the amount theretofore paid upon by the corporation, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to send notice by registered mail to the president, secretary, or the Illinois statutory agent of such corporation of record in his office of the amount due the State of Illinois, and if the amount due is not paid within thirty days after date of the receipt of said notice, or within such extension of time as may be granted, the Secretary of State shall revoke the authority of such corporation to do business in Illinois and shall file with the certified copy of the charter of the corporation on file in his office a certificate of revocation, and thereafter said corporation shall not be entitled to transact business in this State without paying fees for and obtaining a new certificate of authority. 5d. Any foreign corporation admitted to do business in the State under the provisions of this Act that desires to withdraw from the State of Illinois may do so by surrendering its license and filing with the Secretary of State an affidavit, sworn to by the president and secretary of the corporation, wherein it is stated that no amount of the capital stock of the corporation is represented by property located and business transacted in this State; that the corporation has fully complied with the laws of Illinois; and that it agrees that service thereafter may be had upon the corporation in any suit of law or in equity based upon contracts or torts or causes of action arising in Illinois during the time the corporation was licensed to transact business in this State, by serving the person who is the agent of the corporation at the time said certificate of withdrawal is filed. 5e. No foreign corporation shall be allowed to file in the office of the Secretary of State an amendment to its charter wherein it adopts or assumes the same name or a name similar to that of a corporation organized under the laws of Illinois, or to that of a corporation organized under the laws of any other state or country that is licensed to transact business in Illinois; and the filing of any article of amendment shall not enlarge or alter the object or purposes of the corporation set forth in the license issued by the Secretary of State: Provided, that any for eign corporation whose license has not been canceled for cause may apply for and receive from the Secretary of State a new license upon payment of the same fees as are charged for the preparation of certified copies of records. APPROVED June 22, 1917. HOMESTEAD LOAN ASSOCIATION. 7a. Joint ownership. 1. Amends Act of 1879, by adding section 7a. (HOUSE BILL No. 597. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to enable associations of persons to become a body corporate to raise funds to be loaned only among the members of such associations," in force July 1, 1879, as subsequently amended, adding a new section thereto, to be known as section seven-a (7a). SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to enable associations of persons to become a body corporate to raise funds to be loaned only among the members of such associations," in force July 1, 1879, as subsequently amended, be, and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section, to be known as section seven-a (7a), to read as follows: § 7a. (JOINT OWNERSHIP.) Shares may be issued, in the names of two persons and the survivor; and in the event of the death of either, the association shall be liable thereon only to the survivor, and while both are living payment to either shall discharge the liability to both. The joint ownership of shares shall not confer the right to vote to a greater extent than if said shares were held by an individual. APPROVED June 25, 1917. NOT FOR PROFIT-RESTORATIONS OF CHARTERS. § 1. Amends section 2, Act of 1905. § 2. Restoration of charter-fee. (SENATE BILL NO. 153. APPROVED JUNE 22, 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to restore charters of all corporations organized not for pecuniary profit, including religious corporations, existing by virtue of any general or special law of this State, prior to July 1, 1903," approved and in force May 13, 1905, by amending section two (2) thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to restore charters of all corporations organized not for pecuniary profit, including religious corporations, existing by virtue of any general or special law of this State prior to July 1, 1903," approved and in force May 13, 1905, be, and the same is hereby amended by amending section two (2) thereof, so that the said section when amended shall read as follows: § 2. Any corporation not for profit, including all eleemosynary and religious corporations, or associations heretofore incorporated by virtue of any general or special law of this State and whose charter was cancelled by the Secretary of State on his records for failing to comply with sections 2 and 7 of an Act entitled, "An Act to require corporations to make annual report to the Secretary of State and providing for the cancellation of articles of incorporation for failure to do so, and to repeal a certain Act therein named," approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, may, upon application to the Secretary of State made not later than January 1, 1920, accompanied by a fee of five ($5.00) dollars and a statement that the corporation making such application has since the cancellation of its charter, continued to pursue the purpose of its organization, and giving the name and address of its present officers, the date of the expiration of the respective offices and the location of the principal offices of such corporation, which application shall be made under the seal of the corporation and shall be signed and sworn to by the president, secretary or other officer of the corporation, be reinstated. Upon the receipt of such application, accompanied by the fee herein provided, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to annul upon the records of his office the cancellation of the charter of such corporation. The Secretary of State shall furnish proper blanks to be used in making such application, upon request. "Provided, that no such corporation shall file such application while any dissolution proceeding brought by the Attorney General against it is pending in any court of this State and no such application from any such corporation shall be received by the Secretary of State while any such proceeding is pending against it. § 3. WHEREAS an emergency exists, therefore this Act shall take effect from and after its passage. AN ACT to prohibit corporations from practicing law, directly or indi rectly, making the same a misdemeanor and providing penalties for the violations thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois. represented in the General Assembly: It shall be unlawful for a corporation to practice law or appear as an attorney at law for any reason in any court in this State or before any judicial body, or to make it a business to practice as an attorney at law for any person in any of said. courts or to hold itself out to the public as being entitled to practice law or to render or furnish legal services or advice or to furnish attorneys or counsel or to render legal services of any kind in actions or proceedings of any nature or in any other way or manner to assume to be entitled to practice law, or to assume, use and advertise the