers and agents by whom the purpose of its incorporation may be carried out, and also the manner in which its property may be invested. Such corporation shall...
Page 13 - Corporations may be formed in the manner provided in this chapter for the purpose of improving the condition of any employees in any one or more trades or employments, either relative to their employment or to the promotion of education, temperance, morality or social intercourse among them, or for the purpose of paying benefits to sick or unemployed members, or to persons dependent upon deceased members or otherwise.

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