quired by order of the justice. He shall in addition be a deputy clerk of the court of special sessions, and have the same powers and duties as are conferred and imposed upon deputy clerks by section seventeen of this act.

34. Children; period of probation.-A child may be placed on probation for such time as the justice holding the children's court may deem proper, not longer, however, than three years, and such probation period may extend beyond the time such child attains the age of sixteen years.

35. Adults; period of probation. An adult convicted of a misdemeanor may be placed on probation for such time as the justice holding the court of special sessions may deem proper, not longer, however, than two years. An adult convicted of an offense of which the court or justice thereof has summary jurisdiction may be placed on probation for such time as the court or the justice may deem proper, not longer, however, than one year.

§ 36. Revocation of probation.- Probation may be revoked at any time within the maximum periods above mentioned by the court or justice thereof; but as far as practicable the revocation of probation shall be made by the justice who placed the child or adult on probation. Upon such revocation the justice may make such commitment as could have originally been made if the child or adult had not been placed on probation, and to that end may pronounce any judgment, or sentence, or impose any fine, or other penalty, or make any commitment which might have been pronounced, imposed or made at the time the conviction was had. Whenever probation is revoked, the court or justice thereof, as the case may be, may issue process for the rearrest of the defendant and when arraigned the court as it is then constituted, or the justice thereof, may proceed to enter judgment and impose sentence as herein provided.

THE MEMBERSHIP CORPORATIONS LAW.
Chapter 35 of the Consolidated Laws.

12. Prohibitions on officers.- No director or other officer of a membership corporation hereafter created shall receive, directly or indirectly, any salary, compensation or emolument from such

corporation, either as such officer or director or in any other capacity, unless authorized by the by-laws of the corporation, or by the concurring vote of two-thirds of the directors.

No director or other officer of a membership corporation hereafter created shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract relating to the operations conducted by the corporation, nor in any contract for furnishing supplies thereto, unless expressly authorized by the by-laws of the corporation, and by the concurring vote of all the directors.

The foregoing provisions of this section shall also apply after January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to every membership corporation existing on August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and theretofore created under any law repealed by this chapter.

40. Purposes for which corporations may be formed under this article. A membership corporation may be created under this article for any lawful purpose, except a purpose for which a corporation may be created under any other article of this chapter, or any other general law than this chapter.

41. Certificates of incorporation.- Five or more persons may become a membership corporation for any one of the purposes for which a corporation may be formed under this article or for any two or more of such purposes of a kindred nature, by making, acknowledging and filing a certificate, stating the particular objects for which the corporation is to be formed, each of which must be such as is authorized by this article; the name of the proposed corporation; the territory in which its operations are to be principally conducted; the town, village or city in which its principal office is to be located, if it be then practicable to fix such location; the number of its directors, not less than three nor more than thirty; and the names and places of residence of the persons to be its directors until its first annual meeting. Such certificate shall not be filed without the written approval, indorsed thereupon

or annexed thereto, of a justice of the supreme court. If such certificate specify among such purposes the care of orphan, pauper or destitute children, the establishment or maintenance of a maternity hospital or lying-in asylum where women may be received, cared for or treated during pregnancy or during or after delivery, or for boarding or keeping nursing children, the written approval of the state board of charities shall also be indorsed thereupon or annexed thereto, before the filing thereof. On filing such certificate, in pursuance of law, the signers thereof, their associates and successors, shall be a corporation in accordance with the provisions. of such certificate. Any corporation heretofore or hereafter organized under this article for the purpose of gathering, obtaining and procuring information and intelligence, telegraphic or otherwise, for the use and benefit of its members, and to furnish and supply the same to its members for publication in newspapers owned or represented by them may admit as members thereof, other corporations, limited liability companies, joint-stock and other associations, partnerships and individuals engaged in the same business or in the publication of newspapers, periodicals or other publications, upon such terms and conditions, not inconsistent with law or with its certificate of incorporation, as may be prescribed in its by-laws.

