Chapter LXXII. to disapprove of the twenty-sixth Section of the Act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nevada, and for other Purposes
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Chap. LXXII.— An Act to disapprove of the twenty-sixth Section of the Act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nevada, and for other Purposes.March 3, 1863. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section twenty-six of anLaw of Nevada Territory respecting corporations disapproved. act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nevada entitled “An act to provide for the formation of corporations for certain purposes,” approved December twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, said section being as follows:
“Section 26. All corporations heretofore formed under the provisions of acts of incorporation in other States or Territories, and holding or owning property within this Territory of such character as specified in section first of this act, and managed by a board or boards of trustees or directors, and having their principal place of business outside the limits of this Territory, are hereby required to remove their places of business, principal offices, books, and papers, heretofore kept, or necessary for the transaction of such business, to some point to be designated by said corporation, within the limits of this Territory, within six months after the passage of this act, or otherwise such corporation or corporations shall be disregarded in law as a corporation, and the corporators or stockholders thereof be treated as tenants in common, or joint owners of such property so owned or held within this Territory.
Any corporation, by filing and recording its certificate of incorporation, or a certified copy thereof, with the secretary of the Territory, and with the clerk of the county in which such corporation may locate as the principal place of business, and fully complying with all the provisions of this act, shall be deemed sufficient to entitle such corporation to all the rights and privileges under the provisions of this act,” be and the same is hereby disapproved, and the same is hereby annulled and made void.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That all incorporated companies,Corporations in Nevada may sue &c. duly organized within any state or territory of the United States, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in the several courts of the Territory of Nevada, anything in the laws of said Territory to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, March 3, 1863.