provisions of this Chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each and every offense. Any agent of any foreign corporation that shall transact any business within the limits of this State for any foreign corporation before such foreign corporation has complied with all the said provisions of this Chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each and every offense.

SEC. 194. No foreign corporation as aforesaid, shall, within the limits of this State, by any implication or construction, be deemed to possess the power of discounting bills, notes, or other evidence of debt, of receiving deposits, of buying gold or silver bullion or foreign coin, of buying and selling bills of exchange, or of issuing bills, notes or other evidences of debt upon loan for circulation as money, anything in its Charter or Articles of Incorporation to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

All certificates issued by the Secretary of State under the foregoing provisions of this Chapter shall expressly set forth the limitations and restrictions contained in the preceding proviso.

SEC. 195. Unauthorized Publication of Corporation Law; Penalty:-That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association of persons or corporation to print or publish, or to have printed or published the General Corporation Laws of the State of Delaware without the authority of the Secretary of State.

Any person, firm, association or persons or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof in the Court of General Sessions shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for a term not exceeding three months or both, in the discretion of the Court.

SEC. 196. Authorized Publication of Corporation Law; Distribution:-The Secretary of State be and he is hereby authorized to have printed from time to time as he shall deem necessary, pamphlet copies of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, and he shall dispose of said copies to persons and corporations desiring the same for a sum not exceeding ten cents a copy. The money received from the sale of said copies shall be disposed of as other fees of the office of the Secretary of State. Nothing in this section shall prevent the free distribution of single pamphlet copies of said Law by the Secretary of State, for the printing of which provision is made from time to time by joint resolution of the General Assembly.

SEC. 197. Name of Corporation Law:-The provisions now or hereafter contained in this Chapter shall be known and may be identified and referred to as the "General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware."

FRANCHISE TAX LAW.

Domestic Corporations.

SEC. 65. Franchise Taxes; What Corporations Subject to; Payable Annually; Companies and Societies Chartered to Pay Sick, Funeral, Widow or Orphan Benefits not to be Deemed Life Insurance Companies:-Every telegraph, telephone, cable or electric light company, or company organized for the distribution of electricity, heat or power, or organized for the purpose of producing or distributing steam, heat or power, every express company, not owned by a railroad company and not otherwise taxed, every company organized for the purpose of the production, distribution, or sale of gas, every parlor, palace, or sleeping car company, every oil or pipe line company, every life insurance company, every fire, marine, live stock, casualty or accident insurance company, except mutual fire insurance companies which do not issue policies on the stock plan, incorporated after the tenth day of March A. D. 1899, under the laws of this State, shall pay an annual tax, for the use of the State, by way of a license for its corporate franchise as hereinafter mentioned; provided, however, that no company or society shall be construed to be a life insurance company within the purview of sections sixty-five to eighty-three inclusive of this Chapter, which, by its certificate of incorporation, shall have for its object the assistance of sick, needy or disabled members, the defraying of funeral expenses of deceased members, or to provide for the wants of the widows and families of members after death.

SEC. 66. Annual Reports to Secretary of State; Form and Purpose of; Penalties for not Filing; How Director May Free Himself from Disability incurred; In Default of Report or Proper Resident Agent, Service of Process may be made on Secretary of State; Effect of; Duty of Secretary of State Thereupon; Fee for Service; Process Book, how Kept by Secretary of State:Annually on or before the first Tuesday in January, it shall be the duty of the President, Treasurer or other proper officer, or any two directors, of any corporation now existing or hereafter to be incorporated under the provisions of the laws of this State of the character specified in the preceding section, to make report to the Secretary of State, stating specifically (with the degree of particularity required by Paragraph 2, Section 1919, being Section 5 of Chapter 65 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware), the location of its principal office in this State, and the name of the agent upon whom service of process against said corporation may be served, the location or locations (town or towns, city or cities, street or streets and number, if number there be) of the place or places of business of said corporation without this State; the names and addresses of all the directors and officers of the company and when the terms of each expire; the amount of its authorized capital stock, if any, and the amount actually issued; the date appointed for the next annual meeting of the stockholders for the election of directors; as well also the following particulars, namely: Each telegraph, telephone, cable or express company, not owned by a railroad company and not otherwise taxed, shall state the gross amount of its receipts from business done in this State for the year preceding the making of such report; each gas company and electric light company shall state the amount of its receipts for light or power supplied within this State for the year preceding the making of such report, and the amount of dividends declared or paid during the same time; each company organized for the distribution of heat or power or organized for the purpose of producing or distributing steam, heat or power, shall state the amount of its receipts for the distribution of heat or power, or for the production or distribution of steam, heat or power within this State for the year preceding the making of such report, and the amount of dividends