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ARTICLE 7.

Hospital Corporations.

Section 130. Certificate of incorporation.

§ 130. Certificate of incorporation.- Five or more persons may become a corporation for the purpose of erecting, establishing or maintaining a hospital, infirmary, dispensary, or home for invalids, aged or indigent persons, by making, acknowledging, and filing a certificate, stating the particular object for which the corporation is to be formed; the name of the proposed corporation; the town, village or city in which its principal office is to be located; the number of directors, not less than three nor more than forty-eight; the names and places of residence of the persons to be its directors until its first annual meeting, and the time for holding its annual meetings. Such certificate may also specify the

qualification of members of the corporation with respect to their adherence or non-adherence to a particular school or theory of medical or surgical treatment; and the systems of medical praotice or treatment to be used or applied in such hospitals, infirmary, dispensary or home.

Such certificate shall not be filed without the written approval indorsed thereupon, or annexed thereto, of the state board of charities and of a justice of the supreme court of the district in which the principal office or place of business of such corporation shall be located.

On filing such certificate, in pursuance of law, the signers thereof, their associates and successors, shall be a corporation, in accordance with the provisions of such certificate.

THE GENERAL CORPORATION LAW.

Chapter 23 of the Consolidated Laws.

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§ 4. Qualifications of incorporators.-A certificate of incorporation must be executed by natural persons, who must be of full age, and at least two-thirds of them must be citizens of the United States and one of them a resident of this state. This section shall not apply to a corporation formed by the reincorporation or consolidation of existing corporations, or to the reorganization of a corporation upon the sale of the property and franchises of a previously existing corporation or otherwise.

§ 5. Filing and recording certificates of incorporation.-1. Every certificate of incorporation including the corporate name or title and every amended or supplemental certificate and every certificate which alters the provisions of any certificate of incorporation or any amended or supplemental certificate hereafter executed, shall be in the English language, and except as otherwise provided by law, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state, and shall be by him duly recorded and indexed in books specially provided therefor, and a certified copy of such certificate or amended or supplemental certificate with a certificate of the sec

retary of state of such filing and record, or a duplicate original of such certificate or amended or supplemental certificate shall be filed and similarly recorded and indexed in the office of the clerk of the county in which the office of the corporation is to be located, or, if it be a non-stock corporation, and such county be not determined upon at the time of executing the certificate of incorporation, in such county clerk's office as the judge approving the certificate shall direct. All taxes required by law to be paid before or upon incorporation and the fees for filing and recording such certificate must be paid before filing. No corporation shall exercise any corporate powers or privileges until such taxes and fees have been paid.

2. Whenever under any law now or heretofore in force the certificate of incorporation of any corporation other than a stock corporation was or is required to be filed in more than one public office, a certified copy of such certificate so filed in any one of such public offices may be filed in such other office with the like effect as if the original had been duly filed therein, provided, however, that no rights accrued prior to the filing of such copy shal be impaired or affected thereby, provided also, that such filing of a copy shall not cause a duplication or similarity of corporate names in violation of the next succeeding section.

§ 6. Corporate names.- 1. No certificate of incorporation of a proposed corporation having the same name as name as a corporation authorized to do business under the laws of this state, or a name. so nearly resembling it as to be calculated to deceive, shall be filed or recorded in any office for the purpose of effecting its incorporation, or of authorizing it to do business in this state. A corporation formed by the reincorporation, reorganization or consolidation of other corporations or upon the sale of the property or franchises of a corporation, may have the same name as the corporation or one of the corporations to whose franchises it has succeeded. No corporation shall be hereafter organized under the laws of this state, with the word "trust," "bank," "banking," "insurance," "assurance," "indemnity," "guarantee," "guaranty," "title," "savings," "investment," "loan" or "benefit" as part of its name, except a corporation formed under the banking law or the insurance law.