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Notaries public in the city of Philadelphia are re(iuired to pay 

 into the State Treasury on or before December 81st, five per cent, 

 of the gross amount of their receipts, under penalty of forfeiture 

 of their commissions. 



Act May 20, 1865, (P. L., page 846). 



TAX ON GROSS PREMIUMS. 



1. Insurance companies or associations incorporated under the 

 laws of the Commonwealth and doing business therein, except com- 

 panies doing business upon the purely mutual plan without any capi- 

 tal stock or accumulated reserve, and purely mutual beneficial asso- 

 ciations, whose funds for the benefit of members, their families or 

 heirs, are made up entirely of the weekly or mouthly contributions 

 of their members and the accumulated interest thereon, are required 

 to make report in writing, through their president, secetary or other 

 officer, to the Auditor General, semi-annually, on the first days of 

 January and July, of their premiums and assessments received dur- 

 ing the preceding six months, and to pay into the State Treasury 

 in the last days of January and July an eight mill tax on each dollar 

 of gross premiums received from business transacted within the 

 Commonwealth. This report is to be made under oath, and a ten 

 per cent, penalty is to be added to the account of any company whose 

 officers neglect or refuse, for a period of thirty days, to make re- 

 port or pay tax. 



Act June 1, 1889, section 24, (P. L.. page 433); act June 27, 1895, section 

 1, (P. L., page 409). 



FOREIGN INSURANCE COMPANIES. 



1. Ko person can act as the agent or solicitor in this Common- 

 wealth of an insurance company of another State or foreign gov- 

 ernment, in anj manner whatever relating to risks, until the act 

 establishing an Insurance Department has been complied with on 

 the part of the company, and there has been granted by the Insurance 

 Commissioner a certificate of authority showing that the company is 

 authorized to transact business in the Commonwealth; and it is 

 made the duty of every such company to make report to the Insur- 

 ance Commissioner in the month of January, under oath of its presi- 

 dent or secretary, showing the entire amount of premiums received 

 by said company in this Commonwealth during the preceding calen- 

 dar year, and to pay into the State Treasury a tax of three per cent. 

 upon said premiums; and the Insurance Commissioner shall not 



renew the certificate of any com|)any until such tax is paid. 

 Act April 4, 1873, section 10, (P. L., page 26). 



