by fire, lightning or storm; and that it has not issued and does not own any trust certificates and for any corporation, agent, officer or employe, or for the directors or stockholders of any corporation, has not entered into and is not now in any combination, contract or agreement with any person or persons, corporation or corporations, or with any stockholder or director thereof, the purpose and effect of which said combination, contract or agreement would be to place the management or control of such combination or combinations, or the manufactured product thereof, in the hands of any trustee or trustees, with the intent to limit or fix the price or lessen the production and sale of any article of commerce, use or consumption, or to prevent, restrict or diminish the manufacture or output of any article; and that it has not made or entered into any arrangement, contract or agreement with any person, association of persons or corporations designed to lessen, or which tends to lessen, full and free competition in the importation, manufacture or sale of any article, product or commodity in this state, or under the terms of which it is proposed, stipulated, provided, agreed or understood that any particular or specified article, product or commodity shall be dealt in, sold or offered for sale in this state to the exclusion, in whole or in part, of any competing article, product or commodity. And on refusal to make oath in answer to said inquiry, or on failure to do so within thirty days from the mailing thereof, the secretary of state shall certify said fact to the prosecuting attorney of the county (the circuit attorney in the city of St. Louis) wherein said corporation is located, and it shall be the duty of such prosecuting or circuit attorney, at the earliest practicable moment, in the name of the state, and at the relation of said prosecuting or circuit attorney, to proceed against such corporation for the recovery of the money forfeit provided for in this act, and also for the forfeiture of its charter or certificate of incorporation, or its right and privilege to do business in this state. $8. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state, at any time, upon satisfactory evidence that any company or association of persons duly incorporated under the laws of this or any other state, doing business in this state, has entered into any trust, combination or association, in violation of the preceding sections of this act, to demand that it shall make the affidavit as above set forth in this act as to the conduct of its business. In case of failure of compliance on the part of the corporation, then the same procedure shall ensue as is provided in section seven of this act: Provided, That no corporation, firm, association or individual shall be subject to any criminal prosecution by reason of anything truthfully disclosed by the affidavit required by this act, or truthfully disclosed in any testimony elicited in the execution thereof. § 9. It shall be the duty of the attorney-general, the circuit attorney of the city of St. Louis, and the prosecuting attorney of each county, respectively, to enforce the provisions of this act. The attorney-general, the circuit or prosecuting attorneys shall institute and conduct all suits begun in the circuit courts, and upon appeal, the attorney-general shall prosecute said suits in the supreme court and courts of appeals. As compensation for his services in this behalf the attorney-general shall be entitled to his actual expenses incurred in the prosecution of such suits, to be paid by the defendant or defendants when judgment is rendered for the state. The circuit and prosecuting attorneys shall receive for their compensation one-fourth of the penalty collected. § 10.2 In all suits instituted under this act to forfeit the charter of corporations, or to forfeit the right of a corporation to do business in this state, where a judgment of forfeiture is obtained and the cause is not appealed to the supreme court or courts of appeals, the circuit court rendering such judgment shall allow the circuit or prosecuting attorney a fee of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, to be paid out of the assets of said corporation; and when the attorney-general takes part in said prosecution, he shall be entitled to his actual expense, to be paid in like manner. § 11. It is hereby made the duty of all county officers in the state to furnish to the secretary of state any information 1 Section 9 is given as amended by Laws of 1895, page 237. which he may request of them, to enable him the more fully to execute the duties imposed upon him by this act, and for such services the said county officers shall be paid by their respective counties, upon allowance by the county court, such fees as would accrue for like services for the county. § 12. Chapter one hundred twenty-eight, Revised Statutes 1889, entitled "Pools and trusts," is hereby repealed. LAWS OF 1899, PAGE 316. POOLS, TRUSTS AND CONSPIRACIES: PREVENTING AND RESTRAINING OPERATIONS OF SAME. AN ACT to prevent and restrain the continuance and operation of trusts and monopolies, and to provide procedure therefor. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: § 1. Every pool, trust, agreement, combination, confederation or understanding, conspiracy or combination entered into, or created, or organized by any corporation organized under the laws of this or any other state, or any partnership or individual or other association of persons whatsoever with any other corporation, partnership, individual or any other person or association of persons to regulate, control or fix the price of any article or articles of manufacture, mechanism, merchandise, commodity, convenience or repair, or any product of mining of any kind or class, or any article or thing of any class or kind bought and sold, or the price or premium to be paid for insuring property against loss or damage by fire, lightning or storm, or to maintain said price or prices when so regulated, determined or fixed, and all agreements, combinations, confederations or conspiracies or pools made, created, entered into or organized by any corporation, partnership, individual or association of individuals to fix the amount or limit the quantity of any article or thing whatsoever, or of any article of manufacture, mechanism, commodity, convenience or repair, or any product of any class or kind of mining, are hereby declared illegal. If any two or more persons or corporations who are engaged in buying or selling any article of commerce, manufacture, mechanism, commodity, convenience, repair, any product of mining, or any article or thing whatsoever, shall enter into any pool, trust, agreement, combination, confederation, association or understanding to control or limit the trade in any such article or thing; or to limit competition in such trade, by refusing to buy from or sell to any other person or corporation any such article or thing aforesaid, for the reason that such other person or corporation is not a member of or party to such pool, trust, combination, confederation, association or understanding; or shall boycott or threaten any person or corporation for buying from or selling to any other person or corporation who is not a member of or a party to such pool, trust, agreement, combination, confederation, association or understanding any such article or thing aforesaid, it shall be a violation of this act. § 2. The several circuit courts of this state are hereby invested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain any corporation, partnership, individual or association of individuals from entering into any combinations, pools, agreements, in the form of trusts, confederation, conspiracy or understanding declared illegal by this act or any other law of this state relative to pools, trusts, conspiracies and unlawful combinations. And it shall be the duty of the attorney-general and of the prosecuting attorneys, when so directed by the attorney-general, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain all violations of this act and of any other law concerning pools, trusts and conspiracies and unlawful combinations. Such proceedings may be by way of petition, setting forth the case and praying that such violation be enjoined or otherwise prohibited. When the parties complained of shall have been duly notified of such petition the court shall proceed as soon as may be to the hearing and determination of the case; and pending such petition and before final decree the court may at any time make such temporary restraining order or prohibition as shall be deemed just in the premises. § 3. Whenever it shall appear to the court before which any proceeding under this act may be pending that the ends. of justice require that other parties should be brought before the court, the court may cause them to be summoned, whether they reside in the circuit in which the court is held or not; and subpoenas and summonses may be in proceedings under this act served by the sheriff of any county in any place in this state, and the same shall be valid. § 4. Any person injured in his business or property by any other person or corporation by reason of anything forbidden or declared to be unlawful by this act may sue there for in any circuit court of this state in which the defendant or defendants, or any one of them reside, or have any officer, agent, office or representative, or in which any such defendant or any agent, officer or representative may be found, without regard to the amount in controversy, and shall recover threefold the damages by him sustained, and the costs of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee. § 5. It is hereby expressly declared to be the intent of this act not to repeal any former act or part thereof on the subject of pools, trusts, conspiracies and unlawful combinations, except the same be in direct and irreconcilable conflict herewith. And it is hereby declared to be only the expressed purpose of this act to provide an additional remedy for the control and restraint of pools, trusts and conspiracies in restraint of trade and unlawful combination. Approved May 10, 1899. LAWS OF 1899, PAGE 318. POOLS, TRUSTS AND CONSPIRACIES: PROVIDING FOR TAKING TESTIMONY. AN ACT to provide for taking testimony in proceedings against pools, monopolies in commodities, trusts, conspiracies, and confederations in restraint of trade, and to provide for procuring the attendance before authorized officers and courts in Missouri of officers, agents, directors, and employes of alleged trusts, monopolies in commodities, pools and combinations in order that their testimony may be taken. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri as follows: § 1. Whenever any proceeding shall be commenced in any court of competent jurisdiction in this state by the attorney-general against any corporation or corporations, individual or individuals or associations of individuals, or joint stock associations or co-partnership, under the law against the formation and maintenance of pools, trusts of any kind, monopolies in commodities, combinations or organizations in restraint of trade to dissolve the same or to restrain their formation or maintenance in this state, then in such case, if the attorney-general desires to take the testimony of any officer, director, agent or employe of any corporation or joint stock association proceeded against, or in case of a copartnership, any member of said partnership or any employe thereof, in any court in which said action may be pending or |