title of lawyers or attorney, attorney at law, or equivalent terms in any language in such manner as to convey the impression that it is enitled to practice law, or to furnish legal advice, furnish attorneys or counsel, or to advertise that either alone or together with, or by or through, any person, whether a duly and regularly admitted attorney at law or not, it has, owns, conducts or maintains a law office or an office for the practice of law or for furnishing legal advice, services or counsel. § 2. It shall be unlawful for any corporation to solicit by itself or by or through its officer, agent or employee, any claim or demand for the purpose of bringing an action at law thereon, or for furnishing legal advice, services or counsel, to a person sued or about to be sued in any action or proceeding, or against whom an action or proceeding has been or is about to be brought or who may be affected by any action or proceeding which has been or may be instituted in any court or before any judicial body or for the purpose of so representing any person as attorney or counsel in securing or attempting to secure anv civil remedy. 3. Any corporation violating the provisions of this Act shall be liable to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500), any [and] every officer, trustee, director, agent or employee of such corporation who directly or indirectly engages in any of the acts herein prohibited or assists such corporation to do any such prohibited act or acts is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall pay a fine of not less than two hundred dollars ($200) or more than five hundred dollars ($500). § 4. The fact that any such officer, trustee, agent or employee shall be a duly and regularly admitted attorney at law shall not be held to permit or allow any such corporation to do the acts prohibited herein, nor shall such fact constitute a defense upon the trial of any of the persons mentioned herein for a violation of the provisions of this Act. § 5. Nothing contained in this Act shall prohibit a corporation from employing an attorney or attorneys in and about its own immediate affairs or in any litigation to which it is or may be a party, or in any litigation in which any corporation may be interested by reason of the issuance of any policy or undertaking of insurance, guarantee or indemnity, nor shall it apply to associations organized for benevolent or charitable purposes or for assisting persons without means in the pursuit of any civil remedy or the presentation of a defense in courts of law, nor shall it apply to duly organized corporations lawfully engaged in the mercantile or collection business or to corporations organized not for pecuniary profit. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent a corporation from furnishing to any person, lawfully engaged in the practice of the law, such information or such clerical services in and about his professional work as, except for the provisions of this Act, may be lawful, provided that at all times the lawyer receiving such information or such services shall maintain full professional and direct responsibility to his clients for the information and services so received. But no corporation. shall be permitted to render any services which can not lawfully be rendered by a person not admitted to practice law in this State nor to solicit directly or indirectly professional employment for a lawyer. FILED June 28, 1917. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this twenty-eighth day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State. (HOUSE BILL [No.] 623. FILED JUNE 26, 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act concerning corporations," approved April 18, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended by subsequent Acts, by amending section 1 thereof, and by adding new sections thereto to be known as sections 1a, 1b, and 1c. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 1 of "An Act con cerning corporations," approved April 18, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, and Acts amendatory thereof, be amended and that there be added thereto certain sections to be known and designated as sections 1a, 1b and 1c, and which amended section and added sections shall read as follows: 1. That corporations may be formed in the manner provided by this Act for any lawful purpose except banking, insurance, real estate brokerage, the operation of railroads, and the business of loaning money: Provided, that horse and dummy railroads, and organizations for the purchase and sale of real estate for burial purposes only, and corporations for acquiring, owning, erecting, leasing or operating only one building and the site therefore of not more than 80,000 square feet of land, hereinafter called building corporations may be organized and operated under the provisions of this Act: And, be it further provided, where such building corporation is organized for such purpose, that specific and definite description of the site for such building shall be given at the time the charter for such corporation is applied for: And, provided, further, that unless said site at the time said charter is granted is improved with a building worth not less than one-half the actual cash value of said site at such time, such corporation shall within the five (5) years next thereafter erect upon such site a building which shall not cost less than one-half of the full cash value of said site at the time said charter is granted, and in the event of its failure to build such building within the said five (5) years, the said corporation shall forfeit its right to erect a building and shall be required to dispose of said site within six (6) months after the expiration of said five (5) years and cease its corporate existence: And, provided, further, that it shall be unlawful for two or more building corporations organized hereunder to consolidate or for the stock of any building corporation organized hereunder to be owned, taken or held, directly or indirectly, by any foreign or domestic corporation or by any holding corporation, foreign or domestic. And, provided, further, that corporations formed for the purpose of constructing railroad bridges shall not be held to be railroad corporations. And, provided further, that corporations may be formed under this Act for the purpose of carrying on the real estate agency business. The real estate agency business within the meaning of this Act shall consist of acting as agent for others in the purchase, sale, renting and management of real estate and leasehold interests, and acting as agent for others in the negotiation of loans on real estate and leasehold estates, provided. that no corporations shall be formed under this Act for the purpose of acquiring or owning real estate except as specifically provided by this Act. And, provided, further, that corporations formed for the purpose of lending money on bonds or notes secured by mortgages or trust deeds on real estate or leaseholds or on the mortgage bonds of railroad companies, or of any public service corporations, or on any State, municipal or quasi-municipal bonds, or for the purpose of buying, selling, pledging, mortgaging or otherwise dealing in any of the above named securities, such corporations being hereinafter called mortgage loan corporations, may be organized and operated under the provisions of this Act: Pro |