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Page 9 - ... paper of any kind or description whatsoever, without the same being duly stamped for denoting the tax hereby imposed thereon, or without having thereupon an adhesive stamp to denote said tax, such person or persons shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court, and such instrument, document, or paper, as aforesaid, shall not be competent evidence in any court.
Page 11 - Provided, That it is the intent hereby to exempt from the stamp taxes imposed by this act such State, county, town, or other municipal corporations in the exercise only of functions strictly belonging to them in their ordinary governmental, taxing, or municipal capacity -.'Provided further.
Page 37 - Company to be a body politic and corporate, and as such may sue and be sued in any of the courts of this State, and...
Page 31 - An Act to provide for the formation of railroad, steamboat, street railway and canal companies, and to define the powers, and provide a mode for amending the charters thereof...
Page 43 - Among the powers of such bodies corporate shall be the following: 1. To have perpetual succession. 2. To sue and be sued by the corporate name. 3. To have a common seal and alter the same at pleasure. 4. To render the shares or interest of stockholders transferable and prescribe the mode of making such transfers.
Page 32 - Frederick W. Chamberlain, Harold I. Cleveland and Harriet F. Cleveland were the only subscribers to the capital stock of the C. & C. Company. The license to open books of subscription to the capital stock of the company was issued on December 10, 1902.
Page 9 - SEC. 158. And be it further enacted, That any person or persons who shall make, sign, or issue, or who shall cause to be made, signed, or issued...
Page 65 - To borrow money for the purpose of carrying out the objects of its charter, to make notes, bonds, or other evidences of debt, and to secure the payment of its obligations by mortgage or deed of trust on all or any of its property and franchises, both real and personal.
Page 42 - It is hereby required that this charter shall be recorded in the office of the Register of Mesne Conveyance or Clerk of Court in each county where said corporation shall have a business office. Given under my hand and the seal of the State at Columbia, this the...
Page 66 - ... bodies, they shall also have full power and authority from time to time to make, constitute and establish such and so many by-laws, rules and orders as to them shall seem necessary and convenient for the better regulation, government, well ordering and directing of themselves, as Trustees aforesaid; as well as of the High School of Charleston...