Hearing[s] Before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-second Congress Pursuant to S. Res. 98. A Resolution Directing the Committee on Interstate Commerce to Investigate and Report Desirable Changes in the Laws Regulating and Controlling Corporations, Persons, and Firms Engaged in Interstate Commerce, Volume 3, Parts 28-33U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - Corporation law |
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Page 2749 - And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing it to be true, and knowing that it Is of the same force and effect as if made under oath, and by virtue of the Canada evidence act.
Page 2765 - ... provided, however, that nothing in this section contained shall apply to labor, agricultural or horticultural organizations, or to fraternal beneficiary societies, orders, or associations operating under the lodge system, and providing for the payment of life, sick, accident, and other benefits to the members of such societies, orders or associations, and dependents of such members, nor to domestic building and loan associations, organized and operated exclusively for the mutual benefit of their...
Page 2628 - America in congress assembled, that the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management or arrangement, for a continuous carriage or shipment...
Page 2692 - Unless otherwise provided (by law) a majority of the board of directors of a corporation at a meeting duly assembled shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the act of a majority of the directors present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the board of directors.
Page 2757 - That the Commission may conduct its proceedings in such manner as will best conduce to the proper dispatch of business and to the ends of justice.
Page 2757 - Commission and be heard, in person or by attorney. Every vote and official act of the Commission shall be entered of record, and its proceedings shall be public upon the request of either party interested. Said Commission shall have an official seal, which shall be judicially noticed. Either of the members of the Commission may administer 'oaths and affirmations and sign subpoenas.
Page 2757 - Witnesses summoned before the commission shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts of the United States...
Page 2712 - I cannot believe that in the long run the public will profit by this court permitting knaves to cut reasonable prices for some ulterior purpose of their own and thus to impair, if not to destroy, the production and sale of articles which it is assumed to be desirable that the public should be able to get.
Page 2692 - For a violation of the provisions of this section, the directors, under whose administration the same may have happened (except those who may have caused their dissent therefrom to be entered at large...
Page 2765 - ... all sums paid by it within the year for taxes imposed under the authority of the United States or of any State or Territory thereof, or imposed by the government of any foreign country...