xxxii   DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE---INSURANCE BRANCH.

`1 SECTION X\ Ma.

BENEVOLENT AND MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATIONS ANI) Mt-TUAI. INSURANCE COMPANIES.

"5375a. No foreign mutual benefit and aid association or mutual insurance company, which is not already, under the laws of Canada, obliged to make a deposit with the Federal Government, or which does not come under articles 5264 to 3375, inclusively, of these Revised Statutes, is allowed to carry on any business in the province, unless it has obtained an authorization from the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

33; 5h. Such authorization is given upon petition, if the association or company- :

1. Publishes a notice of such application in the Quebec Official Gncctte. during one month, and in a newspaper published in French and in one published in English in the locality in which the chief office is to be established ;

2. Deposits in the office of the Provincial Secretary a copy of its charter, articles of association or other deed constituting the same as a corporation, certified by the officer having the custody of the original ;

3. Establishes that it is so constituted as to carry out the obligations which it may contract ;

4. Deposits in the office of the Provincial Secretary a power of attorney constituting a chief agent in the province for the purpose of receiving services in any suit or proceeding against it, and declaring where the principal office of the association or company is to be established.

5375c. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, according to circumstances, before granting the authorization, require the association or company to deposit, with the Provincial Treasurer, such sum of money as he may deem necessary to guarantee the carrying out of the engagements entered into in this province : which suns may be increased or diminished, from time to time, by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, as circumstances may require.

Such deposit shall bear interest at the rate of three per cent per annum in favour of the association or company.

5375<d. Notice of the granting of such authorization shall be published by the Provincial Secretary in the Quebec Official Ga:ette, according to the form of the schedule A of this Act ; and from the date of such publication and of the deposit in the office of the prothonotary of the Superior Court of the district in which the principal office of the association or company is to be situated, of a copy of the Quebec Oj vial Gauttc containing such notice, such association or company may commence business.

On receipt of such copy of the t,)ecbe, Official Gazette, the prothonotary shall transcribe the notice in a register kept for that purpose.

3375e. Whenever any such association or company changes its chief agent or the location of its chief office, it shall forward to the Provincial Secretary a copy of the new power of attorney concerning the saute, and notice thereof must be given in the Qra her Official Gazette.

A copy of such Gazette must be deposited and the notice be transcribed iii the manner prescribed by the preceding article.

537Ol.Any person doing business for any association or company falling within the provisions of article 5375a, which has not complied with the formalities required before it could commence business iii the province or which has not complied with the provisions of article 5375( , is liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offence, and imprisonment not exceeding three months in default of payment.

5375y. Prosecution under this section shall be governed by the provisions of Part LVIII of the Criminal Code, 1892.

SCHEDULE A.

FORM MENTIONED IN ARTICLE 5375d.

The (name) association or company has been duly authorized to carry on business in the province of Quebec.

Its principal place of business in the province is in (name of the city, toe-n, ,Ge.)

Its principal agent for the purpose of receiving services in actions or proceedings taken against it is (name and residence of the event.)

(Date)

Provincial Secretary.'

1. The following section and articles are added after 5376 of the said Revised Statutes :

00 SECTION NINA.
PAYMENT OF AID OR ASSISTANCE BY MUTUAL AID AND BENEFIT ASSOCIATIONS.

" 5376a. In mutual benefit and aid associations constituted under articles 3096 to 3104, or under a special charter or carrying on business under the authorization of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, as provided by article 5375a, the aid or assistance paid to sick memlmers cannot exceed the