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Alaska

Statutes Relating to For

eign Corporations.

Charter to be Filed-Resident-Agent to be

Designated.

Effect of Designation.

New Agent to be Designated-When.

Penalty.

Annual Reports.

Corporations Heretofore in Business in Alaska.

Jurisdiction.

Summons-How Served.

Service by Publication.

Insurance Companies-Certificate to be Filed.
Service of Process on.

To Whom Above Provisions Apply.
Penalty for Violation.

Fees for Filing.

Charter to be Filed-Resident-Agent to be Designated.

Alaska C. C. Sec. 225. All corporations or joint stock companies organized under the laws of the United States, or the laws of any state or territory of the United States, shall, before doing business within the district, file in the office of the secretary of the district and in the office of the clerk of the district court for the division wherein they intend to carry on business, a duly authenticated copy of their charter or articles of incorporation, and also a statement, verified by the oath of the president and secretary of such corporation, and attested by a majority of its board of directors, showing

(1) The name of such corporation and the location of its principal office or place of business without the district; and, if it is to have any place

of business or principal office within the district, the location thereof;

(2)

The amount of capital stock;

(3) The amount of its capital stock actually paid in in money;

(4) The amount of its capital stock paid in in any other way, and in what;

(5) The amount of the assets of the corporation, and of what the assets consist, with the actual cash value thereof;

(6) The liabilities of such corporation, and if any of its indebtedness is secured, how secured, and upon what property.

Such corporation or joint stock company shall also file, at the same time and in the same offices, a certificate, under the seal of the corporation and the signature of its president, vicepresident, or other acting head, and its secretary, if there be one, certifying that the corporation has consented to be sued in the courts of the district upon all causes of action arising against it in the district, and that service of process may be made upon some person, a resident of the district, whose name and place of residence shall be designated in such certificate, and such service, when so made upon such agent, shall be valid service on the corporation or company, and such agent shall reside at the principal place of business of such corporation or company in the district.

Effect of Designation.

Alaska C. C. Sec. 226. The written consent of the person so designated to act as such agent shall also be filed in like manner, and such designation shall remain in force until the filing in the same offices of a written revocation thereof, or of the consent, executed in like manner. Α certified copy of the designation so filed, accompanied with a certificate that it has not been revoked, is presumptive evidence of the execu

tion thereof, and

conclusive evidence of the

authority of the officer executing it.

New Agent to be Designated-When.

Alaska C. C. Sec. 227. In case of the death, removal from the district, or disqualification of the person so designated, or of the revocation of his consent, it snall be the duty of the clerk of the district court to notify such corporation or company; and it shall be the duty of such corporation or company, within sixty days thereafter, to designate another person in the manner herein before provided.

Penalty.

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Alaska C. C. Sec. 228. If any such corporation or company shall attempt or commence to do business in the district without having first led said statements, certificates, and consents quired by this chapter, it shall forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars for every day it shall so neglect to file tne same; and every contract made by such corporation, or any agent or agents thereof, during the time it shall so neglect to file such statements, certificates, or consents, shall be voidable at the election of the other party thereto. It shall be the duty of the United States attorney for the district to sue for and recover, in the name of the United States, the penalty above provided, and the same, when so recovered, shall be paid into the treasury of the United States.

Annual Reports.

Alaska C. C. Sec. 229. Every such corporation or company shall annually, and within thirty days from the first day of July of each year, make a report, which shall be in the same form and contain the same information as required in the statement mentioned in section two hundred and twenty-five, of this chapter, which report shall be filed in the office of the secretary of the district, and a duplicate thereof in the office of the

Iclerk of the district court for the division wherein the business of the corporation is carried on. Corporations Heretofore in Business in Alaska.

Alaska C. C. Sec. 230. Any such corporation or company that has heretofore engaged in business, performed acts, or made contracts in the district, may, within ninety days from the time this act goes into effect, comply with the provisions hereof, and thereupon all its acts and contracts done and made before this act goes into effect shall be valid and enforceable.

Alaska C. C. Sec. 231. If any such corporation or company shall fail to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter, all its contracts with citizens of the district shall be void as to the corporation or company, and no court of the district, or of the United States, shall enforce the same in favor of the corporation or company so failing.

Jurisdiction.

Alaska C. C. P. Sec. 485. No corporation is subject to the jurisdiction of the district court of the district unless it appear in the court, or have been created by or under the laws of the district, or have an agency established therein for the transaction of some portion of its business, or have property therein; and in the last case only to the extent of such property at the time the jurisdiction attached.

Summons-How Served.

Alaska C. C. P. Sec. 46. The summons shall be served by delivering a copy thereof, together with a copy of the complaint prepared and certified by the plaintiff, his agent, or attorney, or by the clerk of the court as follows:

First. If the action be against a private corporation, to the president or other head of e corporation, secretary, cashier, or managing agent, or, in case none of the officers of the corporation above named shall reside or have an

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